Secrets from Beyond The Grave

contain coded genetic information about you that will determine your eye and hair color and so forth. If these forty-six segments of DNA information could be uncoiled, they would be seven feet long! The string would be so thin that it could not be detected under an electronic microscope.4 If the information from one cell from one person was written in books, it would fill four thousand books. If the DNA in your entire body was placed end to end, it could stretch from here to the moon five hundred thousand times. In book form, all cells of DNA from a human body could fill the Grand Canyon more than seventy-five times. Yet one set of DNA from one cell from every person on Earth in a pile would weigh less than an aspirin!5 This amazing DNA is found in every part of the human body, including your fingernails, hair, blood, bones, semen, skin, and saliva. DNA testing now makes it possible to identify who the father of a child is by simply swabbing the inside of an infant's mouth and testing it with the DNA of the man presumed to be the father. This DNA discovery has also assisted in having criminals arrested who left their DNA in a tiny spot of blood, a miniscule piece of skin under the fingernails of the victim, or in male semen. Special DNA testing has also assisted in the release of men from prison after examiners tested the DNA samples from crime scenes and discovered the blood in no way matched the accused. The DNA discovery also has unlimited possibilities. The discovery of the bones and remains of ancient dinosaurs has anthropologists drooling with the idea that DNA from certain remains may one day be used to actually re-create a dinosaur in a laboratory. After examining the amazing details of DNA, it has been called the "Genetic Book of Life," as it encodes every detail about an individual.

The prophet Daniel wrote about the resurrection of the dead by saying: And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,

Some to everlasting life,

Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

--Daniel 12:2

I have heard well-meaning Christians say, "Once the body decays and goes back to dust, there is nothing left for a resurrection. This is just a metaphor about sleeping in the dust." This word dust in Hebrew is aphar , and it is used in the Old Testament as literal dust, clay, and earth. This word is the same word used when Moses wrote that God created man from the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7) and the same word used after Adam's fall when God said he would return to dust (Gen. 3:19). Every human body placed in the ground will, over many years, deteriorate and return to the dust. Within each speck of human dust is DNA. DNA smaller than the head of a pin has information encoded in it. Researchers can actually take cloth and other objects that are two thousand years old and find DNA on the cloth! Years ago you may have heard of the discovery of a set of tombs in Israel that the archeologist claimed were the tombs of Jesus's family . The archeologist used dust particles from the remains found in each tomb to match the DNA with samples from the other tombs and identified them as family tombs. Obviously, he didn't believe in the resurrection of Jesus, because Jesus took His body and bones with Him when He got up from a borrowed stone slab in the tomb! Another interesting point about DNA is how it is being used in connection to the Dead