The reason that I wrote this study is that it seemed as if everywhere I turned people were BLAMING God for EVERYTHING that happens in the world. When a tornado or a hurricane, or a flood, or any other kind of natural disaster hits then the world calls it an ACT OF God. Even SOME Christians BLAME God when a tragedy strikes them or affects someone they know by making the claim that God has a PLAN for each and every one of us. And they go on to say something like God moves in MYSTERIOUS ways, we may not know the reason why this tragedy happened but we know that God is in control. There are even some Christians in the body of Christ who have gone to the extreme by making the claim that NOTHING that happens or will happen that God has not already ordained or predestined to be. In other words, those that adhere to the teachings of Reformed Theology or Calvinism make the claim that God foreordained everything that happens both good AND EVIL. For a deeper understanding of WHY this FALSE THEOLOGY is NOT sound Biblical teaching when it is closely examined in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of God please read the studies under the heading >>>IS CALVINISM BIBLICAL?<<< But for now, let us go back to the beginning or more precisely to “a” BEGINNING that was AFTER the original BEGINNING of the creation of the entire universe. In other words, the creation account in Genesis is BOTH the very beginning AND “A” new beginning of God RESTORING the earth to be inhabitable once again. BEFORE the beginning of God's creation of Adam and Eve there was a previous creation on the earth that was destroyed by a flood. That flood is what some Bible scholars call the Luciferian flood. God flooded the earth to bring a “temporary” end to the war that Lucifer waged against God’s throne. And the reason for God creating the FIRST human was done in order to END war and evil for all eternity in the future. So this study in God’s word is to ANSWER questions of WHY? To say this another way let us go back to the beginning of the ENDING that came BEFORE the BEGINNING or the recreation of the earth after it became void which is the beginning of the creation of mankind, Adam and Eve. I will explain why I say that the earth became void and empty a little more in detail later on in this study. But for now, please consider that the fall of Satan or more specifically Lucifer's rebellion was BEFORE God created mankind. And then God devised a PLAN that he kept SECRET from His enemy Satan from the foundation of the world. And part of that plan to bring PEACE for all eternity in the future was the Lamb SLAIN in the mind and plan of God BEFORE the foundation of the world which again God kept SECRET from Satan. Let us consider some of the QUESTIONS of WHY that we all may have had at one time or another. I mean, if I myself have had these questions, then surely there are more inquisitive people other than myself who may have had some of these same questions. For example: Why do tragedies happen like train wrecks, car accidents, and plane crashes? Why does God SEEM to allow or permit evil things to happen such as war, rape, murder, and all manner of violence when He is supposed to be the ALL mighty and powerful God who could prevent such evil things at the snap of His fingers so to speak? Why does God seem to allow famine, sickness, and disease? Why does God seem to allow disasters like earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods? Why does God not just save everyone? Why is God WAITING to destroy that great dragon that old serpent called Satan and the Devil and the fallen angels? Why would God RELEASE Satan again after he has his enemy BOUND for the 1000 years during the reign of Jesus in the world to come? Why does Satan always accuse the brethren before God? WHY? WHY? WHY? All these and many more questions of WHY? To know and understand the purpose of man and the workings of God in the lives of mankind then one needs to know at least somewhat of God’s previous or earlier creation, the angels of God, and the humanoid-like creation that some of the angels were given to rule over. Just as a side note this PREVIOUS humanoid-like creation, which was completely destroyed in the war between God and the fallen angels, may explain WHY there is NO so-called “missing link” in the evolution THEORY. Again, we may get into more detail in this area of “physical” evidence on the earth that is much OLDER than the human race further on in this study or in another study. But this “physical” evidence of dinosaurs and megalithic stone structures that cannot be replicated by modern man is not the main focus of this study in God's word. Let us begin this study in God's word in the Garden of Eden which was once a PARADISE. In the Garden of Eden, we find mankind being faced with their first and really the ONLY temptation that is mentioned in the Bible that was given to Adam and Eve while they were living in paradise. We are told in Genesis 2:15-25 about God placing Adam in the Garden and telling him that he can eat of any tree of the garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Again, this was God’s first and ONLY COMMANDMENT to the first man Adam that we are specifically told in the Bible itself. But WHY? Why did God TEST Adam? God then made a woman from man and they were both naked and were not ashamed. Life is good and everything seems to be running smoothly in PARADISE but then the SERPENT comes along to tempt the woman to DISOBEY God’s ONE commandment. Genesis 3:1-5.
“Now the SERPENT was more SUBTLE than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. 2. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said you shall not eat of every tree of the Garden? And the woman said unto the SERPENT, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3. BUT of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall NOT eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. (WHY? Why such a harsh punishment for disobeying God’s one commandment? Why did God choose the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Why not just a fruit tree?) 4. And the SERPENT said unto the woman, You shall not surely die; 5. For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes will be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
So then, WHO was this SERPENT, and more importantly WHY did Almighty God ALLOW this SERPENT to TEMPT and directly INFLUENCE mankind into DISOBEYING God? Was God forced to allow this serpent to tempt man to sin? Did God create this serpent specifically to tempt man with evil? Or was this serpent an OUTLAW that does what he pleases? I mean WHY the TEST to see if the man would obey or disobey? Again, did God specifically create Satan for the very sole purpose of tempting and influencing mankind with EVIL so that they would REBEL against God by their disobedience? Some Christian denominations claim that God created Satan specifically for the sole purpose of being an evil destroyer but what does the word of TRUTH, the WHOLE word of Almighty God teach us? First of all, in Revelation 12:9, we find the answer to the question of WHO this SERPENT is and that he is, IN FACT, the very one that DECEIVES and tempts all of mankind. Revelation 12:9. “And the great dragon was CAST OUT, that OLD SERPENT, (Or that ANCIENT serpent) called the DEVIL, and SATAN, which deceives the whole world: he was CAST OUT into the EARTH, and his ANGELS.” So then, according to this verse, the SERPENT that deceived the woman Eve and caused her to disobey Almighty God is the DEVIL and SATAN which deceives the whole world. And according to the word of TRUTH, the Holy Bible, this created being has been around for a LONG, LONG time well BEFORE mankind was ever created. Again, we will talk more on this subject of the PREVIOUS creation BEFORE God created human beings a little LOWER and inferior to the ANGELS later on in this study. But for now, back to the questions of WHY? Why did God create humans a little LOWER and inferior to the angels? WHY does Almighty God SEEM to ALLOW the devil or Satan to deceive and tempt mankind to DISOBEY what God commands us to do or not to do? In order to answer this question, we need to ask another question and find its answer first. And that question is this, “WHY will SATAN be cast out of heaven into the earth in the future?” For you see my dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ, it is WHEN you begin to see the BIGGER PICTURE that all the questions of WHY will be answered. After you learn the reason WHY that Satan was cast out of the third heaven of God’s throne before God created Adam and why God will cast Satan out of the first heaven in the future, THEN you will understand why God created mankind a little LOWER than the angels. Let us begin to answer this first question of why God is casting Satan OUT of the three heavens and down to the surface of the earth. Certainly, God did not specifically create Satan to tempt mankind just so God could cast Satan out of the first two heavens. So something else must have happened to JUSTIFY God casting Satan out of the heavens, the third and second heavens in the past before God created Adam and the first heaven in the very near future just before the second coming of Jesus.
Isaiah 14:12-14.
“How are you FALLEN from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! (Speaking of God casting Lucifer who is now called Satan which means the enemy, out of the third and second heavens. Right now Satan is restricted from leaving the atmosphere of the earth which is the first heaven. Satan is called the principalities and powers of the AIR which is the first heaven. Satan will be cast out of the first heaven to begin the 3 1/2 years of the great tribulation) How are you cut to the ground, which did WEAKEN the nations! (This is speaking of the yet future casting of Satan out of the first heaven down to the ground where he will know his time is SHORT, according to Revelation 12:12,13) 13. FOR (Or BECAUSE) you have said in your HEART, I will ascend into heaven, I will EXALT MY throne ABOVE the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14. I will ASCEND ABOVE the heights of the CLOUDS; I will be like the most-High.” There is a lot to see in this tiny passage of Scripture that some Christians have skimmed right over. First, the word “weaken” here means to overcome. This is very important to know and understand because it is one of the keys to understanding WHY God SEEMS to ALLOWS mankind to be tempted and influenced to rebel against God's WILL to do evil things. Also, I want to point out in this passage of Scripture that Lucifer was NOT ALWAYS Satan which again means adversary or ENEMY of God. But rather, Lucifer was at one time “a” god, or “A” elohim, or “A” theos whom the one true and only Almighty God the creator and source of all things SET in place to rule and reign over the OLD earth BEFORE it was recreated in Genesis 1:2. We know this because Lucifer FELL from being a good Elohim to being a “rebel” god of this present world when Lucifer tried to exalt his “throne” above the clouds. God GAVE Lucifer that throne and before the fall of Lucifer he once traveled the stars that the Bible calls the “fiery stones”. Let us begin this study on the fall of Lucifer BEFORE the creation of Adam by reading the LITERAL translation of Genesis 1:2. Here is the LITERAL translation of Genesis 1:2 a. “And the earth she BECAME chaos…” You see my dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ, Almighty God did not create the world void and without form, but rather an ANCIENT WAR caused much destruction on the surface of the earth and some EVIDENCE of this war yet remains on the earth today. I will explain more about this ANCIENT war in another study called “THE WAR IN HEAVEN-REVELATION 12”. But for now, I want you to see that Lucifer's kingdom was BELOW the height of the clouds. Please read verse 14 again. Isaiah 14:14. “I will ASCEND ABOVE the heights of the CLOUDS; I will be like the most-High.” So the throne that God gave to Lucifer was BELOW the clouds and that means that Lucifer was the ANOINTED Cherub over the earth BEFORE God created Adam. Other parts of God's word teach us that Lucifer was an angel. Lucifer was called an anointed Cherub before his rebellion and war against Almighty God.
Ezekiel 28:12-17 says it this way.
“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus,(Referring to the principalities of the AIR ruling in the kingdoms of men) and say unto him, Thus says the Lord God; You who seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13. You have been in EDEN the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were CREATED. 14. You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I (Almighty God your creator) have SET YOU SO: You were upon the HOLY MOUNTAIN of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. (Or you had the privilege to travel the entire universe and even to come before my throne) 15. You were PERFECT in your ways FROM the day that you were created, TILL iniquity was FOUND in you. 16. By the multitude of your merchandise, they have filled the midst of you with violence, and YOU HAVE SINNED: THEREFORE I will CAST you as profane out of the mountain of God, (The part of heaven that is God's THRONE) and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17. Your HEART was lifted up because of your beauty, YOU have CORRUPTED your wisdom by reason of your brightness, (PRIDE) I will cast you to the ground, (Speaking of the earth in the future which is a part of this same yet continuing war in heaven) I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.”
In this passage of Scripture in Ezekiel 14:12-17, we see the REASON WHY the anointed cherub was cast out of the third and second heavens and no longer allowed to enter into the throne of the Almighty or to freely travel in space among the stars or the fiery stones. And that reason is that Lucifer REBELLED or SINNED against Almighty God by trying to overthrow the throne of Almighty God. Lucifer tried self-exalting the throne that God gave to him to be the God of the whole earth to be above Almighty God's throne by making WAR with God. And Yahweh the Father is in the process of dethroning Lucifer and PROMOTING another to take his place as the God of the whole earth. Any guesses as to WHO Yahweh is promoting to be the God of the whole earth in the world yet to come? All the prophecies point to Jesus as the one that Yahweh the Father is promoting. Please read Psalm 75:3-7. “The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. (Speaking of the righteous saints) Selah. 4. I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: (Or do not exalt yourself) 5. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6. For PROMOTION comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. (Or PROMOTION comes from the sides of the NORTH where the city of God is located) 7. But God is the judge: he puts down one, and SETS UP another.” The word of God also tells us that Satan drew one-third of the angels with him and that these fallen angels which KEPT NOT their first estate were ALSO PERFECT in the day that they were CREATED because God created everything perfect. And thus, sin or iniquity was found in them as well when they REBELLED to make WAR with Almighty God. And, therefore, those fallen angels are RESERVED in chains of darkness to be judged. Now here is another question of WHY? Why are Satan and the fallen angels being RESERVED to be judged and destroyed? I mean, we all know that Judgment Day is COMING for the fallen angels because of their REBELLION but WHY does God WAIT so long to judge the angels for making WAR against him? Why did God not simply destroy Satan and his entire army of angels right then and there? Why create another species of being a little LOWER than the angels? Why TEST humans? Now, while there is absolutely no clear, plain evidence given in the Bible where Satan and the fallen angels were given the chance to REPENT in order to be saved, I believe that God’s CHARACTER of grace and mercy toward mankind is proof enough that Lucifer and the fallen angels were given every chance to repent but they refused to repent of making war with Yahweh. So then WHY postpone their Day of Judgment? First of all, their SIN was rebellion, as in, they made all-out WAR against the Almighty to take OVER his throne to exalt themselves to rule over God's creation. Secondly, there is no evidence that they ever showed ANY repentance. For you see, they are still yet making war against God. Thirdly, if God showed them mercy which we are not specifically told one way or the other in the Bible itself, then personally I believe that they would have already been given that chance to repent. But from the evidence in the Bible, they chose, or rather still yet choose to BLAME God for creating them EVIL as being the reason WHY they rebelled against him. To me, it is self-evident that Lucifer falsely accused God of creating him evil by the mere fact that God said that Lucifer was PERFECT in the day that God created him. So the QUESTION is WHY WAIT? I mean, WHY wait to pronounce or execute judgment on Satan and the fallen angels who were not just plotting to overthrow God's throne and exalt themselves to rule and reign over all of God's creation. But rather, they made all-out WAR against Almighty God and against the two-thirds of the angels who remained faithful to God? I mean what possible reason could God have for NOT destroying Satan and the fallen angels BEFORE God created a NEW species called HUMANS who by the way are created a little LOWER or INFERIOR to the angels? Why did God create mankind a little LOWER or INFERIOR to his previous creation the angels? Clearly seeing from Isaiah 14:12-17 that Almighty God created the angels PERFECT in all their ways from the very day that they were created and they sinned against him by trying to OVERTHROW his very THRONE and take over, then WHY WAIT to execute judgment and DESTROY Satan and the other angels who rebelled against God to take over his throne? But more importantly, HOW can a PERFECT being SIN in the first place? Was it God's FAULT? Or was it LUCIFER'S fault? Believe it or not, SOME Christians dogmatically demand and insist that NOTHING happens that was not SPECIFICALLY ORDAINED to happen by Almighty God himself? In other words, some Christians FALSELY believe and teach that God specifically created Lucifer to REBEL against him. This is a doctrine of DEVILS and soon you will see why falsely accusing and blaming God for all the EVIL in the world is from the devil as well the deception that is INFLUENCING mankind to BLAME God for everything seeing that he is the CREATOR of all things. Now, there are ALSO a lot of questions of WHY BECAUSE of the WAY certain verses of the Bible have been INTERPRETED. And then those “interpretations” of certain Scriptures are dogmatically taught in such a way as to INFER the conclusion drawn by these false teachers as being the ONLY possible meaning of those verses. I myself really have trouble digesting, if you will, many of those “interpretations” of the Scripture as you may have already seen from the many controversial subjects that I address here at AMatterOfTruth.com. But those kinds of QUESTIONS I answer in the other studies that I have written over the years. So to stay on track and focus on the subject at hand I include links to those other studies for those who may not have read them as yet. The questions that I am speaking of in this particular study in God's word are my own questions that you may also have as well. Questions like why is there a devil? Why will Satan be bound a 1000 years and then let loose again after the 1000 years have ended? So what I am about to propose to you is what I believe in my heart was given to me by the Holy Spirit. I asked God for wisdom and understanding concerning these very questions and I believe in my heart that God gave to me understanding and wisdom to ALL that I asked of him in FAITH. In other words, I am saying that God has answered MY questions to MY OWN satisfaction and I myself see the answers as being SOUND BIBLICAL answers from the Holy Spirit. But I present these answers to YOU, the reader, and seeker of the truth, as MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION or THEORY as something that I am PROPOSING as possible answers to these questions. Now again, to ME, what I am proposing to you is indeed sound Biblical teaching in that I find no contradictions of this theory to any other part of God's word. But since I have found no other teaching like this by any other Christians is why I am presenting this study to my readers as a PROPOSAL to CONSIDER the WHOLE MATTER before you make a judgment. There are many Christians who do, indeed, believe and teach what is called the “GAP” theory but I have not heard any other “gap” theory Christians make the connection that the FALL of Lucifer was WHY God created mankind a little LOWER than the angels. So then, one of the things that God has shown me has given me a way to understand much of the controversy among the differences of INTERPRETATIONS of Scripture. What God has shown ME has answered a multitude of QUESTIONS to PROVE to ME that God is NOT to BLAME for all the evil in the world. So here is what I PROPOSE, and I emphasize the word “PROPOSE” because this is just my understanding of what I believe that the Holy Spirit has and still is yet showing me even more. So here is what I PROPOSE:
“Let us suppose that when sin was FOUND in Lucifer and God pronounced judgment upon him and cast him out of the third and second heavens of having no more right to come and go to and from God's throne or to travel among the stars as he once did, then THAT was when God was going to destroy Lucifer and the other angels. In other words, BEFORE God created Adam, God was going to destroy Lucifer and the fallen angels that followed Lucifer in his plan and made all-out WAR to overthrow God's throne right there on the spot so to speak. But then, Lucifer turned to God and ACCUSED God or BLAMED God for creating him WITH a so-called SIN NATURE of REBELLION that was FOUND in him. In other words, Lucifer BLAMED God by saying something like, 'You MADE me this WAY God and THEREFORE it was You O God that CAUSED me to REBEL against you because you CREATED me with this rebellious nature. So, therefore, you have NO RIGHT to destroy me because I only did that which you PREDESTINED and ORDAINED me to do'. Then Almighty God as being a just and faithful God might possibly have said to Lucifer something like, 'Just to PROVE to you that I did indeed create you PERFECT in all your ways and that it was YOU who was lifted up by your OWN pride, and I can PROVE it to YOU and all the angels that what I create I create PERFECT in all their ways. So then, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, but let US make mankind a little LOWER or INFERIOR to you angels to prove to all you angels that even an INFERIOR creation of mine will NOT rebel against me.' In other words, God is saying to all his angels the ELOHIM, both faithful and fallen, here is what we will do to solve this matter of falsely accusing me of creating you with an evil nature of rebellion whereby your accusation has defamed my good NAME. I will create a new species of beings called mankind, which I will create a little lower or INFERIOR to you angels. And I will show you that man, an inferior creature to you angels, can and will live perfectly before me in all their ways because what I create is always perfect in the day that I create it. This is when God said to the Elohim in Genesis 1:26 “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness” while at the SAME time God was also speaking to His yet future Messiah who He would first make in His perfect image. So then, thus began the BEGINNING or more precisely “a” NEW beginning or the recreation or the resurfacing of the FACE of OLD earth that was wasted and made void by the WAR and the REBELLION against Almighty God, in which Almighty God said TO his Elohim or TO his Angels, “Let us make man in OUR image”. And then Almighty God alone by himself created mankind a little LOWER and inferior to His previous creation the angels, and the story continues to this day.” That was my proposal as a theory and what follows in the Scriptural evidence that I believe supports my theory of why God created Jesus a little LOWER and inferior to the angels FIRST and then CROWNED the Son of MAN, Jesus, with GLORY and HONOR after the cross. Please read Genesis 1:26-28 again and NOTICE the SINGULAR “HE” created and NOT “WE” or “THEY” created. Trinitarian Christians usually only quoted verse 26 out of its context. Genesis 1:26-28. “And God said, Let us (Where the ONE God is speaking TO his ELOHIM, the ANGELS and ALSO to His yet future Messiah saying Let us) make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 27. So God created (ALEPH TAV Jesus Messiah) man in His own image, (The word OWN is not in the original text) in the image of God (ELOHIM) created He him; male and female created He them. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and REPLENISH (ALEPH TAV Jesus Messiah) the earth, (Or go and multiply to fill the earth once again with people. Again, I propose to you that the humanoid LIKE race of beings was completely destroyed during the WAR between God and the fallen angels. Some teach that Satan's seed may be speaking of this previous humanoid creation before God created Adam and Eve to explain how Adam and Eve's children found wives. For now, I disagree with that theory. Getting back on track God told Adam and Eve to replenish or repopulate the earth) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” So God made Adam as the Elohim over the earth. And this TEST of mankind is to prove to the angels that God created them perfect. And that is my answer as to WHY Almighty God has WAITED to destroy Satan and the fallen angels. Basically, Satan and the angels are on TRIAL, so to speak, while the EVIDENCE is being gathered against them which will PROVE once and for all eternity that Almighty God is JUST and righteous to destroy any of His creation that rebels against Him. REMEMBER to consider the WHOLE matter BEFORE you make a judgment. I am fully aware that God IS God and that God can do ANYTHING that He desires WITHOUT having to PROVE or JUSTIFY His action! But I also KNOW that Almighty God is SO FAITHFUL that He will NOT go against what He said He would do or not do in His word. So in truth, God's NAME is on trial as well. And whoever wins this TRIAL is the one who will be proven RIGHT. So be PATIENT to hear the WHOLE matter for it will answer the question of why God SEEMS to allow evil in the world. I say SEEMS to allow because what IF God is being forced so to speak to allow evil in the world because He is a just God who refuses to lie or break His word but it is NOT his WILL for there to be evil in the world? This will all become clear as you continue reading this study to the end. Now for some more sound Scriptural support of what I have PROPOSED. First, I would like you to take a look at Hebrews 2:9 where it is confirmed that God created mankind a little LOWER or inferior to the angels of God. Hebrews 2:9.
“But WE (The very Apostles and eyewitnesses of Jesus said WE) see Jesus, who was MADE a LITTLE LOWER than the angels for the suffering of death, CROWNED with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every MAN.”
In Romans 5:14, we read where ADAM, the first MAN that Almighty God CREATED, is called the FIGURE of him, speaking of the figure of Jesus who was prophesied to come. And we also see in God's word where the spoken word of Almighty God took on the NATURE of mankind. So if Jesus was made INFERIOR to the angels and the spoken word of prophecy took on OUR HUMAN nature then this means that OUR nature is INFERIOR to the angels as well. And if anyone denies this sound reasoning then they are saying that mankind is superior in nature to the nature of Jesus who was made a little LOWER than the angels. And SEEING that Jesus was MADE a little LOWER than the angels then how could any Christians claim that Jesus was FULLY Almighty God during the days of his FLESH. For you see, the ANGELS are NOT equal with Almighty God. I mean, what part of a little LOWER than the angels do Oneness and Trinitarian Christians NOT understand. To dogmatically demand that Jesus is fully Almighty God during the day of his FLESH is to DENY the Scriptures that clearly teach us in SIMPLICITY that Jesus was MADE a little LOWER than the angels. Romans 5:14. “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, WHO (Speaking of ADAM) is the FIGURE (Or a type or shadow or pattern) of HIM (Speaking of Jesus) that was to come.” Therefore, if Adam was a type, figure, shadow, or pattern of Jesus and Jesus was made a little LOWER or INFERIOR to the angels then that means ALL of mankind was made a little LOWER and INFERIOR to the angels. The simple fact is this, either all of mankind is made a little lower than the angels just like Jesus, OR we were made higher and greater than Jesus. The truth of the matter of the whole word of God is that Jesus was made in the likeness of HUMANS. The Bible says that Jesus is the Son of MAN which literally reads that Jesus is the Son of HUMANS. My point is this, God's word of TRUTH clearly and plainly states that Jesus was made LOWER or inferior to the ANGELS which to ME is clearly saying that ALL of mankind was created to be a little LOWER and inferior to God's PREVIOUS creation called the ANGELS sometimes referred to as the ELOHIM in Hebrew. But the question is WHY? Why did God create man to be inferior to the angels? What reason could God have for going backward in creation? Now I will explain WHY it appears to me that Almighty God needed to create mankind a little LOWER and INFERIOR to the angels BEFORE having his Son Jesus come forth out of the womb of a HUMAN woman many, many, many generations later. So WHY? Why did God create mankind a little lower and INFERIOR to the angels? To ME, if the angels kept not their first estate and God simply wanted another class of beings to fellowship with him then the logical thing to do would be for God just destroy Satan and the fallen angels right there on the spot and then start over with a BETTER creation, and a more superior creation than the angels who rebelled against him. I mean LOGICALLY WHY would the only WISE God go backward in His creations and create another being lower or inferior to what God had already created? To me, the reason has NOW been made clear and obvious by the Holy Spirit. But because of what many of us were taught about God for so many years, we at times, have trouble letting go of what we have been taught even though we cannot explain it to others or even explain it to ourselves for that matter. I am referring to “RELIGIOUS man-made doctrines and tradition of men” which many of us cannot understand ourselves let alone explain to others, and which are NOT sound Biblical teachings. And thus they are called “MYSTERIES” that MUST be believed by Oneness Christians and by Trinitarian Christians. Here is what God showed me as the reason WHY he needed to make mankind LOWER and inferior to the angels and then ALLOW Satan and the fallen angels to REMAIN alive but still yet bound to some degree. Keep in mind that Almighty God knows His creation or knows the HEART and the intents of the heart by SEARCHING the hearts of His creation. And, therefore, knew beforehand that Satan would no doubt try to tempt and INFLUENCE His new creation of the humans to rebel and sin against him. And this is WHY Almighty God already had a PLAN of salvation in His MIND WITHIN Himself to redeem mankind before God ever created Adam. And God kept His plan of salvation a SECRET from his enemy until it was too late for his enemy Satan to do anything to overthrow God's PLAN of salvation. TRY and look at this proposal that I am presenting to you as a STRATEGIC plan of God who KNOWS his creation by watching over His creation. And, therefore, God has a good idea of what His ENEMY will CHOOSE to do and not CHOOSE to do. Much like a MASTER chess player never loses to his adversaries, Yahweh will never lose the final outcome of this war with Lucifer and the fallen angels. “I propose to you that the REASON that Almighty God chose to make humans a little lower and inferior to the angels was in order to PROVE to Lucifer, PROVE to the fallen angels, who Lucifer persuaded to join his rebellion and make war against Almighty God to take over his throne, AND to ALSO PROVE to the angels who remained FAITHFUL to God that Almighty God did NOT create ANY of them with a rebellious sinful evil nature, but RATHER Almighty God created them ALL PERFECT in all their ways. I also PROPOSE to you that Almighty God wants to clear his NAME of being FALSELY accused of creating them with a so-called sinful NATURE, which by the way is the same lie being told to some Christians who then make EXCUSES to continue living in sin.” Here is where one of my readers wrote to me saying that he could not read another word of this study saying that his God would never need or want to CLEAR His name. I explain WHY God is indeed in the process of clearing his name in more detail further on in this study but I felt I should give you at least one Scripture now to clearly show you that it is for God's OWN NAME SAKE that God does what He has prophesied to do. Please read Isaiah 48:11, which clearly teaches us that God's NAME was indeed POLLUTED and that it is for His OWN NAME SAKE that God is executing HIS PLAN of salvation to save mankind. God’s plan of salvation is not to just save mankind but to REWARD those of us who SUFFERED temptation to overcome sin even as Jesus overcame. God desired to highly exalt us as well to be made HIGHER than the angels and to JUDGE the angels in the world to come. And the end of God’s plan of salvation is to END war and evil for all eternity in the future. Isaiah 48:11
“For MINE OWN SAKE, EVEN for MINE OWN SAKE, will I do it: for how should MY NAME be POLLUTED? And I will not give my glory unto another.” Again, there are many more verses that prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that all God has done and is doing is FOR HIS OWN NAME'S SAKE. Just do a word search on your own if you cannot wait to read this whole study in God's word. Now back to MY OWN OPINION that I am PROPOSING to you, my readers and seekers of the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. “So then, just to make sure that there was no doubt in the minds of his creation the angels that he created them PERFECT in ALL their ways God chose to make a NEW species of being called mankind or the HUMANS, but rather than creating this NEW species of being EQUAL to the angels, God in his WISDOM, made mankind a little lower than Lucifer, that is to say, a little lower than ALL the angels, in order to PROVE to them ALL, both the good and bad angels that even as INFERIOR beings his NEW creation can and WILL live RIGHTEOUSLY before him WITHOUT sin.”
You see my dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, God had a PLAN, which he KEPT SECRET even before he created mankind upon his newly recreated earth that became void in the war being waged against God, and his PLAN that he kept SECRET from before the foundation of the world or the recreation of the world was a way to REDEEM man back to Himself because he knew or at least he highly suspected that Satan, his enemy, was going to INFLUENCE, TEMPT, and DECEIVE mankind to SIN against God by directly INFLUENCING man to disobey God's ONE TEST or one commandment not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So ONE test was given to mankind where Almighty God again knowing or highly suspecting that he would lose this first round of the TRIAL to PROVE to his ancient creation, the angels, and to prove to us as well that in the day we were created, we were created GOOD and PERFECT. Again, Almighty God needed to keep his PLAN of redemption SECRET, therefore he created Adam first, and then in the fullness of time God would bring forth a CHILD born of a woman into the world, who would be called his Son, and then God would give this Son of man the CHOICE to suffer to die on the cross as an innocent LAMB for the sins of mankind in order to REDEEM mankind back to himself as being God's WILL which the Son of man, Jesus, could do or not do. Please read the following three verses which teach us that Jesus did not have to die for HIMSELF but rather died to redeem us to God. Psalm 40:5-8. “Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. 6. Sacrifice and offering YOU did NOT desire; mine ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required. 7. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, (God's PLAN of salvation that is NEEDED but God himself did NOT DESIRE, meaning it was NEVER God's intent to create man to SIN. That was the ENEMIES doing. God cannot be tempted by evil nor does God tempt man or any of his creation with evil) 8. I delight to do your WILL, (Which included laying down his own life of his own free will to offer himself as the sacrifice for the sins of mankind. Jesus was TEMPTED to not lay down his life when He said if this is the only way then not my will be done but your Will) O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.”
Daniel 9:26a. “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:...” John 10: 17,18. “Therefore, does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down OF MYSELF. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it again. (Which means that Jesus was given a CHOICE to lay down his life FOR sinners or to not lay down his life) This commandment (Or this instruction of having a choice) have I received of my Father.” But when we are taught that God Himself died on the cross that there would be NO real temptation. First of all, God, Himself can NOT be tempted. Therefore, seeing that God can NOT be tempted then dying in any manner would not be a real temptation to God. For you see, Almighty God would KNOW that He could raise Himself back from the dead. However, Jesus wrestled with fear wondering if God had forsaken him. But also, if it were true that God Himself died on the cross He would not have given Himself a choice in the matter because that would have been the whole point of God doing it Himself. The TRUTH of the matter is that Yahweh worked TOGETHER with a MAN. God HELPED the Son of MAN, Jesus. And BECAUSE Jesus was a MAN his God and Father GAVE him the same divine nature of immortality to be having in himself that the Father has always possessed in Himself. So again, I ask the QUESTION of WHY? Why did an ALMIGHTY and an ALL powerful God have to keep his PLAN of redemption a SECRET? And for that matter, WHY did Almighty God even have a PLAN made BEFORE the foundation of the world to have His LAMB SLAIN? The Lamb is speaking of His yet coming into existence HUMAN Son, Jesus, to be born of a woman by Yahweh PERFORMING His spoken word of prophecy? Think about this for a moment. We are TAUGHT that THE ONLY TRUE God is ALMIGHTY and all-powerful so He can do ANYTHING He so desires to do. So then, WHY the PLAN of the LAMB being slain from BEFORE the recreation of the world? And then WHY all the SECRECY? Go back to Ezekiel chapter twenty-eight where we read about the lamentation to the king of Tyrus, and back up to verse three. Ezekiel 28:3.
“Behold you (Referring to Lucifer or Satan) are wiser than Daniel; there is no SECRET that they (Mankind) can hide from you”
Now, this verse is a prophecy of the yet coming antichrist which is a man that I believe will be possessed by Satan in the last days, or at least his power and wisdom will be given to him by Satan. In other words, the true person or evil spirit who is behind this antichrist that is possessed by Satan, who is able to figure out SECRETS. So then, if God revealed His secrets or the MYSTERY of his PLAN of salvation to mankind too early then Satan would not have crucified the Lord of glory had he KNOWN God's full PLAN of salvation in every detail before the cross. To say this another way, the god of this present world, who is Satan, is WISER than Daniel, to whom God revealed many secrets to His servant Daniel. But some things God told Daniel to SEAL up until the time of the end. Are you following what I am saying? I am saying that this verse does NOT dogmatically demand that Lucifer's REBELLION must, without fail, have taken place AFTER mankind was created just because Lucifer was WISER than Daniel. Almighty God Himself is certainly WISER that Daniel and we KNOW that God, the ANCIENT of days is without beginning. And thus, Yahweh existed far BEFORE He created Daniel. The main point is that Almighty God KNEW the WISDOM that His ADVERSARY, that ANCIENT dragon, the old serpent called the Devil, and Satan, possessed. God was not about to underestimate His ACCUSER who polluted His name by falsely accusing God of creating him with an evil sinful rebellious nature. Therefore, God kept his PLAN of redeeming mankind back to Himself a SECRET from His adversary Satan and false accuser. Another reason that leads me to draw this conclusion that I have made in this proposal about Satan accusing God of NOT creating him perfect is the whole theme of redemption. WHY? WHY the need to REDEEM something that already belongs to you? God CREATED mankind so WHY did God not just FORGIVE us without all this need to REDEEM us for HIS NAME'S SAKE? To REDEEM means to buyback. But to buy back from WHOM? You see, the word of God teaches us that to WHOM we YIELD ourselves to OBEY, HIS servants we ARE. But WHEN did this God-ordained law of death as being the wage of sin start? I propose that when God gave such a HARSH punishment as DEATH was when God secretly kept the SECOND death hidden from Lucifer. So it was as if God was saying to Lucifer and the fallen angels that if my man Adam lives without sinning then I have cleared my name and you, Lucifer, will die. And if Adam sins then Adam will die because of his sin. Let us make man in our image but let us make humans a little lower and inferior to you angels just to prove to you that even an inferior creature can live without sinning. In other words, when Adam and Eve YIELDED to OBEY the LIES and DECEPTION of Satan, then mankind BECAME the slaves of Satan. When Adam sinned against God then Satan became the “legal” but yet “outlaw” god over Adam and this present world. It is legal because it was God who said “Let us make man in our image” TO the Elohim to end the war and Satan is an “outlaw” god because he interfered with God’s TEST by INFLUENCING man to sin. And because of the SIN that each and every one of us has committed at one time or another in our lives then WE, by our OWN free will or choice to give in to the temptation to sin against God, we have separated OURSELVES from God and became the servant or slave of Satan, the Devil until we repent and confess our sin. Please read the study “THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN !” for a deeper understanding that we are NOT born in sin and therefore have a SIN NATURE from the moment we are born. As I have already said the word “redeem” means to BUY BACK or to RECOVER OWNERSHIP of something that once belonged to the one redeeming by paying a specified sum or PRICE. The word redeem means to set free, to rescue, and to RANSOM or to SAVE. So again WHY? WHY would the Almighty God and creator of all things need to recover ownership of mankind that He Himself created? From WHOM is God recovering the ownership of mankind? And if it is Satan, who now owns mankind, then HOW did Satan gain ownership of mankind? All of these words in this definition of REDEEM seems to point to the fact that God lost possession of mankind. Or that at the very least, it appears that Almighty God by His OWN choice of creating mankind a little lower than the angels to PROVE to all His creation that what God creates He creates PERFECT and NOT with an EVIL sinful rebellious nature. Yahweh is bound by His own word of ordaining DEATH as being the punishment for sin. And, therefore, God has temporarily lost the right to INTERVENE DIRECTLY in the affairs of mankind, UNLESS man specifically ASKS for help from God. Again, please bear with me for a moment longer. Now while this may be new to some of you, this line of reasoning of God not allowing Himself to interfere without a man asking him first has been around among believers throughout the entire church age. Please understand that I am NOT putting God in some kind of box demanding that God has no power to intervene in the lives of mankind. But rather, I am PROPOSING to you that it SEEMS as if God by His OWN CHOICE He has LIMITED His own intervention with mankind by His written word that we must ask God in FAITH without wavering in order to receive what God has already provided for us. And it also seems that mankind fell captive to Satan when man disobeyed God and sinned. So then, because mankind was enslaved by Satan due to the DISOBEDIENCE of each individual man and NOT because of some so-called “inherited” sinful nature, God now needed to somehow set man free from the bondage of sin. Now to ME it has become obvious that Almighty God knew or highly suspected that His adversary Satan would somehow deceive and INFLUENCE man into sinning. For you see, Satan's own neck was in the noose ready to be hanged, so to speak. In other words, IF SO BE that this NEW creation called mankind that was created LOWER and inferior to the angels lived WITHOUT disobeying God then that would PROVE to all the angels that they were indeed created PERFECT in all their ways. And, therefore, God would be JUSTIFIED in executing His judgment to destroy those of His creation who rebel and sin against Him. Please read John 16:7-12. “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8. And when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9. Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
Every time that we OBEY the Holy Spirit then Satan is JUDGED guilty of falsely polluting God's NAME. Yes, God, KNOWING His ENEMY, already had a PLAN ready to set in place in order to set man free from the captivity of Satan, BEFORE He ever created mankind a little LOWER or INFERIOR to the angels. But God needed to keep it SECRET from His enemy so that His enemy would not discover His PLAN of redeeming mankind before God could FULFILL His plan of salvation. For you see, God PROPHESIED to bring a CHILD into the world born of a virgin, who would be called the SON OF the highest. And then that human child would then be slain as an innocent lamb, a man not worthy to be slain. For you see, by ONE MAN'S sin death entered the world, and by ONE MAN'S righteousness came the resurrection to become God's ETERNAL sons and daughters for WHOSOEVER BELIEVES in God's so great a salvation that is offered to all of mankind. It is YOUR choice to choose or reject God's so great salvation. We are told in the Bible that Jesus is a “RANSOM” for many and that we are “justified” by Christ Jesus. The word “RANSOM” means to make an exchange in order to rescue something that is precious to you. The word “justify” means to vindicate, which means to CLEAR of ACCUSATION. This word also means to prove worth, to claim, to defend, and to revenge. Satan is the ACCUSER of the brethren. But WHY? WHY does Satan even need to accuse us of sin? What is in it for him? Are you seeing the BIGGER PICTURE yet?
So you see, the understanding of the BIG PICTURE begins with understanding the proposal which I am giving you that Satan FALSELY ACCUSED God of creating him imperfect or with a NATURE to SIN and therefore Satan was saying to his creator 'It is YOUR fault O God that I rebelled against you because YOU are the one who CREATED me with a rebellious and sinful nature, so, therefore, it would be UNJUST for you O God to punish me for something YOU did.' And then Almighty God responded by saying back to Lucifer that in the day that he created him God created him PERFECT in all his ways. So then, I ask you the question, is the idea or PROPOSAL of Satan FALSELY ACCUSING God saying that it was God’s fault for CREATING him with a sinful rebellious nature that caused Satan to be lifted up with the SIN of pride and REBEL against God, starting to make any sense to you at all? If not please keep reading. You see, my dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ, after God created man and placed Adam in the garden we are not told how long man was there before God saw that it was not good for man to be alone and then made a woman from man. And even then we do not know how long it was before Satan became WORRIED and decided to ENSURE that things went HIS WAY by TEMPTING and directly INFLUENCING the woman to disobey God. In my opinion, Satan was, at first, just observing Adam who was this NEW being called HUMANS that was created specifically to be INFERIOR or LOWER than he and all the angelic hosts were created. And then when Satan saw that this INFERIOR being was doing just as God said he would do, which was to walk in obedience was when Satan became WORRIED that God was indeed going to prove to ALL the angels. But more particularly, it was to prove to the GOOD angels that he had indeed created Lucifer, and THEM as well, PERFECT in all their ways. And thus, it was Lucifer himself, who was deceived and lifted up by his OWN pride to rebel against the Most-High and try to take over God's throne. So you see, the WISDOM of God BY creating mankind a little lower than the angels and showing that man would live PERFECT in all his ways before God would PROVE beyond any shadow of a doubt that He would be a JUST and RIGHTEOUS God to destroy any of His creation who rebel and sin against Him. And thus, God would clear His own name that was being polluted by this FALSE ACCUSATION of CREATING His creation evil and rebellious with a sin nature. Now, had God simply destroyed Satan and the fallen angels right there on the spot AFTER being FALSELY ACCUSED by Satan of being God's own fault that his creation rebelled against him by supposedly creating them evil, then the GOOD angels may have always WONDERED if this ACCUSATION was true. So another key to understanding WHY God did not destroy Satan and the fallen angels right then and there when they made war with him is to see and understand that God needed to CLEAR his NAME being FALSELY accused by Satan. The Bible says that it was for the SAKE of God's OWN NAME that God is doing what He is doing. More on this later, but for now let us get back on track, which is WHY does Satan TEMPT and INFLUENCE mankind to rebel against God? So then, after seeing that God's new creation man made a little lower than the angels was OBEYING God, Satan may have said to himself, 'I need to do something and I need to do it quickly or else my fate will be sealed'. So, therefore, Satan broke the rule of no interfering and he deceived Adam and Eve by INFLUENCING the woman and man into disobeying God. And then Satan ACCUSED man before God, 'See God you are wrong again, man sinned just as I have sinned, so it is Your fault, not my own that I sinned.' But God knew or suspected all along that Satan would do this and he had a SECRET PLAN already to set in place to not only redeem man but at the same time also PROVE to Satan and ALL the other angels, particularly the GOOD angels once and for all time that he had created them ALL perfect in all their ways. BUT it seems that God could not or would not begin to execute the first stages of His plan of salvation UNTIL Satan FIRST directly interfered or “FIXED” the test of mankind to go HIS way to prove that God created him with a sinful rebellious nature. This interference by Satan FIRST, then allowed God to now LEGALLY intervene on man's behalf. God covered the sin of Adam but death REIGNED until the Law of Moses. But we see this, ALLOWING God to intervene to help mankind, when Abraham FIRST gave his only begotten son to God, thus allowing God to give His only begotten human Son to save mankind. You see my dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, God ONLY NEEDED to have ONE MAN live PERFECT before him to justify destroying Satan and the FALLEN angels and CLEAR his name before the angels who remained FAITHFUL to follow his ways. This is WHY Almighty God KEPT SECRET his PLAN of REDEMPTION from before the foundation of the world and this is WHY that Jesus NEEDED to be a MAN just like you and me without having any advantage over us or having any advantage over the ANGELS. Think about it, WHY ELSE would an ALL powerful and ALL mighty God need to KEEP His yet future ELECT Son that He would one day bring forth into existence into the world a SECRET? Some of you may recall the words of Paul saying that had they KNOWN they would NOT have crucified the Lord of glory. In other words, had Satan and the fallen angels, demons, and devils KNOWN that Jesus would SEAL their fate they would NOT have INFLUENCED men to crucify the SINLESS MAN, who was made a little LOWER and inferior to the angels. Please read 1 Corinthians 2:6-8. “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8. Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
Now another CLUE for all the questions of WHY God is presently and TEMPORARILY ALLOWING evil in the world is found in Revelation 20:1-3, where we read that Satan is going to be bound for 1000 years and NOT be allowed to tempt and INFLUENCE the nations, UNTIL the thousand-year reign of Jesus is fulfilled. And then at the END of the 1000 year reign of Jesus, Satan will be LET LOOSE for a short time once again to TEMPT and DECEIVE and INFLUENCE the nations to REBEL against God. But WHY? WHY bind Satan for 1000 years just to turn him LOOSE AGAIN? What's up with that? Keep that question in mind as we continue this study in God's word by reading Revelation 20:1-3. Revelation 20:1-3.
“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he lay hold on the DRAGON, that OLD SERPENT, which is the DEVIL, and SATAN, and BOUND him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should DECEIVE the nations NO MORE, till the thousand years be fulfilled: and after that, he MUST be loosed a little season.” Now again, WHY turn Satan loose after he has been bound for 1000 years? WHY MUST Satan be LOOSED again to DECEIVE the nations. Keep reading my PROPOSED thoughts on understanding WHY to all these questions. During this thousand-year period, we, who have overcome the devil and who were NOT deceived and overcome by Satan in this present age we are now living in, will rule and reign with Jesus over the remnant of God’s chosen people, who turn to Christ Jesus at the time of his SECOND coming and recognize him as their Messiah. It will be too late for them to accept Jesus as their Savior and be saved AS men were and are, and yet will be saved today during this PRESENT age of the church, who will receive ETERNAL LIFE when Jesus comes again. However, all who call upon the name of the Lord when they SEE him coming in great clouds of glory will be SAVED, in that, they will be spared from destruction and kept alive in order to go into the Millennium as mortal men and women to be taught of the Lord. Then we who were SAVED before the coming of Jesus, who are found to be the good and faithful servants and who have endured unto the end will live, as in, we will be given ETERNAL LIFE and we will reign with Jesus and will teach those in their MORTAL bodies the ways of God. After mankind has lived for a thousand years in peace with NO war and without the influence or temptations of the deceiver because the DECEIVER is BOUND for 1000 years, then Satan will be let loose AFTER or at the END of the 1000 years for a little season and he will once again TEMPT the nations to rebel against the most-High God. This will be the FINAL PROOF to Satan and ALL the other angels, particularly the GOOD faithful angels, that Lucifer HIMSELF was indeed the CAUSE of his OWN sin, and that he, as the anointed cherub Lucifer, was indeed created PERFECT in all his ways from the day he was created just as Almighty God has said all along. God's POLLUTED NAME will then be cleared for all eternity future and ALL evil will be DESTROYED in the lake of fire never to rise again. Therefore, it was Lucifer’s OWN pride that caused him to exalt himself and REBEL against his creator, and NOT that God created him to be evil as some FALSELY teach. Now as for mankind, those who followed after the ways of God to walk in righteousness will be rewarded for all SUFFERING that they had to go through including all the temptations and all the suffering imposed upon them by the OPPRESSION of the devil. For you see dear children of God, all of this SUFFERING that God has ALLOWED is to recompense the evil done to us back on Satan and the fallen angels. So in a sense, God is being forced to allow the oppression of Satan in order to not go against His own word. It repented God to destroy mankind at the flood of Noah. So to me, the reason that God is allowing Satan to oppress people is so that God can clear His name being polluted by Satan and to also PROVE to the faithful angels that God created them PERFECT. And as a reward for overcoming the world system of Satan, God promised those of mankind who have OVERCOME that they are going to be exalted ABOVE the angels and WE will judge them by the WITNESS of our living without sin in this present world through the Holy Spirit. We will be given this right to judge the angels because we, as an INFERIOR species of being, OVERCAME the LIES and the FALSE ACCUSATIONS of the enemy of Almighty God. ALSO, as a JOY set before ALL of mankind to OVERCOME the ENEMY, is ETERNAL LIFE in the world to me. However, this ETERNAL LIFE will be given to ONLY the men or women who accept and BELIEVE God's PLAN of salvation and remain FAITHFUL unto the END. Please read Revelation 22:11-15. “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12. And, behold, I come quickly; and my REWARD is with me, to give every man according as his WORK shall be. (Meaning that the reward or the wage of the wicked will be the WRATH of God and the reward or the inheritance of the righteous in Jesus Christ will be ETERNAL LIFE.) 13. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14. BLESSED are THEY that DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, that (Or so that) THEY (Speaking of ONLY those of us in Jesus Christ who are KEEPING the commandments of God under the NEW COVENANT written in the New Testament and NOT the Law of Moses contained in ordinances that was nailed to the cross according to Ephesians 2:15 and Colossians 2:6-17) may have RIGHT to the tree of LIFE, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore mongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.” Now, to ME, what I have PROPOSED to you NOW makes perfect sense for WHY we are tempted by the devil. It NOW makes perfect sense to ME WHY there is the suffering of temptation. It NOW makes perfect sense to ME, WHY God SEEMS to ALLOWS evil to continue in the world. It NOW makes perfect sense to ME WHY Satan accuses us before God. It NOW makes perfect sense to ME WHY Almighty God the creator and OWNER of all needed to REDEEM or to restore ownership of mankind BACK to Himself, which in my mind should have already belonged to God anyway seeing that He created us. Also, what I have proposed in this study NOW makes perfect sense to ME WHY God ordained to let loose Satan again after having him bound for 1000 years. It NOW makes perfect sense to ME WHY God created mankind lower than the angels only to exalt those of us who overcome the enemy to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels. And it NOW makes perfect sense to ME WHY the need to keep the whole PLAN of redemption such a SECRET when God Himself is the supreme highest ALL powerful God OF gods.
1 Corinthians 2:7,8 says.
“But we speak the wisdom of God in a MYSTERY, even the HIDDEN wisdom, which God ORDAINED BEFORE the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes (Speaking of the ANCIENTS, Satan and the fallen angels) of this world knew: FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT, they would NOT have crucified the Lord of glory.”
Now it becomes clearer and clearer that when a brother or sister in Christ or anyone for that matter who wrongs you that you should not look to blame or find fault with that brother or sister or person in the world. But rather, KNOW that it is our enemy, that OLD SERPENT, that ANCIENT one, which is called the DEVIL, and SATAN, who is deceiving and INFLUENCING your brother or sister or that person in the world to do whatever they did to you. Jesus said of those who were INFLUENCED by Satan to crucify him, Father, FORGIVE them for or BECAUSE they KNOW NOT what they are doing.
2 Corinthians 10:3 says the same thing in a different way.
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not WAR after the flesh. (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, (and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;)”
Satan and the principalities and powers will bring thoughts to us and try and build strongholds in our minds and imaginations. Sometimes this is known as “jumping to conclusions” or making assumptions that are simply not what was intended by your brother or sister in Christ Jesus or those in the world. But instead of casting down these imaginations some react or respond in the flesh and thereby remove themselves out of the love walk that God has ordained us all to walk. 1 John says how can we say that we love God if we do NOT love our fellow man. Therefore prove your love for God BY walking in LOVE toward your fellow man. Ephesians 6:12 says.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Our enemy is NOT our fellow man, which is what Satan wants us to believe. But rather, Satan and these fallen principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness deceive and tempt mankind into setting one man against the other. Therefore, do NOT ALLOW yourself to be used by Satan or to be deceived by him to get out of love for your fellow man. For you see, Satan is just trying to get back at God by taking as many of mankind with him as he can to the pit or lake of fire, which was NOT at the first created for any of mankind. God takes NO pleasure in the death of the wicked. But we hear the cry and pleading of God saying, WHY has hell ENLARGED herself? It REPENTED God that he ever made this NEW creation called mankind when God had basically no choice but to destroy ALL of mankind with a flood saving ONLY EIGHT people to start over to PROVE once and for all time that his creations are PERFECT in the day that they are created. So to dogmatically demand that I can back up every single statement that I have proposed to you in this study by a DIRECT QUOTE from the word of God would not be a true statement. And that is why I say “proposed”, “in my opinion”, and “to me”. BUT I am confident to say that this study has brought great peace to my own mind in resolving all the conflicts that I have heard through the years. To me, it is better to make the assumption based on verses that seem to IMPLY what I have proposed as being valid rather than go along with the point of view or OPINION of others who FALSELY teach that God is the one that causes EVERYTHING to be, both good and EVIL. I do not believe that the Bible itself teaches us that it is God who is the one to be blamed for ALL the suffering that takes place in the world. Personally, I believe that it is wrong to accuse Almighty God Himself of every rape, every murder, every war, every act of violence, and every tragedy. Some Christians even go as far as to say that God specifically CREATED EVIL and then quote Isaiah 45:7 in order to try and prove their point of view. Those Christians claim that God creates certain specific individuals specifically for the sole reason of none other than to destroy them in the lake of fire to show that he is all-powerful. And then they go on to say that at the same time God creates some people to be destroyed he also creates only certain specific individuals, who they say is God's ELECT that supposedly was chosen from the foundation of the world specifically and for the sole reason to be saved. And then further they go on to dogmatically teach that there is absolutely NOTHING that anyone can do to change what God himself has supposedly predestined their fate to be. So let us read Isaiah 45:7 to see if God SPECIFICALLY CREATED EVIL just for the SOLE REASON to destroy this evil in the end in the lake of fire to supposedly show his mighty power. Isaiah 45:7.
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create EVIL: I the Lord do all these things.”
Now, first of all, this verse is COMPARING light with darkness and also comparing God making peace to the evil in the world. But the translators have incorrectly translated the Hebrew word as CREATE darkness and CREATE evil. But I did not KNOW this truth when I was first faced with trying to explain to an atheist that God is a GOOD God. I only had a limited revelation of the true sound Biblical meaning of Isaiah 45:7 at that time in my life. So allow me to share that limited revelation first and then I will show you why the translators incorrectly translate the Hebrew word “bara” to create when it should have been translated as “CUT DOWN”. For you see, the Hebrew word “bara” means BOTH create AND cut down. But if you are a Calvinist translator then which meaning would you choose? You would choose the meaning that best FITS what you have been taught to believe. The same is true with other verses in the Bible. If you are a Trinitarian Bible translator then you would choose the meanings of the Greek and Hebrew words that best FIT the doctrine of the Trinity. That is why different groups of Christians have their own translation of the Bible. The Roman Catholic Church has its own authorized Catholic translation of the Bible. And since the doctrine of the Trinity became “Orthodox” Christianity, the English translations of the Bible have been translated in the LIGHT of the doctrine of the Trinity. That is why Unitarian Christians like the Jehovah’s Witnesses have translated their own translation of the Bible. NO honest Bible translator purposely intends to be biased but that does not mean that the “translations” of the Bible are not biased. And as you will see, this verse in Isaiah in the King James Version is “biased” toward the doctrine of Calvinism. Perhaps not intentionally but bias nonetheless. Let us read the verse again with the word create emphasized. Isaiah 45:7. “I form the light, and CREATE darkness: I make peace, and CREATE evil: I the Lord DO all these things.” When an atheist confronted me with this verse I had no sound Biblical answer for him at that time. I could see through a glass darkly that there is a DIFFERENCE between “I CREATE” and “God CREATED” and what God “DOES” or ALLOWS in the present tense as opposed to what God “DID” in the past tense. So I explained what little insight I had at the time to the atheist. Let me explain to you what I mean by this. If something is MADE or CREATED it is generally assumed that the maker or creator had INTENTIONALLY made or CREATED it according to the intended design. However, if something has been given the opportunity to BE created as in the PRESENT tense to CREATE, then that something that God CREATES is something that God ALLOWED to BE created, or brought forth into existence. In other words, the EVIL that is brought forth may or may NOT be what this future creation was INTENDED or SPECIFICALLY CREATED to BE. Wow, that was a mouthful and I may have lost some of you so let me explain what I mean by this again. You see, most of us as Christians believe without a doubt that God created us with a WILL of our OWN called by some Christians as our FREE WILL to CHOOSE, to determine, or to “CREATE”, if you will, our OWN destiny. So it is by our OWN choice that we create or make EVIL acts to come into being. But in a SENSE it was God who created us with this FREE WILL to CHOOSE to bring forth good or to bring forth into existence EVIL. Thus, God in THIS sense creates, as in, “I Almighty God CREATE, PRESENT tense, BY ALLOWING my creation to CHOOSE both good OR evil to BE to be brought forth by each individual creation that I have created to have free will.” But in truth, the WHOLE word of God teaches us that the Almighty our creator did NOT SPECIFICALLY create any of His creations for the sole purpose to BRING forth EVIL as His INTENDED purpose. We CLEARLY see this truth from the word of God that Almighty God CREATED, as in, past tense God created Lucifer and ALL the other angels PERFECT in all their ways. So, therefore, it WAS, IS, and has always been God's INTENTION and SPECIFIC DESIGN for all that He CREATES to be PERFECT and VERY GOOD. But because God ALSO GAVE His creation the ABILITY to reason and make CHOICES, then the creation of ITSELF creates both good and evil. Again, the above interpretation is true and does not contradict any other Scripture but it was not a satisfactory explanation to that particular atheist. So I told the atheist, you also have to understand the TRUE BIBLICAL meaning of the word “EVIL”. This word “EVIL” here in Isaiah 45:7 means. The word evil means bad, DISAGREEABLE, inferior in quality, by extension: evil, wicked in ethical quality. In other words, what is DISAGREEABLE to God is inferior in quality and ethically evil. And God's actions of JUDGMENT are DISAGREEABLE to the WICKED, and even not what God Himself really DESIRES to do. So even God's own judgments are not ethically evil, as in, they are not pleasing to Him. God takes no PLEASURE in the death of the wicked. Please see Ezekiel 14:21-23.
“For thus says the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore JUDGMENTS upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast. 22. Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth, and you shall see their WAY and their DOINGS: and you shall be COMFORTED concerning the EVIL that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning ALL that I have brought upon it, 23. And they shall comfort you WHEN you SEE their WAYS and their DOINGS: and you shall KNOW that I have NOT done WITHOUT CAUSE all that I have DONE, says the Lord God.”
So when we KEEP Isaiah 45:7 in its CONTEXT in the light of God's JUDGMENT or wrath at the second coming of Jesus, then we can see that the EVIL is not desired by God. But rather, judgment is necessary, as in, a necessary evil being brought upon the WICKED. So again, God is NOT desiring or having pleasure in this yet future punishment that he MUST create or bring to pass and in that sense it is EVIL. But this does NOT mean that God created EVIL. Now, needless to say, the atheist was not satisfied with my limited revelation of Isaiah 45:7 but at that time in my life, that revelation was satisfactory, to ME. But God seemed to keep bringing people in my life that used this verse to BLAME God for everything and deep inside I knew that God did NOT create darkness nor did God create evil. So I asked God again what Isaiah 45:7 TRULY means. And He told me to look up the word create. And here is what I learned. So I looked up the word that is translated as “CREATE”. I do not know why I looked up the word other than God led me to so because I was fully expecting the meaning of the Hebrew word “bara” to mean CREATE. And then to my surprise, I found that the Hebrew word “bara” ALSO means to CUT DOWN. What a revelation! Here is how E-Sword defines the Hebrew word “bara”. H1254 בָּרָא bârâ' baw-raw' A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). Let us now read Isaiah 45:7 with the meaning of “bara” as CUTDOWN as opposed to create. Isaiah 45:7. “I form the light, and CUT DOWN darkness: I make peace, and CUT DOWN evil: I the Lord DO all these things.” Now that you have seen the true sound Biblical meaning of Isaiah 45:7 let us read this verse in its CONTEXT so you can see Jesus in the “big picture” of God's plan of salvation. Please read Isaiah chapter 45:1-25.
“Thus says the LORD TO His ANOINTED, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; (Here we see Yahweh talking TO His ANOINTED King Cyrus to reassure him that his God is with him which agrees with the prophecies of Jesus in Isaiah 41:13 and Isaiah 42:6. Keep in mind that King Cyrus is a type, figure, or shadow of Jesus the ANOINTED shepherd of Yahweh) and I will loosen the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2. I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3. And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, (The treasures of the unjust are laid up for the just in the world to come) that you may know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel. (The verb “am” is not in the original text. The LITERAL translation reads “I Yahweh, the one calling in NAME of YOU the God of Israel”. Yahweh is prophesying TO His ANOINTED Shepherd calling his NAME the God of Israel. In other words, this is a prophecy of God's Shepherd, Jesus being made a god by his God Yahweh) 4. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me. (To me, this verse proves that Jesus did not literally pre-exist in eternity past because Jesus did not know Yahweh. Jesus was TAUGHT the Scriptures morning by morning as Yahweh visited him through Holy Spirit, according to Isaiah 50:4-6 and Hebrews 2:6) 5. I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though you have not known me: (This verse LITERALLY means that there are NO FURTHER Elohim except me, I am girding you though you have not known me. Remember and be aware of the fact that Lucifer and ONE-THIRD of the Elohim rebelled and made war against Yahweh. So Almighty God is in the process of dethroning Satan and PROMOTING another to take the place of Lucifer as the God of the whole earth) 6. That they may know (Speaking of the fallen Elohim) from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. (The phrase “none beside me” means that there will be no God APART FROM and without Yahweh and therefore the fallen Elohim will be NO FURTHER) 7. I form the light, and create darkness: (Or more precisely, I Yahweh FORM the LIGHT Speaking of Messiah Jesus and I Yahweh CUT DOWN darkness speaking of Lucifer and the fallen angels) I make peace, and create evil: (Or I Yahweh make PEACE or I bring WAR to an END for all eternity future. And I Yahweh CUT DOWN and destroy EVIL for all eternity) I the LORD do all these things. 8. Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: (Speaking of the second coming of Jesus which all his saints and his army of angels to execute the WRATH of Yahweh) let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. (Yahweh begat, formed and created Jesus FROM the womb to be the salvation of whosoever believes in the Son of the living God as the atonement for their sins) 9. Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What make you? Or your work, He has no hands? (Remember the prophecy in Jeremiah 1:5,6 saying I can not speak I am just a CHILD and Yahweh says do not say you are a child, I am sending you and you are to speak the words that I will instruct you to speak. I believe that Yahweh is speaking TO His shepherd Jesus in these verses when Jesus was a child) 10. Woe unto him that says unto his father, What beget you? Or to the woman, What have you brought forth? (I can see Jesus as a child when he first found out that Joseph was not his biological father and Yahweh is comforting him and at the same time teaching Jesus as a child to NOT strive with his Maker) 11. Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, (Or thus says Yahweh [TO] the Holy One of Israel, the one making of him) Ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands command you, me. 12. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: (Or I Yahweh have made the earth and I have created a HUMAN upon it or I have created a MAN upon it) I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 13. I have raised him up in righteousness, (Speaking of the MAN that Yahweh created upon the earth to BE the God of Israel to rule FOR Yahweh for 1000 years in the world to come) and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts. 14. Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains, they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is IN you, and there is none else, there is no God. (Or surely EL is IN YOU My Messiah Jesus whom I have SET to be God of Israel and NO FURTHER the Elohim fallen gods, no more) 15. Verily (Or TRULY) you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior. (To me, this verse could be interpreted as Jesus being a HUMBLE God as opposed to Lucifer being a BOASTFUL God and Yahweh is well pleased with His workmanship of raising up a righteous God. Or the first half of the verse could be interpreted as the “invisible hidden” Yahweh. And the last half of verse 15, is a prophecy of Jesus the Savior as becoming the God of Israel that Yahweh made Lord and Savior after the cross and resurrection) 16. They (Speaking of the FALLEN Elohim, Lucifer, and the fallen angels) shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. (Speaking of the devils causing or deceiving humans to make idols to the devils) 17. But Israel shall be saved IN the LORD with an everlasting salvation: (When a person is saved IN Jesus they are ALSO IN Yahweh the Father as well) you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 18. For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He has established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none else. (Yahweh is one God in ONE PERSON and Yahweh ALONE created the universe and there was no other being with Yahweh in eternity past. But to me, this verse was intended to be speaking of the RE-CREATION of the earth in view of the following verses. So again, Yahweh in one person restored the earth alone and by Himself) 19. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said NOT unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 20. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and prays unto a god that cannot save. 21. Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me. (This verse is saying that Yahweh Himself has DONE all of this. We KNOW that there IS a God beside Yahweh after the cross so this verse is saying I Yahweh have prophesied this from the foundation of the earth and APART FROM me there is no God without me. Philippians 2:8-11 teaches us that Yahweh gave Jesus a NAME and every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord TO the GLORY of Almighty God Yahweh the Father) 22. Look unto me, (Or look unto him the Savior I raised up for you) and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. 23. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24. Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. 25. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.”
Yahweh glorified the Son of MAN, Jesus, and in the world yet to come the NOW eternal Son of God will bring GLORY to his God and Father Yahweh. You see, what I have proposed in this study places the cause and blame on the ENEMY of God and on those of mankind who follow and obey the influences and temptations of the ENEMY, which is that OLD SERPENT, the devil or SATAN, an ANCIENT one, and NOT upon God, who CREATES ONLY that kind of evil, or what is EVIL or DISAGREEABLE in MAN'S eyes. God WARNS us in the first part of Hosea 4:6 that his people are destroyed for or because of the LACK of KNOWLEDGE and if we REJECT the KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH, then God has no choice but to then REJECT THEM and ALLOW EVIL to come upon them. This is what is meant when the word says I create in the present tense EVIL. It does NOT mean that God CREATES mankind EVIL and there is NOTHING that they can do to CHANGE the evil or wickedness that is found in them. Hosea 4:6a. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: BECAUSE you have REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I will also REJECT YOU...”
Now, this is NOT God's INTENDED purpose for mankind. In other words, God did NOT SPECIFICALLY CREATE mankind to BE EVIL or DISAGREEABLE to himself. That would be FOOLISHNESS. Are you better than God? Would you make something for the SOLE REASON for being DISAGREEABLE to you? NO, Absolutely not! So NO, many thousands of times NO, God did NOT create EVIL in the WAY many INTERPRET what evil is in their own eyes. Also, please take note that this verse does NOT say that God's people are destroyed, for or BECAUSE God specifically CREATED them to be destroyed as some FALSELY teach. But rather God's people are destroyed for lack of KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH and that they themselves have REJECTED God's knowledge of the TRUTH to make them free. And we also read in God's word that God is NOT WILLING that ANY man should perish but rather that all men would COME to the KNOWLEDGE of the truth rather than to continue to REJECT his KNOWLEDGE of the truth. And that God takes NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked. Again please read the study called “EXAMINING CALVINISM IN THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD!” Also, some buy into the lie of Satan who in the error of deception say of themselves that there is NO God or judge over them. Therefore, to THEM in their own eyes, there is no such thing as EVIL or GOOD, so they falsely claim that man can do as he pleases. But if you are honest with yourself and you just take a close look at the world around you, there are DEFINITELY things that are DISAGREEABLE to YOU my fellow man. Now you yourself may not see what pleases YOU as being EVIL, but in the eyes of God, it is DISAGREEABLE to him. And if you are truthful with yourself there are some things that other people do that pleases them but that does NOT please YOU. In other words, the deeds of some people are DISAGREEABLE or EVIL to you, but NOT to THEM. But you are NOT that other person's judge and jury and they are NOT your judge and jury. It is God's word that will judge us all and without the judgment of God there will only be CHAOS and the survival of the fittest or those who are the MOST EVIL and I do mean EXTREMELY EVIL. In other words, the world without God's JUDGMENT, which is the EVIL that God MUST create or bring to pass, then humans would be their OWN judge. Again, I say that God's judgment is evil because God never INTENDED for the lake of fire to include human beings. The lake of fire was made ONLY for Satan and the fallen angels but because of Satan TEMPTING humans to sin hell has enlarged herself. And that is WHY God takes NO PLEASURE in the death of sinners. So whatever any man considers evil to himself, then he will create evil to the one who did evil to him and so forth until only the most extreme evil people remain. The world would become the survival of whosoever is the most wicked having no conscience. There would be no peace ever and even the most wicked would eventually fear for their own life because there would always be one looking to murder the one in power. However, since Almighty God is the CREATOR of ALL things including being YOUR creator whether you acknowledge this TRUTH or not, then Almighty God has the RIGHT to ELIMINATE everything that is DISAGREEABLE or EVIL to Him, no matter if His methods for the MOMENT seem EVIL to us and are DISAGREEABLE to us. In the END, we will one day see that all God does is NOT without CAUSE. You see, when the enemy deceives man into disobeying God, then this removes man out of the covering or hedge of protection that God has around those that are being saved. Satan then accuses the one he has just deceived into disobeying God before Almighty God. And then, because of God’s FAITHFULNESS to his own word, God is helpless to come to our aid UNTIL we REPENT, which places us back into RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God, which is the OPPOSITE of EVIL, and ASK God to intervene in our life. So, THEREFORE, UNTIL we are found to be in RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God, then Satan has “legal” right to bind us with sickness or disease or inflict some type of tragedy upon us and will do so until we repent and are recovered out of the snare of the devil. You see SIN, or that which is DISAGREEABLE to God is what brings down the hedge of protection that God has around us and opens the door to the enemy to bring about consequences for our disobedience. There are at times consequences to sin even though we are forgiven of our sins. Sometimes these consequences are small and go unnoticed at the time, but if you are willing to look, you will certainly see the effects sin has left behind in your life. Now to me this view of Satan falsely accusing God of creating him with an evil and rebellious nature, which I have proposed to you my fellow man and dear brothers and sisters in the Lord in this study, has opened up the word of God to me. The Holy Spirit has shown me many new weapons for overcoming sin that I never saw before. I have separated these insights into many different studies, all of which will lead us as believers to live our lives free from sin and walk in a way that is pleasing and AGREEABLE to God. Is not this your desire to walk in the way that is pleasing to God? If so, then I beseech you to read the rest of the studies I have posted here on my website at AMatterOfTruth.com beginning with those I have listed first. Some at the very beginning on the menu of studies are Bible studies that cover the basics of being saved, but still, they are very enlightening to even mature believers as I have been told by some of you my readers and seekers of the TRUTH who have seen benefits paid for at the cross that they had not seen before. And as you continue down the list you will learn HOW to overcome sin. You will learn how to read and study the Bible on your own to correctly interpret Scripture. You will learn how to pray sound Biblical prayers that get answered by God. You will learn about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and your power and authority as a believer. Then comes teachings on the rapture of the church and the second coming of Jesus according to what the WHOLE word of God teaches and not what doctrines of men teach. As you move further down the list of studies you will find many if not most of the studies to be on highly controversial subjects. You may find some that YOU YOURSELF may not AGREE with upon first reading them, but I assure you that if you are TRULY seeking the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of God and you ALLOW the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you into all truth you will see very clearly that all I teach is based SOUNDLY upon the WHOLE word of God. I will leave you with a final verse to consider that God will, in the end, OVERTURN Satan's false accusation against God to POLLUTE God's name. Please read Ezekiel 21:25-27. “And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, (When Jesus died on the cross and when Satan will be cast into the lake of fire) 26. Thus says the Lord GOD; REMOVE the diadem, and TAKE OFF the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. 27. I will OVERTURN, OVERTURN, OVERTURN, it: and it shall be no more until he comes whose RIGHT it is, and I will give it to HIM.” There are many more verses of Scripture that teach us about God DETHRONING Satan and replacing him with another as the God of the whole earth which I cover in other Bible studies. Please read all the studies under the heading >>>WHY ARE WE HERE-IS GOD AT WAR?<<< Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you CONTINUE in the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of God. Your brother in our Lord Christ Jesus, Brother Mark. RETURN TO HOMEPAGE AT |
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