OUR HEAVENLY FATHER DID NOT ALWAYS HAVE WHAT HE NEEDED OR DESIRED! When He created Lucifer, He needed him. God never created anything that He did not need. True? Even man in his foolishness does not (normally) create anything what he does not need. But did God also need Satan? YES, HE DID! He needed him for His future Plans and Purposes, because…
THROUGH SATAN GOD WOULD RECEIVE FROM HIS CREATION WHAT HE HAD ALWAYS DESIRED AND SUFFERED FOR!
What had God truly desired and suffered for? I SEE that He always desired something much, much more and much “better” than beautiful and loyal angels or sinless and perfect but naïve men like Adam or men forgiven of their sins or men healed of all their sicknesses or men serving Him in their sincerity, honesty and diligence. You see, if the most perfect and beautiful angel can become God’s enemy, then how much easier can man become one?
But I have to ask you a very important question: HOW CAN YOU BECOME ENEMIES TO SOME ONE WHOM YOU TRULY LOVE? Can you truthfully answer this question? NO, you cannot! And I cannot either. Again, I repeat that the natural man cannot possibly see, understand and thus answer such an important question. Love is also spirit and it needs spiritual discernment and understanding. We will return to this question when we will consider the matter of LOVE. Now we are getting to the next step…
e) SO, GOD CREATED MAN, He created him in HIS OWN IMAGE, male and female He created them. (Gen. 1:27) They were innocent and very naïve not knowing what was “good or evil” or what “work” was since everything was provided to them without any need for them to work, sweat or strive.
Then God created the tree of life and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil and put them in the middle of His Garden of Eden. And then He commanded the man NOT TO EAT from the tree of knowledge of good and evil lest he would die the same day. (Gen. 2:16,17) Our Father gave this Commandment to Adam and Eve KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THEY WILL EAT OF IT AND WILL DIE! WHY DID OUR FATHER DO THAT? Do we know? YES, we do!
But how can GOD, Who in our imagination and understanding and comprehension and feelings IS LOVE and GRACE and MERCY plus all the other Heavenly virtues, how can He cause man, created in His Image, to die and go to hell?Can we understand that? YES we do, but not in our natural mind, not even in our wildest imagination. We will now make a statement which natural, soulish believers will consider appalling, yet, in the eyes of Our Father, it is true.
OUR FATHER HAD PURPOSELY EXPOSED MAN TO EVIL AND ALLOWED HIM TO BE SUBMERGED INTO IT AND OVERCOME BY IT AND DIE – BE SEPARATED FROM GOD, HIS CREATOR!
Now, we may follow the above statement with another one, even more shocking statement to the soulish believers.
THEREFORE, IT IS VERY GOOD AND VERY NECESSARY FOR MAN TO GO THROUGH HELL, DARKNESS AND EVIL AND SIN AND PAIN AND SUFFERING AND SICKNESS AND CONFUSION AND PRIDE AND ARROGANCE AND FEARS AND STUPIDITY AND ALL THE “VIRTUES OF HIS FLESH” AND TO EXPERIENCE IT ALL IN HIS SOUL AND LIFE! WHY?
FIRST, SO THAT MAN CAN SEE HIS TRUE SELF AS HE IS WITHOUT GOD, “NAKED” BEFORE HIM AND WHETHER HE LOVES EVIL THAT HE HAS TASTED AND NOW LIVES IT IN HIS SELF, OR WHETHER HE LOVES GOD. AND THEN THE MAN IS GIVEN THE CHOICE TO TURN AWAY FROM EVIL OR REMAIN IN IT, TO CHOOSE LIFE OR CHOOSE DEATH, (DEUT. 30:15) TO KEEP LOVING HIS SELF OR LOVE GOD MORE THAN HIS SELF. (MT. 22:37)
SECOND, MAN CAN SEE GOD THAT HE SUBMERGED HIMSELF INTO THE SAME EVIL AND GAVE UP HIS OWN LIFE TO PROVIDE MAN WITH ESCAPE FROM EVIL AND DEATH AND FROM HIS SINFUL SELF, AND WHO OFFERS MAN HIS LOVE AND LIFE ETERNAL IN HIS PRESENCE. WHAT WILL THE MAN, WHO BECAME EVIL, CHOOSE? (MT. 7:11) WHAT WILL THIS MAN DO? HOW WILL HIS FREE WILL DECIDE? IT IS SOLELY UP TO THAT MAN AND HIS HEART AND NOT UP TO GOD. GOD IS SEEKING AN UNCONDITIONAL, SPONTANEOUS, FREE-WILL OBEDIENCE AND LOVE FROM THE MAN FOR WHOM GOD (IN HIS SON) DIED!
So, why would the merciful and loving God send you first to hell to die there? And why would He then send His only begotten Son to also die and go to hell and offer you His helping hand and recover you and bring you from hell to Heaven? WHY? Is there any human logic in it? NO! Is there any wisdom of God in it? YES!
f) LET US REALIZE that Adam and Eve were naïve not only as to the question of good and evil, but also as to the value, the strength and trueness of their love for God. They took everything for granted and could not imagine that one day they might lose something of it or even lose it all. All the needs for their lives were provided to them by God freely without any need for them to work or even care for it. They had no ability to assess any eventual loss of what they freely enjoyed. I believe that such a thought never even crossed their pure mind. So, because of their ignorance, they lived and enjoyed a true “heavenly bliss on earth”.
But this is NOT what God desired and expected from His future sons or daughters, from the future BRIDE OF THE WORD! Their free will, pure mind and heart were to be tested in a most drastic way. We should now see that Satan and evil were perfect tools for achieving that Great Purpose of God for Man as His future Eternal Companion.
We all know the most familiar verse in the New Testament which we were also singing to the tune of “Silent Night”:
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (Jn. 3:16)
Now, let us realize the background of this truth and the spiritual picture which existed before the foundations of this world. It seems that whatever God created after He had created evil, was in danger of getting spoiled and destroyed. I believe that we can truthfully turn to Our Father and tell Him this:
WE SINCERELY BELIEVE, FATHER, THAT YOU DID NOT HAVE TO GIVE YOUR ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO SAVE MAN FROM SATAN HAD YOU NOT FIRST GIVEN THE MAN PURPOSELY TO THE HANDS AND POSSESSION OF SATAN!
Now, on what basis can we say such a terrible thing to Our Father? Well, let us continue and see what Our Father will say to it.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU, FATHER, FOREKNOW WHAT MAN WILL DO, HOW HE WILL DECIDE BY HIS FREE WILL, THEN YOU HAVE CREATED MAN TO FULFIL YOUR FOREKNOWLEDGE OF HIS OWN FREE DECISIONS!
IN THIS CASE, MAN SHALL EXPERIENCE EVIL, DARKNESS, PAIN, SIN, SUFFERINGS AND DEATH! AND THEN HE MAY EXPERIENCE YOUR LOVE AND GRACE AND MERCY. AND THEN HIS RESURRECTION, ETERNAL LIFE AND HAPPINESS IN YOUR PRESENCE, IF MAN CHOOSES SO BY THE SAME FREE WILL DECISION AND DESIRE BY WHICH HE CHOSE HIS DEATH… THOUGH THIS TIME WITHOUT HIS NAIVETY AND IGNORANCE. THIS TIME MAN WILL KNOW EVIL AND GOOD IN HIS OWN LIFE.
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To be continued next week in chapter 5 – part 4
brother Hanola
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