[PART
ONE]
THE GREAT PAGANIZATION OF THE ONE NEW MAN / THE BODY OF CHRIST
By MIKE BALLOUN
The last two messages entitled “Lucifer’s Rise and Fall in the light of Redemption” and “Satan’s Kingdom Hierarchy in the Light of Redemption” are a good Sag way into this lesson. In those
lessons, we talked about the spirit realm and covered the works of the spirit
realm; its history, its beginnings and how they morphed into what they are.
This week we will look at them in the light of where scripture places them in
the arena in which we live.
What do you think of this world?*
[* Before answering the question, read the ATTACHMENT
at the end of this author’s writing.]
Is your heart tied closely with the affairs of this world, its projects,
its ambitions, its amusements, its pleasures? Are you looking to the world for
happiness (Christians mistake happiness for fulfilment for being in God’s
will), or looking forward to the working out of your life in the world? This
(focusing on your life here) is the very purpose of this world’s corrupting
system, unless the Word of Christ lies as its central focus. As stated last
week, the “World” system is a dynamic (changing)
system specifically designed by Satan in order to appeal to mankind and fail
him while alive, being then under faith in God’s Word through test and trial.
(Satan’s plan / strategy concerning the redeemed has
been to thwart God’s people / nation from fulfilling His will. First in ancient
times as a man under the Noahic Covenant, then as a man under the Abrahamic
Covenant, then and now under the New Testament of Christ with the Nation of the
One New Man). It’s a corrupting system completely in
answer and opposition to God’s spoken Word and recorded promise of a future
restoration / renewal of God’s designed Theocratic government in this Earth. And that through a Man (Jesus / son of Man), capable of
legally and justly taking it back from Satan and his subordinate spirits.
Whereas the purpose of God’s truth in Christ is rather
than be influenced by the spirits of this World and be conformed to the World
and the lusts thereof... that our hearts and minds should be renewed and
occupied with the Truth found in Christ’s Words, and thereby being transformed
into overcomers of the World; free then from His future judgments, and worthy
to reign with Him in His coming Kingdom. See Titus 2: 12-13... “Teaching
us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world: looking for that
blessed hope,* and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”
[* NOTE:
Beware of all who are regenerate who teach the ‘blessed hope’ is an absolute certainly for all of God’s redeemed
people and regardless of their behaviour!
This false
‘hope’ is unscriptural because it ignores
God’s conditional promises and accountability truths, as well as
the numerous warnings to all of His redeemed people today! - throughout both Old and New Testament Scriptures! “And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a
swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers ... and fear not me,
saith the LORD of hosts. For I the LORD
change not” (Malachi 3: 5-6a, R.V.). See also Matt.
5:
20;
cf.
Rev.
19:
7-8,
R.V.).]
We
read in Scripture that “the earth is the
Lord’s and the fulness thereof”
and that He graciously sends the rain and the sunshine, and gives the increase
of the [PAGE 2] field and the fruits of the earth. The earth is the
Lord’s but the world [at present] is Satan’s. This great
truth of Scripture, that Satan, an evil fallen angel spirit, is “the god of this world”, who has myriads of equally equal spirit
subordinates, is absolutely necessary insight to grasp for the
understanding for the existence of all the evils in the World. That which God has revealed to all the seed of Adam in the World,
(whether they choose to see it or not), which answers to their personal
temporal state of being, and furthermore for those being redeemed in the World
but not of it ... it is their essential
understanding of purpose for their ongoing diligent guarding of their hearts
and minds from the manifold dangers arising while under test and trial while
in this world.
This
satanically ‘World
system’ includes both a secular
and religious part, that according to Scripture prophecy reach their zenith in
the last days’ great unveiling of those now unseen ruling forces, then-to-be
cast down out of the first heaven, and then to be manifest on the Earth. John, by the Holy Spirit, ties together the World’s present [evil and apostate] system, then to be laid bare according to His
prophetic Words, as having its origin in that Ancient Babel / Babylonian
secular and religious system designed over 4000 years ago, then moving forward
in time, that system that answers to Israel’s
ancient demise culminating 2000 years ago, and then the system that answers
to the future Nation of the New Man’s
demise, in these last days.
This
designed appealing World system / Babel / Babylonian Whore (that God is calling
called us out of), full of the doctrines of fallen angelic spirits and
subordinate demon spirits, has made all the pretentious of God’s two redeemed
religious Nations of the Earth to drink of her cup of religious hypocrisy. It
has gone on over these thousands of years, between and after the great catastrophe
of Noah’s Day in the judgments of God and up through the last great Tribulation
period catastrophe in the horrific judgments of God predicted by Christ, that
which we are little doubt on the brink of. (Jeremiah 51: 6-7, Revelation 17:
1-5 with 18: 1-5)
The First Catastrophe
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of
God (angels that Scripture says left their first estate) saw
the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took
them wives of all which they chose (creating hybrid offspring
which were later drowned in Noah’s Flood). And
the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also
is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants [i.e., ‘the Nephilim’R.V.)] in the earth in those days;
and also after
that (as
seen when Joshua came to the Promised Land), when the sons of God came in
unto the daughters of men (note this
is where [PAGE 3] much mythology
about half men / half spirits being worshiped as gods got its genesis from), and
they bore children to them, the same became
mighty men which were of old, men or renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth (which was the
result of these two intelligent species - [i.e., humans and fallen angels] - of God unnaturally mating), and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually
(we are seeing - [and about to see (Luke 17: 26, 30, R.V.)]
- this more and more today). And it repented the LORD that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him
at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repented me
that I have made them.” (Those
climatic days of Genesis 6: 4-7, which speak of the
times of the Nephilim (fallen angels and their offspring) on the Earth,
again correspond with Revelation 12: 9-12) [Genesis 6: 1-7]
NOAH...
Genesis 6: 8
continues... “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
These are the
generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,
and Noah walked
with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was
corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence (the earth being filled with violence is another sign
of the End-Times, seen in Christ’s Words
that “nation / ethnic groups shall rise up against nation / ethnic groups”). And
God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all
flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;
and, behold, I will destroy them
with the earth.” [Genesis 6: 9-13] ... “And Noah lived
after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of
Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. ... Now these are the
generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
... And
The
for Earth’s new World
system: “Babylonianism”
See Genesis 11: 1-11, 26-28... “And
the whole earth was one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed
from the east, that they found a plain in the
“And
Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of
Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of
God
Calls Abram out of idol worship and other gods / spirits...
“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of
thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be
a blessing: And I will bless them that [PAGE
5] bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had
spoken unto him: and Abram was seventy - and five years old when he departed
out of
God
made a Covenant with Abraham and his seed / Seed that He would bless the
Nations. Ultimately, that blessing being to deliver them out of the darkness
and oppression of this World., which is to say from under the authority of
Satan and his subordinate spirits. That promised seed / Seed of Abraham would
manifest first as the Nation of Israel. And so it was
that the ‘World’ was to be ‘Israelized’. Satan thus approached
God’s
declared ways for redeemed Noah and his
seed had been set against the ‘World’s’ ways after the flood in the
Covenant with Noah. The World’s corrupting spirits, having been punished and
pushed back in the judgments of the Flood, are now in conjunction with Nimrod,
being revitalized and further developed in the rebellious city of
So Abraham was set apart by God to raise up a people
fit to evangelize the lost in deceiving darkness of the World system back unto
its Creator, They were to be a ‘people’ redeemed by the blood
of the lamb; the ‘Nation’ of the first-born of God ... who were to be called
out of Egypt, that nation of soothsayers, star gazers, necromancers, magicians,
worshipers of false gods / demon and angelic spirits.
A
New Nation was called to that promised land of their forefather,
to first dispossess 7 nations... “Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass
over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than
thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, A people great and
tall,
the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand
before the children of Anak! Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he that goeth over
before thee; as consuming fire he
shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou
drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.” The deceiving darkness of the World system was driven back for a time [PAGE 6] because of God’s judgments on those false gods of
The
words of Joshua to redeemed
This
is the Prophet Elijah’s admonition to a later, once again wavering
Israel persisted in their idolatrous affairs with the
World’s spirits until the Lord said after 1500 years to the Nation of Israel; “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say
unto you, ye shall not see me, until the time come (that God will fulfil His promises to Abraham’s
progeny) when ye shall say, Blessed is he (Jesus the Christ) that cometh in the name of the
LORD.
THE SPIRITUAL SEED
It
was then the spiritual Seed of God through Abraham manifested as Jesus Christ
unto the Gentile Nations of the World. These Nations were thereby to be ‘Christianized’ by His ‘Body’
of believers. And for a while, this new ‘Nation’ (Nation of the One new Man - Matthew
21: 43) marched even more
fearlessly than Israel... this time directly against the spirit forces of evil,
victoriously pulling down strongholds without carnal weapons, willingly
suffering death and persecution for their beliefs, and steadily made inroads
into paganized cultures, - [and
false doctrines]
- driving back the gods / spirit forces
of evil in the name of Christ. The ‘Nation’
of the One new Man - (the [redeemed] ‘Body’ of Christ)
founded by God, full of - [the Holy Spirit (Acts chs. 6 & 7)] - and
obedient [Acts 5: 32] subordinate men and Angels, was prolific in
fruitfulness unto Christ in its beginnings, in that everywhere His doctrines were preached and received,
it delivered the people from the spirits of paganism. (Acts 9: 26, Acts 17: 21-32). Satan at first fought
ferociously against it with severe persecution and sword, as he at first did
against the Nation of Israel before... but the more he rose up
in arms against them, the more loss he accrued as
Matthew 13: 33 says, “Another parable
spake he unto them, The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,
and hid in three
measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Let’s look at the meaning of
this verse / parable... “The
(battle for the) kingdom of heavens (promised inheritance) is like unto leaven, (religious leaders’ hypocrisy and evil teachings
that dilute and nullify God’s Word and Truth), which a woman (wicked spirits of religious formalism, rationalistic
materialism, and debasing sensualism controlling those religious leaders. The ‘woman’
being the Babylonian whore: Jezebel embodied. - see 1st. Kings 16-22) took, and hid in three measures (over time) of meal (the ‘meal’ being the Word of Truth of Christ concerning
the heavenly kingdom and the displacement there of the satanic spirit forces), till
the whole (typical of the then
present Body of Israel and future Body of Christ) was leavened.” And this religious whore / Babylonian / Jezebel spirit is
seen in the following verses... Revelation 2: 20... “notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou
sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to
seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols” (fallen angelic and demon spirits). Jeremiah 51: 7... “Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
that made all
the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad.” See also Revelation
17: 5 & 18: 3.
The
leavening of the kingdom of heavens message has been almost fully accomplished.
Spiritual
The sanctifying power of Christ’s “Body” in the beginning was delivered by His sanctified
witnesses in selfless
obedience to His Un-Leavened Word of Truth regardless of personal cost.
Jesus prophesied that false doctrinal leaven of the enemy
would overwhelm the Truth of His Word, And in the End-Times, today, 2000 years
from the day of His prophecy, His ‘Body,’ once
alive and thriving with careful watchful loving obedient servants, would become through hypocritical [PAGE
9] liars’ works of iniquity and deceitful doctrines (of “hath God really said?” and “thou shalt not surely die”) become cold in
love and religiously presumptuous, full of covetousness and dangerously close
to perdition in a state of religious corrupt lukewarm darkness.
Read
the following scriptures that describe the state of the ‘Last Days’ Church... Matthew 24: 12... “And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Revelation 3:
16... “So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out
of my mouth.” And see also the Book of Jude... “Jude, the servant of
Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father,
and preserved in
Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of
the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you,
that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are
certain men crept in unawares
(deceived men taking positions among us as leaders), who
were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the
only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once
knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. (Christians - [regenerate and] - being
comparable to those who were redeemed out of
The
leaven has finally permeated His Church until it has become doctrinally void of
sanctifying Truth in the necessity of Christlikeness for inheritance in His
heavenly [millennial] Kingdom.
It has become a den full of seducing, lying demons. (Read 2nd Peter 2... “But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom
the way of truth shall be evil spokn of. And through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgement now
of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if
God spared the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (‘Hades’ in the
Abyss), and
delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the
ungodly: and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them
with an ovethrow, making them an ensample unto those that after
should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the
wicked (For that righteous man dwelling among them,
in seeing and
hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. The Lord knoweth how
to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that
walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise
government. Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are not afraid
to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which [PAGE 11] are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the
things they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive
the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.
Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their
own deceivings while they feast with you: Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot
cease from sin: beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and have gone
astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor,
who loved the
wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. These are wells
without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever (age-lasting). For when they speak great
swelling words of vanity, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped
from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are
the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome,
of the same is
he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
For it had been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have
known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
But it is
happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to
his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
- (Much of 2nd. Peter
being reminiscent of what we just read in
Jude.)
See
also Hebrews 10: 26-31... “For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised
Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden
under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him
that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall
judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.”
To
those members of His present-day living ‘Body’ with watchful and prayerful hearts, Satan’s
diabolical design has been easily foreseen by God’s prophetic Word... and by
just tracing the steps of the ancient Nation of Israel, the [PAGE 12] Church / ‘Body’
of God in its apostasy. And NOW we
can rightly see the root cause of the greater demonization
unleashed in the Earth as being the direct result of the rejection of Truth in
the redeemed ‘Body’ of Christ, wherever you might find it, throughout the Earth. The “Body” of Christ being amalgamation / assimilated back into the World in its
rejection the Word of Christ’s sanctifying Truth in preference to the appealing
religious World’s system, void of
sanctifying power and therefore having only that corrupt form of worldlt
godliness. (Take the time to read 2nd Timothy 3: 1 - 4: 4.) This lack of salt and light in Christ’s “Body” also answers to the time of
the strong delusion of God now rapidly setting into the Nations of this World, who
have long since heard the Word of Truth, and somewhat responded to its redemption gift, but refused the “great salvation”
/ hope of glory and take pleasure in
the unrighteousness of the satanic World system.
God
said to the Church Body of
[PAGE 13]
Jesus
said, in Luke 11: 20-23...
“But if I with
the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the
AGAIN...
“When a strong man (the strong one in Greek referring to Satan... by his
subordinate spirits) armed keepeth / guardeth his place (‘place’ bearing on
either the larger scale; his entire kingdom, or a smaller corporate Body, or
the body and soul of a man), his goods (his spiritual wicked purposes) are in place: But when a stronger than he shall come upon
him (Jesus / His Truth bearing His
name and spirit), and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour (in which he assailed and overcome and holds captive;
the reciprocal of the armour of Christ; lies, unrighteousness, fear, unbelief,
darkness and the word and power of Satan) wherein he trusted, and divideth his (Satan’s) spoils (that which was a part of his kingdom, has been cut off by the gift of
redemption, and has been taken from him and claimed as the Lords). He (the now redeemed spoil) who is not with me (as a matter of willing and yielded ongoing
perfecting / maturing service - 2nd. Corinthians 7: 1) is
against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”
What
this assuredly means is that we, as redeemed Christians must be (from our
renewed minds, instructed in the Lord’s Words unto maturing thoughts, words,
and deeds) daily activated in this great conflict with the spirit forces
(demons and fallen angel spirits). And if we refuse
and continue to “walk
contrary”, we are inevitably used
as an instrument against the purposes of Christ in the Earth. If we are not
gatherers, then we are scatterers. For we are then not only
disqualified from the heavenly Kingdom inheritance in Christ... all of which
will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. Christ did not
leave any middle ground that we might walk in.
Matthew 12: 43-45 says,
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through
dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return to my house from whence I came
out; and
when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then he goeth, and taketh with himself seven other spirits
more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that
man is worse than the first.” Here is the breaking down of these verses with
commentary: “When the unclean spirit [PAGE 14] (referring to all idolatrous worship and heathen impurity demon
spirits) is gone (removed or
driven) out of a man (his soul and body), he (that dispossessed spirit) walketh
through dry places (being
‘disembodied’, that spirit must roam the
Earth), seeking rest (first
to enter into any receptive human being); and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he come, he findeth it (that redeemed soul and body) swept and garnished (by the mind and will being changed by a partial
moral awakening, but having now settled into a passive and mostly pretentious
religious emptiness, void of any power ... denying Christ of His rightful
place, the hedge of protection afforded under the law of the spirit of life in
Christ Jesus and being kept by the power of God, is finally discovered to have come down ... in that
the host, be it an individual or
community of people... see 2nd Corinthians 10: 1-22...)... then goeth he (the
unclean spirit), and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than
himself and they enter in (with
hardly any resistance as the conscience is calloused from sensitivity to the
Truth), and
dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first” (not as it relates to the redeemed individual’s
eternal life gift, but from any extricating from those unclean spirits’ control
that now have a stranglehold on the soul through the flesh (sensual body and
carnal mind). That judgment
while alive that invariably results in a
further judgment at the Judgment Seat of Christ and the sure loss of that person’s (or
corporate Body’s) high calling unto the glorious
inheritance reward of a redeemed person who could have been an overcomer
in the High Calling of the fallen nature within, the World’s pleasures, and
Satan / demons.
The
call today is “come out of her (the emasculated ‘Body’
full of spirits) my people” ... where today you most assuredly will find the religious pretentious
Body of Christ closely aligned with the World system. A corporate ‘Body’ that once stood on the Earth in the light of
Christ’s full salvation, but today refuses all light of sanctification. It now
being exponentially filled with Doctrines of demons who hold captive its
members, by the power of “seducing spirits” that give the redeemed a false sense of security
while living a careless life, by the power of its “unclean spirits” that give the redeemed license to sensual sins. And by the power of its “lying spirits” that question God’s Written Word... “Hath
God said? ... Ye
shall not surely die!”
“And what concord hath Christ with Belial / Satan? Or
what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And
what agreement hath the
“And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to
everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his
opponents with gentleness if God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a
knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare
of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.” [2nd Timothy 2:
24]
May
we not come out of
*
* *
[PART
TWO]
SATAN’S KINGDOM HIERARCY IN THE LIGHT OF THE REDEEMED
By MIKE BALLOUN
Scripture alludes to a hierarchy of heavenly spirits /
Angels and their subordinates who were under the authority of a Cherub named Lucifer
(this being sometime before the 6-Day RE-Creation which was
close to 6,000 years ago). They were invested with authority to rule over the
heaven and the material part if this Realm, including the Earth and its ancient
earthly material creatures, whose testimony of ancient existence is written in
the fossil records, left purposefully by God to testify to God’s earlier
Creation. Which then allows for the contextually correct interpretation of a
great time period between Genesis 1: 1 and
the circumstantial clauses of Genesis 1: 2a...
1) “ And the earth was without form, and void”
2) “And darkness was
upon the face of the deep.”
3) “And the Spirit of
God moved upon the
face of the waters.”
Moses’
Written Words... “In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth”
(Genesis 1:
1)
speak of the original Creation of the
Earth and its heaven realm. That “Beginning”
being untold eons ago. It’s not told to us how
many Ages of time it was, but even in man’s fallibility in dating the fossil
record, it still would be a very long time age.
Also untold Ages later, when this original Creation
was thriving with creatures and teeming with vegetation, many of those
appointed spirit / Angelic beings over this ancient kingdom were led into rebellion
by that great spirit / Cherub Lucifer who desired to exalt his throne up into
the heaven of heavens and sit on the ‘mount of congregation’ (that
being the designated place where all the ‘stars’ /
all the Angelic kings and authorities over all the kingdoms throughout God’s
Universe would periodically come to present themselves before the Lord. Job
1: 6 and 2: 1
are verses that speak to Satan having regained certain authority in the
RE-Created Earth in which he could then come to the mount of congregation, having usurped that authority in the
Earth’s restored Realm through Adam’s fall. “Now there
was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also
among them.” So it is seen
in the Book of Job, he now, having a certain authority over all
mankind, he being the god of death, disputes with God, in that all are subject
to that breaking of the one law and the law’s curse of death, over which he is
overseer with right of claim. And therefore, he stands before God to accuse us / man day and night. (Jude 1: 9)
Lucifer
and those subordinate angels who chose to follow him
in that failed great coup, then experienced the awfulness of God’s judgments.
That included Lucifer and his angels being defrocked and barred from God’s
holiest places in the Highest Heaven and were relegated to
this darkened Realm. In which the material part / the Earth suffered the
destructive consequences with the disembodiment of [PAGE 2] the
earthbound spirits and watery grave of all prehistoric earth-bound beings, as
seen in the samples that are in museums throughout the earth. (Genesis
1: 2a Then picks up the describes the Earthly
part of Lucifer’s kingdom left in total destruction; being without form and void; and
in darkness, which was a judgment consequence on the anointed rebellious Cherub
Lucifer’s Earthly kingdom after the attempt of exalting himself.) And after untold
millenniums, God determined to Re-Create the material part of this Realm as He
then purposefully built anew a kingdom upon the destruction of Lucifer’s
previous kingdom ruins and created man to be king and consort and oversee it. (Genesis
1: 2b-3:
3) A kingdom over which Satan and his
subjects gained authority, by right of conquest through Man’s rebellion against
his Creator at Satan’s instigating; a new kingdom whose God-appointed king
failed. Which God mysteriously in His wisdom and foreknowledge, chose not to utterly destroy as He did the previous material world and all its creatures. (As
stated before, the previous material destruction of life on the Earth, and as
far-reaching as we can perceive destruction, which would include other planets
and even galaxies within this Realm, all occurring as a result of Lucifer’s
previous judgment.)
God
forgave Adam and Eve, they being repentant and sorrowful, and thereby redeemed
them from a state of eternal death by the blood / death of an animal. (Leviticus
17: 11, Hebrews 9) It was in God’s plan for them to
retain the right of procreation, whose seed, born under the curse of eternal
death, would by their free will, either follow in Adam’s example of God’s free
gift of redemption (having also the promise of a future complete restoration,
where Man would finally gain ascendancy over Satan and rule again in this
Realm, and that accomplished by the seed of a woman - (Genesis 3: 15) ... or chose to follow in the
rebellion of the fallen flesh nature as the seed of Satan. (Genesis
4: 4-7)
So it was
that Satan, his angels and his subordinate spirits became and still are the
disobedient ruling forces of this present kingdom in this Realm. They rule in
and from this Realm’s heaven, extending to the earth and under the earth in the
place of the dead; that place called ‘Sheol’ /
‘Hades’ in Scripture, the intermediate place of all the dead (wherein presently are
God’s redeemed ‘seed’ and Satan’s unredeemed ‘seed’). As are all its future inhabitants, now living
or yet to be born, being cursed with perpetual death, whose bodies will return
to dust, as those before them, and as disembodied souls shall then descend into
also.
Hades
/ the intermediate place of the dead is that place created by God in answer to
Man’s fall under the curse of death. (Hebrews 9: 27...
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment...”)
Death meaning a state of separation of the spirit of man from the soul and
body. Hades being the
unseen place set apart for the disembodied soul of man until the Seed of the
Garden [PAGE 3] promise
(that Seed being Jesus) comes (again) unto the Realm to take investure of King
and His Throne from Satan and then to resurrect
His seed to rule with Him from its heaven for a ‘thousand years’. Resurrect meaning the return of the spirit (not ‘a’
spirit, as in an intelligent creature of that making, but the in-breathed animating spirit of man
from his creation as a living soul... {Acts 7: 59, Luke 8: 55; 23: 46, James 2:
26,
Job 34:
14-15} ... to his then-to-be gloriously changed [immortal] body and soul
being raised up out of Hades, [from] among the dead.)
Man
is a three-part being (1st. Thessalonians 5: 23)
in that he has a spirit, lives in a body, but he is a living soul (nephesh in Hebrew). Upon death, “the spirit shall
return to God who gave it”,
and your body corrupts, and you - the soul
goes to Hades. (Ecclesiastes 12: 7... “Then shall the dust
return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” See also Luke 23: 46 where
Jesus yields up His spirit to God before He (His soul) went down to Hades... “Father,
into thy hands I comment my spirit: and having said thus, he gave
up the ghost.” And see Luke 8: 55...
“And her spirit came again, (animating her body) and she rose straightway:
and he commanded to give her meat.” And James
2: 26... “For as
the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also.” See
also Acts 7: 59...
“And they stoned Stephen, calling
upon God, and saying,
Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit.”). So, for those who are a
part of the First Resurrection,
the return of the spirit is the reciprocal - [i.e., ‘given or done in return’] of what
happens at death. The other way round is: the soul comes out
of Hades, meeting the spirit, which comes to the soul and the animating spirit
reunites and rekindles the body fit for the heavenly realm after the prototype
of Christ, Who was our Forerunner in resurrection, so that the bodies of the overcomers of this World’s spirit forces (fallen
angels and demons) may be made
compatible to be wed to Christ the Bridegroom / the Firstborn [out]
from among the dead). 1st.
Corinthians
15: 45
says, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” In order to be raised in the
image of Christ while alive, one would
have to conform to the image of Christ while alive, in that physical death does not terminate the
carnal nature within the soul. It
took the free will under conscience responding to Christ’s Words in loving
faith to purge the soul from its contaminating effects while alive under test
and trial. Death brings the
unmasking and realities of our soul’s condition out on full display. The future determination by Christ of our resurrection worthiness will depend on the degree of having
overcome or our having been overcome. You have to qualify to be a part of the
First Resurrection.
Redemption doesn’t bring glory, for that was an unmerited
gift from God. Redemption grants eternal life, but the eternal glory /
glorification of the soul is a reward
for its accomplishment in of sanctification; and is all about merit. The First Resurrection is
the reversal of death unto life and is when the body comes back to the
qualified soul, (the [PAGE
4] qualified shall be greatly
blessed and brought out from amongst the rest of the dead, while the rest of the dead will remain in Hades / the intermediate
place of the dead until the 2nd Resurrection after at least 1000
years according to Scripture, when they will
be raised and judged. - Revelation
20)
Soon
after the redemption of Adam and Eve, Satan became the designer of this World’s
corrupting system in which we redeemed today live. (After Adam and Eve’s
redemption is when Satan saw the necessity to make the World system.) This
system is a dynamic (changing) system specifically designed in order to appeal
to mankind in order to fail them while alive,
being then under faith in God’s Word through test and trial. His corrupting
system is completely in answer and opposition to God’s Spoken Word and
recorded promise of a future renewal / restoration of His designed Theocratic
government in this Earth through a Man (Jesus / son of Man), “the seed of the woman”) capable of legally
and justly taking it back from Satan.
So it should be seen that the purpose for all Satan’s
past and current ambitions and manoeuvres is that he might rule and reign
exclusively over this realm from its heaven and bring all living and fallen
mankind, unredeemed, and redeemed (by effectually eliminating the effects of
redemption) under this subjection, both on the Earth and the unredeemed wicked
under the Earth now secured under his authority. A Realm to be forever existing outside that of all
God’s others, where he is considered and worshiped as its ‘God / god’ on a
permanent basis. The World system is a façade and is all about leavening God’s
Truth and disqualifying the redeemed from inheriting with Christ and taking
back the kingdom from Satan. Unfortunately, that is where the Church is today.
Satan has done an effective job in [spiritually blinding and] appealing
to not only the lost, but also the redeemed [of the Lord] in
eliminating many from God’s desired purposes.
It
was / is, before the foundation of the world and before the order of Man, God’s
intended purpose to redeem man through His Eternal Son. And
in doing, it was the greater designed objective purpose in the Atonement of
Christ to train and spiritually mature a redeemed people, being sanctified
through test and trial while alive on this earth with perishing bodies and
subject to the curse of death, to qualify them, through their free wills, for a
select resurrection. One where they’d be changed into a spirit-like
being, having a heavenly body and glory, as the New Creation brought forth in
the Atonement sanctifying power in Christ the Son of Man; the Seed of
the Garden Promise. And thereby becoming His chosen co-rulers
out of death, “that they
might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly” (and literally out of the place
of death), who will then forever replace all the present ruling Angels (good
and evil) in this Realm, and rule from [PAGE 5] the heavens of this Realm over this Earth
with Christ at His Return. (Revelation 2: 26-27 with Hebrews
2: 5... “For unto
the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” See also Revelation 4-5 where
God’s holy Angels cast down their crowns conceding their power and their right
to rule to those counted worthy as
Christ’s Bride who will rule in their stead. The good Angels
wilfully and joyfully give up their authority, as opposed to the 1/3 that
resist and fight to retain their undeserved crowns.)
This
practical spiritual maturing of the redeemed into worthiness in loving
faith-filled obedience to Christ comes by having a growing knowledge of His will through
His recorded Word. (Anything outside the Written Truth in the
Word of God is clearly designed lies. A person cannot have the excuse
saying that ‘God’s Word has been misinterpreted, mistranslated, deceptively abused...’, for
God is able to get the Truth to those who seek Him. They can’t lay back expecting
to blame God or the devil for something they themselves resisted. - (Romans 1: 18-21)
Believers are to become wholly devoted to God’s revealed purposes written down,
of overcoming the devil and his system while living on this Earth, all the
while keeping this promised heavenly ruling inheritance in glory in view. These
awakened redeemed are put through severe training in Christlike character, to
think and act like their King, the forerunner, just as He conducted His
selfless life while walking out the Father’s will according to His Word even
unto death.
So it is from the redemption of Adam and Eve, God’s
just and holy method of repentance
and redemption had in view
Christ’s Atonement, in not only rescuing man from the kingdom of Satan /
granting the redeemed the gift of eternal life, but with the far greater
provisions and further purpose of training him unto the reward of First
Resurrection glory to so-rule with Him as this Realm’s soon coming rightful
King, not only on the Earth but over the Earth... “for it
is the heavens that rule” over
the material realm. The plan of God is to remove Satan and his ruling subjects
and replace them with Man, once and for all, from his
now illegal heavenly authority. This is the plan which
Satan was completely ignorant to, that ends in his great demise (that being the
So, it is
that the serpent / Satan had / has set out to nullify God’s New Testament Voice
/ Word of Truth on the Earth among the living. In the first place preventing
men from hearing it and thereby being redeemed out of Satan’s kingdom and
authority, and secondly to refute and distort the Truth to make it ineffective.
At the very least ineffective in Truth’s maturing aspects in the merely
redeemed of the promise of future [millennial and] eternal glory as sons of God, that otherwise might be
incentivised unto heavenly ruling qualifications ... to which they are now
blinded to. The [vast majority
of the]
Church is blind to the qualifications to rule with Christ in
God’s Word, that if it were
known and sought after, would bring
them into a worthiness to be gathered up in the First Resurrection to
co-rule with Christ. Satan, with his
distorting and leavening of Scripture, has [now] done a highly effective job at obscuring and
nullifying this hope of [future] glory by
the religious lie that says that a [regenerate] believer gets resurrected into the 3rd
Heaven at [the time of] death and gets filled with glory merely because they
died as a redeemed soul. Satan’s lying spirits pervert the Truth and nullify
the Christian’s incentive to overcome and therefore those [blinded
and]
deceived in the Church are lethargic, presumptuous, full of apathy, and
generally have a false sense of security. These lying spirits have succeeded in
keeping the Church from the Truth that would incentivise them to walk a walk,
in answer to the Father’s desired will, that would qualify them to be worthy to
being called good and faithful servants. This distortion of
Truth that has religiously rocked to sleep the Church has but one remedy; that
of hearing and gaining Truth in the knowledge of Him and then exercising our
free wills to chose against the wiles of Satan while we are alive so that we
might be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove by our
thoughts, words, and actions what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will (and heart) of God. See Romans 1: 18-19... “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold
the truth in unrighteousness; Because that
which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.” (there is no hiding place,
whether it be at the Judgment Seat of Christ or at the Great White Throne
Judgment, men will be without excuse for God has said that He has written His
witness of Himself not only in His Written Word, but in Nature... in the skies, in
the plants, in the animals, and in the common sense and intuitive sense
of a man’s heart / conscience). Romans 12: 1-2 says, “I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service. And be not conformed
to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.” (It is the Truth revealed in
Scripture about a matter that can renew the open willing mind from distorted
error and set a merely redeemed on the path to an overcoming qualifying life.)
The [PAGE 7] main reason for
pushback to these Truths are that Christians are without fear of God. They have been convinced it would be impossible for a man to
overcome the flesh, Satan, and the World and therefore it has been made
unnecessary in their minds in that they have mistakenly believe that God
lovingly has imputed unto the redeemed all holiness and righteousness necessary
for all heavenly glory after he dies or that he is raptured as a part of the
Atonement of Christ. Too many Christians are sitting
on the sidelines disqualifying themselves because Satan has effectively said
the race was already won.
Satan
through his World system, has prophesied by the Lord (Matthew
13: 33), has successfully created these false ideas of God,
our Creator and Redeemer, set deceivingly against the Truth of Him recorded by
witnesses He set 2000 years ago. And as a consequence,
wrong attitudes against God widely prevail. Darkening attitudes have
increasingly grew and prevail today in the
Church, until soon the
climactic outflow of God’s wrath against the evil hierarchy of rebellious
forces of this Realm’s heaven and earth will break forth and overwhelm them
all. (John 3: 35-36, Isaiah 24: 21. Revelation 19: 15-16)
It
is increasing more difficult to discover the Truth of God in this time of great
darkness, which is like unto the great darkness of Noah’s day. In today’s warped
state of affairs, we more and more increasingly find that the unseen forces of
this World are not what they are seen to be. The evil angelic forces are not in
any way the benefactors of mankind, but instead are
their bane (scourge / curse). (Isaiah 5: 20-21... “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil (exactly what is taught and promoted today in Satan’s World system); and put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!” 2nd. Thessalonians 2: 6-12... “And now ye know what withholdeth (the Holy Spirit, the Salt and the Light, the Truth
of the Word are what push back the forces of evil in this realm) that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of
iniquity doth already work: only he who not
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked (the satan-embodied
Anti-christ) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is
after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. And for this cause
God shall send them
strong delusion who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.”)
Not
only the World but the - [regenerate
members of the] - Church does not identify with or see themselves in Scriptures like these,
thinking these words are not applicable
to them or to this [PAGE 8] time. They are deluded by deception from “... that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world” (all inhabitants of the Earth). The Devil is the
malignant accuser / the slanderer / the one who sets at variance, having earned
that title long before the Garden of Eden. (John 8: 44-45) He is the god of this world (having attained great
authority in this Realm in the Garden of Eden, thereby he continually accuses, primarily the redeemed man, before God).
Satan’s
hierarchy has his spiritual (unseen subjects) made up of two distinct groups of
spirits;
first unmistakably are the angels who were
1/3 of the Angels appointed by God to assist Lucifer in the governmental
hierarchy of his original kingdom in this Realm, who willingly rebelled and
fell with him. These are those inhabitants of the unseen heaven of this Realm
as related by [the
apostle] Paul in Ephesians 6 as principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness
of this world, the spiritual wicked in high places.
And secondly
the next rulers in this hierarchy of Satan’s kingdom are “demons”
who are also called evil, unclean, foul, deaf and dumb spirits. These are set
forth in Scripture as another distinct group of spirits. A fallen angel
can appear in their own bodies while demons cannot appear in bodies other than
one that already exists, because they are disembodied.
Demons are highly intelligent beings that have learned how to manipulate and
sabotage mankind, having been around man for thousands
of years. They transfer information up through the hierarchy and operate
through any means we allow them to, such as through witchcraft, sorcery,
horoscopes, music, sex, spiritualism, necromancy, channelling, illicit drugs,
etc. They can come in if we do not keep the doors of out hearts closed to these
and other forms of Worldly things. (Acts 23: 8-9 shows the distinct difference between the angels and
demon spirits... “For the
Sadducees say there is no resurrection, neither angel or spirit: but the
Pharisees confess both. And there arose a
great cry; and the scribes that
were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and
strove, saying,
We find no evil
in this man: but if a spirit
or an angel hath spoken to him, let us
not fought against God.” 2st
Timothy 4: 1... “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (demons not devils in the Greek as there is only one
‘Devil’; Satan).
Demons
are more limited in their authority, in that they are subordinate to fallen
angel spirits, but highly intelligent as well. (Revelation
16: 13-14...
“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the
mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth
of the beast, and out of the mouth
of the false prophet. For they are the
spirits of devils (demons in Greek),
working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth
and of the whole world, to gather them to [PAGE 9] the battle of that great day
of God Almighty.”) The meaning of ‘demon’,
according to Vines Expository Dictionary of Greek words, is ‘knowing one’.
As exampled in their spiritual intelligence of recognizing the Christ as the
Lord and future Judge, Who they know will curtail their current limited
freedoms in the future days of His Millennial Kingdom when He will banish them
all to the Deep
/Abyss. (This truth being taught out of Matthew
8: 29... “And,
behold, they cried out,
saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus,
thou Son of God? art thou come hither to
torment us before the time?”
It is also brought out in Luke 8: 31... “And they besought
him that he would not command them to go out into the deep” (the Abyss, which is descriptive in the Bible as the
bottomless pit but also the deep sea.) They were / are Earth-bound in that
these ‘spirits’ are quite at home in a material
body and far prefer it over being disembodied.
Possibly being spirits embodied in material-like
flesh on the Earth in Lucifer’s
kingdom before his rebellion, and proved to be, at the least, passive
participants in his rebellion, who then were disembodied by God in the
judgments that characterize the Earth’s condition in Genesis
1:
2.
These disembodied
spirits are described in Scripture as sometimes restlessly
wandering in the unseen realm of the Earth, looking to ease themselves from a
dry place back into the flesh of man or beast. That then would answer to their
prehistoric (before written history) un-fallen condition. Demons then are materially disembodied as opposed to the angel spirits
who undoubtedly lost some of their God-given splendour, yet have retained their
spiritual bodies as seen by the retained power exhibited by Satan who can
manifest as an angel of light. (2nd Corinthians 11: 14) It is also supposed that the fallen Cherub could not
be ‘unclothed’ and still have any audience with
God, him needing a spiritual body of spiritual substance to be in the realm of
His presence. (Exodus 20: 26)
Scripture
gives examples of Satan / an embodied angel spirit entering into Judas, but
this should not be supposed according to any fallen
angel’s desired disposition. As is the apparent case of the
disembodied demon spirits (who desire a body to go into), but they (fallen
angels) will only enter into the body of a human as a matter of highest
expedience or absolute necessity. (See John 13: 27
where Satan entered into Judas.) This is possibly seen
again in the case of the Anti-Christ in the vital interest of strengthening his
last stand on the Earth. (See
Revelation 12: 13
where Satan is cast from the 1st heavens associated with this Earth to the dust
of the Earth. See also Revelation 13: 2-8... “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast (the Anti-Christ) rise out of the sea, having
seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns
ten crowns, and upon his heads
the name of blasphemy. And the beast which
I saw was like unto a leopard, and his
feet were as of the feet of a bear, and his
mouth as of the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon (Satan) gave him his
power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his
heads as it were wounded to death; and his
deadly wound was healed
(this possible [PAGE 10] being when Satan possesses the Anti-Christ as he previously did
Judas): and all the world wondered
after the beast. And they
worshipped the dragon (Satan) which
gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped
the beast, saying,
Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war
with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and power was given
unto him to continue forty and two months. (At the mid-pint of the [Great] Tribulation /
Last 7 years before Christ’s Return, there is this casting out of Satan from
the unseen first heaven and his angelic farces which brings about the woeful
condition on the Earth where they will be unleashed and thrust upon man, which
is a terrifying thought, expressed in Revelation 12: 12... “Therefore
rejoice, ye heavens,
and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” This is a future prophetic period of time which Christ’s Words in Matthew 24 can be compared to... “For as in the days that were before the flood... in the Days of Noah, “so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.” ... as these when the
disembodied demon spirits and fallen angels manifested among mankind without
restraint, in that... “that
which now restrains” is removed
(the man-child / the restraining salt and light on Earth) unto the first heaven
above this Earth. - Revelation 12...
“And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,
to blaspheme his name, and his
tabernacle, and them that dwell
in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
and to overcome them: and power
was given him over all kindreds, and
tongues and nations. And all that dwell
upon the earth shall worship him, whose
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from before the
foundation of the world.”) And in the End-Time, demons are the unbridled
instruments of diabolical evil directed by Satan, by which the leaders of
Gentile Nations are ultimately deceived into declaring war upon the then
returning Christ. (Revelation 16: 13-14)
Demons
are the main spirit players in the varied forbidden practices given to man
historically by God, to not communicate with them as
listed in Scripture, for which the penalty was death. (Leviticus
19: 31; 20: 6, 27, Deuteronomy 18: 11) In that these practices led / lead to the un-lawful uniting of
spirits with mankind that greatly grieved God and ultimately resulted in the
death of all mankind except
for 8 souls in the days of Noah. The days of Genesis
6: 1-7
are referred to by the Lord as being representative of the last days just
before preceding His Return. “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God (angels that Scripture says left their first estate) saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them
wives of all which they chose (creating hybrid offspring which were later drowned
in Noah’s Flood). And the Lord said, my spirit shall not
always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall
be an [PAGE
11] hundred and twenty years.
There were giants in the earth in those days;
and also after that (as seen when
Joshua came into the Promised Land), when the
sons of God came in unto the daughters
of men, and they bare
children to them (note this is
where much mythology about half men / half spirits being worshipper as gods got
into Genesis
from), the same
became mighty men which were of old, men of
renown. And God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth; both man,
and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the
air; for it repented me that I have made them.”
Those climatic days of Genesis 6: 4-7,
which speak of the times of the Nephilim (fallen angels and their offspring) on
the Earth, again correspond
with Revelation 12: 9-12.
Those
days of man’s interaction with demons and fallen angels on such a large scale
will be replicated in the not too distant days, prophetically recorded, particularly
in the Book of Revelation. These forbidden ‘spirit’
interactions again play the lead role in the Last Days great drama of a World
that hates God, Christ, Redemption, or anything that is
supposed of God. In that
rejection of God by mankind, comes the unrestrained
environment of these spirits to work their catastrophe on mankind. Those practices which God forbade man to participate in have
become more and more prevalent over the last 100 years, and are continuing to
increase. Both demons and fallen angels, since ancient times, have received
worship of false ‘gods’,
and it is once again becoming popular in modern culture to blatantly worship
them as gods.
Forbidden
practices are treated no less seriously in the New Testament than in the Old Testament,
as those who practice such things will
fall under severe judgment and be severed from the Kingdom of Christ (Galations
5: 20),
and excluded from the heavenly Jerusalem
(Revelation 22: 15... “For
without (outside) are dogs, and sorcerers,
and whoremongers, and
murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”), and they will have a part in the Second Death - the
Fallen
spirits are enemies of God and His Christ in any form. They are liars and
deceivers, seducing the unweary redeemed into the loss of [the Millennial] Kingdom inheritance
as well as bringing upon them the sure coming judgments of God, which come upon
all unrepentant sinners. This lesson serves as a warning, describing what we
are up against as Christians in this World, especially living in this point in
time when seducing spirits and lying spirits have made great headway within the Church. It’s not
something that is talked about in modern-day mainstream Christendom as a
general rule, as their activities are stealthily hid behind the mask of the
last 75 years of the doctrine of the necessity of acceptance of all peoples in
the light of an all accepting ‘God / god.’ But we need to be made aware that Scripture
warns [the regenerate as well
as nominal]
Christians that it will be a time worse than it has ever been before, nor ever
will be. The goal of Satan’s hierarchy is to bring about the demise of mankind. Scripture says that Satan is a lion seeking whom he
can devour. He / they seek to eliminate [genuine] Christians, not from redemption (being that they have
already received the ‘free gift’ of eternal
life), but from fulfilling the purposes of God for them after their redemption (which results in their eternal / [Gk.
‘aionios’ age-lasting] glory in the heavenly Kingdom but also in the spirits’
‘gods’ expulsion). God’s heart is far beyond getting
us redeemed: His heart is to have us be overcomers of the flesh, the World, and
Satan / spirits, and have a share in Christ’s Kingdom. The doors have been
opened through stealth, the hoards of those spirits have permeated the Church
and their doctrines have infiltrated us and our children.
Their goal is to nullify the Truth of God in
the Earth and disqualify us as those who would replace them in the heavenly
sphere of this realm. Having taught the redeemed for decades, our ministry
focus is to awaken [and encourage] the redeemed to be overcoming good servants and to be
found faithful after we die and are judged. But many
in Christendom are being deluded and deceived into a state of nonchalance and
see no need to fight. They are in danger of falling into severe judgments, as
well as having their [millennial] inheritance stolen from them, And
if we’re not daily partaking His Word, watching and praying, the same will
happen to us! Hopefully this message will open some
eyes to the battle and give us resolve.
-------