GOD AND HIS ETERNAL PLAN

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BIBLE COMMENTARY

– God gave mankind the Bible so we can know Him and understand His eternal plan by the blood of The Lord Jesus Christ and according to The Holy Spirit.

EPHESIANS 1: 7-10 – 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that He lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9 HE MADE KNOWN TO US THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment, to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

AMOS 3: 7 – Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing HIS PLAN to His servants the prophets.

– Therefore in the Bible God has revealed everything that had happened from the beginning. With constant and sincere prayers we will surely have help from the Holy Spirit to understand all of its mystery that was kept hidden in the past.

– During the end times God will reveal the mystery of His plan to His children who love Him, obey His commands and walk faithfully with Him in this life.

DANIEL 12: 4 – But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.

DANIEL 12: 9 – He replied: Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END.

MATTHEW 13: 11 – He replied: Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

LUKE 8: 10 – He said: The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.

– The time of the end had already started when Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

HEBEREWS 1: 1-2 – 1 In THE PAST God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in THESE LAST DAYS He has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed heir of all things, and through Whom also He made the universe.

– Therefore it means from the time of Jesus God has revealed His eternal plan for His children to understand and to prepare accordingly for the day Jesus returns.

– THESE LAST DAYS can be meant by thousands of year.

2PETER 3: 8 – But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

– If, by some calculations, the time from Adam to Jesus’s is about 7,000 years, then the 21st century is the third day of THESE LAST DAYS.

– Only God’s children will know what happened from the beginning because God wants them to have more knowledge of Him and His eternal plan. He is preparing them for the day they will see Him face to face.

COLOSSIANS 1: 9-10 – 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, GROWING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.

1TIMOTHY 2: 3-4 – 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 Who wants all people to be saved and to COME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.

– Although God wants all people to be saved and to know the truth and the mystery of His will, but in modern time only few actually are LONGING for the Kingdom of God. Many usually too focus on what they will get from Him for THIS LIFE.

HEBREWS 11: 16 – Instead, they WERE LONGING for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

HEBREWS 11: 6 – And without FAITH it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that HE EXISTS and that He rewards those who EARNESTLY SEEK HIM.

JEREMIAH 29: 13 – You will seek me and find me when you SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART.

– God also wants His children to share what He reveals to them to the world.

MATTHEW 10: 27 – What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight, what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.

– That is the main reason of this writing.

GOD IS SELF EXISTING AND THE CREATOR OF ALL INVISIBLE AND VISIBLE THINGS

– At the beginning, there was nothing but God. He was alone and the only Divine Being.

ISAIAH 43: 10 – You are my witnesses, declares the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed nor will there be one after me.

– God exists forever.

NEHEMIAH 9: 5 – And the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: Stand up and praise the Lord your God, Who is FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

– God has very great power and wisdom.

ISAIAH 40: 6 – Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of HIS GREAT POWER AND MIGHTY STRENGTH, not one of them is missing.

JOB 12: 13 – To God belong wisdom and power, counsel and understanding are His.

– He is the God of love and peace.

2CORINTHIANS 13: 11 – Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And THE GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE will be with you.

1JOHN 4: 8 – Whoever does not love does not know God, because GOD IS LOVE.

1JOHN 4: 16 – And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. GOD IS LOVE. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

– Because God is love so He wanted to show His love to someone.

– By His mighty power He made His Voice and His Wisdom became two Spiritual Beings: Christ and The Holy Spirit.

JOHN 1: 1-2 – 1 IN THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God IN THE BEGINNING.

PROVERBS 8: 22-25 – 22 The Lord brought me forth as the first of His works, before His deeds of old. 23 I was formed long ages ago, AT THE VERY BEGINNING, when the world came to be. 24 When there were no watery depths, I WAS GIVEN BIRTH, when there were no springs overflowing with water; 25 before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I WAS GIVEN BIRTH.

– God has become three BEINGS ever since from the beginning and then He made angels.

GOD CREATED ANGELS TO BE HIS SUBJECTS OF LOVE

– Because God is love and peace, He created angels so that He could show His love to them with the intention to live in peace and harmony together forever.

– Angels was called sons of God. They are princes in the Kingdom of God.

JOB 1: 6 – One day THE SONS OF GOD came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.

JOB 2: 1 – On another day THE SONS OF GOD came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.

– Angels are princes of God and the Lord Jesus Christ is the Greatest Prince.

ISAIAH 9: 6 – For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, PRINCE of Peace.

DANIEL 8: 25 – He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the PRINCE OF PRINCES. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.

DANIEL 10: 13 – But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the CHIEF PRINCES, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.

DANIEL 10: 21 – But first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. No one supports me against them except Michael, YOUR PRINCE.

DANIEL 12: 1 – At that time Michael, the GREAT PRINCE who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people, everyone whose name is found written in the book, will be delivered.

– Therefore Christians who is saved in Jesus’ name will be like angels, sons of God.

MATTHEW 22: 30 – At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

MARK 12: 25 – When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

LUKE 20: 36 – They CAN NO LONGER DIE, for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection.

– Angels will never suffer a physical dead because they are all spirits.

QUESTION: There are some arguments saying human beings are actually God’s subjects of love and angels are just His servants. How we explain that?

– Firstly, God created angels long before mankind. Satan had already gone against God when Adam and Eve were still in the garden of Eden. That was why he came into the garden in the form of a snake to deceive Eve.

– Secondly, if God created angels to serve Him FIRST before creating mankind to love them then that kind of arguments makes God become a selfish One. That kind of arguments are opposite to 2 TRUTHS in the Scripture: God is Love and He is the powerful God Who does not need anyone serving Him.

ROMANS 8: 32 – He Who did not spare His Own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?

– How could the God of love created angels to SERVE Him FIRST before showing His love to someone else?

ACTS 17: 25 – And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything. Rather, He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

– It is the same with angels. God is powerful and He does not need anything or depended on anyone to serve or wait on Him.

DIFFERENT VIEW: God created angels to serve Him by praising His glory.

– God does not need anything including praising, as indicated in above Acts 17: 25. Christians praise God as a showing of gratitude because of His love for us by giving salvation in Jesus Christ.

– When people think that God created angels as servants because He needed them to praise His glory then that thought is a blasphemy because they lower God to the level of human beings who always need someone to flatter their ego.

– Jesus let us know that God’s glory is surely praised by all things so He does not need to create angels as servants to do just that.

LUKE 19: 38-40 – 37 When He came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 38 Blessed is the King Who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest! 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus: Teacher, rebuke your disciples! 40 “I tell you,” He replied, “if they keep quiet, the STONES WILL CRY OUT”.

QUESTION: Why does the Scripture call angels the servants of God?

– All God’s children should have the mindset of the Lord Jesus Christ towards each other, and more importantly, to God. It is the mindset of humbleness.

PHILIPPIANS 2: 5-8 – 5 In your relationships with one another, HAVE THE SAME MINDSET AS CHRIST JESUS: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage; 7 rather, He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a A SERVANT, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross!

– Paul himself was an example of this kind of love towards fellow Christians.

2CORINTHIANS 4: 5 – For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and OURSELVES AS YOUR SERVANT for Jesus’ sake.

– The Lord Jesus Christ, although He is the SON of God, but the Scripture calls Him GOD’S SERVANT.

MATTHEW 12: 15-21 – 15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed Him, and He healed all who were ill. 16 He warned them not to tell others about Him. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 18 Here is MY SERVANT Whom I have chosen, the one I love, in Whom I delight. I will put my Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations. 19 He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets. 20 A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out, till He has brought justice through to victory. 21 In His name the nations will put their hope.

– Therefore, as holy angels surely love God and humble themselves before God, they certainly consider themselves SERVANTS TO HIM. That is why the Scripture calls them SERVANTS OF GOD.

– If angels were just mere servants in heavenly realm then Paul would not need to mention them together with God’s name and the Lord Jesus Christ’s name, but he did when he gave serious instruction to Timothy of how to conduct the duty of a church minister.

1TIMOTHY 5: 21 – I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus AND THE ELECT ANGELS, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.

– If angels were just mere servants in heavenly kingdom then God’s love for them was not perfect because the love for servants would never be equal to the love for His own children. It meant the God of Love still had an imperfect love in Him!!! NEVER.

– If angels were just mere servants of God then Jesus’s comparison between saved Christians and angels was unwise and ridiculous because no father would put their children to be equal to servants in his house; or no father would encourage his children to be the best then reward them with a servant’s status.

LUKE 20: 36 – They can no longer die, for THEY ARE LIKE THE ANGELS. THEY ARE GOD’S CHILDREN, since they are children of the resurrection.

– Because God is Love so He gave angels free will to choose what they want to do. Two third of them chose to love God and faithfully serve Him, one third of them chose to follow Satan.

– Because God has never changed so He also gave mankind free will when He created Adam and Eve. But both angels and human beings must be held accountable for what they choose to do.

ECCLESIASTES 11: 9 – You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

– Because God is just so everyone must bear the consequences of his or her actions, including the angels.

– God gave angels great power to perform many wonders.

HEBREWS 1: 7 – In speaking of the angels He says: He makes His angels spirits, and His servants FLAMES OF FIRE.

REVELATION 19: 17 – And I saw an angel STANDING IN THE SUN, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair: Come, gather together for the great supper of God.

– God made His angels in the image of Jesus and clothed them the same as Jesus’s.

REVELATION 1: 12-16 – 12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and among the lampstands was someone like a Son of Man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with A GOLDEN SASH AROUND HIS CHEST. 14 The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 15 HIS FEET WERE LIKE BRONZE GLOWING IN A FURNACE, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE SUN shining in all its brilliance.

REVELATION 10: 1 – Then I saw ANOTHER MIGHTY ANGEL coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE SUN, and HIS LEGS WERE LIKE FIERY PILLARS.

REVELATION 15: 6 – Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in CLEAN, SHINING LINEN and wore GOLDEN SASHES AROUND THEIR CHESTS.

REVELATION 18: 1 – After this I saw ANOTHER ANGEL coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was ILLUMINATE BY HIS SPLENDOR.

QUESTION: Are all angels males? If there any female among angels of God?

– Among Christians who are saved certainly have males and females, as well as all holy men and holy women mentioned in the Bible. Therefore in Heavenly Kingdom of God there are male and female angels. It has been mentioned figuratively in the Scripture when it describes the Kingdom of Heaven.

PSALM 45: 6-9 – Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of Your Kingdom. 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has set You above Your companions by anointing You with the oil of joy. 8 All Your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes You glad. 9 DAUGHTERS of kings are among Your HONORED WOMEN; at Your right hand is the Royal Bride in gold of Ophir.

PSALM 45: 16-17 – 16 Your sons will take the place of Your fathers; You will make them princes throughout the land. 17 I will perpetuate Your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise You for ever and ever.

– Angels have the ability to engage in intimacy BUT they do not have the need for it. Only when they followed Satan against God then they submitted themselves to the temptation of it.

GENESIS 6: 1-2 – 1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 THE SONS OF GOD saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

– Holy angels do not marry or given to marry, as the Lord Jesus Christ had told the crowd. It also indicates that there are male and female angels in the heavenly Kingdom.

MATTHEW 22: 30 – At the resurrection PEOPLE will neither MARRY (male) nor BE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE (female). They will be like the angels in heaven.

MARK 12: 25 – When the dead rise, they will neither MARRY (male) nor BE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE (female). They will be like the angels in heaven.

SATAN BECAME THE ENEMY OF GOD

– One of the angels named Satan went against God. He wanted to be equal to God. That was why he was cast out of Heaven and became the Devil.

ISAIAH 14: 12-15 – 12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart: I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.

– Before he turned against Him, God gave Satan great power and special status among other angels. He was only a little lower than the Lord Jesus Christ.

ISAIAH 14: 12 – 12 How you have fallen from heaven, MORNING STAR, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

2THESSALONIANS 2: 9 – The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with HOW SATAN WORKS. He will use ALL SORTS OF DISPLAYS OF POWER through signs and wonders that serve the lie.

– Satan was called the morning star like Christ, only less brilliant than Christ’s.

REVELATION 22: 16 – I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR.

– It indicates that he had a great power to do things. That was why he became arrogant and wanted to be equal to God. He thought he could do things the same as God did through the Lord Jesus Christ.

– Satan enticed one-third of the angels to rebel against God.

REVELATION 12: 3-4 – 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: An enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept A THIRD OF THE STARS out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND ANGELS

– Jesus Christ is God’s Word magnified into a Being. Because He is THE VOICE of God so He is also God.

JOHN 1: 1-3 – 1 In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.

JOHN 10: 30 – I and the Father are ONE.

– But because Jesus Christ CAME OUT from God as His voice so He also called SON OF GOD.

LUKE 3: 22 – And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: You are my SON, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.

2PETER 1: 17 – He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying: This is my SON, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.

– Angels are also called sons of God, but when comparing their status with the Lord Jesus Christ then they are just His creatures because God created everything by His VOICE only.

HEBREWS 1: 5 – But in these last days He has spoken to us by His SON, Whom he appointed heir of all things, and through Whom also He made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So HE BECAME AS MUCH SUPERIOR to the angels as the name He has inherited is SUPERIOR to theirs.

– Therefore although angels are called sons of God but they are also His servants as Christians are servants or SLAVES to God even we are called God’s children.

ROMANS 6: 22 – But now that you have been set free from sin and have become SLAVES of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

1CORINTHIANS 7: 22 – For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s SLAVE.

1PETER 2: 16 – Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s SLAVES.

ANGELS AND SATAN

– The Lord Jesus Christ declares that He is a brilliant morning star.

REVELATION 22: 16 – I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR.

– Children of God and angels are called stars in the sky.

REVELATION 1: 20 – The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven STARS are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

– Satan, before turning against God, was also called a star.

ISAIAH 14: 12 – How you have fallen from heaven, MORNING STAR, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

– Christians who have true faith are called stars in the sky, too.

PHILIPPIANS 2: 15 – So that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like STARS in the sky.

DANIEL 12: 3 – Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the STARS for ever and ever.

– One-third of angels turned against God and were hurled down to the earth. That is why there are many demons on Earth.

REVELATION 12: 7-9 – 7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

MARK 5: 1-9 – 1 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet Him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. 6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on His knees in front of Him. 7 He shouted at the top of his voice: What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me! 8 For Jesus had said to him: Come out of this man, you impure spirit! 9 Then Jesus asked him: What is your name? My name is LEGION, he replied, for WE ARE MANY.

LUKE 8: 26-30 – 26 They sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is across the lake from Galilee. 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, He was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at His feet, shouting at the top of his voice: What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me! 29 For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places. 30 Jesus asked him: What is your name? LEGION, he replied, because MANY DEMONS had gone into him.

GOD HAS NEVER CHANGED

– God is always consistent.

MALACHI 3: 6 – I the Lord DO NOT CHANGE. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

HEBREWS 13: 8 – Jesus Christ is THE SAME yesterday and today and forever.

– In His plan, God created angels in numbers that were enough for Him to express His love toward them. He would never let Satan’s rebellion destroy His plan of love when he enticed one-third of angels to rebel against Him. Therefore God had another plan to fulfill the numbers of angels.

– In His plan, God created human beings and put them on Earth to test them in order to choose who would be worthy to become angels, and by doing so making their numbers full again.

– Humans cannot be in Heaven while being tested, so they must be in somewhere else. Therefore the Earth was created to be the testing ground for humans.

JOB 7: 17-18 – 17 What is mankind that You make so much of them, that You give them so much attention, 18 that You EXAMINE them every morning and TEST them every moment?

JAMES 1: 12 – Blessed is the one who perseveres under TRIAL because, having stood the TEST, that person will receive THE CROWN OF LIFE that the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

1PETER 4: 12 – Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to TEST you, as though something strange were happening to you.

THE EARTH WAS NOT CREATED TO EXIST FOREVER

– The Earth was created by God to be a testing ground for human beings.

GENESIS 1: 1 – In the beginning God created the heavens and the EARTH.

– It will be destroyed completely by fire.

2PETER 3: 7 – By the same word the present heavens and EARTH are reserved for FIRE, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

2PETER 3: 10 – But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the EARTH and everything done in it will be laid bare.

– Therefore the human race will cease to exist in physical form. Those who are saved will enter the kingdom of God and live with Him for eternity as angels. Those who are condemned will be kept in Hell with Satan and the fallen angels forever. Then the universe will finally be at peace and God’s plan of love will be completed as it was from the beginning.

MATTHEW 25: 31-46 – 31 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right: Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. 37 Then the righteous will answer Him: Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you? 40 The King will reply: Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of THESE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF MINE, you did for me. 41 Then He will say to those on His left: Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the ETERNAL FIRE prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me. 44 They also will answer: Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you? 45 He will reply: Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. 46 Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF JESUS

– They are those who truly believed in Jesus and walked faithfully on His way to the end of their lives, not those who claimed to be Jesus’ followers but live according to the world’s deceitful standards.

MATTHEW 12: 50 – For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

MARK 3: 35 – Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.

LUKE 8: 21 – He replied: My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into PRACTICE.

REVELATION 2: 10 – Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. BE FAITHFUL, EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEATH, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

HUMAN BEINGS WERE CREATED

– To fulfill the numbers of angels after losing one-third of them to Satan’s rebellion, God created the first human beings, Adam and Eve.

GENESIS 1: 26-27 – 26 Then God said: Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. 27 So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them, male and female he created them.

SATAN FOUGHT TRYING TO REMAIN IN HEAVEN

– When Satan went against God, he was cast out of Heaven. Then he enticed one-third of angels to fight for him in order to remain in Heaven. But he failed and all of them were hurled down to the Earth.

– The Earth was already created according to God’s plan.

CHILDREN OF GOD AND CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL

– While Adam was still in Eden, Satan had created his own kind of humans. But because his power came from God and could not be greater than God’s, his creatures looked more like apes than humans.

MATTHEW 13: 24 -30 – 24 Jesus told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed GOOD SEED in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed WEEDS among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. 27 The owner’s servants came to him and said: Sir, didn’t you sow GOOD SEED in your field? Where then did the WEEDS come from?’ 28 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. The servants asked him: Do you want us to go and pull them up? 29 ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn’.

MATTHEW 13: 36-43 – 36 Then He left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said: Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field. 37 He answered: THE ONE WHO SOWED THE GOOD SEED IS THE SON OF MAN. 38 The field is THE WORLD, and THE GOOD SEED STANDS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE KINGDOM. THE WEEDS ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE EVIL ONE, 39 and THE ENEMY WHO SOWS THEM IS THE DEVIL. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. 40 As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

– After they sinned, when Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden, the world had already been populated by Satan’s creatures, ugly, barbaric and uncivilized. Those people were the reason Cain was afraid to be killed.

GENESIS 4: 13-14 – 13 Cain said to the Lord: My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence. I will be a restless WANDERER ON THE EARTH AND WHOEVER FINDS ME WILL KILL ME.

– Angels did not know who made those ugly creatures. They could not even distinguish who were humans created by God and who were made by Satan.

THE FIRST PROPHECY

– God is Omniscience. God foresaw everything that would happen in the future and He made plans accordingly. Because He is also the God of love, so He let His servants know what He is planning to do and they recorded it into the Scriptures.

AMOS 3: 7 – Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

ISAIAH 46: 10 – I MAKE KNOWN THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, FROM ANCIENT TIME, WHAT IS STILL TO COME. I say: My purpose will stand and I will do all that I please.

– Right after creating Adam and Eve, God foretold when Christ will come back to the Earth.

GENESIS 1: 28 – God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and INCREASE IN NUMBER, FILL THE EARTH and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.

– God always does things with purpose. When He commanded human beings to increase in number and fill the Earth, He had His reason. As the Creator, God knew the Earth had its limit in resources and He did not want human beings to face problems of over population or starvation as they obeyed His command. Thus when the Earth is filled with human beings then it’s time for Christ to return.

MATTHEW 6: 31-32 – 31 So do not worry, saying: What shall we EAT? or what shall we DRINK? or what shall we wear? 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS YOU NEED THEM.

PSALM 136: 25 – He gives FOOD TO EVERY CREATURES. His love endures forever.

THE TIME OF CHRIST’S RETURN

– Therefore when the Earth is not able to sustain human life anymore, then Christ will return.

– But this is just one of the conditions for Christ to return to Earth.

MATTHEW 24: 3-8 – 3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately. “Tell us, they said, when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 Jesus answered: Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be FAMINES AND EARTHQUAKES in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

LUKE 21: 8-11 – 8 He replied: Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them. 9 When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away. 10 Then He said to them: Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be GREAT EARTHQUAKES, FAMINES AND PESTILENCES in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

SATAN’ SCHEMES TO AVOID IMPRISONED IN HELL

– Only few people understand God’s command in Genesis 1: 28 as the first prophecy of Christ’s return, but Satan knows it very well. He knows when Christ returns, it will be time for God to punish those who rebel against Him, especially Satan and his demons. They would be imprisoned in Hell forever. From the time Adam came out of Eden, Satan tried his best to reduce the number of human beings on Earth to prolong his time outside of Hell, beginning with the murder of Abel, then using wars, diseases, and even grilled children on fire for Moloch (Molek), and in modern times, with homosexuality and abortion.

JEREMIAH 32: 35 – They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded, nor did it enter my mind, that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.

– Satan also used his servants among the elites and world leaders to push for birth control in order to reduce birth rates all over the world while masquerading it as anti-poverty and anti-starvation.

– From ancient time until now Satan, his demons and his servants among mankind have harmed children as best as they can and using any means to kill them whenever they can. It is one of many ways Satan uses to reduce the world population and to prolong his time outside of Hell. Children are the most vulnerable targets that are easy to destroy. That is why Satan aims his evil attack on children most of the times.

SATAN SCHEMES TO OPPOSE GOD

– As he was created as a powerful angel, Satan became arrogant and wanted to be equal to God. With that intention, he had devised some evil schemes hoping to achieve it.

ISAIAH 14: 12-14 – 12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You SAID IN YOUR HEART: I WILL ascend to the heavens; I WILL raise my throne above the stars of God; I WILL sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. 14 I WILL ascend above the tops of the clouds; I WILL make myself like the Most High.

SATAN IMITATED WHAT GOD DID

– Because Satan wanted to make himself like God, he imitated many things God had done.

ISAIAH 14: 14 – I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE THE MOST HIGH.

– As God made animals on earth, birds in the sky and fish in the sea, Satan also made his creatures. God’s creatures were good and humans could control them according to God’s command. Satan’s creatures were bad and humans could not rule over them.

GENESIS 1: 20-25 – 20 And God said: Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky. 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was GOOD. 22 God blessed them and said: Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth. 23 And there was evening, and there was morning, the fifth day. 24 And God said: Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind. And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was GOOD.

GENESIS 1: 26 – Then God said: Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may RULE OVER the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, OVER the livestock and all the wild animals, and OVER all the creatures that move along the ground.

GENESIS- 1: 28 – God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. RULE OVER the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and OVER every living creature that moves on the ground.

– Satan understood God wanted to create humans in order to make the numbers of angels full again like in the beginning. Therefore as God created the Earth and filled it with animals, birds and fish in the sea, Satan created big, fearsome creatures that modern scientists call DINOSAURS.

– Those creatures certainly could not be controlled by humans. Satan’s intention was to use those big creatures to destroy God’s plan in humans, to kill them or to reduce their numbers in order to delay the return of Christ and prolong his free time outside of Hell forever.

– Because God is love and understanding so He will never command mankind to do or endure what is too much for them to handle.

1CORINTHIANS 10: 13 – No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

MATTHEW 15: 32 – Jesus called His disciples to Him and said: I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.

– Therefore we understand that those big, fierce and fearsome creatures called DINOSAURS were not created by the God of love, but by His enemy.

– In order for human beings to live and increase in numbers on Earth, God destroyed those big creatures and made them extinct before creating the first human in Eden.

JOB 26: 12 – By His power He churned up the sea, by His wisdom He cut Rahab to pieces.

PSALM 74: 13 – It was You Who split open the sea by Your power. You broke the heads of the MONSTER in the waters.

ISAIAH 51: 9 – Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe Yourself with strength! Awake, as in DAYS GONE BY, as in GENERATIONS OF OLD. Was it not You Who cut Rahab to pieces, Who pierced that MONSTER through?

– As his first scheme to destroy humans failed, Satan had another one to oppose God.

– When God created human beings in Eden, Satan again imitated God and made his creatures outside the garden. He tried to make them look like humans but because his power, even great, was much inferior to God’s, so his creatures looked like apes than humans. Jesus called them weeds or stares because they were not good as wheat. Scientists call them homo sapiens.

MATTHEW 13: 24-26 – 24 Jesus told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed GOOD SEED in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed WEEDS among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

– Satan hoped that those human-like creatures would be mixed with humans created by God so that even when mankind increased in numbers but there would not be enough those who were worthy to be angels. This is another way Satan used to prolong his time outside of Hell.

– As it turned out, those two different races have been mixed and they have closely resemblance that even holy angels cannot distinguish which one came from Adam and which one came from Satan’s apes.

MATTHEW 13: 27-30 – 27 The owner’s servants came to him and said: Sir, didn’t you sow GOOD SEED in your field? Where then did the WEEDS come from? 28 ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. The servants asked him: Do you want us to go and PULL THEM UP? 29 ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may UPROOT THE WHEAT WITH THEM. 30 Let both GROW TOGETHER until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn’.

ROMANS 3: 10-18 – As it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. 13 Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. 14 Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood, 16 ruin and misery mark their ways, 17 and the way of peace they do not know. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

JOHN 8: 44 – You belong to your YOUR FATHER, THE DEVIL, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

JOHN 6: 70 – Then Jesus replied: Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!

– The people who lived outside Eden did not know God. Only when Adam’s family started to increase in number then they began to know about God.

GENESIS 4: 26 – Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time PEOPLE began to call on the name of the Lord.

– Adam’s children certainly knew about God because their parents were created by Him and used to have direct conversation with Him before. But when the Scriptures mentions that PEOPLE BEGAN TO CALL OF THE NAME OF THE LORD then it indicates that those who live outside of Eden did not know God until Adam’s children married their daughters and talked to them about the God of Eden.

ADAM’S TIME IN THE EDEN

– Although Adam was created from dust of the earth but he was not lower much than angels.

GENESIS 2: 7 – Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

PSALM 8: 5-8 – You have made him A LITTLE LOWER THAN the angels and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: 7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, 8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

– Adam was not created for death. In the Eden he was permitted to eat the fruit from the tree of life whenever he wanted. That kind of fruit could give whoever ate it the eternal life.

GENESIS 2: 8-9 – 8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man He had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the TREE OF LIFE and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

GENESIS 2: 16-17 – And the Lord God commanded the man: You are FREE TO EAT FROM ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.

– Only after Adam sinned then God did not allow him to eat from the tree of life anymore.

GENESIS 3: 22 – And the Lord God said: The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and TAKE ALSO FROM THE TREE OF LIFE AND EAT, AND LIVE FOREVER.

– Thus from the time he was created until he sinned by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil Adam had lived a very long time. As he was sinless there was also no death in the future and no need to count his age. He might had lived thousands or millions of year to name all living creatures that God had made, which are estimated around trillions of species.

GENESIS 2: 19 – Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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ROMANS 5: 12 – Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and DEATH THROUGH SIN, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

– Adam’s age was only counted after he sinned because death started to appear right on the day he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. His 930 years was counted from the day he sinned to the day he died, NOT FROM THE DAY HE WAS CREATED.

GENESIS 5: 5 – Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

– Angels have no age because they live forever. When Adam was sinless he had no age, too. Only sinful humans need to know how old they are in order to record of how long they live from birth to dead.

THE FIRST TEMPTATION

– In God’s plan, human beings must be tested. That was why Satan was allowed to be in the garden to deceive Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

GENESIS 3: 1-5 – 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman: Did God really say ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’? 2 The woman said to the serpent: We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or YOU WILL DIE.’ 4 You will not certainly die YOU WILL NOT CERTAINLY DIE, the serpent said to the woman. 5 For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

– Satan deceived Eve and by doing so he indirectly told her that God had lied when He warned them that they would die if they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

– As Eve ate from it she indicated that she believed Satan, acknowledging that his statement was true and God had been lied to her and Adam. This is the common sin among mankind: People tend to believe the devil than believe in God.

– The death that God had warned Adam and Eve is the physical dead. Initially they were not created for dead. The proof of it is they were allowed to eat from the tree of life. After they sinned then the aging process started to happened in their bodies and to everyone after them. From then on mankind cannot enter Heaven with earthly bodies. Those who are saved must be transformed into different bodies, like angels’, like the glorious body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

PHILIPPIANS 3: 21 – Who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body.

– The death that God had warned about is not spiritual dead, because after Adam and Eve sinned, God still talked to them directly and put clothes on them.

GENESIS 3: 8-13 – 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man: Where are you? 10 He answered: I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid. 11 And He said: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? 12 The man said: The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it. 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman: What is this you have done? The woman said: The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

GENESIS 3: 21 – The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

– The lesson we learn from Adam’s sin is this: Human beings must obey God’s commands in all circumstances. Obeying God is better than all sacrifices.

1SAMUEL 15: 22- But Samuel replied: Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

ADAM’S LIFE

– Adam was like an angel in some respects: He was not created for death. Before he disobeyed God Adam only needed a helper, not a wife. He could freely eat from the tree of life and he ruled over all living things that God had created on Earth.

GENESIS 2: 20-22 – 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable HELPER was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man.

– Before they disobeyed God’s command, Adam and Eve’s bodies were covered with the light from God. That was why they had no shame of their nakedness. They lost that light on the day they sinned. Christians who are saved will received the same light like that on the day Christ returns to the Earth. God’s holy light will be restored on all those who are saved from sin.

GENESIS 2: 25 – Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

PHILIPPIANS 3: 20-21 – 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 Who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, WILL TRANSFORM OUR LOWLY BODIES SO THAT THEY WILL BE LIKE HIS GLORIOUS BODY.

– Only after they were sent out of Eden that Adam and Eve became husband and wife. They had many children. The first one they had named Cain and the second one named Abel.

THE FIRST MURDER

– Cain killed his younger brother because of jealousy and anger.

GENESIS 4: 3-5 – 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

GENESIS 4: 8 – Now Cain said to his brother Abel: Let’s go out to the field. While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

CAIN’S WIFE

– When Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden because of their sin, the outside world had been populated with people that came from Satan. They were ugly, barbaric and uncivilized. That was why Cain was afraid to be killed when God sent him far away as a punishment for killing Abel.

GENESIS 4: 13-14 – 13 Cain said to the Lord: My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and WHOEVER finds me will kill me.

– Cain did not mean that he would be killed by his younger siblings, but by people he did not know. Those people also did not know who Cain was. That was why God had to put a mark on Cain to warn them not to kill him.

GENESIS 4: 5-6 – 5 But the Lord said to him: Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went OUT FROM THE LORD’S PRESENCE and lived in the land of Nod, East of Eden.

– OUT FROM THE LORD’S PRESENCE means God ignored that part of land, or exactly that He only focused on the garden of Eden where He put those humans He created. The Scriptures indicates that God only pay attention to Adam and his descendants while ignores other people throughout human history. It is because they came from Satan by his evil scheme to oppose God.

– Cain’s wife could not be his younger sister or niece. God never sin and He certainly never put a person into circumstances that he must sin. God would never put Cain into a situation that he must commit the sin of incest.

JAMES 1: 13 – When tempted, no one should say: God is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.

JOHN 8: 46 – Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

LEVITICUS 18: 11 – Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father. She is your sister.

LEVITICUS 20: 17 – If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

– If there was only Adam’s family in the whole world then it was a situation that God put Cain and Seth into to make them commit the sin of incest to have a family of their own, and God’s command to mankind to increase in numbers would certainly be an order to commit that kind of sin. God will never act or give command in that way.

– God has never changed. As incest is a sin in God’s eyes then it is a sin from the beginning and forever. It cannot be a sin in Moses’s time and was not a sin in Cain’s or Seth’s times.

– Moreover, as Cain was sent far away from God’s presence and from his family, his parents and other siblings, he built a CITY in his son’s name. The question is how Cain could build a CITY by his own or even with his son Enoch? Two people can build a house, but surely not a CITY. Cain must have help from other people and where did they come from?

GENESIS 4: 17 – Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

– After Abel was killed, Adam had another son named Seth.

GENESIS 4: 25-26 – 25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying: God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him. 26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time PEOPLE BEGAN TO CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.

– Adam’s children certainly knew about God because their parents were created by Him. As they started to marry daughters of people who lived outside Eden then those people began to know about God. It does not mean they began to worship Him, but only called on His name as a new God to add to the list of idols that they already had before.

– Adam and his children lived long because of the effects from the tree of life that he ate from when he was still in Eden.

GENESIS 2: 16 – And the Lord God commanded the man: You are FREE TO EAT FROM ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN.

– That command meant including from the tree of life. That tree will make whoever eats from it live forever. Its wonderful effect was gradually disappeared in Adam’s body after he sinned and by the appearing of the aging process by God’s condemnation, but somehow it still lingered and passed through to his children until God set limits of their years on Earth to 120.

GENESIS 6: 3 – Then the Lord said: My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal. Their days will be a hundred and twenty years.

FALLEN ANGELS MARRIED HUMAN GIRLS

– Adam’s children married and mixed with the people who already populated the world outside of Eden. Jesus called them tares because they were created by Satan, God’s enemy.

– The mixed race had daughters who were more beautiful than those who came from Satan. It happened because they took after Adam who was created in the beautiful image of God.

– Then the fallen angels came and took those who pleased their eyes.

GENESIS 6: 1-2 – 1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

DIFFERENT VIEW: Many people think THE SONS OF GOD in these particular verses are Seth’s sons.

– Although Adam had more sons and daughters after Seth, but nowhere in the Scripture says that Seth’s sons were called specifically as sons of God.

GENESIS 5: 3-4 – 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

– It would be ridiculous if the Scripture called Seth’s sons as Sons of God and called Seth’s other sons as earthly people. They all came from Adam and Eve. The Scripture never specifically point it out that Seth was more holy than his siblings.

– It would be more terribly wrong to think that Seth’s sons married their sisters and nieces, and the Scripture would be read like this:

GENESIS 6: 1-2 – 1 When ADAM’S OTHER SONS began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 THE SONS OF SETH saw that THEIR SISTERS AND NIECES were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

– Does anyone, in their right mind, think that because Seth’s sons were HOLY and were called SONS OF GOD that they committed the sin of incest with their SISTERS AND NIECES like that? No, never!

– Genesis is the important part of the Scripture and everyone can remember the main purposes of it: To teach, rebuke, correct and train in RIGHTEOUSNESS.

2TIMOTHY 3: 15-17 – 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 ALL SCRIPTURE (including Genesis) is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in RIGHTEOUSNESS, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

– Does anyone think that HOLY MEN, SONS OF GOD would commit the sin of incest as an example of RIGHTEOUSNESS? No, never. Therefore we should be aware of Satan’s way of thinking in this particular matter.

– Moreover, as Abraham was in Seth’s family, so if Seth’s sons were supposed as sons of God then God would not need to call Abraham and made his descendants become sons of God AGAIN.

DEUTERONOMY 32: 18-19 – 18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth. 19 The Lord saw this and rejected them because He was angered by HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

HOSEA 1: 10 – Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, they will be called CHILDREN of the living God.

– Marrying sisters and cousins WAS the practice and custom of the people who were created outside of Eden. We should remember that Abram married his sister Sarai BEFORE he was called by God. It means he married his sister BEFORE he became an holy man, not AFTER.

GENESIS 12: 1-5 – 1 The Lord had said to Abram: Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took HIS WIFE SARAI, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

GENESIS 20: 12 – Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

– Therefore if Seth’s sons were called SONS OF GOD, then married their sisters and nieces, they committed the sin of incest AFTER they became holy men.

– Some may argue that sons of God could still COMMIT SINS then why the Scripture distinguished them from other sons of Seth?

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THE END OF SATAN

– God foretold that when human population on Earth increases to a certain amount (TO BE ALL OVER THE PLANET) then Jesus Christ will return to Earth.

GENESIS 1: 28 – God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number, FILL THE EARTH fill and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.

– According to population statistic for the year 2023, for every hour there were 15,081 babies were born and 7,038 people died.

– 7,000 People Die Every Hour…
– Here’s Where The Most Babies Are Born Every Hour

– The world population has surpassed 8 billions and it seems that the Earth can no longer support such multitude sufficiently. The time for Christ to return is near. Satan knows that. That is why he is

REVELATION 12: 12 – Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! HE IS FILLED WITH FURY, because he knows that his time IS SHORT.

– As the devil is filled with MADDENING FURY, so his demons and his children are also in the same state. This means they are now showing signs of madness and insanity.

(to be continued)

GOD AND HIS ETERNAL PLAN

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