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The world is blind to these SEVEN, pivotal facts:
1. The Bible communicates Heaven’s 'Multi-millennial Strategic Plan for Humanity'.
2. There are SEVEN ages appointed for humanity.
3. We are nearing the end of the THIRD age, a pivotal turning point in this strategy.
4. A GREAT falling away from the Christian faith is predicted during the ending days of this THIRD age, as a result of backsliding, general lukewarmness and outright apostasy among the heretofore faithful. Look around and this you will clearly see.
5. Biblical prophecies have been and remain seeds of human history.
6. Yet-fulfilled prophecies, unfolding apace, are worthy of diligent study.
7. Now is the time to get and stay on ‘the right side of Bible prophecy’.
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Addressing and Re-Addressing
Once Upon a Time
Sounds a bit familiar? Perhaps??
This is exactly equivalent to what God did via Jesus. They had originally established, in Adam, Their authority and dominion on Earth. Adam was to exercise this authority and dominion, principally with words, starting with the gargantuan task of naming every non-man creature on Earth! Some time either before or after he finished this task, he and Eve sinned, effectively handing their Earth-wide authority and dominion over to satan and his crew of fallen angels, who became king and lords over all things earthly. They had a front row seat during the creation of man and woman, and heard the ‘word-based delegation of authority’ Adam and Eve received from God via Jesus. (Yes, pre-incarnate Jesus was in The Garden of Eden.) With this intelligence, satan and his crew were able to use deceptive words to trick Eve into disobedience. Their plan worked, and worked well for ages, until the Redeemer Whom God promised would come, actually came. But His coming would be in two strategic stages: first, to do exactly as was done in the story above; then later to establish His personal, ‘without end’ Kingdom, initially on this current Earth, and later transferred to a brand new, eternal Earth on which every person ever conceived would eventually reside: either in two glorified geographic zones for the righteous, or one massive zone for those who will be forever damned. (See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series) and also The Lake of Fire: A Preview (Series))
Problem: Through successive generations of His reps, the authoritative structure and com-link He established appears to have gotten somewhat off track. Descendants of His carefully selected people have now been duped into a rather passive existence, allowing the former king and crew to reap havoc in restructuring all the world’s systems to fit their likings, and forcing the new King’s reps to ‘fit in’ or be derided. The world’s entertainment (enter-‘taint’-ment!) and work-for-money systems were the best restructuring efforts of the former king and his crew. The com-link established by the new King, now seems to be used heavily, if not primarily, to beg the King to do from His headquarters (Heaven), stuff He authorized His reps to do in His name. Their authoritative ‘doing’ was to be by their ‘saying/speaking’ in ardent faith, and the King’s power would be evident in their sayings (words in His name and authority) as long as they lived/walked in Love and especially forgiveness, and as long as they kept in close touch with Him in order to learn His ways and will, His Word, voice, etc. He even sent many teaching extensive instructional letters (The Bible) advising how His systems work, including many teaching examples (good and bad) about the power of our tongue, imaginations of our heart, and words in our world. He dispatched His Spirit and His unseen, holy anglels to support all His saints across the generations. (See: Working With Angels (Series))
As in any relay race, and for a myriad of reasons, Kingdom effectiveness wanes with the ‘passing of the baton’ to successive generations. While the problem is clear, the root causes are complex and deep. No human knows how many more generations remain to be born, mature, and face the challenge of passing on our spiritual heritage. Alas, it all remains in the capable hands of the Spirit of God to sift and sort through the human fingerprints all over God’s will, as it unfolds on planet Earth, and unfolding it is! Even within yet unborn generations, God has already pre-positioned pivotal believers across the ranks who will lead many to righteousness, and who, along with their supporters, will one day rise from their dusty graves to receive eternal, glorified stardom in God’s Kingdom on the new, eternal planet Earth.
Love, Infallible (Poem)
Indeed, God Loves
God really Loves, simply because He IS Love, infallible
Despite prideful insanity we humanity can strut
God Loves
Despite human-’kind’ being most anything but!
Yes, God Loves
Without ever needing to get our love back
Indeed, God Loves
Yeah, on this, My Friend, you can sit back and relax
God really Loves, simply because He IS Love, infallible
Through all of the craziness and messiness of life
God Loves
The sin, and the heartaches, and all of the strife
Yes, God Loves
Transforming it all into His greatest test
Indeed, God Loves
It was all shaped to draw me into His promised rest
God really Loves, simply because He IS Love, infallible
God Loves, Yes God Loves
Indeed, God Loves
God really Loves, simply because He IS Love, infallible
Though the winds o’er the sands of time will blow
God Loves
And our human Love for Him will daily ebb and flow
Yes, God Loves
In His dying, He gives to us undying Love, so matchless
Indeed, God Loves
In His raising, He exchanges Light for sinful darkness
God really Loves, simply because He IS Love, infallible
Are you searching for Love that’s much more reliable?
God Loves
Tired of gods of this world? They’re so unviable!
Yes, God Loves
Longing for more out of life, much more, undeniably?
Indeed, God Loves
Embrace God & Company - They Love so infallibly
God really Loves, simply because He IS Love, infallible
God Loves, You’ve got to know that God Loves
Of course, God Loves
God really Loves, simply because… (You say it.)
A Cloud of Two Faces
Same cloud producing both light and darkness.
Typically, clouds block the moon’s light at night rather than give light. But Exodus 13:21 reveals The Lord was ‘in’ the pillar of cloud and fire.
Today, the Gospel of Christ is like this pillar of cloud and fire, leading accepting believers in ‘The Way’ and providing spiritual insight (light) during spiritually dark times of our lives (night). Also strangely, this same Gospel is like a ‘cloud of darkness’ to unbelievers groping in the darkness of their disbelief, satan’s deception, and ego-tripping.
May you find yourself always ‘in the light’, be it day or night.
Chemistry Speaks, Spiritually
God created man as a neutral being, with the power of choice, and with an original right-leaning, 'positive charge' of His (God’s) righteous Spirit. Yet, since the power of choice is meaningless without an alternative object of choice, God allowed 'satan & company' to retain their residency on earth. Their residency pre-dated the creation of mankind, and resulted when, after an attempted coup against The Kingdom of God, Lucifer (who became satan) and one-third of all created angels were deposed from Heaven, landing on earth. They may have thought earth would be their equivalent 'heaven' where they would reign under satan's godhead, since he wanted to be a god.
What a shock when God, through Jesus, and right in satan's face (!) came to earth, created man, and gave HIM dominion and authority over everything on earth! Satan & co. were thus twice deposed! Can you perceive the intense frustration and jealousy this must have ignited?? Thus began their plot to create an "encompassing stand" around and against mankind to provoke ‘thoughts, words and conclusive actions’ that would depose and replace the positive or righteous "God-charge" within man, with satan's negative, wrong-leaning charge, and re-install satan & co. in authoritative dominion on earth. You know well the story and outcomes. After man's sin, God promised to send a redeemer, the seed of a woman, who would once again crush satan's kingdom-attempt and restore it to man. (Genesis 3:15). This threat motivated satan to set-up a 'search and destroy' counter-intelligence operation against this so-called seed. He likely thought this seed was Eve's first born, Abel, so like a lightening bolt, a plot was hatched to take him out.
Thus, the early spiritual history of our world was enveloped and largely motivated by this "search and destroy" plot and efforts to reinforce satan grip on his earthly dominion. Repeatedly across the ages, satan reached the "Wrong conclusion!" in his search and destroy mission, snuffing out the lives of countless babies and adults as he continued to tighten his kingdom-grip on earth through mankind.
Though it took centuries, The Redeemer was indeed revealed as Jesus Christ. He successfully accomplished God's three-part objective of paying the only acceptable price for all sin of all time, creating a new race or species of spiritually re-charged (re-born) mankind, and laying the foundation for the promised third and final deposing of any further effort of satan & co. to establish a kingdom.
In a nutshell, this is The Gospel, the good news that the promise of Genesis 3:15 has been substantially fulfilled. This you may know, but do you know key elements of this spiritual message are likely found at the very core of our physical existence, in both the lessons of chemistry and the daily circumstances that encompass our lives? Could it be that every major facet of physical life pulsates this spiritual story?
Chemistry reveals the atom as the core building block of everything physical (though quantum physics is now exploring sub-atomic life). Atoms comprise a 'neutral' core (neutrons), partnered and charged with a positive core (protons), and encompassed by a negatively charged cloud (electrons) that is bound to the nucleus by an electromagnetic force. The electrons determine the chemical properties or nature of an element, and strongly influence an atom's magnetic properties.
Just like atoms, spiritually, man comprises a 'neutral' core (his spirit and mind, capable of deciding between good and evil), which is originally partnered and charged with a 'positive core (Righteous Spirit of God), both of which are encompassed by a cloud of 'negatively-charged' unrighteous motivations (inspired by satan) bound to man by Adam's original sin and his blood line. Sin deposed man's positive God-charge, negatively-charged our neutral spirit and mind, and left us to the wiles of a merciless devil. The redemption offered by Christ reinstates our God-charge, provides us the means to renew our mind in accordance with our re-born spirit, thus flipping our spiritual make-up to its original status. Moreover, renewing our mind and spirit equips us to identify and spin off negative motivations, just as atoms depose unwanted electrons!
What an analogy! Pulsating at the core of everything physical are relevant insights of our spiritual life. (And yes, all analogies have their limits.)
Since the physical universe comprises an amalgamation of ‘all worlds’-- from the sub-atomic to the universal, perhaps somewhere between these extremes may well be other spiritual messages being pulsated by aspects of our daily life. After all, Heaven’s primary objective for mankind is our redemption, so why wouldn’t this theme be expressed iteratively in various ways throughout creation?