[Gen 3:9-10 KJV] 9 And the LORD God called unto THE CHURCH, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And CHURCH said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
[Rev 3:15-22 KJV] 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Where is the church in today's culture? Adam, who is the representative of every living person sinned against the Lord God. By his disobedience all of mankind are born into sin.
[Rom 5:12-14 KJV] 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
When we believe the gospel, our sins are forgiven. The Lord imputes His righteousness unto us as the gift of God, seals us with His Holy Spirit unto future glory. The resurrection from the dead in glorified bodies is the hope of all the saints. Yet, many churches seem to be AWOL / MISSING IN ACTION. The church, which is the Body of Christ, is the pillar and ground of the truth. This means that we are to be steadfast, unmovable concerning the truth of the word of God.
Jn.17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
So church, where are you in today's culture wars? Prayer was taken out of the public schools in the early 60's. June 25, 1962, the United States Supreme Court decided in Engel v. Vitale
In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Kentucky statute that had mandated every public school classroom that has the Ten Commandments posted on its walls.
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. We have murdered over 60 million babies since.
The Intent of Government
[Rom 13:1-4 KJV] 1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.
In times past when Kings ruled the earth, their word was law. They did as they pleased. Some were extremely brutal, cruel, but all were given by God.Then the U.S.A. was born with it's constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence, a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This was one of the greatest achievements in world history. A government governed by law: a Constitutional Republic. In this republic men are elected to office through voting of the general public. For this to work there needed to be a certain amount of education. Voters would have to have a grasp of the political issues at hand and make a judgment on what they believed was best for the Nation. An ignorant voter is dangerous to the republic, as they are easily manipulated, deceived. This is the condition of America at this very moment.
How did we get to this place? To answer this we must look at it from a Biblical worldview. Mankind as a sinner from the fall of Adam is hopelessly bound to immorality. The wages of sin is death. Rom.6:23. Throughout the first Covenant, there were strict laws punishable by death. Today, these laws sound barbaric. What today's modern man needs to understand, is that a strong hard hand must be applied to law breakers. When the law is lax, it's enforcement slack or none existent, lawlessness takes hold of society. Today murderers are not executed in many states. Crimes of drug dealers, gun runners, pedophilia, crimes against nature, treason, etc. need to be dealt with in the harshest measures, including execution. This is moral, this is right, it is just and good that men should be restrained from doing evil.
Job 34:37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psa 10:14
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psa 10:15
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Gen.6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen.8:21...for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth...
Pro 29:2
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
After the flood the Lord gave Noah the law of capital punishment.
Gen 9:5
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Gen 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
We see the reason man is to be put to death: we are created in God's image, and to kill (murder) a man is to defile the image of God himself.
[Heb 1:1-4 KJV] 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
WHEN GOVERNMENTS TURN EVIL
The LORD GOD intended Human Government to be righteous, restaining man's lawlessness by the power of the sword. It was to be a terror to evil works. What happens when governments become a terror to good works? Throughout history, esp. In the 19th and 20th centuries there have been bloody revolutions to destroy the old world of kings to replace it with new concepts, ideas, ideologies. The saying " Long live the King " has been throughout history the most basic form of governance. A new world order has gained hold the of minds of men. Let us explore their origins, purposes and goals. I would like to start with are own nation, America and the development of the American Revolution. I will confine my study to the 1) origens, 2) purposes and 3) goals.
THE PILGRIMS AND THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
Only the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the express image of the Father's person
In the mind of God, before the foundation of the world, Jesus, the Son of God was set to appear at the right time to redeem mankind.
[1Ti 2:3-6 KJV] 3 For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
[Eph 1:3-12 KJV] 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him: 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
We who have believed are made joint heirs with Christ. This means we are fellow heirs, joint participants in everything The Lord jesus Christ has obtained for us. You must be born into this inheritance even as Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
[Jhn 1:1-14 KJV] 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light. 9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The Word of God, who was always with God, is born of a virgin, conceived of the Holy Ghost. He is the Brightness of His (God the Father) glory, and the express image of His person. This then becomes our image when we believe on Him that died for our sins, and rose from the dead. 1 Cor.15:1-4. The Lord God created man in His image; male and female created He them. Gen. 1:26,27. This creation of Adam and Eve is before the fall. Today His creation is marred by sin, which is the transgression (breaking) of Moses's law.
We who have believed unto salvation are once again restored to the original creation before sin entered in through disobedience. Adam was called The son of God in the Genealogy of the gospel of Luke 3:23-38
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23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed ) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,...
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
When the LORD GOD created mankind it is said to be in His Image.
Jhn 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
So it is not our physical appearance that is in the image of God, but our God given conscience to know right from wrong, good from evil. We as believers possessing the Holy Spirit are being constantly renewed in the spirit of our mind.
[Rom 12:1-2 KJV] 1 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. 2 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 takes the cooperation of the believing saint for his mind to to be renewed. Study, meditation and yielding (volunteering) one's self in a living sacrificial lifestyle will conform us into the image of Christ.
[Phl 3:8-11 KJV] 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Please note that it takes suffering to be conformed to the image of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
There is a difference between Adam and believers since Pentecost who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ. Adam was innocent at his creation concerning good and evil. The LORD gave him a commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Only after disobeying the LORD's command did sin enter into the world.
Rom 5:12
¶ Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:...
There is, and can be, only one solution: REPENTANCE. Here, I speak of the church, His Body, the Body of Christ. The church of God must lead the way for America to repent. The lost cannot do it, as they go deeper and deeper into iniquity, lawlessness, and moral degradation. The fall of America is inevitable. True repentance starts in an individual's heart, then grows out into society, and the Nation. When the church of God was sanctified, consecrated, holy, separated from this world unto their Creator, there was a corporate fear of God even among the unbelievers. Laws were directed to nature, and nature's God. Thus crimes of sodomy, pedophilia, incest, rape, cross dressing, etc., were termed CRIMES AGAINST NATURE. This understanding came from Biblical text, the scripture.
Jde 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
[Lev 18:5-30 KJV] 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD. 6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD. 7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she [is] thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she [is] thy father's near kinswoman. 13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman. 14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine aunt. 15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she [is] thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness. 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness. 18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time]. 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed (child, infant) pass through [the fire] to Molech,(abortion) neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD. 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion. 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land spue (vomit) not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you. 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off (die) from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
The LORD GOD is dead serious about sexual deviancy. It is not only a physical killer that will end your life on earth, but eternal damnation in HELL FIRE.
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
[Rev 20:12-15 KJV] 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
AQmerica is vomiting out it's people. Sin, defiles, destroys the land. The earth was not created for a perverse inhabitants. The LORD GOD created man and womb-man.
Gen.1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
This is the Creator God's design for mankind: to be fruitful (have children), multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion, rulership, over the rest of God's creatures. This is the manufacturers label, blueprint, especially for us who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Usage of Marriage (Merriam Webster)
The definition of the word marriage—or, more accurately, the understanding of what the institution of marriage properly consists of—continues to be highly controversial. This is not an issue to be resolved by dictionaries. Ultimately, the controversy involves cultural traditions, religious beliefs, legal rulings, and ideas about fairness and basic human rights. The principal point of dispute has to do with marriage between two people of the same sex, often referred to as same-sex marriage or gay marriage. Same-sex marriages are now recognized by law in a growing number of countries and were legally validated throughout the U.S. by the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. In many other parts of the world, marriage continues to be allowed only between men and women. The definition of marriage shown here is intentionally broad enough to encompass the different types of marriage that are currently recognized in varying cultures, places, religions, and systems of law.
Here is the definition of marriage since it has become law in AQmerica. As Christians we cannot in any way, shape or form, agree, believe, or practice such hateful behavior toward our Lord and Savior. Here is the LORD GOD'S definition on marriage:
Eph. 5:20-33 KJV
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church
THE MYSTERY OF THE GODHEAD, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE LOVE THE FATHER AND SON HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER, THE FATHER GIVING HIS SON AS A BLOOD SACRIFICE TO REDEEM MANKIND, THE SON WILLINGLY LAYING DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US, SO WE CAN ENJOY HIS FELLOWSHIP FOREVER. THIS IS GIVEN TO US HERE ON EARTH TO LIVE HOLY LIVES IN MARRIAGE, INDEED, A GREAT MYSTERY.
There is a good reason why pastors are to be the husband of one wife, and his children under his authority. 1Tim.3. As the shepherds of the church, their families must portray this mystery. Within the marriage union there is a natural God given bond between husband and wife. It is to be for a lifetime. The children are the fruit of this love bond and are to be under authority of the parents, the father, husband, in charge of his household. The parent / child relationship is a powerful bond. In hostage crises of children being taken by terrorists, many parents would trade places for their children, knowing they may die. Husbands also lay down their lives for their wives. This is the self sacrificing love, that God the Creator, gave to His creation within the bonds of holy matrimony.
The enemy, the devil, knows and understands this super natural bond. He hates this God given union in creation that mirrors the love within the Godhead. When I was a single man, I had no clue of this union, especially the father / mother sacrificial love for their children. Men and women that have never married, or had children, cannot know this bond. It is not enough to be raised with other siblings to experience this bond. The child must come out of you, your loins, your womb. When men go from women to women, fornicating and whoremongering, leaving children behind, not caring for them, this also breaks the father / child relationship. Divorce affects children in the worst way, for it breaks this holy bond in the most painful way. Many couples who divorce are the victims of dysfunctional families. Men and women who are sexual abusers, physical abusers, drug abusers, alcoholics, gangsters, homosexuals, pedophiles, with all the other fluid genders we have today, are the result of the Creators holy marriage bond being perverted, ignored and hated by the creatures He created.
AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS
[Mat 13:24-30 KJV] 24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
This is one of many parables the Lord gave concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. A parable is a picture story. He likens the heavenly kingdom to the farmer who planted good seed. Good seed is the wheat that is edible, produces fruit, multiplies. The tares are poisonous, their seeds are black.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g2215 Greek: zizanion
Tares: is a kind of darnel, the commonest of the four species, being the bearded, growing in the grain fields, as tall as wheat and barley, and resembling wheat in appearance. It was credited among the Jews with being degenerate wheat. The rabbis called it "bastard." The seeds are poisonous to man and herbivorous animals, producing sleepiness, nausea, convulsions and even death (they are harmless to poultry). The plants can be separated out, but the custom, as in the parable, is to leave the cleaning out till near the time of harvest, Mat 13:25-27, 29, 30, 36, 38, 40. The Lord describes the tares as "the sons of the evil one;" false teachings are indissociable ( cannot tell the difference ) from their propagandists. For the Lord's reference to the Kingdom see KINGDOM.
As they grew together, it was not discerned till maturity, when the black seed of the tares became visible. Then the sickle was put in for the harvest. The Lord is giving us understanding. The closer we come to the end of this world system, the more the evil ones appear. Secret occult societies were underground for fear of being discovered. Things like deviant sexual practices were not in the open. Today the evil one, Satan, is showing his hand. In time past as this evil was maturing, it was not easily visible. Now at the end of times when iniquity comes to its fullness, we witness an explosion of abominations we could not imagine. This means that the coming of our Lord is soon, the harvest of the ages is at hand.
Psa 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: ...
Mal 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Here is the Lord's interpretation of the parable
[Mat 13:36-43 KJV] 36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one]; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST THE TARES IN THE FIELD
When we hear of anti-abortion, our minds think of against abortion. However, when speaking of the anti-christ, its primary meaning is counterfeit or instead of Christ. Many have said, " I am Christ."
[Mat 24:3-5 KJV] 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Remember beloved, this was written in the 1st century. His disciples were eager to know what will be the tell-tale sign of his return and the end of the world. The Lord is very clear : For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. Throughout the centuries there have been men claiming that they are some "great one from God."
Acts 8:5-11
5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed [with them]: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city. 9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
( an adjective signifying "devoted to magical arts," is used as a noun, "a sorcerer," especially one who uses drugs, potions, spells, enchantments.)
[Act 13:6-12 KJV] 6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [was] Barjesus: 7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation ) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. 9 Then Saul, (who also [is called] Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, [thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. 12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
From ancient times, to the apostles, throughout the middle ages there is documented evidence of witchcraft and sorcery.
2018 - Royal Secrets - Sorcery Documentary https://youtu.be/6JZvZgj-hfU
Today we have (sorcery)². It is everywhere; in our movies, books, magazines and on public streets, and of course in our politics. The spirit of anti-christ has been at work since the time of Christ. The apostle John writes toward the close of the 1st century :
1Jo 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Please note the singular and plural use of anti-christ. This shows us that there have been many anti-christs throughout the centuries, but the final one called the son of perdition (destruction) has not yet been revealed.
[2Th 2:2-4 KJV] 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God...
[2Th 2:7-12 KJV] 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], (hinder, restrain) until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Here we see that there will be a man who will rule the earth, totally possessed by Satan, even as Judas was when he betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jhn 13:26
Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Jhn 13:27
And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
Jhn 13:30
He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.
Judas was also called the son of perdition.
Jhn 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition ; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Therefore the enemy that sowed the tares is the spirit of antichrist working in men.
Eph 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:...
Psa 28:3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psa 64:2
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:...
Psa 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:...
Psa 92:9
For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
SINNERS AND SINNERS : The abortion industry
Since the fall of Adam, all men have sinned. People will lie, cheat, steal, commit sexual sins. However, there are people in the world who purposely design evil upon others. They have set up philosophies, ideologies, religions for the express purpose of exercising control over nations. A young women finds herself pregnant, and gets an abortion. This is the sin of murder. Thou shalt not kill. She is responsible before God for her sin. Then there are the people who have conspired to make sure this young woman aborts her child. They have an eugenic philosophy to depopulate the earth, rid the world of the subhuman species (according to their thinking). Their agenda is to purposely lie, dissemble, twist the truth of the Lord's plan for marriage, children, decency and godliness. So they take positions in the governments of nations worldwide to ensure laws are passed that will cause this young woman to sin by killing her baby. Abortion mills are set up by design in the poorest minority areas to snare the unsuspecting subhumans. The young woman is the victim through cleverly designed deception, manipulation through code slogans and words. Reproductive rights; you have the right to fornicate. Feminist philosophies: If men can have sex whenever they want, so can you. Your career is first, forget marriage, motherhood, raising children. These are outdated, time wasting, silly religious nonsense. Get all the sexual pleasure you can. Baby, you deserve it. Their aim is to destroy marriage as it relates to God. What does the LORD GOD say to them who design the fall of others? https://youtu.be/L6iWD_CeDYQ
Isa 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Isa 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Isa 30:2
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! (land of bondage; Rev.11:8)
Man is created to reproduce. The LORD GOD has given mankind a sexual drive for this purpose. It is ironic how same sex marriage is celebrated by many who believe in evolution. How far would the human race be today if no children were born? Yet the governments of the world are pushing this unnatural selection. Satan knows how to manipulate, deceive mankind. He is the master of it.
[Jhn 8:43-45 KJV] 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
Through his evil council the father of lies has deceived the world
HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE
Where does this unnatural union come from? Who has brought about this marriage union from hell? Many believe that their same sex attraction is from the Lord. They exclaim, "God made me this way". Once I had a man open his Bible to show me that it is a sin for straight men to have sexual relations with other men, but for a Gay man this was normal and ordained of God!?
Lev 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
a thing that causes disgust or hatred.
"concrete abominations masquerading as hotels"
synonyms: atrocity, disgrace, horror, obscenity, outrage, curse, torment, evil, crime, monstrosity,
violation, bugbear, anathema, bane; bête noire
"in both wars, internment was an abomination"
a feeling of hatred.
"their abomination of indulgence"
synonyms: detestation, loathing, hatred, aversion, antipathy, revulsion, repugnance, abhorrence,
odium, execration, disgust, horror, hostility, disdain, contempt, distaste, dislike
The scriptures use hard words for this unnatural union. From Genesis to Revelation the word of God condemns this violation of SODOMY. Here are a few scriptures.
Gen 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Deu 32:32,33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Zep 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Luk 17:29
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
[1Ti 1:9-10 KJV] 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, (a male prostitute) for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;...
Heb 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
2Pe 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;...
Jde 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Rev 22:15
and sorcerers, and whoremongers, (a male prostitute) and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
[Rom 1:26-32 KJV] 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
This scripture in Romans 1, is the opening epistle for all of Paul's letters from Romans to Hebrews. Notice what the apostle of the Gentiles puts forth: lesbian and homosexual practices.
Let us examine Romans 1 more closely. When the scripture says " God gave them up to vile affections "
we must look at the previous verses.
[Rom 1:16-25 KJV] 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
The scripture asserts that man knows God. All the atheists combined throughout the centuries cannot stop Christianity. We who are chosen of God, know our calling. The Christians have been slaughtered, imprisoned, tortured, fed to wild beasts, hated by all nations, yet they continue to be martyred giving glory God.
God's invisible "things", His eternal power and Godhead are clearly seen. Though we don't see God, his creation shows who He is and that He exists.
Heb 11:3
¶Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Mathematics is a perfect science. Nothing plus nothing is always nothing: 0 + 0 = 0. Imagine nothingness, nothing exists, not one atom, absolute nothing. From this state of nothingness many believe that everything that exists, seen and unseen, just somehow made the heavens and the earth, and all living creatures including mankind. Billions of years of evolution is the key. However, there is no years for there is nothing but nothingness. So where does God come from?
everlasting;
עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm, o-lawm'; or עֹלָם ʻôlâm; from H5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always:—alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-)) ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare H5331, H5703.
Psa 106:48
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
Rev 1:11
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:...
Dan 7:9
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Rev 1:8
¶ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
There cannot be an eternity if there is no God. He in Himself is the ETERNAL ONE. He has always existed for He has no beginning or ending. We try to figure out man's origins from inside this universe. The LORD GOD is outside this universe which He created for us to live in.
2Co 12:2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Gen 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Amo 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
Amo 9:6
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
[Job 26:1-14 NKJV] 1 But Job answered and said: 2 "How have you helped [him who is] without power? [How] have you saved the arm [that has] no strength? 3 How have you counseled [one who has] no wisdom? And [how] have you declared sound advice to many? 4 To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you? 5 "The dead tremble, Those under the waters and those inhabiting them. 6 Sheol [is] naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering. 7 He stretches out the north over empty space; [He] hangs the earth on nothing. 8 He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it. 9 He covers the face of [His] throne, [And] spreads His cloud over it. 10 He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness. 11 The pillars of heaven tremble, And are astonished at His rebuke. 12 He stirs up the sea with His power, And by His understanding He breaks up the storm. 13 By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. 14 Indeed these [are] the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?"
The scriptures have many more such examples of God's creation. https://youtu.be/8_OC2t7mIWE
21 So that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,...
Here is God's indictment of mankind: NO EXCUSE. They had no thankfulness, no gratitude, couldn't care less even when all the evidence leads to God the Creator. The result is that they became fools (Grk. morons). The smarter they thought they were, the dumber they became. A heart and mind full of darkness and perversions. They have become their own God and gave the glory that belongs to the true God to themselves.
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Observe throughout the earth how idolatrous mankind is. From world religions to the science fiction of creation, mankind has become (superstition x moronity)2. Even the great scientists are reduced to self proclaiming baboons, reducing the glory of God's creation to an impossible theory of evolution. There is a saying, "you can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink". The same is true for the atheist / materialist. "You can lead an atheist to the evidence, but you can't make him think", Ray Comfort. Man has blinded himself to the obvious revelation of the 2 pillars of God's existence.
CONSCIENCE:
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.
CREATION: 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:...
THE FRUIT OF ATHEISTIC SCIENCE: ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY
We are now in the 21st century, 2019 A.D. Of all the noble pursuits mankind can give himself unto, he chooses abortion (infanticide) and / or homosexuality. These 2 pillars are the idolaters dream. By these 2 pillars of deception there has been more murder and destruction than all previous wars. It is estimated that over 1 billion babies have been murdered. https://youtu.be/lQybp-MkUc4
https://youtu.be/6mtQ1geeD_c very good : the terrible fraud in transgender medicine.
Why so much abortion? Since the fall of Adam sin has entered into the earth, mankind is naturally bent toward evil. Especially evil in the form of selfishness. When you think on a child, it's helplessness, innocence, how can a mother kill her own child? The history of infanticide has a very strong connection to the occult i.e. satanism. The Jews were commanded by the LORD not to practice the abominations of of the nations round about them. Many of them worshiped false gods offering human sacrifices. In turn these demon gods would offer fertility, fortune, prosperity. They would also offer sacrifice to appease him.
[Jdg 2:12-13 KJV] 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
As the Sun-god, Baal was worshipped under two aspects, beneficent and destructive. On the one hand he gave light and warmth to his worshippers; on the other hand the fierce heats of summer destroyed the vegetation he had himself brought into being. Hence, human victims were sacrificed to him in order to appease his anger in time of plague or other trouble, the victim being usually the first-born of the sacrificer and being burnt alive. In the Old Testament this is euphemistically termed "passing" the victim "through the fire" (2Ki 16:3; 21:6). The forms under which Baal was worshipped were necessarily as numerous as the communities which worshipped him. Each locality had its own Baal or divine "Lord" who frequently took his name from the city or place to which he belonged. Hence, there was a Baal-Zur, "Baal of Tyre"; Baal-hermon, "Baal of Hermon" (Jud 3:3); Baal-Lebanon, "Baal of Lebanon"; Baal-Tarz, "Baal of Tarsus." At other times the title was attached to the name of an individual god; thus we have Bel-Merodach, "the Lord Merodach" (or "Bel is Merodach") at Babylon, Baal-Melkarth at Tyre, Baal-gad (Jos 11:17) in the north of Palestine. Occasionally the second element was noun as in Baal-Shemaim, "lord of heaven," Baalzebub (2Ki 1:2), "Lord of flies," Baal-Hamman, usually interpreted "Lord of heat," but more probably "Lord of the sunpillar," the tutelary deity of Carthage. All these various forms of the Sun-god were collectively known as the Baalim or "Baals" who took their place by the side of the female Ashtaroth and Ashtrim. At Carthage the female consort of Baal was termed Pene-Baal, "the face" or "reflection of Baal."
Attributes of the Goddess:
In Babylonia and Assyria Ishtar was the goddess of love and war. An old Babylonian legend related how the descent of Ishtar into Hades in search of her dead husband, Tammuz, was followed by the cessation of marriage and birth in both earth and heaven, while the temples of the goddess at Nineveh and Arbela, around which the two cities afterward grew up, were dedicated to her as the goddess of war. As such she appeared to one of Assur-bani-pal's seers and encouraged the Assyrian king to march against Elam. The other goddesses of Babylonia, who were little more than reflections of the god, tended to merge into Ishtar who thus became a type of the female divinity, a personification of the productive principle in nature, and more especially the mother and creatress of mankind. The chief seat of the worship of Ishtar in Babylonia was Erech, where prostitution was practiced in her name, and she was served with immoral rites by bands of men and women. In Assyria, where the warlike side of the goddess was predominant, no such rites seem to have been practiced, and, instead, prophetesses were attached to her temples to whom she delivered oracles.
Ashtoreth as a Moon-Goddess:
In Canaan, Ashtoreth, as distinguished from the male Ashtar, dropped her warlike attributes, but in contradistinction to Asherah, whose name and cult had also been imported from Assyria, became, on the one hand, the colorless consort of Baal, and on the other hand, a moon-goddess. In Babylonia the moon was a god, but after the rise of the solar theology, when the larger number of the Babylonian gods were resolved into forms of the sun-god, their wives also became solar, Ishtar, "the daughter of Sin" the moon-god, remaining identified with the evening-star. In Canaan, however, when the solar theology had absorbed the older beliefs, Baal, passing into a sun-god and the goddess who stood at his side becoming a representative of the moon-the pale reflection, as it were, of the sun- -Ashtoreth came to be regarded as the consort of Baal and took the place of the solar goddesses of Babylonia.
What it all comes down to is that today's abortion, is yesterdays ancient Satanic human sacrifices. These abominable occult practices have never left the earth. In the beginning when the LORD created the heavens and the earth, there was already present an angelic creation.
THE FALL OF LUCIFER
[Isa 14:12-15 KJV] 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Sometime in eternity past the devil made insurrection against the LORD GOD. Like tyrants who take over legitimate governments, the devil made his rebellion against the LORD GOD. The scripture tells us that one third of the angels sided with Lucifer. Rev.12:4
What was it that caused Lucifer to want to be as the MOST HIGH. The answer is in Ez. chpt. 28.
[Eze 28:12-17 KJV] 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
It is this fallen angel, together with his criminal band of fallen angels that is behind the fall of America and the nations of the earth. As we near the end of human history the fruit of abortion and homosexuality is clearly visible. The devil cannot win, but he is allowed buy the LORD GOD to exist and practice his vile influence upon mankind. The LORD uses him to test the saints. This is seen all throughout the New and Old Testaments. In order for the LORD to have a holy, spotless, bride we must chose to love God out of our own free will. There can be no other way possible. Being forced to love some one is not true love. So by giving man and angels a free will to chose for themselves who they will serve, good and evil are played out in man's history. The reason evil exists is because of our God given ability to chose. Why man chooses evil so easily can be best understood by Satan's own fall and infecting our first two parents; Adam & eve. It is imperative that we grasp what happened at the fall. The stage was set, either man would obey God or be persuaded to disobey the LORD through the serpents temptation. What Adam and Eve would be deciding is the lesson mankind would have to learn the hard way; that created beings (even though made in the image of God), when given total volition to chose their own destiny, will always chose to serve themselves and what benefits them. Mankind is evil. This hard lesson must be learned first before man can live forever.
[Gen 3:21-24 KJV] 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
In this short scripture is the whole redemptive work of God concerning mankind. Before the fall, Adam and Eve had access to the Tree of Life. After the fall the way is barred. How can man put forth his hand to eat from the Tree of Life, eat and live forever when angels and a flaming sword guards it's way? The answer lies in the fact that man is powerless to redeem himself. This is self evident to the redeemed, but blindness to the rebellious. We read the LORD GOD made coats of skin to cover their shame of being naked. Here we read between the lines, but not outside of the realm of scripture. To obtain an animal skin one must kill and skin the beast. This means the shedding of Blood.
Lev 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Therefore the LORD himself saved Adam and Eve.
[Tit 3:5-7 KJV] 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
When the LORD Jesus comes back to set up his kingdom, puts down all rule and authority, then, and only then is the way to the Tree of Life once again open to mankind.
[1Co 15:22-26 KJV] 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death.
[Rev 22:1-2 KJV] 1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.
So, man will once again eat of the Tree of Life, but first he must go to the Tree of Calvary.