Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Adam to Noah

God created man in the likeness of Him. God created male and female in order for child birth to be possible and for God's likeness to fill the earth, they were called "man."

Following the birth of many men to the earth, and daughters born to them, men began to take the beautiful daughters for themselves. God saw this, and said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal."

Having seen the desire of man on the earth, the sheer wickedness, God began to grieve for creating man. The evil thoughts of the heart became a heavy concern and burden to God. God became filled with pain due to man's strong opposition to His Spirit.

Having seen the earth corrupted by evil and full violence, God decided to put an end to it all. Destruction became the mind of God and He instructed Noah to build an ark that would be a vessel to preserve what God desired.

God informed Noah that everything living on the earth would perish, but that He would establish a covenant with Him and spare his life. God told Noah to take two of every species and every type of food so that it would be stored for safekeeping and survival.

God's anger towards man's heart and rebellion to His Spirit was and is the reason for all of the chaos that we see today. By provoking God, mankind is without excuse. In the end when God fulfills His absolute promise to cleanse the earth of all the wickedness, man will not be able to say that God did not forewarn you. For in that very moment the evil will become obsolete and will disappear. God has mercy on those who seek His Spirit, and not the spirit that haunts the world through evil ideology in opposition to God's desire for mankind.

For there is a spirit at work in the hearts of man that is not of God. 

Ephesians 2:1-3 "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."


Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Cain And Abel

As Adam and Eve began to follow God's instruction in conceiving children in order to create a family, Eve became pregnant and gave birth to a son named Cain. Soon after the birth of Cain, Eve brought forth another son whom she named Abel.

Abel kept the flocks and Cain worked the soil. They worked outside most of the time and learned what it meant to plant and provide with the basic tools that God had given them.

Offerings soon began as an acknowledgment to God. Cain brought some fruits from the soil and Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked upon Abel with favor, but to Cain he did not. Cain became angry. Here we must acknowledge that the greatest of offerings to God is our writing and dialogue with Him. 

God said to Cain, "If you do what is right will you not be secure by Me? However, if you do not act according to God, sin is crouching at the door and it desires to have you. Your job on this earth is to master sin!"

Cain became angry and in his anger murdered his brother Abel. For this murder God took His blessing away from Cain and commanded that Cain would wander the earth as a man lost.

God then placed a mark on Cain in order that no man who found him would slay him. Note that this is the first place in the Bible where we are able to acknowledge God marking His chosen. For later in the Bible we see where false prophets have arisen and have marked mankind according to the ways of man, specifically the mark of the beast or the devil. The fact is that self mutilation is the work of Satan and very different than that of the sealing of God's servants by their toil and efforts in standing firm and remaining true to Jesus. Those that have stood firm in Jesus, the Son of God, have battle wounds from the sheer persecution and the battle that in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon. This directly applies to the Book of Revelation. 

The lesson to be learned from this chapter in Genesis is that our job on this earth is to master sin by conquering Satan along with all of the false prophets who appear in sheep's clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves. There is no greater priority for us than to act according to God, versus man. This is how the battle will be won. Have no regard for man, but in all ways seek God for direction. 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Fall Of Mankind

The serpent was more deceptive than any of the wild animals that God had created and decided to entice the woman in order to gain advantage over God's creation. The way in which he deceived the woman was by making her believe that she could become like God in knowing all things.

God forewarned the woman of what was to come, and told her that if she were to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil she would surely die. By the crafty scheme of the devil, the woman was enticed and deceived into believing that her eyes would be opened like God and she would know good and evil. 

You see, the fruit appeared to be good and was very pleasing to the eye, but the consequences were most severe, as God had forewarned her of what was to come. After being tempted and eating the fruit she gave some to her husband and he ate it. Therefore, the woman was responsible for misleading her husband in the same way that the serpent had mislead her.

The man and woman both realizing that they were naked hid from the Lord God as they heard Him walking in the garden in the cool of the day. 

After questioning both the man and woman as to whether or not they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God was informed by the man that the woman had given him fruit from the forbidden tree. 

The woman knowing her mistake, confessed to God. 

The Lord God then cursed the serpent and said that because you have done this, cursed are you for all the rest of your days. You will crawl on your belly and eat the dust all the days of your life. 

God then separated the offspring of the woman from the offspring of the serpent. For this is the beginning of the division that would separate the children of God from the children of the devil.

God commanded that the woman would bear children and that her husband would be the guide for her all the days of her life.

To Adam God said that for his mistake in eating from the tree, and listening to the woman who had been deceived, he would need to work in order to provide food for both he and his wife. For from dust man had been created and to dust he would eventually return, as a consequence for eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Adam then gave the name Eve to his wife, who would be the mother of the human race to come. 

For both Adam and Eve, God commanded that they were not to eat from the tree of life, which would give them eternal life. 

The Lord God cast man out of the Garden of Eden to work and to provide food for he and his wife on his own with what God had given him. 

After God drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. The flaming sword is that which holds the power of God to destroy all evil and to allow only those who choose God to obtain eternal life by the Holy Spirit and the Tree of Life, Jesus. 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Adam And Eve

The seventh and final day was the day that God chose to rest and to think about how He would set creation into action. 

After God completed His work, all life began to spring up from the earth.

The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground  (Symbolized by Jesus writing in the dirt) and the breath of life He breathed into the man in order to bring him to life. 

God made trees bearing all kinds of fruit for the garden in the east, in Eden, and there man was placed. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 

The Lord God took man and placed him in the garden to take care of it. The Lord also commanded the man saying, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you shall surely die."

God then said that is was not good for man to be alone. He made man a helper. 

The man named all of the creatures of the earth which God had created. 

The Lord God then caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep He took one of the man's ribs and created woman. From the bone of man's bone woman came to be. 

For this reason, God intended for all men and women alike to seek out to become one in marriage, one flesh. 

One flesh in a holy bond between man and woman is symbolized by Jesus and His bride. Jesus, His bride, and the Spirit of God are one flesh. This is both the end of a former life and the beginning of a bond together as one flesh. For the three that testify to this are the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three are also symbolic of the union between man and woman. These three are symbolic of rebirth and conception to increase God's kingdom.

The man and woman were both naked and not ashamed. 

Before free will, caused by eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, man and woman had no  concerns or anxiety. As one flesh blessed by God they relied on God for all of their needs. There was no need of currency, which has become the center piece of the world that we now live in. 

There is and was no other God. 

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Creation Begins

God began His work when He created the heavens above and the earth below. For before God moved His finger to artistically design this world, the earth was without design and empty. The canvas was blank and darkness was all that could be seen. God's magnificent spirit became the art of the world. As God began to speak and to move His fingers in an artistic fashion, the design of the world began. 

The power of light was God's first thought, which would become the image of His Son. Light is the key to understanding God's mind.

The great expanse became the sky. 

God then put land in place as a foundation for His creation to come.

The great expanse of water became the sea. 

The seed bearing plants and fruit bearing trees were then created in order for there to be vegetation.

God then created lights that would govern the day and night. These lights would soon to come to serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years. The stars then became a key piece of the sky. 

God went on to create every winged bird and living creature. 

Then God used His image to create a man. God created a man to rule over all the fish, birds, livestock, over all land and over all the living creatures. 

God provided this man with seed bearing plants to allow for growth. God provided trees bearing fruit for man. God created all plants and trees for man and all living creatures of the earth. Every green plant and tree were to be for food for every living creature that has the breath of life in it. 

God's artistic design became the framework for the world. His work began using creativity. His mind bearing the understanding of trial and error. God created man in an attempt to achieve perfection. 

God began His creation with the body of Jesus in mind. Jesus was God's first thought. With His brilliance God created what we know today as the living breathing organism by which the world was intended to be controlled. This is how we understand that the body of Christ is the image of God. 

Monday, May 13, 2013

The End

1 Corinthians 15:24-28 "Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he has put everything under his feet. Now when it says that everything has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God Himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to Him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all."

2 Corinthians 4:2 "Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:4 "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."

2 Corinthians 5:1 "Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands."

In order for all the world to know what is taking place at this very moment, we must recognize that God is not of this world. God's temple is not of this world. Nor is God's Son.

When all authority and dominion is conquered and we recognize the power of God through His Son, recognize that the end is near.

2 Corinthians 5:5 "Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come."


Sunday, May 12, 2013

The Ancient Temple

Acts 17:24-28 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, 'We are His offspring.' "

The ancient temple is one of our greatest clues to where we may discern the true presence of God in a world that is full of Satan's illusions. By reaching out for the truth we discover that, just as it was in the days of Paul, the true temple is not one that has been built by the hands of men, but by God.