WORLD NEWS is replete with stories of awesome progress and material development, accompanied by appalling and still escalating evils inflicting indescribable suffering, frustration and death. Why?
I have enjoyed private conversations with many kings, presidents, prime ministers, the great and near great of industry and education. I have discussed with them national and world problems, personal, social, economic troubles. They are faced with crises, fears and worries completely beyond their human abilities to solve. There seem to be no solutions to the human dilemma.
Scientists are concerned.
You live in a world almost 6,000 years along on its course of history. You see the world as it is today at this advanced stage of civilization, with its systems of society.
It’s like coming in on a motion picture already far along on its sequence of events. Not understanding what led up to the present sequence of the story, you find yourself perplexed to understand what you are viewing. If we are to UNDERSTAND what is happening in this world – and WHY – we must backtrack 6,000 and more years. We must bring into view the origins, the causes, the events that went before and led up to the perplexities of our day. In no other way can we understand the present and look into the future.
We look back far into prehistory, at the beginning of life and all things.
There can be no understanding of the present without a right knowledge of origins. There is no greater cause to present-day perplexity than the false premise now holding universal acceptance in modern education – the theory of evolution.
Errors all too frequently arise from a false premise, carelessly assumed. The eyeglasses through which all modern thought is viewed is this theory of evolution. If you prefer to believe this illusion because it is presently the educational “IN” thing, you can have no rational understanding or explanation of the conditions of the world in which you live.
I have learned that basic original truth is revealed truth. Without it you are left devoid of the knowledge of reality. Evolution cannot explain the problems and frightening state of humanity. Without revealed truth you cannot understand any purpose for human life. Your very existence is without meaning.
So I give you here the only rational approach and comprehension of conditions as they exist.
In the very beginning, before all else, there existed two living Beings composed of Spirit, possessing supreme mind, intelligence and power, and of perfect righteous character. They are revealed in the biblical book of John, chapter one. One was named the Word (the spokesman – the revelatory thought). The other was named God. The Word ultimately – almost 2,000 years ago – was born as Jesus. The Word also was God – the second personage of the God family. As a human, Jesus was “God with us” – or God in human flesh, born of a virgin woman, but sired by God.
“All things” were made by him. In Ephesians 3:9 it is revealed that God created all things BY Jesus Christ.
The Word and God LIVED. What did they do? They created. How did they live – what was their “lifestyle”? They lived the way of their perfect character – the way of out-flowing LOVE. When Christ was baptized, God the Father said, “You are my be LOVED Son.” God LOVED the Word. And the Word LOVED God – obeyed him completely.
Two can’t walk together except they be agreed. They were in total agreement and cooperation. Also two can’t walk together in continuous peace except one be the head, or leader, in control. God was leader.
Their way of life produced perfect peace, cooperation, happiness, accomplishment. This WAY of life became a LAW. Law is a code of conduct, or relationship, between two or more. One might call the rules of a sports contest the “law” of the game. The presence of law requires a penalty for infraction. There can be no law without a penalty for its violation.
The very fact of law presupposes GOVERNMENT. Government is the administration and enforcement of law by one in authority over the law. This necessitates authoritative leadership – one in command.
When the only conscious life-Beings existed, God was leader – in authoritative command. Thus, even when the only conscious life-Beings were God and the Word, there was GOVERNMENT, with God in supreme command. Since they created other conscious thinking life-beings, this very fact of necessity put the GOVERNMENT of God over all creation, with God supreme ruler. Bear in mind the government of God is based on the LAW of God, which is the way of life of outflowing LOVE, cooperation, concern for the good of the governed. And this law of God produces peace, happiness, cooperation through obedience.
First, before all else, the God family created angels. Angels are spirit beings, immortal, with power of mind superior to human.
God creates in dual stages. Angel life was not completed until CHARACTER had been formed within them. Character may be defined as the ability of a conscious thinking entity to choose the way of life of outflowing LOVE – God’s law – and to will to live that way of life, even under outside contrary pressure or contrary self-desire. Once CHARACTER had been formed and lived, angels, composed of spirit, could never change.
Scriptures indicate a third of the angels were placed on the earth prior to final formation of their character.
Following the initial creation of angels, God created the physical UNIVERSE. Job 38 says plainly the earth was created after angels had been previously created. God placed a throne Of GOVERNMENT on the earth. Both Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 reveal the cherub Lucifer being placed on the throne of the earth. II Peter 2:4 reveals that angels SINNED. Lucifer was a super archangel. Lucifer had been trained in the administration of God’s government on the very throne of God in heaven. He was supremely beautiful, dazzling in brightness. Vanity seized him. Vanity is self-glory, self-centeredness, concern for self even to the point of hostility toward others. He became jealous, envious, resentful and hostile against God his Creator. He turned hostile to the law of God. He turned to a way of life of vanity, covetousness, envy, rivalry, competition, violence and destruction. And this hostile way of life is itself a LAW. It is the law of vanity, self-concern, “do your own thing,” rebel against the authority of God. That, then, became the basic LAW of the GOVERNMENT of Lucifer, whose name was changed to Satan the devil. The name Satan means “adversary.”
So the government of God on the earth had been replaced by the government of Satan. Angelic sin brought physical chaos, decay, ruin and darkness to the physical earth.
In Psalm 104:30 it is revealed that God sent forth his Spirit, and RENEWED the face of the earth for MAN.
Under Satan, darkness replaced light. Later the Word spoke, “Let there be light,” and physical light appeared on earth, dividing day from the darkness of night. In six 24-hour days God renewed the face of the earth for men, creating plant, fowl, fish and mammalian life. On the sixth day, God said, “Let us [God is speaking to the Word] make man in our image, after our likeness” (Gen. 1:26). The Eternal God (who became Jesus Christ some 4,000 years later) formed man of the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7), and upon breath of life entering, man became a living (not immortal) soul.
This MAN was given temporary physical existence, like animals. But man differed from animals, being in the form and shape of God. Also, as many scriptures reveal, man differed also in possessing MIND, although animals have brain precisely like human brain.
MAN was created to have a personal relationship with God – to be begotten as children of God, finally born into the GOD FAMILY.
Precisely at this point we come to the very root of the world in which you live today. This is where it all started. This is the point in time where today’s world was started on a course still continuing in our time. All that had gone before – the existence of the God family from eternity – the creation of angels – the creation of matter and the material universe, the presence of angels on the earth, the THRONE and GOVERNMENT placed on earth – the SIN of Lucifer and earth’s angels, the replacing of the GOVERNMENT OF GOD by that of Satan over the earth – all this was the backdrop to the creation of MAN on the earth.
What, then, was the divine PURPOSE for the creation of MAN on the earth?
The very first chapter in all the Bible reveals it. God – that is, God and the Word – created MAN in God’s own image, form and shape. The word image is used in Hebrews chapter one to designate spiritual CHARACTER.
God created the physical man in dual stages. First, he created one man – a male human. It was in God’s supreme PURPOSE that the man reproduce his kind. But the man was unable to do that – UNTIL God completed the human creation physically by the addition of a woman, made from the man. So God anesthetized the man and extracted a rib out of which he made the woman, named Eve. Then MAN’S physical creation was complete. Man could now reproduce his kind.
But MAN was not yet spiritually and mentally complete.
Man could not be made into the spiritual and character image of God without the power of MIND – thinking, reasoning, decision-making intelligence.
The modern science of brain research has demonstrated that the small differences in human brain and animal brain cannot explain the vastly superior functions and output of the human brain. The human brain can acquire knowledge of chemistry, geology, astronomy, physics – one might say all the vast intricacies of knowledge contained in a many-volumed encyclopedia. Man can think – he can put many parts of such knowledge together in a thinking and reasoning process. Man has decision-making ability.
Man has the faculty to use judgment and wisdom. Man has an appreciation of music, art and literature. Man formulates attitudes of love, cooperation, sympathy, concern for the good and welfare of others, or, on the other hand, attitudes of envy, jealousy, disgust, hatred, competition, strife, revenge and conspiracy for perpetrating evil. Animal brain is capable of none of these.
It is only by revealed knowledge that this tremendous difference can be known. And the written Word of God reveals it as the presence of human spirit within man that sparks, constrains and empowers the physical brain in humans with intellect.
But scientists, bound and held captive by the false concept of evolution, cannot admit the existence of any such spirit. Their minds are blinded.
But understand. The human spirit cannot see, hear, taste, smell or feel – yet all human knowledge enters the brain through one of those five channels. The human spirit cannot think. It is the brain that thinks, as the human spirit empowers it. It is the brain that makes decisions, formulates attitudes, develops character, either good or evil.
Now WHY did the Creator God put human spirit within MAN, while no such spirit is present in animals? The very PURPOSE being worked out here below is God’s supreme PURPOSE of REPRODUCING HIMSELF THROUGH MAN. Man was created from the ground of the earth, yet to have a relationship with his Maker. God is composed of Spirit. It is the divine PURPOSE that man, once godly character is developed within him, shall be changed from mortal and physical human to immortal and divine GOD.
God and the Word now form the GOD FAMILY. Man may be begotten, and then later born as divine GOD. It is the incredible human potential that each human may become a child of God, one of the very GOD FAMILY!
GOD is supreme perfect spiritual CHARACTER. Before Adam could even qualify to be begotten into the GOD family, he had to CHOOSE between the WAY of God and the WAY of Satan who still sat on the throne of the earth.
God placed Adam and Eve after creation in the beautiful garden of Eden. In its midst were two special symbolic trees of tremendous significance. Adam did not have immortal God-life, but God freely offered it to him through the tree of LIFE. Adam had to choose between the government of Satan with its self-centered way of life, and the government of GOD with its GOD-centered way of life. Each way of life was the basic LAW of a GOVERNMENT. God could have RESTORED the government of God on earth through Adam, had he chosen that WAY of ETERNAL LIFE. But Adam willingly disobeyed God. Adam took TO HIMSELF the knowledge – that is, the production of knowledge – of what is good and what is evil (Gen. 3).
Thus the first created human disbelieved God, disobeyed God, chose to go HIS OWN WAY, do his own thing. Adam did it willingly, but not apparently willfully. He had succumbed to the GOVERNMENT of Satan, choosing the LAW of that government, leading automatically into attitudes of self-glory, coveting, competition, desire to GET rather than God’s way of GIVE.
All humanity came out of Adam and Eve. The present world was FOUNDED in them. The WORLD has ever since been HELD CAPTIVE BY SATAN!
But God the Father was to pay the ransom price and even yet bring his potential spiritual children back to him. Upon Adam’s sin, God closed off the tree of life, until the second Adam, Jesus Christ, should pay the ransom price.
Meanwhile, God set apart a 7,000-year period to complete his original SUPREME PURPOSE of reproducing himself through man. It was a MASTER PLAN for working out the PURPOSE here below.
For almost 6,000 years a civilization has developed, which we call the world. But it has been a world held captive. To this day Satan is still on that throne. But his time is almost up. A whole new world is about to break forth – a new civilization based on God’s law and his government. It will bring world peace, joy and prosperity. It will be established by the returning Jesus Christ, in this generation, at the close of 6,000 years of human experience. Satan will be removed from power, and humans will finally learn God’s way is best.
