Not gonna' pull any punches with this post. And I will not respond to follow ups about it. Take it or leave it.
To my Brethren and Sisters in Christ Jesus:
1. If you don't understand the beginning, you likely won't understand the end. I'm talking about the three separate earth ages written of in God's Word, specifically 2 Peter 3 for one example.
The 3 earth ages:
a. "the world that then was" = the old world, God's Perfect creation at Genesis 1:1. A time when Satan was perfect in his ways, following God, no death, no sin. God had not created man in the flesh yet. Between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there is a gap that no one except God knows the amount of time that passed.
Sometime between Gen.1:1 and 1:2 Satan rebelled against God in coveting His throne. Then the earth lay in a flooded destroyed state at Gen.1:2, and God is moving the waters that are overspread upon the whole earth, creating today's sky atmosphere around the earth, and then moving the waters left on the earth around until the dry land appears. That land was there all the time from Gen.1:2, for He originally created it back in the beginning at Genesis 1:1.
Jeremiah 4:23-28 reveals more about that time of the old world when God destroyed the surface of this earth with a flood the first time, and that was way... before the time of Noah. So this is not about the flood of Noah's day. The flood of Noah's day was actually a 2nd flood God had brought upon this ancient earth, long after He had created Adam in the flesh.
Peter in 2 Peter 3:5-6 tells us this 1st world earth age was of old, with the earth standing out of the water and in the water. That was about the waters upon the earth which God brought to end that old world. Men's traditions keep teaching instead that the whole Genesis 1 chapter is about the creation of this present earth age of today.
So what happened to cause our Heavenly Father to destroy that 1st world earth age?
Satan's rebellion, that's what. Satan said that he would sit in God's Place, in the sides of the North. And that he would be like GOD, and sit over the congregation! (Isaiah 14).
SIN entered in. The very first actual SIN, ever, was done by Satan in that old world when he coveted God's Throne. That is also when Satan and those of his angels that rebelled with him, were judged and sentenced to perish in the future "lake of fire" (Matthew 25:41). In that first world earth age is when 'death' was assigned to Satan, and is why the title "son of perdition" actually applies to him mainly.
In the parables of Ezekiel 28, God reveals that Satan originally was perfect in his ways, until iniquity was found in him. It was Satan's job to guard God's Throne. Satan was at God's Altar, serving Him originally. That never happened during this present world earth age. It happened in the old world, prior to Genesis 1:2, but after Genesis 1:1. We do not know how long a time there was between God's original creation at Gen.1:1 and the destruction by a flood at Gen.1:2.
It is very, very, very important to understand this about the time of Satan's original rebellion in that 1st world earth age when God originally made His creation perfect, and not in a state of vanity like it's in today. If you don't understand that event, and why He ended that first world, then you won't understand what is coming at the very end of this 2nd world in our near future.
b. "the heavens and the earth, which are now" = this 2nd earth age that began right after Gen.1:2.
This is the present earth age we are still in, and it began at Genesis 1:2. This is not God's original perfect creation that He created at Genesis 1:1.
Apostle Paul in Romans 8 even reveals it's not, as he shows how God placed today's creation in bondage to vanity, and that it seeks a release from that bondage along with the manifestation of the sons of God. Our Heavenly Father simply did not create the earth in bondage to vanity in the beginning. He created a Perfect earth in the beginning at Genesis 1:1 (in Isaiah 45:18, God said He did not create the earth in vain, the same Hebrew word tohu translated to "without form" in Genesis 1:2). His Garden of Eden was here on earth in that time of the old world, even His River of the waters of life flowing out from Eden to feed four other rivers upon the earth then (per Genesis 2). (The parables in Ezekiel 28 and Ezekiel 31 symbolically pointing to Satan reveal God's Eden on earth in that old world before Satan rebelled when he was exalted over all the trees in God's Eden. God's Garden of Eden would remain upon this earth until Adam and Eve sinned.
God's creation today most think is how it has always been, but that's simply not true per all the fossil remains that have been found (even tropical fossils of animal and plant life found at the earth's Poles!). The reality for today's world, is that nothing is actually perfect, everything is in a constant state of degradation and imperfection and dies. There's rebirth, sure, but that can't be compared to the coming glory of the world to come written of in God's Word. Again in the Book of Romans, Apostle Paul reveals clearly our flesh imperfections and the ordained end for this flesh world of today. This present earth age is to be destroyed by fire, Peter says in 2 Peter 3:10-13.
The contrast to God's future new heavens and a new earth even shows then meat-eating animals like bears are not going to attack each other, but will graze. Sorry, Wild Kingdom TV shows (see Isaiah 11:6-10).
Who has ever seen a tree bearing its fruit all year round with its fruit never being consumed? And God's River shown to return per Ezekiel 47 in the future reveals it will flow out from the Millennium sanctuary on earth, and whatever waters on earth it contacts, those waters will be healed! Who has ever seen something like that on earth during this present world? And Revelation 21 shows in the future world there will be no more sea? Yeah, God's Word says that! Check it out! Where's all that water gonna' go, because this earth today is mostly covered with water!
Many don't understand this, but for the end of this present world earth age, our time, Satan is coming back to this earth, literally, to try and setup another beast kingdom like he rebelled with in the 1st earth age, when he first coveted God's Throne in wanting to be God. So do you recall the warning Apostle Paul gave in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 about that? That's who that "man of sin" is going to be, in Jerusalem, exalting himself as God, in the temple of God, and over all that is even called God, or that is worshiped! That covers ALL forms of worship on this earth!
This is why it is so important to grasp what happened in that 1st world earth age with Satan's original rebellion in wanting to be The GOD. That event caused God to destroy that old world, and before the foundation of this world, ordain the coming of His Son Jesus Christ in the flesh to die on the cross for the remission of sins of those who believe. For those who don't understand these events, Satan's return to this earth, in person, playing Messiah in Jerusalem, working great signs and wonders, may deceive you into thinking he is God. So understand why God destroyed that old world, and then you may begin to understand why He is going to allow Satan to come to earth with his angels to test us for the coming great tribulation (Revelation 12:7-17).
To my Brethren and Sisters in Christ Jesus:
1. If you don't understand the beginning, you likely won't understand the end. I'm talking about the three separate earth ages written of in God's Word, specifically 2 Peter 3 for one example.
The 3 earth ages:
a. "the world that then was" = the old world, God's Perfect creation at Genesis 1:1. A time when Satan was perfect in his ways, following God, no death, no sin. God had not created man in the flesh yet. Between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there is a gap that no one except God knows the amount of time that passed.
Sometime between Gen.1:1 and 1:2 Satan rebelled against God in coveting His throne. Then the earth lay in a flooded destroyed state at Gen.1:2, and God is moving the waters that are overspread upon the whole earth, creating today's sky atmosphere around the earth, and then moving the waters left on the earth around until the dry land appears. That land was there all the time from Gen.1:2, for He originally created it back in the beginning at Genesis 1:1.
Jeremiah 4:23-28 reveals more about that time of the old world when God destroyed the surface of this earth with a flood the first time, and that was way... before the time of Noah. So this is not about the flood of Noah's day. The flood of Noah's day was actually a 2nd flood God had brought upon this ancient earth, long after He had created Adam in the flesh.
Peter in 2 Peter 3:5-6 tells us this 1st world earth age was of old, with the earth standing out of the water and in the water. That was about the waters upon the earth which God brought to end that old world. Men's traditions keep teaching instead that the whole Genesis 1 chapter is about the creation of this present earth age of today.
So what happened to cause our Heavenly Father to destroy that 1st world earth age?
Satan's rebellion, that's what. Satan said that he would sit in God's Place, in the sides of the North. And that he would be like GOD, and sit over the congregation! (Isaiah 14).
SIN entered in. The very first actual SIN, ever, was done by Satan in that old world when he coveted God's Throne. That is also when Satan and those of his angels that rebelled with him, were judged and sentenced to perish in the future "lake of fire" (Matthew 25:41). In that first world earth age is when 'death' was assigned to Satan, and is why the title "son of perdition" actually applies to him mainly.
In the parables of Ezekiel 28, God reveals that Satan originally was perfect in his ways, until iniquity was found in him. It was Satan's job to guard God's Throne. Satan was at God's Altar, serving Him originally. That never happened during this present world earth age. It happened in the old world, prior to Genesis 1:2, but after Genesis 1:1. We do not know how long a time there was between God's original creation at Gen.1:1 and the destruction by a flood at Gen.1:2.
It is very, very, very important to understand this about the time of Satan's original rebellion in that 1st world earth age when God originally made His creation perfect, and not in a state of vanity like it's in today. If you don't understand that event, and why He ended that first world, then you won't understand what is coming at the very end of this 2nd world in our near future.
b. "the heavens and the earth, which are now" = this 2nd earth age that began right after Gen.1:2.
This is the present earth age we are still in, and it began at Genesis 1:2. This is not God's original perfect creation that He created at Genesis 1:1.
Apostle Paul in Romans 8 even reveals it's not, as he shows how God placed today's creation in bondage to vanity, and that it seeks a release from that bondage along with the manifestation of the sons of God. Our Heavenly Father simply did not create the earth in bondage to vanity in the beginning. He created a Perfect earth in the beginning at Genesis 1:1 (in Isaiah 45:18, God said He did not create the earth in vain, the same Hebrew word tohu translated to "without form" in Genesis 1:2). His Garden of Eden was here on earth in that time of the old world, even His River of the waters of life flowing out from Eden to feed four other rivers upon the earth then (per Genesis 2). (The parables in Ezekiel 28 and Ezekiel 31 symbolically pointing to Satan reveal God's Eden on earth in that old world before Satan rebelled when he was exalted over all the trees in God's Eden. God's Garden of Eden would remain upon this earth until Adam and Eve sinned.
God's creation today most think is how it has always been, but that's simply not true per all the fossil remains that have been found (even tropical fossils of animal and plant life found at the earth's Poles!). The reality for today's world, is that nothing is actually perfect, everything is in a constant state of degradation and imperfection and dies. There's rebirth, sure, but that can't be compared to the coming glory of the world to come written of in God's Word. Again in the Book of Romans, Apostle Paul reveals clearly our flesh imperfections and the ordained end for this flesh world of today. This present earth age is to be destroyed by fire, Peter says in 2 Peter 3:10-13.
The contrast to God's future new heavens and a new earth even shows then meat-eating animals like bears are not going to attack each other, but will graze. Sorry, Wild Kingdom TV shows (see Isaiah 11:6-10).
Who has ever seen a tree bearing its fruit all year round with its fruit never being consumed? And God's River shown to return per Ezekiel 47 in the future reveals it will flow out from the Millennium sanctuary on earth, and whatever waters on earth it contacts, those waters will be healed! Who has ever seen something like that on earth during this present world? And Revelation 21 shows in the future world there will be no more sea? Yeah, God's Word says that! Check it out! Where's all that water gonna' go, because this earth today is mostly covered with water!
Many don't understand this, but for the end of this present world earth age, our time, Satan is coming back to this earth, literally, to try and setup another beast kingdom like he rebelled with in the 1st earth age, when he first coveted God's Throne in wanting to be God. So do you recall the warning Apostle Paul gave in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 about that? That's who that "man of sin" is going to be, in Jerusalem, exalting himself as God, in the temple of God, and over all that is even called God, or that is worshiped! That covers ALL forms of worship on this earth!
This is why it is so important to grasp what happened in that 1st world earth age with Satan's original rebellion in wanting to be The GOD. That event caused God to destroy that old world, and before the foundation of this world, ordain the coming of His Son Jesus Christ in the flesh to die on the cross for the remission of sins of those who believe. For those who don't understand these events, Satan's return to this earth, in person, playing Messiah in Jerusalem, working great signs and wonders, may deceive you into thinking he is God. So understand why God destroyed that old world, and then you may begin to understand why He is going to allow Satan to come to earth with his angels to test us for the coming great tribulation (Revelation 12:7-17).
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