Pt. 2   

 

 

    Most Bible Christians believe that the devil was once a mighty angel who always stood in God's presence until he rebelled, and was thrown out of heaven taking a third of the angels with him. This is deception, for Jesus said,

that the devil was a murderer from the beginning. John 8:44. And that there was no truth in him. So he was the devil from the beginning.

 

    Nowhere in the word do we find where the devil ever said that he would be like the Most High. What the devil said, when God let him test Adam, was, "You can be like the Most High, if you will eat of this fruit." The idea that Satan

(adversary) tried to be like the Most High came from tradition. He was created a devil, and he knows he could never be like God.

 

    Isa.14.6: "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble." Adam is that man. Who is the man that brought the natural creation under the curse? Whom did God hold personally accountable? Not Satan. God said to Adam in Gen. 3:17, "Cursed is the ground for your sake." ...Thy sake. Adam...it's all because of you, and your disobedience! Therefore Creation continues to groan right up to this present day because of Adam--waiting for the unveiling of the sons of God who will deliver it. Rom. 8:19-23.

 

(Beloved, we got some really great feed-back from 3 or 4 good scholars on Pt.1, and want to get their response in where applicable, so stay with me, for you will want to read their findings and insight--it's beautiful).

 

    It was Adam man who caused the earth to tremble. It will be man conformed to the image of Christ and empowered into the fullness of His allness, who is to deliver creation from her aionian times of Adamic bondage.

Isa. 14:16 does not describe Satan because Satan is not a man, but the Bible describes him as a spirit being.  "The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience." Eph.2:2. And "The prince of this world" etc.  Some remove these scripture from their book, trying

to ignore it.

 

    In Ezekiel 28: 12-19, we find a companion portion of scripture which tradition uses along with Isa. 14 to support the Lucifer/Satan concept. Ezek.28:15 states, "You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you." The devil was never perfect according

to Jesus. Jesus said of Satan in John 8:44 that he (the devil), was a murderer

from the beginning. Is it possible to be a murderer from one's beginning and at the same time be perfect from the day that thou wast created? K.J. vs. The Greek word for beginning here is arche and means commencement or first estate.

    Someone might reason that from the beginning means before Adam, that Satan was not created evil, but that he became evil after he was created. That is the traditional concept we need to avoid. For who can show when Satan became evil after he was created? Can anyone?

 

    The Genesis account of creation states that the Lord God made the serpent subtle. In 1 John 3:8 and John 8:44, we understand that he was a murderer and a sinner from the beginning. It seems obvious that this can only mean that Satan was a murderer and sinner from the time God made him subtle.

    Genesis 3: 1 states, "The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field that God made." Do we see that God MADE the serpent SUBTLE? He made him what he is from the beginning.

 

    The word translated subtle in the Hebrew is arumm which means cunning.

Strong's Concordance says that the word is used in a bad sense. Satan's subtle nature is revealed in Genesis 3:1-5 as he tries to twist God's intentions

from their true meaning.

 

    The serpent implies to Eve that God did not have his best interest at heart.

Notice how he methodically questions God's word: "Has God said?" Then he twisted God's covenant warning: "You shall not surely die." (But God said he would). This is an example of what subtle means, and the Bible says that God made the serpent that way from the beginning. I emphasize this point so that when we get into the study of the purpose of evil in the world, we will have a solid foundation on which to build.

 

    Ezek. 28:15 "You was perfect in your ways from the day that you was created, till iniquity was found in you."  Can we see that the one who was perfect and went bad was Adam? Satan was evil from his beginning.

 

    Ezek. 28:2. "Yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God..." Again, we see the reference to a man. One who lifted his heart in pride and rebelled, accurately describes Adam.

 

    Adam was not deceived into rejecting God's covenant. He rebelled against a clear order or mandate from God. 1 Tim. 2:14 tells us that it was Eve, the woman, who was deceived by the serpent/Satan, NOT ADAM.

 

    Ezek.28:3. "Behold, you are wiser than Daniel (another man). It was Adam,

the man, made in the image and likeness of deity, who was wiser than Daniel, not Satan, a spirit. Eph. 2: 2, 6: 11, 12.

 

    Satan is a deceiver but that does not mean he has a great measure of wisdom. He crucified the Son of God.

 

    Ezek. 28: 8. "They shall bring you down to the pit. Verse 10, "You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised." Adam was spiritually brought down to the pit first. Some 930 years later he died physically.

 

    Ezek.28:13a. "You have been in Eden, the garden of God, every precious stone was your covering" and it goes on to name those precious stones. Study these and you find the revealing of an interesting truth that describes a "nature within."

    Here we have a picture of the glory of Adam before he transgressed God's

word to him. This divine glory was his covering. In contrast, when Satan was in Eden, he was referred to as a serpent, even as the last book of the Bible (Revelation) refers to him repeatedly as "dragon, serpent, called the devil, and Satan. Not a literal creature with beast features, but what ever form he takes (11 Cor. 11:13-15.

 

    Ezek. 28:13b, This verse mentions "the workmanship of your tambourines

(Hebrew -topf, tabret K.J. timbrel, in Strongs # 8596), and your timbrels, was prepared in you in the day that you was created."

 

    Did you notice that, "Prepared in you...not for you"? This relates that Adam

man was created with a musical ability that man has not had since the fall. Music that we are cognizant of today does not compare to the music and praise of the Garden. During those times of fellowship and communion Adam had with Father God, I see that he sang praises to Father with such perfection as we have not yet been conscious of.

 

    Beloved, you see, the tabret (equivalent to our tambourine), and pipes-K.J.

(meaning the organ and other reed instruments) was created not  (for Adam,

but "in" him." He did not have to carry his instruments and soundtracks around. He was his own one man orchestra. (That's Adam, not Satan!) God our Father is restoring us to that, and beyond what Adam lost. Can you imagine opening your mouth and the "Unfinished Symphony" comes out finished? We are in restoration times, and you are to sing the song of the Father and Lamb with your built-in musical instruments!

 

    Ezek. 28:16, "I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God." This is exactly what happened to Adam in Genesis 3:23, 24. This is a brief and graphic account of the Adam of Genesis, the light bearer, son-of-the-morning, the Lucifer who is described in Isa. 14, and Ez. 28.

 

             Now we will stay on the same road, but in a different direction about the adversary (Satan) and the purpose of evil in the world.

 

    "Behold I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy."  Isaiah 54:16. God says that He created the waster to destroy...

Hummm.

    In John 10:10, Jesus says, "The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly."

 

    Who is the thief here? He is the adversary of the Gospel. Didn't God create

the thief? Evil is a created being, and a devil. A holy God created an evil devil. For some reason in God's wisdom, He needed a tempter, an enemy, an opposing force who would give the acid test to Adam and humanity. Can

we see that without adversity mankind's will would never be challenged? And

that is important to God our Father. I know that some believe that the carnal mind is the serpent, the adversary. And I used to go in that direction, but when confronted with a person with five personalities, what could I say? Jesus exorcised those who were "possessed" of such. The carnal mind?? When

we experience the presence of this kind of evil, the sensory concept is not too

convincing. It is psychology, and psychology can only deal with the mind. It can not deal with the spirit.

    Through adversity we are given opportunity to overcome and mature as sons of God, and reign with Christ Jesus. Jesus said, "To him that overcomes will I give to sit with me in my throne, even as I overcame and sit with my Father in his throne."

 

    Adam,  representing the whole of creation, was told to take the world and take dominion over creation; The Garden of Eden was not just a place they lived in, the Garden was in them. Adam was to keep his Garden, but he didn't

keep it. He lost it. It is regained in Christ. The Garden of Eden was only the

starting point of the conquest.

 

    There is a law which has been adopted by our most reputable Bible teachers, it is called the law-of-first-mention. This means that once a law in scripture has been introduced that we can expect to follow it to its fulfillment.

Now, according to that law or principle, Adam, or mankind, will still have to subdue and take dominion over creation. He failed to do that in the beginning

of his journey in the Garden when he lost his innocence. Now is growing up time.

    We can understand the adversary's desire to deceive God's people into believing that after they are born from above they are going to be taken out of the world in a so called Rapture.  Job tells us that, "The deceived and the deceiver are his"...God's. Ch.12:16. The adversary only exists and grows on the slippery foundation of deceit, and has from his beginning.

 

    Jesus the pattern Son, in His humanity, perfect in all His ways, was tempted by the same devil that tempted Eve, who then led Adam to disobey. He overcame and He is our pattern.

    It is important that we understand evil was not something that just happened while God was not looking, and that he had a blind side, and that

it didn't just slip up on Him. God had a deliberate purpose in creating the devil

from the beginning, who was a liar, a murderer, a deceiver and evil. Satan is

God's tool to accomplish and fulfill His purpose and this is clear from Isaiah 54:16.

    This puppy of God's is on a leash, and is totally under God's control. Look at Job, he gave God credit for all that happened to him. We consider him our enemy, but he is God's tool to accomplish and fulfill His highest purpose in and for His creation, MAN.

 

    "I form the light, I create darkness, I make peace; I create evil." Isa.45:7.

 

    "I kill, and I make alive, I wound, and I heal." Deut.32:39.

 

    I know a pastor in Oregon who believes that there was two God's in the Old

Testament. And all the evil spoken of was the evil god. He prophesied all the

evil spoken by Moses, and the prophets. He teaches that our God of love is

not the one who brought judgment on people.                                           Personally I don't back this theory of two opposing forces. There is only One power, and He is my and your holy Father of love, and He guides and reigns in our hearts. And there is nothing out of His control. Nothing was out of control in the Garden, nor has there been since. When we identify with Christ

in His death, the enemy doesn't operate in us anymore. "In time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience."

Eph. 2:2.

    Beloved, that spirit was defanged at Calvary, and his only tool is deception

that he puts in the mind. In Gen.3:14, God told the serpent, "Dust you shall eat all the days of your life."  We know that actual serpents don't eat dust,

but the serpent that God talked to, his meat is the carnal mind of man, for man

is from the dust, and returns to dust. Gen.3:19. So the serpent is the principle of deception and carnality.

 

    Beloved, we are beginning to reach into the spiritual dimension beyond our

Foreparents of that millennium where sin is forever eradicated, and never shall raise its ugly head to mar Father's lovely creation again.

Stay with me, there is more.

Continued.

Love and hugs,

Scott.

Related article written by Elwin R. Roach: THE LUCIFER QUESTION

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