LUCIFER/ADAM

Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 to Satan. "How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations?" Isa. 14:12. The only time the term "Lucifer" is used in the Bible is this one verse of scripture. The Hebrew word in the original text is "heylel" and means brightness, morning star, shining star, shining one, day star and star of the morning. Take the word Lucifer and this passage would read: "How are you fallen from heaven, O day star (or shining one) son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations?

It is traced through history that Jerome, a fourth century church father, when translating the Bible into Latin changed the word "morning star" into Lucifer.

There is another who ascribes to Himself as the "Day Star" and as the "Morning Star." "To him that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him I will give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star (same expression)." Rev. 2.26, 28 "I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches, i am the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." Rev.22.16. "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you pay attention, to it as unto a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star (the shining one) arise in your hearts." 2 Peter 1:19.

In Genesis 2:8, 9, Besides the "tree of life" there was a tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden called the tree-of-the-knowledge of Good and evil. This one tree had two parts, good and evil. Who created the tree? God. He created the good part, and He created the evil part. It was clearly God's doing. There are those who have no problem accepting the fact that God created the good, but many are not willing to acknowledge that evil was created by Him also (even though it is written there).

"To the intent that now unto principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of go." (Underscore principalities and powers). Let's turn to Eph. 6: 11, 12 and see what these principalities and powers are. V- 11, "Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." V- 12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Job 1:1, "There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil." Job 1:6-12, "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves to the Lord, and Satan came also among them." V- 7,

"Then the Lord said unto Satan, where have you come from? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and walking up and down on it." V-8, The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that fears God and eschews evil? V-9, Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? V-10,

Have you not placed a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. V-11, But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face. V-12, The Lord said to Satan, Behold, all that he has in your power, only upon himself put not forth your hand. So, Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord."

through His instrument, Satan. And Satan was not on Job's case until God provoked him. Satan came up and the Lord said to him, "Where have you been?" Satan never spoke of Job until the Lord did. Satan wanted the Lord to think that Job only served Him because He had made him prosperous. But God knows who serves Him because they are prosperous and those who can be trusted even if they are stripped of all things. So God said, "He's yours Satan." God Himself would not touch him because it is not His nature to destroy.

God is a giver, and healer, but not a destroyer. And Satan is under God's control at all times. When it comes time to test someone, God needs the destroyer for destroying things like pride. Job was proud, and so was Adam.

God called Job prefect. Job was perfect in his generation. In the hour of his revelation and those he lived with in his day, he was perfect in that realm. It is possible to be perfect in our day, in our present realm of being (in our generation), and still not be perfect from an eternal standpoint. From God's point of view perfection is an 0n-going progressive principle. God said that Job was a righteous man, but it is evident that Job did not have humility. He was proud. So was Adam. Job was proud of his righteousness. Adam was

It is good to be righteous, but not in our own eyes. Job was righteous in his own eyes. And that is exactly what God set out to deal with in His friend Job. God used His tool, Satan, to do it. I read somewhere in Proverbs that God hates a proud spirit.

If we have pride in us or flesh in any form, and we refuse to recognize those things and judge ourselves, taking it to the cross, He resorts to using His "SMITH." What did God create the "Smith" for? His smith and all His little smiths will accomplish His purpose in His sons. When it was all over, the work that Satan did on Job actually produced in him something he had not had previously. He had no more Adam in him.

This is the work that the "waster" did in Job. And Job was "brought forth as gold." This is the thing that our Father said He was going to prove to the principalities and powers in heavenly places by the church. Eph. 3:10--the manifold wisdom of God.

Father wants out of us, the unfruitful works that we ourselves will not deal with and come to the cross with. It is that which me from Adam that sins, "that which is born of God cannot sin."

The greater part of Paul's writings to believers has to do with putting off the flesh man, and putting on the spirit man. This has to do with walking in the Spirit and not fulfilling the lust of the flesh. In light of Paul's exhortation, it is obvious that born again believers still have problems with the dark nature.

The "god of this world" has painted on the canvass of the mind of man, his dark side, so man thinks of himself of no value. Your value is not equated on what you do, but who you are and what you are in Father's estimation. All not born from above are spirits in prison to the "god of this world." Those born from above are "spirits of just men made perfect." And that by the "blood of the Lamb," and "baptism into Christ." "He that has been baptized into Christ

Our Father God teaches by contrasts (by opposites): righteousness-unrighteousness; saints-sinners; good - bad, Jesus - Satan, sons of God-sons of the devil; Godly seed-serpent seed. Everything is contrast. There is a purpose in affliction and it is not just to suffer. It is seasonal. Every trial, temptation and sorrow have their purpose. it is pressure that builds character

Job was untried, untested and unproven, and Satan knew it. And in his trials Job discovered this truth: "But he knows the way that I take, when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:10. And our Father today

is teaching us the reality of sonship, and His sons are going to identify with Christ's sufferings. Sufferings come in many forms but, like Job, when we are tried we shall come forth as gold.

The "Last Adam" was Father's ultimate intention, and restoration of all things in Him. Christ is God's perfect design. Jesus Christ is Head of the "New Creation man." The New Creation man is many and yet One. Father is today maturing His "manchild" corporate deliverer, who knows who delivered them, and from whom they were delivered, and are conscious of where they are in the ascended life in and with Christ Jesus. The sons of God are today

Satan was the recipient of the first curse. Most believers have failed to see this, and that it did something to him. "And the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life." Gen. 3;14.

Serpent is identified in Rev. 12:9, as Satan. When this curse was spoken onto the Serpent he was lowered to a different position. When the Lord told the Serpent, "dust you shall eat," He was speaking of mankind, or flesh. God told Adam, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return." Vs. 19. That Adam (mankind) is the dust dimension into which Satan has been lowered and confined to. he does not inhabit inanimate objects, buildings, and haunt houses. That is the imaginations of carnal superstitions, and is unbiblical.

Myriad's of people live in the environment of dust, some without ceasing. dusty storms of lust, unforgiveness, bitterness, hate, pride, arguments, contention, rage-and guess who is right there eating it all up, manifesting himself through the flesh. Since man was evicted from Eden, Satan has been resident in unreedemed mankind. "Wherein in times 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 sons of disobedience." Eph.2:2.

What it boils down to is man became one with that spirit, and is alienated from God until he turns to Jesus Christ. Since Adam ate of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," in the midst of the garden, man has born the imprint of Satan, the "mark of the beast." This mark has been imprinted in mans mind and what he has set his hands to do.

"Jesus began to show his disciples, how that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, lord: this shall not be to you. But he turned, and said to Peter, get you behind me, Satan; you are an offense to me: for you know not the things that are of God, but those that are of men."

Jesus didn't call Peter "Satan" because he was a wicked man, but because Peter was thinking like men think. Then Jesus went on, saying, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself..." Vs. 24. All not denying themselves are not getting delivered, for human nature of flesh is espoused to the devil, and he thinks in the dimension of man. That is thinking like the devil.

"If you have bitter invyings and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. Because this wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, sensual, develish." James 3:14, 15.

Jesus spoke to His disciples at the last supper: "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?" John 6:70. Was Jesus talking to the devil? No! Just to men. Satan has his throne in the unreedemed nature of men, seated in the carnal mind, which is death. Satan seated himself there when Adam man ate the forbidden fruit of spiritual death in the Garden.

Mankind without Christ are not just under the influence of evil. Jesus spoke it as it actually was, He said, "You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44.

No trappings of this age will have any draw on Father's arising sons. They are guileless, and the devil has no part in them. Someone wrote, "No man that warreth entangleth himself in the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him." 2 Tim. 2:4

hope to send: "The Pastor, where did he come from?" Do you know? It is the history of "The Pastor" from the beginning of the church to now. Here is a hint, There Has Been A Cover-up.