Chapter 7: The Mystery of Iniquity
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The virus was a corkscrew affair, a skinny spiral with a tiny pod at one end. Highly contagious, it fell from an alien world and landed in Eden. Eve was infected first. Succumbing to its poison, a helpless sigh whisped from her throat, a wounded weep of death mingled with sweetness. Then cold her body convulsed, and collapsed to the earth in a fleshy heap.
Deadly, infectious, the virus began to replicate. The contagion spread quickly from Eve to her husband, and then to their children, as the Adamic race was plunged into physical and spiritual death.
Today this same malignant disease is still loose upon the earth. All mankind is infected and the mortality rate is 100%. It multiplies in the mind, then overwhelms the spirit. The infection is swift, lethal, the virus cunning and virulent, a concert of constant mutation ever surviving in ingenious modes of new expression.
The onset is void of symptoms, each young host feeling self-directed and in control of his destiny. Later indications are confusion, idolatry, immorality, failure, and aging.
The virus secretes a sugary anesthetic, an affection for the things of the world. Advanced cases appear increasingly numbed by the saccharine of temporal accomplishments. Death follows quickly, often accompanied by a sickening sweet delusion of self-satisfaction, and the spirit departs, rarely ever sensing the true purpose of its visit. This disease is “Evil,” and this is the Mystery of Iniquity.
From ancient times, the purpose of evil has been sought as an urgent serum. Discovery of a benevolent motive, hiding in its folds, might assuage the pain of earthly life, upholstering its rubble with comfort and meaning.
The doctors of divinity, convened in postmortem, have long tried to isolate the cause of Adam’s demise and to explain the epidemic of evil. Superstitions of every sort have been proffered, the most common being to blame the Devil, declaring that his purpose is contrary to his maker. Beyond that, many charge individual men, asserting they are the Devil’s tools.
But these lame excuses are incomplete, and demeaning to an all sovereign God. And still, there is no religious doctrine that has been able to synthesize a cure- because there is no cure for the working of God. And the profusion of theological fables has only further obscured his true purpose, in the Mystery of Iniquity. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root.
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There was a time when only the presence of God occupied the empty space where creation now resides. He appeared as an immense stream of elliptical plasma, a galactic swirl, adorned with momentary webs of cerulean iridescence. There he hovered in the dark stillness, a churning storm of incandescent power, the repository of every idea.
Then, all things existed only as dreams, an intangible animation, a coloring of creatures and objects yet to be. There, in the darkness, eons before time began, God the Ever-Living One pulsed in silent thought, boldly considering his next spectacle.
Look out on a starry night and peer into another realm. That great void between the stars is filled with an interstellar Supreme Being. This supernatural force is the creator and sustainer of all things, visible and secret. I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself. By his sagacious power he formed every physical and spirit entity in existence, and now they live to accomplish his pleasure. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
God is not
sanctimonious religion. He is not long robes and longer faces. He is
not solemn ceremonies, traditions, or theology. God is science and
fact. He is real. He is an extraterrestrial spirit being who exists as
the source of all energy. He dwells in your presence, his coddling
work surrounds you at this moment. All that you can perceive
materialized from the mind of God. Good and evil, success and failure,
life and death, they all declare his divine purpose. Finding this
purpose will reveal his cosmic plan, shatter your limitations, and
thrust you in to a utopia where God fills every atom in existence, and
every blink of daily life. For the invisible
things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and
Godhead.
The first words spoken at the dawn of time brought forth the creation of light. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. With this sweeping command, God established two opposing forces, darkness and light, installing them both in his universe and featuring them in harmonious balance. These two appear to be perpetual enemies, yet God chose to set all his ensuing creation into schemes of their alternating power. By his design, darkness and light cooperate to clothe the universe. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
But light is
the opposite of darkness, and darkness is the absence of light. Thus
one defines the other. Without a region of darkness, light would
escape detection, remaining inexpressible, unnoticed, and therefore
unappreciated. Both light and dark must exist before either can be
properly understood. Thus the Master sustains the darkness, to enable
your comprehension of light. For he maketh his
sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just
and on the unjust.
Besides its opposition to darkness, light itself is also composed of two contrasting forces that revolve in delicate synergy. Light exists and propagates by continuously transforming itself from electrical energy into magnetic energy, and then back again. This transformation occurs about 500,000,000,000,000 times each second. Each of these energies flash as a tiny wave, each wave manifesting perpendicular to the other. And yet these alternating, contrary motions, combine to speed light on its way at over 186,000 miles per second, by far the fastest thing in the universe. Thus light itself is two opposing energies that work in concert, to accomplish a mutual and wonderful goal. With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Delving still deeper, you find that both electrical and magnetic energies are each themselves composed of two opposing forces. They each contain a positive and negative polarity. Though plus and minus seem to be perpetual rivals, yet in the hand of God they cooperate in function and purpose, causing power to flow from one to the other, and back again in continuous amity.
In this design of cooperative contradictions, God hid the secret of his power and substance. Positive and negative join to make electricity. Electrical and magnetic energies combine to make light. Light and dark unite to cover the universe. So also, good and evil combine to make God- for his presence enfolds the constant interaction of these two opposing forces. Both these energies originate from within him, and work in unison to accomplish his purpose. I am the LORD, and there is none else. ... I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
God is the
creator of all good and all evil- these flow from his wisdom as
torrents to his creation. Both are essential to his plans. Every good
and evil spirit was created by God. He sustains every device of terror
and tranquillity. Every virtuous and malignant thought was first
fashioned in his mind. See now that I, even I,
am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound,
and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
On the grand
scale of God’s wisdom, evil is not counterproductive. It is not in
competition with God. It is not contrary to his wishes. What?
shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive
evil? Evil is a portion of God’s power, just as is good. The
LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the
LORD. Good and evil are opposite energies that function as a
unified force to accomplish the purpose of God. Yea,
the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day:
the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Evil is the force that illuminates the benevolence of good. Like darkness and light, they are mutually defined, with the understanding of one, being based on the other. Like opposite ends of a ruler, both must be known if you are to measure the distance that divides them. Thus you must first experience evil, if you are ever to comprehend the dimensions of good. Without a knowledge of evil, good will always be found thoughtlessly strewn on the floor of ingratitude, as an ineffable, unrecognized blessing.
Good and evil are thus tutors for your education, and their mastery is essential if you are ever to comprehend the totality of God, for he is composed of both. If you knew only good and nothing more, you would be excluded from the deepest fellowship with your Heavenly Father, for his depth would always elude you. If you are to know him intimately, you must have a personal, experiential knowledge of both good and evil. Thus evil is the progenitor of gratitude, the interpreter of good, and a prerequisite for entering a complete understanding of God.
Although
they appear to be in conflict, good & evil actually oscillate in
harmony, to propagate the love of God. Before any evil can be
expressed, it must first pass through the infinite layers of God’s
goodness. There it is tempered by his purpose and targeted to the
ultimate production of lovingkindness. Every evil ever allowed will
one day produce more of God’s love. Surely
the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou
restrain.
Like the negative terminal on a battery, evil represents a lack, or desperate need for God. As good flows into it, a spiritual current of love is created. Thus the opposite polarities of good & evil are both necessary to spark the creation of God’s love. Between these two opposing forces, the essence of deity is generated. Love ye your enemies and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
The love of God is like a whirling fire, a spinning vortex that is fueled by good and evil. When God allows an evil to be manifest, he creates a need. This need is like a deficit of love. God’s love then dispatches forgiveness to fill this need. When forgiveness encounters the face of evil and interacts with its hardened surface, the forgiveness is transformed into new love. This newly generated love satisfies the deficit and annuls the evil. The love then arcs back to God, completing a circuit of primal power. Evil demands forgiveness, which generates new love. Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Then the cycle begins again with renewed momentum. Evil is manifest. Love conceives and dispatches forgiveness. The forgiveness is transformed into new love, which counteracts the evil. The new love brings forth more forgiveness, and on it goes, the cycle spinning as a fiery tempest of self-perpetuating splendor.
Good and
evil thus form a reactor for the production of God’s love. And this
love is the substance of God. Love, agape-love, is not merely one of
God’s attributes. It is the sum total of his essence. It is the
material of which he is composed. God is love
(agape); and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God.
This is the
mysterious purpose, divine in inspiration and glorious in consequence,
that lurks in the heart of evil. Evil mandates the eventual birth of
God’s divine substance, in those who experience it. Without evil,
the process could never begin. No chastening
for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them
which are exercised thereby. When evil is allowed, God has
purposed to bring more of himself into being, inside those who are
trained by its pain, as they are spun into begotten agape-love. For
love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God.
God knew
this and one day conceived a plan to reveal himself fully to his
creation. All were to be educated by a global demonstration of evil. Which
things the angels desire to look into. This new instruction
would energize their appreciation of his goodness. By a guided tour
through his inner workings, they would gain a greater cognizance of
their maker. Their joy would be multiplied, and their gratitude
overflow. To the intent that now unto the
principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the
church the manifold wisdom of God.
Thus God
determined that all his creation should witness a display of evil, of
course on a scale in keeping with his spectacular nature. But some, he
knew, must be the object of the demonstration, as specimens in a lab.
Some must actually experience the evil firsthand, so that all the rest
of creation could look on and learn. It is
good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy
statutes.
Those
special creatures who would actually walk for a time in the
environment of evil would have to be chosen with care. For if they
pass through the electrodes of good and evil, the fire of God’s love
would ignite within each of them. They would in fact become new
reactors of love, just like their Heavenly Father, and nothing could
prevent this ultimate result. And the LORD God
said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.
These most
favored creatures would come to know God intimately, from the inside. I
will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. Partaking
of his secrets, they would ultimately exude the mysteries of his
power, and each would burst into an autonomous vortex of divine love. That
the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them. Becoming
this love, they would gain the glory that only the God of creation had
ever possessed. The glory which thou gavest me
I have given them.
After
completing an experience in good & evil, those so carefully chosen
and greatly honored of God, could never again be found to lack from
the fullness of God himself. They would irreversibly become what he
is. In love having been firmly rooted and
grounded ... in order that you may be filled up to the measure of all
the fulness of God. Ephesians 3:19 (Wuest).
These select
beings would enter an intimacy of fellowship with God that even he has
not known before. As thou, Father, art in me,
and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. With this
glorious purpose in mind, God set about to rain evil upon his
creation. Who hath declared this from ancient
time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there
is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me.
To begin the
experiment, God created the heavens and the earth. And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. Then he chose Lucifer, the archangel, and filled
his mind with iniquity. Lucifer was injected with the power of God’s
evil, and by this transformed into Satan. Behold,
I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that
bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the
waster to destroy.
For
ministers, Satan was given a contingent of angels. They were turned to
the folly of rebellion; their minds were bound in blackness, and their
desires twisted to destruction. Satan and his entourage were then
thrust down to the earth, to establish the Kingdom of Darkness. And
the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
With the making of Satan, all the knowledge of evil that was hidden in the mind of God, was loosed upon the creation. But this evil was carefully constrained to a single tiny speck in the cosmos. Evil was imprisoned on earth, the only planet with air. According to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
Earth was
made the celestial repository of wickedness, corruption, and
rebellion. Permeating the atmosphere, these evils were ingested by
everything that breathes, that all might come under their sway. Come,
behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the
earth. Earth thus became a unique habitat of iniquity; a place
where some of God’s creatures could go to experience things never
before imagined. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having
great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Planet earth
became the Kingdom of Darkness, tyrannically ruled by a demented
monarch. Power was given him over all kindreds,
and tongues, and nations. Accordingly, the rules of earth are
different. They are unlike any others in creation. Here, for a brief
time, evil will flourish. God’s light will be eclipsed by a furious
cloud of raging depravity. Malignancy will prey on good as a parasite
that kills its host. Disease and discord will course through the
veins, corrupting all flesh. The inhabitants of earth will be turned
to insanity, to feed on cravings for worthless trinkets. The
earth is given into the hand of the wicked. In this crazy
world, decay and death will reign supreme, for a time, the seemingly
invincible victors of every conflict. This is
your hour, and the power of darkness.
In this dismal
maze the Living God is forgotten, hidden, shrouded from view. His will
appears to be thwarted, his purposes maligned. His love seems to be
rejected, his deity trampled by pitiful defiance. And
he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name,
and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
The impious
creatures who roam the globe have grotesquely altered God’s visage,
preferring instead the deranged doctrines of their own making. I
also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon
them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did
not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes. The people of
earth have dismantled God’s character, corrupted his truth, and
deserted his plan. In their silly dementia they cackle, relegating God
to a groveling place as a beaten and humiliated loser. Me
it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Earth is an
environment of perfect evil. It is a terrarium of iniquity,
hand-crafted by a loving God. I form the
light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil. ... I have
made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
In all the
ages past, evil has never before been seen by any creature. But now,
according to God’s plan for eternal blessing, evil has been manifest
upon the earth. Like a celestial theater, earth is a stage where the
masque of good & evil is played out, while all the creation looks
on.
Bewildered,
the angelic realms peer into this quagmire to watch the unfolding
wisdom of God. The amazing sight is sickening and yet addictively
intriguing. They have never seen anything like this before. They have
never witnessed rebellion or disobedience. They are accustomed to God’s
directives being accomplished with lively devotion. Thy
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
But in spite
of appearances to the contrary, the reins of earthly evil are firm in
the grasp of God’s hand. The evil of
earth is like a little cone of shadow, surrounded and constrained by
the light of God’s glorious purpose. He has intended every tear and
purposed every pain. They are a wonderful schooling for the observing
angels of God, and the promise of eternal perfection for the
participants. Fear ye not, neither be afraid:
have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even
my witnesses.
After the earth was carefully prepared and turned to destruction, in the primordial days of old, God interviewed all his creatures, seeking some to become the principal players in the drama of good & evil. Knowing that these beings would be permanently altered by the experience, and enter into a state of deity, his wisdom chose carefully. Those he would send must be pristinely eligible for the highest possible destiny.
But
surveying the applicants from creation, God found nothing that could
meet his requirements. As with Adam in Genesis, there was no help meet
found for God. The LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam.
... But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
God thus
resolved to look inside himself, and there he chose a piece of his own
“rib.” The “rib” of God was a piece of his own structure,
closest to his heart. It had a specific function, and like your rib,
it was composed of many individual cells. And
he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and
the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and
brought her unto the man.
Symbolically, the “rib” of Genesis represents a group of spirits
called “Elohim.” They were taken out from the side of God, just as
Eve was taken out from Adam. This is now bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man.
Elohim
is one of several Hebrew words for “God,” and was translated as
such in the KJV more than 2,500 times. But in the Hebrew, the word Elohim
is both plural and feminine. This signifies that Elohim is something
more than simply “God.” The Elohim is a group of spirit
entities who possess feminine characteristics. The Elohim group
is the creative portion of God, just as a woman is the child-bearing
half of a man. Elohim gave birth to the stars. In
the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven and the earth.
The Elohim company of spirits has existed always with God. And just as Eve was given the feminine half of Adam’s genetics, so also the Elohim have been given the feminine half of God’s spiritual genetics.
The spirits
of Elohim were perfect for God’s sublime experiment on earth. These
he selected from within himself and sowed into bodies of earthly clay.
The Adamic people of earth are in fact, the spirits of Elohim made
flesh. Jesus answered them, Is it not written
in your law, I said, Ye are gods? This amazing fact was
confirmed by Jesus Christ in John 10:34, where he quoted Psalm 82:6. I
have said, Ye are gods (Elohim); and all of you are children of the
most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the
princes.
When humans
set about to make more humans, they always begin with tiny pieces of
themselves. They unite these pieces in a process of gestation, and
soon a new human appears.
So also with
God. God knew that a gestation in earthly good & evil would
reproduce his character and power, in those who experienced it.
Nothing in creation was eligible for this honor, and no created being
possessed any of God’s spiritual genetics.
Thus, as
with human reproduction, God decided to begin with a piece of himself.
He removed some of the individual spirits of Elohim from himself and
placed them into Adamic bodies. Beloved, now
are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. These
spirits will become his full-born offspring, and he is even now
developing them in a womb of good & evil on planet earth. As
thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do
grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not
the works of God who maketh all.
God is in
the business of producing a group of mature Sons, each conceived in
the image of their Father. Each will be a vortex of divine love, born
from the travail of earth. Thus saith the
LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come
concerning my sons.
In the ages
before time, the spirits of men dwelt with God as the Elohim. They had
awesome responsibility and were involved in all of God’s doings. A
glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
God’s wisdom has told of these ancient days. When
he appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by him, as one
brought up with him: and I [Wisdom] was daily his delight, rejoicing
always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and
my delights were with the sons of men (Adam).
The spirits
of men are not some random, short-order ready-mix, hastily dumped onto
the earth. They are not accidental, haphazard, or inept. The spirits
who come to earth as Adamites are well known of God and carefully
selected. All were trusted companions, proven in the ages past. And
all were equipped for ultimate victory before they arrived here. Who,
as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me,
since I appointed the ancient people?
The Elohim
spirits were chosen for the grandest adventure ever conceived. And at
the announcement of their selection, they gave way to triumphal shouts
of euphoria, as athletes who had just been named for the interstellar
Olympics. Where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding ... When
the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for
joy?
In those
heady days of fearless excitement, when the brassy courage of youth
spoke louder than experience, God designed the happenstances of your
earthly visit. Thine eyes did see my
substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were
written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was
none of them.
In his
workshop, before the first sunrise, you met with God and discussed
your impending journey. He described the terrors of the unexplored
depths that awaited you, and a result of Elysian magnificence. That
the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works,
but of him that calleth. It was then that you were selected for
an ultimate destiny of inconceivable glory. According
as he made choice of us, in him, before the founding of a world, that
we might be holy and blameless in his presence; in love marking us out
beforehand unto sonship, through Jesus Christ, for himself. Ephesians
1:4,5 (Emphasized).
The works of
God are meticulously planned, certain in execution, and stunning in
effect. He commands every fate, orchestrating all things by his
counsel. The only actions that can emerge are those that he has
predestined, for nothing is left to chance. So also with the spirits
of men. In whom also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of
him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.
In the lost
folds of antiquity, the spirits of men were ordained for dazzling
splendor. Itineraries were engineered for each, and their destinies
sealed in spiritual genetics. God hath from
the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of
the Spirit and belief of the truth.
Jesus Christ
was the first of these spirits to complete a gestation and enter into
the fulness of his Father’s design. For whom
he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he [Jesus] might be the firstborn among many
brethren. But in those ancient days of busy preparation, many
others were also taken for the same celestial wealth. Moreover
whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he
called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified.
Long before
the stars were made, you and Jesus were kinsmen in the Elohim company.
For both he that sanctifieth [Jesus] and they
who are sanctified [you] are all of one [God]: for which cause he is
not ashamed to call them brethren. Your spirit and Jesus Christ
were brothers before the world began, and you are brothers now. Ye
have been with me from the beginning. Jesus came to earth
because his siblings were already here. Forasmuch
then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he [Jesus] also
himself likewise took part of the same.
Jesus’
mission was to demonstrate the Father’s plan to his brothers. Saying,
I will declare thy name unto my brethren. But Jesus also needed
to complete his own gestation in earthly evil, just as you are now
doing. Wherefore in all things it behoved him
to be made like unto his brethren. On earth, Jesus completed
the steps that transform a spirit of Elohim into a fully begotten Son
of God. He was the first to accomplish this in its entirety. Thus he
was the first to be born from the earthly process of good & evil. Jesus
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the
dead.
Both Jesus
and you have been the doting concern of God from time immemorial, and
there he apprehended you for greatness. By his gracious love, he
decided to lower you from your station in the Elohim, and place you
into a body of failing flesh. What is man,
that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest
him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels (Elohim),
and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
On earth you
will experience evil firsthand and learn the secrets of God. This is a
frightening venture, at times overwhelming. But as your older brother
demonstrated, this is the path ordained for Elohim, to obtain the
fulness of God. Now we see not yet all things
put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour.
In empyrean
wonder you reveled, cherishing your good fortune. Then you blinked and
awoke in the destructions of earth. And the
LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life. You opened your eyes in
the dust of Adamic decay, to survey a hellish swill where Satan reigns
unchecked, where demons heckle and dance, and death skips laughing
through the streets.
This is the
earthly realm, the Kingdom of Darkness, the morbid showcase for all
the evil of God. And here your life is but snake food, the provender
of evil by the edict of your Heavenly Father. The
LORD God said unto the serpent, ... dust shalt thou eat all the
days of thy life.
Just as Eve
came out from Adam, became flesh, and was turned to failure, so also
the Elohim came out from God, were placed into bodies of flesh, and
plunged into a fuming cauldron of earthly corruption. Thou
hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the
shadow of death.
This was the
diligent work of God alone, as the next step in his plan. God is the
maker of the corrosive concoctions that permeate this planet. Therefore
hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us. He
is responsible for the depravity that is served up as earth’s daily
fare. Thou hast given us like sheep appointed
for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. Like a wise
master chef, God carefully prepared a brew of futile calamity, then
lowered his best friends into the vat, allowing them to paddle for a
time in the woes of iniquity. For the
creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of
him who hath subjected the same in hope.
To be
certain that no one escaped the experience of evil, God went one step
further. After dunking his companions into external evil, he then
arranged for them to be corrupted from the inside as well.
In Eden, God
turned human nature to turpitude. She [Eve]
took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband
with her; and he did eat. God fused the spirits of Elohim to
the fallen carnal mind, cementing them to the horrors of insanity. For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. He gave
the mind of man an affinity for failure, twisting it to crave the
stings of death. This mind succumbs to iniquity as to an infectious
disease, and now produces all the symptoms of evil. The
imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
The carnal
nature is the finest of God’s sculptures in evil. Yea,
also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in
their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. It
is modeled after Satan, and blind to the existence of God. By this
internal dementia all men are corrupted within, while they walk in the
evils without. For out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false
witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man. The
fallen carnal mind of man is the meticulous design of your Heavenly
Father to ensure your inundation in evil. O
LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our
heart from thy fear?
As your
spirit slipped into the stratosphere of earth your memory was erased.
The ancient beginnings of Elohim are lost to the human mind. Your
identity and purpose for being here have become elusive secrets,
veiled by a body of flesh. Your primordial relationship with God has
been doped into slumber. Your earliest friends have been hidden, your
exploits concealed. Now you fret in a sort of spiritual amnesia,
searching for clues to explain your new world. Awake,
awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient
days, in the generations of old.
God could
not accomplish his purpose in evil if you could remember who you are. Truly,
if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out,
they might have had opportunity to have returned. Thus the
silence of your memory consummates your utter subjection to the
Kingdom of Darkness on earth. This is my
infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most
High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
thy wonders of old.
The
depravity of earth is an alien landscape where God is muffled at best.
Sometimes you perceive his presence, but often he seems far away and
nowhere to be found. Wherefore dost thou
forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Part of
earth’s effectiveness is this illusion that you have been forsaken
by God. After eons of intimate fellowship, you now feel empty,
abandoned in lonely longing. Awake, why
sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. Wherefore
hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our
oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth
unto the earth.
God wanted
you to feel, for the first time in your existence, an estrangement
from his presence. This is part of your education. Never before in the
heavens could you know a separation from God. You had to come to earth
and be encased in evil to experience this anomaly. In the alienation
of carnal flesh you feel alone and rejected. You dwell in a realm cut
off, with an impossible gulf preventing your passage to the land of
your dreams. This disaffection from God is a sensation unique to
earth, a new experience for you, and one you shall never know again. For
therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long:
build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the
fruit of them.
God lowered
your spirit into vanity. He turned your eyes to folly and hid himself
in the process. He hath set the world in their
heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the
beginning to the end. He gave you a heart that desires failure,
and placed you into a tiny microcosm, on a solitary planet, where
failure can exist. I have seen all the works
that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation
of spirit.
Earth is the
classroom of evil. In this humbling school you are reluctantly
educated in things you never wanted to know. For
thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for
the slaughter. Here all men are students of perversity¾
at first because they like it, and later as they search for answers to
explain it. For my soul is full of troubles:
and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. In either case, all
who trod terra firma will come to an experiential knowledge of evil,
and this is the plan of God. Come and see the
works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
God is not
your credit card for worldly ease. For I will
shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. To
the contrary, he intends only the prosperity of your spirit, at the
expense of your human comfort and goals. Spiritually
prosperous are those who are mourning. Matthew 5:4 (Wuest).
You were
plunged into iniquity by the purpose of God. You are the fire that
warms his thoughts; you are the reason for all that he does. With
every beat of his heart you inch through the darkness of earth. Though
you are seldom aware of him, he never leaves you for a moment. For
thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's
womb.
Every
instant God surrounds you, arranging, dispensing, and energizing the
precise doses of good & evil that you require for your spiritual
development. Thou knowest my downsitting and
mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest
my path and my lying down. As a costly crown prince of the
heavens, he attends and dotes on your care. How
precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of
them!
As you walk
through the desolations of earth, remember that absolutely nothing can
harm your spirit. For all the frightening specters of daily life are
but the ambassadors of God’s love for you. Thou
hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto
it. All things on earth work to your eternal benefit, and from
here your spirit will one day burst forth with the power of an
emerging star. If I ascend up into heaven,
thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I
take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold
me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall
be light about me.
This world
is not your home. You have been dropped onto foreign soil, a bizarre
domain where nothing works as it should. These
all died in faith ... and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth. You do not belong to earth; you are not
from here and you will not be staying long. You have come from a
heavenly estate to acquire a knowledge that cannot be obtained in any
other way.
Your
physical endeavors here are only deceptive vapors that will disappear
with the first rays of morning. But the spiritual acuity and strength
you will gain from your experience on earth is a treasure most
permanent. Your time here is purposive, but your destiny is with the
stars. For they that say such things declare
plainly that they seek a country ... they desire a better country,
that is, an heavenly.
Your descent
into the evil of earth comes linked with a guarantee of astral
proportions. For while it is true that God has lowered you into
confused affliction, it is equally certain that he shall return you to
the heavens in glory. I will go down with
thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again. Your
hostile mind will one day be abolished and your memory restored. Thou
turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Then
you will wear your experience on earth, as the woven wisdom of God.
This will clothe your spirit with the perpetual radiance of autonomous
life and love. Thy seed shall be a stranger
in a land that is not theirs, ... and afterward shall they come out
with great substance.
The press of
earthly evil is a special environment, essential to a spiritual plan.
In this incubator of good & evil you will be born into your Father’s
image and reproduce his capacity. You Who have
shown us all, troubles great and sore, will quicken us again and will
bring us up again from the depths of the earth. Psalm 71:20
(Amplified). This is the phenomenal purpose for the existence
of evil on earth, as you shall soon see. Behold,
I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest,
and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee,
until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
When the
spirits of Elohim fell from the heavens, they dropped through the veil
that separates glory from madness, and were lost in the abyss.
Plummeting headlong into the blackness of earthly evil, there was no
way for them to go back. There was no chance of return. On earth there
was no fountain that could wash away evil, and no fire that could burn
away shame. There was no way for them to shed their carnality, much
less regain their previous state.
The Elohim
were entombed in the earthly sphere, permeated with sin, and
incarcerated in the evil of God. And there they would remain, in the
chains of darkness, soiled by the mire of iniquity, for a very long
time. The Elohim had crashed into paradise lost. My
strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my
jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
As one who
has fallen among thieves comes staggering to consciousness, you were
born into the Kingdom of Darkness. Given the nature of these
surroundings, and the deception of your own mind, you were conceived
as a captive of evil on earth. Your spirit was sold into sin.
Deficiency could be your only bread and despair its waiting reward.
Without an external injection, there was no possibility of your ever
recovering from the devastation of human failure. You were marooned on
an alien world with no hope of escape. Until someone came to your
rescue. For when we were yet without strength,
in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
In the
precision of God’s time, Jesus was sent to the earth to empower the
redemption of his brothers. But first he had to complete his own
personal maturity, just like you. Thus he was born first as a man. The
LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee,
of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.
Jesus then
had to complete his own education in evil, being betrayed and
murdered, though innocent. For he hath made
him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. By his cross, Jesus
killed the curses of Eden, and redeemed himself from the carnal nature
of man. By the triumph of self-sacrifice, he came to a glorified
resurrection, as the firstborn Son of God. Declared
to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness,
by the resurrection from the dead.
By his
immersion in the iniquity of earth, Jesus was born into the substance
of his Father. For it became him, for whom are
all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto
glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
sufferings. Jesus Christ was the first member of the Elohim
company to complete his earthly gestation in evil. He opened the
spiritual matrix and became the first traveler from the Elohim to
return to the heavens. Worthy is the Lamb that
was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength,
and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Jesus Christ
inaugurated the spiritual highway that rockets down from the stars,
passes through the murk of earth’s evil, then curves back up into
the celestial realm. And without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, ... received up into glory. Having
completed this prescribed course, Jesus’ spirit then contained the
power and genetics of his resurrection victory. And
being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation. He was then in a position to rescue his brothers. And
I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This
he said, signifying what death he should die.
After his
resurrection, Jesus quickly empowered his brothers for success. He
gave the languishing spirits of Elohim a small nucleus from his own
resurrected spirit. This was a masculine spiritual sperm, which when
joined to the feminine spirits of Elohim, instigated within each, the
gestation of a new Son of God. This cellule from the resurrected
Christ contained the missing spiritual genetics necessary to
manufacture love, which is the substance of God himself. “As
the Father sent Me, so in the same way I send you.” And having said
this, He infused Himself into them, and said, “Receive Holy Spirit.”
John 20:21,22 (Fenton).
This
spiritual DNA replicated within his disciples, then spread throughout
the earth, implanting itself into his brothers and empowering them to
overcome their subjugation. For out of His
fulness as a source we all received. John 1:16 (Wuest). As a
divine and benevolent antibody, the life of Christ is the antitoxin
for evil. Here was something new, something powerful, a real tool, a
tangible hope. Here was a chance to bring forth new life. This was the
key to the dungeon, and a jailbreak began to brew.
A grain from
the resurrected spirit of Christ contains the secret ingredients you
require for spectacular spiritual victory. It will meld with your
spirit and begin to grow. He that is joined
unto the Lord is one spirit. This new life is a secret weapon,
smuggled in to the prisoners of earth. Because
ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father. With it you can fight your way
out of the Kingdom of Darkness and return to the heavenly realm from
whence you came. As many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the sons of God.
Along with
this supernatural seed of life the Elohim were assigned a spiritual
guide who knew the way of return, back to the stars. When
he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. This
is the Holy Spirit, and he will teach you God’s plan and direct your
steps to the secret path that leads from earth’s shadow to the
eternal light of the Begotten Realm. The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God.
Once you are
armed with these two implements of war, you suddenly have a new option
in dealing with the afflictions of earth. When the meteors of evil
crash into your life, you can respond as a human and gain nothing, or
you can respond as did Jesus, and reproduce his resurrected life in
your own spirit.
Those
without the life of Christ can draw only from their internal source of
deceived sensuality, returning anger and accusation for iniquity, and
thus creating even more evil. For without me
ye can do nothing. But any who have acquired the life of Christ
and enlisted the aid of the Holy spirit can draw from a new internal
spiritual power, and act from a new set of rules. He
that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life.
Once you
possess the seed of life from the risen Jesus Christ, you can employ
the evil of earth to spin for you a new garment of spiritual majesty.
When evil rises to smite you, rather than curse the perpetrator, you
can forgive him. This forgiveness is love, fabricated from affliction.
Forgiveness will create more love in the receiver. This new love will
then seek out the original source of the forgiveness, and return to
you, completing the circuit.
When you
unconditionally forgive someone of an offense, you send love out and
they will reflect love back to you. This is an immutable law of
spiritual physics. We love him, because he
first loved us. As this cycle is completed, your love is
multiplied and your spirit energized by the generation of a new
embryonic power. Creaking and groaning in this first, arduous turn,
your infant spirit will slowly grind out the first few volts of new
love in you. For if ye love them which love
you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
This newborn
love will in turn issue more forgiveness, in response to other needs.
And each of these mercies will produce yet more love in the receivers.
This new love will then curve back to its source, energizing your
spirit with the power of begotten love. I say
unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to
them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven.
When your
Father sees that you are suddenly feeding from the hidden wisdom of
love born from evil, he will send greater offenses against you. As
these difficult afflictions pass into your sphere, each in succession
must be turned to forgiveness, and transformed into love.
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that
offences come.
In the heat
of this increasing inner conflict, carnal ignorance melts. Your values
and character are changed into ruby puddles of molten understanding.
Your adversities are blasted by searing wisdom and transformed into a
living compassion. Your spirit comes alive as temperatures soar in the
agony of travail. Love endures long ... does
not display itself haughtily ... does not insist on its own rights ...
takes no account of the evil done to it. Love bears up under anything
and everything that comes. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
(Amplified).
Then at once
your spirit will burst into flames of spiritual power, spontaneously
igniting to become a whirling inferno, a fiery reactor generating
love, which is the substance of God, within you. Faster the reaction
spins, each sweep escalating in energy and triumph, until the evils of
your life are blurred and fused into a shimmering diadem of victory, a
permanent possession, with love flowing out in effortless streams. In
the ardor of this spiritual storm you will become a dynamo of love, a
brand new source for the eternal substance of God. A
new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have
loved you.
In this
white-hot flurry of love and affliction your errant Adamic nature will
be eradicated. For he that hath suffered in
the flesh hath ceased from sin. The fallen nature of man is a
fragile thing, utterly selfish and incapable of forgiving anything. It
cannot survive in a furnace of forgiveness. Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends.
As your
Adamic nature is killed, your spirit will be successively unshackled,
free to grow and to return to the heavens. It will begin to flourish,
blossoming in understanding, and expanding in effectual dominion. Though
our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Each
day your sway will extend further, your spirit pushing its boundaries
outward, spreading its insight to encompass every happenstance. Ye
have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
Your
revelation will reach beyond life’s evils, to surround every pain.
As a beautiful pearl is created from a harmful irritant, so also you
will become a gem in the heavenly realm, mollifying every anguish,
layer upon layer, with the gleam of supernatural wisdom and life.
Soon your
spirit and its love will grow to exceed every adversity in the Kingdom
of Darkness. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? You will become
larger than every evil, more powerful than every fear. You will have
overcome the world, the flesh, and the Devil. Ye
are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater
is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Before the
eyes of a conquering spirit, misfortunes are transformed into
spiritual opportunities, fearsome to be sure, but still gateways
garnished with gold, awaiting your response. This does not mean that
you suddenly like evil or condone it. It means that you finally
recognize that God is the doer of evil, and that it occurs in accord
with his purpose, for your ultimate glory. For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the
things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen
are eternal.
This is the
process of spiritual overcoming. As the troubles of earth rise against
you they are converted to love, killing your carnal nature, and
energizing your spirit for ascendant growth. I
will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou
shalt bring forth children.
The
transient evils of earth are only spiritual exercises. They are your
opportunity to grab for eternal perfection. For
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth. As you master them with forgiveness and love you
will come to understand the true nature of your Heavenly Father, and
garner for yourself the laurels reserved for the Overcomers. He
that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and
he shall be my son. When you complete this process you can
claim your inheritance in the realms of celestial glory. An
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you, ... Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now
for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold
temptations.
This is a
magical road that swoops down through human poverty, then arcs up high
into spiritual wealth. This cleverly concealed ribbon to the stars is
aptly named, the Mystery of Iniquity. For the
mystery of iniquity doth already work.
Through your
education on earth, you will gain a permanent experiential knowledge
of good & evil, comprehending their height and depth. You will
become one of the few beings in the universe who has actually lived
within their bounds and felt their stings. You will know the deception
of temporal good, and you will have learned the painful consequences
of evil. This will give you possession of a wisdom kept hidden since
before time. And I will give thee the
treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places.
When you
finish your earthly tutelage you will be able to recognize evil from
afar, and easily untangle its beguiling subtlety. Never again will
iniquity slip by disguised, to loose its poison into your thoughts and
actions. Strong meat belongeth to them that
are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil. By experience in
devastation you will learn to abhor evil, to despise its mutant forms.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride,
and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. As
you overcome it, you will learn to defuse its every expression,
changing them all into love. Hating even the
garment spotted by the flesh.
The anguish
of evil is a lesson you will never forget, for it will be indelibly
stamped on your spirit, leaving an embossed residue of sadness that
will never go away. And this is the result that God has been waiting
for. For after a healed scar of evil is implanted into your character,
you are made his capable and trustworthy ally.
If a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him
remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh
is vanity.
Having
experienced the pain of earthly betrayal, you will never in all the
future ages, ever imagine to betray your Heavenly Father. With a heart
branded by the knowledge of evil, you will never again be a party to
evil against him. I will put my laws into
their mind, and write them in their hearts.
After your
dip into iniquity and your deliverance from it, rebellion will be
unthinkable, for you will radiate unfailing gratitude. God can then
trust in your friendship. Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind.
Observing
this, God can then transfer to you all the power of creation, and know
that his throne is safe from insurrection. He can give you the earthly
and heavenly realms, resting in the comfort that they are well
attended and secure. If we suffer, we shall
also reign with him.
When you
have dissected the evils that fall to your hand, and locked their
helpless parts within an understanding of love, your education on
earth is complete. God will then return you to the heavenly realm of
your ancestry. No man hath ascended up to
heaven, but he that came down from heaven.
The
magnificence of this mind-numbing eventuality is certain and
unchangeable. As we have borne the image of
the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Your
dunk into evil is the work of your Father, thus he also is responsible
for your safe return. For in my wrath I smote
thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. You were
besmeared with vanity by his hand. In due time he will reverse this
curse. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we
shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Earth rebounds to
the pleasure of God, and by his wisdom sends back to the stars, all
who touch its surface. For a small moment have
I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a
little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
Redeemer.
The script
of your earthly tumble includes a dazzling redemption. You came down
from the heavens to become a new source of wisdom and love. When this
is accomplished in you, you will be called up to the spectacular
dimensions of divine glory. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Your present
life as a human is only a momentary wisp. It is a single grain in the
hourglass of eternity, designed to procure your permanent
resplendence. And I will settle you after your
old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and
ye shall know that I am the LORD.
You will
soon be drawn back from the dark mist of earth and thrust high into
spiritual excellence. For in the brief but ardent afflictions of evil,
the Elohim will become the begotten Sons of God. And this is your
ticket home. Be in pain, and labour to bring
forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou
go forth out of the city [heaven], and thou shalt dwell in the field
[earth], and thou shalt go even to Babylon [the fallen carnal nature];
there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from
the hand of thine enemies.
When you
come rocketing victoriously up through the veil of earthly evil, you
will be swept into the Begotten Realm and there receive the
inheritance promised to the overcoming Sons of God. This treasure is a
possession of galactic grandeur. We were taken
as an inheritance, according to the purpose of him who energiseth all
things according to the counsel of his will. Ephesians 1:11
(Emphasized).
The
inheritance of God’s Sons is to be born into the character and
capacity of their Father. Through the Mystery of Iniquity on earth,
they will become what he is. We all, with open
face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into
the same image from glory to glory. This inheritance is the
threshold to everlasting brilliance. It is a possession of
immortality, wisdom, and power. It is the stargate that opens to the
perfected offspring of God. Wherefore thou art
no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God
through Christ.
When you see
this result accomplished inside you, when you learn what you have
become, the tears of your captivity will spring into laughter, sending
streaks of lustrous ecstasy rippling from your inner man to light the
creation of God. Therefore the redeemed of
the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness
and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
In elation,
streams of joy will splash from your spirit, spilling and washing all
in the beaming satisfaction of an athlete who has just won the gold
medal at the cosmic games. For I reckon that
the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Sorrows will
coalesce into carpets of spiritual jewels, and your experience in
failure will flare into a burnished aura of tangible, permanent glory.
I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby
they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. And
it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the
nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto
them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all
the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Arriving at
this preeminent destination you will take your place amongst your
brothers, as a commander of spiritual things. To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as
I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
The
inheritance of the Sons of God is a direct result of their subjection
to evil. A woman when she is in travail hath
sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of
the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is
born into the world. By their trek through corruption, their
endurance in sorrow, their triumph over iniquity, they will find
within themselves the features and mannerisms of God. The
disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall
be as his master.
As his
offspring, the Sons of God will resemble their Father in stature,
ability, and character. It doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be
like him. Like him, they will be interstellar, supernatural
beings, clothed in light and without limitation. And
nothing shall be impossible unto you.
With him
they will traverse the voids of space, their vibrant lives coexisting
in a union of flawless fellowship. That they
may be one, even as we are one. By any standard they can never
be found to lack. For now we see through a
glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known.
Heated evils
warm the turf on spaceship earth, the floating greenhouse for the Sons
of God. As you grow in its tepid climate, rising above its
afflictions, you can become like your Heavenly Father- you can become
what he is.
But hidden
inside your memory will reside a perfect understanding of evil. And if
you should ever choose to express the evil you have learned, it will
first have to penetrate the expanse of your goodness, and be purposed
to spark the production of love in those who see it. This
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality.
Then you
might notice a family resemblance, for you will have grown into the
image of your Father. The trials of earth can only build into your
spirit the permanence of love, which is the nature and substance of
God. To know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
This narrow
passage swoops down through the gloomy clouds of earthly affliction,
then rises up to a brilliant pinnacle, transporting all its voyagers
to celestial glory. And this is the Mystery of Iniquity. Ye
shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought.
For six
thousand years the evil of earth has been carefully restrained,
metered by the hand of God. Only enough evil has been manifest to
guarantee the completion of his Sons. Earth must continue embroiled in
this evil until all the firstborn Sons of God have been matured and
birthed. I saw under the altar the souls of
them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which
they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord,
holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that
dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them;
and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little
season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that
should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
At the end
of this age, just prior to the establishment of Christ’s government
on earth, God will withdraw his bridling hand and earth’s evil will
accelerate to a raging crescendo. As a rabid fever, iniquity will
exceed its maturing function and erupt into destructive meltdown,
promising to blast the earth to extinction. For
then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
This
hurricane of evil will herald the dramatic coming of Jesus Christ and
his firstborn Brothers. These supernatural beings will have already
been perfected by the afflictions of earth. These Sons will assume the
helm of creation. And being impervious to the ills of iniquity, they
will switch-off evil as effortlessly as you might blow out a match.
This will usher in a thousand years of tranquillity, and from then on,
God will have Sons, born in his own image, to share his nature, his
life, and his glory.
This is the
origin, purpose, and destiny of evil. This is the Mystery of Iniquity.
For the mystery of that lawlessness already
operates; only the Restrainer intervenes for a time: until he is
removed; and then the outlaw will become manifest, whom the Lord will
destroy by the spirit of His mouth, and extinguish by the
manifestation of His presence. 2
Thessalonians 2:7,8 (Fenton).
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