The fall of angels...and why it matters

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I always hated lists of God"s angels or Satan's demons, and properties of what they control; or long explanations of occurrences in heaven that aren't so much as mentioned in the bible (or outrageously read into two or three verses that could easily be interpreted other ways). "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God."

"For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him...But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?"

If we account ourselves saved by "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," then we are not subject to the authority of angels (or demons for that matter), but rather "joint-heirs" to He to whom they are subject. "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven."

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation."

I also hated contradictory tests for God to perform to prove Himself perfect. Making a round square, or a burden so heavy even He could not lift it, etc. Man loves to think he is so clever (also called subtle in the bible and named among the traits of Satan). Do you not understand this where rebellion came from? That those that stood with God, that knew of His existence, still had no faith to believe that He indeed was God (perfect, righteous, eternal, Almighty). Satan pursued the glory of God (not loving the person of God, but the place of God as the Highest), by attacking God with His own ministry (said to be perfect, without err, and impossible to fail); saying to God's face, "as you have judged so shall you be judged," thinking to disprove the righteousness of God either way (either Satan defeats God which they were told could not happen, or His ministry had failed, which they were promised should abide forever). Satan argues against the ministry and judgment of God like Nathan prophesied before King David saying, "Thou art the man!"

Satan does not love sin and transgression as the movies like to portray. Instead he believes (or wants others to believe) that he has found fault in the perfection of God and demands justice for His hypocrisy to the point that He should die as a false prophet (who spoke in the name of the LORD that which failed to come to pass). In this ministry he stands something as a messiah to the wicked, promising to deliver them from the bondage of God's law, and the threat of judgment for disobedience.


Satan then provokes the angels enjoined as though to "the body" of God to condemn him falsely "for blasphemy," so that they might be condemned and he reign as God in the recompense of judgment ("do unto him as he thought to do unto his brother").


How do I know this you ask? Is not he just making up a story line to explain the parts of ministry he doesn't understand, even as he condemns others for doing? The bible records this act repeatedly throughout every story in the bible (Satan believing himself to be the hero of each story and God the villain), because man was made in the likeness of God, and so some portrayal of these events must be manifest in their life even as it was in God! Enjoy reading. You'll probably think me a fanatic for some time until you see it, again and again and again, until there is no other conclusion!

{Behold the ministry of sin and betrayal against our beloved Lord as revealed in the garden of Eden: The serpent in deception (being covered in the glory of God, as once an angel of light, but within him is ravening wickedness; approaching with the kiss of Judas; honoring with his lips but his heart is far from you.), speaks as though in the name of the LORD; promising blessing, but offering death; questioning the grace of God by insinuating that the commandment was a limitation of His love, and therefore His kingdom and power have an end; offering sin as the salvation from the supposed cruel bondage of God’s law; inferring that God cannot fully judge sin within His kingdom without condemning Himself and admitting an imperfection within Himself, because man was made in His image and all things are the works of the LORD ("Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: and if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?"); and that once freed from God’s inferred tyranny by migrating into the darkness, God could not harm them, for He can have no fellowship with darkness nor touch the unclean; therefore they could have their own kingdom separate and apart from God without any recourse or recompense (Herein is the forming of the unholy trinity and the "covenant with death" to be revealed again in the last days. He, who has ears, let him hear.).

Satan then, seeming to stand alone and independent from God and His Word, as though existing unto himself, blasphemes and accuses God of weakness or blindness; in that if God were truly as powerful and foreknowing as His reputation suggests, He should have resisted and defeated Satan’s ministry ("Yea, if the Goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have not suffered his house to be broken up."). Stating that if man, made in the image of God can sin, it is because iniquity came of the heritage of the Father; and that because God could not honor the blessing and grace upon mankind as well as enforce the sentence He pronounced against sin, that the Almighty Word of God had been made powerless and fallen to the ground, made of no effect, negating all power and glory of God’s reputation (Accusing God’s doctrine of grace as His weakness unto defeat, and mocking His Word as though an oath foolishly sworn, that cannot be reversed, as with the story of the daughter of Jephthah, or Jonathan the son of Saul, or the death of John the Baptist); and that the LORD Himself could either cast off His pride in professing His righteousness and join in sin following mankind in worshiping Satan or "die" as if it were possible, in the shame that He had been so defeated by one considered inferior to Himself ("And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.").

Standing against the Most High, as though like Moses against pharaoh, threatening plagues unto the destruction of His kingdom and the death of His Son, if the people would not be let go to serve sin which had freed them from Him; or like David against Goliath, Satan stood against the Almighty God, and thought to obtain an eternal throne by becoming the people’s champion and defeating Him.

Blessed be the LORD God, Almighty and Foreknowing. He who is rich in grace beyond all comprehension and expectation; that the sons of God should follow righteousness in faith, and not by sight or the judgments of their own wisdom, unto the salvation of the LORD’S beloved elect, by the eternal victory over sin, through the righteous sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord. To put away and silence all such rebellion and self righteous judgments against God once and for all; behold the grace of our LORD of long sufferings, who teaches the faith and patience of the saints.

Herein is the victory of God, and the ministry of our salvation in Jesus Christ. The LORD’S true victory and righteousness is proven throughout the history of this world, which exists as a parable and token of His infinite grace; for just as Jesus used parables to explain the principles of His ministry, the earth and all that exists is God the Father’s parable denoting the truths of His Word. This victory is seen throughout scripture as well, to record before all believers the righteousness of the LORD and sovereignty of the Word of God (Just as it is written that there is a book of Remembrance written before the LORD, recording the righteous words of God’s faithful saints upon the earth).

The antitype of Adam, tasting of death for every man; the antitype of Satan, as the angel of light; the righteous sacrifice and death of Abel; the ascension of Enoch; obedient Noah who fulfilled the LORD’S Word unto the salvation of his household; Shem, in covering the nakedness of his father’s wife; Isaac the son of promise, and obedient unto death; Jacob, in serving for a wife in the house of her father; Joseph, in being raised from the prison unto the right hand of power, unto the salvation of his brethren; Moses in the deliverance from the hand of Pharaoh, and watching over the battles of Israel with arms held up in praise unto the LORD (For it was that so long as Moses’ arms were lifted up, that Israel was victorious, therefore, Aaron on one side and Hur on the other, held his arms outstretched for the victory of Israel.);

Joshua, in leading Israel unto their inheritance; Samson, in pulling down the pillars of the Philistine coliseum with the sacrifice of his life; David, in dancing naked before the LORD in worship and thanksgiving, bearing the accusation of his wife, and championing Israel before Goliath and setting up the eternal throne; Solomon, in building the temple of the LORD; Mordecai, in revealing to the king the plot of betrayal against him (which Christ did bearing sin’s plot of betrayal against God upon his very flesh) for which the king exalted him supremely; Ezekiel, in serving as a sign unto Israel in carrying his goods out of Jerusalem, announcing the prophecy of the wrath of God (which Christ did bearing the cross and the sins of His people upon Him as He carried the cross outside the city.). These and numerous other examples show God’s infinite and eternal grace and assured victory and supremacy over all in Jesus Christ ("Search the scriptures; for in them you think to have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me," says our Lord Jesus, and, "Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me.").

And herein is this victory: Whereas Satan plots against the will of God, trusting in his own works and wisdom, believing that by the dedication of his will his own right hand can bring him all his desire; saying within his heart, "I will…I will…be as the Most High," the LORD Almighty and Sovereign reminds us, "I Am That I Am." In every point, according to every glory, in every work, all that Satan hoped to accomplish through sin, God has accomplished in righteousness through Jesus Christ. And all the glory and deity of God that Satan thought to assume upon himself, God has proven Himself to be (The one and only LORD God, who is blessed and faithful forever), manifested by God’s own right hand, even Jesus Christ the Most Holy.

Befitting the judgment of the law upon a liar, it is done unto him as he thought to do unto his brother (Seeing that he has made himself equal with God by his own works and denouncing the grace of God). Wherein Satan, who is Lucifer (which means Day Star), thought to obtain the deity and glory of the Highest, the everlasting Word of God has assumed the glory of the name of Lucifer; for whereas Satan says, "I will be as the Most High," Jesus Christ, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, in the fullness of victory, has affirmed, "I Am…the bright and morning star."}

 

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The great and marvelous works of Christ has torn the veil from top to bottom. The way unto the Holiest of Holies being made manifest through our Advocate and High Priest and His atoning sacrifice on behalf of His people. For beforehand a distance was maintained between God and man, and a partition between the people and Himself through sin: forced to approach God through ritual and ceremony, peering towards His throne through a curtain. For the law is the ceremony in approaching towards the throne of God, yet the true person of "He who dwells between the cherubim" was not fully revealed until the manifestation of Grace through the Messiah prophesied throughout the law and the prophets. We who accept the person of Jesus Christ, not only as He "who is worthy" to sit upon this seat, but He for whom the seat and kingdom were made, are allowed passage beyond the border and past the veil that we may approach unto the LORD Himself through the ritual and ceremonial workings already accomplished in Him.

So too, the veil which shrouds the Old Testament in mystery, is torn away in Christ, granting understanding that thousands of years of tradition could not accomplish by the works of man. The truth of all of the LORD’S statutes and ordinances are made manifest in the revelation of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God. The seals of the LORD’S prophecies are broken by He who is worthy, that the full meaning and profitability of scripture might be able to be perceived by the Church. For only by applying what is known of the Lord’s "finished" works, is the pattern of the LORD’S workings made manifest throughout history. The cross is the key to unlocking the Old Testament, as well as applying the precepts of the gospel of grace ("As you have judged so shall you be judged," "every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him," "The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord," etc.).

This concept of reading the Bible overwhelms the notion that the Bible is merely a book of morals and commands, or the history of the Jews leading up to the Messiah. Nor can the mysteries of the Bible be discovered by man’s diligent search, "but God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, except by the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." Herein lies the "meat" of the gospel beyond merely the "milk" of the Word. Just as salvation is not achieved by your efforts, believe also that God’s Word is not comprehended by your abilities, but by God’s.

Beyond the physical and temporal meanings of the Bible, there lies the eternal and spiritual meanings; God speaks through the immediate and physical happenings to teach eternal concepts which apply on eternal and spiritual levels. So too, all that is understood of the garden of Eden has been taught merely upon the physical and immediate interpretation. The spiritual revelation is so complex, this story is reiterated throughout every story in the Bible, adding more information, revealing yet another possible perspective of the occurrences in the garden. Powerful and profound interpretation can be perceived by merely applying the precepts of God’s teachings and the ministry of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Another important precept which has blocked our perception of these revelations is that God can prove Himself faithful even in the midst of the sins of His servants and sons. Adam is a Son of God and therefore a type of Christ in relation to the Father, simultaneously however Adam is a revelation or type of the Father in relation to all else (Even as Christ is a Son of God, yet does the works He has seen of the Father, and is God With Us). Adam was created male and female because God and His kingdom are one. The creation of woman is a revelation of the church created by the blood of Christ, and simultaneously of the fall and rise of the kingdom of God (woman was one with man, expelled from man came that by which woman was made into a separate entity, then enjoined again, in a new form, as one in matrimony).

The serpent was chief among the kingdom of man, but resented that woman should be one with man and share a greater place before he who ruled, since the animal kingdom was created first. Though given all else, he resented that woman should be man’s, and the animal kingdom, ruled unfit, should be under the serpent (He despised his blessing wherewith he was blessed; feeling the bride and inheritance that should have been his was withheld from him and given to another and a less favorable bride and inheritance given to him.). The serpent of great majestic beauty and wisdom plotted against man with envy and rage in the pursuit of his place, his bride, and his dominion. All this is an account of events already fulfilled in heaven, and enacted again upon the earth in this second age. The "anointed cherub," "Lucifer," orchestrated these events in heaven against God Himself for His bride, His glory, and His dominion. Through his wisdom, in which God blessed him, he thought to have found a chink in the armor of God, a flaw in the ministry of the Word, and constructed a ministry which would exploit this flaw as a means to obtain his lust, and satisfy his pride and conquest of power. Lucifer accused God Himself of sin, and demands "as you have judged so shall you be judged." Through the ministry of sin, many were deceived and cast out of heaven to the earth, given bodies of flesh or "coats of skins" (as though a shadow of baptism, dying unto God and becoming a new creature apart from the world that they knew previously).

This first age of the earth, the first born of heaven and seed of Satan through His ministry (even as we are begotten unto God through the ministry of Christ), was deemed corrupt and defiled and eventually wiped out in judgment by God. Though Satan knew this; not that he can know the future, as God does, but through his wisdom of the ways of God he anticipated God’s judgments in these matters and thought to condemn God by His own judgments and "catch him at his words." And since God had judged the prior age be cast from heaven and suffer the judgment of God, Satan would be reborn as Adam to reign in the "likeness and image" of God and God Himself would be cast from heaven and suffer judgment at the hands of men. The mystery of the trinity is how the Father, unmovable from His place, could come to the earth in the person of Jesus Christ to manifest the example He sought the church, filled with His Holy Spirit, to emulate in worship toward Him. This is the gospel of the blessed Messiah and Savior, Jesus Christ; the Son of God, God with us, Immanuel!

We are in the midst of this second age of redemption. Notice that with every work of God, Satan tries, and seems to have accomplished, thwarting the efforts of God: the creation of man in his likeness, ends in the death of Adam for sinning, the salvation of Noah and his family did not abolish sin for soon after came the construction of Babel, the salvation of Egypt and the surrounding nations through Joseph ends in the slavery of the Jews, the Exodus from Egypt killed off the entire generation that escaped, the giving of law ending in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and the coming of the Messiah in the death of the cross. As sin of itself cannot defeat the ministry of God, Satan believes by the reversal of judgment to have made God powerless against sin so that none of His works of redemption should prosper. Believing that by having all the advantages of God, and God suffering the disadvantages of sin, Satan’s will shall come to fruition or God will have contradicted Himself and made His Word of no effect (this is why the bible gives titles to Satan as the "prince of the power of the air", and the "god of this world/age" for he is given the appearance of victory; for God does not thwart the will of Satan therefore God’s will cannot be thwarted. Just as Satan attempted to perform against God, God has reversed Satan’s judgment upon himself, so that the benefit Satan thought to gain came instead unto Christ, and the church through Him, and the judgment he sought against God came instead upon his own head.).

...Why do you think Satan remains to this day, warring and raging against the works of God? Are God's hands tied (or bound and nailed to a cross)? Is He overtaken by astonishment or frustration at this insolent rebellion? Is He in a panic, formulating a new strategy to combat these forces and powers? Satan would have you believe so. Satan would have you believe that by his very existence he has proven resilient and victorious over the hand of God. That by God's decree against sin, he should be dead, and stands triumphant over the LORD's Word (even as Christ stood victorious over sin and death through His resurrection); to promote himself as one supreme in strength and wisdom against a prideful "adversary" that called Himself perfect, and His Word truth. And how can God judge the wicked, if He himself does the same things. For Satan calls God corrupt for endorsing "iniquity" through preaching the gospel of grace, creating a "likeness and image" and telling others to worship, having fellowship with the unclean and defiled, and laboring on the Sabbath after the works of God were said to be "finished."

Though Satan believes to exist as the fruits of his ministry of judgment, in fact, he does so by the grace of God. For God would honor this anointing upon him without respect of persons, and extend His love even unto Satan, treating him as He wanted to be treated. By granting the ministry of sin its unthwarted fulfillment, God guarantees the fulfillment of the ministry of grace by Satan's own doctrine of judgment. For if God must endure the judgment against sin upon Himself, and suffer even as a sinner; than Satan also must endure his judgment against the LORD, and suffer even as Jesus Christ. And as Satan is permitted through grace his "resurrection" to challenge the integrity and sovereignty of the gospel of grace over judgment; thus Christ, who gave the life that was in Himself unto others, receives that same eternal life of God again through the ministry of judgment.

We exist in the midst of the kingdom of sin, suffering the recompense and reversal of our judgments against God in our rebellion and fall. For when Satan sported this ministry in heaven, preaching and prophesying in the name of the god that he should become; how many were deceived? And when it seemed Satan had power over God, and God, as though powerless to resist, suffered the loss of all things; how many lost their faith? And when those that claimed to still be loyal to the LORD pronounced judgment of exile and death to Satan and his followers, seeming to prove true all of Satan's accusations against the LORD; how many abandoned God?

These exiled of heaven, the fallen from their first estate, who occupied the earth in bodies of flesh, died by the judgment of the bride or body of the LORD, most contrary to the desire of the LORD Himself. Satan, believing his ministry had proven fault in the ministry of grace, and in the perfection of God and His Word, demanded justice. Standing as the prophet Nathan against king David saying, "…You are the man;" accusing God of murder in a prideful attempt to reclaim His people, who Satan called his bride and body. And by the very Word of God condemning Satan and his body of sin, casting them outside the kingdom of God, they are therefore no longer citizens of God's kingdom to bear judgment by His decree ("For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do you not judge them that are within?"), but instead a neighboring kingdom to be treated as God and His kingdom would be treated. For by judging that there is such a thing as sin, either limits the borders of God's kingdom or admits an imperfection within the kingdom of God; implying either a limit to the reign of God, or an element of sin within Him. Adding to this injustice the hasty condemnation unto death, Satan challenges God to bear His own judgment to the point of being cast down and endure the judgment of death.

Hence a new earth age begins with Adam to reign as God over all creation. However the LORD is still in power above Adam, much to Satan's confusion and frustration. Satan believed that he should reign in God's place and God suffer the judgment pronounced against Satan. However, since Satan preached in the name of the god he thought to become, claiming that he was sovereign even over the LORD, the LORD remains sovereign even over the reign of Adam. And since he claimed that the LORD was being removed from His place for his iniquity, Adam was cast from Eden for his transgression. And since Satan claimed to be falsely judged of God and due to reign in His place, and that God should be judged as He had judged another, Jesus Christ, the Word of God, Immanuel (God with us), is judged falsely of this world, resurrected in the might and supremacy of His gospel, and destined to reign even as God, while Satan bears the judgment in which he thought to condemn Him.

After the full defeat of the ministry of sin and judgment, and the complete triumph over death (wherein as sin thought to consume God, the LORD shall "swallow up death in victory" in accordance with His promises and prophecies to prove the indisputable sovereignty of the Word of God) the earth is renewed one last time, that the bride and body of Christ, those that received His doctrine in faith and followed after His teachings and so enjoined unto Him, should reign in all the perfection of the gospel of grace by which they had been saved.

...There is also a ministry concerning the body and brides of the LORD and of Satan. Each had a prior glory and an after glory, a seed body and a resurrection body. The fullness of the LORD's grace having not yet been revealed, the full brilliance of His glory was shrouded in the first body, but manifested in the second. This is in relation to the marriages to the brides; the first is contrary to the husband and after that which is compatible: for the bride is the glory of the husband; as the bride is changed, so too, the glory of the husband's body. And the marriage is indeed honored unto the death of the husband, and through resurrection the husband is free to marry another. And the body of the husband is not his own but the wife's, therefore the body of the husband is sacrificed to obtain the bride made fit for him.

During the fall, Satan was cast out with his bride, and the LORD remained with His. Satan's bride was deceived by the ministry of Satan preaching of one greater than the LORD who would judge Him for His oppression and iniquity. They followed him as a prophet and messiah of a god they had not known, whom, they were told, had compassion upon their oppressions and afflictions and would reward their faith and humility in following Satan. Howbeit the bride that remained with the LORD, did so not out of faith or love, but out of tradition and pride. And by condemning Satan and his body to death the body of the LORD partook of the ministry of judgment and refused the ministry of the grace of the LORD. Therefore the bride of Satan followed only being deceived by the apparent gospel of grace; and the bride of the LORD, staying only through lust of the glories of the LORD, partook of the ministry of judgment and condemnation. After the death of Satan, he is freed from his former bride, and lusted after the glory of God now cast down to suffer death by their own judgment. And the LORD being refused by his own, longed for the widow which was led about by faith and desired the gospel of grace, and after death is resurrected to be married to whom He will.

Wherefore the LORD is made manifest as the God for whom the body of Satan were willing to fall from heaven and die for; and therefore the LORD was cast down in the flesh as Christ, willing also to fall and die that in resurrection He might obtain the bride which followed after God by faith. And Satan, willing to fall and die for his lustful ambitions of the glory of God, in resurrection is given what he desired also. For the bride and glory of the LORD would partake in the ministry of Satan, willing to condemn the Lord's anointed without regard to the Word of God, is made manifest as a bride fit for Satan who thought to condemn God Himself through the ministry of judgment. In which it can be seen that Satan was willing to sacrifice His body, the fallen angels which were deceived by his ministry, despising the contrary nature and inclination toward grace by which they were deceived, that He might obtain the glory of God; and the LORD would cast off (or rather be cast off from) the glory of His body, rejecting the nature of judgment which is contrary to the grace by which they were enjoined unto the LORD, to obtain the fellowship of the bride led about by faith in the grace and love of God.

Blessed be the LORD, sovereign above all: the love of God, which is stronger than death. Blessed be He who is faithful in grace, desiring those that were full of faith and led about by love; who gives even the wicked the desires of their heart, and those blinded by pride, the emptiness and vanity of their ambition. Blessed be the Son of God, come in the flesh, to gather the outcasts, deceived and defiled by Satan; not only manifesting that He is all that Satan falsely claimed to be, but through self sacrifice, was willing unto death, to manifest the means of atonement and marriage unto God unto all that will partake in grace through faith in Him. Blessed be the LORD, eternally gracious, who takes the lesser or more grievous portion upon Himself, and gives the greater portion, even of Himself, unto others. Blessed be the bride of Christ, giving themselves through their faith ever toward God, first through Satan's false claims, and now through Christ, the Word of God, receiving the fullness of the fulfillment of their faith. For the LORD changes not, therefore His grace is manifest throughout all that He has done; and the bride, deceived and fallen away, was ever led about by faith toward the LORD, and redeemed by the grace of God, made manifest in Christ, accomplishing the empty promises that Satan could not perform, through the might and power of the one and only Living God. Satan, gives a false perception of himself, but his pride is made manifest in all that he has done; and the Bride of the LORD, fallen by their own judgment, receives the one that claimed to be the god of judgment, and are united in their just condemnation together.

...Every story ever told, every inspiration of the minds of men, every experience throughout their lives, confirms the truth of this gospel; like the lives of the characters of the Bible. And if God has proven so intricately involved in the their lives through their faith in the Word of God, than how much more is He, who respects not persons and who does not change, also as intricately involved in our lives, as well, through our faith in Jesus Christ Himself. The church applauds itself in finding types of Christ throughout the scriptures, yet because of blindness, has not re-read the passages in context concerning Christ. Had this been done through study, meditation and prayer they would find also types of the church, and/or Jew and Gentile, types of God the Father and/or the Holy Spirit, and types of Satan and/or the wicked; inasmuch that every single story, and sometimes stories within stories, in the Bible is an allegory or parallel to heavenly events.

Because we are in the midst of the kingdom of sin, fallen through Adam (even as there was a falling away led through Lucifer in heaven), the world is enduring the judgment that sin has placed against heaven and God ("as you have judged so shall you be judged"). This insists that every hero in the Bible is how Satan perceives himself (but truly reveals the likeness of God) and every villain is how he perceives God (but actually reveals his own likeness). Telling the difference between good and evil becomes more difficult to discern (not that we ever truly could), for these things are judged after the intents of the heart rather than the appearance of the action (For Christ, who "had no form nor comeliness; that when we should see him, there was no beauty that we should desire him," taught to, "judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."). The proof of righteousness (grace and love) or wickedness (pride and sin) is found in the presence of the alternative (i.e. you could have done otherwise but chose to do this; why?).

Satan's accusation against God is that He has a conflict of interest and holds all the advantages, therefore His will is always accomplished. Satan uses the division of God's people by his gospel, provoking one side against the other, causing strife and instigating war, in attempt to defeat and succeed God as the Most High through the ministry of judgment. This is why the unholy trinity, when given season to repent, accuses one another in the judgment of God (Adam blames the woman and the God that made her, and the woman says, "The devil made me do it!"). The trinity of God, however, is perfect in harmony and agreement: God performs three different offices simultaneously in order to prove that no conflict of interest exists, not only in the ruling of God's kingdom but even in the exacting of judgment against Satan and his kingdom (he who casts judgment, saying, "as you have judged so shall you be judged," is himself condemned; for as he thought to perform against another, so is it performed against himself).

Satan has purposed in his heart to challenge the glory and deity of God, by making the accolades and titles of God's glory seem to be falsely attributed and boastful beyond measure: He who will never forsake you will either cast you out or have His kingdom destroyed around Him, He who cannot be moved from His place either is condemned to the earth or is as powerless to save as an idol, He who said, "none shall pluck them from my hand," shall have his sheep scattered abroad by the smiting of the Shepherd, who called Himself Almighty (as the rod or scepter condemned by the sword), and the Physician who offered eternal life must Himself suffer death! Woe, woe unto you, and all that choose you, and walk in your ways! For you shall suffer the burden you have placed upon another, and watch another bear the glory that you desired upon yourself, as Haman. For He whom you have condemned is as your own soul (and immeasurably much more, even the creator of it and the giver of your life), therefore it is you who have condemned yourself through the arrogance of self-exaltation and hasty judgment, and proven the One you call your adversary to be supreme in every glory in which you have boasted yourself! For by reproving God for the grace in which you were created, you seem to suggest that the sin of which you accuse God is your own existence; and your insistence of the recompense of justice is the conquest of your own demise! Selah.

And blessed be the LORD of Glory and Father of Life forever and ever! He who would suffer as a sinner, yet without sin, to bring us to salvation and exaltation through the sacrifice of Himself: He who would appear as though wicked, to justify those who failed the appearance and letter of His law; and would suffer the challenge of His deity in order to perfect the knowledge of His Word forever, to show the supremacy of the Spirit of truth and the gospel of grace unto the salvation of His people! Blessed be the LORD who has done it, His Word which has made it known, and His Spirit which He has given to His people enjoined unto eternal life through the cross of Jesus Christ! Blessed be the way, the will, and the Word of the one true living God; for they are one, even as the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit! Such is our salvation, such is our gospel, saints of the Most High!

 

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...For it is as though God peering into the darkness, foresaw the world in suffering because of sin and vanity, seeing them who were "invisible," and committed Himself perpetually unto the gospel of grace, foreknowing the sacrifice of Himself that would be required, not only in order to enact creation and give you form, but foreknowing also the need for salvation to overcome the recompense of the ministry of sin and judgment. And once having fully committed Himself and dedicated His will to this end (as though offering Himself as the sacrifice in order to establish and maintain this kingdom), existing outside of time allowed Him to see the full accomplishment of His labors of love instantly, and receive as through revelation the kingdom of God, and witness to the fullness of what His sacrifice truly accomplished, needing but to continue this commitment perpetually that the fullness of the kingdom of God might be truly established according to the revelation or prophecy thereof (even as Satan prophesied and ministered in the name of the god that he thought to become upon the fulfillment of his ministry of judgment, but in that he would deny God the reign of His kingdom, founded on grace, and thought to reign in His place within His kingdom; so too it is done unto him, for "as you have judged so shall you be judged"). For it is as though Satan was called of God, and falsely assumed that it was the kingdom founded upon his commitment toward the ministry of judgment, and foresaw the Son who reigns at the right hand of God the Father in the kingdom of grace, whom He thought to be himself ("Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?") and His kingdom to be the fruition of his ministry, but instead, by his own judgment, has established the throne on which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is to be seated and reign forever and ever (for the ministry of judgment has indisputably proven the sovereignty of grace over judgment by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; and thus has exalted Christ to the very throne upon which Satan hoped to have reigned, even as he assumed to have accomplished against God Himself, for "as you have judged so shall you be judged")!

Even as God is permitted the manifestation of the fullness of His gospel made into a kingdom, so too Satan receives the manifestation of the serpent ("now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made."). However Satan assumes the revelations are the opposite, receiving the revelation of the kingdom of God as the fruition of his ministry and the serpent to be the deceitful and unlawful ministry of the grace of God. But remember, I said the sin assumed to be seen in God in truth is our own, and also grace will be required of all in the reconciliation of God in judgment; therefore Satan has as though laid up treasure in heaven to be given to another, and the fate he would impose upon another shall be his. See that by this same rule God is glorified in grace, and Satan condemned in judgment; for even as one thinks to do unto another so is it done unto him! Also this is why we cannot reign higher than the glory we ascribe unto God, for the glory we praise and bless the LORD in, is the same we shall receive from God in judgment (and ought not the LORD receive again the glory He imparted and blessed upon us, thus the ultimate reconciliation of the judgment of God; the righteous giving willingly beforehand, and the wicked forcefully and grudgingly to the very end).

...As I have said before, every story, and sometimes stories within stories, in the Bible is a reference to heavenly events: such as in the midst of the flood of Noah is an account of the raven and doves Noah let out of the window of the ark to determine the condition of the earth. The raven which went "to and fro" upon the face of the earth represents Satan, and the dove sent out three times represents the three ages of the church/people of God; the first was the fall of angels (hence those led about by deception "found no rest for the sole of (their) foot" for they were like those who wandered about in the wilderness awaiting the opportunity to seize their inheritance from God, which was not yet), the second was redemption through Christ (hence the first fruits of the earth were received of him whereby he knew the time was near), and the third is the establishment of His eternal kingdom (hence the dove needed not return, but found a permanent abode upon the earth). Such is the detailed significance of every verse of the bible, for it is the manifestation of the intricate paradigm of will of God revealed by His Word! Nothing God does is impulsive, presumptuous, or reckless: all the works of God are calculated, precise, and deliberate. God does not leave any detail to chance, or react to circumstance except to teach His people through each ordeal the dependability and faithfulness of God's precepts and doctrine. For since God does not change, and the size and magnitude of the situation is irrelevant to Him ("he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much."), God reacts to the earthly events even as He would the heavenly events, and if His doctrine proves sovereign in one realm, so too will it prosper in the other!

Satan, given an intimate knowledge of the mystery of God, thought to have found a flaw or a lie or a weakness within God. And inspired by the progress and prosperity of the unwavering devotion of the LORD's will (seeing as it were the eternal kingdom revealed by His actions; for past, present and future intersect in heaven, existing outside of time: much like the transfiguration upon a "high mountain" of Jesus Christ before a select few of His Apostles), committed apostasy (and though he was numbered among the Body of God, cast himself out, to be separate and apart from God and reign independently from His rule) having formulated a ministry of rebellion against God. He ministered of this flaw found in God, and those that reigned of His body, who abused their authority and prominent place within the kingdom, and prophesied that through his ministry ("as you have judged so shall you be judged") justice would come upon God and His kingdom.

Satan promised destruction upon God and heaven and all that remained loyal to God in the midst of His sin, and prosperity upon those that followed him unwaveringly in the midst of persecutions and sufferings to ultimately create a new kingdom which shall reign in place of God (much like the ministry of Noah against the world of men, created in the likeness and image of God, warning of this world's destruction and a new world to be created/revealed for those that abode within the protection of his ministry and works). Many followed after this ministry of Satan, some being deceived believing this doctrine to be the means of their salvation and deliverance (these are the tributaries overcome and "conquered" by the kingdom of God and not those who received the Word initially to become a part of His Body), some being enticed and tempted with the notion of living and reigning independently from God's Word, some becoming ashamed of God believing the accusation of sin or weakness found in Him, and some out of fear of the destruction they had prophesied against heaven. For this ministry, those that remained as the Body of God retaliated with judgment of death, contradicting the ministry by which they were enjoined unto God from the beginning (like Christ's parable of a man forgiven an enormous debt, yet refused to forgive one that owed him a meager amount). Therefore they unknowingly have sold their "birthright" and their prominent estate before God is given unto another, and the judgment they hastily and impulsively cast toward another has fallen upon themselves by the precept of Satan's ministry, "as you have judged so shall you be judged!"

For the beginning of God's ministry was the Word, the vowing of promises and prophecies concerning those things which were yet to come, orchestrating the law and judgment (for without the recognition of judgment and order there can be no peace nor acknowledgement of the sovereignty of grace as the only true fulfillment of the law), and the example of grace (in that the purpose and intent of the giving of the Word was to reveal that the true righteousness and supremacy of the works of God originated from the heart, manifesting the intent and motivation behind all of His works toward His people to be out of love). The end purpose of His works was the understanding of the gospel of grace for His people which needed the foundation of the law to uphold and make manifest the exaltation of grace over law and the ministry of judgment (as the mercy seat which sits atop the ark of the covenant which contained the commandments of the law). Those that hearkened unto the calling of God believed the Word to be the implementation of law and judgment, and consented in the supremacy of law and judgment over anarchy and chaos, but neglected the understanding of the LORD's self sacrificial example in giving the Word to construct a kingdom built atop these foundations (for judgment is a supreme over vanity and chaos as grace and love is over judgment and the law).

The law, seemingly focused upon self preservation and sanctification, appealed to the pride and ego of those that followed, who assumed this same nature was endorsed by, and prominent within, God Himself (this misconception is because the LORD encouraged the sanctification of the law, in its proper season, to accomplish the need for righteous sacrifice in order to manifest the gospel of grace, hence the LORD's insistence of righteousness and holiness according to the law was so that the need for the sacrifice of Christ could be accomplished on behalf of all those who have failed the law). Satan then constructs his ministry, turning the assumed gospel of God against Himself, saying, "as you have judged so shall you be judged," so as to expose the prideful nature in those that enjoined themselves to the Body of God, and was assumed to be present in God Himself, as outright sin and corruption. Satan then constructs his own ministry to emulate the perceived ministry of God, so that when a judgment of condemnation was pronounced against him by the collective Body of God, it would condemn God Himself in proving that even He who boasted of righteousness and law and judgment was condemned by His own Word (for what did Satan do, but follow the example of God, whom he accused of sin; therefore if Satan be guilty, by that same judgment is God also condemned).

Satan was willing to "sacrifice" (allow to be condemned to death) those that first heard his ministry, who were deceived by the appearance of the doctrine of grace and deliverance, only to be condemned by the doctrine of law and judgment, because this would exalt him to the seat of God and rule over the Body or Bride of God who falsely condemned him (which was the motivation and intent of his heart from the beginning). Thus Satan would be exalted to his desired place and God would be condemned for His failure to endure the judgment for His sin according to His own doctrine. The problem was that Satan's ministry was not finished there (for if God's ministry was not allowed to be changed, but remain perfect and unaltered, then so too must Satan's ministry by which he thinks to accuse Him); for since the founding principle of his doctrine was, "as you have judged so shall you be judged," then Satan had to endure the justice against his works as well. God leads by example in grace granting Satan the very victory that he so desired; so that as Satan desired to enter into the LORD's labors of creation, using and manipulating God according to His ministry to accomplish his desired end, that he might reign in His place through his ministry of judgment, so too Christ comes to reign in place of him, entering into his labors, using the very ministry of judgment as a stepping stone to make manifest the sovereignty of the gospel of grace!

Satan was willing to sacrifice those that first followed him in attempt to obtain those that remained because that is what he accused God of doing, thinking that if God should condemn Satan and accuse him of sin, He instead condemns Himself who has done the same actions (Satan was willing to sacrifice those that followed him, being deceived by the gospel of grace, to obtain the glory of God, because he believed God had deceived those that first followed His Word, who followed perceiving this to be the orchestration of the perfect law, but in the end are condemned to obtain the sinners and heathen who received not the law, calling them the fruits of the gospel of grace). But by walking according to the example of He who Satan claimed to be a sinner (believing to be justified in that he was enforcing justice against Him), he has performed the very sin that he would accuse God of, if he is proven wrong concerning his initial accusation against Him! Therefore God, through Christ, will avenge the ministry of grace, proving this ministry to be sovereign over judgment and irrefutable according to law; thus Satan pursued one that is innocent, and his actions which he believed to be justified in avenging sin, becomes sin in itself (performing the very ministry against Satan that he supposed to have performed against God, and condemning him of the very sin that he falsely accused God of)!

For as Satan believed to have divided, and thus weakened, the kingdom of God; so too is his kingdom divided. And if the very Word of God can be divided between the ministries of grace and judgment, then the kingdom of judgment and law can be divided between good and evil, right and wrong. Again, Satan believes he is justified in his actions because he is avenging God's supposed sin, and merely manifesting the sin that exists in Him: therefore the argument is whether or not sin is the product of God's ministry or Satan's, and thus who shall reign over the kingdom of sin having been the founder of death. Satan's belief that he is exposing a secret sin in God has blinded him to fact of his own sin: since he came from the kingdom and Body of God, supposedly perfect in righteousness, yet is condemned by God for his actions (which are modeled after the example of God's works), then in effect God has condemned Himself having detested the grotesque appearance of His own shameful ways ("If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was. But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." And, "But 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, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.").


...For as Adam was made a son of God after His likeness and image, and became a man of sin, so too they which are enjoined unto him, who were as the church of God, the daughter of Zion, are become as "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." Thus did Adam call her name Eve, for she is "the mother of all living" (hence the beginning of the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of fertility, from whence we get the abominable customs of "Easter," the decorating of eggs and images of rabbits displayed as symbols of fertility. And also the picture of Mary pregnant with Christ, and given the blasphemous title of "the mother of God," much like the title of the "queen of heaven" mentioned throughout the prophecies), supposing that God and His kingdom would die by His own decree against sin (for if sin is present in the son, surely it is found also in the father, in whose image and likeness he was made. And if God had judged sin worthy of death against Adam, He himself also must bear the judgment of death as Christ! For such is the ministry of Satan, thinking to have condemned God by His Word and establishing another kingdom arrayed in all the beauty and splendor of God).

But instead of Satan and the wicked interceding, as though by works, upon the place, glory, and dominion of the Righteous, the righteous shall be given, as though through grace, the place, glory, and dominion of the wicked! For by Satan's own decree is he condemned, for "as you have judged, so shall you be judged!" By this very word are you condemned, and bear the sentence of death within you: by the very imagination of your heart have you removed yourself from an everlasting place and dominion, and tarnished your glory of righteousness that was as perfection itself, to the end that indeed you should die, even as God warned you by His Word, and even as you would dare attempt to prophecy against Him in vain ("Have you not procured this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?" And, "your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart.)! Repent! For such is the heritage of all that are born of Eve, and enjoined unto Adam, the man of sin, fallen from grace! You who enjoined yourself unto Satan, who sought to make the LORD, who cannot be moved from His place, to swoon by the power of sin and death; know that you have indeed succeeded, unto the breaking of His heart, who loved you more than His own life! And so now, repent: let your hearts be broken and swoon at the awesome power of the Word of God, and His gospel of grace which is become your salvation!

...The likeness of the Father is manifested in the Son; the gracious nature of His very heart manifested through Jesus Christ, and the severity and power of His office and position in judgment through Satan. And like those that follow them, the one is transformed unto the glorious image of He who created them, and the other, having worshiped a lie, progressively returns unto the nothingness from whence they were made; so in grace we are given a gift by which we progress and advance toward the very Image of God, but in judgment we are reduced to nothing (for apart from the grace of God, that is all that we truly are). See also that God's grace was so abundant from the beginning, that though He knows no other god, and nothing is worthy to be compared to Him, He would treat the nothingness and vanity from whence we were made as though as Himself.

Existing as though in a season surrounded by darkness, the LORD foresaw the vanity of all the labors that He could enact because of the inevitability of sin and corruption to destroy it (like the entire book of Ecclesiastes). All His works would come to naught, and the judgment and death inevitably imposed upon Him would necessitate that another would reign in His stead. The LORD had compassion, foreknowing those that would be created (having "no form or comeliness"), but could not live but by the sacrifice of the life that was in Himself. So the LORD concluded grace as the only solution to the paradox of vanity and oblivion; the giving of Himself, even unto death (as though to satisfy the deficit of vanity itself); giving the life that was in Himself before the pending judgment ("Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."), so that in judgment He might receive His life again ("life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.").

The perfection of grace is, either it is accepted forthright, or is futilely challenged by judgment and awarded by default through judgment. The futility of judgment is that nothing can be created by judgment, for all things remain as they are, or once begun, must bear the judgment of death and return unto nothing. Hence vanity is given life by the sacrifice of God through grace, granting vanity even the portion allotted unto God; thus a kingdom is constructed of God as though by works, inevitably challenged and judged by Satan on behalf of vanity, and therefore awarded to God by right through the only possible resolution available to judgment (paying double according to the restitution of the law, not only returning to the Lord that which was lost, but also awarding Him an equal portion as He was prepared to give); thus is the creation of the kingdom of God.

Satan, the son of perdition, acts as though a messiah to vanity (the god that he should become upon the fulfillment of this ministry, even as Christ is seated upon the empty throne of the mercy seat of the law) and thinks to act out justice for this perceived transgression; promising those that would follow him a kingdom free from the sin of which he accused God (which cannot be acquired through works and judgment, for judgment cannot alter or contradict itself, nor has it the power to create but only to destroy). And instead, as mandated by justice, comes Christ to make manifest the sovereignty of the gospel of grace over judgment and vanity, succeeding where Satan would inevitably fail, and enduring the judgment and condemnation by which Satan would inevitably fall.

Hence we see the three sons of Eve; Cain, Abel and Seth; and a pattern of these repeated throughout the history of the world: the Gentiles (the sinners), Jews (the law bearers) and the Church (the gospel preachers). Satan believing that God's actions were sin against vanity, avenges against God through the fall of angels, willing to sacrifice themselves believing the judgment would mandate their own exaltation (Satan constructing a ministry that would mimic the works of God in order to orchestrate justice against His "sin;" that as God has done against vanity and thought to construct an eternal kingdom, Satan, avenging vanity, might acquire the kingdom of God through judgment. "Reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not strawed," even as shall be the accusation of the wicked against the LORD, to the condemning of themselves.

Therefore the LORD says to the church, "I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you built not, and you dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which you planted not do you eat." And again, "And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed."

But the LORD, who contradicts not Himself, again sacrifices Himself before the impending judgment, granting Satan his success through grace (not judgment as Satan would suppose), and because it given of grace and not awarded by judgment, the pending judgment would award unto God the successful fulfillment of His will! Satan calls God the sinner (Cain, the murderer), and would avenge vanity through the sacrifice of himself (Able, the giver of a more excellent sacrifice who died at the hands of His brother), to bring about the full kingdom founded upon the ministry of judgment through the death of God (Seth, appointed for Able whom Cain slew). God allows this insolent rebellion (Cain), granting Satan His success through the sacrifice of Himself through Christ (Able), to establish the Church of God founded upon the gospel of grace in the coming world age, accomplished upon the death of Satan (Seth).

Satan seeking to assume the vacant throne (built atop the foundations of the law and judgment), sovereign above even God, and condemn God even unto death and oblivion, instead mandates Christ to be seated upon that throne (proving grace and mercy to be the fulfillment of the law and sovereign above even judgment), and Satan to occupy the vacant tomb from whence He was resurrected (for like Joseph, who laid Christ in the place where he was to be buried, so too Christ, shall graciously bestow upon Satan the place where He was to reside, for such was the desire of his heart. For you cannot reign higher than you allow God to reign; and you cannot be glorified more than you saw fit to bestow upon Him!). Hallelujah! Blessed be the LORD Most High, perpetual in grace, infinite in mercy, to the salvation of His people, and the construction of an eternal kingdom!

Blessed be the LORD by whom it was done, that my eyes, as it were, have seen it, and that I might know it, through the revelation of the LORD's very heart through the Word of God, and that blessed heritage of grace we receive of our Father by the Holy Spirit. Yea, blessed be the LORD who has defined and outlined the matters of ethics and morals, in their entirety, by His very initiative to enact the gospel of grace, so that judgment cannot repay, by its very nature, and thus condemns itself in its false condemnation of grace. Blessed be those created from His sacrifice; every possible perspective, every statistical mathematical possibility, every logical and legal argument that proves the sovereignty of grace over judgment; given a name and a form, and a place and dominion within the ranks of God's kingdom (the LORD foreknowing their way and nature and interactions with one another, manifested in the lives of men upon the earth: endless are the mercies of the mind of God, they too are as the sand of the seashore, and as the stars of heaven)!