The Battle between God and Satan: Part 7 – For we wrestle not against flesh and blood

Our battle here on Earth is not against flesh and blood, but rather against a powerful invisible spiritual kingdom comprised of evil principalities, powers, and rulers.

Ephesians 6:11-12 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
 
It was God's desire to create the visible from the invisible, but before God ever created it, there already existed a vast spiritual kingdom comprised of a hierarchy of angelic celestial beings. When God created Lucifer, God created him perfectly; he was created a very beautiful, very intelligent and powerful Archangel, and Lucifer was at the top of God's celestial hierarchy. Lucifer was also there present with God when God was creating the visible Universe, which is why I believe God appointed Lucifer as the presiding guardian angel over the earthly garden named Eden. There came a time, however, when Lucifer's heart turned wicked and he rebelled against God. He was also able to convince one third of the angelic host to join him in his rebellion. According to ancient extra-Biblical manuscripts, after Lucifer and one third of the angels rebelled against God, a great celestial battle took place in the invisible spiritual dimensions (also referred to as the angel wars), which also affected and decimated God's newly created visible Universe. It was at this point when God then had to devise a plan of redemption by which God would not only be able to reclaim and restore his visible earthly garden, but also redeem His fallen children, referred to as the sons of God.
   
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.

Luke 20:36 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

Galatians 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
 
In God's plan to reclaim and restore the fallen visible Universe and redeem the fallen sons of God, God had to create a controlled environment, or "sandbox" if you will, in order to maintain control over the fallen, and this is when God created the firmament of the heavens. God would also find that creating the firmament was not enough to control his rebellious angels, but that they would also need to constrained, or "bound", in eternal chains reserved until the Day of Judgment".
 
2 Peter 2:4 For God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.

Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
 
And so even though we humans cannot visibly see this vast spiritual kingdom, it is very real and very powerful. The fallen angels that are now being restrained in eternal chains until the day of judgment will also soon be unleashed into our world for a final confrontation as described in the book of Revelation. But there are, however, millions of evil spirits (or demons) that roam the world and against whom we must daily war against with our minds. This is why the Lord commands Christians to equip themselves with a special type of spiritual “armor” in order to help us in this battle.
 
Ephesians 6:13-18 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the preparation of the gospel of peace; In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
   
2 Corinthians 10 also tells us that we are not waging a war according to the physical flesh with carnal weapons, because it is a spiritual war that is fought with the thoughts of our minds, which is why it is so important to control our every thought.
 
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but are mighty through God and have divine power to demolish strongholds; casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, as we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Isaiah 54:7 “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me," says the Lord.
   
Because most of us live comfortable lives and enjoy the things of the world, it is very easy to forget there is a raging spiritual battle occurring all around us that we cannot see with our physical eyes. Demon possession, although it can be subtle and is not always detectable to us, is also a very true reality, and  Jesus and the disciples spent much of their ministry on Earth casting out demons.
 
Matthew 8:28-32 When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, saying, "What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?" Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding. So the demons begged Him, saying, "If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine." And He said to them, "Go." So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine and suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water.

But Satan, however, still retains a great amount of authority over mankind and the world, and is referred to as "the god of this age”. I could write a long study on how Satan has been using his seed and the evil rulers of this world throughout thousands of years of the history of the world to bring down the kingdom of God. Satan is a genius at blinding people's minds and he works hard to prevent them from understanding and receiving the Gospel of Salvation.
   
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

Those of us who have received the Gospel of Salvation and have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior are bitter enemies of Satan and his kingdom. Since the creation of Adam and Eve, Satan has been using all that is in his power to destroy as many of God’s children as he possibly can. I could also write a long study on how Satan came to many of the prophets pretending that he was Jehovah God and actually influenced them to unknowingly commit abominations against the true Father. The plain and true reality is that this world belongs to Satan, and is why Christians are commanded to stay apart from it. Jesus himself called Satan the “god of this age”, the “prince of this world”, the “ruler of this world”, the “prince of the power of the air”.
 
John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
 
John 16:7-11 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter (the Holy Spirit) will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in me; of righteousness, because I go to my Father and you see me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
 
Ephesians 2:1-2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you walked according to the ways of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Jesus preached that he was not of this world and that his kingdom was not of this world.
 
John 8:23 But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.”
 
John 18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.”

The Bible refers to the world that we live in as "Babylon the Great", and when Christ returns, Babylon the Great will fall, and Christ will then command all his people to come out of her.
 
Rev 18:1-5 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues; for her sins have reached to heaven and God has remembered her evil doings.
 
 
I will end Part 7 here and continue with Part 8.

The Battle between God and Satan: Part 6 – Satan's defeat at the cross

Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now has salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ come; for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down!"

In Rev 12:10 we see that Satan, the accuser of our brethren, is cast down to the Earth. There are several different interpretation of Rev chapter 12 floating around, but after I spent several weeks researching this chapter, as well as writing a long study on it, I concluded that the manchild of Rev 12 is the Bride of Christ that is Raptured 3.5 years before the end of the world, which also occurs on the same day when Satan is cast down to the Earth.

When Satan caused Adam and Eve to fall from grace in the Garden of Eden, God "legally" lost a certain amount of authority over mankind, while Satan "legally" earned a certain amount of authority of mankind. This is why after the fall of man God worked through Old Testament covenants, and then later sent His Son who was born into the world as a man, and after that continued working through the New Testament covenant. In the coming 1,000 year reign of Christ, the Bible states that God will still continue to work through a new covenant, as declared in Hebrews 8.

Hebrew 8:6-13 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said: "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Keeping in mind that although supreme authority cannot ever be completely taken away from the Father, because Satan is "legally" allowed to retain a great amount of authority in the world, Satan uses this authority to accuse mankind day and night.

When Christ was born into the world from a human mother, Christ then "legally" earned the right to have authority over mankind, and is why Christ almost always referred to himself as, "the Son of Man". When Christ shed his blood on the cross 2,000 years ago, Satan was dealt a death blow, and his head was bruised. How the blood sacrifice of the Son of God can atone for the sins of the billions of souls is a supernatural mystery our carnal minds cannot fully comprehend; but because God knew that mankind would fall from grace and lose their immortality, God's plan of salvation by the blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God was flawlessly planned out from before the foundation of the Earth.

Rev 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him [the beast], whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

The ritual of sacrificing animals to God began in the days of Adam and Eve.

Genesis 4:2-5 Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time, it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat; and the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering.

Since the fall of man and throughout the entire history of mankind, in every known civilization of the world, human and animal sacrifices have been performed as religious rituals in the worship of gods. This is because there is a supernatural occurrence that takes place in the spiritual realm surrounding a blood sacrifice. The main thing the Bible tells us about a blood sacrifice is that there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood.

Leviticus 17:11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

Hebrews 9:22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Thus for the cause of this supernatural spiritual mystery, the atonement of the sins of billions of people born into the world was carried out by the blood sacrifice of the Son of Man, and was the highest price God could ever pay for our redemption.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

The crucifixion of the Son of God for the redemption of unworthy sinners was a great act of love.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

1 John 3:16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us

We cannot fully comprehend the "legality" that exists in the spiritual realm regarding the blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God, but it was "legally" the only way that the Savior of the world was able to redeem God's children from the clutches of Satan and from eternal damnation. This is why all who accept this awesome and free gift of Salvation will be redeemed, and will be able return to the Father and the Son to live in paradise for all of eternity.

John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Romans 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

Colossians 1:19-20 For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Hebrews 9:11-18 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.

In the passage above of Hebrews 9 we can see legal jargon used that we in modern times also use in regards to a testator's "Last Will & Testament". That a person's "Last Will & Testament" cannot be "enforced" as long as the testator lives, "for where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." Thus, the death of the Lamb of God was the "death of the testator" which was necessary in order that the "heirs" could inherit the kingdom of God as declared in the Bible, which is God's "Last Will & Testament".
 
Galatians 4:7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Christ also had to inherit the kingdom by his own death. If Satan had been victorious in preventing the birth and death of Jesus, Christ could not inherited the kingdom of his Father; thus, we are as brothers and sisters in Christ, and heirs along with him.
 
Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.
 
The book of Revelation has more to say about the Lamb of God.

Rev 5:6 And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Rev 7:17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

Rev 19:9 Then he said to me, write: "Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!"

Rev 21:23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

Rev 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.

In Rev 19 Christ is seen wearing a “vesture dipped in blood” as he rides forth into the Battle of Armageddon followed by the armies in heaven.

Rev 19:11-14 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.

Although Satan was successful in gaining legal authority over man after they fell in the Garden of Eden, Christ was victorious at "the old wooden cross." Because of the incredible love of God for His children and because of He that is called Faithful and True, the Son of Man, the Savior of the world, billions of souls will join the Lamb God to become "heirs" of God's kingdom, which will be more glorious and wonderful than we could ever imagine.
 
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

The Battle between God and Satan: Part 5 – Noah’s Flood

From the creation of Adam and Eve to the birth of Noah, ten generations reproduced and populated the Earth over a span of about 1,500 years. The Bible is clear that in those days before Noah’s flood, fallen angels took human woman as wives and produced children with them.

Genesis 6:1-4 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children unto them; the same became mighty men which were of old; men of renown.

It is an archaeological and scientifically proven fact that giants once lived on the Earth, and their skeletal remains are found all around the world. Their DNA has also been tested and shows that it contains non-human DNA. To view an excellent comprehensive documentary on this and Noah’s flood, go to this URL:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lktmmd7YnD8  
 
These hybrid children of the fallen angels born to human mothers are called "Nephilim". Some of these Nephilim were giants, and some of them competed in Olympic style athletic competitions. They were what Genesis 6 refers to as "mighty men which were of old; men of renown." They were known to the Greeks as the demigods of Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, etc., and to the Romans they were known as the demigods of Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Apollo, Mars, Vulcan, Neptune, Sol, Diana, Venus, etc. Not only did fallen angels intentionally corrupt human DNA, but they also corrupted animal DNA, and I believe that mythological stories of centaurs, minotaurs, satyrs, and mermaids are not factitious, but are true in nature. Fallen angels also taught mankind forbidden practices such as war and the creation of weapons of war, the wearing of makeup, the production and consumption of mind altering drugs, and much more. The books of Enoch have much to say about this period of time. Following are chapters 9 and 10 from the Book of Enoch.

From the Book of Enoch:
Chapter 9: 1. Then Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel, looked down from heaven, and saw the quantity of blood which was shed on earth, and all the iniquity which was done upon it, and said one to another, It is the voice of their cries; 2. The earth deprived of her children has cried even to the gate of heaven. 3. And now to you, O ye holy ones of heaven, the souls of men complain, saying, Obtain Justice for us with 1 the Most High. Then they said to their Lord, the King, Thou art Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings. The throne of thy glory is for ever and ever, and for ever and ever is thy name sanctified and glorified. Thou art blessed and glorified. 4. Thou hast made all things; thou possessest power over all things; and all things are open and manifest before thee. Thou beholdest all things, and nothing, can be concealed from thee. 5. Thou hast seen what Azazyel has done, how he as taught every species of iniquity upon earth, and has disclosed to the world all the secret things which are done in the heavens. 6. Samyaza also has taught sorcery, to whom thou hast given authority over those who are associated with him. They have gone together to the daughters of men; have lain with them; have become polluted; 7. And have discovered crimes to them. 8. The women likewise have brought forth giants. 9. Thus has the whole earth been filled with blood and with iniquity. 10. And now behold the souls of those who are dead, cry out. 11. And complain even to the gate of heaven. 12. Their groaning ascends; nor can they escape from the unrighteousness which is committed on earth. Thou knowest all things, before they exist. 13. Thou knowest these things, and what has been done by them; yet thou dost not speak to us. 14. What on account of these things ought we to do to them?

Chapter 10 1. Then the Most High, the Great and Holy One spoke, 2. And sent Arsayalalyur to the son of Lamech, 3. Saying, Say to him in my name, Conceal thyself. 4. Then explain to him the consummation which is about to take place; for all the earth shall perish; the waters of a deluge shall come over the whole earth, and all things which are in it shall be destroyed. 5. And now teach him how he may escape, and how his seed may remain in all the earth. 6. Again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazyel hand and foot; cast him into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael, cast him in there. 7. Throw upon him hurled and pointed stones, covering him with darkness; 8. There shall he remain for ever; cover his face, that he may not see the light. 9. And in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire. 10. Restore the earth, which the angels have corrupted; and announce life to it, that I may revive it. 11. All the sons of men shall not perish in consequence of every secret, by which the Watchers have destroyed, and which they have taught, their offspring. 12. All the earth has been corrupted by the effects of the teaching of Azazyel. To him therefore ascribe the whole crime. 13. To Gabriel also the Lord said, Go to the biters, to the reprobates, to the children of fornication; and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men; bring them forth, and excite them one against another. Let them perish by mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs. 14. They shall all entreat thee, but their fathers shall not obtain their wishes respecting them; for they shall hope for eternal life, and that they may live, each of them, five hundred years. 15. To Michael likewise the Lord said, Go and announce his crime to Samyaza, and to the others who are with him, who have been associated with women, that they might be polluted with all their impurity. And when all their sons shall be slain, when they shall see the perdition of their beloved, bind them for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment, and of consummation, until the judgment, the effect of which will last for ever, be completed. 16. Then shall they be taken away into the lowest depths of the fire in torments; and in confinement shall they be shut up for ever. 17. Immediately after this shall he, together with them, burn and perish; they shall be bound until the consummation of many generations. 18. Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind. 19. Let every oppressor perish from the face of the earth; 20. Let every evil work be destroyed.

The Bible states it grieved God in His heart that He had created mankind. Only Noah was found to be perfect in his generation, and he walked with God.

Genesis 6:5-9 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for I repent that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

In order to “undo” what the fallen angels had done to corrupt all life on the Earth, God had to make the decision to bring Judgment upon the Earth, thus the plans were set for the destruction of all living things, except for Noah and his family, and a select number of "un-corrupted" animals.

The main difference between life on Earth as it existed before the flood of Noah's day, an life on Earth as it continued to exist after the flood, is that God was able to protect the future corruption of our DNA by imprisoning the fallen angels. As quoted above in Chapter 10 of the Book of Enoch, God ordered his Archangel Raphel to bind Azazyel and imprison him in a place called Dudael, after which God would restore the Earth.

Chapter 10:6-9 Again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazyel hand and foot; cast him into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael, cast him in there. Throw upon him hurled and pointed stones, covering him with darkness; There shall he remain for ever; cover his face, that he may not see the light. And in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire. Restore the earth, which the angels have corrupted; and announce life to it, that I may revive it.

The judgment that God brought against Noah’s generation is very pertinent to the judgment God is preparing to bring upon our world here shortly. Jesus declared the following in Matthew 24.

Matthew 24:37-39 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

The Battle between God and Satan: Part 4 – The Serpent and the Fall of Man

The common story of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden goes as follows: Adam and Eve were living in paradise and were told by God they could eat from any tree in the garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, a talking serpent convinced Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree, which she then shared with her husband. Upon eating of the forbidden fruit, they lost their innocence as a result of their eyes being opened, and became ashamed of their nakedness and tried to hide from God. Upon discovering this act of disobedience, God punished them (including the serpent), banned them from paradise, and drove them away into a cursed world.

Genesis 3:1-7 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' "Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was beautiful to the eyes and a tree to be desired, and that would give one understanding, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked.

There is, however, much more to this story than what meets the eye; in fact something so terrible happened here, that it would continue to affect the lives and eternal destinies of billions of souls born into the world for thousands of years to come. Who was this serpent? And what exactly was this tree of knowledge of good and evil all about?

The word “serpent” of Genesis 3 was translated from the Hebrew noun “Nachash [H5175]”, which is not your ordinary snake. A Nachash in the Bible was actually an angelic being called a “Seraphim”, which resembled a fiery, feathered, flying dragon. In Isaiah 6, seraphims are seen hovering above the throne of God.

Isaiah 6:1-3 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims (Nachash H8314), each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Although Nachash are sometimes described as having wings and able to fly, in Isaiah 27 we find a Nachash named Leviathin described as a “dragon that is in the sea”.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan, the piercing serpent “Nachash H8314”; even leviathan that crooked serpent “Nachash H8314”; and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In Isaiah 14 the Nachash is described as a fiery flying serpent.

Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's “Nachash H5175” root shall come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a fiery “Nachash H8314” flying serpent “Nachash H8314”.

In the book of Revelation, Satan is called both a dragon and a serpent.

Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Now to analyze the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Trees in the Bible can also be a reference to living beings, such as in the following passages.

Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree (H6086) planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees (H6086) of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree (H6086), have exalted the low tree (H6086), have dried up the green tree (H6086), and have made the dry tree (H6086) to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

In Ezekiel 31, Lucifer is the tree that God made fair by the multitude of his branches, which all the other trees of the Garden of Eden envied. It was Lucifer who exalted himself in his pride, and whom God drove out of Eden because of his wickedness.

Ezekiel 31:9-11 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees (H6086) of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick foliage, and his heart is lifted up in his height; I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Now to analyze what the forbidden fruit represents, which was a product of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die.”

There were 2 trees described as being “in the midst of the garden”: the tree of life, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Bible scholars are in agreement that the tree of life is a representation of Christ, the Son of God, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil was Lucifer; thus both the Son of God and Lucifer were present and living "in the midst of the garden”. Before Adam and Eve fell into sin and experienced spiritual “death”, their bodies were bodies of light, and they radiated with light. Following is a passage from an ancient manuscript called “The Cave of Treasures.”

When quietness was reigning over all the Ranks [of the Angels], and the hosts [of heaven], God said, "Come ye, let Us make man in Our image, and according to Our likeness." Now by this word "Us" He maketh known concerning the Glorious Persons [of the Trinity]. And when the angels heard these words they were in fear and trembling, saying one to another, "We shall see a great miracle today, the likeness of God our Maker." And they saw the right hand of God opened out flat, and stretched out over the whole world; and all creatures were collected in the palm of His right hand. And they saw that He took from the whole mass of the earth one grain of dust, and from the whole nature of water one drop of water, and from all the air which is above one puff of wind, and from the whole nature of fire a little of its heat and warmth. And the angels saw that when these four feeble (or inert) materials were placed in the palm of His right hand, that is to say, cold, and heat, and dryness, and moisture, God formed Adam… God formed Adam with His holy hands, in His own Image and Likeness, and when the angels saw Adam's glorious appearance they were greatly moved by the beauty thereof. For they saw the image of his face burning with glorious splendor like the orb of the sun, and the light of his eyes was like the light of the sun, and the image of his body was like unto the sparkling of crystal. There he was arrayed in the apparel of sovereignty, and there was the crown of glory set upon his head, there was he made king, and priest, and prophet, there did God make him to sit upon his honorable throne, and there did God give him dominion over all creatures and things.     -  The Cave of Treasures

Thus God created man in His own image and to have dominion over all creatures and things in the Garden of God

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

Lucifer, however, who had originally been given full authority over the Earth as its covering cherub, now found himself usurped by Adam and Eve, who were not only created fully in the image and likeness of God, but had also now been given full dominion over all creatures. Lucifer had to now accept a submissive position under mankind as his new responsibility was now to be that of a ministering spirit to them, their guardian angel, and under their authority, and this is something his pride simply could not tolerate. Lucifer became enraged and was extremely jealous of Adam and Eve, and because of his great pride, he fell hard, and an intense hatred of them emerged.  

And she [Eve] cried out and said: 'Woe unto thee, you devil. Why do you attack us for no cause? What have you to do with us? What have we done to thee? For you pursue us with craft! Or why do you maliciously assail us? Have we taken away thy glory and caused you to be without honor? Why do you harry us, thou enemy (and persecute us) to the death in wickedness and envy?' And with a heavy sigh, the devil spoke: 'O Adam! all my hostility, envy, and sorrow is for thee, since it is for thee that I have been expelled from my glory, which I possessed in the heavens, in the midst of the angels, and for thee was I cast out in the earth.' Adam answered, 'What do you tell me? What have I done to you or what is my fault against you? Seeing that you have received no harm or injury from us, why do you pursue us?' The devil replied, 'Adam, what do you tell me? It is for thy sake that I have been hurled from that place when you were formed. I was hurled out of the presence of God and banished from the company of the angels. When God blew into thee the breath of life and thy face and likeness was made in the image of God, Michael also brought thee and made (us) worship thee in the sight of God; and God the Lord spoke: ‘Here is Adam. I have made you in our image and likeness.' And Michael went out and called all the angels, saying: 'Worship the image of God as the Lord God has commanded.' And Michael himself worshipped first; then he called me and said: 'Worship the image of God the Lord.' And I answered, 'I have no (need) to worship Adam.' And since Michael kept urging me to worship, I said to him, 'Why do you urge me? I will not worship an inferior and younger being (than I). I am his senior in the Creation, before he was made was I was already made. It is his duty to worship me.' When the angels who were under me heard this, they refused to worship him. And Michael said, 'Worship the image of God, but if you will not worship him, the Lord God will be wrath with thee.' And I said, 'If He be wrath with me, I will set my seat above the stars of heaven and will be like the Highest.' And God the Lord was wrath with me and banished me and my angels from our glory; and on your account were we expelled from our abodes into this world and hurled on the earth. And straightway we were overcome with grief, since we had been spoiled of so great glory. And we were grieved when we saw thee in such joy and luxury. And with guile I cheated thy wife and caused thee to be expelled through her (doing) from thy joy and luxury, as I have been driven out of my glory.   –  The Vitae of Adam and Eve 11:2-16:4

Thus Lucifer now began to scheme against man and devised a plan to beguile Eve into sinning against their Creator as revenge. Eve believed Lucifer, that if she ate from his tree, she would somehow gain secret knowledge and wisdom that would open her eyes and make her as a god, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:4-5 And the serpent said unto the woman, "You shall not surely die; for God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” 

With that lie, Lucifer began to seduce and beguile Eve into forsaking God’s perfect laws of righteousness, and learn the mysteries of iniquity. 

Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”

Notice in Genesis 3:6 that even before Eve had tasted of the forbidden fruit, it was the tree that Eve became enamored with, as she saw that it was the tree that was good for food, it was the tree that was beautiful to the eyes, it was the tree that could give one understanding, and she learned to lust after and desired the tree. Once Eve became completely enamored with the tree and could no longer resist her lust for its fruit, she partook of it and gave it also to her husband.

Genesis 3:6-7 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was beautiful to the eyes and a tree to be desired, and that would give one understanding, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked.

Thus Adam and Eve experienced a change to their bodies of light, and they experienced a type of "spiritual death". So what exactly happened here to their bodies? I was certain that something had occured to their DNA, but I could not find any resources to prove my hunch, so I reached out to Loren Pedersen who I knew has been studying the Luciferian rebellion for 40 years, and he volunteered to contribute the following exerpt.

What is "image" and "likeness"? "Image" is what something/someone looks like on the outside, while "likeness" is what something/someone is like on the inside. So Adam and Eve were created to "look like God" on the outside, and to "be like God" on the inside. They were created 100% in God's "image and likeness" - NO other creature previously created, including the all the angelics, including Lucifer himself, had been created in 100% the "image and likeness" of the Godhead. Since Adam and Eve had been created 100% in the "image and likeness" of the Godhead, it means that they were created as:

- 100% perfect in body/flesh w/ full "body powers"

- 100% perfect in soul (mind, will, emotions) w/ full "soul powers"

- 100% perfect in spirit w/ full "spirit powers"

Typically, due to Western perspective, we believe in only 5 senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch; whereas the Eastern world has always believed, and practiced in, the "6th sense" (powers of mind/soul). However, could it be possible that Adam and Eve had also been created with a “Seventh Sense”? This “Seventh Sense” would have been a supernatural nature that would have possessed a "direct connect" with, and covering of and in, the Holy Spirit. In today's understanding and experience, this would be similar to someone being "baptized" and "walking in" the Holy Ghost, but which back then prior to "the fall", would have been a 100% coverage/utilization/walking in the Holy Spirit. It was this 100% "seventh sense" that gave Adam and Eve their "Light Bodies". Adam and Eve still had physical bodies of "flesh", but that "flesh" was not only 100% perfect, with no DNA corruption nor lack (prior to their fall), but was also 100% covered by the Holy Spirit. Think for a moment, what 100% across the board means ...

100% perfect in body/flesh means:

- no DNA corruption

- no "junk DNA"

- no lack of DNA for proper bodily functions

- no sicknesses, diseases, infirmities, defects

- a body with, what would appear today as, superhuman strength and endurance

- no "aging", nor wrinkles, nor "wearing down", but the "fountain of youth"

- bodies that were "immortal" (prior to their sin) - designed to live/function forever!

- the FULL UTILIZATION OF ALL DNA related to the body/flesh

100% perfect in soul (mind, will, emotions) means:

- full "powers of mind"

- no need for calculators nor computers (Adam and Eve were walking supercomputers)

-100% memory recall (no need for "taking notes", nor forgetting names, dates, places,

  as Adam and Eve were walking dictionaries, encyclopedias, and note pads)

- 100% thought projection and reception, aka "ESP", aka "direct mind link", not only

  with each other but also with the animals (other living creatures with souls)

- quite possibly the ability to dematerialize and materialize elsewhere "at will"

  (as Jesus, in His resurrected body, could walk through walls, yet still eat, etc)

- quite possibly the ability to levitate and move objects (such as large rocks/stones - is

  this how the Pyramids were built ? )

- full "powers of will" and the range/expression of their wills

- full "powers of emotion" and the range/expression of those emotions

- the ability to "peer into" and experience other "realms" and "dimensions"

- the FULL UTILIZATION OF ALL DNA related to the soul

100% perfect in spirit means:

- a 100%/perfect "direct connect" with the Godhead via the Holy Spirit

- 100% communion with the Father as He came down in the coolness of the day

- 100% communion also with the Son and the Holy Spirit

- 100% ability to "peer into" and experience the "realms of the Spirit world"

- 100% clothed in "Light", with no need for physical clothing

- Adam and Eve still had their flesh bodies (100% perfect), but which were "clothed in Light"

- the FULL UTILIZATION OF ALL DNA related to the spirit

God had built into Adam and Eve ALL the DNA needed for full utilization and full expression of their being created in God's exact "image and likeness", and thus their "flesh bodies" were capable of living forever as "immortals". When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, the first result of their sin was a “disconnection” from the Holy Spirit and the "Light" that had clothed them was now removed from them, revealing the nakedness of their flesh bodies. The DNA that was directly expressive of this former "direct connect" with the Holy Spirit had now become “deactivated” and turned into “junk DNA”. Recently, Russian scientists who study DNA have determined that, on average, Mankind uses only 8% of all DNA that he/she is born with. The rest of the DNA is called "junk DNA", in which scientists don't know what, if anything, it is used for.
-- Loren Pedersen --

There is still even more to the fall of man than the “deactivation of human DNA". Once Adam and Eve experienced spiritual death, the serpent went on further to also convince the woman that in order not to "die childless", that she would need to procreate. Thus Lucifer taught her the secrets of procreation and impregnated her with her first child, Cain. This is why God said He would greatly multiply her sorrow in the conception of children, and is also why He would put enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. The seed of the serpent is a reference to the lineage of Lucifer that would perpetuate in the world through the bloodline of Cain; even Christ himself spoke of this lineage.

Genesis 3:15-16 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Unto the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”

Matthew 13:38-40 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, "If God were your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

The lies that Lucifer beguiled Eve with are the same lies that would be at the central core of all the Mystery religions of the history of the world, which is, by eating from a forbidden tree, secret knowledge and wisdom (in our day it would also include technology), will be available to them, and they will live forever as a god. Lucifer, whose name became Satan, also tried to beguile the Lord Jesus to bow down to him win return for wealth and power.

Matthew 8-10 Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And said unto him, “All these things will I give thee, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall you serve.’”

The desire to gain access to privileged information, gain wealth and power, and to become as a god and live forever is the exact same agenda that all the secret societies of today are striving for.

The Battle between God and Satan: Part 3 – The Creation of Man

Genesis chapter 1 describes God creating a race of mankind after His own image as male and female, just as He had done in creating all living creatures as both male and female.
   

Genesis 1:24-27 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  

 
Genesis 2 declares that God finished creating the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, and rested on the seventh day.
  
Genesis 2:1-2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  
  
In Genesis 2, we find the expression, “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”
  
Genesis 2:4-7 These are the generations [H8435] of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils; and man became a living soul.
  
It is insensible to believe that God created all of Creation in 6 literal 24 hour days. Consider the expression: “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.” This verse is speaking of “several” generations [H8435] of the heavens and the earth. Just as when the Bible gives us the lineage of our ancestors, the expression “these are the generations of” speaks of many generations.
  
Genesis 10:1 Now these are the generations [H8435] of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
   
Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, [H8435] in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
  
After we reading about “the generations of the heavens and of the earth” the Lord had created, we get to Genesis 2:5 that declares:  “and there was not a man to till the ground.”
    
Genesis 2:5-7 And there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils; and man became a living soul.
   
When God was creating man in Genesis 1:26, the words “make man” were translated from the Hebrew words “Asah Adam”. The word “Asah” means to make, fashion, produce, etc.
  
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make [Asah] man [Adam] in our image, after our likeness.
  
In Genesis 2:7, a different Hebrew word is used and was translated as the word “formed”. Instead of the word make “Asah”, the Hebrew word formed “Yatsar” is used.
  
Genesis 3:7 And the LORD God formed [Yatsar] man [Adam] of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.  
 
The interesting thing about the Hebrew word “Yatsar” is that is represents not only a divine aspect of the creation of Adam, but it also represents a “predetermined”, or “pre-ordained” aspect of the creation of Adam’s body.
       
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed “Yatsar” thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
  
Zechariah  12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, which stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed “Yatsar” the spirit of man within him.
  
Notice that on the Day 6 of creation, God had created every living creature after its kind, both male and female, God also created a race of Adam, both male and female. I, and many others, believe this original race of Adam were never given eternal souls because God had not yet “breathed the breath of life” into their nostrils. Notice that the account of Genesis 2 takes place on the eighth day of Creation, when God formed one individual person from the dust of the Earth, called Adam, and to whom God “breathed the breath of life into his nostrils; and man became a living soul.”
       
Here is where I need to discuss DNA, which is the genetic coding created by a holy Creator God for the sole use of the reproduction of all plant, animal, and human life on Earth. It was the manipulation of DNA that would also play a major role in God’s decision to destroy all flesh containing the breath of life, with the flood of Noah’s day.  
   
Genesis 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.
  
The manipulation of human DNA is a flagrant abomination to the Creator, and is highly abhorred by God. Later on in this series, I will also show how God is going to allow the kingdom of Satan to manipulate DNA for the purpose of “binding up” the unsaved, before they are cast into the lake of fire.  
        
Returning to the creation of Adam and Eve, in Genesis 2 we read about how God then “cloned” Eve from Adam by using one of his ribs, which we know would contain all the DNA needed for the cloning of another human, and presented her as his companion.
  
Genesis 18:18-24 And the Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, became its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man."
 
I, and others, believe that the soul God breathes into each baby born of a woman has had a pre-existence. This is supported by the passages below.
    
Ephesians 1:4-5 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.
  
Jeremiah 1:4-5 Then the Word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
 
In an ancient manuscript called, The Great Book of the Sons of Fire, I found this interesting passage.
  
Earth was not yet in existence; there were no winds with the sky above them; high mountains were not raised, nor was the great river in its place. All was formless, without movement, calm, silent, void and dark. No name had been named and no destinies foreshadowed. Eternal rest is intolerable, and un-manifested potential is frustration. Into the solitude of timelessness came Divine Loneliness, and from this arose the desire to create, that He might know and express Himself; and this generated the Love of God. He took thought and brought into being within Himself the Universal Womb of Creation, containing the everlasting essence of slumbering spirit. The essence was quickened by a ripple form the mind of God, and a creative thought was projected. This generated power which produced light, and this formed a substance like unto a mist of invisible dust. It divided into two forms of energy through being impregnated with The Spirit of God, and quickening the chaos of the void within the Universal Womb, becoming spun out of whirlpools of substance. From this activity, as sparks from a fire, came an infinite variety of spirit minds, each having creative powers within itself.        (extracted from The Great Book of the Sons of Fire – Chapter 1)
 
After man was created on Earth as described in chapter 1, chapter 2 gives us the following description of how God breathed an eternal soul into man. This manuscript refers to Earth in a feminine form, as in Earth as the Mother and God as the Father.
  
Earth nurtured man with cautious affection, weaning him in the recesses of her body. Then, when he was grown sufficiently to be lifted so he walked in the uprightness of God, she took him and raised him above all creatures. She led him even into the presence of God and she laid him on His Great Altar. A man imperfect, of earthly limitations, a thing unfinished, ungainly and unlearned, but proudly was He presented to Earth’s Creator, not her first-born was man; the son of Earth, the grandchild of God; man the heir of tribulation and pupil of affliction. God saw man, the offering of Earth to her Lord, unconscious on the High Altar; a sacrifice to Him and a dedication to the Spirit of Fate. Then from out of the unfathomable heights and from behind the impenetrable veil, God came down above the Altar and He breathed into man the breath of Eternal Life. Into his sleeping body, God implanted a fragment of Himself, the Seed of a Soul and the Spark of Divinity; man the mortal being became man the heir of God and the inheritor of immortality. Henceforth he would have dominion over God’s earthly estate, but he also had to unravel the Circles of Eternity, and his destiny was to be an everlasting seeking and striving.      (extracted from The Great Book of the Sons of Fire – Chapter 2)         

The Battle between God and Satan: Part 2 – Days 1 - 5 of Creation

In recapping Day 1, we saw that the Spirit of God, which in Hebrew is the "Ruwach" of the "Elohiym", moved over the presence of the abyss as it began to assess the condition of a world plunged into darkness.

     

Genesis 1:2-5 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The expression “face of the deep” was translated as follows: the word “face” was translated from the Hebrew noun “Paniym”, which means presence, face, or surface, and the word “deep” was translated from the Hebrew noun “Tehowm”, which means depth, abyss, or grave. After the Luciferian rebellion and the angel wars had reduced God’s earthly paradise to a watery grave populated with only fallen beings, the Ruwach of the Elohiym moved to and fro over the face of the waters in order to devise a plan of Restoration. After the assessment was completed, the Elohiym devised a plan of Restoration and Redemption for the fallen that would take several eons, or ages, to accomplish. The first step was to bring the light of God into the abyss. This is when the Elohyim summoned forth the Son of God to manifest His light into the abyss.

    

Isaiah 63:4 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.  

There was no other way for God to bring redemption and restoration to the fallen but by His own arm. An "arm" represents an agency, or extension, of an entity's strength, power, and might. The only extension of Himself the Father could use to redeem the world was by His only Son. It was the Father's will to reclaim the earth back to Himself, as He was the Creator and rightful owner. It was God's will to not only restore the earth and redeem the fallen, but to also bestow the earth as an inheritance to all the Sons of God, to enjoy and rule over it along with their Savior for all eternity; however, the only way to do this was to pay a huge price for it. The only way the Father could reclaim and redeem the world was by commissioning His only Son to become the mediator between the Father and the fallen. In order to become our redeemer, God's Son had to leave his throne in heaven, empty himself of all the glory he shared with the Father, and descend into the abyss where Christ began to execute the greatest act of love and mercy ever imaginable. Thus the Son of God spoke his light into existence by the Word and breath of his mouth. This is why Christ is called “the lamb of God slain from before the foundation of the world” (Rev 11:13). In order for Christ to have been slain from before the foundation of the world, the Father had to sacrifice the Son through "death", and only through death, was Christ able to empty himself of all his glory, leave his throne in the heaven, and enter into the presence of the abyss as the Savior of the Sons of God. 

   

The Son of God is also the creator of all things in our Universe.

       

John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made, and without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. 

   

Once the Son of God manifested himself on Day 1, and as he began to create and continue to restore order out of chaos, the foundation of the world was created. I came across an interesting passage from Zen Garcia's latest book that was taken from an extra-Biblical text called, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch; chapters 25 and 26. (These texts can be found at - http://aren.org/prison/documents/religion/Pseudepigrapha/ )

And I placed for myself a throne, and took my seat on it, and said to the light: Go thence up higher and fix yourself high above the throne, and be a foundation to the highest things. And above the light there is nothing else, and then I bent up and looked up from my throne. And I summoned the very lowest a second time, and said: Let Archas come forth hard, and he came forth hard from the invisible. And Archas came forth, hard, heavy, and very red. And I said: Be opened, Archas, and let there be born from you, and he came undone, an age came forth, very great and very dark, bearing the creation of all lower things, and I saw that it was good and said to him: Go thence down below, and make yourself firm, and be a foundation for the lower things, and it happened and he went down and fixed himself, and became the foundation for the lower things, and below the darkness there is nothing else.

   

The next step needed to bring order out of chaos was for the Elohyim to divide light from darkness. I believe that when the Elohyim divided light from darkness, Judgment Day occurred because all that reflected the good light of the Son of God was separated from all that did not reflect that light. 

     

Genesis 1:4-5 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

All beings that reflected the good light of the Son of God were chosen in Christ, and would be called the children of the day. This is why Ephesians 1 teaches that the Son of God chose the Elect in him before the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 1:4-5 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

In Revelation 17:8 we read that all those who's names were not written in the book of life from before the foundation of the world, will worship the beast.  

  

Rev 17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition; and they that dwell on the earth shall marvel, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

   

It was during this first stage of God's salvation plan for mankind when the light of the Son of God first began to shine forth into the primeval world that then existed, and when the Son of God chose and predestinated the Elect to inherit all things with him. I believe that all those who rejected the good light of the Son of God, would continue to be attracted to the darkness of the underworld, and would eventually become the serpent's seed. This is why we have 2 bloodlines in the world today; the wheat and the tares, the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent. This is why the tares always have been the children of the night, and the sons of perdition. In John 17, Jesus tells us that he came to the world to protect all those the Father had given him, and that he would not lose any of them, except for the son of perdition.

   

John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I protected them in thy name; those that that you have given me I have protected, and none of them is lost, except for the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

   

Day 2 of Creation: 

After the Elohiym divided the light from darkness on Day 1, the next step needed to bring order out of chaos was to create a barrier between the higher and lower dimensions. The Hebrew word for this barrier is “Raqiya”. Although God said this barrier should be called Heaven, or “Shamayim”, it is interesting to note that throughout the book of Genesis, this barrier is always referred to as the firmament of heaven, or the “Raqiya of the Shamayim”. This barrier was put into place in order to constrain all that would exist in the dimensions kept under the barrier, from all that would exist in the dimensions above the barrier.

Genesis 1:6-8 And God said: “Let there be a firmament (Raqiya) in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

   

Day 3 of Creation: 

On the third day of Creation, the Elohyim created the seas, the mountains, all dry land, the trees, and all vegetation. Notice that God created all vegetation on third day of Creation, and that it would not be until the fourth day of Creation when the Elohyim would create the sun, moon, and the stars. The light that existed in this fresh new world was coming either directly from God, or directly from the Shamayim. 

Day 4 of Creation:

On day 4, the Elohyim created the sun, moon, and the stars to reside in the firmament of heaven, or the Raqiya of the Shamayim. 

Genesis 1:14-17 And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament [Raqiya] of the heaven [Shamayim] to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. And let them be for lights in the firmament [Raqiya] of the heaven [Shamayim] to give light upon the earth." And it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also, and God set them in the firmament [Raqiya] of the heaven [Shamayim] to give light upon the earth.

Day 5 of Creation:

On day 5, the birds of the air are also described to be flying in the open Raqiya of the Shamayim.

Genesis 1:20-23 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament [Raqiya]of the heaven [Shamayim]. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 

     

If God created the Raqiya of the Shamayim as a barrier to separate all dimensions existing under it, from all dimensions existing above the it, could penetrating through it have been the main purpose for building Nimrod's Tower of Babel?

Genesis 11:1-6 And the whole earth had one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. Then they said one to another, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

Several organizations are investing in CERN and the spraying of chemtrails in order to break through the Raqiya and pass through into the higher dimensions. Could this be the event that trigger's the Rapture? It is the removal of the Raqiya of the Shamayim that the Bible is speaking about when it declares that the heaven will depart as a scroll when is rolled up upon the opening of the sixth seal, which we know will usher in the Day of the Lord. This event will also cause the sun to turn black, the moon to turn red, and the stars to fall to the Earth.

Revelation 6:12-14 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together...

   

Matthew 28:29-31 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then shall the sign of the Son of Man appear in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

  

I also believe that upon the removal of the Raqiya on the Day of the Lord, the fallen angels will fall to the Earth, as figs that fall from a tree that is being shaken, and they will manifest themselves on the Earth. 

    

Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

I believe that God created the Raquiya on Day 2 for the purpose of preventing all future angel wars, as it was the angel wars which had originally brought about the devastation of the earth. Should the Raqiya be successfully penetrated by those who are currently investing in those plans, it is guaranteed that hell on Earth will begin. Not only with the weather go completely out of control, but it will also unleashed all those imprisoned in the underworld. All chaos will once again return to the world, and it will self destruct, as it had done so prior to Day 1.

   

Revelation 9:1-6 And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

After the first heaven and the first earth pass away, God will create a new heaven and a new earth for the redeemed.

   

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 

   

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 

   

Once we begin to live in the new age to come, the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, I believe God will continue with his plan of redemption and restoration, and that God will continue to heal us from the eons of sin and destruction brought about by the Luciferian rebellion and the angel wars. But as for now, the birth pangs are beginning to intensify as we approach closer and closer to the birthing of the next age.