The Battle between God and Satan: Part 1 – In the beginning - Day 1

After studying the Loren Pedersen Chronicles, as well as the writings of Zen Garcia regarding the Luciferian rebellion and the angel wars, I now have a clearer understanding of what is written in the book of Genesis. I will start with Genesis 1:1.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

   

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth perfectly, because God is perfect. The Hebrew word for heaven used here is Shamayim. It represents the heavenlies where God and the angelics abide, and it exists in another dimension apart from our own physical dimension. The earth that God created on the first day is not the Earth that we see today, but rather it was a beautiful paradise, and was called "Eden, the garden of God". We can know this from reading Ezekiel 28 where God is describing Lucifer when he was a perfect angel living there.

   

Ezekiel 28:12 Thus saith the Lord God; “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering."

   

We can see that God was in perfect harmony with His earthly creation, and that Lucifer had been commissioned as a guardian angel over God's garden.

   

Ezekiel 28:14-15 "You were the anointed cherub that covers. I established you. You were upon the holy mountain of God. You walked back and forth in the midst of the stones of fire. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created." 

How do we then get from a perfectly created earth of Genesis 1:1, to the earth of Genesis 1:2 that is found to be in a chaotic, wasted condition, with darkness permeating upon the face of the deep?

   

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  

   

The words “without form” were translated from the Hebrew noun “Tohuw”, which means something that is without order, as in something that is in a state of "chaos". The English word “void” was translated from the Hebrew noun “Bohuw” which means “waste”. Both words “without form” and “void” are nouns, not adjectives, therefore Genesis 1:2 is telling us that God's paradise became “chaos”, and it became “waste”. 

    

The earth's condition of Genesis 1:2 was not created by God. God had originally created a beautiful paradise, with all the angels as perfect beings.  God the Father is a God of order, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

   

Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it, He has established it; He created it not void [Tohuw H8414], he formed it to be inhabited.

   

1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

   

Although Genesis does not give us any details of what transpired to get us from Gen 1:1 to Gen 1:2, I have learned from others who have studied extra-Biblical texts, and can teach us hidden secrets of what occurred between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2, the Luciferian rebellion, and the angel wars. According to these extra-Biblical texts, there was a great angelic war that took place in the heavens, the Shamayim, that also devastated the earth as an aftermath. Many are in agreement that Jeremiah 4 gives us a glimpse of what transpired during this era, or eon.

Jeremiah 4:23-25 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

How can the birds of the heavens flee away unless they were already in existence before earth was found to be without form and void? How could there have been mountains and hills? This passage supports the theory that a great destruction occurred in God’s Creation because of the angel wars. Revelation 12 also describes a great angelic war.

  

Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, and prevailed not.

  

Why did Lucifer, a perfectly created and perfectly wise cherub, rebel against God? Even after God had blessed him with unequaled beauty and power? The answer to this is found in Ezekiel 28.

Ezekiel 28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until iniquity was found in you.

       

Ezekiel 28:16-18 By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned. Therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, oh covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings; that they might gaze at you. You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading.

Ezekiel 28 explains that it was because of the abundance of Lucifer's "trading" that he became filled with violence within, and sinned. The word “trading” was translated from the Hebrew word “Rekullah”, which means the trafficking of merchandise. Although we cannot be certain what exactly it was that Lucifer was trading, but we can assume that Lucifer began to "buy and sell" valuable commodities. We know that the Earth we now live in produces every precious gem, and gold, and we know that Lucifer was covered with every precious stone, including diamonds and gold, and now we can only assume that Lucifer had begun to engage in the commerce, or trafficking, of coveted merchandise found in abundance in the paradise of Eden. This "abundance of trading" caused Lucifer to become more powerful, and more proud, and greedy, until iniquity and sin birthed itself from within him. Lucifer’s heart became “lifted up” and proud because of his beauty. He became vain, and corrupted his wisdom in order to enhance his own splendor. We can only also assume that he began to lie and cheat others in order to gain more power, and more wealth. He began to love himself more than he loved his Heavenly Father. Lucifer began to "feel the glory of wealth”, which fed his greed and insatiable desire for more. Lucifer had no fear God.

    

After the angel wars which devastated God's perfect Creation, the Spirit of God was now compelled to move upon the face of the waters, and begin to take inventory of the devastation. The Spirit of God had to now investigate, examine, analyze, and appraise it all in order to report it back to God the Father. 

Genesis 1:2 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.   

    

After the Spirit of God, which in Hebrew is the "Ruwach" of the "Elohiym", had completed its assessment of the aftermath of the angel wars which had devastated God's perfect Creation and plunged into its new state of chaos, waste, and darkness, God the Father had to then devise and begin to put into place a plan of Restoration. In Gen 1:3 God begins this plan of Restoration by declaring His good light, and His good sovereignty over His fallen Creation by sending His only Son to declare God's light over the darkness.

    

Genesis 1:3-4: And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. 

   

At this moment in history a new era, or eon, began. This is when the Son of God revealed Himself, with His spoken Word, and with His light, which now began to shine forth into the chaos, waste, and darkness that had engulfed God's fallen Creation. The Son of God is the light of the world (John 9:5). The Son of God is also the Word of God. When God said, "Let there be light.", it was the Son of God revealing Himself by his own Word. The Word of God carries not only light, but also vibration, which is sound; it is the Rhema [G4487] Word of God being declared forth as God's new plan of Restoration begins to unfold. From this point on, it is the Son of God who begins to re-create and restore the heavens and the earth.
        

John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

   

After the Son of God declared His light and His sovereignty over the fallen, it was now time to pass judgment against the darkness, and God separated the good light that came from the Son of God, from the fallen realm of darkness. This separation between light and darkness was actually not an act of Creation, but rather an act of judgment. 

   

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.  

   

1 Thessalonians 5:5 confirms the redeemed are the "sons of the light and sons of the day", they are not of the night, nor of darkness.

   

1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.