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Show Us The Father
Who is this much maligned God of the Old Testament? Philip asked the same question.
Show us the Father. Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us". (John 14: 8)

The Father Is Like The Son (The Same Loving God)
Jesus responded with bewilderness. The Father is just like Me!!
The Father Is Like The Son. Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?" (John 14: 9)
Yes, How can we speak so unkindly about the God of the Old Testament and believe the lies about Him? If you want to see and know the God of the Old Testament, then look at Jesus.

Today we make a false dichotomy between the Hebrew God in the Old Testament and Jesus who was introduced to us in the New Testament. Many Christians speak disparagingly about the stories and laws of the Old Testament to the extent that some have even banished those old books and villified the God who inspired them.
Well the Jesus whom they claim to worship not only claims that He is the mirror image of the God in the Old Testament, He even claims to be THE God who introduced Himself to Moses. He is the God of the Old Testament who sent Himself to deliver Israel as Jesus!
I Am That I Am. Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." (John 8: 58)
I Am That I Am. ... Now they may say to me, "What is His name? What shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"; Thus you shall say to to the sons of Israel, "I AM has sent me to you." (Exodus 3: 13-14)

We Love Jesus
Many love Jesus more because He seemed to banish the cruel laws of the Old Testament and even herald a new attitude by God. However, the scriptures say that neither the God of the Old Testament nor Jesus changes.
God Does not Change. For I, the Lord do not change. Therefore, you sons of Jacob are not consumed. (Malachi 3: 6)
Jesus Never Changes. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Hebrews 13: 8)
No Variation In God. Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. (James 1: 17)
Unwavering. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. and the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3: 17-18)

• Jesus The Savior. Jesus did not come to change the laws of God, He came to reenforce them! He came to make peace with the human race and remove the boundaries between peoples.
  • Love Your Enemies. The Gentiles are no longer your enemies. They are your brothers and your neighbors and as such fall under a different set of laws of Old Testament laws, not new laws.
    Gentile Neighbors. You have heard that it is said, "Love your neighbour and hate your enemy". But I say to you, "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you". (Matthew 5: 43-44)
    Love your Neighbour. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19: 18)
  • Eye For Eye. Jesus appeared to end the harsh punishments in favor of submission.
    The Pacifist Directive. You have heard it was said, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. (Matthew 5: 38-39)
    Tit For Tat. Thus, you shall not show pity, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (Deuteronomy 19: 21) Leviticus 24: 19-20 and Exodus 21: 24-25
  • Stoning. He saved a woman caught in adultery by demonstrating that only the sinless deserve to be judges.
    They said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act". Now the law of Moses commanded us to stone such a woman, what then do you say? ...
    But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her". (John 8: 4,5,7)
  • Judging. He took away the right of judgment from the people. As the king under the New Covenant, the law gives Him the duty to establish righteous courts.
    Appoints A Righteous Court. You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. (Deuteronomy 16: 18)
    He did so by taking judgment out of the hands of flawed human beings, leaving it exclusively in His hands.
    Humans Cannot Judge. Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you give, it shall be measured to you again." (Matthew 7: 1-2)
    Jesus is Judge. And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. (Acts 10: 42)
    So God did not change, He just chose His own judges as the law gave Him the right when He formally became King of the earth and dethroned Satan.
  
  
• Jesus The Judge and Executioner. Jesus did not change or anul the laws, as the righteous judge, He merely placed all judgment under His control to guarantee justice. At the end of time, He will use these same laws to judge and punish the wicked when He determines who should be classified among the wicked. He is putting all things under His subjection in order to dispense true justice.
  • Hate Enemies. The promise to Eve was that God would put enmity between us and the seed of the serpent. We will hate Satan and the wicked because they will be our enemies who will try to annihilate us. We will cut off their name forever when they come to make war with us.
    Hate your Enemy. No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord ... because they did not meet you with food and water on the way ... You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all their days. (Deuteronomy 23: 3-6)
  • Eye for An Eye. He will take revenge against the wicked.
    » Revenge and Punishment. Jesus did not end the practice of revenge, He merely transferred it into His hands. As God, the laws allow Him this right. As a human, He claims the legal rights of the Blood-Avenger.
    ... Vengeance is Mine, I will repay. (Hebrews 10: 30; Deuteronomy 32: 35)
    ... But everyone must be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. For the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. (James 1: 19-20)
  • Stoning The Wicked. He will stone the prostitute and the wicked because He is the righteous judge who is without sin.
    Babylon - The Whore. and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth". (Revelation 17: 5)
    Immoral Babylon. For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.
    Revenge on Babylon (Tit for Tat). Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double for her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.
    Babylon Stoned. Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea saying, "so will Babylon the Great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer". (Revelation 18: 3, 6, 21)
    Babylon is payed back double, not just an eye for an eye.
  • Judge and Make War. He will judge in righteousness and make war with His enemies (Revelation 19).
  He does nothing different from the God in the Old Testament. He merely ensured that the name of God will no longer be tarnished by humans claiming to act in His name.
  
  
• The Laws of Jesus. Many people seem to think that Jesus came to abolish the Old Testament and the only law they are obligated to keep is "To Love one another" and we do not need scriptures to do that because they can "follow their own heart as the Spirit moves them". Pedophiles also seem to believe that they are simply "loving children" and they are only "following their heart's desire."
  For decades the only scriptures the church had were the Old Testament. It is the only scriptures that Jesus used. A sinner needs guidance and instruction and God has left us two witnesses, the entire scriptures and the Holy Spirit.
  The Old Testament is rich with information about God and the Messiah and the Plan of Salvation. I hate to hear people dismiss the scriptures as old fashioned, or out dated and abolished. The New Testament does not hold a candle to the superiority of the Old. The New Testament merely records the coming of the one whom the entire Old Testament speaks about. Jesus said every prophet and all scriptures testified about Him. Until you can explain what each prophet and each book spoke about you cannot discard the books. When you see how thoroughly they describe the Messiah, you can never stop reading them.
  • Given by God. All laws are good and given by God.
    God Gives All Scripture. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works. (2 Timothy 3: 16-17)
    Even though the architect of the curses seems to be Satan, yet God claimed them as His own because He approved them. However, even this law can be good for the righteous. In the laws the sinners have written their own punishment and so cannot blame God in the end. The law also gave God the authority and the framework though which He could dispose of sin.
  • Same As The Old Laws. Jesus' own testimony is that He has not changed any laws and that none will be changed until after heaven and earth pass away.
    The Law Had Not Passed Away. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, Until heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5: 17-20)
  • Debt Paid. Only one law changes when heaven and earth pass away. It is the curses. In fact, it is not because the law has changed but because He has paid their price in His own body.
    New Earth. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. (Revelation 21: 1)
    No Curse. There shall be no more curse ... (Revelation 22: 3)
    People will live in it and there will no longer be a curse for Jerusalem will dwell in security. (Zechariah 14: 11)
  • Stricter (Magnified). Jesus showed the deeper and broader jurisdiction of the laws of the Old Testament. We should love more, forgive more, include more people and be more righteous and more perfect. Lusting in the mind is equivalent to adultery and fornication. Hate is equivalent to murder. The love of power and money is covetousness. It is greed and theft and is the seed of evil.

We Love The Teachings of Jesus
We love the nice, warm, fuzzy things that Jesus says. But everything He said was according to the laws and the will of the God of the Old Testament.

• The Sermon On The Mount. This sermon shows God's care for the poor. In the Old Testament, the anger of YHWH is triggered by the oppression of the poor, the fatherless and the stranger.
• Turning The Other Cheek. This teaching of Jesus is nothing more than the principle of submission in the Old Testament. There, we submit to loved ones and the army of oppression. Here, Jesus said we must even submit to our enemies.
• Forgive. Jesus seems more forgiving than the revengeful God of the Old Testament. One needs only to look at the patient forbearance of God to see that He endured direct assault on Himself for decades and hundreds of years before He acted.
• The Path To Righteousness. Although we hate God for "torturing His Son", we love the obedient Son who carried the cross. We wonder why God made the price of salvation so hard and so cruel.
• The Disadvantaged Life. We are touched by the story of His life. We are shocked at His birth in a stable full of animals, His poverty and His homelessness as a vagrant preacher and His bitter execution. Well, the God of the Old Testament is also badly treated.
  • Unloved. Like Jesus, He was not loved by Israel. They quarreled with Him, turned to other gods and stoned His prophets.
  • Heart On His Sleeves. God said that being married to Israel is like falling madly in love with a whore who cannot remain faithful. Yet God refuses to divorce Israel. Like Jesus yearning for Jerusalem to be gathered under His wings, God yearns for Israel to be gathered to Him.
  • On Trial. God is on trial by the universe just as Jesus is unfairly under trial by the priests. They hired false witnesses against Him and God has many false witnesses spreading terrible lies about Him every day.
  • Abandoned. Just as Jesus was abandoned by all His friends and family, God has been abandoned. In every adversity we blame God. We either blame Him for causing it or for not stopping it or for not protecting us because we are so special. People rarely blame Satan and even when they do, there is an underlying disapproval towards God for not keeping Satan under control. It is never our fault.

The Love Gospel?
In the book of John, Jesus expresses His desire to see the loving unity within the church that will reflect the unity and love that exists between Him and the Father. Our modern culture has redefined the meaning of "love", "loving" and "judging" to encapsulate an attitude towards sin in which we let the lethal infection spread while we happily watch with glazed eyes because it is not loving to be harsh and judgmental. The myth that the "loving" Jesus was tolerant of sin has gone viral among those who cherish sin. They cite the book of John as the "love" gospel that points to this character of God. However, John pictures a very contentious relationship with the people in that they tried to kill Him several times and He called them all sorts of names,

• Jesus Was Not Judgmental. We love to tell the story of the one who challenged the so-called righteous to judge a prostitute. Yet we conveniently forget that when her accusers departed, Jesus told her that she should take the opportunity to stop sinning.
  I Will Not Condemn You. Straightening up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you, either.
  But Stop Sinning! Go. From now on sin no more." (John 8: 10-11)
  He had judged her as a sinner, but He was willing to grant mercy. However, being a righteous judge He would have been negligent in His duties if He had not told her that she was doing wrong and that she must stop her wrong doing.
• Jesus Was Peaceful. Many would have us believe that Jesus walked around in a smiling stupor with a soothing monotonous voice at a sleepy decibel and a gentle touch; kissing babies as He campaigned through the streets of Jerusalem to be elected by popular vote for the position of king of Israel. However, the truth is closer to normal. They tried to kill Him and ruin His reputation. He was angry with them and called them unflattering names.
  Controversy and Confrontation. Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10: 34)
  Jesus did not come to be battered into submission by the forces of evil. He came to make war with the evil systems and powers and overthrow their dominion and totally obliterate them.
  • Anger. Jesus was angry at their sins and their callous hearts.
    Cold Hearts After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. (Mark 3: 5)
    They were angry with Him for many reasons.
  • Violence. He threw out the businessmen who were corrupting the name of God with their trade.
    Throwing Out the Money Changers. The Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business." (John 2: 13-16)
    » Violence Against Jesus. They tried to kill Him several times by throwing Him off a cliff and stoning Him.
    Stoning. The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. (John 10: 31)
    Over A Cliff. and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. (Luke 4: 29)
    With the assistance of the Romans they beat Him and crucified Him.
  • Derogatory Names For Jesus. Sometimes the dialogue disintegrated to name calling. Both John the Baptist and Jesus called them vipers.
    Vipers You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? (Matthew 23: 33)
    Evil Vipers You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. (Matthew 12: 34)
    Children Of The Devil. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.
    Children Of A Murderer And Liar. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8: 44)
    That generation would use a lie to justify murder.
    » Derogatory Names. They implied that He did not know who was His father. History tells us that they accused His mother of being a dirty whore. So they called Him an illegitimate bastard who was possessed by demons.
    Demon Possessed, Mad And Insane Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?" (John 10: 20)
    Bastard Son Of A Whore! So they were saying to Him, "Where is Your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither Me nor My Father; if you knew Me, you would know My Father also." (John 8: 19)
• Distrust. Jesus was not feeling the love. He was distrustful of them, knowing their motives.
  Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man. (John 2: 23-25)

The Misconceptions About God
Why did we develop such harsh misconceptions about God? We have conveniently forgotten that the Bible teaches that we have an enemy who lives by no rules and respects no boundaries. We have consistently ascribed behavior to God that belongs to Satan because Satan is skilled at rumors and innuendoes and propaganda. Satan convinced many in heaven that he could be god and since he tried to tell the same lie to Eve he must have tried to convince others in heaven that they could also be God.

• Death. We believe that God is only interested in killing us, when the truth is that He is trying to save us despite the fact that we deserve to be separated from Him. It is the separation from God that causes death.
  I Want You To Live! Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies, declares the Lord, "Therefore, repent and live". (Ezekiel 18: 31-32)
  God is betting His reputation against all the principalities and powers in heaven that we can be saved.
• Curse. We blame God for the provisions of the curses when the truth is that Satan authored the curses and the curses are the only laws that will be abolished in the new earth.
  • Blessings. God did not create an imperfect world and then abandon it. God created a perfect world and Adam and Eve were beguiled by the lies of Satan and gave it away.
  • The Curse Is On The Earth (Sin). Sin caused death and the curses to be part of the laws of this earth. Death came because God must be physically separated from us. The curse came because Satan wanted to administer the planet under these rules especially because He would have the chance to apply these rules to Jesus Christ when He came to pay the ransom for us.
    In addition to the general degradation of the planet after sin the rules also allow God or Satan to apply the curses to a specific set of people when they are rebellious.
    So while God pleads with us to choose life, Satan is constantly tempting us to chose rebellion, death and the curses. He gets the right to punish us and it is a task he enjoys.
    Choose Life and Live! I call heaven and earth to witness against you today; that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curse. So choose life that you may live, you and your descendants. (Deuteronomy 30: 19)
  • Jesus Christ Suffered The Curses. All the curses were applied to Him before He died. The curses and death were legally allowed to be a substitute for all who will accept this gift by faith (2 Corinthians 5: 21).
  • The Curses Are Nailed To The Cross (Crucifixion). When He died, he officially abolished the curses for the righteous. However, they still remain for Satan and those who reject Him (Colossians 2: 14).
  • The Curse Consumes The Earth (Millennium). During the millennium the curse will destroy the earth (Isaiah 24: 6). At the end it will destroy Satan and the wicked after the final judgment. Then the curse will itself be destroyed.
  • No More Curse (The New Heavens and Earth). Only the blessings will exist as the earth is restored to the original plan (Zechariah 14: 11 and Revelation 22: 3).
• Natural Disasters. The separation from God not only caused us to die, it also affected the entire planet. The original curse causes the slow death and destruction of the planet. Therefore, as the separation persists the planet will get worse and worse, not only because it is growing old but because we accelerate the destruction by our wicked behavior.
  The curse may use natural disasters but not all natural disasters are attributed to the curse being applied to a specific set of people.
  
  Who Is Responsible for Disasters?
  If God is all powerful, is He responsible for the great evils by not stopping or preventing them or by causing them? Where was God when Adolph Hitler came to power? Hitler thought he had divine protection because he escaped several assassination attempts. Where was God in the great Indonesian earthquake of 2004?
  • Natural Cycle of Life. Disasters happen because of natural physical forces colliding with a local vulnerability. God could intervene by cooling the waters to prevent hurricanes, or strengthening tectonic plates to prevent earthquakes, but He does not. We live in a world in which we and our parents chose to experiment with another leader except God. Elections have consequences.
    Disasters happen because the planet is aging and breaking down and it is not being repaired. God does not intervene in every possible disaster because we told Him that we wanted freedom from Him. God could intervene every time, but we would never understand the consequences of separating from Him. One consequence is that the innocent and vulnerable suffer because the author of the curses is an unjust despot who does not care about justice and righteousness.
  • Human Stewardship. Some of our disasters have been caused by man's own disregard for the environment. God, through nature gives us signs and warnings that these ecosystems are fragile and failing, yet profit and inconvenience always seem to override any common sense response.
    God intervenes by sending warnings for decades as we are observing the malfunctions in the system, but we ignore them hoping that someone else will take the financial responsibility for mitigating the damages while we continue to squeeze out more profit.
    We build in disaster areas on earthquake faults, flood zones and eroding shores. We purposely contaminate the air and water because it is too expensive to do the right thing. What should we expect?
  • Human Greed and Hate. We are responsible for wars and genocide. We see the misery and make excuses. We hate. We want to expand our borders at the expense of others. We want to take the natural resources of other nations without fair compensation. If we can see the misery, taste it, smell it and feel it and suffer from it, profit from it, yet perpetuate it by causing it or not acting, then why do we blame God? Genocide does not happen in a vacuum. We are totally responsible.
    
    » He's Too Heavy and He's Not My Brother. Hitler succeeded because we all hated the Jews. Many nations turned away refugee ships, limited immigration, and appeased Hitler. Some nations and companies profited by selling worthless life insurance to desperate Jews, using slave labor in their factories or accepting bank deposits which they refused to honor after the war. Communities exploited the Jews imprisoned in ghettos by selling food and water at prices designed to quickly strip them of their possessions. When the war was over, we dumped them in Israel not because we believed in a homeland, but because we did not want them in our back yard. Don't blame God.
    » Corporate Slavery (Oppressing the Poor). Some desperately poor nations are deliberately kept poor by our policies. Colonial power robbed them of wealth and then saddled them with reparation debts at their independence. Then, subsequent foreign super powers acted to support their national businesses by keeping wages substantially low and working conditions like the worst slave plantations by dethroning unfavorable local governments or propping up favorable and corrupt leaders. Through these policies we have a system of slavery thriving outside our national borders for cheap goods. Don't blame God or the victims or a pact with Satan.
  • Wrath of Satan. The terms of the curse tell us that Satan designed this system and retains the right to break humans so that they can curse God.
    God's answer to His followers who are victims is to remember the story of Job and to remember His Son. We will never experience any pain to which He did not subject Himself. His reason is that we will be eye witnesses against Satan. So hang in there!
  • Wrath of God. Every disaster is always blamed on God's fault or impotence. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 outline the terms of the wrath and suggests that God will cause punishing disasters.
    However, we can tell the difference between a disaster allowed by God and one caused by natural forces. When God acts against a nation, it always takes hundreds of years and is accompanied by several specific warnings. Before the final disaster, God sends prophets to warn the people that they are specifically targeted and He always provides a peaceful alternative if we repent.
    Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. (James 1: 13)
    Noah preached for 120 years while the people ridiculed him. Jonah went to Nineveh and the people repented. Many prophets warned Israel before the Assyrian raid and the Babylonian desolation. God waited over 400 years to drive the people out of Canaan. What else could He do?
• No Sense of Humor. When it comes to the challenges of the wicked, God seems to use a sense of humor and irony to demonstrate how stupid they are.
  • Idolatry. God thinks that idolatry is stupid because at some point your common sense must tell you that you cannot cut down a piece of wood and use part of it to cook your food, warm your body and then make an idol to worship.
  • Elijah. When the prophets of Baal could not get an answer from their gods after hours of self-mutilation and dancing, he mocked them saying that maybe their god is asleep or sitting on the toilet and is unavailable.
  • Jesus Christ on The Cross. This is the most terrible crime committed against God by His creatures. Yet, the showdown at the cross seems to be designed with a bit of irony as God stripped Himself of all advantages to enter a one-on-one, hand-to-hand combat with His arch enemy.
    Incredibly, God basically said, "Nail both my hands and feet, blindfold me, take away all my emotional support and surround me with all my enemies. And, while you are at it beat Me to a bloody pulp until I am fainting from exhaustion. Then come and fight Me and I will still beat you!"
• Free Choice. If we wanted to live outside the rule of God He cannot cut us loose and set us adrift for many moral and practical reasons. He is the power source and we are the appliance. We cannot exist without Him. As a moral being He cannot continue to support a rebellious planet where He would justifiably be guilty of supporting our crimes. It is hypocritical of us to expect Him to do so.
  In fact, the current experimental conditions on earth is His attempt at making us choose. However, in the interest of justice, He has to set a time limit to this plan.
  Ultimately, the only choice we have is life with God and death without Him.
• The Unused Power of God. In the face of adversity we have this tension between the sovereignty versus the accountability of God. We expect God to act as forcefully as our human rulers. Unfortunately, this means that sometimes we excuse evil actions "for the greater good". God cannot make these compromises.
  • God "Allows". Faced with adversity and disappointment, believers will say that God "allows" these misfortunes. This both denies God's culpability and excuses His inaction because of some greater purpose. God did not cause the offense and neither did He use His power to stop the offense. Yet if we say that He needs or "allows" the situation to accomplish His purpose, then we are saying that God needs the proceeds of evil to accomplish the good. This is not true.
    God does not test people with evil or by evil. God interferes to accomplish His purpose, sometimes ignoring our free will. He chased a disobedient Jonah until Jonah submitted. There are better ways to "learn our lesson" than through misery.
    God does not "allow" evil. He submits to our choices. These choices are not executed in a vacuum. What we do affects others. The innocent will suffer and sometimes the guilty will go free.
  • God Is "In Control". Some argue that we cannot say that "God is in control" because this means that when evil conquers good that God is responsible. However, being in control only means that when evil seems to be winning and good seems powerless and ineffective, we must remember that in the end God will win. There is no event that occurs, no matter how devastating, that God will not and cannot both mitigate the damage and give us something much better. God promises justice and restoration in the end.
  • For The Greater Good. God does not operate according to this exception. He can never use evil. Knowing that we will face these decisions, God has set in place systems to virtually eliminate these conditions. However, we will not submit and we are left with broken, inhumane systems holding back a dam that is patched with glue, band aid and paper clips.
    God has an economic system that will eliminate poverty, but we will never use it. God has a moral system designed to encourage respect, honor and love, but we will never submit to it.
    We maintain these unbalanced systems by force, intimidation and exploitation. Concentrating power and control in the hands of the elite at the expense of the powerless masses. Nothing we do is about "people" whom God adores. Instead, everything we do is to amass power and control - just like Satan.
  • Everything Happens For A Reason. This is absolute nonsense!
    Babies are nor raped for any noble reason ordered by God. Families are not killed on their way to church by a drunken driver because God did not delay them for five minutes. You cannot hope to succeed and live a long life if you drop out of school to join a gang. You can hope for a better future and more options if you study and avoid drugs, alcohol, premarital sex and pregnancy out of marriage.
    Most things happen because they are the natural consequence of our actions or the random confluence of events. Sometimes things happen because Satan set the events in motion. Sometimes God intervenes. Most times things happen because of our choices. Our choice or actions are the major reason why things happen.
    What we are sure of is that whatever happens, God can find a way for us to endure.
    We Are All Called To Inherit Good. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8: 28)
    » A Stained Glass Life. Like a beautiful stained glass or intricate patchwork quilt God can take the broken and shattered pieces and craft something so wonderful that it is treasured more than the plain originals
  Our free choice allows evil to have the right to exist and God does not use His power to always block evil at this time. So God must let evil have its way as evidence for us. Some still cling to the fruits of evil. Some think that good and evil must coexist in some sort of balance. We do not hate evil enough for God to destroy it yet.
  The crucifixion convinced the powers of heaven that evil is a force that must be eradicated so they expelled Satan. At some point the ravages of evil must convince the people of earth that evil can never be tolerated. Evil does not want to coexist with good and neither should good coexist with evil. Evil makes no accommodation for good. It intends to destroy anything good and even those who subscribe to evil. Evil is not simply at war with good, it is at war with all humans because God loves us.
  
  God "allows" evil because evil still has the right to exist because we embrace it.
  So the strategy of God is not to eradicate and stamp out every instance of evil when He sees it and before it affects us. God's strategy is to change us and open our eyes so that we can see and hate evil. Evil is no respecter of persons. It will destroy the innocent baby and the young mother just as much as it will destroy the drug-crazed serial killer.
  God has set a time limit for evil to demonstrate its fruits. When the time is complete and when we open our eyes, then God will eradicate it because we will give Him the permission. We will beg Him. Until then, shielding us from the evil gives us a false sense of the magnitude of the problem and we will continue to want to coexist "in balance" with the homicidal monster.
  We love many of the pleasures of evil. If God took us to heaven with this attitude evil will sprout again. He will not erase our love for it by force. We must invite Him in to eradicate this love for evil because we want the monster to be banished forever.

The Problems of God
Undeserved reproach has been heaped upon the God of the Old Testament by an enemy who was our legal representative for 4000 years. Other misconceptions about God are based on His apparent weakness and inabiliy to deal heavy handedly with sin. How does a powerful Being guarantee justice and fairness when He is under scrutiny?

• Satan. We will harbor misconceptions and disbelief about God if our world view does not acknowledge the existance of Satan or God. We have an enemy who resents rules, loves the limelight and wants to be in charge.
• God Is On Trial. God is being judged and He submitted Himself to judgment instead of annhilating the universe and starting over. As a result He is just as handicapped as Christ was when He became a human being.
  • Handicapped. God could not use His powers or foreknowledge to veto His creatures in a decision.
    • Jesus. He surrendered His wealth and powers and was born poor in a stable and was homeless when He began His ministry. At His birth, His mother was handicapped by a ridiculous story that nobody could possibly believe. "God made me pregnant". As a consequence He also grew up with the label of an illegitimate bastard. God gave Himself no advantage in conquering sin.
    • God the Father. Except for supporting the universe, it appears that God cannot use His powers to resolve the crisis immediately. He cannot use His omniscience to unilaterally declare who deserves to be saved and who will be lost. Every decision He makes has to be verified by the principalities and powers who are judging Him. He cannot and will not use His omnipotence to destroy Satan and restart the universe. That would not be a mature way to solve a problem. He would either have to kill the innocent and the guilty, or if he let the innocent live they would eventually become afraid of Him.
    So temporary chaos under a cloud of suspicion seems to be the better choice. In the end everyone will be allowed to judge His decisions.
  • Restrictions. He seems to be restricted to one action at a time. It is as if every decision in the world is only based on two choices. God has one and Satan has the other. We have the free will to switch sides but there is a great deal of peer pressure and propaganda instigated by Satan.
    • Monogomy (One Nation). He deals directly with only those who submit to Him and their family. He could only deal with one group at a time because, even symbolically, God cannot create a divided kingdom. Even when sin divides the nation of God, He must work to reconcile them. When He ruled Israel the Gentiles could be saved if they chose to join Israel. In order to save the Gentiles He had to turn away from Israel. Why?
      One clue is in how the nation of God is symbolized at the end of time. It is a bride. The relationship is that of a monogamous pair. One woman married to one Man and one Man married to one woman.
      The laws about slavery of a female seem to explain this phenomenon. This is why the church has the female gender in prophecy. This is also why the promise was made to the seed of the woman.
      
      » Earth. Satan seems to be restricted to the same rules. Unfortunately, he tricked Adam and Eve to join his side and all the seed that was in them at that time belonged to him.
      » Israel. Following the same rules God could try to convince one couple to join His side and all the seed in them were heirs of the promise. According to the same rules anyone had freedom to choose to switch sides. So we can join the covenant of the promised people or we can go back to the world.
      This is why He had to let the Jews go in order to save the Gentiles. Israel had filed for divorce from Him and then died. Death automatically annulled the marriage. He made a new marriage contract with the Gentiles. This relationship gets complicated at the end of time when a miracle occurs. The dead wife will be resurrected. How does that affect the monogamous relationship? Fortunately, He is only engaged to the Gentiles. The marriage ceremony is not complete until the Second Coming. This is where the symbol of being adopted as children takes over.
    • Holy Spirit. He could not come in His official capacity or with greater access until Jesus left the earth. Jesus' sacrifice must be made before we can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
      The Next Helper. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. (John 16: 7)
    • Faith. Extraordinary, continuous displays of power seem to be forbidden by either side. The exodus proves that miracles and the physical presence of God does nothing to influence human obedience. Power by either side would only make us more responsible for sin and more confused about which side to join. Satan already feeds our lust even under these restrictions and we seem to be disproportionately drawn to the dark side.
      So faith, free will and reasoning are the approved methods of making a decision in the Plan of Salvation. We cannot be openly pressured by superior beings.
• A Safe Universe (Not In My Neighborhood. Not On My Planet). One of the concerns of the universe is how to reconcile the former sinners to the rest of the unfallen creation. We must be tested and proved since they do not have omniscience and the guarantee of God is not enough since God is also on trial. The universe must see for themselves that we deserve eternal life.
  
  » A Quarantined Planet. One consequence of this is that we are a planet under isolation. Satan and his evil angels have been quarantined with us on the earth. This means that there cannot be visitors from other planets who are searching the universe for evidence of other intelligent life. The entire universe knows that we exist and they are waiting in anticipation for our revelation. So there are no little green men from outer space in cigar-shaped space ships attacking cows and drawing elaborate pictures in isolated cornfields in England.
  The Sons of God. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. (Romans 8: 14, 19)
  All of creation suffers, even the unfallen universe, as they wait for our birth.
  The Entire Creation Suffers. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. (Romans 8: 22)
  
  » Cosmic Entertainment: A Universal Drama Unfolds. While they are waiting for our maturity, we are each stars in our own reality show. As the future ambassadors of the universe, they get a chance to evaluate us as we grow and mature in the knowledge and love of God. Through us they understand the love that it takes to exercise faith and our hardships and struggles against the onslaught of Satan make us genuine heroes in the Faith, worthy of their respect and support.
  You Are Either A Reality Show or A Freak Show. For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. (1 Corinthians 4: 9)
  They must be confident that we are creatures of the utmost integrity, who respect and love the law. We must be copies of the beloved Jesus Christ who would die for their enemies, obedient to the law and resisting sin to the point of bleeding through our pores (Hebrews 12: 4).
  
  Some of these watchers even have the authority to judge and pass sentence.
  The Watchers. This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers and the decision is a command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules over the realm of mankind, and bestows it on whom He wishes and sets over it the lowliest of men. (Daniel 4: 17)
• Representative of Earth. Adam was the official representative on earth until he sold himself and his children to Satan. Satan now had the right to come before God as the representative of the planet because he is the official prince of this world. We learn of this from the book of Job. As our representative Satan accused us.
  And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
  "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night." (Revelation 12: 7-10)
  God solved this problem when Jesus bought us back from slavery to Satan and redeemed us and the planet. Jesus Christ represents us by being our intercessor who advocated for us according to the will of God.
• Slavery Under Satan. Once we came under the jurisdiction of Satan, God had to deal with a planet of slaves and an official representative who hates us.
  • Sabotage. Satan is dishonorable and he will not honor his own agreements. God must, however, remain faithful and true.
  • A Wicked Representative. For 4000 years Satan was our official representative and all He did was to show why we deserve to die while he dug a pit and set traps to make us stumble.
• Unlimited Wickedness. While we look at the world through our own narow perspective, the scriptures say that our enemies are an evil conglomerate of wicked spiritual beings who are using every resource that they have to destroy us.
  Our Opponents. "we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places ..." Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)
  Christ Disarms Evil Powers. Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and He has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. (Colossians 2: 14-15)
  » Probationary Time Ends. However, God is not handicapped. His mercy and our free will required some probationary accomodation. This practicality in all things was also written in the law. When God begins a revolution, He gives between 3.5 years to 40 years for the people to adjust before He allows a violent overthrow. There is even evidence that His patience will continue for up to 100 years before He puts an absolute end to the system.
  So, to find great social revolutions that are possibly caused by God look at pivotal events approximately 100, 40 and 3 to 4 years before.
• Weak and Incompetent. Instead of a bungling God who stumbles around through trial and error, we find a fair God who seems to be willing to subject Himself to judgment and ridicule as He allows the concerns of His enemies and His creation to be addressed. Fortunately for us, God does not administer His kingdom like a tyrant or even like the strong dominant type. He does not flex His muscles or regularly show off with displays of power in order to intimidate. He will match power with power, obstinance with obstinance. He will react to you the way you react to Him. In a way that means He first judges you by your own rules. God is more like the diplomatic ruler, but not the type of diplomat who compromises or says soothing words to each party so that they hear what they want to hear. God uses reason and wisdom and if the safety of the kingdom will not be jeopardized He will make you "learn your lesson".
  
  Aggressive. Far from being weak, God acts aggressively when He can no longer wait for the wicked to repent.
  • Samson. God raised up Samson so that He could pick a fight with the Philistines.
    Trouble Maker. However, his father and mother did not know that it was of the LORD, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel. (Judges 14:4)
  • Pharaoh. God deliberately chose a stubborn man so that He had the legal right to act in a powerful way to impress the nations.
    Stubborn. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 11: 9)
  God did not make these men act out of character. He used sinful men to destroy sin so that it can be said that Satan received a dose of his own medicine and was destroyed by his own schemes.

The Case Against God
There are many stories about God's actions that do seem harsh.

• Land Theft In The Exodus. The exodus was just an excuse to rob people of their land. On the exodus and during the first years in the Promised Land, Israel wiped out or attempted to wipe out many nations.
  • Egypt. Any reasonable person has to admit that Pharoah was the dumbest rock in the pile and Israel had the right to escape oppression from slavery. God saved the Egyptians who came on His side and destroyed the army after enduring every provocation.
    » Hardened Heart. God chose a proud man who would not give up easily. God did not harden the heart of a man who wanted to submit. God chose the heart of a man who was rebellious.
  • Self Defence. The fact is that all the nations attacked Israel even when they were trying to pass through peacefully. They all knew what happened to Egypt and how powerful God was, yet they tried to fight Him even when He was not waging war or declaring war.
  • Peace Agreement. Even the land that Israel tried to take, the law required that they first make an offer of peace.
    Terms of Peace. When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. (Deuteronomy 20: 10-11)
    Only one nation tried to make peace.
    Peace and War. There was not a city which made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle. (Joshua 11: 19)
    » Peace or Slavery? You might say that slavery was not a fair trade for peace or that God was hypocritical for taking a nation from slavery only to enslave another nation.
    This was not slavery by being kidnapped. The laws have a path out of slavery.
  » Occupation Of The Land. You might ask what right does God have to murder other nations and take away their lands?
  • Purchased. Abraham had already purchased some of the land and in fact owned quite a lot of it in the south and east. It was famine and slavery that took them from their land.
    In 135 AD it was the Roman emperor Hadrian who removed the people from their land and brought in foreigners to occupy the cities.
  • Death Penalty. The nations that were dispossessed were under the death penalty because they were too wicked. They even received 400-800 extra years of mercy. In a way they actually inflicted more misery on their little ones and the rest of the world because God was being too kind to them. God waited hundreds of years. We torture innocent people in an hour when we simply suspect that they might have information.
  • Murder. God did not murder them. They died in battle when they would not make peace or attacked first.
  
  » The Battle of Armageddon. Strangely, all these examples are pictures of what happens in the Battle of Armageddon. After the final judgment when the wicked have been separated from the righteous and the wicked admit that the judgment was fair, God still does not destroy them. Instead, God leaves the gates of the city of the New Jerusalem open. This is a gesture of peace.
  However, instead of making peace and asking God to change His mind, even remembering these old stories and requesting that they become servants instead of being annihilated, the wicked attack a peaceful city with unarmed people. God kills them only after they attack Him. He has no choice.
  
  God's character gives them two options even though it seems hopeless. It points out that the wicked have to start trusting God by treating Him as a righteous God who is full of mercy and compassion. They must make this decision on their own with the evidence they have about God and they must act on it on their own free will.
  • Mercy. Like the Gentile woman, they can appeal to the mercy of God and ask God to give them the crumbs that He has left over.
  • Slavery. They can appeal to the law of slavery. Choosing to be willing slaves who will be treated kindly. Did you know that the Bible says that the disciples of Christ are the slaves of God? God's slavery is not unkindness. He intends to make the slaves His children. However, before we become trusted sons, we must submit like slaves and show obedience, acknowledging that God is the good LORD.
  The Bible says that all the wicked will be lost, none will appeal to God.
  None will make peace with God and surrender.
• Genocide. If we are going to accuse God of genocide you cannot overlook the fact that they were judged and condemned. Pretend for a moment that God does exist and He has foreknowledge. Now appreciate the fact that He patiently tries to plead with nations for hundreds of years. A close study of the events will show the patient endurance of God.
  • Amalek (1 Samuel 15). God ordered Saul to kill the Amalekites, including the babies. What those who accuse God of genocide overlook is that the death sentence was being carried out 430 years after it was first announced. In all that time the nation had never repented and grew worse. In all those years, apparently nobody could be salvaged.
    Death Sentence. Thus says the Lord of hosts, "I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Israel." Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. and the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, "Go and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are exterminated." (1 Samuel 15: 2-3, 18)
  • Amorites. God waited over 400 years before He executed judgment on the Amorites.
    Oppression. God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years." Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete." (Genesis 15: 13, 16)
    During that time He subjected His own people to slavery in Egypt.
  • Ezekiel . Ezekiel shows that when God acts in such an extreme manner it is because He has reached the limits of His patience and He is actually judging us by our own standards. So the Amalekites and Ammorites were guilty of the same crime with which we charged God. They sacrificed their children to Molech and they committed genocide.
    • Righteous Justice. Anyone who is punished deserves it. God has never executed a righteous man.
      God Saves The Righteous. If a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing, if he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man, if he walks in My statutes and My ordinances so as to deal faithfully - he is righteous and will surely live," declares the Lord God. (Ezekiel 18: 7-9)
    • The Innocent. Children will not die for the sins of their parents.
      Personal Responsibility. The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself. (Ezekiel 18: 20)
      Therefore, underaged children who do not know the difference between right and wrong will be restored. One consequence of the restrictions on this world is that it most often makes no distinction between the good and the bad. Everyone suffers, but God will restore what has been unfairly taken away in the end.
    • Repent. The wicked can always repent and live. God is interested in life, not death.
      Mercy. But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all my statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live, he shall not die. "Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked", declares the Lord God, "rather than that the wicked should turn from his ways and live?" (Ezekiel 18: 21, 23)
    • We Determine Our Punishment. We are punished according to our own standards. So, however God behaves towards us, it is a reflection of our own brand of justice.
      We Make Our Punishment. The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord. (Ezekiel 7: 27)
    • A God With His Heart On His Sleeves. We have wounded God emotionally.
      God Has been Hurt. Then those who escape will remember me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. (Ezekiel 6: 9)
• Baby Killer. The hardest stories to justify are those where God commands Israel to kill everything, including the children. This seems particularly harsh because we assume that children are innocent or lack the capacity to understand. We who live in this era know better. There are child killers, rapists and criminals. Hardened criminals in tiny bodies. However, God allowed the killing of even infants.
  • Everyone Suffers. Children suffer from other random consequences of sin, not only as victims of a judgment from heaven. Babies are born with defects, addicted, develop cancer and die in senseless accidents. Babies are raped and sold for sex. Some are starved to death and others are offered to the gods in human sacrifice. Neither God, nor the principalities and powers act to prevent any of this misery. Nobody is exempt from the curse. The innocent and guilty suffer alike. Perfect and immediate justice is impossible in our situation. It also has serious consequences.
    God should kill bad parents and bad people immediately but He does not.
    If He did the world would be operating under a different paradigm and we would be complaining about something else, fear of the wrath of God and orphans.
    Financial advisors and stock traders would be the top scum of the earth. After God annihilated them it would be bad cooks and those who drink and drive or text and drive. Soon fear would be the new paradigm. Under those conditions people sacrifice children to appease the wrathful gods.
    
    So our real complaint against God is that He is too lenient on the wicked! It is really not that He arouses Himself every 800 or 1600 years to deal with a planet gone wild or a nation out of control.
    
    Even if God only rewarded the good and protected only the righteous, then this would also be undue influence and the universe would not have any objective evidence to show whether we obeyed God because we respected His government or if we were afraid or if we wanted good luck for being obedient. So in the wisdom of the plan, everyone was subject to this randomness of events and God tolerated the wicked and the righteous demonstrate faith.
  • No Righteous People. The story of Sodom and Gomarrah reveals a few interesting things. Abraham was also appalled at what God was going to do, and he bargained with God (Genesis 18: 23). So he picked a very low number believing that surely in such a large city there must be at least 50 righteous people. To his surprise God said that He would spare the city for 50. So Abraham began to bargain down to an unbelievably low number. He stopped his bargaining at 10 possibly the size of Lot's family. God did not tell Him to stop at this number. Even Abraham himself must have concluded that such a large city, devoid of any righteous people and deserving the judgment of God, which had never been shown on the earth since the flood, must be hopelessly wicked.
    At the crucifixion we had our answer, God will save the city if He finds only one righteous person. There were no righteous people in Sodom. Even the four that God saved were only marginally good.
    We learned from Jonah and Nineveh that God will spare a city if they repent. Sodom was beyond repentance.
  • Bad Children. There were apparently no righteous children in Sodom either. The scriptures tell us that even the children were part of the mob outside who were trying to rape the men.
    Young and Old. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them". (Genesis 19:4-5 AV)
• God Murdered His Son (The Crucifixion). When a soldier sacrifices his life by falling on a grenade we call it a selfless, heroic act. When Jesus volunteers to exchange His life for ours and God approves of the plan, we say that a blood thirsty God murdered His Son.
  • Salvation Required A Sinful Act. My only concern about the crucifixion was that if Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins, then God had to allow sin to accomplish this task. Even if Judas and the priests did not sin and Satan had to do all the dirty work himself, Jesus still had to be tortured to death on the cross, no matter who nailed Him there.
  • Gethsemane and Calvary. Then God Himself enlightened me. There are no Bible verses which say that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. Rather, the Bible teaches that it is blood that atones for sin and Jesus Christ shed His blood voluntarily and without torture in Gethsemane. In another lesson we prove that Jesus Christ atoned for our sins in Gethsemane and then paid a ransom to Satan on Calvary where He was crucified. The crucifixion was Satan's price to free us from slavery.
  • Human Sacrifice. For the same reasons that God did not murder His Son He is not guilty of human sacrifice. He did not atone for sin with the death of Christ but only with the blood of Christ shed in the garden of Gethsemane. Human sacrifice is against the law.
• Supernatural Intervention. God could mitigate the damage by intervening but He chooses to treat everyone the same. God sends rain on both the righteous and the wicked.
  God is allowed to intervene supernaturally, but it is not the rule. Whenever He intervenes it is usually not a situation that causes fear to elicit forced obedience. Almost every salutation by an angel who visits on behalf of God begins with these words, "Do not be afraid". Regular supernatural intervention destroys the atmosphere of free will. We need to choose sides without undue influence from the forces of good or the forces of evil.
  
  » Covenant Intervention. God could guarantee Israel that if they obeyed His laws they could avoid some of the terrible diseases of the nations because this would be based on knowledge about how to mitigate the damage brought by nature, not on supernatural intervention.
  » Faith Intervention. Only when we demonstrate faith does God seem to have the unlimited right to intervene.
• Vengeful God. The story of Jonah should tell us that God cares about other nations and even the animals.
  Compassionate. Then the Lord said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?" (Jonah 4: 10-11)
  Therefore, if God condemns a nation to death then they deserve it.
• Nepotism and Favoritism. God shows favoritism where He plans to preserve His word and restore His reputation. The group or person to whom He shows favor has valuable information from God for the rest of the world. They were chosen because they proved to be the most faithful messengers of anyone available.
  • God Shows Favoritism To Israel. God chose the only human on earth who would love and obey Him and made a promise to Abraham and his children. The Jews have been entrusted with the sacred written and oral repository of truth. This is what makes them valuable. However, they are valuable as a nation of priests on a mission to find the lost priests.
    If you asked the Jews they would say that this status of "most favored nation" has made them a target of Satan for centuries. While God loved them, He disciplined them harshly when they sinned. The only benefit of the choice seems to be that God will keep trying to reconcile with them because they have the purest form and knowledge of His word.
    
    » God Loves Gentiles Less. Any Gentile can join into the nation of Israel. The relationship is not based on genetics but on obedience.
    » A White Jesus Refused To Heal a Non-Jewish Woman. The enemies of Jesus ignored the remarkable testimony by Jesus about the faith of Gentiles, especially this woman into a racist lie.
    Remembering that God said that faith is the key to salvation, in almost every story where people were praised for their great faith it was to a Gentile. In fact, the Gentiles are joined to God in the same way that Abraham became the friend of God. It was through faith, or absolute trust in God.
    It is true that Jesus called her harsh names used by the Jews. However, He tested her faith by asking her why He should give the gifts of God to an outcast like her. Her remarkable answer was a testimony to all those Jews around her. She basically said,
    "Even if I am an outcast, I have so much respect and admiration for the God of the Jews it would be my privilege and honor to eat the crumbs that fell off their table."
    She did not complain about her perceived status, she honored God. In the process her status was elevated. She was also a child of God, a priest who would one day represent the true character of God.
  • Jesus Only Came For The Jews. This statement is one of the misconceptions about Jesus Christ and YHWH.
    "Show me one verse in the Bible where Jesus said he is for all mankind. He only says he came for the Jews".
    All Valued By God. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. (John 3: 16-17)
    The words "world" and "whosoever" make it clear that the mission of Jesus Christ went beyond the boundaries of Israel on a mission to reconcile the entire world to God. Any perceived favoritism in favor of Israel is based on the fact that Israel was being groomed to be the light to the Gentiles to spread the good news of the love of God and His plans to rescue us. The Gentiles were incapable of that mission at that time because they had not been taught the words of God as given through Moses.
    All Equal in Christ. For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3: 26, 28)
    
    Jesus was on a mission not only to reconcile Jews and Gentiles, but to reconcile earth with heaven. Therefore, this reconciliation of former enemies, demonstrated in the feud between Jews and Gentiles or Jews and Christians, is anticipated by God as a sign to show the unfallen universe that they can be reconciled with the earth.
    Reconciliation With God. ... God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5: 19)
    Reconciliation With Each Other. But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, so establishing peace. (Ephesians 2: 13-15)
    This reconciliation is not based on ignoring the laws of God for "common points of interest" like current reconciliation movements, but the reconciliation will involve embracing the laws of God.
  • God Shows Favoritism To Men. Any perceived favoritism is based on the one perfect Man, Jesus Christ, who must have laws in place to help Him to rescue the woman. All laws giving privilege to men are based on a good and perfect man who has one wife whom he treats with honor and respect.
    » God Hates Women. After analyzing the laws on slavery and the laws that seem to be unfair to women I realized that they were written by a Genius bent on trapping a sadist. It seems to be unfair to women first only because women sinned first. This has nothing to do with being punished because she sinned first, but as the first to fall there were greater claims on her by the enemy.
• Women. We hate the condemnation and degredation of women in the Bible, yet as in many intentions of God this is also abused and misunderstood. Hating what the Bible appears to teach, many modern translations have stripped out all references to gender inequality. In doing so, they totally destroyed the wonderful lesson that God is trying to teach.
  • Gender Neutral Bibles. Every reference to a strictly male priesthood and male responsibility is a law that points to the identity of the Messiah. He would not be a female. The Messiah was a son, not a daughter. All the duties and actions of the Levitical priesthood pointed to the duties of this one man. We can find prophecies about Christ by looking at the laws that specifically require only the male. Gender neutral Bibles destroy this knowledge.
  • The Beloved Bride. Jesus modeled His relationship to the world after women. The church, both men and women, is called His beloved bride. So the male and female relationship was supposed to model the relationship between Jesus Christ and His church. Almost every male has tarnished this object lesson just as Israel has also ruined the lesson that God meant to teach the world through them.
    What is occurring in almost every home and society is not the model that God created. God never intended for men to dishonor women because they are somehow inferior. He intended to model how we can be saved from sin if we submit to Him as God. Incredibly, He won our salvation by submitting obediently like a woman, not by acting dominant like a man.
  • Submission. So, when men model their role by degrading women, they are modeling how Satan forced Jesus to submit. If men and women model the role of God then they would see each other as equals and look in amazement at one who is an equal submits for the accomplishment of a great purpose. Only slaves and children and those who are inferior submit involuntarily and this models the slavery of Satan. The unselfish and voluntary submission of an equal or superior models what Christ did.
  Marriage was never intended to be an arena where the dominant strut around and prove how they can rule over the submissive and make them do their will because of some superior quality or ability inherent in them.
  The perfect marriage will model the actions and decisions of God in the Plan of Salvation.
  When administered correctly, both men and women and children can get a chance to live out the awesome responsibilities and the interplay of duties and the admiration and respect between Jesus and God as they play out their roles in the Plan of Salvation as one who makes agonizing decisions and one who volunteers to submit completely for the benefit of the helpless children.
• Bad Doctrine. Other misunderstandings about God are based on errors of doctrine or prophecy.
  • Unfair. Some teach that God dooms Non-Christians to death because they do not believe in Jesus Christ. However, the truth is that everyone who is saved will be saved because Jesus Christ provided a way for them to be saved, even if they never heard about Him. This is because at birth everyone is given a measure of faith and a conscience which is guided by the Holy Spirit.
    • Christians. They will be saved or lost depending on how they respond to the Holy Spirit.
    • Those Who Never Heard About Christ. They are judged by their consciences which are guided by the Holy Spirit. They cannot be expected to accept Christ if they never even know that He existed.
    • Those Who Reject Christ. If their rejection is based on the misrepresentation of Christians, then they are not guilty. Who could expect the natives of the New World to accept the god of the Spanish while they subjected them to slavery, forced conversion, torture and genocide?
    • Those Who Disobey The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is given to everyone at birth. Everyone has a "measure of faith" in God. Everyone who is lost will have one thing in common, they disobeyed their conscience and found a reason to do what was wrong when their consciences warned them that they were in error.
    If people reject Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit because they want to follow the wisdom of their own hearts then they will be lost. Heaven will only be populated by people who choose to hate sin.
  • Torture. The accusation of torture mainly comes from the doctrine of hell fire.
  • Hell Fire and Eternal Torment. It is always amazing to me that Christians love the notion of an eternal burning fire and some even believe that God will even throw people in there because they did not accept Jesus even when they have never heard about Jesus.
    We have extremes of bad doctrine and misplaced hope and unbelief.
    • Eternal Burning Hell. The wicked will burn alive forever in hell in torture while the righteous live forever in heaven. Proponents are now "proving" this by listening to the tales from the crypt as almost dead people return to describe heaven and hell. The problem is that the Bible warns us to avoid speaking with the dead or those who claim to talk to the dead.
    • Everyone is Saved. The God of love will save everyone. The problem is that if this is true then why did the God of love make us live through the horror of the last 6000 years? Was He using sin as a deterrant to teach us to reject evil before He forced us to conform to His will and accept good? If He was going to do that then why not make us without free will and skip the drama of the last 6000 years?
      » Soul Torture. Then there are those who believe that everyone is saved by recycling their soul between life and death until they learn their lesson. This is both torture and coercion and seems to be devoid of justice or good sense.
    • The Position of Unbelief. There is no heaven or hell or god except us. Heaven and hell are just metaphors for what we experience on earth.
    The truth is that there is no eternal hell burning now and there will be none burning forever. Hell fire occurs during a brief period of time after the final judgment, ending before the new world is created on the ashes of the old. The wicked will be burnt up and reduced to ashes forever and will never rise to life again nor experience burning torture forever. This is the only plan that preserves freedom of choice, is just to both the righteous and the wicked and makes any sense.

  	Truth	Heaven and A Perfect Creation	Earth Prison (After Sin)	Destroyed	Perfection Restored
  	Bad Doctrine			Eternally Burning Hell
  				Heaven
  	Misplaced Hope		Earth	Punished	Paradise For All
  		God	Life	Death Recycled	Paradise or Spirit Plane
  		Evolution and God	Earth	No Hell. Only a Loving God
  	Unbelief	The Big Bang and Evolution	Earth	Death. No Heaven or Hell or God

  On our own, the common sense model that we have developed is to incarcerate and rehabilitate criminals. If the crime is too terrible and the criminal is unrepentant we resort to annhilation by an immediate death penaly or incarceration until death. How could humans be more just and merciful than God?
• The Bad Behavior of Israel. Sometimes the enemies of God blame Him for the wicked behavior of His people. The people of God did many gruesome acts and bad behavior, but this does not mean that God approved.
  What stands out is God's loyalty to them and His own method of showing them that they were wrong.
  • Abraham and Isaac. They both lied to save their lives and God appeared to condone their lies. God threatened Abimelech even though Abraham's fears and lies allowed him to take Sarah. Abimelech was not innocent, he was an adulterer. However, he would not have taken Sarah if Abraham had been honest.
    Just as he convinced Sarah to lie to protect him, Sarah later convinced him to sin to protect his legacy.
  • Jacob. He deceived His father and God probably punished him by allowing him to be deceived.
  • David (1 Samuel 27: 11). David killed a lot of people without the approval of God. Yet, throughout his friendship with God we never get a sense of God's opinion until the end. God could not allow Him to build His temple because his past was too bloody.
    David said to Solomon: "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God. But this word of the LORD came to me: 'You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. (1 Chronicles 22: 7-9)
    This story and others highlight the fact that once God makes a committment and promise, He will stick with you. However, He will not condone your sins. Sometimes it appears that He approves because the scriptures do not record His response, we only see the continued support or the horrible consequences.
  • The Murdered Concubine (Judges 19-20). The tribe of Benjamin raped a woman to death and her "husband" mailed the body parts to the tribes. It is a gruesome story, but God never approved it or ordered it and the tribe was severely punished. The remarkable thing about the story is that God did not white wash the history of Israel.
    And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me, but instead they ravished my concubine so that she died. (Judges 20: 5)
  • Prosperity Ministers. They are a disgrace to the name and reputation of God, yet God allows them to live and prosper.
• Religion. Having a religious affiliation and being religious is not a stupid refuge for the emotionally dependent. Being "spiritual" is not a superior position. It is just an excuse for living life according to your own cornucopia of feel-good ideas. Being religious means that you also take into concern the evaluation and the opinions of a deity who has a right to a different point of view by virtue of having more experience and grasp of the problems plaguing the universe. Being religious means that you actually take the position that in the end, the universe is in the control of a friendly face.
  The lazy man's evaluation of the world is to be spiritual. The thoughtful person's evaluation of the world results in picking sides. Right and wrong is not a continuum subject to your personal tastes. There are moral absolutes. A person who uses religion as a crutch is not a thoughtful person. He is the laziest of persons who chooses religion so that the pastor can think for them. I would say that the "spiritual" person has his own self as his own authority and the collective opinion of sinful mortal man is their crutch and their pastors are the greedy pigs who sell spirituality in feel good seminars. At least organized religions have organized charities and organized "do-good" institutions who collectively do more work with longer commitment than the spiritual 'feel-good' devotees.
• The Evils Of Religion. Religion is not the source of most of the evils in the world. Atheist nations seem to be responsible for more deaths per year than religious nations when you calculate the damage that they have done during their short existence. Abortion kills over 1.3 children annually in the United States alone. The atheist nation of China killed millions of full term babies during its "one child" policy program. The majority of these victims were girls who were deemed less valuable and were killed or discarded after birth.
  Religion and religious people have been the impetus behind many breakthroughs, many educational institutions, charities and impetus for social change. People without religion and without a sense of absolutes fill our jails, victimize others and institutionalize greed. Greedy corporations and monopolies and ambitious leaders have inflicted misery on the poor for thousands of years often using the peacefulness and self-sacrifice of religious people to mask their activities.
  God is correct. It is wickedness entrenched in high places that have damaged the earth and its people.
  • Christianity: Crusades and The Inquisition. This is another crime by the church as it forces others to conform to its will. Forcing the minority to accept the gods of the majority has existed in the Roman era, now exists in India and the Islamic nations.
  • Buddhism and Hinduism. Celebrities and others are trying to sell eastern religions as the antidote to the evil bloodthirsty Christians, by presenting themselves as peaceful and non-judgmental. It was Jesus who said, "Judge not".
    » The Hindu Varna System (Castes). It is Hinduism which allows the system of the "untouchables" to exist, ignoring the suffering of humans because fate has made a judgment about them. The first Buddhist I ever met was very devout and he was one of the worst, intolerant and judgmental people I have ever met.
  • Islam: Jihad. The treatment of women, the holy wars against infidels and the deliberate stifling of other religions through laws and intimidation and violence are all negative aspects of this religion despite the efforts to distance themselves from the most violent actions.
    What is hypocritical in this religion is the claim to be more moral, more holy, righteous and pure when they have immoral practices entrenched in their laws. Prostitution, homosexuality, pedophelia and sexual perversion are alive and well dressed up in laws that allow them to be practiced only by men making women and children its victims.
  • Atheism. This is also a belief system. The moral decay of society, the experiments in communism all show that without a sense of moral absolutes man is bereft of any wisdom or common sense or empathy. Religion holds back the tide of evil, while atheism dresses it up in packages labelled as "freedom", "happiness", and "exploring self".
  
  » Conversion. The fact is that all belief systems, including atheists and scientists, want people to convert to their absolutely correct point of view. Unitarian Universalists are just as devoted to making Evangelical and conservative Christians convert to their free, liberal and "more loving" point of view. Atheists want to see religious people convert to their view of life and are willing to ridicule, persecute, mock and marginalize. They may justify this as scientific and commonsense and rescuing people from the darkness of religion. The church used the same fervent argument to try to save people from hell. This is the same behavior as religious zealots. Everyone has bloody hands and an intolerant mindset and the absolute conviction that they are right.
• Slavery. Slavery has existed in all societies since man came. The Egyptians enslaved the Jews for 430 years. Indentured service was actually a good economic system for exchanging labor for valuables in a primitive economy. In the modern economy we exchange labor for money which we then use to acquire valuables.
  In the colonial era the Christian churches and Christian nations enslaved and killed millions all while going to church and justifying the practice by the Bible. Other nations and religions also practiced cruel slavery.
  However, the truth is that the Bible never justified kidnapping people for slavery. That offense was a death penalty. The Bible also required Israel to redeem their poor brothers and take them out of slavery as quickly as possible. The Bible allowed for slavery through debt bondage, or working off your debt, but limited the period to six years so it was impossible for a debt bondage system to escalate into a generational debt bondage.
  The colonial churches simply pointed to the word "slavery" in the Bible and justified their inhumane brand of slavery.
  
  » An Orderly Disposition Of Slavery Or Anarchy? It is clear that the Bible teaches that the world fell in slavery to sin and that Jesus Christ came to free us from that slavery. While Jesus was on earth, the Roman empire enslaved most of its population. During the time of Paul, he told a runaway slave to go back to his master and submit. Christian masters were still holding slaves. Why?
  For practical reasons, when such a huge economic system comes to an end it cannot be done abruptly without huge social consequences.
  When blacks were freed in the United States they were homeless and penniless and jobless and without assets. The system merely arrested them as vagrants and sent them back to work on the plantations as prison inmates. Their fate was worse than before.
  What God expected was that masters start treating their slaves kindly and to fairly dismantle the system. The Biblical laws even required the master to provide adequate financial support for the slave to transition to freedom. However, when a slavery system does not anticipate reparation it could be very destructive to suddenly end the system.
• God Created The Devil. God created a perfect being named Lucifer who abused his free will and made himself corrupt.
  You were blameless in all your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you. (Ezekiel 28: 15)
  God is no more responsible for Satan than loving parents are responsible for a child who chooses to become a criminal despite his upbringing, training, guidance and privileges.
  However, unlike mortal parents who do not know the future, since God knows the future isn't He responsible for unleashing a rampaging demon on the universe when He knew that this perfect being would rebel?
  
  Knowing the future and the infinite amount of choices available because of free will, God must have seen that the problem would eventually arise. Therefore He made a plan to fix the problem and He did the best for the ambitious angel whom He would give the highest position among created beings to satisfy his covetousness.
  God continued with His plan of creation knowing that free will was worth the cost and His creation would learn to always submit to His will because He always desires their good.
• Born In Sin (Original Sin). God says that sin will never occur again. So why did God create perfect people who would sin?
  Is free will incompatible with perfect behavior unless we learned a terrible lesson?
  
  » Satan (The Cosmic Idiot). Knowing that Satan would covet His throne, God still gave Him the highest position possible for a created being. This was designed to stop his covetousness. This should have satisfied Satan but it did not. Wisdom should have told him that he should be satisfied with the greatest honor and position possible for a created being. Common sense should have taught him that since he was not God and could never be God then he had reached the height of his career potential. However, Satan lacked both wisdom and common sense and the world became victims of a fool.
  
  I question how is this fair for the children of Adam and Eve who will make choices that will lead to eternal death? They never made a choice while having the full arsenal of protection that perfection and face to face knowledge of God has to offer. They were born in sin. They were born handicapped and sentenced to death without committing a crime.
  Although the righteousness of one man will compensate for the unfairness of being condemned for the sin of one, it still seems unfair to those who will be lost because they never made the right decision while being handicapped by sin. Would they have made a better decision if they were perfect? How could the universe prove otherwise? Lucifer did not.
  
  » The Population After Sin. What are the possible choices that God could have made about populating the earth after Adam and Eve sinned?
  • Adam and Eve Only (Sterilization). Since perfection does not guarantee good choices, but bringing an innocent life into the world under these conditions seems irresponsible. This is why I say that Adam and Eve should have been sterilized or the Plan of Salvation should have been limited to them only while they were childless. The curse required that redemption must come through the seed of the woman. So they had to have children.
  • Adam and Even and Children Born Perfect. If redemption is through their children why were all children not born perfect like Adam and Eve? In fact, the only Redeemer found was a Child who was perfect. This Child existed before and chose to come to earth after knowing the hardships and the laws under which He must live. All other children never existed before.
    » One Law for Aliens and Israel. The universe does not operate with different laws for different people. So the perfect Redeemer who volunteered had to choose to be imprisoned and live under the laws of punishment of the condemned.
    If Adam and Eve had given birth to perfect children, then they would have been unfairly imprisoned and forced to live under the devastation of sin without having chosen to live under these conditions. They would be subject to the curse of sin without ever sinning. So a perfect volunteer was needed.
    Since perfection does not guarantee sinlessness, Jesus could still be our representative because He lived with all the pain and disadvantages of humanity with the Holy Spirit as His guide to perfection. This is what is expected of us because we have access to His advantage.
  • Adam And Eve And Children Who Inherit Sin. Born defective, their personal choices show that they do deserve to be in prison. But is it fair to this group? Is it even moral for God to create people who will be lost?
    • The Saved. Those who inherit eternal life will agree that the few years of sacrifice are worth it.
    • The Lost. There are two possible types of lost people, those who enjoyed life on earth and those who experienced only victimization and punishing poverty.
      There are few circumstances under which it would be totally unfair and immoral.
      » Eternal Suffering. Punishment in eternal torture.
      » Diminished Mental Capacity. They were too young or too physically or mentally handicapped.
      » No Chance. There never was a Plan of Salvation that included them.
      
      So, for the lost, fairness could only be achieved if God had the ability to reach into the future and interview the children of Adam and Eve and tell them what choices they will make given the best of circumstances then they could choose to come to earth and enjoy the pleasures of sin for a moment in the life assigned to them.
      However, this would be evil because God would be responsible for creating people who would suffer for no purpose that was useful to them. It would also mean that God was responsible for creating evil people, unlike Satan who was created perfect.
    • What Was Inherited? Why did the innocent children inherit his weakness for sin? It is clear that we inherited Adam's sin, this is called the doctrine of original sin. Some claim we also inherited his guilt. This would be unjust and unlawful.
      The law says that we must suffer for our own sins.
      Guilt Not Inherited. Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin (Deuteronomy 24: 16)
      Yet in Exodus 34: 7 and the second commandment (Exodus 20: 5) teaches that when the guilty are punished the results will be visited on the third and fourth generation.
      This can be seen in the light of human dynamics where society will not let go of the stigma of scandal. So, not because of God's direction but because of our actions, families suffer the stain of scandal for generations. Since God does not actively stop these activities, He takes responsibility for "visiting the inquity" on subsequent generations.
      However, there is a very practical and responsible reason for this law. He allows these dynamics to continue because we must learn that sin has consequences beyond the borders of the sinner. He is also responsible for warning us about potential danger. So if a particular family has a very defective gene that leads to a higher percentage of criminal behavior, we need to be aware of our choices.
      
      So we inherited the weakness for sin, but incur our own guilt when we submit to sin.
    » A Vaccine Against Sin. I cannot completely answer this question so I submit to the wisdom of God and look at the testimony of the wicked at the end. They will agree with all the decisions of God and will be ashamed.
    One possible answer to this problem is that God believed that creating life so outweighed this one negative incident in time that it was worth the sacrifice. This will be another reason why He really cannot torture people forever. Apparently even the wicked will agree. So they will not regret that they lived and will be lost, they will regret the wasted opportunity.
    
    » A Lethal Weapon Against Sin. A principle of science gives us a possible answer. The principle of innoculation against virulent viruses using weakened viruses shows that this strategy works to help the body to defend itself. There is evidence that we were created as the weapon against sin to give evidence of the wisdom of God.
    Jesus Christ is the ultimate faithful and true weapon in this arsenal. He took our weakened form to defeat Satan. We were all created after sin entered the universe, and we were designed to destroy Satan in our weakened form. So our weakened state is not a testimony to the unfairness of God subjecting us to sin and death without any choice or power to overcome. Our weakened state is a testimony to the weapons that God gave us to defeat Satan!
    So one incredible fact that may emerge in the final judgment is how easy it was for us to win simply because we were weak and we simply blew it.
    Truly, God is strongest when we are the weakest and mercy overflows more where sin is the greatest. Incredibly, we simply need to learn to submit to God and believe that we can win, especially when sin appears to be strong in us.
  
  » Freewill and Foreknowledge. It would be evil and unfair for God to make us knowing that we would not be saved, except under certain conditions.
  • Eternal Burning Hell. This is why eternal torture in an eternally burning hell does not make sense. That would be immoral, especially if we were born defective and unable to resist sin. Since I believe that hell fire is not eternal and the sentence given will be seen as just even by the wicked, then this is not an issue.
  • The Lost. No lost person would ever agree that eternal torture in burning fire is just. So will the lost agree that the brief life was worth it under certain conditions?
    • The Happy Lost. Since they rejected God, their life was only what they expected through the philisophies of life they engineered. They lived and died and enjoyed the in-between. Since they did not care about the existance of heaven or hell or God or absolute values they cannot claim that they were cheated if they had no expectations beyond the here and now.
    • The Miserable Lost. There is no fair scenario for this group.
      So all the lost must at least live with the same limitations and hardships as their peers and had a reasonable opportunity to choose good by at least learning the Golden Rule through personal experience to treat others the way they would want to be treated. They must also learn to love, respect and appreciate what they see even if it unreasonable to develop a relationship with what they cannot see or experience.
  • A Powerful Helper. He gave us the Holy Spirit to guide our conscience and give us the best chance.
  • No Chance. Since God is just then this option is impossible.
  • Diminished Mental Capacity. It is my opinion that these people can never be lost.
  • Universalism (All Saved). The belief that all will be saved despite their choices makes God immoral for creating us to undergo this horrible experiment when He planned to say "Oops! Never mind! Do Over!" He should have made us perfect and worked out His issues with the rebellious angels. If He did this to make us learn a lesson from sin, then He needed sin and He used sin in the creative process. This would make Him an immoral hypocrite.
    I believe that He must have a better plan to convince the vast majority of us to accept His rule but I do not think that He will save us by overlooking our deliberate rebellion to save us despite our devotion to wickedness and blatant hatred and disregard for righteousness.
• It Is Barbaric And Unfair (Judgment and Hell Fire). The view of many people is that God is a tyrant who is going to kill us anyway if we do not do His will. So they reject the concept of a final jusgment and annhilation, even if we are not going to be tortured in hell forever. It is unfair because we were weakened because of sin and we had nothing to do with the initial cause that weakened the human race.
  
  » The Population After Judgment. You will agree with God when you see the options remaining for the popluation after the final judgment.
  • Immediate Annhilation. God chose to destroy the wicked all at once after the trial in which they are allowed to defend themselves using the same stupid rules by which they lived their lives.
  • Contine As Usual. It would be immoral for God to allow the past 6000 years to continue forever with more innocent children being born under the current system. If God took away all natural disasters and all mental illness and disease and criminal behavior then what you are asking for is what God is offering without heaven. There cannot be a true heaven without also obeying the laws you think are too puritan. You cannot have a perfect physical world with the right to have God protect you while you drink, gamble, party and fornicate as you please. You cannot have sin and expect God to hide the consequences.
  • Sterilization. God could choose to allow the wicked to live after making it impossible for them to have more children. In this way no more innocent children will be born under these conditions. Under this option, the wicked will die off in 100 years, waiting hopelessly as the society ages and their numbers dwindle. Why is this option not used by God?
    The answer is that it is more merciful to execute the wicked than to have them suffer under 100 years in a worse hell of their own making. People assume that without God they can live life and enjoy it as they please. However, without the Holy Spirit and the influence of God the planet would disintegrate into chaos where the violent minority would terrorize the less violent majority. Soon, it would not be a land of free will and pleasures forever. It would be a lawless system without any public services or rules that make civilization function. It would be a place of terror with armed camps, roaming gangs of rapists and murderers. Society would be reduced to forced slavery in order to provide the necessities of life.
  God's solution is the most humane option.

The Case For God
Your criticism of God does not take into account the passage of time or the efforts made by God. Over a period of 4000 years, the number of stories of annhilation are rare and they are preceeded by warnings for hundreds of hears.

• Free Will. The administration of the world is a testament to the importance of free will. God does not shield us from the consequences of our behavior and the behavior of others. The preservation of free will has led to this complicated, drawn-out plan to save the world.
• Clever Laws. The laws of the Old Testament show how God has taken advantage of every legal opportunity to ensure that He can answer every charge and argument that Satan will make. The laws on redemption, vows, marriage, women and slavery are key to how God will claim possession of us and disposses Satan.
  • Substitution. It seemed unfair for the sins of two people to be transmitted to their children like a virus, mutated gene or an unwanted inheritance. Substitution seems to punish an innocent while allowing the guilty to escape their responsibilities. However, this unfairness allowed the righteousness of one Man to be substituted for all those who are born again through Him.
    Instead of dealing with our sins individually, God was able to deal with them collectively. It was the fastest and most efficient and fair way to obtain justice. It also dangled a carrot on the end of the stick that Satan could not refuse. He could get a chance to torment the one Person whom He hated the most while He was powerless and in the weakest of forms. He got an opportunity with Jesus Christ in human flesh after He had fasted for forty days and again after He had been physically beaten and mutilated and emotionally devastated and abandoned by God.
  • Kidnapping and Slavery. Satan is guilty of the death penalty because he kidnapped Eve into slavery.
  • Redemption. If Satan says he bought us from Adam, then God can say that he bought us back with the blood of Jesus Christ before the seven years of slavery are over. If God had waited seven years or until the year of the Jubilee then God can say Satan has no legal right to us because time has expired and Adam can reclaim His possession.
  • The Earth Is The Lord's. If Satan says that Adam sold the earth to Him before it was redeemed, then the law has a special case that allows ownership of the land to god back to God, not the original family who was given the land (Leviticus 27: 20-21).
  • The Church is A Woman. If the church had been pictured as male, neither God nor Christ would have the right to unilaterally override our decisions. However, the church and Israel is pictured as female who submits to God. The controlling male has the right to annul the vow of a woman on the day he hears about it.
    • Father. As our Father, God annulled the vows of Eve on the day He walked into Eden and found them hiding. He made a covenant to kill the snake and free the woman and her children.
    • Husband. As our Husband, Jesus annulled our vows on the day of the crucifixion when He made the marriage contract (New Covenant). He knew that we had sold ourselves to Satan, but it was only on this day that He had obtained the legal right to do something about it.
    If we had first been given the status of sons instead of daughters and slaves we would have borne greater responsibility for our sins. When we are born again, then we are given the privileged status as "sons of God".
  • The High Priest Is The Blood Avenger. The unique situation of death posed many problems for a universe where death never existed and will never exist again.
    Blood feuds sound so primitive and vindictive, yet in the justice of God, this is the way that the dead can get justice since death wipes out all contracts and rights. The feature of death that annuls all contracts works in our favor in the end, but the inability to seek justice works in Satan's favor unless we make a special law for this temporary situation.
    All unintentional killers must take refuge in the city and will be protected from the blood avenger while the high priest is alive. As our blood avenger and indestructible High Priest and builder of the city of refuge, God can have mercy on us and be the guarantor for us because He will never die and He understands us, having been one of us. He can also take revenge on Satan for killing us even after He has given us eternal life. Satan can never enter the city and he will never acknowledge the status of Jesus Christ.
  • An Eye For An Eye. The law on revenge also gives "life for life", when God took revenge He had compassion instead and He gave His life for our life. He will eventually execute revenge on our real enemy who has caused all this destruction.
  • Slaves. Our status as slaves of sin gave us more victim's rights that protected us.
  • Female Slaves (Exodus 21). The rules are different for female slaves even if she became the wife to a free man while He was a slave. Since Jesus became engaged to the church when He was not a slave of Satan, He can take us with Him when we are redeemed. Since Jesus is a slave of God, His wife must be treated like a daughter or God can give us to His Son as a wife.
    According to the rules, if we find ourselves still as the legal property of Satan then our only hope of freedom must be to make ourselves displeasing to him and by law he has to allow us to be redeemed. You can make yourself displeasing to Satan by following God and disobeying Satan and working to sabotage his kingdom. God is only too happy to redeem us.
• Picture Language. God communicates His problems and solutions in a variety of methods that will survive over thousands of years. If we approach life with the arrogance that wisdom began with us or in the last 120 years then we are fools. However, if we approach life with humility then we should recognize that others have asked the same questions that plague us and that there is wisdom in looking at what others have discovered whether or not the universe is hostile or friendly. If we assume that the universe is friendly, then we must believe that a friendly God has left His footprints somewhere in time. If that God is wise, His message or language would transcend all time and culture and language.
  • Words of God. God did transmit His written words on Mount Sinai and the oral traditions have been passed down since Adam and Eve.
  • Traditions. Wisdom may be found in our traditions and the treasures of the old.
  • Types and Shadows and Symbols. Since traditions, words and history can be tainted, they are backed up by symbols and rituals which transcend all cultures.
    • Sacrificial System. The promise of redemption had to be portrayed in an ugly picture because it was an injustice to God.
    • Abraham and Isaac. God has to give up His Son but He would spare us.
    • Submission. The Son has to submit from a position of strength and authority. He even had to submit to an enemy.
    • Wounded. God is hurt, humiliated and wounded, yet He does not strike back wildly.
  • The Sample Nation. God left us an example of all the various types of difficulties He solves through His interaction with the nations, particularly Israel. As we examine how He deals with various individuals we begin to get a picture of a very loyal, patient, long suffering and tenacious God.
  You may call the language imperfect and the message mixed, but God sent His Son to clear up the confusion and fine tune our hearing.
  In the Son you will see the many dimensions of the Father. In the prophecies, you will see the uncanny accuracy of the tapestry that God has been weaving for centuries.
  Then you will learn to trust the ancients whom God admired and you will understand why the story of Abraham has captivated over 65% of the world even if their followers remain a poor example.
  Even in God's dealing with Israel you will find a people who represented and honored their God poorly giving you some insights into the dynamics of today as God deals with a planet that represents Him poorly.
  Look at ancient Israel and her neighbours to see yourself. Then have some sympathy for God.
• Been There, Done That. Throughout history God has demonstrated many failed scenarios for establishing righteousness. Jesus Christ was the only successful demonstration of a plan that actually worked under the worst circumstances. The disobedient often offer many scenarios under which they would believe God. Many invent conditions under which they would be obedient, saying, "I Would Believe if ... if God Would Only ...
  For every argument you want to make against the actions or lack of actions by God, He can point to that method being tried and failed in history. So if you want God to ...
  • Prove That He Exists. The people before the flood and the people at the Tower of Babel knew that He existed and they still disobeyed.
  • Demonstrate His Powers. He sent plagues to Pharoah and Egypt and showed many miracles to Israel in the exodus and Jesus performed miracles. Yet they crucified Jesus about ten days after He raised Lazarus from the dead. They tried to stone Moses three days after the miraculous Red Sea crossing and disobeyed God immediately after He removed each plague.
  • Rule With An Iron Fist. Tyrants rule with an iron fist. The open disobedience is proof of the gentle, patient form of government. The best government is a gentle, benevolent, self-sacrificing ruler who desires free will among law abiding citizens.
  • Solve Our Problems. The Jews were the experimental group for this solution. If God stopped all wars, abolished poverty, hunger and disease why would we obey Him if we were disobedient when He displayed power? Israel was disobedient to Him when they were prosperous. He instituted laws to drastically reduce poverty and we have never obeyed them. How would we appreciate the consequences of sin so that we would react to it in disdain if He mitigated all the damages?
  • Let Us Solve Our Problems. The Gentiles were the experimental group for this solution. We have free will and technology and we are not solving our problems. Only the rich and upper class have truly remined insulated from the deep-rooted problems of this world. We limp from one discovery to the next until we are now running out of room to manage the long term problems. Greed and selfishness prevents us from solving them.
  • Show Us His Character. Jesus Christ came to show us the Father and we killed Him.
  • Get Rid Of His Laws. The problems are not His laws but lawlessness. We live without His laws and poverty, disease, abortions have escalated because of the breaking of one commandment. We are demonstrating that lawlessness will ruin any society. It ruined the people before the flood, the citizens of the French Revolution and the generation at the end of time will descend into moral chaos.
  • Kill Satan. Satan will die, but killing him will not end our desire to sin.
  • Take God To Court. We will have our chance at the final judgment to make our case. There we can try substituting our own laws and judgment as we defend ourselves. God not only says that we will fail, but we will admit that our arguments are stupid.
• Submits to Judgment. God allowed Himself to be judged and He predicts that when it is your turn to judge Him and defend yourself you will acknowledge that He was fair and just even with your own standards of fairness.
  Come to the Universal Court. Gather yourselves and come. Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations. They have no knowledge, who carry about their wooden idol and pray to a god who cannot save.
  Defend Yourselves. Declare and set forth your case. Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me. A righteous God and a Savior. There is none except Me. Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God and there is no other.
  Acknowledge The Righteousness of God. I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness and will not turn back. That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance. They will say of Me, "Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength".
  Acknowledge Your Guilt. Men will come to Him. All who are angry with Him will be put to shame. In the Lord all the offspring of Israel will be justified and will glory. (Isaiah 45: 20-25)
  Everyone Submits to Christ. ... for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. (Romans 14: 10-11)
  » Hypocrites. If you plan to challenge God and disagree with Him, He will be able to point to the hypocrisy of your life. So make sure that when you plan to judge Him that you do not condemn your own life with your words.
• Patience. God's patience is not a sign of weakness or incompetence. It is an incredible sign of mercy.
  Mercy. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3: 9)
• An Unbelievable Destiny. Have you ever wondered why it would be fair that former sinners such as prostitutes, pedophiles and murderers should obtain a higher position than an unfallen and loyal citizen of heaven? It could not be that God wanted to show us how much He values us. Our sins are so great that we would be grateful to be potted plants in the kingdom or beloved pets or slaves of a kind God.
  We will achieve those positions not only because of the mercy of God, but because of His wisdom. We deserve it more than anyone else in the universe and we can represent the office better than anyone in the universe, because "the just lived by faith" and by allowing rebellion the unfallen universe did not live by faith.
  The laws on warfare and claiming possessions show that we will inherit what Satan and the fallen angels gave away. We know that we will be kings and priests. We will also be special messengers and ambassadors for God. We may even take over the role of covering cherubs. Who else can legitimately say, "Holy, Holy Holy" and testify legitimately about the love and mercy of God? Certainly not the angels who put God to the test when their life was perfect. No. The honor goes to those of faith who trusted a God who was reproached, choosing to wait and trust until they can judge in righteousness, even though they suffered as innocents in this cosmic warfare.
  If rebellion or the seeds of rebellion ever surface again, this is how the universe will respond.
  • Absolute Trust In God. It is not really that the universe distrusted God, it is that they loved and trusted Satan and could not see what harm would develop if Satan were allowed to continue his experiment. A perfect universe was as naive as Eve but it now understands that sin and evil can develop in a perfect society because sin is deceptive and does not play by any rules and takes advantage of our love and trust and naivite. Sin is not a game with friendly rules. Sin is war.
    So if rebellion surfaces again the universe will never again allow a charismatic person or anyone to override the decision of God and put God on trial again.
    God's statements will be seen as absolute and for our good and He will never be judged again.
  • Ambassadors. We were rewarded with this position specifically because we have the experience. If rebellion surfaces we will be dispatched to tell the story of the cost and the obligation to trust and obey God because we have been recipients of the wonderful mercy of God and the victims of rebellion against God.
• Reconciliation and Restitution. Everyone will be repaid or restored. There is nothing lost or injustice suffered that will not be addressed in the wisdom of God.
  God's "unfair" treatment of you will be seen as your medal of honor and your purple heart when you see how it contributed to the tapestry that is the wonderful Plan of Salvation.

The Saving Of Planet Earth
It seems terribly unfair. A rebellion started in heaven, before we were created, yet it seems that the greatest casualties will be among mankind. Why does Satan's propaganda lure us more than the rational arguments of God? Why will we not respond to reason, proof, common sense and love? Why do we prefer to knowingly put our hand in the fire instead of in the hand of God?
Why did God seem to make us to fail? Why is the plan of salvation so ineffective and doomed to failure? If God is all powerful and nothing is impossible for Him and He wishes that everyone could be saved why does it seem that only a very few people will accept salvation while the vast majority march headlong into destruction?

Satan Represents Us									Jesus Christ Represents Us
The Strong Man's House								The Strong Man Bound					House Plundered			Loosed
Evil Principalities and Powers Obstruct God									Disarmed	Holy Spirit Restrains Evil						Strife
The Accuser Of The Brethren									Blood Of The Lamb	The Word Of Our Testimony						Martyr
Adam		Noah	Babel	Abram	Moses	...	Daniel	Jesus			Church			Signs	144,000
	Tree of Knowledge Of Evil							Tree of Life		Tree of Knowledge Of Good						Evil
Eye Witness			Learned		Written knowledge			Eye Witness			Knowledge Of God Increases					Imposter
Mystery Sealed				Mystery Revealed To Prophets					Unsealing and Revelation					Mystery Unsealed
Truth		Evidence Obscured (fear, superstition, slavery)							God Revealed			Science Knowledge Increases
One Language			Technology Suppressed By Scrambling Language									No Language Barrier
God Overlooks Our Ignorance								God Commands Repentance						Choose God
Unsuccessful Evangelism								Partial Success						Total Success
Ungodly World					Ungodly Jacob			Deliverer From Zion			Removes Sin				Righteous Israel

The Ruling Principalities And Powers. Before Christ we had an adversarial system that was not in our favor, The leader of this group even had the legal right to represent our interests before God. All he did was to accuse us, set traps for us and lie to us about God in an effort to make a legal case for our destruction. They had so much power that their activities and rights prevented God from fully revealing Himself to us.

• Hierarchical Structure. Job, Daniel and Jesus give us a glimpse of a vast spiritual network arrayed against us. In the beginning, they has a legal right to rule or to intervene in the affairs of men. The right to rule began because Adam gave sovereignty to Satan when he sinned. His rule is apparently set up so that there is an evil administrator over all nations.
  A Satanic Administration. Then he said, "Do you understand why I came to you? But I shall now return to fight against the prince of Persia; so I am going forth, and behold, the prince of Greece is about to come.
  The Prince Of Israel. However, I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael your prince. (Daniel 10: 20-21)
  According to Daniel, in the spiritual realm, the world is divided among different princes.
  • Ruler Of This World. The chief of these princes is Satan, who won the right to rule by corrupting Adam and Eve by lying. However, he could not find anything in Jesus to corrupt.
    The Ruler Of Darkness. I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. (John 14: 30)
  • Prince Of The Power Of The Air. He works through the wicked and disobedient.
    Hypnotized By Satan. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. (Ephesians 2: 1-2)
  • Spiritual Wickedness In High Places. There is a network of evil in heaven and earth and in powerful positions that are dedicated to destroying us.
    Prince Of Darkness. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. (Ephesians 6: 11-13)
  • Prince of (Persia, Greece, ...). Through Daniel we learn that a major demon is assigned to each nation-state. They probably work to inspire rebellion, subjugation of the people and war to expand the realm of oppression. In Daniel's case they were struggling to prevent Daniel from learning the truth.
  • Prince of Israel (Michael). Now we know why God could legally only work through Israel. Michael is the Prince assigned to Israel and God's plan is through one house, not a divided kingdom.
    God rules over those who chose to believe in Him and make a covenant with Him. Abraham was the first man of faith. Before him, men knew the true God because they had first hand knowledge or eye witness accounts from Adam or his children. Gentiles have to choose to join the house of Israel in order to submit themselves to the rule of God.
  • Angelic Watchers And Holy Ones. Daniel also introduces us to "angelic watchers" and "holy ones" who respect God and can recommend judgment.
    Pass Judgment. This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers and the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And bestows it on whom He wishes and sets over it the lowliest of men. (Daniel 4: 17)
    Respect God. A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all those who are around Him? (Psalm 89: 7)
    There is no reason to believe that this authority is limited to good forces. Job 1 shows us that the evil forces also have this privilege. Jesus said that Satan asked for permission to "sift them like wheat" (Luke 22: 31). Jesus Himself had to go to the desert to be tempted by Satan after a brutal 40 days. However, it seems that there is a neutral governing body through whom these activities are approved. They respect God, but they allow Satan to prove his case.
  A limitation of power exists so that Satan does not have total control. He has a right to be heard and a right to operate freely, especially when we submit to him.
• The Evil Plans. The prophets shows us that their work is focused on separating us from God by hardship, lies and rumors and a sense of abandonment by a God who has the power and authority to do anything, yet appears to do nothing.
  • Obstruction. They tried to prevent Daniel from learning what was written in the "writings of truth".
  • Accusation. John saw Satan accusing us day and night (Revelation 12: 10).
  • Malign God. All of the cares of life lead us to doubt and question the leadership of God.
  • Destruction. These plans are aimed at dethroning God and destroying us in the process.
  • Test Mankind. They like to test humans and must receive permission to severely test the people who have submitted to God. So God promised that this temptation will not be more than we can bear (1 Corinthians 10: 13).
  • Seeds Of Doubt. In Job we learn that they even complain for the right to change our circumstances so that we will blame God for our misfortune. Satan essentially says that God can only get our attention and affection if He bribes us or buys our love.
• Heaven Help Us? What was the response of heaven and all the unfallen worlds to all of this?
  • No Help. The angel told Daniel that he was delayed 21 days fighting with the forces of Satan because nobody would help him except Michael. Why was there no help from heaven to restrain the forces of Satan so that one man could be given the truth? When was truth an asset to be hidden?
  • Treading The Winepress Alone. In His work even Jesus had no help from either heaven or earth. In His human form it was prophesied that He was astonished that nobody would help Him (Isaiah 63: 3-5). Apparently, no one in heaven would or could help Him either.
  • God Helps Us. Consistently the evidence suggests that it was only God who would help us. Only God mortgaged heaven and became surety for us. Heaven did not want to risk saving us and God was compelled to be restrained in His actions. This made Him look weak and ineffective in our eyes.
    Therefore, for those who lived before the flood and knew God existed, they had no respect for God. It was their excuse for being disobedient. This is their hypocrisy because the "free-spirited" rebellious know the value of being given freedom of choice and they know the consequence of lawlessness.
    For those who lived after the flood, they did not believe in God or feared what might be God.
  Apparently, Satan's lawless actions were not enough for the powers of heaven to stop his activities for 4000 years until it was clear that he murdered one who was totally innocent.
  So our overwhelming desire to sin was apparently partially attributed to our fault by many in the unfallen worlds. There was not enough sympathy for us among the powers in heaven. Gabriel said that nobody would help him to fight against the evil prince except Michael. Satan's temptation, tricks and unfair tactics did not cause him to be booted out earlier. Why? It must be that the spiritual wickedness in high places were given free reign with confidence. They apparently created enough rope to hang themselves.
  We were being neglected because of who we were and who would become. We do have to capacity to win. We were created to replace them and even in our weakness we were being held to a higher standard.
  For over 4000 years their assessment of us seemed to be valid. There was no evidence that was good enough to stop our rebellion. There was no perfection that prevented corruption. We always chose Satan.

The Ungodly People And Powers Of Earth.
The rational mind would think that reasonable people will respond to evidence in a predictable manner. Given information and a choice, we assume that rational minds will come to a reasonable conclusion. However, the evidence is quite different. Men progressed from disobedience to hostility and total rebellion against God with all the evidence and advantages conceivable in their favor.

• Total Knowledge And Total Perfection (Satan). He had the highest position of any created being. God said that he was perfect. Standing next to the throne of God, he had the privilege of communicating with the mind of God. He also received honor, status and praise for his position from other created beings. Yet he sinned and became the father of this destructive rebellion that has been isolated to this planet. His behavior shows that perfection and knowledge does not guarantee wisdom, right thinking or behavior. An inflated sense of strength and popularity, stubbornness, pride and greed will override every ounce of common sense.
• Limited Knowledge And Total Perfection (Adam And Eve). Born in perfection and innocence and with eyewitness knowledge of God, their disobedience was not based in hostility to God. Like the universe who fell under the spell of Satan, they were naive.
  A naive and uninformed Eve was tricked into doubting that she actually understood what God meant. Adam was willing to throw away his life for love of a woman. God intended for them to acquire knowledge gradually. They were not supposed to learn about evil until they had learned about good and about the tactics of evil.
• Eyewitness Knowledge and Imperfection (Noah And The Antediluvians). They knew and believed in God, but they were hostile to Him. At a minimum, they were the third generation since Adam. So they had eyewitness testimony to counteract the lies of Satan. After 1656 years, God said that all they did was to continually think, plan and do wicked things (Genesis 6: 5).
• Oral Knowledge And Imperfection (The Tower Of Babel). It took only 100 years for this generation to form a conspiracy to rebel. Apparently knowledge, warning and punishment does not deter this intrepid race from self-destruction. In a short period of time they were repeating the mistakes of their grandparents.
• Written Knowledge And Imperfection (Israel). We have been in this state since God came on Mount Sinai and gave the Torah to Moses and renewed the covenant.

A recipe of knowledge and perfection in any combination did not guarantee righteousness and wisdom. it fostered rebellion and hostility. Hope only rested in one who would trust and obey God despite all the pain and hardship.

Ungodly Jacob (Choosing God Before Jesus Christ).
Satan was very successful at Babel before God confused the language. So he keeps building evil empires to control the population and to gather people under one tongue to reverse the scattering of tongues at Babel and to pursue those who made a covenant of faithfulness to God. After the flood God did two things to implement His plans.

• Language Scattered (Science Knowledge Suppressed). Knowledge of God was not enough and knowledge of science was dangerous. In passing sentence God said something interesting. The one language allowed them to collaborate and implement their evil plans much faster. So He scattered their language and the people to prevent them from doing greater evil because practically nothing would be impossible for them to do if they were allowed to continue. For almost 4000 years since the flood, we have not advanced technologically. Within 200 years of acquiring this knowledge the planet is in danger of imploding from the lack of good management of its resources. God suppressed science so that we would not destroy the earth before He had completed His plans to save us.
• A Righteous Nation (Religious Knowledge Increased). When the nations scattered, God chose a righteous nation through whom He would bring back perfect knowledge of Himself to the world.
  • Abraham (Righteousness By Faith). Neither righteousness nor right reasoning could be achieved by accurate knowledge of God. 400 years after Babel God found a person who would respond to Him. Knowledge is not enough. We must trust and submit to God completely. In a world with traps and deception administered by a nest of conspiracy, it would require the absolute trust and confidence that is called "Faith".
  • The Faithful Nation (Israel). There are two types of knowledge, science and religion. God began to restore true religious knowledge with Israel. Finally we have a nation who was taught the knowledge of God by a friend of God. The advantage of this system is that finally the truth can be revealed. Even though Satan tried successfully to corrupt and obstruct Israel, yet God's plans were not thwarted with the unfaithfulness and rejection of Israel. Through Israel God could give the covenant that explained the legal bind under which our parents had obligated us. We were in debt bondage and God had planned a way to buy back our freedom.
  • Written Knowledge (The Torah And Prophets). While Satan focused on corrupting Israel, he virtually ignored the laws. The truth was not lived by the faithful people but the truth remained uncorrupted in the heroes of faith, the types, symbols, laws and ceremonies for 4000 years.
    • God With Power (Moses). Our creator God has awesome power to deliver.
    • Representation (The Priesthood). God would provide an intercessor who loved us.
    • Restoration Of Knowledge (Torah). The world had fallen into ignorance, unrighteousness, fear and superstition. God described the laws in detail.
    • Blessings And Curses (Warnings And Punishment). The law defined the rewards and punishments.
    • Forgiveness and Salvation (The Sacrifice). The law described the cost of sin and the process of salvation.
    • The Oath To Free Us (The Covenant). God promised that He would save us by Himself. This detail is important because when it seems that our human efforts will fail because of neglect and lack of interest, God will once again woo us to Him by Himself just as He did it alone at the crucifixion.
  The Deliverer learned of the plans through diligent study of the written knowledge. He saw Himself in the types and symbols and came to learn about His mission. This strategy met with mixed success. Israel was continually unfaithful. Even in this one area, the principalities and powers seemed to require the Messiah to learn everything through the limitations of the human body and fuzziness of an unfaithful witness. However, the Messiah learned of the plans through diligent study. He recognized His mission and He obeyed. He submitted to God and relied on pure faith and trust in His final moments.

The Deliverer From Zion (Choosing God After Jesus Christ).
What is different about our time and why was God's effort to reason with mankind unsuccessful before?
Here is the difference. Now that we have the information and capacity to make a rational choice, God can confine Satan long enough to disseminate His message clearly with the accomplishments of Jesus Christ as the key to His plans.

• The Messenger Of The Covenant. Finally, God has a faithful and indestructible witness - Himself. God gives personal testimony in the court of universal opinion.
  • God In The Flesh (Jesus Christ). He came to show us the true character of God.
  • Indestructible High Priest. We have faithful representation in heaven.
  • God With Power (The Holy Spirit). We have perfect representation on earth.
  • Law In The Heart. He had the legal authority to occupy our hearts and show us how to love.
  • The Armor Of God. We can successfully resist evil.
  • Church (Israel). He will finally have faithful human representation on earth through the church. This is the union of Jews and Gentiles under the nation of Israel, led by Michael, the Prince of Israel. God not only took the form of a human to become King and High Priest, He took the responsibilities of the Angel who would be the administrator of Israel. He was the Angel of the Covenant who went before Israel at the first Exodus. He is also the Messenger (Angel) of the Covenant in the final exodus at the cross.
  • Knowledge Restored (The Final Generation). Finally, in this era God can restore scientific information. It began around 1798 and took an unexpected turn in 2008 when the principles of science discovered over the past 200 years were found in the Torah written 3500 years ago. In His strategy to suppress science, God not only saved the planet from premature destruction, He planted evidence to counteract a major tactic of Satan. This is the rejection of God and religion on the basis of superior knowledge of science.
• Exposing The Principalities And Powers. He nullified all the plans and grand designs of these antagonistic principalities and powers, exposing their true nature.
  A New Government. and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority.
  Debt Forgiven. having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
  Booted Out The Old Regime. When He had disarmed [divested Himself of] the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him [the cross]. (Colossians 2: 10, 14-15)
  When He implemented God's plan. Jesus was made head of all things. As ruler He removed the unfair and illegal debt bondage that Satan used against us and evicted all the powers aligned against us.
• Restraining Satan. This is the difference between the efforts in the past and the time after Jesus Christ.
  Satan's Representation. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. (Job 1: 6)
  • New Authority. Jesus Christ subdued and replaced the obstructive principalities and powers.
    Satan And The Ruling Principalities Evicted. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
    The Rule Of Christ. 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12: 9-10)
  • Defeated In Court. Satan was convicted and arrested because the crucifixion exposed his true nature. He is a criminal.
    Judged. and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. (John 16: 11)
    Evicted. Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. (John 12: 31)
  • Purchased His Slaves. At the crucifixion, Jesus freed the slaves of sin. He has complete and uncontested authority to remove sin because He formally became our indestructible High Priest. Now He can bring righteousness to Jacob so that he can become Israel, a prince of God.
  • Paid The Ransom For His Hostages. Jesus rescued the hostages and paid the ransom. Now we legally belong to God by any interpretation and fine print on the original contract of slavery.
  • Satan Restrained. At the cross Satan's kingdom was left in disarray. Remember that he did not expect this turn of events because he did not know the importance of the crucifixion.
    Division. If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished!
    Captured! But no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. (Mark 3: 24-27)
    • A Divided House. His support will be destroyed. Those in heaven who allowed him to operate abandoned him at the cross. Those on earth who accepted his rule will abandon him when they get a real opportunity to choose.
    • Bind The Strong Man. Before the millennium he will be restricted by undefiled knowledge. His audience is tuned in to a new channel. At the beginning of the millennium he will be restricted by total lack of support. He has no cheering audience.
    • Plunder His House. In the final evangelism we will take all that he has stolen without much resistance. Resistance will come in the form of the most severe persecution when he is let loose for a short time.
  • Limited Access Evil Restrained. At the Second Coming Satan will be physically restrained on prison earth, his supporters destroyed and the righteous taken away (Revelation 20).
    Right now his loss of access can only be seen in the heavens. Here on earth it seems to be business as usual even though his days are numbered and his access is legally curtailed.
    According to the prophecies he still has access to the raging sea, a symbol of the wicked (Revelation 12: 15-17 and 13: 1). However he has lost physical access to the land, a symbol of the place of escape that God has carved out of the sea, similar to the exodus through the Red Sea.
    Since he cannot go on land, his access is through evil men who have access to the land.
    Restrained. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. (2 Thessalonians 2: 7)
  There has never been a time when the strongman has been bound and miracles or knowledge of truth has been disseminated throughout the world. This is the difference.

Mystery: The Secret War Plans.
The Mysteries Hidden. God hid His plans from even the unfallen universe. Common sense says that in war or any adversarial circumstances, if you are an honest person who cannot deceive even your enemy, then your best option is to keep your plans secret. In this way the overconfident enemy will paint themselves into a corner and you have the element of surprise.
Mysteries Hidden From The Powers. Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; (1 Corinthians 2: 6-8)
Mysteries Hidden From Heaven. To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;
The Church Is The Proof. so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 3: 8-10)
All of these surprises were kept secret. This was how the mysteries were concealed.

• Knowledge. Only some religious knowledge was revealed. Other knowledge was restricted and concealed.
• Prophecy. The religious mystery was explained by the law and prophets. God hid his intentions in types and symbols that seemed irrelevant and unimportant. While Satan focused on banishing the written word or turning the people to disobedience and disparaging the words, God preserved His intentions in meaningless scribbles, ceremonies, structures, holidays and tests of faith. If Satan had known how important they were he would have destroyed them earlier. Too late!
• Parables. Jesus explained the mystery in parables.
  Mystery In Parables. And He was saying to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables." (Mark 4: 11)
  • Sanctuary. It symbolizes the hidden secrets of the kingdom.
  • Tree Of Life. The kingdom allows us to eat from the tree of life which was taken away. Jesus is the tree on whom we are grafted. We become the fruits of the tree.
  • Wedding. God will give us the rights of a wife.
  • Children Of God. God will adopt us and give us the rights of children.
  • Evangelism. God will search for the lost.
  • Wise, Prepared, Faithful Servants. The kingdom will be found through faith. Faith requires wisdom, diligence and preparation.
  • Valuable. The value is a hidden treasure.
  • Jews, Gentiles and Outcasts. The kingdom will save the outcasts who were without hope.
  • Repentance. Although the wages of sin is death, repentance gives us a second chance.
  • Judgment And Separation. God will separate the righteous and destroy the wicked.
• Mysteries Hidden From The Angels And From Satan. None of these mysteries were understood by any of the created beings outside of the earth. None of the humans except the prophets understood it until Christ revealed it to the disciples and apostles. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2: 8, the heavenly princes would not have allowed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ if they realized what it would accomplish.
  Curious Angels. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1 Peter 1: 10-12)

The Mysteries Revealed. All the mysteries involve the process of recreating a new creature. Therefore, they are all related to an amazing knowledge of microscopic science which were encoded in the mysterious signs of Israel. These are the mysteries.

• The Rule Of Jesus Christ. Notice that a new authority is put in charge as the influential principalities and powers and authorities are dethroned.
  A New Administration. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1: 7-9, 10-12)
  
  » Messiah. Satan knew that there was a Deliverer because the promise was made to Eve (Genesis 3: 15) and all the prophets waited for it. However, the details were kept hidden from the previous generations.
  Mystery Of Christ. that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; (Ephesians 3: 3-5)
  He did not know when or who it would be. He corrupted Cain thinking that this is the seed that was promised to Eve. He thought it might have been during the time of Moses, because God had prophesied to Abraham that his children would be slaves for about 400 years before they were rescued (Genesis 15: 13). So he tried to kill all the Hebrew babies 400 years after they entered Egypt (Exodus 12: 40).
  At some point in ancient Bethlehem Satan tried to murder babies as he did when Jesus Christ was born. He probably thought it might have been during the time of Jesus Christ because of the time prophecy of Daniel 9. He is apparently dense about the symbols of prophecy and has to pay attention to the prophets.
  
  Cloning By (In Vivo Fertilization Or Artificial Insemination). The incarnation was a biological miracle on several fronts by a process of asexual reproduction. If a virgin female spontaneously became pregnant through the union of her own eggs, she can only produce a female. So a foreign male DNA was inserted into Mary's eggs while it was still inside her body without breaking the hymen.
  
  The Branch (Tree Of Knowledge And Tree Of Life). Several living creatures participated in this fall. First the tree contained the knowledge of evil. Then the animals enticed the humans and finally the humans succombed. In a strange way, God seems to symbolize the progress of the fall of the tree of knowledge by showing its redemption as a stick that caused death to one that gives life.
  
  Jesus Is The Branch. This is a symbol of the Messiah. He would be a Branch from the root of Jesse. As the Branch He reversed the effects of the tragedy in Eden by becoming the tree of knowledge of good and a tree of life.
  Branch (The Tree Of Knowledge). During His ministry, the Branch became a source of accurate knowledge about God the Father and an example of perfect righteousness by becoming the Tree of Knowledge of good. He proved that within the imperfect human body, perfection can be achieved through faith in the Father. This faith comes by accurate knowledge of the character of God which gives us trust and confidence.
  Branch (The Cross). The Branch fulfilled the covenant on a dead tree. Lifted up on this symbol of death, He held His arms up until He had obtained victory against the forces of evil.
  Branch (The Vine). The Branch is the Vine to which all Israel must be attached.
  Branch (Jesus' Rod Of Iron). The Branch will rule with a rod of iron.
  Branch (The Tree Of Life). The Branch is the source of Life because He is the Tree of Life which sprang from the dead through His own power. He became the ultimate Tree of Life from which the descendants of Adam and Eve were barred.
  
  The Branch (Moses' Stick). His stick was the most versatile. It devoured serpents, sent plagues, healed diseases, parted the waters of the Red Sea, and won victory in battle, symbolizing the accomplishments of Jesus Christ. He even became sin, in the form of a serpent, to conquer sin.
  Serpent Stick. And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. (Exodus 7: 10, 12)
  Poison Antidote. And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them. (Exodus 15: 25)
  Water Of Life. And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. (Numbers 20: 11)
  The Branch (Joshua's Stick). He used his staff to win battles, even commanding the sun and moon to stand still until Israel won their battle to possess the Promised Land. This miracle might explain an impossible astronomic event at the crucifixion. The day became dark for three hours as if there was an unusual solar eclipse. The event was impossible for two reasons. The total darkness of a solar eclipse last minutes not hours and they can only occur during a new moon, not a full moon. Only a lunar eclipse was possible because it was a full moon. It was the worst possible timing for a solar eclipse because the Passover always occurs on a full moon.
  Lifted up on the cross, the moon needed to move to the opposite side of the world, then they both needed to stand still for this miracle. The heavenly bodies remained in this position while He became the sin offering and won the battle for us in the darkness. Like Joshua and Moses, He held His hands up until victory was won. Satan outdid himself by nailing Jesus' hands in that position, ensuring that they would never fall if He was tired or dead. He nailed his own coffin.
  
  » Crucifixion. Satan was apparently clueless about the accomplishments of the Deliverer and the results of the crucifixion because he walked right into a trap designed to feed his hatred of God. Satan never quite mastered the concept of "Creator" versus "created". He must have thought that if Jesus was dead then he could take His place. So once he knew he had his enemy in his clutches, he made Jesus' life miserable until he could murder Him. This murder was the undoing of his ambitions because if he had known what it would accomplish he would have sent armed guards to protect Jesus or volunteered to baby sit the infant himself. If he had paid attention to the symbols of the sacrificial offering, he would have known that the sacrifice made atonement for sin. The rituals must have seemed like a powerless exercise. All he learned was that the sacrifice would die. The resurrection was a surprise.
  The Death Of Christ Was Kept Secret. Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (1 Corinthians 2: 6-8)
  This exposed his true character and the principalities and powers could do nothing less than vote to have him destroyed and set in motion the plan to bring back the innocent world from the brink of disaster. After the crucifixion they began to call us their "brothers'. They were finally more sympathetic to us without reservations because they finally understood that the accusations of Satan are meaningless expecially when he places the stumbling block before us.
  Defending Our Family. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night." (Revelation 12: 10)
  Sign (Circumcision). It is the sign of being "cut off" or killed for the covenant.
  Sign (Tzitzit). It is designed like the DNA telomeres and is a symbol of life not being shortened because of the sacrifice of the One who had four holes in His body.
  The Branch (Jacob's Stick). The strange story of how the stick with spots and stripes can cause the unborn of mating pairs to look like it is an account of how the DNA double helix strand, which looks like spots and stripes, transfers its characteristics to the unborn through DNA Replication. It is also the story of how Jesus Christ, hanging on the cross with welts and bruises in the pattern of spots and stripes, can transform us into new creatures by repairing our damaged genes.
  DNA Repair And Replication (Jacob's Stick). Sin damaged our genes and assaulted us like a virulent infection, passing it down for generations. The accomplishments on the cross healed our diseases by providing a way to repair our damaged DNA and securing an antidote to the poison of sin.
  Inoculation (Immunity To Sin). Jesus became the weakened virus through submission and His actions gave us immunity to sin. By becoming a snake that healed, He created the antivenin which is the antidote to the poisonous venom spewed out by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
  Branch (Elisha's Magnetic Stick). The Branch is a magnet that can make iron float.
  The Magnetic Cross. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12: 32)
  When his servant loses a borrowed axe head in the Jordan river while building a house Elisha uses a branch to make the iron ax float.
  A Wooden Magnet. And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. (2 Kings 6: 6)
  » The Floating Iron Kingdom. According to the prophecies of Daniel, the Messiah would be killed during the rule of the iron kingdom. This kingdom would survive in a fragmented form until the end of time. This prophecy shows that the Messiah will have success against the iron kingdom. He can attract all its citizens when the wooden cross is lifted above the waters (people).
• Increase In Knowledge. God told Daniel to seal up or hide some of the testimony in His prophecy. It will be revealed at the end of time when knowledge will be increased. Therefore the increase in religious and scientific knowledge is one of the hidden mysteries.
  Conceal Knowledge. But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase. (Daniel 12: 4)
  So it is my opinion that Satan could not have known about the science in the Bible. That information must have been one of the hidden mysteries. It would have been better for him to trap us in superstition and fear, appeasing everyone who wants to call themselves god. Now he is trapped with a theory and overconfident disciples and a history of words and bravado that they have to swallow in public humiliation.
  To the extent that the ordinary person relies on the pronouncements of scientists as an excuse for ignoring the existance of God, those crutches will be removed.
  The irony is that Satan was preventing Daniel from understanding a prophecy about the end of time, including the promise of an increase in knowledge. Thinking in his arrogance that he knows so much that even he could replace God, he was actually fighting against his best interests.
  Prince Of Persia Resists Truth. Then he said to me, "Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.
  Demonic Resistance. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.
  Knowledge About The Latter Days. Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to the days yet future." (Daniel 10: 12-14)
  
  » A Counter Revolution And A Strategic Plan. God gave possession of the evidence that will descredit their position into the hands of His sworn enemies.
  • Tiring The Enemy. God lets His enemies use their resources to do the work that will discredit them. Haman built his own gallows, plotting to murder his enemy on it and then to slaughter the entire Jewish nation under the control of the Persian empire. Instead he and his sons were hung on the noose they made, humiliated at the party he gave to honor his great triumph.
  • A Trojan Horse Plan. The Greeks infiltrated the Trojan defences by giving them a gift they could not refuse. Hidden inside the gift was the weapon of their destruction.
    The Jews protected the Torah and their traditions handed down by Moses. In them was an amazing set of Messianic prophecies, unwittingly practised, treasured and handed down for generations. God allowed atheists to dominate science. In this manner none can claim that they were using tainted evidence or that their enemies tampered with it.
  The timing of the revelation was strategic. It took Satan almost 200 years to mount a response to the looming threat of an increase in knowledge. It took another 100 years for it to utterly sweep the world and sweep away the claims of God. God's enemies found, verified and claimed this evidence, attributing it to evolution. Glorying in their human intellectual capabilities, they became preachers of the religion of atheism. They proselytize their position, confidently claiming that they have or will find all the answers so we do not have to be afraid of the dark because there is no God.
  Now God shows them their science in 3500 year old manuscripts given around 1500 BC, unquestionably written down before scientists opened their churches in 1859 AD.
  This time God overturns our objections. In past times we thought we knew everything and so did as we pleased. So God let us believe that we know everything through our own brilliance. Then He springs this surprise on us. What we thought we knew and invented was given 3500 years before on Mount Sinai by a power claiming to be YHWH, the one and only God who is our Creator who made the world in six, 24-hour days.
  There really is nothing new under the 6000 year old sun.
• The Church (Global Israel). The purified church will be the light to the universe. When we accept Him God will put us on display as justification of the wisdom of His plan.
  Unlike Satan, God does not have a divided kingdom. From the beginning He took jurisdiction over one nation - Israel. There must always be only one way to God, one holy mountain to which the nations will go from every direction.
  One Truth. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4: 4-6)
  So the mystery was how would He take jurisdiction over the other nations. Even though God bought back the freedom of every person, it is not His intention to have a divided kingdom. Instead, He wanted to peacefully join the Gentiles into the nation of Israel.
  
  » Israel. The experience of the church is patterned after the escape from Egypt.
  All People Saved. For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own estimation - that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
  "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB". (Romans 11: 25-26)
  • The Deliverer And The Exodus. Jesus began the final exodus from sin after He became the Passover Lamb at the crucifixion and delivered us from slavery to sin.
  • The Wisdom Of God. It is through the church that the wisdom of God will be revealed to all the principalities and powers.
  • Hardening. God uses Israel's stubborn resistance to His glory.
  • Wandering In The Wilderness. Israel should have entered the Promised Land in the first year of the exodus but they rebelled. Israel wandered 40 years and we have been wandering for almost 2000 years because we also rebelled at the crucifixion. However God used this time to His advantage. He now has the ability to reach all people everywhere instantaneously because of the modern technology.
  • Ungodliness Removed. We are living through the day called Yom Kippur. God will remove ungodliness when people trust Him and begin to submit, repenting of their sins.
  • Jacob And Israel. Ungodly Jacob will become righteous Israel.
  • Saving The Gentiles. The fact that the Gentiles could be saved through Israel by legally becoming a branch of Israel, was also kept a mystery.
    As stated before God appears to restrict Himself to one nation. Noah and then Abraham became the father of the nation through whom God would fulfill His promises. God appeared to have painted Himself into a corner. Only an entity called "Israel" could be saved. At the crucifixion, Jesus Christ was the only faithful Israelite found and the promise passed to Him. The twelve tribes of Israel were the root of this righteous plant and now there was only one righteous branch. So what God did was to prune the other branches, giving this righteous Branch a chance to grow. Now that God has one egg in one basket, how will God save the other eleven tribes and the Gentiles?
    Grafting and Transplantation. Grafting is the process by which a young shoot (scion) is inserted into an older plant (stock). There are several techniques which can accomplish this union. The scion is mated to the stock through an incision or raw strip that is made in the stock plant and the cut end of the scion is attached to this incision and bound to it. Then it is sealed or leaves removed so that water does not evaporate quickly while the graft is healing.
    Stem grafting or inarch grafting are the two major types of techniques. The scion can be a cut branch or the tip of another tree. In stem grafting the scion is cut off a plant and attached to the stock. Inarch grafting involves joining the branches of two trees so that the scion is nourished by its parent plant. When the graft is secure, then the scion is cut away from the parent leaving the stock with its new scion and the intact parent of the scion.
    » Transplanting And Grafting The Gentiles. God revealed His secret plan. The Gentiles would not simply be beggars at the Tree of Life or be like leeches feeding off the plant in a form of parasitic symbiosis. God would graft them into the Branch so that they could be nourished from the root up. They could take advantage of the immunities and all the years of maturity of the stock plant and produce fruit immediately, bypassing all the years of maturity they would need to reach this point on their own. In fact, since only the Branch from the tribe of Judah remained, the other tribes would also have to graft themselves into this Branch. Suddenly there was hope for the majority of the planet.
    Prior to this Satan must have thought that there was no hope for the Gentiles because they could not possibly show blood lineage to Abraham. However, the law made a way for the Gentiles to join and this was through conversion and baptism in the Mikvah as a way of publically declaring your official union with Jesus Christ. If Satan could make the Jewish nation odious to the world then the Gentiles would not want to join. This plan failed because God joined Himself to us in the covenant, actually passing responsibility as priests for the covenant to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.
    
    » The Hardening Of Israel. This seems unfair and unrighteous. How could God cause an act that would make Israel sin? He did not! He had to cut off Israel to give the Gentiles time to adjust and be firmly grafted, Hardening is actually the best physical response for Israel to survive the surgery. Israel went into a dormant stage after sealing all its wounds.
    When a plant is cut off it immediately hardens the wound to stop the loss of critical fluids. It may even destroy leaves to stop the loss of water. Trees do it every winter.
    Plants can be rooted from cuttings or grafted from cuttings. So before the cutting dies water will be given. The Holy Spirit, symbolized as water, will be sent to the plant and to the excised branches. When Israel sprouts to life, she will not be replanted by rooting in soil but by grafting into Christ so that there is only one tree. This is stem grafting. Everything will be in Christ, even the powers of heaven. There will be no other root.
    The Branch (Joseph and Judah). The Branch will unify heaven with earth and Jews with Gentiles through a process of grafting in Jesus Christ. This story prophesies about Jesus grafting two branches of Israel to make the scepter of the king.
    Unity. Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. (Ezekiel 37: 19)
  » Hardening. Unbelievably, hardening hearts can be an effective weapon against stubborn pride. God does not make people resistant to His will - that would be illogical and counterproductive. However, if we use free will with lack of common sense to persist in stubbornness then God will leave us in this state for a while until our own stubbornness defeats us.
  • Magnify The Glory Of God. God uses the stubborn resistance as a chance to show more and more glorious signs to honor His name. So the more delay there is, the more evidence God will display.
    Show More Signs And Wonders. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 7: 3)
    Show Proof Of God. "Thus I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will chase after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." And they did so. (Exodus 14: 4)
    » Saving All Israel. In this final exodus God uses the time of the rejection by Israel to deliver the Gentiles and show His might among the nations.
    Mighty Deeds. Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me. For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is Your name.
    Israel Hardened. Why, O LORD, do You cause us to stray from Your ways and harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, our adversaries have trodden it down. We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, like those who were not called by Your name. (Isaiah 63: 15-19)
    Isaiah prophesies that after Israel is redeemed God will harden their heart and tear down their sanctuary. In this condition Israel looks for the mighty deeds of God to rescue them again. Does this mean that God caused them to sin? Absolutely not! However, if Israel was not ready to go to the heavenly Promised land then God has more time to save the Gentiles. Israel will not be lost because God did not give them more light. They will still be judged by what they know and they will be saved only if they do not continue in unbelief.
  • Jealousy. The hardness did not make them fall, it was only to make them jealous. God intends to use the Gentiles to make the Jews jealous (Romans 10: 19). In this state they will repent and desire what they once threw away.
    Lost Valuables. What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
    Asleep. just as it is written, "GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES TO SEE NOT AND EARS TO HEAR NOT, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY."
    Blind. And David says, "LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM. LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED TO SEE NOT, AND BEND THEIR BACKS FOREVER."
    Stumbling. I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! (Romans 11: 7-12)
    At this point they will realize that they threw away a valuable possession and that it is now in the hands of those they thought were outside the circle of the true God.
  • Blind. Being blinded by God is not God's attempt to make us sin, it is His efforts to make us less culpable for our sins because we are now ignorant.
    Blinded By God And Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind." Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains. (John 9: 39, 41)
  • Rebellion Backfires And Traps The Wicked. The wicked will literally paint themselves into a corner and may be found unwittingly sawing off the limb on which their own theories hang. God allows the fruits of stubborn pride and rebellion to run its course to the natural conclusion. This eventually means that the wicked will be trapped by the fallacy of their own logic, the failures of their own devices and the consequences of their decisions. God allowed science to produce truth and theoretical errors. When He reveals the real science in the Torah we will actually see how far from reality the scientific theories have roamed and how arrogant we were about our superior intelligence, knowledge and intellect.
    Then they will acknowledge that the unfair tactics they used to suppress truth was as destructive as any religious persecution.
• Resurrection And Rapture. The recreation of the human race. Legally, the old person is gone when a new mind and body are created. So all claims, warrants, vows, contracts and complaints are also terminated.
  A New Man. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, (1 Corinthians 15: 51)
  Regenesis And Reanimation. Resurrection is the raising of the dead. The rapture involves the change to our bodies before we are taken up into heaven.
  The major obstacles in raising the dead are to overcome the problem of information death, to reconstruct the original body according to the DNA blueprint and to repair the original body so that it is restored to perfect health and even youth. Cryogenics attempts to solve the problem of information death by freezing the head or body. They hope that tissue regeneration or organ transplant will regrow the body and advances in medical science will repair the body, once it is unfrozen and reassembled. If the body and brain has disappeared due to fire or decay, then science has no answers. Even if a sample of DNA could recreate a clone shell, the loss of brain information makes the clone no different from a twin.
  This is not the Frankenstein reanimation efforts that God has in mind. In death God saves the DNA and brain information to restore our treasured memories. It is symbolized as the blood and fat all returning to God. In the resurrection He does not need to find our original molecules or reanimate dead tissue. God simply has to use the information from our repaired DNA to recreate a perfect new body in our late teens and reunite it with our memories.
  Resurrection technology is a science that neither Satan nor mad scientists can discover because only Jesus has the keys to death and life (Revelation 1: 18-19).
  The Branch (Aaron's Stick). The dead stick that sprang to life overnight and bore leaves and fruit signalled the identity of the high priest chosen by God by the power of resurrection.
  Life. And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. (Numbers 17: 8)
  
  The Kindness And Mercy Of God. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2: 3-10)
  The full extent of His kindness towards us was kept a secret. Imagine being told that these sinners would replace them as the servants of God. It would have fostered jealousy based on amazement and disbelief. However, God can reveal this when they realize how incredibly brave we are and how we succeeded, while being imperfect, in the crucial point where they failed in their perfection. We loved God enough to not put Him to the test even when God's actions were perplexing and we were hurting. We maintained faith and trust when it was difficult.
• The Mystery Of Godliness. The source of righteousness and sin is a mystery.
  • The Mystery Of Godliness.
    Righteous Response. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3: 16)
    • Faith. The preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ leads to faith and the faithful will be obedient.
      Believed On In The World. Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith. (Romans 16: 25-26)
    • Children Of God (Adopted). God planned to show us mercy and not wrath. Although the wages of sin is death, God planned to give us eternal life.
      Kindness Of God. just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1: 4-6)
  • The Mystery Of Ungodliness.
    The Mystery Of Iniquity. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (2 Thessalonians 2: 7)
    Wretched Man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Romans 7: 23-25 KJV)
  
  This mystery is explained by the function of the pituitary gland and the sign is the tefillin. The tefillin is a pair of black cubes which are bound by leather straps to the forehead and the arm. Inside is a copy of the SHEMA (Deuteronomy 6: 4-9). It tells us to love God with all our hearts, to love His law and to seek Him constantly.
  Sign (Tefillin). It is a symbol of the process of writing the law of love on our minds and hearts.
  Sign (Mezuzah). The sign of a house that obeys God.
  Pituitary Gland: The Moral Guidance System (Tefillin). The pituitary gland is the master gland that regulates all other endocrine glands and all hormones. It is located in the front of the brain, directly between the eyes, sitting in the sella turcica, a square or cube depression in the sphenoid bone. It seems like a mistake or a flawed design that makes the same hormonal system that is responsible for our greed, gambling, risk taking, fears, addictions, lack of self control and lust also responsible for our righteous behavior. Yet this is the tension between righteousness and unrighteousness that is at war within us between the spiritual and the wretched inner man. God says that we can control this wild beast through immersion in His laws.
  
  Symbolized by the Tefillin and the SHEMA, God reminds us that loving Him with all our heart, diligently learning and teaching His laws and writing it on our hands and forehead will cause right desires and behavior. The law "between the eyes" is symbolized by a cube shaped black box, filled with a copy of the law strapped to our forehead. It sits directly in front of a cube shaped bone which protects this critical gland. This is how the covenant will be fulfilled as God writes His laws into our hearts.
  
  » Mystery: Babylon The Great. The mark of the beast is based on a control of this system. Now we can see that Satan desires to corrupt us with his own version of the tefillin on the forehead and hand. Revelation even refers to it as a mystery because it is the mystery of sin versus righteousness. It explains why we behave the way we do. The mystery of the harlot is that she has corrupted herself by obliterating the laws of God in her crooked heart.
  Evil Tefillin. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Revelation 17: 5)
  She is in the same state as Satan was when iniquity was found in him. According to the design of the system we can conclude that he was responsible for corrupting himself by contaminating his own mind. He did not follow the ritual of the SHEMA. He did not choose to love God and renew this love daily.
  Flawed Perfection. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you. (Ezekiel 28: 15)
  
  The better promises of the New Covenant is that God will write the laws in our hearts, but we must choose it.
  Spiritual Tefillin. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jeremiah 31:33 and Hebrews 8: 10)
• Faith Is A Mystery. Are there other hidden mysteries or secrets that we can discover? So far, the mysteries are related to strategic warfare. God gains an advantage by luring His enemies into a trap which they construct by letting them believe what they want to hear. One possible mystery is the issue of the timing of the Second Coming and the amount of success we will have. After all, Jesus asked the question,
  . ... Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18: 18)
  We have always assumed that faith will be virtually gone and that very few will be saved. What if God made this question a mystery, knowing that this is how the world will appear at the end of time. We believe that the Gospel will not be effective for the vast majority of people, so why should Satan not believe the same thing. Suppose this lure is also a trap. Satan desperately wants to believe that the vast majority of humans will choose him despite all the evidence in favor of God.
  The advantage is that Satan will become complacent about those he believes are in his trap. So he has become confident in the methods that appear to work everytime. The engine of evil is grinding away. Satan has built a structure that he cannot easily dismantle. One day the machine will speed out of control and disintegrate under it own weight. One day common sense will prevail and humans will stop destroying themselves. A loving God who does not want us to perish must have reserved a chance to appeal effectively to our common sense and designed within us the ability to resist evil successfully.
• All Mysteries Revealed. All mysteries will be unsealed and revealed before the Second Coming.
  Seventh Trumpet. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10: 7)
  Finally, the mystery explained to humans, not angels, will be finished just before the Second Coming. We have an unbelievable destiny, as prophesied to Joseph in his blessings from Jacob and Moses. When our reproach is removed, we will be blessed above all the ancient mountains, all those principalities and powers who hesitated to assist us.
  • Daniel. The book that was sealed up until the time of the end when knowledge is increased.
  • The Seven Thunders. The words of the angel with the little book and the rainbow were sealed. John did not write the contents of the seven thunders, but this mystery will be revealed during the seventh trumpet. This angel quoted the fourth commandment when He swore by the one who was creator, that after this there will be no more delay. All the mysteries given to the prophets will be revealed.
  • Revelation. All mysteries in the book are to be unsealed before the sealing of the saints is completed and before the plagues begin. Therefore, the mystery of the seven thunders should also be unsealed.
    Unsealed. And he siad to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time in near.
    Sealing Finished. Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one is is filthy still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.
    Second Coming. Behold I am coming quickly and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done." (Revelation 22: 10-12)

Successful Evangelism. The universe will not repeat this experiment. Now that Satan has been restrained we have one final chance to reach the world before justice requires that God eradicates all traces of evil.

• The Overcomers. We can conquer evil if we have the right weapons and armor.
  Armed. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.
  Celebration. For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time." So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. (Revelation 12: 11-12, 17)
  • The Blood Of Jesus Christ. The sacrifice frees us from the grasp of Satan.
  • Testimony About Jesus Christ. Our testimony brings others to a knowledge of the character of God.
    Not Ashamed Of God. I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart. I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, O LORD, You know. I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation. (Psalm 40: 8-10)
  • Love God (Faith And Trust). They would rather face death than rebel against the God they adore. We must love God and believe that He loves us completely. We must trust Him absolutely in every situation, no matter what the journey or outcome. We must respect God's decisions.
    » Love Others. In realizing how valuable we are to Him, we must also realize how valuable other people and creatures are to Him. We must respond to everyone as our own flesh and blood.
    » Breaking Stubbornness (Submission). A stubborn person makes himself and his ideas idols to be served and worshipped. With total love we can give up our needs for others. We must learn to listen, to suspend judgment and to admit that we do not know everything. When stubbornness peaks we become hostile and love of God and others become secondary or nonexistant.
    This is the character that will make us succeed where Satan failed. We will have perfect knowledge and perfect character but we will not be victims of pride.
• Strategic Introduction Of Knowledge (Uncorrupted Testimony For God).
  

  Science and Inventions									Torah Scrolls	Israel	Messianic Prophecies		Torah Science	Power Of God
  1492	1700-Now								1947-1956	1948
  	1794	1859	1869	1876	1903		1935	1965			2000-?		2008-?	Future
  America	Science Knowledge Increases								Religious Knowledge Increases					Miracles
  Atheists		Theory Of Evolution										Evolution Defeated
  Religion		Competing Religions And Belief Systems										All False Gods Defeated

  With the absolute confidence that we will be winners we can present the rational arguments that have failed in the past with some incredible advantages that God has prepared for us.
  Daniel prophesied that God will increase knowledge at the end of time. The invention of the moveable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440 saw the distribution of books increase from a few hundred to hundreds of millions per year. Then God inspired scientists like Isaac Newton and the distribution of religious and scientific knowledge began at a rapid pace.
  When the New World was discovered around 1492 it was the opportunity to reach all people. It would take the discovery of electricity and electromagnetic waves and the invention of motorized vehicles, wireless communication, satellite, radio, television, computers and the internet to efficiently reach this vast and disperse audience.
  • Written Testimony (Torah). The Torah must be glorified in the eyes of the final generation.
    The Bible was printed for the use by common man in 1446. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls between 1947 to 1956 highlights the accuracy of the Torah. The text appears to be unchanged in over 2000 years. These documents are dated between 150 BC and 70 AD. After establishing confidence in the text, God is now establishing confidence in the accuracy of the contents.
  • Personal Testimony (Jesus Christ). The world must be told about the role of Jesus Christ.
    Everyone Called. For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
    Called Through Preaching The Gospel. How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? (Romans 10: 12-14)
    God is calling everyone and evangelism is the method by which we let people hear about salvation.
    
    » Religious Knowledge Increases. For almost 2000 years we have only known about 330 to 360 Messianic prophecies. Since September 2000, God started to reveal over 700 new Messianic prophecies in the Bible. Beginning in August 2006 God even began revealing Messianic prophecies from the Jewish traditions, or Oral Torah. God Himself is testifying about Himself.
  • Testimony Of Nature (Science Knowledge Increases). Since 21 December 2008, God started revealing modern science in the Torah. we can show an incredible amount of microscopic modern science in the Bible that the ancients could not have deduced from observing nature.
    • The Fortress Of Torah Science. We can show that the portable sanctuary described in Exodus 26 is a 3-D model of the Periodic Table of Chemistry, a unified model of particle physics and DNA. The model even answers some of the remaining mysteries of quantum physics, such as what causes mass, gravity and why a 360 degree spin only moves a particle half way to its original location. We can also show the steps of DNA replication in several places in the Bible and in the order of events in the Passover Seder.
    • The Crumbling Walls Of Evolution. The end of time officially began in 1798. Three and a half years before, the French Revolution had inaugurated the period at the same time a man named Erasmus Darwin published the book "Zoonomia" on the theory of evolution in 1794. In 1859, his grandson, Charles Darwin published the book "The origin of the species".
      The judgment to determine the righteous began in 1844 and with it God started a movement to "Cleanse and restore the sanctuary". With it God began His own quiet revolution to restore knowledge about Him through the sanctuary. Amazingly, the plans for this sanctuary is the death of evolution and atheism for any human with reasoning and logic.
      It was a strategically stupid move for Satan to convince the world to engage in the greatest rebellion of all - unbelief. He must have assumed that since he legally had the right to make an appearance on the earth that he could dazzle us as this spectacular alien who claims to be our god who started the process of evolution. With a few paltry miracles he could pad his resume because the world does not expect the power of a great Creator-Designer who made the world in six days. We have been conditioned to settle for less than the best and to believe in the balanced coexistence of good and evil.
      For over 170 years the church has been pounding on this brick wall of evolution and only received bloody hands and ridicule from the people guarding its walls. Now the walls will crumble.
    • Other Religions. No other writings of other religions or gods will have such evidence. The power of the Lord will be so awesome that people will abandon other religions because their gods will become irrelevant.
      All Other Religions Abandoned. The Lord will be awesome to them, for He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth; people shall worship Him, each one from his place, indeed all the shores of the nations. (Zephaniah 2: 11)
  • Testimony In The Heavens (Scepter). I am not sure what this will be but Luke 26 prophesies about people being in fear from the heavens and a "sign of the Son of Man" in the heavens. Based on the prophecy of Balaam, a star and a scepter will come (Numbers 24: 17). At His birth (first coming) a star was seen in the east. So at His Second Coming a scepter will appear in the heavens. A comet can form this shape.
  • Designed To Win: Testimony Of The Body Of Christ. The church is symbolized as the body of Christ. As such we have the defense system of a perfect body. One consequence of the revelation of the science of the Bible is that I have learned that we were designed to win.
    • Right Thinking and Desires (Hormones and Pituitary Gland). The design shows that we can think and do right if we train our mind with the laws of God.
    • Strong Coordinated Defense (Immune System). Sin is like a disease caused by a lethal virus. The immune system is designed to defeat these invading forces and the process of vaccine technology shows us how. There is no medicine that will cure a virus, so far. A vaccine works by inoculating us with weakened virus which allows our own immune system to respond and build up the forces necessary to defeat the real invasion force.
      God said that He is strongest when we are the weakest. If we submit in our weakened state like the weakened inoculant, the body of Christ can use us to fight off the lethal forces. If we do not submit by acknowledging our weakness then we will be fighting against the natural defense system of our body with the full force of our sinful nature.
    • Changed Within (Genetic Engineering). While a viral attack is caused by an infection from outside forces, one cause of the sinful nature is symbolized by defective genes which we inherit from our parents. The crucifixion was God's answer to repairing our damaged genes and replicating His perfect genes in us. We can accomplish this transformation by looking at and copying Christ in the same way that genes mirror and copy the parent gene.
  2000 years after Christ we have the testimony. The problem is that God has to make it believable to a generation where unbelief is not only the norm, it is the rational choice of people who believe they possess superior knowledge and are not as gullible and superstitious as the ancient people who lacked scientific knowledge.
• A Cloud Of Witnesses (Faith). We will give our testimony in the style of great leaders.
  • Noah. We must also warn people that the earth will be destroyed for the last time because of sin.
  • Moses. We must gather people to make a final exodus to the Promised Land. Our testimony will be accompanied by miracles and plagues.
  • Elijah. We will use the power of God to challenge people to choose God or die with Satan.
  • 144,000. These are the major evangelists sent throughout the world to call people back to God. As of November 2011 there are 7 billion people on the earth.
    Accredited By Miracles. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. "Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know." (Acts 2: 21-22)
    It will take a giant force equipped with supernatural gifts to quickly reach the world. The increase in science knowledge brought the added bonus of technological systems capable of quickly disseminating any personal, oral or written messages.
    If we take the United States population as an indicator, then in a population of 300 million, 66% are adults over 18 and an average household size of 3. This means that globally, each evangelist would be responsible for reaching 49,000 people, or 32,000 adults or 16,000 families. The number of adults and number of households is even less in populations where there is a larger family size.
• Detour (Obstructing The Broad Road). Evangelistic efforts seem pointless if we believe that the vast majority will be lost. We believe this because of at least two symbols.
  • Rare Nuggets Of Gold. Gold is a rare asset. Marginal mines yield 4 to 6 grams of gold per ton of ore. So when God describes the righteous as gold mined from the earth, it appears that only a few will be saved. However, there are rich veins of gold, and gold is like asphalt in heaven. So the God who could make fish come into a net can surely find the hidden treasure in us. If not, the God who made the gold can certainly change us to His specifications.
  • The Narrow Road. The Bible teaches that many prefer the broad road to destruction.
    The Road To Life. Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way [road] is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7: 13-14)
    What if this verse is only describing what is true about the status of man if left to himself to find and respond to the Holy Spirit? Are we sure that this statement takes into account the efforts of God? What if this will be true if not for the intervention of God?
    Since nothing is impossible for God, then I must believe that God's good and righteous arguments must be more persuasive than the failed arguments of the evil empire. We are victims of, and eye witnesses to this catastrophic failure! Why would we vote against our best interests if the Spirit of God can melt the hardest rock?
  • Destined To Be Saved. Some believe that God is so good that He will save everyone. God cannot save those who do not want to be saved. However, because we have been innocently caught in this trap, as a fair and righteous judge He must do something great to appeal to our reasoning. Although Jesus Christ is the answer to the question, "What is God like?" Belief in a poor man who died 2000 years ago, hated by almost everyone is not convincing evidence. God should do something to convince the final generation once and for all to put our trust in Him, just like Jesus, Elijah and Moses provided spectacular proof. The Bible is full of evidence of the will of God to save everyone. Since His kind intentions are for our salvation, He must make a spectacular effort that is current and personal to the final generation.
    Destined For Life. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. (Romans 8: 29-30)
  God will strike a rich vein of gold in the end. He will not allow robbers to steal it. Left to ourselves we will follow the broad road to destruction unless God is more proactive. So I expect God to blow up the bridge on the broad road, set up road blocks, install flashing neon signs and plant a detour to the narrow road.
  From our perspective we can see all the failed arguments throughout our 6000 year history. If we resort to them then we are fools. Even in this instance, God sent Jonah to a nation of fools and they all repented.
  So there is hope for us because God will not give up until even He cannot justify delaying any more.
• A Cosmic Demonstration. God actually proves that under certain conditions, the weak can be more righteous than those perfect in knowledge and in moral and physical strength.
  The Weak Are Strong. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5: 3)
  There is strength in unity. The morally weak are strong when they united with God under the banner of love.
  A Universal Love Demonstration. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. (John 17: 22-23)
  It will be a successful campaign because His name will be great throughout the world.
  Great Worldwide. And He will arise and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD His God and they will remain, because at that time He will be great to the ends of the earth. (Micah 5: 4)

  The Impossible Dream
  Lyrics by Joe Darion
  To dream ... the impossible dream To fight ... the unbeatable foe To bear ... with unbearable sorrow To run ... where the brave dare not go To right ... the unrightable wrong To love ... pure and chaste from afar To try ... when your arms are too weary To reach ... the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, no matter how far To fight for the right, without question or pause To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest, That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm, when I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars, Still strove, with his last ounce of courage, To reach ... the unreachable star
  Dare To Believe That We Will Succeed

• The Winning Team. We have a losing attitude. We expect to convince only a small fraction so we do the minimum and expect the worst. This is why the last church is in the insipid state of being lukewarm. Examine why you believe this and look at the texts again. The scriptures seem to suggest that we will be mostly unsuccessful but it does not explicitly say that this is the case. This was merely a strategic ploy to trick Satan into believing that he will be more successful at luring people to their doom in the end.
  • Why Bother. Some point to the fact that no amount of evidence convinced anyone in the past so why bother now.
  • Teach But Not Reach. I met a door to door evangelist who believed that all he had to do is spread the word to witness against the wicked. If they want to reject it, then that is their funeral.
  • Lowest Expectations. Christians are actually unhappy when I suggest that God will be successful with the final generation. Reason and logic will actually win out over stupidity and self destruction. The tree of knowledge of good will be restored.
  • Faith Is The Winning Attitude. I believe that God is more convincing than the Devil. I do not believe that He would have created us after sin entered the universe, just to watch the vast majority reject Him. All of this negative expectation belies the fact that the will of God is for all to be saved and that nothing is impossible for God.
    A God Of Great Possibilities. For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Luke 1: 37)
    A People Of Great Faith. And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. (Matthew 17: 20)
    Who Can Be Saved? It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. (Mark 10: 25-27)
    Daring To Dream The Impossible Dream. And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. (Luke 18: 27)
  • The Holy Spirit. The promise of the Holy Spirit to change our minds is the key to our success. God Himself says that we will not be changed by being impressed or frightened by His might and power. We will be changed by His gentle Spirit.
    The Gift Of The Spirit. Not by might, Not by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord. (Zechariah 4: 6)
    With this winning remedy it is not even left to us to take the medicine, the Holy Spirit is initially given to us as a gift. We were born innoculated. After this it is up to us to reject Him and He will not let go easily. He will fight to the bitter end. So everyone has been given a measure of faith to respond.
    The Gift Of Faith. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (Romans 12: 2-3)
  • Success. Although the principalities and powers clearly abandoned us, nothing would stop God from trying to save us.
    Love Wins. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 38-39)
    Mercy Wins. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. (James 2: 13)
  God will convince the vast majority. Anything less is a defeat. Satan will be emotionally devastated knowing that all the people he thought had ought his garbage have repudiated him.

The Character Of God
By Himself, God is guaranteeing to a hostile universe that the people of the earth can be saved. His holy character is revealed in His law.

• Loving And Merciful. Despite all the restrictions to which He subjects Himself, God has steadfastly said that He will save those He knows can be saved. He is fighting for the chance to allow us to demonstrate that we can be righteous if we submit to the Holy Spirit.
  A Covenant of Mercy. Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin;
  Justice. yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generation." (Exodus 34: 6-7)
  Compassionate YHWH. And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion." (Exodus 33: 19)
  Compassionate. For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. (Romans 9: 15-16)
  Jesus showed mercy and compassion on the woman caught in adultery, and sentenced to death by the law.
  This is not a case of God being arbitrary or playing favorites or even abolishing His laws. Instead it is a statement of mercy by which He legally gives Himself the right to show through His sovereign will that those whom we in our finite wisdom would discard can be saved if given the right opportunities.
• Justice. Many people believe that a "loving God" will overlook their behavior. What they are looking for is a drunken good-time friend like themselves who will party all night and puke in the morning and go out the next night to repeat their behavior. God has to govern a universe and ensure the peace and safety of its inhabitants. Therefore, He must and He will punish criminal behavior and lawlessness.
  God Will Punish Evil. ... I will punish the men who are arrogant in spirit, who say in their hearts, "the Lord will not do good or evil". (Zephaniah 1: 12)
  If God will simply overlook the stubbornness and evil behavior and save everyone despite their choices then the past 6000 years has be a useless experiment. On the contrary, the 6000 years has allowed us to mature in certain ways in which even the angels failed.
  • Free Will. We must learn to make good choices.
  • Justice And Judgment. We must learn to judge fairly, making a decision after we hear all the evidence.
  • Trust. We must learn to trust God.
  • Law Abiding. We must learn to love and appreciate the law, being unwilling to settle for compromise.
• Righteous. God never tempts anyone with evil. If He tempts us to do wrong or gives us to someone else to be tempted, His crime would be no different from the snake in the Garden of Eden or a pimp on a street corner.
  Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. (James 1: 13)
  Apart from the events caused by normal wear and tear of a planet in decline, God does not tempt us with evil and suffering. It is even incorrect to say that He gives us over to Satan so that Satan can administer punishment. He would still be responsible, especially since He is the most powerful and the creater.
  God will test us with hardship, but He does not give us to Satan. We choose to go over to Satan where we are tempted and tortured. God can simply try to mitigate the suffering. In cases like Job, Satan maintains the right to test us because he is the keeper of the jail.
  
  » The Purpose Of Suffering. Although we can both teach and learn from suffering, God does not need it to perfect us. However we can take advantage of the opportunity to learn.
  • Proof. The suffering of the planet under the control of Satan is evidence against his destructive leadership.
  • Normal Pain. Suffering that is part of the natural experience allows us to empathize with others who suffer. This is why Jesus came in the disguise of humanity. He did not learn about our experience by watching, reading, using divine knowledge and by what He hears. He learned about us by experiencing our life in our shoes so that He can judge by what He knows. A male or a barren woman can never understand the process of pregnancy and childbirth no matter how many movies they have watched, or deliveries they have made or wearing the fake pregnant bellies, or comparisons to comparable pain or experiences.
  • Unjust Suffering. This allows us to experience the suffering and public humiliation of God. In our acceptance of unjust suffering, we vindicate God as we show the universe the type of people whom God risked His reputation to save.
  • Strong Deterrant. It will be a strong motivation to never allow sin to rise again. Whether we lived through suffering on earth or watched the horror unfold from a safe distance as spectators in heaven we can all attest to the fact that this "experiment" should never be allowed again because we have all suffered.
• Truthful. God does not lie.
  Honest. God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Numbers 23: 19)
  Reliable. so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. (Hebrews 6: 18)
  Trustworthy. Now, O Lord God, You are God, and Your words are truth ... (2 Samuel 7: 28)
• Faithful. He so wants to identify with us that He even volunteered to experience the worst of our suffering so that He could be a credible advocate and witness for us.
  One Who is Sympathetic. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4: 15-16)
  No matter how many time Israel betrayed Him He has still remained faithful to the covenant.
• Sabbath Rest. He not only gives us rest from our labors, He gives us rest from the slavery to sin.
• Covet Or Steal. Jesus did not covet or steal the position of God. Instead, He relinquished the claim and submitted Himself before His arch enemy who coveted the throne of God and set out to take it by force. Jesus humbled Himself so that He could save those who hated Him without a cause.
  A Humble God. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2: 5-8)
  Jesus honored His Father by submitting to this humiliation so that the Father could redeem us.
• Gifts. He came to give us the gifts that we need to live, not to take away our freedoms.
• Life. He came to give life, not to kill.
• Best Effort. If the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah will say that there is evidence that would have convinced them then God did not try His best and some generations and nations were more favored than others. This is unfair!
  If Only We Had ... And you, Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. (Matthew 11: 23)
  Since God judges everyone based on the information they have received and the circumstances arrayed against them, then this apparent disparity in advantages will be accounted for in His decision.
  However, the text only teaches that this is what they will say. It does not prove what they would have done. So this is just their attempt to shift blame on a generation that was more stupid than they were.
  Everybody uses the same excuse ... "If only we had ... this or that ... then we would. Boo hoo...".
  Throughout the history of the world every conceivable combination of information, knowledge and opportunity will be demonstrated on many generations and we will find that the one feature that is common to all the saved is that they submitted to the will of God revealed by the Holy Spirit in spite of their opportunities and circumstances. They would be "safe to save" in any generation with their attitude towards God and authority.