Excerpts from the book, "Prepare Before All Hell Breaks Loose!"

Proverbs 11:30, "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise."

A Bedrock Shift In Worldview
      The Bible tells a story of a man who goes into the woods and cuts down a tree. He then cuts the tree into three parts. With one part he builds a fire to warm his hands, another third he puts in a stove to cook his food and with the remaining third he carves an idol and kneels down before it in worship. Of course one would ask, "What made one log worthy of the fire and another worthy of worship? We would say, and rightly so, his actions were absurd. But this is modern man's thought form. He designs a god in his head, his man-made god. Those in darkness imagine what they want their god to be like, what attributes and characters they wish Him to possess, the laws He enforces, and the ones He let's slide. Usually this is an all loving and forgiving God, with mercy for me and justice for you. One may say "The God that I believe in would never throw someone in hell forever, I believe in a loving God." The exceptions are  always Hitler and Stalin. Men see a god they want to see, the attributes they choose to see, but ignore the fact that all of God's character works together in perfect unity. For example, God's mercy cannot embrace that which His justice cannot allow. Man sometimes forgets this important truth; God's holy unchangeable standard encompasses all His actions. Man is enchanted with the fantasy god in his head, convinced that God must be a certain way, their way. Modern man is extremely devoted to his designer god, and generally has little tolerance of the possibility of any revealed truth in the scriptures. But designer gods are only a mirage, they only exist in one's head, and that is all.
    Abraham Lincoln once asked, "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."  Truth remains truth no matter what you call it or how you attempt to twist it.
      When witnessing the gospel, most Christians approach 21st century man with the same simple message their forefathers spoke.” You’re a sinner and need to be saved. That through faith, accepting Christ's blood as sufficient payment for all of your sins, trusting Him as Savior, which results in an earnest desire to serve Him as Lord and love of your life and you'll go to heaven." While this is true, 21st century man doesn't understand that message, it's all Greek to him. He simply can't comprehend it because in the last thirty years there has been a bedrock shift in man's worldview. Modern man has grown up in a world void of moral absolutes, replaced by relativistic morals, situational ethics and arbitrary law. These things have reinforced evolution's atheistic worldview, resulting in the religion of humanism, man declaring himself the center of all things, and man becomes a god. This generation's definition of God can mean any one of a hundred things, or it can mean nothing at all. Humanism has removed God as man's reference point for all of life and has replaced Him with himself. Since modern man becomes his own god words like "sin" and "evil" and "goodness," can have almost opposite meanings, whatever man chooses as the truth in his own head. In man's descent, he has perverted God's moral absolutes; his worldview/God view reflects the magnitude of man's descent. This has never been truer than in this generation, the last generation.

  Christ’s plan of salvation is usually portrayed as a simple, easy to understand message, where a pastor stands in the pulpit and in a mere three minutes can give the complete salvation message. But Christianity is not simple, it is complex. God is complex and man is complex, and mankind's history is complex.
   With the progressive worldview of humanism, 21st century man has walked so far down the road of destruction that the light in his hindsight is gravely dim, he can't even be certain of what light is anymore.
     With few exceptions, we can no longer speak to 21st century man as we once did 30 years ago. In the past thirty years humanist man has turned a 180* in his thinking.
Before this time Americans embraced a Judeo-Christian worldview. Even though perhaps some may not have accepted Christ as Savior, most unbelieving Americans would certainly have understood this worldview and lived within its framework. This is no longer the case. America is now a humanist nation with a glossy Christian veneer. God knowledge has been exiled from our public schools, our universities and our courts, and relegated to obscurity or worse, extinction.
     Humanist man has moved from critical care, to intensive care and is now under hospice care. Now near death, he can hardly even make out what you are saying.

A Perfect Solution Is Meaningless And Impotent To An Invisible Problem. 

      Modern man has a desperate need for complete "God knowledge," to answer the big questions all men need answered. In order to obtain this knowledge man must go back to the beginning, to the unbridling of antithesis and the birth of evil by Lucifer, to fully understand the how and the why of God's plan of salvation.  There are ten essentials man must understand, for without complete knowledge a perfect solution is meaningless and impotent to an invisible problem.

1.The creation of Lucifer.
2. Lucifer’s narcissistic pride.
3. Lucifer deceives the angels.
4. The war in heaven.
5. Man made in God's image
6. The necessity of choice for love to exist.
7. The tree of freewill and antithesis
8. Lucifer's deception in the garden.
9. The fall of man, man's moral guilt and man's spiritual death
10.Spiritual death, imprisoned in hell

The Blind Woman And The Waiter
    One afternoon a waiter frantically approached a restaurant patron and told her that she was deathly ill, and that she must go directly to the emergency room and get a blood transfusion ASAP or she would die, but that's all he told her. The woman said she felt just fine, but the waiter continued to insist she go to the ER. The patron looked around and saw that everyone around her was fine, eating and drinking, and no one appeared sick. So she asks the waiter several questions, but the waiter only repeated the same story, adding, "Don't you get it?" But she doesn't get it. This doesn't make sense to her, although she clearly understands his solution, she is blind to the problem of having been poisoned, and so, in her limited knowledge she ignores the waiters pleas, discounts him as a bit flaky and goes on as before. She wasn't given all the information that she needed to make an informed decision. She wasn't given the past history, that before she entered the restaurant every person who ate the apple pie, which she had just eaten, was poisoned and rushed to the hospital. The poisoned apple pie was the culprit and the lab results had just been given to the restaurant. The limited knowledge, though true knowledge as it was, wasn't sufficient knowledge to help make the right decision, to convince her of the gravity of her situation, and could not save her. Her decision had been a deadly one, and now without a blood transfusion she would surely die.
    The scriptures say, "My people perish for lack of knowledge." Knowledge concerning God's plan of salvation must start at the point of the beginning. For what we know by the Holy Scriptures, He deemed necessary that we should know. Not a word of scripture lacks value and every word has infinite purpose. Before modern man is asked to believe and accept Yesua's salvation by faith, he must be able to understand why it is God requires him to have faith. This is not a cheap blind faith we're talking about, an easy believism or dead religionosity. God's knowledge, given in the Holy Scriptures answers all of man's vital questions of life. It answers not only the how but the why. The gospel message speaks to the whole man, intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and morally to discern it's authenticity. Man must see his need. Then and only then when one understands these things can one discern the true reality of his life or death situation and need for salvation. If he cannot see the seriousness of the need, you mind as well talk to the wind. Modern man needs to see the whole picture to understand God's entire plan. Therefore one must start at the beginning, the universe before man, to the time of the angels. Grasping first the universe before Adam, then the fall of Adam, modern man can then and only then be given the story of His incontestably righteous justice, the price, His merciful grace, the awe, the gift, man's freedom from death, and His beautiful Bride {representing a personal intimacy} dwelling in His indubitable and inexhaustible love, Thy kingdom to come.

 Chapter God's Plan In 21st Century Speak
     This story, though not an exact Biblical account, but my interpretation of the Biblical account, contains the history of the universe, as I perceive the scriptures in 21st century speak. I want this story to enable one to imagine how things "may" have transpired logically. Biblical history is logical, it is rational, it makes sense. It isn't some way out mythological world of make believe or a walking stick for mental cripples, or a fantasy mind trip, nor a diabolical method of enslaving the masses. I'm certain that this account can't possibly be exactly as it happened, but only that it is feasible and reasonable attempt to describe history and God’s plan for man eternally in 21st century speak.

                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In The Beginning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
    Once upon the heavenlies, in the most holy place, a place without time or limits of space, a place of all things of dazzling beauty, dwelled the Most High, Elah Sh'maya, the "God of Heaven." In His love, the Beautiful One made angel life, whose purpose was to receive God's love and to freely love, honor, praise, serve and worship Him. These angel beings were not created in His image, nor according to His likeness.
    The Beautiful One made one angel above all others, the most exquisitely unique being ever created. This angel had prodigious intelligence and voluminous knowledge, second only to God Himself. He had brilliant wisdom and more superpowers then all of God's angel life. He stood in radiant panoply of sardius, topaz, diamonds, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphires, emerald, inlaid in gold. Elah Sh’maya called his most beautiful angel Lucifer, which means "Light Bearer." The King of All placed His “Light Bearer” Lucifer in charge of His heavenly hosts. He was ordained the Chief of Staff of the Angelic Air Force, the supreme position before the Beautiful One.
       Ezek 28:13-14, "You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you, in the day that you were created. You are the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."            

       Heaven was beautiful, God was beautiful, Lucifer was beautiful and angel life was beautiful.

And then it happened. 
 
 Once upon a timeless, Lucifer stood before an angel, speaking a command. Looking into the angel's eyes Lucifer beheld himself. Stunned by his own breathtaking beauty and magnificent form, he then stood statuesque, transfixed on his own sterling radiance. Following that moment, with each infatuating glance, Lucifer's pride filled vanity swelled with a vile malignancy.
    As his imposing stature hovered over the multitude of heavenly hosts, he began conducting the praise worship. A whimsical dreamscape suddenly danced before his eyes, as endorphins exploded in his brain, he heard a symphony of praises being lifted up...in his name. As he stood in all his magnificence before the heavenly hosts, Lucifer suddenly had an epiphany; the birth of a greater god was on his horizon.

    The universe radically shifted that moment, but no one felt it but God. 

        Lucifer's obsessive desire for adoration, praise and worship became as an all consuming fire, praise after praise, and song after song. His jealousy fueled a raging determination as he coveted the praises belonging to God alone. Soon whispering intrusive thoughts of narcissism began to race through his mind. Satan, deliriously smitten with each reflective gaze, was soon conquered by his obsession, distorting reality, and resulting in delusions of grandeur.
 Lucifer's pride first consumed his infected mind in entrancing self-adoration and a self-centered obsession, he could think of none other. Intoxicated in distorted reality, resulted in pride's final end, the bondage of obsessive narcissism.
    The greater his pride magnified, the more intensely he obsessed, culminating in his declaration, “I am the Stellar One. I am the God of the universe!"
Ezk 28:15, “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee."
    Isaiah 14:13, "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." 
           Satan's reasoning had degenerated into delusions of supremacy. God's ordained "second place" was now thought unworthy of his exquisite beauty, keen intelligence, superpowers and unique charms. First place, he thought, was better suited for his magnificence. In his new state of autonomy, independent of God's will, self governing and subject only to himself, Satan imagined himself a god and imagined God as dead.
   

Lucifer then surmised that angelic cohorts were necessary to overthrow the kingdom and worshipers necessary for his praises. Being more intelligent than the angel life, and the "Father of Lies" he devised a plan and then the great orator's campaign of deception began.
     Lucifer called for the angelic trumpeters to sound their golden trumpets, "The Chief of Staff of the Angelic Air Force requests your presence immediately." Myriads of angels suddenly hovered effortlessly from every direction, as sounds of powerful wings swelled the air. Standing stoically before them, Lucifer lifted his head, viewing the masses of iridescence, snowy white wings. Then he cunningly spoke these words, "My brothers, what I must say, I must say quickly, so listen intently to my words for I may not be with you much longer. When He and I alone existed, there was suddenly, in a nanosecond, materializing as out of nowhere, an electro-magnetic zero point of light energy, caused by an unstable particle flux created through anti-gravitational geomagnetism. As we watched, there suddenly came from within this minuscule particle, a colliding of cosmic energy and dark energy, causing bolts of cold and negative electricity to converge, splitting dark matter. A magneto-hydrodynamic luminous star, Wormwood, was born. It began projecting trillion and trillions of photons throughout the universe, scattering gammas and inelastic gammas, causing energized debris to enter the ionosphere, producing titanic ionization particles. This evolutionary transforming light energy resulted in a mutation, morphing all angel life seedlings awaiting their birth. This naturally caused a progressive metamorphosis, creating a superior gene, D.N.A., Divine Nature Angelics. These mutations have evolved and advanced angelic species, transmuting angel life to divine significance, transcending angelhood to godhood. As your evolutionary advancement progresses, you my brothers are becoming more advanced, more complex, powerful and more divine. This same transforming ionized light has caused Elohim's evolution to entropy. This most unfortunate thermodynamic reaction is hurling Him towards insignificance and His final destiny, extinction! Yes, it's true; the Great One is destined to die! He knows this ionization has not only created the elements necessary for angelic deity, but exponentially has accelerated the forces of thermodynamics against Him. With His once all omniscient power weakening, His demise is now inescapable. He has chosen to hide this knowledge from you for obvious reasons. He fears as you evolve you will later torture Him for His dictatorship. He wickedly plans to cast you into the outer darkness of Tartarus, the black hole of the lost. I realize you are unaware of Tartarus, because He has kept it a secret, even from me. But as my god powers are increasing, I can now read His mind. And I tell you the truth; He has you in checkmate my brothers. I realize you haven't yet reached the level of my powers, unable to see into the future, nor read His mind, nor comprehend the scientific knowledge I possess. Therefore brothers, I am compelled to swear my unswerving allegiance to you my fellow angels and to reveal to you His tortuous plan...no matter what consequences I must suffer. Survival of the fittest is our victorious destiny if we subjugate His kingdom with all expediency, before it's too late and He casts us into the black hole of the abyss. "We will not descend to Tartarus is our cry!” he declaimed. “As we must increase, He must decrease. Choose this day whom you will serve!"
    And so was born the angelic evolution revolution movement. Lucifer’s progressive enlightenment transformed into a festering rebellious scheme for the title of “Master of the Universe.“ At that moment, Lucifer's deception had convinced many of his scientific fiction. The angels, unable to fathom Lucifer's complex scientific explanation, rather than appear ungifted, nodded in agreement, applauding his brilliance. Many angels reasoned together, "It must be true for he is brilliant and comprehends all of science. We can see he is infinitely more intelligent than we." Whispering, "Besides, why would he lie, he's one of us?" Many swore unquestioning allegiance to him, believing his superior intelligence had no bounds. "We have faith in you O Great One." Luring a third of the heavenly hosts to his newly formed government, he proclaimed the dawning of enlightenment and the angelic evolution revolution movement.
     According to Lucifer, as citizens of progressive angelism, angels could reign as demi-gods and Lucifer, of course, would evolve into God. These angels, one third of the heavenly hosts, now adamantly refused their created positions as servant angels in God's universe and rejected God’s position as Final Authority. Thus, they began their insurrection plot, to enter the Holy of Holies and to mount the very throne of Elah Sh'maya.
     Lucifer’s calculated war plan was for headship, to destroy the Lordship of God, and to replace the Creator with that which was created. They then, being gods, would dwell in the lordship of their autonomy. Lucifer's unspoken desire was to murder God. "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 8:4

War Of The Worlds
   Lucifer mounted his mighty horse Opium, as throngs of mounted stoic angels, with faces as chipped from pale rock, followed behind, looming over the Holy Mountain. Great clouds of shimmering gold dust trailed behind as they thunderously galloped towards the City of Lights. Hearts pounding, and eyes blazing in the reflective light of the Great City, they clenched their reins with whited knuckles, crying, "We will not descend to Tartarus!" as they swarmed around the throne room of Elohim.
  But the war of progressive angelism was short lived. God's faithful angels warred against Lucifer and his rebellious legions. At warp speed, God then hurled the gimpy one and his cohorts, marred and hobbling, towards the grey barren sphere of Earth. His mighty archangels, Gabriel and Michael, now stand at the ready, before the throne of the Almighty.
 
                                    

     Revelation 12:7-9, "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him."

Ezekiel 28:16-17, “Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth. “
    Prior to the war, God's eternal foresight had viewed the condition of their hearts, and it revealed a rebellious malignant pride, which resulted in terminal unrepentance, forever refusing to place themselves in subjection to the authority of their Creator. The angel's chosen steely unrepentance had hardened their hearts and seared their conscience resulting in a reprobate mind. Had they humbled themselves, they would have then had the ability to sense their moral guilt, and then repentance would have been possible. Then and only then could God's forgiveness and salvation have been accepted in their hearts. Therefore, no salvation was provided, for their hearts were eternally unrepentant. Hardened, there was now no escape from their poor choice of total autonomy. Choosing their autonomy they chose a total separation from their creator and King. Just as their free will demanded, God turned them over to their chosen will ... no relationship, no fellowship, and no salvation returning them to God. This was their choice. God is always faithful to honor one's free will. He will never interfere with one's choice to love Him. No one will ever abide in heaven against their will.
    Progressive angelism, the choice of autonomy and self-worship, ended in total separation from God. Their failure to honor their obligation of commitment, to abide in the structure of who they were and who God was, led to their eternal separation.
    Most would be compelled to ask the perplexing question, how could Lucifer, being such a brilliant being be so oblivious to the obvious futility of his revolution?
     Choosing to exist in a state of narcissistic pride, resulted in Lucifer's delusions of grandeur, blinding his heart and mind, and culminated in a rebellious nature centered in autonomy. Satan's free will choice was to refuse God's proper place as Lord, and to refuse his proper place as the most beautiful and powerful angel, exchanging his eternal life for eternal death and forfeiting his pure, godly nature. Lucifer now named Satan, meaning enemy, was then left with his self willed antithesis, a dark nature, his chosen ways apart from any godly attributes. His once magnificent superpowers began to entropy as the law of thermodynamics was made activated, by the law of God, "the wages of sin is death." Cast from heaven and sentenced to eternal death, Satan, God's enemy, is now eternally separated from God.

Hurled To A Barren Planet 

     What would Lucifer do now that his government of progressive angelism failed to come to fruition and the battle lost? Was his only pleasure a sardonic dishonoring of God and His majestic creation? And what would become of the rebellious angels? Aimlessly loitering in nowhere land, they had little choice but to continue placing their bets on Satan, their last dismal hope. Stripped of all godly attributes, they were now as Satan, left with their chosen evil nature and worse, they were left with their Commander in Chief, the universe's biggest Loser.
     Now vanquished, Satan was bitterly angry with himself, not because he realized his rebelliousness and autonomy separated him from his God, refusing his proper place, or that his pride blinded him from reality but because of his miscalculation of power. Blinded, Satan believed his own lies of supremacy. Satan, though cast from heaven, continued the narcissistic delusion, wanting all of creation's praises. Remaining obdurate in conscience, he hardened his heart all the more, void of repentance, he began to scheme, devising another battle plan against the Master of the Universe. 
 One may question, why didn't God cast Lucifer and the fallen angels into hell? God could have destroyed Satan and the fallen angels, and it would have been totally just. But something horrific had happened in Heaven. The enigmatic, nebulous force of antithesis had pulsed throughout God’s holy Paradise. Satan had changed the heavenly abode of tranquility and harmony to doubt and doubt leads to a diminished faith. Satan had convinced multitudes that he was just and that God was unjust. He portrayed himself as having unswerving benevolence, willing to suffer no matter the consequences, for the angelic brotherhood. We must remember that the angels were limited; intellectually Satan was far their superior. Secondly they had not sinned and had no comprehension of being good because they hadn't yet experienced good’s antithesis, evil. They couldn't comprehend Satan's new evil nature or his motives, nor comprehend his narcissistic pride, nor his scheme to murder God. They were deceived, persuaded by doubt and fear. I must say this with great emphasis, the true reality of the motivation of Satan's rebellion was known to Satan and God alone.
     The remaining faithful angels may very well have questioned in their mind if it was possible that an all powerful God could use His power unjustly, witnessing Lucifer and the warring angels sent far, far away. Seeds of doubt and fear poisoned Heaven's perfection. Living in doubt and fear with an all-powerful God who could now, possibly be hideously evil was a terror beyond imagination. But God dearly loved the faithful angels and refused to allow this deception to haunt them for all time. God's imperative was to make His universe eternally secure in total peace of mind and unshakable faith in God's eternal goodness. Satan's true nature had to be exposed. God's good nature had to be proved unalterable, immutable, incorruptible, unmodifiable, and indelible. God, the true Father of all, desired to restore heaven to the home it was meant to be. The final outcome of Satan's six thousand earthly years of rebellion and rule over mankind would be witnessed and understood by all God's creatures. Mankind would experience Satan's kingdom, his world rule, and by embracing his damnable autonomy would result in worldwide human carnage. The violence, the suffering, the brutality, the despair and man's final reality, death, would result from Satan as the "god of this world."
     The destructive aftershocks of man's choice of humanistic autonomy would be written across the pages of human history. When God judges Satan in the end, He will be acknowledged as a "Just Judge" and all creation will, on bended knee, praise and worship Him, not out of fear, but out of the witnessed knowledge of His perfect justice, and eternally merciful unconditional love. All of mankind will acknowledge His divine love in sending His only Son to ransom mankind, proving that "He alone is worthy." And so in order to fulfill God's plan, and restore heaven's confidence He postponed Satan's judgment seven thousand years.

In The Beginning.... A Beauty Beyond Words

     In Genesis 1:26 Elohay Kedem, the "God of the Beginning," said, "Let Us make man in Our image according to our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Man was given dominion to rule over all the earth. Genisis 2:7-8, "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
     In Elohim's magnificent love, He created man, the loving creation of the King of all creation, born of a pure heart in His eternal love. This most beautiful being was unique in all the universe. Man was created in the personal image and likeness of God. This meant possessing a portion of His divine attributes, a godly nature of righteousness and love. This personal connection, possessing godliness, gave man personal insight into God's soul, a knowledge and experience of the very essence of God, which the Bible does not mention the angels possessing. What an incredible display of intimacy, sharing with man His soul, a beauty beyond words. His very essence, the King of the Universe, was graciously displayed before man and in man, clearly demonstrating His desire for an intimate personal relationship. God had lifted man to a place of extreme importance of all of His creation, for all time.
     His shared godly attributes were the conduit by which man could have a personal relationship, to communicate personally and lovingly. His communication with God was not designed to be merely a complex conglomeration of organized chemicals which obey God mechanically, genetically, or instinctually, but  intimately. He was not created to serve, as the angels, but to be the object of God's unconditional love, to shower with Divine blessings, all that He had.
     God has created and designed each person individually, unlike any other, with the same uniqueness as each snowflake, each star, every leaf on every tree, beautifully, wonderfully unique. Each man's uniqueness displays God's relationship with him or her as one of a highly personal nature. We are not mere faces in a sea of humanity to Him, but each relationship is personal and His cherished treasure.
      "And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Genesis 2:7-9
     Though man was fully cognizant of his actions in the garden, he couldn't comprehend his own goodness, purity and holiness, his state of perfection, as he had never experienced its antithesis, thus man had not the "knowledge of good or evil."
     God placed Adam in His mind-blowing garden in Eden and said to Adam, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest there of thou shalt surely die." And so Adam was given knowledge concerning the tree of life and the tree of death, both is full view in God's garden, the Garden of Eden. Of the Tree of Life, Adam was told he may freely eat but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the tree of death, he was clearly commanded not to eat, with the warning that should he chose to eat it he would die.
     The existence of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil demonstrated God's gift of choice to man. The choice of disbelief, would prove a lack of trust in their relationship, and a lack of faith in God's word. This  mistrust would bring death to their relationship. The choice of disbelief would result in the action of disbelief, eating the fruit, which was an act of  disobedience, sin as God had commandment them, thou shall not eat. Sin poisoned man and brought forth spiritual death, resulting in severing the spirit-communication they once had shared. Its antithesis, the Tree of Life, would have brought Adam eternal life, if he had chosen to trust God and to live in a state of faith, for "Without faith it is impossible to please Him."
     I must say this with great emphasis; in order for love to exist it must be given within the framework of free choice. And so God established the provision of choice, to choose to accept God's love or to reject God's love, to love God or to choose not to love God. Man was to think freely, and to act freely and free to love God. Had God not given them a free will they would have been perfect people, in a perfect place, obeying God merely out of their state of perfection, no different than programmed robots, incapable of love. In Eden God gave this knowledge and understanding of choice in the form of  the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," the tree of choice and so Adam knew he was a free being. This was man's first great gift; man's free will of personal choice. When God spoke to Adam concerning the tree of good and evil, {as Eve had not yet been created} He said, "In the day you eat of it you shall surely die."
God demonstrated Himself as a caring God who's warning was meant to protect him from the harmful consequences of the antithesis of His holy absolutes, resulting in spiritual and physical death. Death was not a punishment from God, but the consequence of antithesis.

     The Existence Of Antithesis

 Genesis 3:1, “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made."

Quietly Satan came to Eve from behind, as she sat in the grass.

Serpent: “Hey Eve." He sat down next to her, and most pleasantly inquired, "Whatcha doin'?"

Eve: “I'm hungry. I'm trying to decide which fruit to eat."

Serpent: "Eve, did you check out that awesome lookin' tree in the middle of the garden? The fruit on that thing looks to die for! “

Eve: "Really! To die for? Lifting her eyes Eve gazed into the distance. The shimmering metallic green leaves of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil added to its mystery.

Eve: “Do you mean the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?"

Serpent: "Dang, Eve, there's so many trees here, I can't remember all the names. Ya know what I mean? It's the one with the beautiful glistening crimson fruit. You are going to try it… aren't you? "

Genesis 3:2-3, "And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."

Eve: "Adam said God forbid us to eat of it. He said we would die....even if we as much as touched it."

But Eve was mistaken. God never told Adam that he would die if he touched it and Satan knew it.

Genesis 3:1, ".... And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

Serpent: "Huh? Where did you get that crazy idea? God's forbidding you from eating food? Wow, that's weird. I've gotta go see this fruit that will kill you if you touch it. You comin'? You can look at it… can't you?"
 
Eve: "Well, ...God never say I couldn't look at it." Eve slowly stood up. "I guess it wouldn't hurt to go and just look."
Serpent: Jumping to his feet Satan smiles, "Now you’re talkin’!"

Genesis 3:4, "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

Serpent: Approaching the Tree of Knowledge, he said, "Wow! Just look at that fruit! That's the most beautiful fruit I've ever seen, and it's all yours for the taking Eve. Ya know what Eve? You know what I think? I think Adam just misunderstood what God was saying; he could have just heard it wrong. Or maybe he's just not good at explaining things. I mean, think about it, would God not want you eating food? Killer fruit? C'mon, it's silly!” he exclaimed.
“ Look, maybe you misunderstood Adam, these things happen Eve. Or perhaps .... well .... I don't like saying it,.... but what if Adam's holding out on you? I mean,... well,...it's possible. I know you're new to these parts Eve, and to be quite frank with you, I've known Adam all his life, and he's not the most honest guy on the planet. Maybe he wants the knowledge all for himself. Maybe Adam's like, um ...uh...on a power trip. Ever think about that?”

Eve: “No, I never thought about that at all.” Eve slowly moves closer to the tree.

Serpent: “Anyway, that's not the story I heard. I heard that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and that you'll instantly be aware of all the mysteries of the universe. You’ll be wise, you’ll know everything Eve, everything, good and evil, and Eve ... you'll become like God. How cool is that?"

Eve hesitates. "I don't know."

Serpent: "Use your head girl!” he exclaimed. “Wanna know the real reason He doesn't want you tasting that fruit? I'll tell you, He knows it has magical powers, and if you eat it, you'll be like Him; you'll be a god. You’ll have His knowledge; you'll finally know the mystery, the mystery of good and evil.” Shaking his head as he raised his brows, he grins and says, “Why else… would He do it? C'mon Eve,”  he whines loudly, "Think outside the box!"

                                                       
      Eve moves even closer, her eyes transfixed on the illuminated crimson fruit framed among the translucent lime green leaves as the setting sun cast its last rays.

Serpent: “Now Eve, listen to me, ….God isn’t going to kill you for touching that fruit” he said gently.  “Look Hon, I’ll prove it. I’ll touch it. Satan then reaches up and pulls the forbidden fruit from its branch. “Ya see Eve, nothin’ happened, ......just like I said. C’mon, just touch it, you’ll see…it’s OK, really!..…trust me.”

Seeing Satan holding the fruit without any effect Eve becomes confused and now curious why she was misled. Eve steps even closer, her curious desire entices her. Her hand reaches for the fruit, as her finger then barely touches it.
Serpent:  “You go girl! Ya see!! He laughs. Nothing happened! Now don’t you feel stupid?

Eve smiles: “Nothing happened.”

Serpent: “Nothing! Nothing at all. Ya see, I was right. What’s all this mess God telling you there’s killer fruit in the garden? Ridiculous!”

The Serpent moves behind the hanging fruit and faces Eve: “ Eve, aren't you just dying to know what it tastes like? C’mon, …you know you are. Just take one tiny bite. No one’s here… it's just you and me. And you know I won't tell .... promise. It'll be our little secret.” The Serpent and Eve’s eyes locked, as he softly says, "Eve ... it's to die for!"
James 1:4, says, “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”
    Satan first tries to discredit Adam's eyewitness testimony by saying he may have errored in his hearing God or understanding or communicating it to Eve. Doubt now enters in, her trust overshadowed by Satan’s creation of doubt. Then he tried to throw her off kilter, saying it might have been her fault, her inability to understanding. More doubt. Then he uses covetousness, Adam will become God, but you won't. Then pride, you'll have all knowledge. And best of all, you'll be a god, total autonomy. Curiosity enticed her mind. She was smitten with its crimson beauty; the lust of the eye brought forth desire. Just one little bite, meant one small infraction. I promise not to tell, meant it would remain hidden, no nasty consequences. She was lured with the imagination of the magical powers it possessed and the ultimate thrill, supreme deity. It just doesn't get better than that!
     Satan knew exactly what God had spoken to Adam about the Tree of Knowledge. When Eve mistakenly thought that Adam had told her that God said that she couldn’t as much as touch it, Satan knew that Eve was wrong. So he used it to trick her, coaxing her to touch it, knowing that when she did, nothing would happen and God would appear to be a liar. Satan had her hook, line and sinker.
Thus the emergence of a seed, which was planted in God's garden and on the entire Earth, the pride of human autonomy.
    Genesis 6, "And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
     Eve no longer chose to believe God's warning, but instead chose to abandon her faith in His word, she stopped trusting God. Her faith was now in Satan's word. Eve’s lack of faith, her disbelief in God’s word led to her action of disbelief. This resulted in her sin of disobedience, which was made operable through God's command. Experiencing the sin of disobedience, she gained first hand experience of evil. And now knowing evil, she understood its antithesis, good, and therefore she possessed the knowledge of good and evil.
    Satan was telling the truth, well ... sort of. Her eyes would be opened, true, she would experience the knowledge of good and evil, true, therefore she would be like God, well, here's where he fudged a bit. Eve became like God only in the sense that she now had the knowledge of good and evil but not as God possessed this knowledge. Eve's knowledge was first hand experience. God's knowledge was knowledge of evil, but God never experienced evil personally, first hand. Little details Satan didn't mention. Satan also omitted mentioning that Eve's knowledge of evil would be experienced as she "became" evil, acquiring a sin nature, that her faith in Satan's word resulted in a lifetime of horrific moral guilt resulting from sin. And worse, that Satan now had the "power of death" over all humanity as Eve, the mother of humanity, now was spiritually dead, passing this spiritual death to her ancestors.
    Her faith in Satan's word over God's lead to death just as God had said. The death God spoke of was her spiritual death, as God's Holy Spirit cannot remain in a defiled temple. Eve's spirit-being had been the active vehicle of communication with God, and now her spirit lay dead. The "life" of her spirit being, was Holy Spirit 's life, and the Holy Spirit had departed.
    Overwhelmed with her unimaginably hideous guilt, Eve panicked. Her death brought a hideous spiritual void, and a putrid sense of vileness. She no longer sensed the presence of God within her. The intimate sense of fellowship, which was a vital part of the complete man God had created, was suddenly gone, replaced only with a sense of moral guilt. Eve then wanted to crawl out of her skin. A million thoughts raced through her mind, she was going out of her mind, and she was going it alone. Adam can't understand my sorrow, my pain, he hasn't the knowledge, he could never understand my guilt, this hideous torture of my soul, she thought. Now evil, Eve’s love became corrupted. As misery loves company, Eve didn't want to suffer alone, and so perhaps she devised a plan to bring death to her husband Adam. Perhaps, she calmly and gently approached Adam, pleasantly she held out her hands and offered him a taste of the bitten fruit. She smiles and whispers gleefully that she has eaten from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Seeing a bite missing and yet she remained alive, Adam reasoned in his mind, Eve ate and didn't die therefore God lied to me.  Adam no longer believed God, his faith, like Eve's was abandoned. Adam's reasoning prevailed over God's word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfL5PcT08Bs&NR=1  The reality of the black hole of hell.
 
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