One can no longer discredit the biblical teachings. The evolutionist’s are on the retreat due to modern science is letting them down. The creationist’s are moving forward and are starting to back their facts by science. God moves in mysterious ways.
I too have been brought back to God in mysterious ways and I am still trying to understand His Ways. So here is my story about the “Concepts of God”, an accumulation of my biblical understanding. It is not a short story, but it is condensed to cover about 6,000 years.
According to my understanding, God loves His created form of humanity and will use His power to purify mankind and draw mankind back to his visualization of them.
God knew the frailty of his creation and sought to strengthen mankind through their experience of life in a world of iniquity. So began the concepts of God. Through blessing and cursing, God will teach mankind about His acceptance and righteousness. God planned to save mankind from death caused by iniquity, by the remission of sins and the acceptance of Him, from the very beginning.
My concept of God is of an all-consuming spirit who willed humanity in existence. The mind of God is immense. Our existence, our universe is within the mind of God. If you are willing to believe that God exists, then everything about you is within and under the power of God. Since God created our existence, every thought He had was and still is righteous. He laid down the foundations for our existence and gave laws about behaviour to prove our love and respect for Him.
How Big Is God?
How big is our universe? How many dimensions of existence are there? Are there universes within each of these dimensions? God’s mind created everything that we know and all was created within His mind. The immensity of God is beyond our comprehension.
How Powerful Is God?
God almighty is considered to be a supreme entity, which is omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. So! The Almighty God is a Supreme Being, a thinking entity, which is an energised universal consciousness of creative, righteous and manifestative free will. God is an energised force to be reckoned with. God is an entity that can never be created nor destroyed by our will.
How much power and energy is displayed by our Sun? How about all the stars in our galaxy? Have you tried to evaluate the sum total power and energy created by all the stars in our universe? The power and energy of God is held within the mind of God. The mere presence of God is too much for mankind to bear. With a touch of his presence our world can be either destroyed or made anew.
The Potter
God is the potter and we are the clayed imaged that he manifested. The potter is always greater than what it creates. The created thing of the Potter has no control over the Potter, nor can it direct Him. But the Potter can destroy and/or reshape the image into whatever it desires. When the Potter is satisfied with its created image, He then fires it and makes it part of his life and keeps it as long as He wants. If we, who are the image, adhere to God and His ways, then we are granted eternal life.
God’s Humanity
But why did God create humanity? God is benevolent; maybe He wanted something more to exist than just himself. Perhaps God fell in love with the idea of humanity. Firstly, God created a space for angelic beings. These angelic beings were created to serve God and His desires. Then in the presence of these angelic beings, God created a platform for humanity to exist.
All the angelic beings were in awe of God as he spoke His humanity into existence. First came our universe. It was separate from the angelic realm at first. Then the angelic realm overlapped our world as our galaxy was formed. A spiritual bridge was then formed to connect the angelic realm to our worldly planet. Then the creation of plants and animals took place. By this stage, those of the angelic realm knew their place and what roles they were play.
Lucifer, the most magnificent of the cherubim, was eagerly awaiting his role to both serve to the face of God and to lord it over the earthly paradise according to God’s will. Many angels were to assist Lucifer in his role of a leading cherub. Lucifer was starting to burst with pride. And then at the first hour of the sixth day, God made the statement that would change humanity forever.
Lucifer and perhaps his chief angels were aghast when God announced the creation of man. And even worse, this man was to be made in their image and likeness out of the tackiness of Earth and man would lord it over the plants and beasts that were created. Lucifers pride was shattered and he set about to destroy the role of man on earth. Lucifer lost his dominion in the angelic realm due to warring with God, but still tries to lord it over the earthly world, which is his domain.
The Corruption Of Man
Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God and those of the angelic realm. Man was designed to be in the presence of God, if man denies God, he would perish, both physically and spiritually. Adam and Eve were created in a place of God then moved to the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were given the Adamic covenant and were to obey the Word of God and His statutes in order to live out their lives.
Lucifer set out to destroy mankind and corrupted Adam and Even. Adam and Eve had a more spiritual, bodily presence at first. They were innocently naive to the deception of Lucifer. After they disobeyed the Word of God, Adam and Eve became more earthly and more aware of their presence.
Lucifer harassed both Adam and Eve after they were banished from the Garden of Eden, especially when they lived in a cave. Cain (Adam’s eldest son) then killed Able (Adam’s youngest son) and his descendants became sinful. The children of Cain through their lascivious behaviour lead the children of Seth (Adam’s third son) astray and immorality became the way of mankind.
In the days of Enosh (Seth’s son), the sons of men continued to rebel and transgressed against God, so God destroyed a third of their earthly world. However, both Adam and Eve sought the forgiveness of God during their lives and set the path for redemption. Cainan (great grandson of Adam – 4th gen) wrote upon tablets of stone and recorded the events of man.
Adam and Eve lived for 932 years and died in the 243rd year reign of Enoch (grandson x5 of Adam – 7th gen) as a righteous king. They died a week apart and God redeemed them both.
The Watchers
Later on came the “Watchers”. In the days of Jared, (father of Enoch – 6th gen from Adam), the angels of God called the Watchers, descended on the earth. They were to instruct the children of men and do judgement and uprightness on the earth. But they lusted after the women; they sought wives from the progeny of men and started to beget children. They tainted the DNA of mankind; their offspring became the Nephilim (giant beings) who were all unalike.
The Watchers taught iniquity and disclosed secret things, which polluted and corrupted the minds of men. They allured mankind and lured them into idolatry, which became the bane of both mankind and God. The Nephilim later waged war against themselves and mankind. The Giants slew the Naphil, the Naphil slew the Eljo and the Eljo slew mankind. At this point of time God was going to annihilate the Earthly realm and all those that inhabited it. It was due to the purity of the mind of Enoch, Methuselah (son of Enoch), Na’amah (daughter of Enoch, wife of Noah) and Noah (great grandson of Enoch – 10th gen from Adam) that mankind was given a second chance.
God’s Plan
God knows everything from the beginning to the end. All created beings are under the governance of God and will do His bidding. Many angels and all of mankind were given free will, a mind to think for themselves. God’s creation was good, but not perfect. God knows that the created beings will never be as good as the creator. God gave free will to His created beings according to His measure. Mankind is the Creator’s consciousness incarnate. We are all apart of the Creator’s creative visualisation, which He wants to purify. Our purification is dependant upon our free will and our decision to either reject or accept Him as our God.
The mind is a complex thing, which can corrupt itself. The integrity of one’s ego, which stems from the mind, has to be tested to find any form of iniquity. The life you live is a test of God. Iniquity is sinful according to the ways of God. A sinful being cannot be one with God and shall be destroyed at the End of Time. Any angelic being that has a mind of iniquity will be punished and later destroyed. This includes Lucifer, The Watchers and the one third of angels, which fell from heaven.
However, those of the angelic realm corrupted mankind. Because mankind was pure and innocent in the beginning, a plan to save mankind was put in place. The Word of God was to save man from sin, so first came the statutes and then the Ten Commandments were given.
The Word of God was with God from the beginning. The Word of God was then transformed into a man, so a saviour was born through the spirit of God’s humanity. God’s plan of salvation is simple. Believe in God; trust in Him so He can bless you. Believe that the Son of God, the Messiah, died for the remission of the sins of mankind. Then walk in the way of both God and the Messiah and become righteous in God’s eyes. God is willing to redeem those who call upon Him in order to be saved.
To save mankind, God planned a lineage of chosen people from Adam to the Messiah. These people choose to walk in the presence of God. God interacted with these chosen people and helped them with statutes, laws, covenants, governance and various judgements. Prophets relayed and recorded the messages from God for the benefit of all His people, both then and now. Some of these prophecies have yet to take place. The prophecies that have taken place have been proven to be truthful.
Sheol
God created in the beginning a place of delight and suffering in another dimension that encroached both the angelic and worldly realms. The name of this place was called Sheol. Sheol was divided into two distinctive parts that is separated by a chasm that cannot be breached. Each part is thought to have several levels, many believe there are three levels, and some say seven. Each part and level that one sojourns to, either depends on how righteous you are or how sinful you are.
The upper delightful place is often referred to as Heaven. The lower suffering place is often referred to as Hell. It is believed that the upper level of delight is reserved for the saints, whilst the lowest level of suffering contains the river of fire, which is used for spiritual destruction.
All the righteous beings of the angelic realm stay with God and serve Him appropriately. All the beings of inequity in the angelic realm are judged and placed in the suffering place of Sheol as appointed by God. When a person dies, their spirited soul departs from their body and they enter Sheol, but their physical body is buried. A person’s soul rests according to the works of his faith.
A person of righteousness rests within the levels of delight. A person of iniquity rests within the levels of suffering. We all have free will to make our choices in life, but you are responsible for the consequences of the life that you choose to live. Be wise; be righteous. Don’t be foolish and suffer.
God judges mankind according to their behaviour. God judges nations according to the behaviour of their leaders and followers. God’s judgement defines the end of iniquity at a particular time and the hope of a new beginning due to His loving grace.
The First Judgement
God later involved Enoch in the Watchers judgement. The “Watchers” were sent to the lower levels of Sheol. The children of the Watchers, the Nephilim, were born of angelic spirit and of flesh. Their habitation shall always be on earth. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh when they die and remain on earth as terrestrial spirits. They would be known as wicked spirits of the earthly or worldly realm. This is why the world is considered corrupt!
The Nephilim died out due to the Flood, because of their days of slaughter and destruction. However, their wicked spirits were to linger on concealed from mankind. They would be as clouds causing lamentation. Although they shall not rise up against mankind, they shall oppress, corrupt, fall, content and bruise mankind upon earth. They will try to torment both the righteous and sinful people of the earthly, worldly realm.
If anyone of mankind rejects God, God will leave him or her to govern his or her own life. However, without the presence of God in their lives, the wicked spirits will surely inhabit them and corrupt their souls. If that person refuses salvation through God, then when they die they will go to the suffering place of Sheol to await judgement. Anyone who rejects God can return to God to seek his or her own salvation whilst alive. But anyone who abuses the word or name of God will loose his or her right to be saved.
Those who are considered evil go to the lower levels of Sheol to suffer and are tormented by the ways of their own minds. Judgement is to come upon all, even the righteous. However, God will exercise clemency upon the righteous and preserve the elect. When the righteous die they will go to the delightful place of Sheol to await judgement according to God’s appointed times. The elect will receive their righteous rewards prior to the redemption of mankind.
The Longest War
War broke out in the angelic realm when Lucifer chose to defile God’s creation of humanity. This war is still in progress and will end at the time of the end, after the White Throne Judgement. God Almighty controls the movements of all the angelic beings. The angelic beings of iniquity obey Him to their own displeasure. God uses the righteous angelic beings to send messages to mankind and to make peace on earth when required.
One third of the angels in the angelic realm were corrupted by iniquity because of Lucifer. Some were worse then others, these are known as the Fallen Angels. All were punished through shame; many of them were sent to Sheol, others do God’s bidding in punishing mankind. All of them will perish in the end of time.
The angelic beings of iniquity try to harass both mankind and the righteous angels from interacting with mankind. The angelic beings of iniquity use the wicked terrestrial spirits to beguile, confuse and lead mankind astray. It is through the works of the angelic beings of iniquity that mankind develops a revolting and rebellious heart and hence lives a life of iniquity and sin.
Just because you cannot see what is going on in the angelic spiritual realm doesn’t mean that nothing is going on. There is a war going on and you are involved in it. Actually! Mankind was the cause of it. It is a war of worship. It is a matter of what and/or whom you believe in. Believe in God for He has already won the war. Have faith in the Messiah and be blessed by God’s grace of salvation. The choice you make into whom you worship is really a matter of life or death. Choose God and be blessed in His presence forever. Choose Lucifer and perish in the Lake of Fire. God wins, He planned it that way. Are you a looser or a winner?
The First Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
There is a biblical lineage of twenty-two generations of patriarchs from Adam to Jacob. The patriarchs formed a lineage of those who were faithful to God. Those who were faithful were blessed accordingly to the works of their faith. Those from Adam to Noah were the first 10 generations of patriarchs of the pre-flood era.
Adam and Eve were placed in predicament when Lucifer, the angel of iniquity, came to disrupt God’s order and lay claim to this world. Through deceit Lucifer would rule this world. Adam and Eve since their fall from grace tried to make amends with their children and God. Adam and Eve put their faith in God and taught their children to do likewise. But not all listened and God would curse them accordingly.
Enoch, the seventh patriarch, learnt writing and obtained knowledge and wisdom. He was the most blessed by God and he set the standards for the others to follow. Through the presence of angels, Enoch saw visions of Sheol, the birth and death of the Messiah and the End Times of Mankind. The angel of presence taught Enoch calendation, then Enoch constructed the Jubilee years. There were 360 days in a year at that time. The new moon determined the first day of each month and each month had thirty days.
Methuselah (son of Enoch) was the last righteous king on earth before the flood. The people from Adam refused to amend their immoral ways so the Flood came upon them. Methuselah (son of Enoch) passed on the teachings and understandings of Enoch to Noah (great grandson of Enoch).
The Second Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
Noah was the father of the new generations after the flood. From Shem (son of Noah) to Abram (Abraham), came the next ten generations of patriarchs of the Hebrew and Arab peoples.
God Blessed Noah and his sons! God made a covenant with Noah about not murdering people. They were to prosper, reproduce, eat plants and living creatures, but not meat with blood. God then promised that He would not curse the ground for man’s sake or destroy every living thing again. However, God would use the early and latter rains of harvest to punish mankind whenever they strayed from God.
From this time on God would punish mankind for their iniquity and sin through rain, pestilence, plagues and war. The early and latter rains affect the sowing, planting and harvesting of crops and plants. The early rain nourishes the soil for the rest of the year. It is the time to plough and plant seed. The latter rain involves the ripening of crops and harvesting. Delay the rains and the crops are at risk. Increase the rains and flooding occurs swamping the ground, either delaying the planting or ruining the harvest. Withholding the rain affects the sowing, planting and quality of harvest. Stopping the rains brings on drought.
When mankind is weakened through either the poor quality of food caused by delayed rains or the lack of food by drought, plagues abound. The weather and temperature affect pestilence; rain out of season ravishes the insects. Floods destroy one’s habitat. When man becomes desperate war breaks out. When mankind is aghast, they call on God and ask why. When mankind talks to God, He listens and relents accordingly. When mankind repents, God forgives and blesses.
Due to the implications of the Flood, the days of the year changed to 364 days. Noah adjusted Enoch’s calendation to suite and the observation of the New Moon became more important. Noah, through his calendation, introduced several feast days in honour of God. Noah also gave laws of morality to the children of man.
The blessings and cursing that followed mankind after the flood stemmed from Ham and his wife. Noah blessed Japheth and Shem, whilst Ham suffered Noah’s curse through his son Canaan. Shem was blessed due to his belief in God. Japheth was given space (freedom to move about) and would live in Shem’s Tents (they would have brotherly love and understanding for each other). But Canaan would be a lowly servant to both Shem and Japheth.
It appears that Ham’s wife had tainted DNA. Through Cush, (oldest son of Ham), evil came forth. Through intermarriage of those with the corrupted DNA, very large men known as giants evolved over time, as recorded in the bible and other historical accounts.
Noah and his sons dwelled together at first, then separated as their families grew. They started to build cities and become envious of each other and intermarried. A rock carving was found about omens that the Watchers of old taught. Then people started to sin because the demonic realm was evoked. Wicked spirits again started to harass mankind. Noah later divided the known earth at that time into three parts.
Mankind was becoming morally corrupt again and sought the occult. They started to walk away from God and were overcome by idolatry. Nimrod (youngest son of Cush, grandson of Ham), with all the families of the sons of Cush, warred against the children of Japheth and overpowered them. He became the first king over the sons of Noah. He was corrupted by power and became evil. Under Nimrod the children of men built both a city and tower in the land of Shinar.
They built the tower over 43 years to reach the heavens and fight the heavenly powers. Up until this time they all spoke a common language. God punished them by confounding their language and destroyed the tower. Both the city and tower was then called Babel. The people then dispersed into their own cities, each having a different language of speech.
Noah’s sons drew lots for their parts of land. Shem drew the holy parts south from Noah, because God blessed him. Ham drew the hotter parts east from Noah and Japheth drew the colder parts north from Noah. Noah’s sons then divided their parts amongst their own sons.
The children of man then went on to occupy their allotted lands. However, Canaan ignored the advice of his father Ham and his brothers Cush and Mizraim and poached the prime promised land of Shem. Canaan occupied the Promised Land through sedition and was cursed even more. From that day, until now, the land of Canaan is a hotly disputed in the Middle East. It belongs to God; He will take it back and give it to the Israelites in the latter days.
The children of Japheth dispersed in different directions. North was too cold for most of them so they went west in a northerly and southerly manner. It appears that they tried to distance themselves from the children of Ham. The children of Japheth became pagan over time, but they will play major roles in the End Time Prophecies. Shem stayed close to Noah, whilst the children of Shem dwelt in their southern portions and were at odds with the children of Canaan and resented them. The other children of Ham respected their allotments and branched out later to other parts of the world. Some of Ham’s descendants would also become pagan.
By the time of Noah’s death, the children of man stop following Noah’s ways. Idolatry and iniquity was causing mankind to sin again. Only those close to Shem sought the ways of God. It appears that due to the sinful nature of the sons of man since the Tower of Babel, God chose to confound them about the seasons and changed the days of the year to 365. This one-day difference would cause problems to come and even changes in types of calendation.
The Third Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
Gods blessings were passed along the chosen lineage of Shem to Abram, Isaac and Jacob. Nimrod wanted to kill Abram (Abraham) from birth due to prophetic reasoning. Abram (Abraham) spent his early years under the protection of Noah and Shem and they brought him up in the faith of God. Abram (Abraham) was about 47 years old when the Tower of Babel was destroyed. God made two covenants with Abraham, one about the Promised Land and the other about the blessings of faith.
Abram’s (Abraham’s) first born was Ishmael, born though Hagar (an Egyptian) handmaid of Sarai (Sarah wife of Abraham). Ishmael had 12 sons and a daughter. Abram (Abraham) blessed Ishmael and his sons became the 12 princes of Arabia. Ishmael is the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions and is considered as a prophet to the Muslims.
God blessed Abram (Abraham) due to his faith and changed his name to Abraham. He was blessed by birthright, land and prosperity. From Isaac (second son of Abraham by Sarah) came Jacob. These two generations became the patriarchs of Israel, which descended from Abraham. Isaac received Abraham’s inheritance and prospered. Jacob received Isaac’s inheritance and prospered. From Jacob came the Israelites, the descendants of his twelve sons.
However, Isaac had twin sons by Rebecca, Esau (eldest) and Jacob (youngest). Esau was a hunter, but he lacked self-control. One day he saw Nimrod (king of old) in the field and slew him with his bow and arrow. In fear he fled home and because he was famished, he sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red lentil stew. Jacob later deceived his father Isaac and supplanted Esau’s blessing of prosperity. God punished Jacob by his living in a fear of death.
Esau later displeased his parents by marrying into the Canaanites. He later married Ishmael’s daughter Mahalath, seeking repentance through his parents for his evil deeds, but it worked against him. Esau is considered to be the progenitor of the Edomites (later called Idumaeans) Kenizzites and the Amalekites. His children and their descendants face the wrath of God.
But God blessed Jacob. Through God’s love of Jacob he was renamed Israel and all of Israel was blessed. Jacob married two sisters Leah (older) and Rachel (younger). Leah’s servant was Zilpah and Rachel’s servant was Bilah. Jacob’s through these four women had twelves sons and a daughter. By Leah there was Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah (Daughter). By Zilpah there was Gad and Asher. By Bilah there was Dan and Naphtali. By Rachel there was Joseph and Benjamin (youngest child). Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin.
Jacob’s twelve sons gave their names to the twelve houses of Israel. The houses became tribes and the people thereof became the chosen people of God.
The older ten children of Jacob were not perfect. They often twisted the righteous teachings of their father in order to achieve their aims in life. Over time they were judged accordingly to the works of their faith. Joseph (the eleventh son of Jacob) received the blessings of Abraham (Abram), Isaac and his father Jacob. Benjamin’s descendants became sinful and were almost destroyed by other Israelites. In order to save their lineage, they were to cleave to the House of Judah.
Jacob adopted Joseph’s sons, Manasseh (eldest) and Ephraim (youngest). But Jacob set Ephraim before Manasseh. Manasseh shall become a people and shall be great. But Ephraim shall be greater than he and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. Any other children that Joseph had will in the End Times share in whatever Ephraim and Manasseh own.
Under the prophecy of the Two Sticks, this is allows the Gentiles to enter the House of Ephraim. The House of Israel, through Ephraim, is joined to the House of Judah to form one stick as the blessed Children of God. It also goes back to Noah’s blessing of Japheth dwelling in the tents of Shem. The descendants of Japheth became pagan Gentiles.
Jacob then gave Joseph’s blessings to them, each given one part of the double portion of inheritance. Ephraim received the greater portion of blessings over Manasseh. Through the birthright blessings, Ephraim later took the title of Israel.
The Fourth Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
Because God is all knowing, a plan was put in place from the very beginning to save mankind from the corruption of Lucifer and those of the demonic realm. God loves humanity; His love is unconditional and infinite. God is forgiving.
God chose the seed of Jacob to be His people. God sanctified Jacob as His first born forever. God chose Moses to be a mediator and teacher to his people. God created the Mosaic covenant through Moses for His people about obeying God’s Word, love and faithfulness, keeping the laws and Commandments. God through Moses put in place laws and conditions that would keep His chosen people apart from the rest of humanity, whilst proving their love of God. The Levitical priesthood was established.
Moses gave 613 Mosaic laws for his people to observe according to their station in life. Most of these laws cannot be followed today, because the Mosaic Levitical priesthood came to an end. However! The Ten Commandments are not a part of the Mosaic laws. They are moral commandments given as a covenant by God, which give governance and guidance for a moral life. The Ten Commandments help define sin and are used as a measure of righteousness. Abide by the Ten Commandments; make them the foundation of your life.
Jacob’s seed were to keep the Sabbath of the seventh day, to eat and drink and bless God. The Sabbath Day was sanctified and blessed by God; those who observe it would be considered holy and blessed. The Sabbath Day’s defined the Seven Feasts of God, which are to be held in the honour of God.
The Sabbath days and Feasts days of the Old Testament can still be honoured. How? The Messiah is a High Priest of the order Melchizedek and he fulfils the priestly portions that are required in the celebrations of the Sabbath and Feasts days. You simply honour God by the feast requirements applicable to man.
The land of Mizraim (Egypt) corrupted the minds of the Israelites. Throughout Exodus, the Israelites quailed with Moses, held on to idolatry, feared God’s authority and committed iniquity. They were punished for their sins and spent forty years in the wilderness. Before Moses died, he explicitly explained God’s way to the Israelites and the peoples who lived amongst them.
The covenant that God made with them through the Ten Commandments was a marriage covenant that bound God’s people to Him. Those who abide in the ways of God will be blessed. Those who separated themselves from God through iniquity will be cursed. All the people accepted God’s covenant and understood the blessing and cursing of God.
After the death of Moses, Joshua led the Israelites into the Promised Land. Joshua carried out God’s mandate, but various people of the tribes of Israel did not fulfil their roles. Instead of eliminating the descendants of Canaan from the Promised Land, they chose to dwell with them. This disobedience led to their downfall.
When the house of Israel (Yisra’el) dwelt in their own land they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. After the death of Joshua, they came under the leadership of the elders. After the elders the Israelites were again straying away from God. So God raised eleven men and a woman to act as Judges in order to correct the ways of the Israelites. But the Israelites were wayward and sought a king to rule them rather than God. God started to raise prophets to warn the Israelites about their poor choices in life. The priests were starting to act as badly as the people.
The Fifth Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
The iniquity of the Israelites went from bad to evil over time and the curses of God came upon them. In about 120 years of kings, the Promised Land was divided into northern and southern kingdoms. These kingdoms grew to despise each other and even warred against each other. In another 219 years the northern kingdom was lost. Then about 126 years after that, the southern kingdom was lost. The Promised Land then became a memory. However, in the Second Coming, it will be restored back to the descendants of Israel.
The United Kingdom of Israel had 3 kings between 1050 and 930 BC. Saul was the first king; he went against the word of God. David was the second king; he committed adultery and had his lover’s husband killed, however he repented after being punished by God and gave himself over to God. God made the Davidic covenant with David about Kingship and that of shepherd and ruler.
Solomon (David’s son) sought wisdom at first and then partakes in Idolatry through his wives in his latter years. Solomon was punished through his son Jeroboam, who dealt harshly with the Israelites. Because of Jeroboam, the United Kingdom of Israel was lost when it was divided into two separate kingdoms.
The Kingdom of Israel was for the 10 northern tribes with its capital being Samaria. They were the tribes of Asher, Dan, Ephraim, Gad, Issachar, Manasseh (who previous divided themselves), Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon and Zebulun. The Kingdom of Judah was for the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin with its capital being Jerusalem, (The place of God is a city of peace). Jerusalem is special to God. The Levites would live amongst the various Houses of Israel accordingly.
The Kingdom of Israel existed between 931 and 712 BC. It had 20 kings and captains, each one was considered to be bad and/or evil. The people of the Kingdom of Israel were steeped in idolatry and iniquity. They practiced Baal worship and some engaged in child sacrifices. Things went bad for them.
The people of the northern kingdom became known as Israelites and towards the end the house of Ephraim dominated their population. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed about 712 BC when the Neo-Assyrian Empire finally conquered it. Many Israelites were taken captive by the Assyrian’s and were relocated; others fled the land, some by ship. These Israelites become know as the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. God punishes these people over time and melds them with the Gentiles.
Never the less, although God divorced himself from the ten tribes of the Israelites, He had plans for His people Israel; He never stopped loving and helping them. The Israelites left the land of the Assyrian placement and sought Arzareth (another land). It would be a long journey westward and northerly for at least a year and a half. They dwelt amongst the Gentiles who would traverse Northern and Central Europa (Europe). Those who fled earlier by land and sea went through Southern Europa (Europe). The Israelites mingled and melded with the descendants of Japheth (son of Noah) as they made their way through Europa (Europe) and into Pritanī and the Casseterides (Britain and Islands).
However the Ephraimites and the Manasseh that cleaved to them had another destiny. Being landlubbers they would seek the seafaring Tarshish people (descendants of Tarshish, son of Javan, son of Japheth), for they were to create a multiple of nations by sea. The Manasseh (through the Ephraimites and Tarshish seafarers) would choose a good new land and become a great nation. The Ephraimites with the Tarshish (dwellers of Pritanī), would sail on to find and colonise the land of Sinim (land afar incognito). They would remain there until the Messiah calls them back to the Promised Land.
Both Ephraim and Manasseh would open their lands to the Gentiles, especially those of their brothers. For they would always dwell with the Gentiles!
Although God spiritually divorced these people because they broke His covenants through iniquity and sin, He will redeem them, both dead and alive, during the End of Days.
The Kingdom of Judah existed between 931 and 586 BC. It had 19 kings and 1 queen. 11 of these kings and the queen were considered to be bad and/or evil, although 1 king repented. 4 kings were good and another 4 kings were faithful to God and tried to revive the people into following God’s way.
Over time, the iniquity of the people of Judah became worse than that of the people of the Kingdom of Israel. Because God made a promise of kingship forever to King David; God did not divorce Himself from the House of Judah. But God would punish them until the End of Days. The Babylonians destroyed the Kingdom of Judah and Solomon’s Temple (the First Temple).
God punished all the Israelites for their iniquities and sins. Both of their kingdoms were lost and never to be established again until the Second Coming. The Persians and Medes allowed the Judahites to rebuild Jerusalem and their temple (the Second Temple). The Judahites tried to restore their faith in God.
The Sixth Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
During the Grecian Seleucid Empire, the prophecy of King of the North and the King of the South played out. Later they tried to influence their Hellenistic lifestyle upon on the Judahites and change their faith. This resulted in the Maccabean Revolt. By this time the Levitical priesthood had ended and men elected priests.
From the time of the destruction of the First Temple, various religious sects of Judaism started to form. After the Maccabean Revolt, three religious sects of Judaism became prominent. These were the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes.
The Pharisees had some Babylonian concepts and enforced Judaism according to their own understanding; overtime they took control over Judaism. The Sadducees had some Greek concepts and obtained their priesthood by their social standing and wealth; their sect died out between the crucifixion and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. The Essenes observed the Law of Moses, the Sabbath days and ritual purity. They were also heartless.
The Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes controlled Jerusalem and the lands of Judah. They also tried to influence the neighbouring lands. They tried to lord their understanding of Judaism over the peoples until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. The Jews of this era viewed those who did not follow Judaism as being Gentiles, either Pagan or Heathen.
Then came the pagan Romans who took control of the lands of the Seleucid Empire including Judah and the surrounding lands. The Romans suppressed and taxed the people. But they allowed the people to follow their own religions. The people of Judah were vexed by the Pharisees and sought a saviour according to the understanding of the teachings, which they knew.
During this period God gave His best blessing. God put forth His plan of salvation into place. The teachings of the Messiah confused and embarrassed the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes. They sought to kill the Messiah, whilst many people accepted his teachings.
The Messiah spread the word about the Kingdom of God is near. The Messiah’s Apostles spread the Good News about the Kingdom of God and the Gospel of the Messiah’s words and teachings. The Apostles formed the first church of believers in God’s salvation. The Apostle’s disciples spread the news of salvation by the Messiah’s crucifixion throughout the Roman Empire. Those who believed followed in the “Way” of the Messiah.
The Messiah in his brief reign of teaching, showing loving kindness, gave the world the hope of salvation. The people who were and still are feeling lost to God, now have a way to seek God’s grace of salvation. As it always was, call on God. Believe and have faith in God. Abide by the Ten Commandments. Accept the Messiah as your saviour and walk in his ways of love. A simple and loving message to all!
The death of the Messiah brought an end to the old priestly order. For the Messiah is now a priest in the order of Melchizedek. From when the Messiah died and the temple veil was torn in two, the Sadducee priests had problems in performing their duties. The priestly order of the Sadducees faded by 70 AD.
The Romans attacked Jerusalem in 70 AD and destroyed Herod’s Temple (the Second Temple). They drove the Jews out of Jerusalem and Judea and their diaspora began. Many Jews would enter Europe and freely settle amongst the Ashkenazi people, (the descendants of Ashkenaz, son of Gomer, son of Japheth). They would become a Jewish heritage know as Ashkenazi Jews. Other Jews would be known as Sephardic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews.
God and the Romans punished the Jews due to their hearts of stone and misguided practices. The biblical Hebrew language was lost from about 200 AD. Their knowledge of Feasts and dates became distorted, especially when they changed calendation due to the Great Persecution of death. Restoration of the Hebrew language began in the 19th Century. Modern day Hebrew stems from the Yiddish language of the Ashkenazim from central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. Their language and alphabet differs from Paleo-Hebrew.
The Seventh Era of Blessing, Cursing and Sin
This era is also known as the Church Era and it doesn’t end until the Great Tribulation with the great falling away. This is the era when the word of God and the message of salvation is spread to the ends of the earth. It is a time of repentance. A time to prepare for the final wheat harvest in Tribulation! It is also the time, when Jacob’s blessing upon Ephraim and Manasseh is fulfilled and the Times of the End begin to count down.
It is a time when the King of the North and the King of the South is repeated four times; the beast suffers its fatal wound and is later healed. It is the beginning of Sorrows and the last days. At the end of Tribulation, on the time of the Second coming, a new covenant will be establish with God’s chosen people.
The antichrist spirit entered the church in its early beginnings. After the death of the Apostle John (The Revelator) and into the second century, the teachings of Apostles were mingled with paganism. Paganistic and demonic practices infiltrated the early church over time as more pagans sought Christianity. The origins of many old practices and traditions are questionable. Read the Bible to find out the truth for yourself.
The Church of Rome melded pagan feasts into their tradition as they practised anti-Semitism. They also changed calendation and caused confusion about the Sabbath and Feast days. These false Sabbath and Feast traditions and other understandings were carried over into the future churches that stemmed from its foundations. God sanctified the Sabbath Days and the Seven Feasts of God, He is not happy about this. Just think about the false shepherds!
Establishment Of The Early Churches
The Apostle Andrew (brother of Peter) established the Church of Constantinople. Andrew died in 62 AD. The Church of Constantinople’s theology was based on the Apostles Teachings. The Apostle Peter brought the Apostles Teachings to Rome. The Apostle Paul ended his teachings in Rome. During the reign of Emperor Nero, both Peter and Paul were martyred in Rome and they died about 64 AD. The Romans continued to persecute Christians and Jews alike.
Between 303 and 311 AD, Emperor Diocletian carried out the Great Persecution. Emperor Galerius then issued an edict of toleration of religious belief. Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313 AD granting tolerance to all religions, including Christianity. Constantine was baptised on his deathbed and died in 337 AD.
Three reigning emperors issued the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD; they were Theodosius I (emperor of the East), Gratian (emperor of the West) and Gratian’s junior co-ruler Valentinian II. The Edict of Thessalonica made the Church of Rome official and denounced other Christian creeds. This caused a major conflict between the Bishops of Rome and the Bishops of Constantinople.
The Roman Empire started to fall apart due to Germanic revolt. The Western Roman Empire of Europe fell in 476 AD, however Catholicism was entrench throughout its lands of Europe.
The Arabs constantly laid sieges to the Byzantine Empire between 611 and 711 AD. Southern Europe was constantly under siege between 711 and 900 AD and Christianity was under threat. Constantinople was under an unsuccessful Arab siege between 717 and 718 AD.
The Church of Rome morphed into Holy Roman Empire from about 800 AD as Catholicism spread further into Europe, it fundamentally lasted until 1806 AD. The differences of theology between the two main churches caused the Great Schism of 1054 AD. This divided the Churches even more. The churches of Western Europe were Catholic and the churches of the Byzantine Empire were known as Eastern Orthodox.
The Church of Rome organised the Crusades to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 AD to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule. By this time anti-Semitism was rife in Europe. Constantinople was besieged 34 times before it fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD; this was the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire. The Bishops of Constantinople then fled to Russia and Greece. The Russian Orthodox and the Greek Orthodox became the leading Orthodox Churches.
Bibles Created – The Word Of God Goes Out
In 382 AD Pope Damasus commissioned St Jerome to revise the Vetus Latina Gospels used by the Roman Church. It became the accepted Bible text within the Western Church.
English Bibles between 735 and 1000 AD were incomplete, handwritten books in Old English. They mainly consisted of Verses, Gospels, Psalms and other biblical texts extracted from the Vulgate. From about 1150 AD these personal bibles were written Middle English. The Vulgate was in the hands of the clergy and only the wealthy were able to obtain selected text to form their personal bible.
The Masoretic Text was the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. They were old manuscript fragments. The Masoretes were a group of Jews who primarily copied, edited and distributed their religious text between the 7th and 10th centuries AD. The Leningrad Codex was made in Cairo in 1008 AD. It is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization.
Biblical scholars, translators and priests at one time or another began to question Catholicism and the teachings of the church. So the held texts of old were translated into the native tongue in order to find the truth. Their various writings were then turned into Bibles.
John Wycliffe (1328-1384 AD) was a Catholic priest that translated his understandings from the Latin Vulgate into English and created his Wycliffe Bible. The teachings of Catholicism were then questioned. The Pope’s declared John Wycliffe a heretic, so 44 years after Wycliffe’s death, Pope Martin V instructed churchmen to dig up his bones, burn and crush them, then scatter them in the river.
One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus was burned at the stake in 1415 AD, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. The last words of John Hus were: “In 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” Almost exactly 100 years later came Martin Luther.
Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in Mainz, Germany during the 1450’s AD and produced the Gutenberg/Mazarin Bible. It was printed in Latin and each leaf was colourfully hand-illuminated.
In the 1490’s AD Thomas Linacre (Oxford professor and the personal physician to King Henry the 7th and 8th), decided to learn Greek. He compared the Gospels in Greek to that of the Latin Vulgate. He wrote in his diary, “Either this (the original Greek) is not the Gospel… or we are not Christians.” The Latin had become so corrupt that it no longer even preserved the message of the Gospel. Greek was the original language of the scriptures not Latin. However, the Church would threaten to kill anyone who read the scripture in any language but Latin.
In 1496 AD, John Colet (Oxford professor), started to read the New Testament in Greek and translated it into English for his students at Oxford. He later presented it for the public at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London. The people were so hungry to hear the Word of God spoken in a language they could understand. Within six months of his preaching 20,000 people packed in the church and many more were outside.
The Protestant Reformation, a religious reform movement, swept through Europe in the 1500’s AD. The formation of the Lutheran and Anglican Churches took place as well as Calvinism and other Radical movements.
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples (1450-1537 AD) was a French philosopher who became a theologian. His first works were commentaries on the philosophy of Aristotle. About 1508 AD, he devoted his time to theology and the Bible. He wrote his commentaries on the Epistles of Saint Paul in 1512 AD, which influenced Martin Luther.
Erasmus was a great scholar who considered the experiences of Linacre and Colet. He was moved to correct the corrupt Latin Vulgate. In 1516 AD, Erasmus with the help of printer John Froben, published a Greek-Latin Parallel New Testament. The Latin was Erasmus’s own fresh rendering of the text from the more accurate and reliable Greek.
Erasmus worked from a half-dozen partial old Greek New Testament manuscripts he had acquired. He was the first to present a non-Latin Vulgate. Erasmus’s writings encouraged other scholars to consider the importance of going back to using the original Greek (New Testament) and original Hebrew (Old Testament) languages to maintain accuracy of the scriptures and to translate them faithfully into the languages of the common people.
Textus Receptus (received text) refers to all printed editions of the Greek New Testament from Erasmus’ Novum Instrumentum omne of 1516 AD to the 1633 AD Elzevir edition. It was the most commonly used text type for Protestant denominations.
In 1517 AD seven people were burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for the crime of teaching their children to say the Lord’s Prayer in English rather than Latin.
Martin Luther was a German priest who questioned the practice of paying for one’s sins through indulgences. He produced the Ninety-five Theses of 1517 AD, which he nailed into the church door at Wittenberg on Halloween. The Theses was a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church at that time.
In 1519, Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531 AD) was a Leutpriester (people’s priest) of the Grossmünster in Zürich, where he began to preach ideas on the reform of the Catholic Church. He departed from the Catholic mass and began to read the Gospel of Matthew using Erasmus New Testament and gave his interpretation during the sermon. He continued to do this on subsequent Sundays until he reached the end.
Then he proceeded in the same manner with the Acts of the Apostles, the New Testament epistles and finally the Old Testament. Zwingli went on to question the conditions of church’s practices of indulgence and celibacy and he was at odds with the Anabaptist about baptism. Zwingli introduced a new communion liturgy to replace the Mass in 1525 AD.
In 1520 AD, Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples founded the “Cenacle of Meaux”, which advocated the preaching of the Scriptures in the parishes. In 1521 AD he wrote commentaries on the Four Gospels.
Martin Luther produced his own German Bible in 1522 AD. Luther relied heavily on the Vulgate and not on the original Greek. It appears that Luther translated according to the Latin and overlaid his own theology onto the text.
In 1524 AD Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples produced his New Testament Bible. He translated the New Testament from the Latin vulgate into French. He began with the Epistles and the Gospels. Now the French people could understand what the priests read out in Latin during the mass. It was received enthusiastically by the people and contributed to the spread of Luther’s ideas. About 1525 AD, the Catholic Church wanted his New Testament Bible burnt, but the King intervened.
In 1525 AD the Zürich/Zwinglibibel Bible was produced by the translations of Huldrych Zwingli with the participation of all clerics of Zürich. It was a High Alemannic (Swiss German) rendition of the New Testament for the benefit of the congregation. It contained biblical maps. Zwingli translated Martin Luther’s incomplete works. About 1529 AD, parts of the Old Testament were added.
Anabaptism appeared in January 1525 AD because of the works and preaching of Huldrych Zwingli.
In 1526 AD William Tyndale produced and printed the English New Testament Tyndale Bible. It was written in Early Modern English by utilizing the Masoretic Text, Erasmus’ third NT edition (1522 AD) and Martin Luther’s (1522 AD) German Bible. He translated directly from Hebrew and Greek texts. It was revised in 1534 AD and the Pentateuch was added 1530 AD, but it is considered to be an incomplete bible.
In 1530 AD, Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples produced the French Bible by translating the whole known biblical text into French. He was faithful to the spirit and the letter of the Scriptures.
In 1530 AD the Lutheran Church began, when the leaders of the followers of Martin Luther gave an account of their faith before the parliament at Augsburg.
John Calvin was a French theologian and pastor. He was a Protestant Reformer living in Geneva who broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530 AD. The preaching of Huldrych Zwingli influenced him. Because Calvin’s ideology differed from Luther’s, in 1552 AD a Lutheran theologian referred to John Calvin’s ideology as being Calvinism.
Calvinism is a branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. It emphasises the sovereignty of God and the authority of the Bible.
In 1530 AD the Zürich/Zwinglibibel Bible became a Froschauer Bible. It was also referred as the Leo Jud’s Bible. It was a complete translation in a single volume, produced by Zwingli and his friend Leo Jud (pastor at the St. Peter parish). There was an introduction by Zwingli, woodcut illustrations and summaries of each chapter. It was highly prized among the Swiss Anabaptist’s. The translation of the Old Testament was revised in 1540 AD and New Testament in 1574 AD. Verse numbering was introduced in 1589 AD.
In 1534 AD the Anglican Church originated when King Henry VIII split from the Roman Catholic Church, when the pope refused to grant the king an annulment. The Anglican Church was also known as the Church of England. Communion separates these two churches.
In 1535 AD Pierre Robert Olivétan produced the Olivetan Bible. It was written in French and was an improvement of the works of French theologian Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples in 1530 AD.
In 1535 AD Myles Coverdale produced the Coverdale Bible. It combined the Old and New Testaments including the Apocrypha. He studied the Masoretic Text, the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, Vulgate and German and Swiss-German Bibles such as the Luther Bible, Zürich Bible and Leo Jud’s Bible in order to produce it.
In 1537 AD Tyndale, Rogers and Coverdale produced the Matthew Bible. It was written in Early Modern English. It combined Tynsdal’s New Testament with much of the Old Testament. It was based on the Masoretic Text, the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, the Vulgate, the Luther Bible and a 1535 AD bible from France, possibly the Olivetan Bible.
In 1539 AD the Taverner’s Bible was produced and written in Early Modern English. It was a minor revision of Matthew’s Bible.
Myles Coverdale was involved in the Great Bible of 1539 AD, which was authorised by King Henry the VIII. It was written in Early Modern English and utilised Tyndale’s translation of the Bible. It was based on Masoretic Text, Greek New Testament of Erasmus, the Vulgate and the Luther Bible. The Roman Catholic and Anglican churches used it.
The Geneva Bible consisted of the New Testament in 1557 AD and became a complete bible in 1560 AD when the whole of Old Testament was translated direct from Hebrew texts. It was written in First Early Modern English and was based on the Masoretic Text and Textus Receptus. The Puritan’s used it.
The Bishops’ Bible is an English translation based on Masoretic Text and Textus Receptus and was authorised by the Church of England in 1568 AD. Many Bishop’s of the Church compiled the Bishops’ Bible. Tyndale’s translation of the Bible was also used.
The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis was known to exist in 1598 AD. It is an important codex of the New Testament dating from the fifth-century. It is written in an uncial hand on vellum and contains, in both Greek and Latin, most of the four Gospels and Acts, with a small fragment of the Third Epistle of John.
It is written with one column per page it has 406 parchment leaves out of perhaps an original 534 and the Greek pages on the left face Latin ones on the right. It is believed that the manuscript was repaired at Lyon in the ninth century as revealed by distinctive ink used for supplementary pages. It was closely guarded for many centuries in the monastic library of St Irenaeus at Lyon, France.
In 1604 AD King James commissioned a Bible to be translated from the Tynsdale (1526 AD) NT and the Bishops Bible. In 1611 AD the Kings James Bible (KJV) was published and written in Early Modern English. It was later revised in 1769. It was based on Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus, some Erasmus manuscripts and Bezae (1598 AD) TR. It was widely used by the Anglican, Puritan and Evangelical Protestant churches. The King James Bible became standard for the majority of Bibles produced today.
What’s To Come? The New Covenant!
God (Yahuah) will sanctify his great name, which has been profaned among the nations. God (Yahuah) will be hallowed in His people Israel (Yisra’el) before the eyes of the nations.
God (Yahuah) will take His people Israel (Yisra’el) from among the nations, gather them out of all countries and bring them into their own land. God (Yahuah) will cleanse them from all their filthiness and idols. He will give them a new heart and put a new spirit within them; He will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.
God (Yahuah) will put His Spirit within them and cause them to walk in His statutes and they will keep His judgements and do them. His people Israel (Yisra’el) shall then dwell in the land that He gave to their fathers. They shall be His people and He will be their God.
The Word Of God Saves
In the beginning the Word was with God. Through the Word of God the realms of the heavens and the earth were created. And through God’s Word and the love of humanity a saviour was formed so that the souls of mankind can be redeemed. The Old Testament of the Bible is a book about God’s love and grace for mankind, whom is plagued by sin.
The Torah consists of the first five books of the Bible, such as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The rest of Old Testament consists of retroactive stories and prophecies that still have meaning today and into our future. The Old Testament divulges God’s plan for mankind.
Read the Gospel… the first four books of the New Testament that record the life of the Messiah and his teachings. The Good News is that the Kingdom of God is at hand; it gives you a positive way forward in life, something to live for. The New Testament shows the path to salvation. Reading and understanding both the Old and New Testaments brings you closer to God in order to be saved.
The Second Judgement
This occurs just after the Second coming. This is when the Son of God starts to redeem mankind; He will sort out the sheep from the goats. The sheep are the righteous children of God, those who both lived and died with the acceptance of God. They will live under rule of the Son of God during His reign of a thousand years. The goats being those who had problems accepting God are given a second chance of salvation.
Those goats that had died, stay where they were in Sheol. Those who survived the Great Tribulation will live outside of the land designated for the righteous. They will have to come to Jerusalem to pay homage to the Son of God or be punished. During the thousand year reign of the Son of God, they will have the chance to redeem themselves and become one with God.
The Third Judgement
After the end of thousand-year reign of the Son of God, comes the White Throne Judgement. Those who have been redeemed by God are now in the presence of God because their names are in the Book of Life. Those who fail to accept the ways of God will face the White Throne Judgement. Those who are considered evil will be thrown into the Lake of Fire in Sheol as their final judgement. Those who failed to accept God, face the Books of Life and Death. Which book they are in depends upon the life they led according to the works of their faith in life.
Those in the Book of Life are redeemed to God. Those in the Book of Death go to the Lake of Fire in Sheol as their final judgement. The purging of the angelic and earthly, worldly realms is now completed.
After the White Thrown Judgement comes the renewal of the Earth and the New Jerusalem. All those who were redeemed by God will now live in the presence of God as mankind was originally created to do.
In Conclusion
God Almighty is a playwright who directs His own plays. The play of Creation is an interactive, righteous story about love, understanding and the problems of life. The story is based on the love and acceptance of a forgiving God. To extrapolate the complexities of the story it is played out over 7,000 years. The stage is set on earth in a worldly atmosphere. Mankind are the main players and God makes various cameo appearances of importance.
Those of mankind have various roles to play, some major, some minor, some leading, many following. There are guest roles and appearances by those of angelic and demonic realms. The animals, birds, fish, etc, are props, which have their own roles to play. The grasses, herbs, trees, land and water formations are part of the scenery and play their part in life.
If you want to know the truth of this story, then read the Bible (NKJV). You can obtain further background information in the Books of Enoch, Uprights (Jasher) and Jubilees. This is an extraordinary story that can end in either salvation or self-destruction. Time and circumstances will tell the result. But! One must wait to see the outcome.
Your life is a test. Its outcome depends upon you. The choices that you make in your life results in the type of life that you will live.
Whilst you live, you can always change the outcomes of your life, it can happen with just one thought. You can change the outcomes of your life for the better or worse by the thoughts that you have. However, when you die, the last thoughts that you had regarding your life and the type of life that you were living, determines the state of your rest. Have Godly and righteous thoughts and rest in peace.
Do you want to be with God (Yahuah) and be saved?
It isn’t that hard! Seek Him earnestly.
Just walk in the name of the God (Yahuah), call on Him and let Him be your God.
Look for the Son (Yahusha) and believe in Him as your saviour.
Just think about them and accept them, do so and you will not be cast out.
The Messiah (Yahusha) will raise you up at the last day and through God’s grace you will have an everlasting life.
May the grace of a forgiving God fall upon you.
Amein!