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1) The RESTORATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD upon earth.
2) To REPRODUCE HIMSELF, and thus produce an unlimited
number of beings, begotten and BORN of God into GOD'S OWN DIVINE
FAMILY having developed PERFECT HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER, that
WILL NOT, and shall have so SET THEMSELVES that they CANNOT SIN
(I John 3:9). That is the only guarantee that the Creator GOD may
perfectly PRESERVE that which He designs and creates.
This great purpose of God reproducing Himself means
immortal beings BORN into the very Family of which God is the
Father -- beings who, having free moral agency with supreme mind,
knowledge, powers of thought, decision, volition, still have
achieved such perfect and righteous CHARACTER that they WILL NOT
ever commit SIN.
You see GOD is CREATOR, and PRESERVER of His creation.
Satan and his angels turned to DESTRUCTION -- became DESTROYERS.
So God created mortal MAN in His own likeness -- same form
and shape -- so man could be begotten and then BORN of God --
having power of MIND and intellect -- similar, but inferior to,
that of God or angels. But He chose to form man of the dust of the
ground -- material substance. To give man powers of intellect,
God put WITHIN man a spirit, which transmits to the human physical
brain the power of intellect. God purposes to develop in man the
same PERFECT CHARACTER as God -- so that, when BORN of God and
changed to SPIRIT COMPOSITION and immortality man, like God, will
not and CANNOT sin.
Such CHARACTER is something that cannot be instantaneously
created -- else it would be an automaton -- a mindless robot. It
must be DEVELOPED with latitude of FREE CHOICE. It must be
developed by EXPERIENCE and right teaching. This requires TIME.
So God allocated 7,000 years for the process. And He made man
mortal, so that if man finally makes a deliberate choice to rebel,
he is subject to extinction. God, in great supreme love and mercy,
will not allow man to bring on himself perpetual, eternal
suffering. But if redeemed and he becomes a persistent OVERCOMER,
growing toward perfection, he is able to be finally BORN of God.
So, as a result of the rebellion of Satan and his demons,
TOTAL CHAOS and darkness had come to the entire physical earth.
The minds and attitudes of Satan and the demons had become
perverted.
Now we come to the second verse of Genesis l. The
GOVERNMENT OF GOD, by which God preserves what He has created, had
been removed from the earth. God proposes to RESTORE His
Government by and through MAN, finally redeemed through Christ, and
BORN into the GOD FAMILY. His DUAL purpose, remember, is to
RESTORE THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD UPON EARTH, and to preserve it by
means of REPRODUCING HIMSELF, by bringing MAN into perfect
righteous character, ultimately BORN into the God Family.
So, in six days, God renewed the face of the earth (Psalm