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BACK briefly to the first created man, Adam.
Prior to Adam's creation, angels had inhabited the earth. God
had set a THRONE on earth. He placed on it the super-powerful
archangel LUCIFER to administer the GOVERNMENT OF GOD. Lucifer and
his angels REBELLED against God's Government, and God's Government
became UNoperative on earth--BUT LUCIFER, NOW CALLED SATAN, STILL
SAT ON THAT THRONE. And the UNIVERSE Government of God requires
that SATAN remain on that throne HAVING POWER U N T I L Christ
shall SIT ON THAT THRONE, restoring the GOVERNMENT OF GOD over the
earth.
Now Adam was given opportunity to resist Satan, reject
Satan's WAY of life, and to CHOOSE the GOVERNMENT OF GOD. Adam had
to make a CHOICE. He could have rejected Satan's way, chosen GOD'S
way, taken of the tree of LIFE symbolic of God's Holy Spirit, and
been made an immortal GOD-BEING and replaced Satan on the throne of
the earth, restoring the Government of GOD to the earth.
But Adam let his wife lead him. He was the father the
progenitor of the entire HUMAN RACE. He was making the decision
for all mankind that should be born from him. He succumbed to
Satan, rejected God as revealer of knowledge, as Supreme RULER, as
Savior and Giver of eternal life.
Adam made that decision for HUMANITY AS A WHOLE--and God made
it binding UNTIL Satan is removed and GOD'S GOVERNMENT is restored
over the earth--which meant mankind as a whole was cut off from God
for 6,000 years!
Now the whole matter hangs on GOVERNMENT! But to restore the
GOVERNMENT OF GOD, God has purposed to REPRODUCE HIMSELF out of
HUMANS made from matter --dust of the ground--but finally made
immortal SPIRIT GOD-BEINGS--as spirit-BORN children of GOD! And
these converted, spirit-BORN GOD-BEINGS--all to be sons of GOD--are
to RULE administering the GOVERNMENT OF GOD! Under CHRIST!
THAT IS THE GREAT OVERALL PURPOSE GOD IS WORKING OUT HERE ON
EARTH! Does your mind grasp that?
Now God knew that only His one associate GOD-BEING, "THE
WORD" (John 4:1-4), by being born as a HUMAN through a human woman,
but begotten by GOD (and therefore both God and Man) could overcome
SATAN, and qualify, AS A HUMAN, to RESTORE THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD to
the earth!
But the supreme creative feat God has set out to accomplish
takes TIME. God is not in a hurry--a thousand years to Him are as
a single day and a day as a thousand years. God knew it MUST BE
DEMONSTRATED BY 6,000 years of human experience, with humans living
SATAN'S WAY, contrary to GOD'S LAW, to PROVE that God's way of LOVE
is best for all, and Satan's way of HOSTILITY, antagonism,
coveting, vanity, self-glory, is NOT GOOD FOR THOSE WHO DO IT!
That is why God did not send Christ, the SECOND ADAM, into
the world for some 4,000 years after the first Adam!