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tan. He actually had succumbed to
the GOVERNMENT of Satan, choos–
ing the LA
w
of that government–
the law of vanity, self-centered–
ness- leading automatically into
attitudes of self-glory, coveting,
competition, desire to GET rather
than God's way of GIVE.
All humanity carne out of Adam
and Eve. Tbe present world was
FOUNDED in them. The WORLD has
ever since been HELD CAPTIVE! The
world had thus chosen THE WA
Y
of
the kidnapper, rather than of the
potential Parent!
But God the Father was to pay
the ransom price and even yet
bring his potential spiritual chil–
dren back to him. God did not
choose to redeem, correct and re–
store humanity to him at that time.
At the Foundatlon of the World
Upon Adam's sin, God closed off
the tree of life to the world as a
whole until the second Adam, Je–
sus Christ, shall have deposed Sa–
tan and taken over the throne of
the earth.
There cannot be a law without a
penalty. The penalty of human sin
is DEATH.
The penalty of death had passed
on Adam and al l his children. That
penalty had to be paid. Tbere was
no escaping it. Satan must have
gloated, believing he had totally
defeated God's purpose of restor–
ing God's government and unseat–
ing Satan on earth's throne. Truly
all Adam's chi ldren would come
under the penalty of death, for alJ
would sin.
But what even Satan probably
did not realize, God's plan was yet
to save humani ty, and remove Sa–
tan from earth's throne.
At this very foundation of the
world, it was determined that Jesus
Christ, as the "Lamb of God,"
should be slain in payment of the
penalty for aJJ human sin (Rev.
13:8), which substitute sacri fice is
effect ive only upon repentance and
faith. It was also determined by
God at that time that all Adam's
children should die, but after dying
be resurrected to judgment (Heb.
9:27). But as in Adam alJ must die,
so in Christ the same ALL shall be
made alive by a resurrection from
the dead to be judged (1 Cor.
15:22).
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But stiJJ, none could ever be
boro of God until God's holy and
perfect spiritual character had been
instilled within, by individual
choice and proof by performance.
God set apart a 7,000-year pe–
riod to complete bis original
SUPREME PURPOSE of reproducing
himself through man. It was a mas–
terminded MASTER PLAN for work–
ing out the PURPOSE here
below.
pulse in his mind, and the king
acted on it. In the same manner
Satan moves on the human spirit
within people to move them in atti–
tudes of envy, jealousy, resent–
ment, impatience, anger, bitterness
and s trife. People have no realiza–
tion of the tremendous power of
Satan. The human spirit within
each human is automatically tuned
For almost 6,000 years
a civilization has devel–
oped, which we call the
world. But it has been a
world held captive. It has
become SATAN'S WORLD
though millions have
been deceived into believ–
ing it is God's world. To
this day Satan is still on
that throne of the earth.
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whole world of
humankind has
been deceived into preferring
the "getting,"
self-centered way of Iife.
Meanwhile Satan has
worked IN all humans. He
has injected into the world enor–
mous EVILS.
But how has Satan injected those
evils into the minds of aJJ humans,
even of the most scholar1y and ad–
vanced in education, science, gov–
ernment and areas of awesome hu–
man ac<:omplishment? Even that
question is a mystery understood
by almost no one.
Satan-the Master Broadcaster
In Ephesians 2:2, Satan is caBed
the prince of the power of the air,
working in-inside the minds of–
people. 1 could never have under–
stood this until: 1) I had under–
stood how rad io and television
sounds and pictures are transmit–
ted through the air; and 2) I had
Jearned the truth about the human
spirit in the human brain.
If
your
radio is set oo the proper radio
wavelength, or television set is
tuned to the proper channel , the
broadcaster's message comes
through clearly. Satan as prince of
the power of the air broadcasts–
not in words, sounds or pictures,
but in attitudes, moods, impulses.
For example, we read in Ezra
1:1, when King Cyrus of Persia
issued a proclamation to send a
colony of J ews back to Jerusalem
to build the second Temple, he was
moved to do so because Gód stirred
up bis human spirit-in other
words, put the suggestion and im-
to Satan's wavelength. I t seems as
if Satan has surcharged the air over
the entire earth with bis attitude of
self-centeredness and vanity.
And so a world-a civilization–
developed from the original Adam
and Eve. When God shut off the
tree of life, that act marked the
foundation of the world.
It
was
founded on rejection of God, on
disobedience to God's law, which
defines God's way of life. And all
the evils, sorrows, pain and suffer–
ing in 6 ,000 years of human civi–
lization have resulted.
God had designed a 7,000-year
master plan for accomplishing bis
tremendous purpose. The first 6,000
years were alJotted to allow Satan to
remain on ear th's throne, and for
humanity to learn the bitter lesson,
through experience, that Satan's
way of self-centeredness
in
opposi–
tion to God's law leads only to pain,
suffering, anguish and death.
The whole world of humankind
has been deceived into preferring
this "getting," self-centered way of
life.
At this point, remember, the
world had never known of the exis–
tence of God the Father until Jesus
carne and revealed the Father
(Matt. J I :27).
The world, from its foundation,
was cut off from God the Father.
Jesus carne to reconcile repentant
believers to the Father (Rom. 5:10).
The
PLAIN TRUTH