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For six thousand years the world in general has indeed been
CUT OFF from God. Some knowledge of God did continue for many
generations by word-of-mouth. But it became distorted.
After some 1900 years, God called Noah to the special project
of building the great ark to preserve humanity alive through the
flood God sent upon all the earth.
Several generations later God called Abraham. Four hundred
thirty years after Abraham, God called MOSES to lead Abraham's
descendants out of Egyptian bondage. At Mount Sinai God proposed
them a COVENANT agreement by which they would become GOD'S NATION.
Remember, through the symbolic tree of LIFE in the Garden of
Eden, the Holy Spirit of God had been made accessible to Adam,
provided he rejected Satan's way, and chose the KINGDOM OF GOD.
In Adam and Eve from creation--and in all their progeny from
birth--have existed a spirit which empowers the human BRAIN with
an intellect non-existent in animals. This provides humans with
MINDS. But God made the human mind to need another Spirit--the
Holy Spirit of God. But on Adam's decision, he and mankind, except
such as God did specially call and convert, were CUT OFF from the
Holy Spirit.
And that left the human mind a carnal mind--"deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9), and also
"enmity" (hostile) against God, and not subject to the Law of God,
neither indeed can be (Romans 8:7).
Now fasten firmly in your mind, that God did not offer the
children of Israel His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit He gave only
to Moses and the prophets. The Kingdom of Israel, therefore, was
a carnal-minded people! God put them under His government. They
were thus ruled, primarily, by the SPIRITUAL LAW OF GOD--the Ten
Commandments. But, because until Christ should come, the Holy
Spirit was not available, God gave them a special sacrifical law.
This was a reminder of sin--but the blood of animals could not pay
the penalty of sin. Also God gave them a ceremonial law of
rituals--of physical substitutes for the Holy Spirit, as the
sacrifical law was a substitute for the blood of Christ.
Then God gave them also, as a national government, statutes
and judgment--their civil law. But the substitute sacrificial
law and ceremonial ritual law could not make them righteous. The
nation Israel proved that the carnal mind is hostile against God--
not subject to His Law. Even though they were given God's revealed
knowledge.
Now, meanwhile, consider the rest of the world as a whole
through those years. In Asia the yellow race, descended from
Japheth, has formed their own pagan religions. In due time such
religions as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Brahminism and
Hinduism had sprung up. In the sense of man's relation to God they