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government based on GOD's WAY OF LIFE--God's LAW! Lucifer rebelled and
became Satan the devil. His angels followed him and became demons.
Then, with SATAN on earth's throne, ruling the earth CONTRARY to God's
Law, God created MAN in his very image--capable of being begotten and then
BORN into the very GOD Family.
But to be born into the GOD Family, man had to acquire the very righteous
and holy CHARACTER of God--to live like God lives. And God's LAW is simply
God's way of life--the way of LOVE to God and to fellowman.
But the first created man, Adam, had to make a choice--to follow GOD's
way of LOVE, or Satan's way of rebellion, competition, animosity. Adam allowed
his wife Eve to lead him into rebellion, SELF-centeredness, instead of LOVE and
GOD-centeredness.
On Adam's decision for his human family, God CLOSED OFF the tree of
LIFE from humanity--until Christ, the "SECOND ADAM," should come. God
delivered humanity over to Satan's ways of SELF-motivation, UNTIL man would
learn by experience that such ways lead ONLY to sorrow, pain, suffering,
unhappiness, frustration, agony and DEATH!
At the same time God closed off eternal LIFE, he also decreed that the
"Word"--the Logos, who also was God (John 1:1-4, 14) should come as man's
SIN-BEARER--the "Lamb [of God] slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev.
13:8) When Adam made his fateful decision and God shut off the Holy Spirit, that
was the "foundation of this world"--Satan's world. Also at that time, God
decreed
that it is appointed for all men once to die, BUT, after that death, a
resurrection to
JUDGMENT (Heb. 9:27). At the same time, it was decreed, from that foundation of
this world--Satan's civilization--that, as in Adam all die, SO in Christ shall
the
same ALL be made alive in a resurrection--to judgment (I Cor. 15:22).
So this world was founded in Adam--Satan's world. More than 1,959 years
ago, Jesus Christ came--GOD in human flesh. As Satan's world was started, by
one man, Adam, so God's world was started in embryo, by one man, Jesus Christ.
Satan's world consists of the children of Adam, starting with one man. Jesus
called
them the children of Satan the devil (see John 8:30-45, especially verse 44).
JESUS DID NOT SET OUT TO CONVERT THIS WORLD OF SATAN's. He
CHOSE--virtually DRAFTED--12 disciples, and taught them GOD's LAW and
GOD's WAY of life. He ANNOUNCED the GOOD NEWS of the coming Kingdom
of God--to be composed of the BORN children of God. He said NO ONE could
come to him, except such as GOD chose and drew (John 6:44). The promise of the
Holy Spirit, even now, is ONLY to as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts
2:39).
JUDGMENT is on us in God's Church TODAY (I Pet. 4:17). All still living
after Christ comes will be judged during the Millennium. All others, who shall
have died, will be resurrected to judgment later.
So, brethren, Christ came to call us out from among them of the world, to
live according to God's LAW--as a holy and righteous people. We are the START
of a NEW WORLD--the WORLD TOMORROW--the KINGDOM OF GOD.