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Foreward by Ward R. Williams Ph. D. University of Minnesota
This is the story of 6000 years of Time, representing man's rule on Earth. It starts with the call of Adam to have dominion over the earth and ends with the rise to power of the Revived Roman Empire (European Union) signaling the End of man's rule on Earth. as foretold by Daniel the Prophet 2500 years ago. The Battle of Armageddon, The Millennium, the New Heavens, the New Earth, the New Jerusalem and the End of Time are about to unfold before us
"Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, "Time shall be no more!"
At the End of Time we can throw away our clocks and calendars as "Time shall be no more!".."The city has no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God does lighten it, and the Lamb of God is the Light thereof." .... from the Book of Revelation
WITHIN THE TIMELESS FRAME OF ETERNITY
We have lived, worked and died in a finite time frame called B.C. or A.D. for 6000 years and will continue to do so for another 1000 years. Our Time frame lies within the bounds of a larger frame called Eternity. Let's take a look at Eternity before mankind began keeping time with his calendars and clocks so that we may find the origin of Sin and Rebellion.
When God created Lucifer long before Adam's time, he was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty and had been in Eden, the garden of God. "Every precious stone was his covering, the Sardius, Topaz, and the Diamond, the Beryl, the Onyx, and the Jasper, the Sapphire, the Emerald, and the Carbuncle, and Gold: The workmanship of your drums and your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created." ( Lucifer, the light bearer was also Director of the Heavenly choir, and is one of the most talented composers of all time, Few will deny that Satan's music is extremely well composed, orchestrated and performed.)
Fallen mankind loves the music of darkness rather than the Glorious music of God's Light and generally will not come to the light of God because their evil deeds will be exposed... John 3:19 Statements from some movie scriptwriters and musicians indicate they really do get their inspiration from Satan. Their music is filled with lyrics promoting Rebellion, Disobedience to parents, Disrespect for authority, Lewdness, Sexual uncleanness, Violence, Lustful suggestions, Self-gratification, Adultery, Fornication, Murder, Suicide, Homosexuality, Idolatry, Witchcraft, Drugs, the Pride of Life, Covetousness, Extortion and Reviling people or things. They pollute the minds of young people of the entire world except for a few nations which will not permit Satan's music to be played or televised.
After Lucifer fell he became "the (Dark) Prince of the power of the air".. Revelation 12:7-12. Satan and his fallen angels now operate in the atmosphere above the Earth .....Hell was originally prepared for Satan and his angels ... Matthew 25:41. ... The whole world now lies in the grip of Satan, and Hell keeps enlarging herself to accommodate those who will not obey God and be saved ... Isaiah 5:14
and the Fallen Angels and their subsequent activities
38:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, ( Satan is pictured as a prince. As soon as Adam and Eve gave their allegiance to him in obedience, he became the Prince of this world, taking the place Jesus had rightfully held. In relationship to Jesus, however, Satan was still just a prince )
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, ( Seat of God: This was Satan's claim. He wanted the angels to follow him not Michael ) in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: (Here we see the start of Satan's rebellion in Heaven.)
vs 3,4 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; ( For Pretending to be God The Lord pronounces his doom.)
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. (Terrible of the nations: In the scene at the end of the thousand year Millennial Reign of Jesus, Satan gathers the nations to surround the holy city, Jerusalem)
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (They shall bring thee down:The wicked turn on Satan when they see that they cannot conquer Jerusalem)
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, (Satan) and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; (Cherub that covereth: Satan, then called Lucifer, was the closest angel to God! He covered the divine presence Although addressing Satan as the covering cherub, the Lord turns to the past tense to describe his action.) and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.( Satan was created perfect just as were our first parents. God never forces obedience and loyalty. His government is based on love.)
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: (Corrupted wisdom : The person who chooses evil eventually deceives himself. His logic becomes twisted) I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries ( Defiled sanctuaries :Satan's sin corrupted his areas of holiness ) by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes ( Reduce you to ashes :Satan's own sin will be the cause of his destruction.) upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
The rebelious Lucifer was created long before Adam and Eve. He rebelled and became the Devil. He and his fallen angels are spirit beings and as such are not subject to death physically, They continue to live on in Eternity and we have no time record of their activities. The Prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah gives us the insight into the Fall of Lucifer and one third of the angels that joined him...... Hell was originally prepared for the Devil and his angels.
The Fall of Lucifer and his angels
Satan's first attempt to seize authority fails !
Jesus said in the Gospels that "I saw (Lucifer) Satan fall from heaven like lightning".. Luke 10:18 (see also Isaiah 14:12-14; Jer. 4:23-36; Ezek. 28:11-17) One third of God's angels joined Satan's rebellion and were cast out of heaven with him... Revelation 12:4,9
Jesus was there when Lucifer spoke his five infamous "I will" demands to be his own god. "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.' But you are brought down to Hell, to the depths of the Pit. (from the Book of Isaiah )
"You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared. you are the anointed cherub that covers and I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you. In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the Mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor
Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview, "I am looking forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I belong." You say he's a fool! But friend, when you say "No"; to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin, you are saying the same thing! You're telling God I don't need Jesus Christ .... Don't wait until you die to find out the truth about Hell! Tomorrow may be too late! Proverbs 27:1 says, "Boast not thyself of tomorrow: for thou KNOWEST NOT what a day may bring forth."
There is a
coming final judgement of Satan and his angels
at the end of 7000 years
(Jude 1:6) In the day of Judgement at the end of 7000 years "the Devil that has deceived them" will be "cast into the lake of fire and brimstone; where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." Rev 20:10
1st day: Sunday - Earth / Night / Day
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light; God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. [Gen 1:1-5]
God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; God called the firmament ( The expanse of the heavens or the sky ) Heaven. [Gen 1:6-8]
The earth was already in existence on the 1st day, although without form and void. The Lord God did not cause it to rain on the earth, but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown, and there was no man to till the ground. [Gen 2:4-6]
God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear;" and God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called seas. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself." [Gen 1:9-13]
God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth;" then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day, the night, and to divide the light from darkness. [Gen 1:14-19]
God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens." So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth." [Gen 1:20-23]
God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind." [Gen 1:24-25].... Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, over the cattle, all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make a helper comparable to him.... And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in it's place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.' " [Gen 2:7, 18, 21-24]
The Bible states that God made Man from the dust of the ground and breathed life into him! Man was the last to be created... the animals, reptiles, birds, sea creatures were here already... so we lived together with them... all of them... including dinosaurs.
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.... And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ear, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die."
God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so." [Gen 1:29-30] ... Man, animals, birds were not originally carnivores. Only after the Flood did man and animals begin to eat meat. [Gen 9:1-3]
On the 7th day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the 7th day. Then God blessed the 7th day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. [Gen 2:1-3]
