Why?
As a Christian I know and understand what the bible says about creation and the fall of mankind. Yet I find it difficult to explain this to others in a way that will be meaningful to them. It has to be possible to furnish an explanation about the purpose of life in this difficult world in which we are born and live our lives as human beings.
Jesus shared a parable with his disciples. He described a farmer sowing seeds in his fields. When the crop germinated it was obvious someone had either contaminated the seed that was sown or come in later and sown tares among the wheat. Jesus spoke of an enemy who had done the evil work of sowing tares among the wheat. He mentioned that the enemy is Satan who has been misleading humanity since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.
But what is the reason that Satan decided to deceive Eve in the Garden of Eden? To get even with God for winning the initial battle in heaven and throwing Satan and his followers out into the universe. To get control of the Earth perhaps? Is the Earth a special type of planet in the Goldilocks zone around it’s sun? If Satan can separate humanity from God and remove us all from the Earth can he then claim it as a possession of his own?
Is it his intention to begin constructing his own version of the universe here on Earth. Probably based on New Age and other esoteric philosophies including the cultural designs of pagan societies. An example might be the concepts that tattoo artists paint on the skins of those who fall under the control of the devil through drug addiction and by following the teachings of Satan’s disciples. Perhaps he would would seek to create new bodies for himself and his followers and for his army of evil spirits. May be the dragon legends from around the world aren’t of the past but what he envisages would happen in the future if he won. Who knows what the Earth would look like under the management of evil.
Christians know that God will not let this happen. In the Bible he has shown through history how the enemy has battled with him but how on every occasion Jehovah has had his people bringing the fight back to defeat the enemy. He will not allow those who love him to be overcome by Satan even though it sometimes means we will die in the battle. Salvation and eternal life are ours and we will stand with the Lord our God forever.
God’s purpose is to show the Heavenly Community that Righteousness is a superior platform to base the eternal future of the community on when contrasted with Unrighteousness as demonstrated by Satan through his system based on tyranny, sin, evil and death. It may seem efficient to some but who would honestly want to live under that kind of regime?
Where and How?
God created Earth in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy located near the edge of the Virgo Super Cluster. This is the location of creation as it is now known to mankind in our age with the tools of observation available to us. Jehovah made this creation in six days and He called it good. Which means perfect.
Jehovah intended it to remain perfect for eternity but he foresaw that Satan, who had fallen into sin as an Archangel in Heaven, would enter into the new creation on Earth and put the Adam and Eve to the test in the Garden of Eden. If they failed the test and followed Satan’s plan of deception then the result would an arduous journey of death, suffering and despair at the hands of an interstellar psychopath and his band of miscreant fallen angels. Leading mankind’s leaders astray through smooth talking deceptions and promises.
Adam and Eve failed that test. But from the beginning God had a plan to save a remnant from mankind. He gave dispensations of instruction to man, at different times, so that the path to salvation could be laid out for those who love Him. With Adam and Eve after the fall, with Noah after the flood, With Abraham to establish a holy nation, To Moses he gave the Ten Commandments, With David he promised a descendant who would be the Messiah.
The fulfillment of his promise to David was in Jesus Christ who performed a redemptive work on the cross to restore the people to a relationship with God as Adam and Eve had in the beginning. Because Israel rejected Christ Jesus crucifying him on the Cross at Calvary this initiated the Age of Grace made open to all mankind.
At the end of the Age of Grace will come a period of judgment on the World known as the Tribulation. The gentile church will be Raptured to Heaven and the nation of Israel will carry the gospel in this time. This will see the restoration of Israel and the fulfillment of Gods promises to Abraham and the prophecies about Israel in the Torah. Then comes the restoration of the Kingdom of God, the reign of Christ Jesus and the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom for one thousand years upon Earth. Then a final testing and the White throne judgment and the establishment of the Kingdom of God on a new Earth and in a new Heavens.
So you see Jehovah has a well constructed plan based on love. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So Jesus Christ became a man born of woman and then bore our sins upon the Cross at Calvary that our sin debt might be paid in full. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It then behoves us only to believe on Jesus Christ to receive forgiveness and eternal life.
What?
The what is almost the where but it is a battle for the hearts and minds of men and it’s importance in the greater scheme of who ultimately controls the Earth or wins the philosophical battle about righteousness and unrighteousness between the forces of Jehovah and the forces of darkness.
Satan foxes with perspective. The deception he unfolded on Adam and Eve was just the beginning of his strategy mind games and his history in that vain with mankind. I imagine that Adam and Eve had no idea how high the stakes were in the decision to partake of the apple. They may have been lulled into a false sense of security by the generosity of Jehovah after the creation. Perhaps they thought a bit of a telling off would be the extent of their reprimand. Quite honestly they blew it and I’ll wager that they wouldn’t have minded a second chance on that assessment.
The fact they were thrown out of the Garden of Eden and now faced a rigorous life of painful child birth and hard work cultivating the land must have been a bracing snap back to reality. Death was now a reality as was animal sacrifice in atonement for their sins. The consequences of sin was now evident in the rest of creation as animals of prey began to arise and weeds became evident. Just to cap it all off Cain killed Abel in the worlds first murder and line of men began to arise that followed and worshiped Satan and the fallen angels.
Things rapidly got worse in the antediluvian world and the only people not in the devil’s camp were Noah and his family. From what I can ascertain Satan shared his polytheistic world view as pretender to the throne of God he led mankind astray with lies about the true nature of the creator and misrepresenting the facts about his place in the hierarchy. The worship of the Sun, other planetary bodies and the fallen angels taking a central place in his religion.
After the great flood in Noah’s time this form of paganism made a come back at the Tower of Babel so God confused the languages of man. Throughout ancient history in Babylon, Assyria, Medo Persia, Greece And Rome. Satan developed a series of philosophies and world views that opposed and sought to completely replace the truth of Jehovah and the Torah revealed by him to the nation of Israel.
After the Messiah came and was crucified the Christian Church drove paganism underground as the Western Roman Empire began to break down. However, the pagans came up with a master plan to integrate paganism into the Christian Church. This gave control of the Catholic Church to the pagan priesthood and led to concerted persecution of Christian’s believing in Salvation through Christ Jesus by faith alone. The Reformation came with Martin Luther and Yahweh brought a period of Christian religious freedom for Bible believing Christians that has lasted for five hundred years and for which the Protestant Church can be very thankful.
Finally though Satan has perfected his many chaotic theories of wisdom in the New Age Movement, the Interfaith Church and Secular Humanist World Federalism. He is in the process of preparing to unleash this on the Western World and then the whole World. The Tribulation Time is so close you can smell it and Bible believing Christians everywhere must surely be praying that the Rapture is at hand and that our wondrous Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon. Come Lord Jesus.
Reference List
All scriptures from http://www.biblegateway.com King James Version
Encyclopaedia Britannica. (Eds). Achilles Greek mythology. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Achilles-Greek-mythology03.03.19
Holloway A. Creation Myth of the Maori – New Zealand
https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/creation-myth-maori-new-zealand-0030503.03.19
Mythology of Ancient Greece. Five Ages of Man (by Hesiod)
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