Mankind living in a Perfect World
Will you allow your imagination to Go there?
What would a world like that be like; it would not have any health problems, no fear of the unknown, peace, and contentment. Who in their right mind would walk away from such a world? Are you willing to stop, be still and ponder on such a place? I quote; “All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” How true that statement is, and Blaise Pascal was born in 1623-1662, on our standards today, very short life of 39 years, but look at what this man left a world that lost its ability to do that. Noise is everywhere, as a people we always had a problem being still, and discerning to whom we are hearing, I call it Channel One, the Deception Channel, and Channel Two, the Spirit of God. Channel One is much like the Commercials on TV, much louder than the programs. And the noise has increased by over 1000 percent since the 1600s.
Most have never used the imagination we had as children, and today with computers, and cell phones, very small children do not need to use the ability to wonder, they ask a phone or computer to give them the information. How Channel Two ( The Spirit of God) is not loud, and one has to get away from the noise to hear it. What Channel are you tuning into?
So let us be honest, most of you will not take the time to be still, without talking, and turning on some music, but for the few that will, this is a great prayer, Father in heaven, I’m listening, I need you, I’ve been deceived by the cultures and the lies of Channel One, a need You to guide me back to Truth, Jesus is the Truth, for He told us so in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
For the ones that will get to a place where they can hear, shall we answer the question: “Who in their right mind would walk away from such a world?” Adam and Eve!
To get an understanding of why we must begin at the beginning, Genesis 1:1-2, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” It is important to recall that Satan, has many titles, but he was created good, but at that time must have had a choice to choose, and he chose to usurp God’s power, and lead a rebellion against God and the good angels, he lost and that is how he became known by so many names, such as Father of Lies, for he is a liar, and a deceiver and those are two of his names. I’m assuming he lost the battle and will do anything to try to destroy all that God says is good. So, after the battle, he looked on in the darkness and saw God’s amazing creation of the universe and this one place God has made for a new critter called man. Now listen to what God has done; In Genesis 1: 26-31, “Then God said, “Let us make ma] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over 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; male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” A very good man, a man without sin, got to live in a world without sin, a place to walk and talk with God in the evening. I can only imagine such a life, no one would mess that up, wrong!
Some who believe getting your hands dirty while working is below your status in life, need to stop and see what God’s plan is for man. It is found in Genesis 2:15-17, The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
More about God’s plan for man, It was God who took a rib from Adam and made a woman, she was to complete the man, in fact, dads & mom’s part of the plan was to get the young man out of your home and to begin a life with his new wife, and have babies and become one. A man and a woman, that is God’s plan.
Satan, being in the darkness watching, but do not forget God sees in the darkest times of our lives, and so God knew Satan ever move and allowed it. This is the account of that time in the history of man and how it changed everything. “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.”
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” In Revelation 12:9a, John gets insight from the Holy Spirit on the identity of that serpent, “And the great dragon was thrown down, the age-old serpent who is called the devil and Satan, he who continually deceives and seduces the entire inhabited world;” and the woman being clueless of who she was engaging enter into a conversation with the dude. If only Adam would have been there to protect his lady, what does the Scripture tell us about where he was? You’re not going to believe where Adam was! Genesis 3;4-6, tells the story of how sin came into the world and man’s fall, from perfect to needing a redeemer. “But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.” Yes, right by her side, allowing her to be the head, and the dude, when passive and it was he that allowed the fall to take place. God's plan was for the man to lead the wife and to protect, Adam dropped the ball, and he left a perfect world for a world controlled by sinful, greedy, and evil, men and women, that have the same goals as Eve, to run the show, be a god. If you are following Eve's path, how is it working?
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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