Friday 122724
Don’t let me or my writings influence or scare you in any way, instead, allow me to be used as a vessel to open the Word, just a little bit, and hopefully, together we are going to read and study His Word, and let God teach us what He wants us to hear.
Since the beginning of this study, our vision has been that we are ONLY going to follow what is found in the Holy Bible, that pertains to us, and we realize that it’s ONLY from our own effort that we put into this study, that we’re going to take anything away for our own use.
The verses we are going to study tonight:
2 Peter 2:4; Genesis 1:1, 1:2; Ezekiel 28:13-15; Isaiah 14:12-14; Revelation 12:4, 1:20; Jude 1:6; Matthew 5:48; Deuteronomy 32:4.
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From our last study in Genesis and from the television show I seen ‘Is Genesis History,’ I have desired to know more about what we have been told that has happened over the years. After watching the scientists that are Christians explaining the origins of mankind and our earth, I specifically wanted to try and break this one book (Genesis) down.
So, yesterday morning, we tackled the Week of Creation. There were a couple of questions as we began but once we cleared those first few hurdles, the remainder of chapter one was fairly easy to comprehend.
Several months ago, in an earlier study, I spoke of the Week of Creation but, an observation was made that missing from that week of creation in Genesis 1, there was one thing that we have no explanation given to us and that was about Satan, himself.
As in the earlier study, I used Scripture to make a timeline, but it was all based on really my own conjecture since we really have not been told exactly when and where certain things happened. I believe that God felt it unimportant for us to know in detail exactly what happened.
Here is my timeline.
This all begins in 2 Peter, where we are studying about ‘False Prophets’ and a comment is made:
2 Peter 2:4 ‘…For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment…’ KJV (King James Version)
…if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell, the question here is what God is going to do to these ‘False Teachers,’ these ‘False Prophets.’
So, in this study I had us turn to Genesis 1:1.
Genesis 1:1 ‘…In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…’ KJV (King James Version)
The words we are going to focus on in this verse are those first three words …
… in the beginning
So far in Genesis, this is nothing but PERFECTION on God’s part.
Everything after that first verse involves anything but perfection.
Go back to 2 Peter really quick and remember that Peter is speaking how God ‘did not spare these angles that sinned’ and He ‘cast them directly down to hell.’
I believe this verse that Peter is telling in 2 Peter happened between vs1 and vs2 of Genesis.
Genesis 1:2 ‘…And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters…’ KJV (King James Version)
Remember yesterday, that hurdle we faced right at vs1? I asked the question, was vs1 a title or is it telling us that God had already created the heavens and earth?
Let’s go with the premise that, heaven and earth were created; in vs2, the earth was without form and ‘darkness’ was upon the deep.
What happened to the sun, where’d it go?
Again, remember yesterday and the comment I made about the science project that looks like it had failed?
What if heaven had already been created according to vs1.
This darkness came from the casting down of the angels that sinned against God. That’s why the description of the ‘earth’ was so bland, so imperfect.
Ezekiel 28:13-15
vs13 ‘…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…’
Can you just imagine the beauty that must’ve been present in the garden of Eden?
vs14 ‘…Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; 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…’
vs15 ‘…Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee…’ KJV (King James Version)
Remember in Eden, besides God there were only 3 others present that we know of: Adam, Eve and Satan, the devil.
So, who is being talked about in these verses?
Isaiah 14
vs12 ‘…How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations…’
vs13 ‘…For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north…’
vs14 ‘…I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High…’ KJV (King James Version)
In vss13 and 14, Satan was thinking how he would ascend over and above God in heaven. His arrogance is so highly shown to the reader that would take their time and look through Scripture at what has been written.
We are going into the NT and looking all the way towards the end.
Revelation 12:4 ‘…And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born…’ KJV (King James Version)
The ‘stars’ in heaven are the angels.
Revelation 1:20 ‘…The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches…’ KJV (King James Version)
In Isaiah we were told ‘thou cut down to the ground’ just as in 2 Peter ‘they were cast down to hell’ and just as in Revelation 12, they were ‘cast them to the earth.’
We continue reading in Jude.
Jude vs6 ‘…And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day…’ KJV (King James Version)
Where was their first estate, you might ask … in Revelation 12:4, it was written, the stars of heaven … the angels in heaven. Heaven was their first estate.
This morning’s lesson is maybe a repeat from our lesson earlier, but I want to clarify that hurdle from our first lesson in Genesis yesterday morning.
This is all conjecture, I know, and I’ve made the point if we don’t know for sure from what we read in the Word, we’re going to leave it alone, but I think this is the explanation of that hurdle.
Satan, the casting down to earth happened between PERFECTION and a formless, dark void.
What is it then that we should take from this lesson?
I truly believe that this should strengthen our faith and trust in God that He is going to keep His place of residency clear from evil and He is going to keep it in its PERFECTED state.
Throughout this lesson, and let me be clear here, I’m not talking about our Bible study here, I’m talking about this lesson that God has given us through His Word.
This lesson that God has given us, we are able to trust and believe that God, our Father in heaven, is PERFECT. His home is PERFECT. His demeanor is PERFECT. There is nothing that can be said about God that doesn’t exude PERFECTION.
As we sit at night in our easy chair, and we reach over to get our Bible, and we open it to read His Word we should feel nothing but PERFECTION in our midst.
Over the lessons that we intend on seeking out more wisdom from God, our Creator we can positively KNOW that we are delving into His PERFECTION to strengthen us as we move forward throughout this life we are living in.
Matthew 5:48 ‘…Therefore you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Deuteronomy 32:4 ‘…The Rock! His work is perfect, for all His ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and just is He…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
The Bible, God’s written Word that we have been given is PERFECTION.
So, are there going to be times that we’re going to find it hard to understand what is being said …
… of course there are going to be those times. But rather than closing the book and putting it on a shelf and commenting how the Word is fake and it is nothing more than a good or a bad story, we’re going to say a prayer and ask for some guidance and some assistance to help us move forward so we cannot be tripped up by Satan’s evil tricks where he wants us to not understand, he wants us to fail because in his mind he still thinks he can overtake God and by making us fail, he thinks he’s one step closer to the top.
Don’t let him use you to fill his evil mind with success.
Stand firm, say a short prayer to Jesus and ask Him for His assistance. You don’t need Satan as bad as he needs you. Keep your eyes focused on Jesus and look to Him for the strength that you’re going to need to defeat Satan and his evil ways.
I love every one of y’all. Always remember that Jesus loves each one of us even more than what we even fathom what the word LOVE even means. There’s coming that day when Jesus is going to show us.
Keep your Bibles always open. Download electronic Bibles onto your phones, tablets and computers. Don’t leave home without one.
Study the Word throughout each and every day.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>