# 018 The Doctrine of "Good and Evil"November 19, 2007
Article By: Tom Demeter A Short Discourse from Apostle Paul's Perspective. Dear Friend, May I
present this short discourse on this vital subject from Apostle Paul’s
perspective. Jesus, now our
Christ’s gave Apostle Paul the “gospel of the mystery” Rom.2:16; Eph.3:3,
and after Paul’s death to the “Apostles and Prophets”
in the first century Eph.3:5.
God’s mystery was
“hidden” from creation Mat.13:35, until it was “revealed” to Paul.
This gospel was again “hidden”
by Christ at the end of the Apostles lives, and kept as a secret, a
“mystery” until the very “End
of the World” Mat.24:3, (or
now) when the “voice of the seventh angel, … shall begin to sound,
the ‘mystery’ of God should be finished, (revealed)” Rev.10:7. The doctrine
of “good and evil” is
critically vital to understand because God’s
plan of our spiritual
creation, SALVATION
rest on
it. This is the
fundamental, bedrock doctrine, upon which all God’s doctrines rest.
We MUST understand this
doctrine or we will be “blown
with every wind and doctrine” Eph.4:15 and never come to the knowledge of the truth,
and we stay in confusion and “deceived.” To
understand this complex doctrine is difficult, because it is tied to many of the
other doctrines of true Christianity, which is not known in our Christian
churches, because now all the Christian churches with the world are “deceived” Mat.24:
37; Rev.12:9.
This doctrine was “difficult to understand,”
for even Apostle Peter and
the other Apostles 2Pet.3:16.
There are many reasons
why this “doctrine” is difficult to receive, and then believe and to
act upon it. I will list some
of the reasons. We must start with our Creator, Jesus our Christ Eph.3:9, the Father’s “first begotten” son Heb.1:6, with whom we, will be “JOINT - heirs” Rom.8:17, as it was revealed to Apostle Paul, after we went through God’s salvation process. God’s system of our creation is the “operation of God” Col.2:12. Our physical
creation is finished. Our spiritual creation is going on, and for
the “many” not even began. Our
spiritual creation is founded on
the laws of “good
and evil” Gen.2:9.
Our Creator in this system holds up the “good,”
defined by laws IJn.3:4!
The side of “evil”
is held up by the Anti-god, who is the devil or Satan, who has
“NO truth
in him” Jn.8:44, and
therefore he CAN’T, and not allowed to operate by
laws, only by
“lawlessness,” called
“iniquity” in the Bible
Mat.7:23. This is why Satan
operates by instructions, or
codes, and then commands, in the system of tyranny.
Satan is the opposite of God, and is the “Anti-god.”
Jesus our Christ is the Law
Giver Ex.20!
This is why Jesus declared
that
“I
AM the truth”
Jn.14:6. We must
understand that the “world” and all its governments
are given by Christ and
our Father to the Anti-god
to rule. This is why Satan
could offer Jesus to rule the world under him, after Jesus finished His 40 day
fast Mat.4. It was “revealed”
to Apostle Paul that Satan is the “god
of this world” 2Cor.4:4.
This is why ALL governments
start out with a balance between “good and evil,”
but in the “end,” all end up in “Lawlessness,”
and a terrible tyranny as we are
experiencing now. God created Satan to
"deceive" us, to “steal, KILL and
DESTROY” us, if we don’t obey our Creator Jn.10:10.
Satan “deceive us” to
obey him. This is why he was
created evil, a
thief, and
a liar, and a murderer Jn.8:44.
Satan the devil did not fall,
Lucifer did Isa.14:12, he was our Creator’s “covering cherub” Ezek.28:14. Once Satan “deceives the whole world” Rev.12:9, as we are now, the "End of that World" comes Mat.24:3, like in the days of Noah Mat.24:37. Satan is an expert and cunning. He did not deceive us religiously first. No he subtly changed our money system, and later our laws progressively. This is what he did in America. He gradually changed America's MONEY, the Dollar to a fiat currency the “dollar,” with House Joint Resolution 192. This forced our government to change our LAWS the Constitution gradually to “codes,” that we may not to be punished for stealing from each other, passing among us worthless paper as money, which our Constitution forbids. When every nation use Satan’s system, as we do now, the “world’s sin is full” and destruction comes, as in Noah’s day Mat.24:37. You must prepare now for destruction! Satan was very subtle. He did not changing our laws directly, but created for us individual “contracts” to use his “private” credit system, as if it would be “lawful,” yet it is only “legal.” There is a huge difference. Under the system of law you have “rights.” In Satan’s system you have “privileges,” which can be controlled and taken away, to enslave us. Why did God "create" Evil?He did, to teach us His “sacrificial love” Jn.15:13, where “EVIL” is needed, that we could “sacrifice,” to gain His love. This is why Jesus had to “create evil” Isa.45:7. This is why true Christianity is based on Mat.16:25 where it is said: “Whosoever will SAVE his life shall ‘lose’ it: and whosoever will LOSE his life for My sake shall ‘find’ it.” This means that God’s true SALVATION is to lose your physical life, in the conflict between “good and evil,” for God’s system is based on “laws,” and the Anti-god’s system based on “lawlessness,” to “find” the way to eternal life. Finding is the first step toward gaining eternal life. If you know the “doctrines” of the Christian churches, salvation’s aim is to SAVE people’s lives, the opposite of Christ’s gospel. Since they use the Anti-god’s doctrines, they have NO conflict between them and the world’s governments. They are the spiritual foundation of Satan’s world's system. How did God Create Evil?This is also
a vital issue, because not knowing it we are going to be the unwitting
victims of evil.
First God “created’
Satan, as an Anti-god evil
Jn.8:44, and the angels.
Christ “tested”
Satan by
asking him to “deceive” one
third (1/3rd) of the angels Rev.13:8.
Remember, Satan does not know
“the way of peace,” only
“the way of war” Rom.3:17
because Satan has no truth
in him. This is why we find
that there was a WAR
between the angels, which destroyed the earth, the moon and other
planets. This is why God had to
“re-create” the world to put man on it Gen.1:1.
Then God
created man
and he made him a living soul, and gave him the “spirit of man”
ICor.2:11. This spirit makes
man a “higher kind” than other physical creations of God, but a little
“lower” than the angels Heb.2:7.
We learn from the Old
Testament that mans spirit, his “heart”
is “deceitful above all
things, and ‘desperately”
WICKED” or
evil Jer.17:9.
[ Our physical body was made “good”
Gen.1:31, but our “human nature” was made
EVIL. ] This is why Jesus said that before the “holy spirit” of God came on Pentecost
“there is ‘none’
good but ONE,
that is God” Mat.19:17. The
carnal men are “haters of God,”
and they hate Christ’s followers also Jn.15:18!
To add to
our confusion, God “Hid” and
His truth Mat.13:35, behind Satan, cutting human and angelkinds off from finding
Him, and his “knowledge of
salvation” Lk.1:77.
God's truth, what is "good" was and is a “mystery” to us. This
is why the people before the flood did not know our Creator, or the
truth.
They were “cut off,”
“alienated” Col.1:21 from God, having no access to salvation,
eternal life, even Israel. Salvation
came only with Christ, Jesus. This
is why all Israel, and the Jews will
need to be “converted” to Christianity to gain eternal life.
Israel was only promised “blessings
and curses” Deut.28! This
is why the Jews HATE
Christians, and will “kill”
them in the end Mat.10! There are many restrictions in this age, or “dispensation” Eph.1:10 to become “good,” allowing only to a “few” to find "the way to eternal life" Mat.7:14. The general population of the world, the “many” are not given to find salvation in this age, only in the “ages to come “ Eph.2:7. Only those can come to Christ and the truth, whom our Father “calls” Jn.6:44. These then are tested, like Satan was and later Jesus, if they should be “chosen” Mat.20:16. After we are chosen there are “requirements” to be a “Disciple of Christ” Lk.14:26,27, 33. To go through God’s true process of salvation, Christians must give up all their material possession that they could become “spiritual,” and it is required to lose our life. To be a Christian means to live in God’s Kingdom or its Embassy, to eliminate most of the conflicts between God’s and the Anti-god’s kingdoms. Only by “coming out” of the Anti-god’s system can we do "God’s will,” not ours or the world’s Mat.6:10, 33. This is why Israel had to “come out” Rev.18:4 of Egypt where they were slaves, as we are, and had to serve the Pharaoh, and his “god.” Once we are NEUTRAL to the world, we can go through the process, or cycle of salvation, by giving up our life, to “live by faith” Rom.1:17, to “obey” the “laws of faith” Rom.3:27. While we are in the world we are forced to “obey” the “codes,” lawlessness of Satan, and can’t obey God. We can't obey two masters Mat.6:24! When do We Know that We are Good?If we follow
God’s “operation of salvation” Col.2:12, we know that we are “good,”
when we are “perfect in God’s (sacrificial)
love” IJn.4:8.
To be “perfect,” we must first be “perfected”
IJn.4:12.
We are required to be “perfect, even as our Father in
heaven is perfect” Mat.5:48. As
humans we gain this status when we lose all fear, for the “fearful, and
unbelieving and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and Idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the
‘lake of fire,’
and
brimstone: which is the SECOND
DEATH” Rev.21:8, or
eternal death Mat.10:28. We
must overcome our FEAR
with our FAITH
for fear has “torment” and “he that fears is not made perfect in
love” IJn.4:18, and can’t be in
the resurrection ICor.15:52. We
are “good” when we are
“born-again” at the resurrection.
This tells us than that we don’t have a “free will” because it would take away God’s. We only have a “free choice” AFTER we have been “baptized,” received God’s “holy spirit” ( not the Holy Spirit we received in the churches) and God’s “knowledge of salvation” Lk.1:77. Our free will would depose God from being Omnipotent, All Wise and a Creator. Until
our baptism we are hopeless slaves
of Satan, our spirit of man, his religions and governments.
This is why Jesus said that “I
am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more
ABUNDANTLY” Jn.10:10, bringing
people out of their many types of slavery. Should Christians fight evil? A Christian must be willing to “sacrifice” his / her life to find and later gain (not only receive) eternal life. This is how you show the “way of peace” to the world. You fight the “fight of faith” ITim.6:12, believing that if you give up, LOSE your life, you find, and later gain your eternal life. If you fight, you are serving the Anti-god, and the “way of war.” If you are NEUTRAL to this world, by legally “coming out” of it Rev.18:4, you don’t need to “fight” the world, or Satan’s kingdom. Your “faith” will be “tried” but that trying is “more precious than gold” IPet.1:7, for this is how you fight your fears to overcome it with your faith, to qualify to be in the resurrection. If you fight the fight of faith God will keep you “by His power through faith” IPet.1:5. This is why a Christians must “endure” his sacrifices to the very end Mat.24:13. We are rewarded at the “appearing of Christ” IPet.1:7; Mt.16:27. SUMMARY I covered only
the surface
of this subject
of “good
and evil.”
You now see that when we
discuss
“good and evil,” we
talk abut God’s salvation. We
must keep in mind and also know that
“God is love”
IJn.4:8, and “His love
covers all sin” Prov.10:12.
Christ, loves
ALL of us,
like a Father, let us be “good or evil,”
humans or angels. A few of us He loves now, by allowing us to “suffer,” like
the rest of humanity and the angels.
God will reward us at Christ’s second coming.
The rest of us He will love after their resurrection, as He loves us
now. Our Creator
is much “higher” in kind than us, or the angels Heb.1:4.
God lives in the fifth (5) dimension, the
angels in the unseen to us fourth (4) dimension, and
humans live in the lowest third (3) dimension.
Humans and angels to become eternal we
must bridge the chasm
between us and God and the angels and God. To do
this we need to learn what is “good and evil” the
way He sees it, not us. Humans
and angels can only pass to eternity and into the God kind through
DEATH! We have a
choice to do it voluntarily, or involuntarily.
A “few” of us can be in it without dying IThes.4:17.
“God’s
way”
to eternal life is the “difficult and narrow road” Mat.7:14, in this age it
is for the few, the many will learn it in the future.
To learn God’s way we do it
progressively and in stages “precept upon precept, ..
here a little, and there a little; that they may go and
FALL backward,
and be BROKEN,
and SNARED,
and BROKEN,
and SNARED
(again), and TAKEN”
Isa.28:13, we might ad that in this “age” or “dispensation”
Eph.1:10. Learning what is “good and evil” is learning God’s three laws, (3) religions and His (3) governments and how they affect us. It includes the understanding and function of “DEATH” in our life, and how Jesus and now Christ relate to it, and a host of other doctrines, which you can start to learn by reading my book, - “The Midnight Cry, Christ’s Second Coming, The End of this Age.” - Please visit my website http://www.RepentToLive.com and read the articles on it. Our Creator is gracious to you. He revealed to YOU His deepest secrets, given only to His “holy Apostles and Prophets” 2000 years ago, and now to His 1st Witness of His Two Witnesses Rev.11:3.
May Christ bless, Protect and SAVE you
at the End of the World. |