The Sting....
If you are old enough, you may remember a movie called “The Sting,”
which was a popular movie made in the 70’s, featuring Paul Newman and
Robert Redford. They play out the “con of all cons” against an evil
crime boss named Lonnegan. In the end, they use Lonnegan’s evil nature
to accomplish their own goal. This booklet is about the same
principal…using evil against itself! Truth be told, this booklet is
about the greatest sting operation ever pulled…and there are just as
many twists and turns as in the movie! God has a mysterious work that He
is accomplishing, and one of the most veiled parts of that plan involves
using evil. Yes, that’s right! And just like in the movie, where the
good guys actually use the bad guy and his evil nature to accomplish
their own goal, God does the same in His plan.
Obviously, it is impossible for God to be evil Himself, but offering the
alternative of evil is an absolutely necessary component in God’s plan.
It allows God to determine who will reject Him…and by extension, whom He
will reject. Matthew 3, verse 10 describes the coming rejection of all
evil men. “Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit (develop
the mind and nature of God) is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Since God doesn’t have a single molecule of evil in Him, how could He
possibly offer men the choice of evil? He found the perfect being to do
this for Him. Lucifer came along and he had become a very arrogant proud
angel, high up in the echelons of the spirit world. Lucifer deeply
wanted power and he deeply wanted to run things; in fact, he was a God
want-a-be.
"I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God (the other angels) I will be like the Most High (Isaiah.
14:12-14).
At what point did Lucifer decide to be God’s adversary? Somewhere eons
ago, Lucifer must have become aware of God’s master plan to create the
human race and make them in His image. At first just physically, but
later, spiritually --- GOD’S PLAN WAS TO MAKE HUMANS INTO FUTURE LITERAL
SONS OF GOD. No angel even as high as Lucifer was ever offered that
deal. Hebrews 1:5 says,
“For to which of the angels did He ever say:
"You are My Son, Today I have begotten you"?
Knowledge of this great plan for puny men made Lucifer’s blood boil and
so he whispered all his criticisms around to whichever angels would
listen to him, and he eventually fomented a rebellion so large that it
caused a full third of the angels of God to fall away. Ezekiel 28:15-16
says, “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy
merchandise (i.e. peddling your criticisms against God) 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.” God had
created Lucifer to be perfect and good, but now of his own volition,
Lucifer set himself up as an evil adversary of God. Lucifer’s plan was
to destroy God’s plan… God’s goal was to use Lucifer to accomplish it
without his knowledge or consent!
God could have destroyed Lucifer and the whole rebellious bunch on the
spot because angels are not inherently immortal. (“Only God hath
immortality.”) The good angels live on because God wills it, but there
is no such promise to fallen angels. So, why did God not destroy Lucifer
right then???
It’s because God had a purpose for him. Maybe unwittingly, but Lucifer
was going to play one of the most crucial roles in God’s plan for
mankind… He was going to be the “evil” choice for man. His influence on
man was the evil part of the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
Satan was the father of sin and he taught men the original concepts of
evil.
God has a mind that is marvelous in that He was going to “use” Lucifer
to accomplish the very plan that Lucifer rebelled over. You might call
it trickery on God’s part, but not really. Evil surged through Lucifer’s
heart and he was now called “Satan.” He oh so willingly became the
“evil” option.
THE MYSTERIOUS PLAN THAT LUCIFER DESPISED
---BRINGING MANY SONS TO GLORY
Hebrews 2:10 says, “For it was fitting for Him, (Christ) for whom are
all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory.”
Lucifer had been at the top in the kingdom of God. He had been one of
the very archangels of God, and now, trillions of human beings were
going to eventually be made into glorious sons of God and it was far
more than his powerful pride could stand. Scrawny lowly men were going
to rule over him! They would be given the one thing that he had always
coveted, rulership as a God being. This rulership of all things was
going to be given to men. Psalms 8:4-6 says so, “ What is man that you
are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a
little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor. You
made him ruler over the works of your hands; You put everything under
his feet.”
Everything put under the feet of men???? The reason is simple! All that
we have goes to our children. Now we know why God the Father is going to
give everything not only to Christ---but also to us---it is because we
are His literal sons through faith in Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:26-27
says, “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”
Satan’s pride could not countenance this possibility, so he set out to
sabotage God’s plan for man anyway that he could. He would deceive the
whole world and turn these future sons of God away from their God. In
Satan’s mind, the easiest way to “destroy” God’s plan was to be right
there shortly after men were created and get them to reject their
creator Jesus Christ…who was the “Tree of Life.” And reject Him, they
did. Not only did Adam and Eve choose the serpent but, Cain their first
son, was the first “counterfeit” messiah. When Cain was born, Eve said,
“I have gotten a man from the LORD.” OR, better put,
“I have gotten the man-Yahaweh.”
(Jamieson Fausset and Brown Commentary)
As the first man-Yahaweh or “man-god,” Cain was the true father of false
religion. Cain was a farmer, and the original father of all “fertility
cult” sun worship, which was to become the false religion option for
men… Men would worship the sun instead of the Son. We see the long-lived
influence of sun worship still alive today.
The monstrance is used
in Catholic worship service
WHY DID SATAN INSTITUTE SUN WORSHIP UNDER CAIN?
CAIN “THE MAN-GOD” WAS A COUNTERFEIT OF THE TRUE JESUS CHRIST, WHOSE
SPIRITUAL IMAGE LOOKS LIKE THE SUN
And (Christ) was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the
sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Matthew 17:2
We know that in spirit form, God is pure light.
1 John 1:5 says, “This is the message we have heard from him and declare
to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.”
Yes, false sun worshipping religion began early on in the history of man
and continues to this day. It was Satan’s alternative to God’s true
religion. It was easy to see Satan’s reasoning, ‘wrong religion--wrong
god, no sonship…God’s plan thwarted!
This ancient raised sun disk is now said to “represent” Christ.
Note the old black and white picture on the left. Symbolic arms lift the
sun image up and the worshippers kneel before it. Then side-by-side, we
see the pope holding up “the host,” a sun image and worshippers also
kneel before it. The pope has the same cross on his vestments that is
pictured in the Egyptian photo of sun worship.
CHRIST IN HIS SPIRIT FORM LOOKS LIKE THE SUN.
Jesus Christ looks like the sun when He is in His spirit form.
Revelation 1:13-16 says, “…And among the lampstands was someone like a
son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a
golden sash around his chest. His head and hair were white like wool, as
white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like
bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing
waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came
a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its
brilliance.
The next photograph is of the Mithraic sun god. Visually compare it to
the scripture you just read describing Christ. This sun image also has a
face shining like the sun. It has a long robe. It has a sash around the
waist. THIS IS A KNOCK OFF OF JESUS CHRIST! A FAKE. By the way, does it
remind you of the statue of Liberty??? It should, French sculptor
Auguste Bartholdi based The Statue of Liberty on the Colossus of Rhodes
statue of the sun god.
This is the point. In Satan’s mind, false sun worshipping religion would
be an easy way to destroy God’s project. Here is the amazing “sting”
that God is pulling! Satan considers himself to be brilliant… Satan
thought that if he got all mankind to reject the “SON” and worship the
“SUN” he could thwart God’s future plans for man----BUT!
Little did Satan know that everything he did was part of God’s plan.
Little did he know that it was already deep within Adam and Eve to
reject Christ, and that God had made all men this way…until He got ready
to call them back to Him. Little did he know, that this natural
“rejection” of all things related to God
(“He is despised and rejected of men.” Isaiah 53:3) would protect men’s
minds from committing the unpardonable sin until God got ready to call
them!
So Satan probably felt that he had won a great victory against God. But
the rejection of Christ by carnal men and their utter blindness to the
truth was part of God’s plan all along! In truth, God created men to be
carnal and gave them free choice, so when Satan offered evil to Adam and
Eve, they snatched it up in a heartbeat! Our natural mind is not subject
to the law of God---neither indeed can be…BUT---the law of God is what
teaches us how to be made in the image of God and be adopted into the
God Family.
YOUR ADOPTION INTO THE ELOHIM FAMILY
The human “family” is a just a type of a spiritual Family. In fact, one
of the many words for “God” is “Elohim,” and it means “more than one
God,” or better put, A FAMILY OF GOD BEINGS..
This plural word “Elohim” is used in the Bible
2,570 times; yet, it is
always translated as “God,” instead of Gods. Which is strange, because
the “im” ending of Elohim always denotes plurality in the Hebrew
language. The translators were arrogant in assuming that the writers of
the Bible
didn’t know what they were talking about…so they “fixed” the
problem as they have done before, by changing a plural word to the
singular…or visa versa, and thereby hiding a truth of God.
THE CONCEPT OF MORE THAN ONE GOD WAS NO MISTAKE! Christ and His Father
were both in the same family. There were two of them and they were
responsible for the creation of man, “God (Elohim) said, "Let us make
man in our image, in our likeness…” Think about this, is not your own
child made in your image and your likeness? Of course, they are. Will
your child inherit what you have? Of course they will! We get our
inheritance from our own family, don’t we? This is why God cares about
us. We are His kids.
If we are going to understand the mysterious “work” of Jesus Christ and
His Father of creating new sons THAT WILL INHERIT ALL THAT GOD HAS, we
have to understand that when we receive the Holy Spirit, we become
spiritually conceived and are baby Elohims who will shine like the sun
someday. Matthew says in 13:43, “Then the righteous will shine like the
sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears let him hear.” WE
WILL LOOK JUST LIKE JESUS CHRIST…another member of the Elohim Family who
shines like the sun.
The Holy Spirit removes our blindness and deafness about what we will
be. Men in their blinded state are still “sons of disobedience,” under
the rulership of Satan, the “prince” of this world. Satan is called
prince seven times in the New Testament. He is called a prince of the
devils, the prince of this world, and the prince of the power of the
air. Christ also calls him ruler of this world in John 12:31-33. HERE IS
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF GOD’S PLAN…JESUS CHRIST CAME TO UNSEAT SATAN
AS RULER AND TO DRAW ALL MEN BACK TO HIMSELF IN TIME…
“Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be
cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples
to Myself." NKJV
Satan hadn’t won. Maybe the brilliant Satan did not understand that all
his ploys devised to hurt God, (including pulling one third of the
angels away, AND causing Adam and Eve to reject their creator, and
setting up false religion) were all an integral part of God’s operation.
Wow, what a STING! Was not Satan right there in the Garden of
Eden---right on time--- and right where God wanted him to be? That was
no mistake. Was not Satan right there causing the very betrayal and
death of Jesus Christ? Satan thought this would finish off God’s plan…
BUT…he was only helping to accomplish the very plan of God!
God was pulling off a coup…and Satan was doing everything that God
needed him to do—including, blinding the world with false religion… The
world that exists between Adam and the return of Christ is a blinded
world. For the time being, they have rejected the true tree of life…but
it is from this deceived world that the “first harvest” of men is being
called out. The word church means “called out ones.” God’s Holy Days
reveal a sequence of “harvests” and it is God’s Holy Days that make
known the exact time schedule for drawing all men back to Christ.