A10e How
is the First Sin connected to the 7th Day Sabbath Scenario? –
expanding on Chapter 6
Why would God create a 3D universe of a lower order (ie
less dimensions) than the one He had already created for the angels? The Bible
tells us that a problem had developed in that angel world, surrounding the
angel, Lucifer. It tells us that Lucifer was perfect until iniquity was found
in him (Ez 28:15), but it does not tell us directly
why that dramatic change in character occurred. In my opinion, there is enough
"evidence by association" to determine that it was over the question
of "Free Will". This was the
cause, which set in motion his downward spiral until pride became the driving
force in his character.
There must be a logical and consistent Big Picture explanation for this
important question, and it must also explain God's overall Plan for humans and
His purposes for creating intelligent life in general. Surely God is logical,
or else we could not be held accountable for understanding His messages to us.
I suggest that it all boils down to the need for free-willed, thinking being
to fully understand “good” and “evil”.
God can create a universe of intelligent thinking, free-willed beings (eg angels) but because they do not understand fully the
nature of good and evil, they will eventually make free-willed choices that are
harmful and eventually lead to their demise.
Imagine a child making routine choices.
Some will be good choices, ie those that lead
to enhancing their life and those around them.
Others will be evil choices, ie those that
will break down their life and lead eventually to self-destruction. This is the way to think of “good” and
“evil”. They are choices made by
free-willed beings. A child is about to
make a choice that will eventually cause problems, but because of his lack of
experience he thinks it’s going to be a “good” choice. EG He wants to hang out with kids who his dad
knows are going to get him into trouble, but he thinks it’s
okay, because these kids are very popular in his school. His dad does not intervene against the free
will decision of his child, so the child makes this choice and eventually
problems arise.
God’s angelic beings were created just like innocent but naïve
children. They need to understand the
difference between good and evil. They can only understand evil by doing it
themselves or by watching others do it.
In a perfect heaven, there was no one doing evil, so some angel(s) had
to be the first. Lucifer is the name
given to that first angel, who decided to try to hide from God. At that time it didn’t seem like such a
profoundly destructive thing to do, but then that was what the learning process
was all about. Once Lucifer elected to
understand evil by doing evil, he sinned.
This is how sin arose in that angelic world. Sin is a cancer that will
feed off the host. It will be self-destructing, but it will last until the host
is gone and no one is left to tell the tale. Meanwhile the body (the angel
world in this case) is in an unhappy state, not at all like what God
wants. The Bible tells us there was
“war” in heaven. How can God resolve
this dilemma and develop a world of morally free angelic beings, who will live with Him (Michael) happily ever after?
The Bible does not specifically tell us what caused Lucifer to become so
evil, it merely says that he was created perfect until iniquity was found in
him (Ez 28:15).
Yet this mystery of iniquity is something that we can actually
understand given the above logic about the nature of good and evil. Along this line of thinking, what choices
could Lucifer have made early on, which seemed good
enough to him, but actually would lead him down the path of
self-destruction? These choices must
have been very benign, because even with his innate intelligence, he could not
see how they would be harmful.
Imagine this scene in the pre-existing angel universe. God wants to be with
His created beings, so He thinks Himself into that world as another angel. He
is the angel, Who is like God, so the Bible refers to
Him as “Michael”, the only archangel. When angels see Michael, they are seeing
God, for He is the Image of God in their world. Through Michael, God can
directly relate to His angelic beings, one-on-one. Angels know that the creator
God creates them, gives them life, and that He is all-powerful. They realize
that He is the Thinker and they are merely His thoughts. They must eventually
wonder how it can be that God can control everything and yet they have free
will. There is nothing wrong in a perfect world with having this question.
There is nothing wrong with trying to get some proof that you do have free
will, either. The problem is that getting this particular proof will kill you,
eventually. Why is this?
Angels trying to prove that they indeed have freedom of choice must try to
do things that they don't think God wants them to do, so they will know that
they are doing them on their own. They must therefore attempt to
"hide" from God. This is the problem that caused sin to arise in a
perfect angel universe. Sin is the outcome of trying to hide from God. There is
nothing we can do to distance ourselves from God so that He does not know
everything about us. He must know everything to keep us alive. If He should
stop thinking about us, we could not exist at all. So, God does not want us to try to hide from
Him. (Note, this is the essence of the “Unforgivable Sin” ). Since God only wants “good” things for His
created beings, the only choices He does not want them to make are those, which
are somehow self-destructive. We call the consequences of these choices,
"sin". The eventual wages of sin is death. Notice that some of these things are so
seemingly altruistic and benign, that no innocent child would ever see a
problem choosing them. But God knows
better and they must somehow understand as He does. However, if they need to learn this by
actually doing evil, then they will self-destruct. God needs to find another way to teach His
angelic beings about good and evil.
Here is the reason why I say God created humans. This dilemma of free will
beings always self-destructing could only be resolved by the creation of a
surrogate universe - a little lower than theirs. This human universe of ours
must carry out the Sin Drama to its conclusion as the angels watch & learn.
In this way the angelic beings can understand the difference between good and
evil without doing evil and reaping the inevitable consequences of sin
themselves. Can you see how this is
all tied into answering the questions, "How did "sin" arise in a
perfect angel universe; and why is it that after it plays out here on this
little planet, Earth, it will never arise again anywhere in God's
creation?" (Na 1:9) Our Earth is literally a stage with the angels in
the audience. They must learn all the ramifications about good and evil in
order to detect an evil choice even when it would seem to be so
altruistic. For this reason, God has
initiated the human condition involving generations. Each generation plays the same sin drama in a
similar but different way, so that all the subtle situational ramifications are
exposed. This way the angelic audience
can fully understand evil as God does, and thus never make choices that will
cause sin to arise. [NOTE: If they never
get the evil choices started they will never get into the more complicated
ramifications that we are witnessing, where there is no way out.] They will finally understand good and evil
without ever having done evil, so they will not self-destruct due to a
devolving character. Recall that angelic
beings are created without the inherent tendency to fall apart over time as we
in our human bodies are. Therefore, if
they do not allow their character to degrade by introducing sin, then they can
realize God’s everlasting life scenario.
Note: I also see two related critical
lessons from this drama of ours:
1) The wages of sin are eventual death, not merely
tolerable good and bad times;
2) There is no need to initiate another Sin Drama because they got the proof
that God is indeed keeping them alive by thinking of them and yet not
controlling their decisions.
Here’s how God has told us in His Bible that He will ultimately realize His
“perfect kingdom of heaven”:
After the drama is completed, God will roll this 3D universe of ours up like
a scroll (Rev
6:14 & 2Peter 3:7-12, Rev 20:11 & 21:1)). God will need to re-create this planet in
that angel universe, move His HQ to it, and have it rotating as He did during
the Creation week of Genesis. Then this "New Earth" will mark the 7th
day in a way that all creation will know when it occurs. Then every seventh
rotation, from one Sabbath to the next, all creation will remember the lessons
learned from watching the Sin Drama play out here on earth; and sin will never
need to arise again (ISA 66:23).
The creation of this 3D universe was the most awesome thing God ever did and He
has all the angels watching it. Without this 3D creation the angel universe
could never be perfect again. Because it was that important, He blessed the 7th
day and made it holy. By remembering what has transpired here, the angel
universe, where we too will hopefully be living some day, can literally live
happily ever after. For in 6 days or rotations of this planet, God created the
mechanism that the angelic beings needed to fully understand good and evil
without doing evil themselves. Remember this and sin will never need to
arise from choices. The angelic beings will be able to choose as they wish, but
given their full understanding they won’t choose even inadvertently, those
things that will allow sin back into heaven.
Yet, if any of them ever forget this and the same old sin cancer will
surely arise again. Ours is a universe,
created for the temporary purpose of playing out the Sin Drama to its bitter
end of self-destruction (2Peter 3:7-12; Rev 20:11; 21:1), because it is the
only way to teach God’s angelic beings what they must know to survive. This too is why forever after in heaven
every thinking being will always recount these stories about good and evil,
which they learned watching us. They
will do this routinely, in one way or another, every seventh day as marked out
by the turning of this New Earth in their 4D universe (Isa
66:22-24).
Now I need to point out that some humans at least will eventually be given
glorified bodies so we can join these angels in heaven, right
? ( 1 Cor 15: 50-52
& 1 Thes 4:13-18)
But notice that humans have certainly not witnessed the entire human
drama and none of us fully understand evil.
If we were to go directly to heaven, we would surely make some choice
soon enough that sin would surely arise again and start the same war in heaven
all over! Therefore God’s plan for us
indicates that He will not take us directly to heaven on the Last Day. Instead, we will meet Him (Michael, the
glorified Christ with the holes in His hands) in the sky and we will stay with
Him apart from the rest of the angelic beings for “1000 years”. What does this tell you? As I read Rev 21:1-3 and Rev 20:4-6 it is clear that those in the first
resurrection will go to be with Christ in the “New Jerusalem” (As a rocket scientist I think of this as a
spaceship of sorts, moving around in the angelic 4D universe). We are angelic beings and we are in heaven,
but we are quarantined from the other angelic beings for 1000 years. There we
will review the records of the entire human drama to understand evil on a par
with those angelic beings, who are ready for the
kingdom of heaven. This is what is meant by the statement that we will judge
the world and the angels (1 Cor 6: 2,3). Then, after a
time (1000 years could be whatever time that process will require), this New
Jerusalem spaceship will land on the New Earth that has been prepared
specifically for glorified humans (all the other angelic beings already have
their abodes in that universe) and that will be our home/base of
operations. Does this now make perfect sense
to you as it does to me? RSVP nasamike@nasamike.com
NOTE: Humans since Adam and Eve were not created in a form where they would
live forever without degradation. They were made from the “dirt” (the elements
of this temporary Earth) and to the dirt they must return. God taught them how
to survive because He knew they would need to struggle and eventually die. To
show that He truly loved us even though we must self-destruct to prove His
point, God initiates an escape clause, a "Plan of Salvation", from
the very beginning of this drama. Even though we will die, we can receive His
gift of everlasting life, if we desire it. In this life, we must choose to
have a relationship with God rather than to hide from God. Then even though
we are still imperfect when we die, he can raise us up and change us into
angelic form so we can live with Him and the angels in heaven. His life on
Earth as a human is to show us that humans can indeed have this kind of
relationship with the almighty God. His birth as a human and His human death
shows us that He truly loves us in spite of this critical need for us to
demonstrate the nature of good and evil to the angels. His resurrection shows
us that He has a plan for us to follow Him - we cannot follow Him yet, because
He never intended for human bodies to live forever. However, on the Last Day we can meet Him in
the sky, be changed into angelic form, and live with Him in the place He is
preparing for us now.
26 July 2001, Updated 1 December 2001 & 7 April 2002 & Feb 28, 2003, 9
March 2003, 6 Dec 2003
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