Desire of Ages
Chapter 79
"It is Finished"
If I were to have been created as an angel, my name would have been Chaya. My best friend among the angels would have had the name Yasdash. The telling of the mysterious celestial events would have sounded between the two celestial beings something like this.....
"Whatever is going on between Lucifer and the shar of seraphim around the throne ?" voiced Yasdash. "They're departing from our divine realm ! "
Chaya who only posssessed vague understanding of it all did the best in explaining.
" The glorious Lucifer was contesting the authority of our Almighty Sovereign. That what was expressed is called sin. When we so do as Lucifer it leads to being alienated from the life of our Almighty. A controversy has ensued.The Archangel would eventually have been consumed with fire because of the effects of sin. Now Lucifer has been given a planet with the created humans to rule over. Let's look into the annal pages of events to see what we need to know about the flow of events."
The two cherubs looked into all happenings with great interest. Being a bit in confusion that the one who so dazzled them in appearance of light and doing powerful deeds could be apart from them now, they looked intently, as this one now referred to as Satan, began to afflict humans with bodily disease and spiritual corruption. The angels had not understood fully the nature of Satan's rebellion. They had never been exposed to deception before and as they looked into the annals of human existance, slowly, slowly, understanding was budding in their minds.
They saw how the nature of Satan was to compel and coerce. The compelling power of force was the underlying principle of the evil kingdom. They saw how suggestive tantilizing-to-the-flesh offers were being deceptively used on humans to lure them away out of their stance of fulfilling the judicial legislation established as conduct by Yahweh. They themselves heard the argument of Lucifer that the law of Yahweh "could not be obeyed, that justice was inconsistent with mercy, and that, should the law be broken, it would be impossible for the sinner to be pardoned." Knowing only truth and not being of learned experience in distinguishing what a lie is, these two angels accepted at face value what Lucifer had said but still didn't believe it completely. They both remember the angel of Light also saying "Every sin must meet its punishment, and if God should remit the punishment of sin, He would not be a God of truth and justice. "
The angels looked into the annals and watched as men did not resist temptation, fell to sin and then Satan exulted. Bit for bit the false propaganda about the character of God circulated among the humans that God was unjust, would not show mercy when one sinned, and would exclude the human race from His presence forever because of having sinned. Time and again it was funneled into them that the Law of God could not be obeyed continually. "It had been Satan's purpose to divorce mercy from truth and justice. He sought to prove that rightoueousness of God's law is an enemy to peace." Satan went even so far to claim that mercy destroys justice. So any substitute offering for the sin of mankind would be abrogating the immutable law of The One and Only God. Such lies and deception was a part of his nature.
In the annuals of time records the angels saw how Satan's kingdom so influenced men to set up laws of their own making to counterwork the laws of God. The EvilOne was training the minds of mankind to believe that the laws of God are faulty and not possible to be followed in all details by human natures. Humans learn at an early stage that if a person breaks obedience to one law of God then one is guilty of having been disobedient to all the laws of God. This stands as truth. The consequence is separation from the fellowhsip of His presence. So in the course of time men have set up laws of their own and with them compelled the consciences of others to a zeal of enforcing these surrogate laws to be the moral measure of the standard of living. They started to build up in their own imaginations that they could appease the mysterious enigma of the far-distance God by bringing Him good moral deeds to earn meritious favor to their account. For them the thinking was that good deeds could out-balance bad deeds or law tresspasses, to win the right for divine blessings and eternal life after death. This was the fruit of alliegance to Satan.
Chaya and Yadash observe how the Logos of Yahweh arises to leave for the chosen mission the divine counsel agreed upon. They see how on earth in the circumstances of His birth as a human, that Satan's power was out to kill him. They followed with intense interest how Lucifer's agents sought to prevent a normal childhood and entrance into public life. They saw as the usurper worked on the pride of life, lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh of the incarnated Logos, who at the same time was 'Jesus' the man, to subcumb to obeying the force of evil there in the desert trail of faith. Time and again over the next few years he used every trick in his book to discourage Him from the work that Jesus came to do on earth.
Slowly, slowly, by observation, seeing the contrasts, and coming to conclusions, the angels grew into the knowledge of the mystery of God's goodness and the Devil's evil. They saw how the begotton Son of the Father would do nothing except the will of the Father revealed to Him in the scriptures and in prayer. How He would use a 'thus it is written' to resist temptation to sin.
The angels were viewing how God was in the Christ who showed that the authority of the divine rests in the power within goodness, mercy and love. All what Jesus did was to uplift man from oppression, set demoned possessed free from bondage of evil rule, break the fetters of mourning by bringing back the dead, release the prisoned souls from the body of sickness, and to set the minds free to believe truth again. The greatest miracle was the cleansing of the soul from the burden of guilt that sin had heaped upon each of those who came for healing to Him.
The angels became even more clearly the naked contrast of how evil Evil is as the anguish of struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane with Satan's forces contra the Will of God bore down on the soul of the man Christ praying. They looked on as the ugliness shown forth in the rulers of men with the arrest, mockery, torture, disrespect, the rantings of the murderous mob, the sneers of the persecutors, and the hideous method of crucifixion. They saw who was behind all the unjust, inhumane suffering that Jesus as the Christ went through and they marveled. It was the moments of darkness as God turned his back on the sin bearing opfer that appalled them the most. The horror of realizing just where the administration of Lucifer leads to dried up every possible sympathy the faithful angels had for him. The Creator Logos as man Jesus cried out "it is finished" and gave up His spirit. From that time on Satan was banned from heaven to appear before the thone for accusing the saints of God.
The angels had become a very important insight to the government of God, the administration of Satan and now the angels were to witness the outworking of the plan of salvation on the living. Over the hundreds of years since the crucifixion the offer of the infilling of the Holy Spirit of God, to reign in the hearts of believers for the purpose of glorifying the name of God, began in a special way. Humans now were calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus the Christ for forgiveness of sin, for power to overcome the wiles of the devil's temptations, for strength to endure hardships and trials. They were calling upon the name of the Lord for having prayers answered for themselves and others. And in prayer they were hearing the voice of the Lord for wisdom and leading in the tasks of life while applying the gifts they had for the purposes of helping others. By staying in connection to the Divine, people were walking in obedience to the law of God without sinning. If perchance they did sin, they were quick to ask for the forgiving blood of the Lamb to cleanse them from the sin.
They got up from prayer and walked on as overcomers in the name of the Lamb.
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Joan
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