BASIS FOR THE LAST REFORMATION
Isaiah 45:5-7 describes God as the one who is in complete control, the Creator of all things. As an additional note: it seems that the nations still struggle with polytheism. The Hellenized Jewish mind (Mark 3:23-26), introduced dualism to Christianity e.g., God versus Satan, and along with that belief also demonology (Beelzebul or Beelzebub (KJV) of Matthew 12:24-27). “God in the flesh” “Cohorts of demons” “The god of this world” have been deeply rooted in Christianity.
Seeds of the final reformation are being planted as we speak, which will deal with the reformation of our mind.
Questions like these do pose serious logical quandary: Is God only part mighty, or is He the All Mighty? If there’s no darkness in heaven then how could Lucifer plot? Why Isaiah 14 speaks of the king of Babylon, a flesh and blood man, who took himself for a god; and yet was eaten by maggots? If it were Satan, then in a silly way, there should be nothing left of him right now. If Heaven has no fixed territory then is there anything to fight over? If God knows our thoughts before we even think them, did He not know Lucifer’s thoughts? If there is no time in heaven then how could someone plan ahead of time, and then hide that plan in the obscurity of the nonexistent darkness?
DISCREPANCY
The book of 2 Samuel 24:1, written before the exile to Babylon speaks of God’s wrath, which incited David. The Book of 1 Chronicles 21:1 (written in Babylon and copied in the post-Cyrus Jerusalem) brings Satan as if it were his work of incitement. In Babylon, the monotheistic Jewish thought was impaired. Reformation: the interpreted wrath of God is often vented through Satan—His subordinate angel who acts as a prosecutor in God’s court, and under God’s complete rule. However, it is rather God’s holiness coming in contact with the commonness that provokes wrath.
In the book of Job, Satan could not do more than allowed. God sent an angel, with sword in hand, who called himself Satan (original Hebrew text of Numbers 22) to oppose Balaam’s mission to curse Israel.
In the New Testament Satan receives permission to sift Peter like wheat; and when the sifting was complete Peter would have emerged stronger, and then would strengthen his brothers (Luke 22:31-32). Jesus prayed so that during Peter’s trial his faith would not fail; nonetheless, Satan received the permission from God, or rather it was God-ordained.
Apostle Paul delivers two men over to Satan to teach them not to blaspheme (1 Timothy 1:20). Also, Paul did not fight with Satan (opposition and withstanding), or his messenger, but rather implored the LORD, “that it might leave me.” The messenger called, “Thorn in the flesh” was to keep Paul from exalting himself.
Satan was often personified, but only for a Hellenized Jewish or the gentile mind. Polytheism was compromised; hence the emergence of dualism.
The final reformation shines a much brighter light on our dualistic concepts regarding God and His sovereignty. Finally. Satan remains rather an emotional issue than a logical one.
Isaiah 45:5-7 describes God as the one who is in complete control, the Creator of all things. As an additional note: it seems that the nations still struggle with polytheism. The Hellenized Jewish mind (Mark 3:23-26), introduced dualism to Christianity e.g., God versus Satan, and along with that belief also demonology (Beelzebul or Beelzebub (KJV) of Matthew 12:24-27). “God in the flesh” “Cohorts of demons” “The god of this world” have been deeply rooted in Christianity.
Seeds of the final reformation are being planted as we speak, which will deal with the reformation of our mind.
Questions like these do pose serious logical quandary: Is God only part mighty, or is He the All Mighty? If there’s no darkness in heaven then how could Lucifer plot? Why Isaiah 14 speaks of the king of Babylon, a flesh and blood man, who took himself for a god; and yet was eaten by maggots? If it were Satan, then in a silly way, there should be nothing left of him right now. If Heaven has no fixed territory then is there anything to fight over? If God knows our thoughts before we even think them, did He not know Lucifer’s thoughts? If there is no time in heaven then how could someone plan ahead of time, and then hide that plan in the obscurity of the nonexistent darkness?
DISCREPANCY
The book of 2 Samuel 24:1, written before the exile to Babylon speaks of God’s wrath, which incited David. The Book of 1 Chronicles 21:1 (written in Babylon and copied in the post-Cyrus Jerusalem) brings Satan as if it were his work of incitement. In Babylon, the monotheistic Jewish thought was impaired. Reformation: the interpreted wrath of God is often vented through Satan—His subordinate angel who acts as a prosecutor in God’s court, and under God’s complete rule. However, it is rather God’s holiness coming in contact with the commonness that provokes wrath.
In the book of Job, Satan could not do more than allowed. God sent an angel, with sword in hand, who called himself Satan (original Hebrew text of Numbers 22) to oppose Balaam’s mission to curse Israel.
In the New Testament Satan receives permission to sift Peter like wheat; and when the sifting was complete Peter would have emerged stronger, and then would strengthen his brothers (Luke 22:31-32). Jesus prayed so that during Peter’s trial his faith would not fail; nonetheless, Satan received the permission from God, or rather it was God-ordained.
Apostle Paul delivers two men over to Satan to teach them not to blaspheme (1 Timothy 1:20). Also, Paul did not fight with Satan (opposition and withstanding), or his messenger, but rather implored the LORD, “that it might leave me.” The messenger called, “Thorn in the flesh” was to keep Paul from exalting himself.
Satan was often personified, but only for a Hellenized Jewish or the gentile mind. Polytheism was compromised; hence the emergence of dualism.
The final reformation shines a much brighter light on our dualistic concepts regarding God and His sovereignty. Finally. Satan remains rather an emotional issue than a logical one.
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