What did you say? I don't Understand...

There were at least eight persons that came out of the ark after the flood. Noah and his wife, his three children and their wives... A new beginning of human race. Were they the best? were they righteous? did they committed to follow God and teach their children's children to do the same? Have they learned the lesson?

The first thing that Noah did was to offer some animals, This is an act of worship but at the same time a substitute for Noah's life and his family. God was so pleased by that act of Noah and he promised never to destroy life again with flood. I am not sure if Noah and his children believe this. I am not sure also what they told the next generation about the flood, but it seems to be that they over emphasized on the dreadful flood rather than the promise of God. So after few generations, the people are trying to prepare for another flood. They did not believed God nor believed on His promise that "never will He destroy living things with flood". The people started to build a tower that is very very tall, they thought that if the flood comes, they will just climb the top and be saved.

Observing from afar, God again was sad about this action. It is another attempt to be independent from God, to live a life on their own and not believing God of what He said. Man is again determined to defy God, not just individually but as whole human race, they are so united in defying God.

God in His mercy, has to take action because if this will continue, this is another candidate for His judgment. So, God confused their language in such a way that they could not understand each. At least they could no longer connive with each other in defying God. There were about 70 languages that was formed and the people group themselves according to their language. Hehehehe imagine yourself living during that time, suddenly when you speak, a different sounds and words are coming out of your mouth, and when your friends speaks, you could longer understnad him!!!! and suddenly your enemy or your mother-in-law speaks the same as you do hehehehe..

The Book started to call this group of people with the same language as "Nations" and from this time on God will be reaching out people, nation after nation until all the nations will be represented in is Kingdom...

The Judgment...

Man has really went out on his way, he asserts his independence from God, from generation to generation the children of Adam and Eve became worst. Although God was so sad to see man choose his path, but He did not remove their freedom. God wished for Man to come to Him voluntarily in Love. But Man continued to drift away from God, and God has no choice but to slowly let them go. "Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator- Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. " When sinfulness of man come to its fullness, God with all sadness has to declare the judgment. It is what His law requires. He sent a tremendous floods that fill the earth, all the people died and other animals that creep on the ground. But, thank God He spared one family in order to start all over again...

Two Ways to Go...

God gave Man the way to relate to Him, that of offering a sacrifice so that they can be made clean and holy so that he approach God and God can fellowship with Man without compromising His character of absolute holiness. But Man wanted to come to God in their own terms or do not want to come God all. The first two children of Man name Cain and Abel illustrated this behavior. Cain wanted to come to God in his own terms so instead of offering animal with shed blood for his sins he offered fruits and crops harvested from his farm although he knows that what God requires is an animal. Abel on the other hand come into terms with God according to God's instruction. So God accepted the offering of Abel and rejected the offering of Cain. Remember God's formula? sin=death, there must be something or someone that must die so that sin will be canceled out and become holy and be made acceptable to God because God is a holy God and his holiness is absolute.
Cain became jealous and furious about this rejection. Instead of coming back to God with a right offering, he went to Abel and killed him. Oh! this is sad. He continued in this behavior until his heart was hardened and became rebellious. The next generations have continued to drift away from God until such time that all his desires are evil his heart's inclination are all going from bad to worst. God was very sad about what he saw. His enemy however is laughing from ear to ear, Satan and his demons are very active in ushering men to sin, he sow anger, lust, jealousy, love of material things and power, he entered man's culture, social. political and spiritual affairs in order to give glory to self and others except to God. Even the last good thing in the man, the conscience and moral values which is part of God's image was used to glorify self and use in pride that somehow they are better than others because they are so righteous in their own ways. This state of the Man is still very noticeable today.Can we blame Satan for this? No, no, when God created Man and the angels including those who revolted against Him, He created them with their own freedom of choice. The Angels have their freedom of choice so does the Man. Satan can influence Man but Man can choose not to follow, He can choose to obey God or not, therefore he can also choose to obey Satan or not. " What a freedom..." but also " what a responsibility"...

The Substitute...

In God's efforts to reach out to man and at the same time not violate His character, He provided a way for man to come to God. The Law of God says that the penalty of sin is death, big or small, death is still what it deserve. Why? because God's holiness is absolute, no minute sin is acceptable before God. So the equation is Sin=Death. He made it clear to Adam and Eve, that "the moment you eat the fruit that I told you not to, you will surely die" Death means separation. So immediately Adam and Eve were separated from God and this state has made them miserable because that was not their design. This separation will continue to eternity and the place of confinement will be from bad to worst.

So God said, " substitute is allowed and possible". That means someone can die in lieu of the one who sins. He looked around, and started to narrow down the choices for substitutes. He look at the sky and found none because everything in it are without life to give. he look at the angels...... well, Lucifer and his cohorts can not pay for others' sins because they have their own. How about the good angels? well, they have no flesh and blood like Man whom they are supposed to substitute. He look at mankind, and found no one who have no sin, therefore all are disqualified. And suddenly He look at His Son, and their eyes met... and said "Son both of us Love this man we have created would you be willing to give your life for them?" ... "Yes Father I am willing ...." the mixed feeling between the Father and the Son was overwhelming.

For the mean time that the appointed time of Son to come has not arrive yet... He said to Man "go and make a temporary sin-substitute from the best of your animals. Kill and offer them to me. Regularly do this because every animal you offer is only good for the sin commit for that period...". For so long this is Man's way of connecting back to God, but this is just temporary, a band aid solution...

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The Battle Has Begun....

When did God thought of the BIG Plan? Yes, before he created man and Lucifer. When Lucifer revolted against God he too, has a big plan specially when he saw God creating Man, his big plan was get man on his side, and he succeeded, he made man disobey God and obeyed him. He must be very happy with this first victory, laughing out loud to top of his voice... then he heard God that the man with his wife will multiply and fill the earth. Ahaa, he thought to himself so there will be more! so crafted a comprehensive plan for each man that will be born on earth, if God send a guardian angel for each person then why not do the same? His purpose is to kill, destroy, to lure man so that man will continue to live by himself and will not need God. But Man as created in the image of God did not lost all his God-image character, part of him still crave for God, he will try some anesthetic to numb that longing and vacuum for God, but he will find out that nothing could satisfy him except God. But the problem is he separated from God. It is like lovers who live far from each other. God also longs to embrace man but he can not, His holiness is too difficult for man to bear. If he will let man stay on his side with his sin he will surely die. man can't do anything about this. So God has to intervene. God told Satan, "I am going to send SOMEONE, you will hurt Him yes, but He will finish you, He will crush your head". This happen right after Satan succeeded in luring the Man to sin against God. I do not know what was Satan's answer to this. was he scared? did he laugh at God? I do not know but But the Battle has begun, God on one side and Satan on the other side. The Battlefield? the MAN.

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What is it in a Man?

Before I start unfolding the BIG plan, I can not go on without asking "What is it in a Man, that God His creator be mindful of him?" He has created billions of living and non-living things here on earth and the whole universe, He has created millions of angels but nothing has captivated Him like the Man that He has created. What is in a Man? Is man so attractive? Did He anchored His existence on Man that without Man He would find His existence as God meaningless? what is in a Man? Personally, I do not know the whole reason. There is only one thing I know, that He is very affectionate about Man, He choose Man to be the object of His Love which is one of His attributes. He just love Man without reason? I'm not sure of this but knowing God to be self sufficient, that means He can exist on His own even without anything and be completely happy. What could be the reason for loving Man? Personally, I can not fathom the answeres to this questions, but that is exactly what God says, he loves Man not because Man can give Him something. This idea has made me humble, speechless and in awe when I think of His Love for Man.

With Lucifer's Revolt and with Man's disobedience (subtle revolt) God has now two problems: Satan has usurp part of His Kingdom and determined to give Him good fight on one hand and on the other hand Man who was mired with Sin can no longer come to Him neither can He just tolerate Man's sinfulness because it would violate His character.

If I am to play as God, I will just erase everything and start all over again, and this time I will see to it that Angels and Man will have no power to disobey nor revolt against Me. they will not have will of their own, they can not reason out, they are just the same as robots... How would you like to be one of those man-robot? But, thinking deep about my new creation personally I do not like the idea, I like the way God created Man, so does He. So He set the BIG PLAN, when? after Lucifer revolted and Man fall into Sin? no no no! His BIG Plan was before He created the Angels and Man. What? What kind of God is he? He knows already that Lucifer will revolt against Him and that Man will disobey Him why did he created them in the first place? I do not know fully, but He proceeded with the BIG Plan. The Objectives of the BIG Plan was to get back the part of the Kingdom that was usurp by Lucifer and to redeemed back some Men to Himself. How did he do this? well, its not finished yet but the major part of this BIG Plan was already accomplished.. I will tell you more in my next post...

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The BIG Plan...

When God created His second special creation, He named Adam and put him in the planet earth which he made just enough to support life. This man is special because he was created in His image but a physical being. quite different from the angels who are spirits. The man was special partner of God in taking care of the earth where lives thrive. It was this man who named the other creation. God treated him not as servant but friend. However, God gave him just one limitation and that of not eating a certain fruit of a tree in the place where He put him, the garden of Eden. He then gave him a wife by the name of Eve.

Immediately, His enemy, Lucifer now called Satan noticed this new creation who now became the apple of God's eyes. He remembered that once in was him who had this kind of attention from God. He did not waste time and immediately launch a subtle attack against this new creation. He did not stop until the Man disobeyed God on the limitation God gave him. Satan used the glittering attraction of power. Like himself he deceived Man to commit the same mistake that he committed before, that is declaring independence from God. So, man like Satan has now severed his relationship with God. Unlike Satan who was determine to give God a good fight, Man has just lost God, and started to live a miserable life. He started to live away from God. God was sad about this, but He could not just compromise one of His attributes which is absolute holiness. In His presence, there will be no sin that could exist. He looked Man at his state and was dismayed. Unlike when Satan revolted against God, God did not plan to bring Him back to Him but when Man disobeyed God, He put up a big Plan to win man back to Him. And this this the exciting part of the story.... What is this BIG PLAN? watch this plan unfold in this blog...