UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 2

THE TWO EXPERIMENTS OF GOD’S NATURE

So when we say man fell, we mean man was demoted from his original position in the Godhead. It does not mean that man fall in love in with or fall for love and ate the forbidden fruit. We mean man’s place in the heavenlies was vacant. This is exactly the reason why believers are said to be sitted in the heavenlies upon salvation.

Now see the hierarchy before the fall of man in Genesis

1.      God

2.      Man

3.      Angels

4.      Satan

5.      Demons

After the fall…

1.      God

2.      Angels

3.      Satan

4.      Demons

5.      Man

So you see that the fall of man is a hierarchy thing.

In Genesis 1, God was in control of the world

In Genesis 2, Man was given the control by God

In Genesis 3, Satan took the control through beguiling Eve

In Genesis 4, Sin got the control through Adam to Cain who killed his brother

In Genesis 5, Death started reigning. Adam first to die, then others.

Now, God’s desire to have a family was only altered, it was not cancelled. God already knew that Man would fall; he demonstrated this by two things:

1.    He slaughtered a lamb to cover the nakedness of the fallen Man in replacement of leaves. This demonstrates prophetically the Salvation through the death of the lamb (JESUS) replacing religion (LEAVES). Religion is good. Just that it is a temporary means of covering the shame of man which the work of the cross has permanently taken away.

2.    He guided the way to the tree of life, in order for man not to permanently remain with the nature of sin.  Man need not to complicate the issue of the fallen glory, so God chased man away. Man would have sealed the sinful nature forever by eating the fruit of the tree of life.

So God retained his plan…You remember the prophecy of the crushing of the serpent’s head? This was about the defeat of Satan. Now God chose a people of his own, through which he will establish his family. He chose Israel through Abraham. Through Israel he chose, Jesus of Nazareth. When he was anointed by the Holy Spirit, he became Jesus Christ. Christ means the anointed one. That was exactly what Peter meant in Acts 10:38. So Jesus Christ died to save the world from the consequences of Sin, Death and Satan. His primary mission was to return Man back to his original position in the hierarchy of the Godhead but he needed to first take away the obstacles, which he has done successfully. The death of Jesus was not because of Heaven, neither was it because people are going to hell. Abraham, Elijah, Moses…and others, even Rah-ab a prostitute who were not perfect were already favorites and accepted by God and never went to hell. So salvation was not an escape from hell. It is a reversal of the dominion of the earth from Death, to Sin, to Satan and then returning it to man. These have all been done beginning with Death. Jesus Christ has restored the Kingdom of God-Man.

That’s why he preached during his time… that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. This we shall deeply examine later. However, some people are still waiting for that kingdom of heaven he spoke about. No! The kingdom was established at his resurrection. He conquered the former rulers of this world, sin, death and Satan and established the kingdom with the newly created Spirit man.

The experiment of Holiness was what he performed with the angels, during their time. When their head, Lucifer THOUGHT TO SIN against God and was destroyed. That is, God wanted his creation to know how holy he is and that he is no respecter of persons. As close as Lucifer was, he was destroyed. That’s why angels worship him every time shouting Holy, Holy; holy…they know that dimension of God more than we do.

The experiment of Love was what God performed with Man. Despite the fact that man handed dominion to the enemy of God (Satan), God still saved man all by himself. Man was not involved the salvation work at all. God did it all by himself. This is love! Similarly, we know this dimension more than the angels do.

So Man was returned back to his position after Jesus’ victory of redemption…

1.      God

2.      Man

3.      Angels

4.      Satan

5.      Demons

We have been raised far above powers and principalities, sitted in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.