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Interviewing God - 6
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WHY THE RUSH? Well, the rebellion in heaven had created a completely new dynamic in the universe. For the first time ever, more than one will existed. Previously, there was just my will and all those sub-wills in perfect alignment with me. The usurper changed all that. I’ll let you in on a little secret – that’s when what you now call “time” began.28
Anyway, I had big plans for Adam and his mate, but they were going to have to be able to resist temptation from the infected beings in order to carry off their assignments. Thus the need for development. But the usurper was Johnny-on-the-spot, so I said, “Why don’t we just use him to develop our somewhat naive couple.” That concept became a pattern, a useful tool for us down the road. SO THE TEST CAME – THE TREES, THE FRUIT, THE SNAKE AND ALL THAT – BUT THEY DIDN’T REALLY DIE. THE WAY I REMEMBER IT, ADAM AND EVE WENT ON TO PRODUCE SEVERAL CHILDREN. WHAT DID YOU MEAN, “SURELY DIE?” Let’s say you enter a brightly lit walk-in closet like yours at home – the big one with all those pretty shoes. Close the door behind you, turn out the lights, and you will begin to experience darkness. One might say that darkness is just the absence of light. In the same manner, one might say that death is just the absence of life.
When the first Adam followed Eve and put his allegiance in the usurper’s camp, I withdrew my very life from him. They had traded light for darkness, experiencing spiritual death. No longer of the family of the living, by default, they had joined the family of death.29 A threefold perverted principle of pride, rebellion, and self-willed legalism rules the spiritual family of death., so things went downhill for a time after that.30 The first parents began to reproduce after their own infected kind. Meanwhile, I kept my eye peeled for someone in the lineage we could work with – at least on some useful level.31 |
28 “But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called ‘Today’” (Hebrews 3:13a, New American Standard). 29 “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life’” (John 8:12). “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do” (John 8:44a). “. . . And what communion has light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14b). “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men . . . “ (Romans 5:12a). 30 “. . . a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12b). 31 “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him” (2 Chronicles 16:9a). |
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