LOSS OF COVERINGS. The result of eating the fruit was not at all as Adam and Eve had expected. Instead of becoming like God, instead of possessing that greater wisdom Lucifer had promised, instead of having the “secret” of Good and Evil revealed to them, they suddenly lost their “light covering” which had been their clothing hitherto, and found themselves nude. In Eden there were all manner of creatures, but each had its own covering. Some had feathers, some had fur, nonewere of “bare flesh”, the condition they now found themselves in. And a new sensation came over them, that of embarrassment, a sensation they couldn’t handle. Lucifer stood there and they knew they had to run into the seclusion of the bushes. They also sensed what was wrong. [Read more…]
94. Lucifer’s Fall from Glory
THE REASON FOR LUCIFER’S FALL. “You were perfect in all your ways until iniquity was found in you.”Ezek.28:15. This makes it sound like a sudden happening, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Hebrew word translated “iniquity” should really have been rendered “declension” or “a turning away”. It indicates a gradual process of decline, the which is so often observed in human behaviour. That which starts with small beginnings seems to give licence to the soul, gradually to increase the effect until it explodes into downright rebellion. Hence the decline is not in itself immediately the cause of divine judgment, but leads up to it. [Read more…]
93. Lucifer’s Glorious Beginning
EARLY HISTORY, BEFORE HIS FALL
So great is the misunderstanding about Satan’s real person, that this article may come as a surprise to some of our readers. The world, and sadly also the church, has painted a ridiculous figure, sometimes in terms of a snake in an apple tree, and otherwise as half-man, half-goat with horns, to mention just two of the prevailing symbols. In this first of the “Lucifer Papers” we shall try to put the record straight from Scripture about his glorious beginning. [Read more…]
88. The Enthronement
THE WELCOME CEREMONY. If the testimony of many hymns and choruses is to be believed, then Jesus is due to receive a warm welcome on His return. In American terminology, He will be given a “ticker-tape parade”. In Britain He will be received as on a day of Royal Coronation, with flag-waving, and cheering, as He descends from the clouds with thousands of angels in His train. [Read more…]
87. The Crowning Day. Part 2
INTRODUCTION. Our first paper was devoted almost entirely to the story of Joash. But now we must ask a few questions about chronology, because we want to know when God’s Kingdom will be set up. A number of Biblical pointers will help us in this enquiry.
THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS. One of the N.T. Apocryphal Books is that of Barnabas. In quoting it, we shall not be treating it as having the same authority as Scripture. But it does show us how people in the 2nd century A.D. were thinking. [Read more…]
86. The Crowning Day. Part 1
Our Lord is now rejected,
And by the world disowned,
By the many still neglected,
And by the few enthroned;
ut soon He’ll come in glory!
The hour is drawing nigh,
For THE CROWNING DAY is coming By-and-by.
Oh, the Crowning Day is coming!
Is coming by-and-by!
When our Lord shall come in power
And glory from on high!
Oh, the glorious sight will gladden
Each waiting, watchful eye,
In THE CROWNING DAY that’s coming By-and-by.
79. Sodom’s Great Secret
Sodom and Gomorrah have at last been found. Or should I say, they have at last been RECOGNISED, because they have been lying undisturbed for thousands of years, unrecognised. I have written about this recently, based on the exciting Video produced by Jonathan Gray. Someone wrote to him saying, “How can you say that bricks and stone have been turned to ash? That never happens.” He replied, quite correctly I feel, that when a volcano explodes, literally millions of tons of VOLCANIC ASH spew out, known as TUFA. Nobody doubts that. And it is the result of intense heat on rocks. What happened at Sodom is the result of intense heat – “the Lord rained on Sodom fire and brimstone.” The word “ash” is used in the Bible to describe the result, and that is exactly what Wyatt and Gray found. It is a fitting testimony to the accuracy of holy writ. [Read more…]
68. The Evil Eye
A study on the Sermon on the Mount. Matt.6:19-34
Our Lord spoke about “the evil eye” in Matthew 6, and I began to wonder what He meant by the expression. I was aware that it is sometimes used today, so I looked it up in “Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable“, and this is what I found:- [Read more…]
67. “The Big Noise”
In P.T.66 we saw how the original meaning of “evil” (Hebrew RA) was connected with making a loud noise, and breaking in pieces. And it followed on logically that Satan must have chosen the concept of Noise, Display, Showmanship, and Pride as being the BETTER of the two ways. The other way, called “good” (Hebrew TOV) suggested Quietness, Softness, Beauty, and Peace. These qualities were relegated to the lower place by Lucifer. And even today we still refer to the “boss” as “the big noise”, though it is doubtful as to the origin of the expression. [Read more…]
66. Adam and Eve
The importance of this investigation can hardly be over-rated. But if you cannot accept that Adam and Eve were real people, living but a few millennia ago, then of course it is impossible to go further. We are aware that many philosophical ideas have arisen in the last century to cause an atmosphere of mirth, and even mockery, to arise whenever anyone talks about a LITERAL Adam, but as a personal testimony we should like to state the following. (a) “Jesus answered them saying, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning, made them male and female?'” (Matthew 19:4) (b) “As by ONE MAN sin entered the world, and by means of sin came death, and so death passed upon all men.” (Romans 5:12) (c) “Adam was formed first, and then Eve.” (1 Timothy 2:13) [Read more…]
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