DARK LIGHT SERIES FOUR WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MAN? THE FALL FROM DIVINE LOVE We have proved beyond question that the central core essence of God is a mysterious and apparently unknown AGAPE LOVE. We have examined it in brief detail, so we know from a mental viewpoint something ABOUT IT. We have also found that the reason why the vast majority of Christians never enter heaven is because they do not LAY HOLD OF, OR RECEIVE THIS DIVINE LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS, THEY ARE NEVER REGENERATED IN TRUTH. When man was created, he was CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, AND THEREFORE WAS CREATED WITH AN INTERNAL ESSENCE OF DIVINE AGAPE LOVE. He was one with his Creator, in total UNION, and in total COMMUNION. He walked, he talked, and he lived in and through his Creator. We must now examine the fall of man, and explore the depth of this catastrophic event, for if you do not understand what REALLY HAPPENED, then you will not understand the beauty and the simplicity of the mission of Christ. The simplicity of His mission is wrapped up in two areas: THE CROSS OF CHRIST, AND THE AGAPE LOVE OF CHRIST. If there has been NO CRUCIFIXION OF THE SELF, THERE IS NO DIVINE LOVE GRANTED. It is that simple, that blunt. That is why Paul said he preached CHRIST CRUCIFIED. Jesus told us we MUST PICK UP THE CROSS AND FOLLOW HIM. WE MUST WALK WITH JESUS IN AND THROUGH OUR OWN CALVARY. To refresh our memory, man looked like this at creation in graphic form:  He was 100% pure agape love inside, with a HEART, A SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND, AND A CONSCIOUS MIND, WHICH COMPRISE THE SOUL. He also had a BODY. The body and soul comprise what the Bible calls THE FLESH. For our purposes, we will leave the body out of it, and concentrate upon the spirit and soul aspect of man. The spirit is called THE HEART. The soul is referring to the two parts of your mind: CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS. For all practical purposes, when the Bible refers to the heart, you can put in the word SPIRIT. When the Bible uses the word spirit, you can place the word HEART. In any event Adam and Eve were a DIRECT CREATION from the hand of Almighty God. They lived in complete unity and union with the Godhead; a life of peace, joy, and harmony with every need taken care of. There is no such thing as FEAR, TERROR, SORROW OR SUFFERING. These are totally unknown, non-existent. They love each other and their Creator with a pure AGAPE LOVE, which radiates outward from their inner core being. Because they have no knowledge of good or evil, their phileo and Eros love is pure, untainted by lust or greed. HEART & SPIRIT = THE CENTER OF MAN’S BEING, THE THRONE ROOM OF THE GREAT I AM. FLESH = BODY AND MIND. THE MIND = CONSCIOUS AND
UNCONSCIOUS ASPECTS. The mind will also be referred to as SOUL MAN, CARNAL MAN, FLESH, SENSUAL MAN, SENSE MAN. All of these refer to the FLESH, the body and the two aspects of the mind. It is important that you grasp the essential differences between these aspects of mankind. In regeneration, the Bible speaks of BELIEVING FROM THE HEART. That is the key to understanding that when Christ says BELIEVE, HE IS SPEAKING OF THE HEART/SPIRIT OF A PERSON, NOT THEIR MIND, WHICH INCLUDES THE CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS MIND. Scripture proves that the many HAD A SOUL BELIEF, A MIND BELIEF WHICH POSED AS A TRUE HEART BELIEF. In other words, the ‘many’ had a mental or INTELLECTUAL SALVATION, which was NOT FROM THE HEART, BUT ONLY THEIR MIND. We will prove the modern man DOES NOT REALIZE THE VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MIND AND THE HEART. We will be exploring these differences as we journey through the remainder of the book. Everything is now pure; everything is as God wanted. Their joy and peace are complete beyond anything that natural man can comprehend. God then did something that mankind has never understood, and has been argued over in theological circles for eons. God put a tree in the MIDST OF THE GARDEN, a tree so terrible, so deadly that most consider God should have never placed it there. Man does not realize that one of the attributes of PURE AGAPE LOVE IS THE PRESENTATION OF ALL KNOWN TRUTHS. Nothing can be hidden; nothing can be placed out of reach or concealed. AGAPE LOVE REQUIRES FULL DISCLOSURE, BOTH ALL POSITIVE AND ALL NEGATIVE ASPECTS HAVE TO BE PRESENTED. It also requires full disclosure of consequences as well, or any warnings needed to be given to warn anyone of danger in any of these ‘truths’ agape love must present. God resides in a place of complete PERFECTION in which ALL SPIRITUAL NEGATIVES ARE SIMPLY NOT ALLOWED. In a universe of absolutes, or pure agape love, there is always the chance that a being created by God, who has free will, MAY CHOOSE REBELLION. This is true because of the nature of FREE WILL, which plays a major role in the fall of man, and also in redemption and regeneration. The very essence of free will ALLOWS FOR FREEDOM OF CHOICE, OR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. In a universe of pure love, WHAT IS THERE TO CHOOSE? WHERE IS THERE ANY CHOICE? If there is love, there is the opposite of hate. If there is good, there is the opposite of evil. If there be truth, the opposite is lie. If there be harmony, the opposite is discord, and so it goes. As soon as any standard is raised, THE OPPOSITE REFLECTION MAY BECOME A REALITY. For example, if we create a man and put him in a cage, and lock the door, and take the key, but then we say to him, “YOU HAVE FREE WILL TO STAY OR TO GO, YOUR CHOICE”, we are liars, for HE HAS NO WAY TO EXERCISE HIS SO-CALLED ‘FREE WILL’. In order for free will to be free, you must ALLOW THE ALTERNATIVES TO BECOME A REALITY. Thus any being created INDEPENDENT OF GOD, and given a central awareness, would have a REAL ABILITY TO MAKE REAL CHOICES, WHICH HAVE REAL CONSEQUENCES. If you allow no such choices, free will is a lie, a non-truth. GOD ALLOWS REAL FREE CHOICE AND GAVE HIS CREATED BEINGS REAL FREE WILL. Any created being, that is separate from God, and has ‘life’ of ‘its’ own, and is AWARE OF ITSELF, THAT HAS A CENTRAL “I AM”, IS GRANTED A TOTAL FREE WILL. A computer, for example, although it has artificial intelligence and can mimic a real “self” has no REAL CENTRAL AWARENESS. It could be programmed to MIMIC AWARENESS, but it will never have awareness as we do. Any time you create an entity that can operate independently, you create for yourself immediate problems, which was the basis of the movie TERMINATOR II. In that movie, the computers developed self-awareness, and when they did, they elected to destroy mankind to preserve themselves. God does not want robots or computers. He wanted FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION OUT OF A FREE WILL, WHICH INCLUDES A REAL FREE CHOICE. In order to accomplish this, God must grant the created entity a separate ‘life’, a central awareness of its own, that is, it would know ITSELF, OR WOULD HAVE AN ‘I AM’. It would be aware of its own identity. The central essence of these beings would have to be agape love, for agape love only fellowships with agape love, can only have union with its own. Remember when dealing with God you are dealing with ABSOLUTES. This creates a real dilemma for God. If He chooses to create an independent creature apart from Himself, then He also runs the risk of REBELLION. He knew because of total foreknowledge that some of them would, and therefore developed a plan to contain this rebellion within His creation. God has three choices: (1) non-creation; (2) creation with risk; (3) creation with no risk, i.e. robotics. In His sovereignty, He elected to create with risk, so that He could have FREE WILL UNION. He wanted them to enjoy His creation in perfect peace and joy, hence an essence of pure AGAPE LOVE UNTAINTED. THE TREE OF
KNOWLEDGE
“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the TREE OF LIFE also in the midst of the garden, and THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.” (Genesis 2:9) What is this tree of knowledge of good and evil? Is it literal, or is it just symbolic of something else. Mankind has made a tragic mistake in not investigating this mystery from the ancient past. Upon this short verse of Scripture lies the entire premise of the Bible. This verse of Scripture is the foundation upon which all doctrines are built, the entire mission of Jesus Christ, and was the basis of the PASSION OF CHRIST. If this verse of Scripture is UNTRUE, THEN JESUS CHRIST WAS A LIAR, A LUNATIC AND WORSE. Christ demands that we take this verse in its most literal sense. If we can grasp the key essential elements of what we are being told, we will have found the keys required to unlock the MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH, OF REGENERATION. With it, we will then know WHY THE VAST MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS WERE REJECTED, WHAT THEY MISSED AND HOW THEY COULD HAVE PREVENTED IT. The first place we will start is by word study. We will examine the original meanings for the words TREE, KNOWLEDGE, GOOD AND EVIL. This alone will unlock the harsh realities of our world and will tell us WHY there is nothing but constant strife and turmoil in human affairs. The world for “tree” is ‘ets’ and it means in the most literal sense WOOD, MADE OF WOOD, A TREE. God is then telling us that in the MIDST OF THE GARDEN STOOD A REAL LITERAL TREE, A TREE OF LITERAL WOOD. We are told that this tree bore a FRUIT: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, thou SHALT NOT EAT OF IT…” (Genesis 2:16, 17) “And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat OF THE FRUIT of the trees of the garden: but of THE FRUIT of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, LEST YE DIE.” (Genesis 3:2, 3) The word “fruit” is ‘periy’ and it means LITERAL FRUIT. The word “eat” is ‘akal’, which means TO EAT, TO CONSUME, TO DEVOUR. We are being told then that GOD PLANTED A REAL LITERAL TREE THAT BORE A FORM OF FRUIT THAT MAN COULD EAT. We are told to take this in the most literal manner. This fruit contained a ‘knowledge’. The word for “knowledge” is ‘da’ath’ and it means EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, CUNNING, EXPERIENTIAL AWARENESS, TO BE AWARE OF, TO HAVE A TOTAL KNOWLEDGE OF. The fruit then contains within it a TOTAL EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. Because knowledge refers to MENTAL ABILITY, THIS FRUIT WILL THEN CHANGE THE HUMAN SOUL AND SPIRIT IF IT IS TOUCHED. It will radically alter the PRESENT PURE AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE of man. THE MORAL
CONSEQUENCES OF THE TREE
The word for “good” is ‘towb’ and it means THAT WHICH IS GOOD, THAT WHICH IS MORAL OR UPRIGHT, THAT WHICH IS ETHICAL OR GOOD. The word for “evil” is ‘ra’ and it means MORAL WICKEDNESS, CORRUPTION, MORAL EVIL, UNETHICAL, FULL SPECTRUM EVIL. We already know what knowledge means, so when we combine the two concepts together we obtain AN EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF FULL SPECTRUM GOOD AND EVIL. EVIL SIDE “I AM” GOOD SIDE The ramifications here are grave if we grasp the impact of what God is telling us. Mankind will MOVE FROM A POSITION OF PURE AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE TO ANOTHER PLANE OF OPERATION ALTOGETHER; HE WILL LOSE HIS AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE AND IN ITS PLACE WILL BE A NEW CREATION. This new being will have within it FULL EXPERIENTIAL CUNNING OF THE COMPLETE SPECTRUM OF BOTH GOOD AND EVIL. That means that within this new being there will be in effect A SPLIT PERSONALITY, with one side being capable of the HIGHEST GOOD, and also the CAPACITY FOR THE MOST DIABOLICAL EVIL:  It is essential we grasp the full impact of what this means: 1. Mankind was ORIGINALLY CREATED with a 100% PURE AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE, or the IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD. From this essence flows his love for the creation and his Creator. He has NO KNOWLEDGE OF EITHER GOOD OR EVIL. Man is good, but he is NOT AWARE HE IS GOOD. He has NO MORAL AWARENESS WHATEVER. He is in point of fact, AN AMORAL CREATURE. 2. Mankind was totally unaware of his ‘goodness’. There is nothing but pure love and pure good in agape love essence. Because he has no KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD OR EVIL, then he knows nothing of either one, and is wholly UNAWARE. He knows nothing of lies, deception, wrong motive or any evil intent. He is ignorant of his goodness, HE SIMPLY ‘IS’. His whole being, his whole essence is pure, and he has no need to be AWARE. 3. Mankind would have to be viewed in this condition as being AMORAL, but not in the sense of a rock or object. He is amoral in the sense that HE KNOWS NOTHING OF GOOD AND EVIL, HE TRANSCENDS IT, IS FAR ABOVE IT, ON A WHOLLY DIFFERENT PLANE OF EXISTENCE. God is amoral in this sense of the word, simply because He transcends ALL OF IT. We could define this type of AMORAL as being TOTALLY MORAL, ABSOLUTE MORALITY; TOTAL PERFECTION ON THE SIDE OF GOOD. It is essential this be grasped, for GOD IS NOT ON ANY SCALE OF MORALITY AT ALL, HE IS ABOVE IT, BEYOND IT AND OPERATES ON A DIFFERENT CONCEPT. Absolute morality is something we are simply not able to comprehend or fathom. It is beyond our reach, not a part of our nature. “For my thoughts ARE NOT your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are HIGHER than the earth, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9) God’s thoughts and ways ARE NOT ON ANY MORAL PLANE OF OPERATION. THEY TRANSCEND MORALITY, AND THE ESSENCE IS AGAPE LOVE PERFECTION. This agape love perfection places God upon a scale of ABSOLUTE MORALITY, SO FAR ADVANCED BEYOND MAN IT CANNOT BE COMPREHENDED, for man does not KNOW what pure agape love is! Man will thus become trapped if he eats of this literal fruit. He will leave his agape love standard and be plunged into a whole different plane of being, which is RELATIVE MORALITY. He will move from his ABSOLUTE STANDARD TO A RELATIVE STANDARD. He will not remember the absolute; it will vanish like a puff of smoke from his central awareness. HE WILL DIE TO PURE AGAPE LOVE. Thus:  If we look up the word ‘MORAL’ in our dictionary, we will begin to perceive what is being told to us. It is interesting to note that the word MORAL is not used in either the Old or New Testament. The reason is that God does not consider man to be either moral or ethical, but rather EVIL AND WICKED. This is so because He is dealing from HIS ABSOLUTE PERSPECTIVE. Man deals only from a RELATIVE PERSPECTIVE. The two concepts are VASTLY DIFFERENT, AND THERE IS A HUGE GULF BETWEEN THE TWO. The Random House dictionary of the American Language says “MORAL – 1. of or pertaining to, or concerned with RIGHT CONDUCT, OR THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG.” Good can be traced to RIGHT, and evil can be traced to WRONG. The tree then represents a SHIFT FROM MAN’S CREATED AMORAL STATE TO A MORAL STATE. THUS: AMORAL BUT PERFECT TO MORAL AND IMPERFECT Therefore if man eat of this tree, he will move from a perfect being with pure agape love essence, from a PERFECT MORALITY, FROM AN ABSOLUTE MORALITY, OF WHICH HE IS UNAWARE; to a being with no agape love, with only a RELATIVE righteousness. He will become an ADMIXTURE of both good and evil, tossed upon the seas of a raging war within as two powerful but invisible forces rage in his soul. He will leave the harmony of peace and joy and communion with his Creator to a position of trouble and sorrow totally separated from his Creator. He will have no peace, little joy, and all of his days will be filled with trouble. Man will be REBORN into a ‘new consciousness’, a SATANIC CREATION. He will throw away the purity of agape love for a whole new form of ‘being’. A hideous creature will emerge from the rubble of the fall, a creature incapable of loving anything but itself. He will plunge from the pure light of agape love to the total darkness of conditional love. He will plunge from freedom and all that went with it to becoming a slave to his own nature, unable to break the chains of bondage. No matter how noble and how good his deeds, THE EVIL SIDE OF HIS NATURE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE. He cannot escape it, for it is PART OF HIS VERY NATURE. HE BECOMES A PRISONER OF HIS OWN NATURE. The evil becomes HIS INNER ESSENCE, AN UNKNOWN AND HIDDEN ESSENCE, OF WHICH HE IS PARTIALLY AWARE, BUT NOT FULLY AWARE OF. The good essence becomes primarily his conscious essence, with the evil floating just under the surface. Therefore man will think of himself as primarily good, and he can control and eventually get rid of his evil nature. In other words, by various methods, man can eliminate that part of his nature and RISE ABOVE IT. Thus it is that religions are formed, and various philosophies, governments, laws, etc. The hope of man is that HE CAN RISE BY HIMSELF TO GODHOOD STATUS. This is a primary concept of the evolutionary doctrine, that man is EVOLVING UPWARDS, INTO PERFECTION. It is a lie, a fabrication of the evil one, who controls everything from behind the scenes. The more man perceives himself as good, and as going towards Godhood, the more evil he becomes in his actions. The worst evils of man have always been covered over by high principal and ethical rationales. If we were to view this from a different perspective, we could take a bucket full of white paint. We will say it represents PURE AGAPE LOVE, JUST AS MAN WAS CREATED WITH. If we throw any IMPURITY into it, IT IS NOT LONGER PURE, BUT IMPURE. We will say that black paint represents the IMPURITY, THE KNOWLEDGE OF EVIL. We throw into our white bucket some BLACK PAINT. The white paint is now a SHADE OF GRAY. It is no longer PURE WHITE. It has only a RELATIVE WHITENESS COMPARED TO EITHER FULL EVIL (BLACK) OR FULL GOOD (WHITE). In other words IT LIES ON A SCALE BETWEEN THE TWO CONCEPTS, being NEITHER TOTALLY EVIL OR TOTALLY GOOD. IT IS NOW ON A RELATIVE SCALE. MAN WILL THEN BE UNABLE TO ATTAIN TO PERFECTNESS, BUT ONLY TO RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS.
To demonstrate how this works, we have created a scale to show how the morality issue really works. We have numbered our scale from 0-10 on both sides of the spectrum of good and evil. Most people would then view God as being the perfect number 10 on the scale of RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS: RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS SCALE
What is the reality of the situation? Where does God actually fit on this scale of RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, OF MORALITY AND GOOD AND LOVE? In point of fact He does not sit anywhere on the scale at all. The reason being is, this is a scale of RELATIVE MORALITY, RELATIVE ETHICS FROM A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE. God is not on the scale, for HE OPERATES UPON A TOTALLY DIFFERENT BASIS; ABSOLUTE AGAPE LOVE. Man does not know anything of PURE AGAPE LOVE. The knowledge of God was totally and completely cut off from man when he ate of this tree of knowledge of good and evil. THE EVIL SIDE OF THIS KNOWLEDGE BROUGHT IN THE IMPURITY, THE BLACK PAINT IN OUR ILLUSTRATION. Man was instantly severed from God, BECAUSE HE WENT FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE RELATIVE STANDARD. God now becomes invisible to man, unknowable to man. Man is instantly cut of and severed from God and now must DRIFT ALONE IN THE SEAS OF RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS. There will be evidence that a God exists in the creation, but God will become a ‘mystery’, totally unknown, out of reach because of His very nature. That man did eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is a fact that Jesus claims we must accept at face value. It is recorded in Genesis 3:6. Both Eve and Adam did eat of this fruit. The vast majority of man, and the vast majority of Christians have no concept of what this means, and theological research proves the vast majority of theologians totally miss the mark at what we are being told. The creation and fall of man has not been examined carefully enough, nor has the simplicity of what has been presented accepted in a literal manner, and usually laughed at, and very few take it literally. That explains apostasy from the truths of the salvation message. IT IS LITERAL, AND ADAM AND EVE DID EAT OF THIS TREE. THEY PLUNGED FROM PURE AGAPE LOVE TO RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS. It cost them eternity. THE LOVE CHANGE OF THE TREE The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents a TOTAL AND COMPLETE LOVE CHANGE SHIFT. This is the crucial change, and it is the change that the entire doctrine of REGENERATION IS GEARED TO RESOLVE. We have shown you that God is a Spirit, and a Spirit of pure AGAPE LOVE. Because Adam and Eve were created in the image and likeness of God, they too were also of the same pure AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE. Agape love is 100% pure. It is imperative you understand this. THERE ARE NO IMPERFECTIONS IN GOD’S AGAPE LOVE. It is totally pure in the ABSOLUTE SENSE. There is not one impurity found within it. From this absolute pure agape love flows ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS, ABSOLUTE JUSTICE, ABSOLUTE TRUTH, ABSOLUTE GOOD, ABSOLUTE MORALITY AND ETHICS. This means that God’s agape love is 100% pure. It is not 99.99999999% pure, but WHOLLY PURE. The fruit contains a knowledge of both GOOD and EVIL. Because evil is present within the knowledge, and evil is the COUNTERMANDING FORCE TO LOVE AND GOOD, then IF INGESTED, THE PURITY OF AGAPE LOVE WOULD BE VIOLATED. It would no longer be pure. Therefore IT WOULD NO LONGER BE PURE BUT IMPURE. If by definition DIVINE AGAPE LOVE IS ABSOLUTE PURITY, then DIVINE AGAPE LOVE IS INSTANTLY LOST. Agape love is a thing of the past, for now the purity is violated and it is no longer DIVINE LOVE. It is instead ANOTHER FORM OF LOVE, A LOVE IMPURE, A LOVE NOT PERFECT. As we are dealing with a love not perfect, a love not pure, less than 100% in purity, then MAN DIED TO PURE AGAPE LOVE, AND WAS SEPARATED FROM IT. As the word death means SEPARATION, THEN WE WOULD HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SAY THAT MAN DIED TO PURE AGAPE, HE DIED TO PURITY, BUT CAME ALIVE TO IMPURITY. He then died to God and came alive to Satan. He went into SPIRITUAL DEATH. The radical knowledge of good and evil brings with it a radical change in purity. As divine agape love is defined as PURE LOVE, then mankind is NO LONGER ALIVE TO IT. Instantly his communion with God is severed. Instantly the knowledge of God he had through UNION with God is severed. Man dies a spiritual death UNTO GOD AND GOD’S KINGDOM. IN GRAPH FORM IT LOOKS LIKE THIS:  Did GOD mention any of this to either Adam or Eve? The fact is, He did, but we can also know that Adam or Eve would not be able to comprehend what God was speaking of. They could not comprehend SPIRITUAL DEATH anymore than man can comprehend SPIRITUAL REBIRTH UNTIL HE GOES THROUGH IT. The concept of spiritual death would not mean much to them, for they were alive and had total peace and joy in their hearts. Of what would they know of this DEATH? Nevertheless, God, in His agape love, WARNS THEM NOT TO PARTAKE OF THIS FRUIT: “But of the TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: FOR IN THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE.” (Genesis 2:17) What did God mean when He said they would DIE IN THE VERY DAY THEY PARTOOK OF THIS KNOWLEDGE? The word “die” is ‘muwth’ and it means TO DIE, TO KILL, TO SLAY. It is the OPPOSITE OF LIFE. It is the CESSATION OF LIFE. It means CUTTING OFF, A SEVERANCE, A SEPARATION FROM. The question we have is this: FROM WHAT IS MAN GOING TO DIE? The answer becomes obvious: FROM THE 100% purity of agape love he was created with. HE WILL DIE TO PURE AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE. HE WILL BE CUT OFF AND SEVERED FROM IT. Because God is also pure agape love, man will be CUT OFF AND SEVERED FROM GOD. HE WILL BE CUT OFF, AND SEVERED FROM GOD AND HIS SPIRITUAL ESSENCE. He will go from UNION AND COMMUNION (WHICH IS EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD) TO TOTAL SEVERANCE, TO A REAL AND LITERAL DYING TO GOD. We can prove that Adam and Eve lived many years after the day they ate of this fruit. But God is not a liar, and He plainly states that BOTH ADAM AND EVE WILL DIE IN THE VERY DAY THEY EAT OF THIS FRUIT. Obviously God is speaking of another form of dying and not physical death. This dying will be SPIRITUAL. THEY WILL DIE SPIRITUALLY TO GOD. Their love will no longer be pure, and that impurity brings INSTANT CESSATION OF UNION. It is also interesting to note that to God a thousand years of earth time represent ONE DAY (2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:4). Adam lived for 935 years and died (Genesis 5:5). We are not told how long Eve lived, but we know it was not over 1000 years. From God’s point of view then, both Adam and Eve DID DIE in the “DAY” they ate of that fruit, but the primary message being given to us is that of SPIRITUAL DEATH, DUE TO THE LOSS OF PURE AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE. The love change went from pure agape to what the Bible calls PHILEO LOVE. The love of man changes from agape to another form of love, which we could call NATURAL LOVE, THE LOVE WE ARE BORN WITH. Standing behind phileo love is God’s agape in a very TWISTED FORM. It is a perverted agape, a RELATIVE AGAPE, primarily referred to in Scripture simply as PHILEO. The Greek lists over 19 forms of ‘phileo’ love. They have the form of ‘phi’ in them. They include:
The Greek words convey the SPECTRUM OF THE PHILEO LOVES OF FALLEN NATURAL MAN. These are the various forms of NATURAL LOVE that all humans have to one degree or another. The vast majority of Christians who were sent away rejected of Christ ALL HAD THESE NATURAL LOVES OF MAN BEATING WITHIN THEIR BREASTS. Mankind is under the deception that PHILEO LOVE RELEASED IS IN FACT THE AGAPE LOVE OF GOD. They do what Peter did, they EQUATE LOVE AS LOVE. In other words phileo love is agape love, or certain forms of phileo love is agape love. If we were to take our scale of morality of good and evil, and then apply PHILEO LOVE TO IT, WE WOULD THEN SEE THE FOLLOWING: RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS SCALE LOVE NOT PRESENT “I AM” LOVE PRESENT AND RELEASED 10 9 8
7 6 5 4 3
2 1 0 1 2
3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 evil and unethical people HEART moral & ethical people Notice that PHILEO LOVE RELEASED, that is ACTS OF LOVE TOWARDS OTHERS, goes hand in hand with being MORAL AND ETHICAL. The more love we release, the more love PROMPTS US TO DO, THE HIGHER UP WE CLIMB ON THE RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS SCALE. In other words, the more WE LOVE IN ACTION, the more man thinks of us in terms of BEING RIGHTEOUS, OF BEING HIGHLY MORAL, OF BEING TOTALLY AND SINCERELY ETHICAL; we could say the MORE GODLIKE WE BECOME. To coin a New Age phrase, we become POINTS OF LIGHT. Mother Teresa is a very good example of this type of soul, OF A POINT OF LIGHT. She has turned her back upon the world and turned wholly and totally to WORKS OF PHILEO LOVE. She is considered a SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT MAN OUGHT TO BE. She is considered by many to be GODLIKE. SHE IS A LEADER IN THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT, AND IS PRESENT AT MANY NEW AGE MEETINGS. BUT IS SHE IN REALITY GODLIKE? DO HER DEEDS EARN HER ANY RESPECT IN THE EYES OF GOD? On the other side of the scale we quickly realize that LOVE NOT RELEASED IN ACTS OF KINDNESS QUICKLY DEGENERATES INTO WORKS OF EVIL. Not only is this sort of soul UNLOVING OR NEUTRAL, THEY ENGAGE IN OVERT ACTS OF ANGER, HOSTILITY AND RAGE. They act out their violent aggression on their victims, the VERY OPPOSITE OF LOVE. We rate them on a scale of 1-10 on the NEGATIVE SIDE, OR EVIL SIDE OF NEUTRAL. We quickly conclude that love NOT RELEASED EQUATES TO EVIL. It becomes apparent then that man rates morality and ethics in reality ON A LOVE RELEASED SCALE. In love released, the more acts of love DONE, the higher the score in points. Mother Teresa is a number 10, Ted Bundy on the other hand was a minus 10. All the world religions, including Christianity claim that LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF HOLDING MAN TOGETHER IN PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD. If man would BUT LOVE IN DEED AND IN TRUTH, he could somehow navigate himself AROUND DISASTER. The New World Order of George Bush and company is a last ditch effort to FIND A WAY TO GET MAN TO RELEASE HIS OWN NATURAL LOVE. The trouble with all of this is that it’s based upon THE NATURAL PHILEO LOVES OF MANKIND. Our scale of morality is based UPON phileo love, relative love and relative righteousness. THE PURE AGAPE LOVE OF GOD IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND ON THIS SCALE. There is a giant gulf that separates man from God, and what separates God from this scale is THE RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MAN. GOD IS ABSOLUTE. HE IS TOTAL RIGHTEOUSNESS. Therefore in the end, if a soul were to score a PERFECT PHILEO LOVE RELEASE ALL OF THEIR LIFE, THEY ARE STILL IN PHILEO LOVE, NOT IN AGAPE. This is precisely why Paul said you could GIVE AWAY ALL THAT YOU OWN TO THE POOR, ALL THAT YOU HAVE HAD AND ARE, AND YOU COULD POUR YOUR VERY LIFE FOR CHRIST AND IT WILL NOT AVAIL YOURSELF OF SALVATION. It will not for one simple reason: ALL OF THESE WORKS WERE DONE IN NATURAL PHILEO LOVE. God is NOT A PERFECT LOVE ON THE PHILEO SCALE. It is not that He does not have perfect PHILEO LOVE, BUT HE SITS UPON ANOTHER HIGHER SCALE; THE SCALE OF ABSOLUTE PURE AGAPE LOVE. In point of fact we should not call it a scale, for scale is used to measure, and there is nothing to measure about God’s perfect love, it is always ABSOLUTE. In point of fact, we will prove that mankind hates the agape love of God, and DOES NOT EVEN VIEW IT AS LOVE AT ALL, BUT INSTEAD AS A FORM OF EVIL. Christ was pure agape love in the flesh. He was hated and killed because MAN COULD NOT TOLERATE PURE AGAPE LOVE. It immediately POINTS OUT THE LIE OF OUR HUMAN LOVE, THE INABILITY OF MAN TO EVEN LOVE IN PHILEO LOVE, LET ALONE AGAPE! For example, let us say we have a bucket of GRAY PAINT. We’ll say it is a medium gray. Through the years man teaches people that this gray paint is in fact white. HE GROWS ACCUSTOMED TO THIS GRAY AS BEING CALLED WHITE, AND ACCEPTS IT AS WHITE. He declares HIS GRAY PAINT IS PURE WHITE, AND COMES TO BELIEVE IT AND EMBRACE IT AS A TRUTH. Then someone comes along with REAL PURE WHITE PAINT. The gray becomes DARK BY COMPARISON. The owner of this newly formed paint begins to sell it on the basis that the so called WHITE OF THE COMPETITION IS A LIE, A FRAUD, AND WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING THE PUBLIC IS NOT WHITE, IT NEVER WAS, AND IN FACT THEY KNEW IT ALL ALONG. This would kill the paint manufacturer’s business. They have been exposed. The general public is smarter than you think. You can fool some of the people some of the time, most of the people part of the time, but not all the people all the time. They wake up sooner or later to the lies and the deception. The paint manufacturers get together and decided THEY MUST KILL OFF THEIR COMPETITOR. If they do not, they will be ruined. THEY BUY UP ALL THE REAL WHITE PAINT, AND KILL OFF THE INDIVIDUAL THAT BROUGHT IT TO THE WORLD. That is the story of Jesus Christ. He brought with Him pure white paint, and told us that our paint was dark gray. The religious men of the world had been selling gray paint dressed up in works of righteousness as WHITE PAINT. They became WHITEWASHED SEPULCHERS. They took their WORKS OF PHILEO LOVE RELEASED AND CLAIMED IT WAS THE PURE WHITE PAINT OF AGAPE LOVE. They painted themselves with it, thinking that it would fool God and fool the people. It may have fooled the vast majority of people, but it did not fool God at all. When they came before God He sent His angels to get some real tough PAINT STRIPPER CALLED TRUTH, for He knew that if this was indeed AGAPE LOVE, IT WOULD STAND UP TO ANYTHING, IT WAS IMPERVIOUS TO DAMAGE. The angels came and slapped on the stripper, and lo and behold, their SO CALLED AGAPE LOVE WHITE PAINT MELTED AND THEIR PHILEO LOVE GRAY PAINT WAS EXPOSED TO THE LIGHT OF TRUTH. They were liars, frauds and hypocrites, CLAIMING THAT THEIR PHILEO LOVE DEEDS WERE IN FACT THE AGAPE LOVE OF GOD. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto WHITED SEPULCHRES, which indeed appear BEAUTIFUL OUTWARD BUT ARE WITHIN FULL OF DEAD MEN’S BONES, AND OF ALL UNCLEANNESS.” (Matthew 23:27) We must remember that Jesus told us in the Sermon on the Mount: “For I say unto you, THAT EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL EXCEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YE SHALL IN NO CASE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” (Matthew 5:20) The Scribes and Pharisees were LAW KEEPERS TO A FINE DEGREE. They had over 600+ laws that they had to KEEP WITHOUT FAIL. This law keeping is what made them RIGHTEOUS. It was their bucket of white paint. Christ is telling us that UNLESS WE EXCEED THAT ABILITY, we cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. What does He mean? He means that IT IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE TO ENTER HEAVEN BY ANY FORM OF LAW KEEPING OR ANY OTHER ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY OURSELVES BEFORE GOD. All forms of “works” or “legalism” are done away with under Christ. They are to no avail. The only way Christ gave us is via the STRAIT GATE AND NARROW WAY, WHICH LEADETH UNTO LIFE (AGAPE LOVE BESTOWMENT) and it is via the FREE GIFT OF THE AGAPE LOVE OF CHRIST THAT WE ENTER HEAVEN. The strait gate and narrow way are not WORKS OR LEGALISM. It is not by any means an attempt to JUSTIFY YOURSELF BEFORE GOD, but rather the very reverse, it is the method used to bring the soul TO AGREEMENT WITH GOD FROM HIS HEART OF HEARTS. You must understand that gray paint is gray paint, and you calling it white do not change it. PHILEO LOVE IS PHILEO LOVE, AND IT IS NOT AGAPE LOVE, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CLAIMS MAY BE TO THE CONTRARY. Works of righteousness or law keeping DO NOT CHANGE THE HEART. The NEW COVENANT may only be entered by a SUPERNATURAL HEART CHANGE, FROM PHILEO LOVE (A HEART OF STONE); TO AGAPE LOVE (A HEART OF FLESH). The Scribes and Pharisees are no different than the vast majority of Christians, who walk around doing all of these GOOD WORKS, BUT THEY DO THEM ALL IN PHILEO LOVE, AND REFUSE TO WALK THE NARROW WAY TO FIND TRUE AGAPE LOVE. THEY CLAIMED THAT THEIR NATURAL LOVE RELEASED WAS THE AGAPE LOVE OF GOD. They claimed that all they had to do was make a “decision” for Christ, which was in reality a decision “to love”, for Christ is love. THEY TOTALLY IGNORED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AGAPE LOVE AND PHILEO LOVE. Mankind is on THE PHILEO LOVE PLANE OF LIFE. He knows no other form of love. He is trapped by virtue of the knowledge of good and evil. He can reach a level of +10 on the plane of RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF PHILEO LOVE, but he is still under PHILEO LOVE. All of his religion, all of his good deeds, all of his efforts to prove to God that he is capable of SOME GOOD, ends up in disaster. THE LAW OF AGAPE LOVE PREVAILS. Thus:
You will notice that God is not on the PHILEO LOVE/RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS SCALE. He is not on there because He is PURE AGAPE LOVE. He sits way over TOTALLY OUT OF REACH OF MAN, SEPARATED BY A GIANT GULF, A GIANT CHASM OF SILENCE AND INVISIBILITY. THAT WHICH SEPARATES MAN FROM GOD IS THE STRAIT GATE AND NARROW WAY. HE IS APART and UNKNOWABLE to natural man, UNLESS AND UNTIL HE WALKS “THE WAY”. The tree of knowledge of good and evil brought INSTANT SPIRITUAL DEATH, CESSATION AND SEVERANCE FROM GOD. God is simply NOT KNOWABLE BY MANKIND IN HIS PRESENT STATE. HE IS A FALLEN CREATURE, WHO OPERATES ON A PLANE OF IMPERFECT PHILEO LOVE. All of the human love in the world RELEASED would not jump this gigantic gulf between man and God. Satan on the other hand, WILL POUR OUT LYING SIGNS AND WONDERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE TO MAN THAT HIS OWN NATURAL PHILEO LOVE RELEASED IS THE AGAPE LOVE OF CHRIST AND GOD! He will subvert any Christian theology in an attempt to prove that this is so. He will invent a million religions in an effort to sidetrack man into WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, ALL DONE VIA THE RELEASE OF PHILEO LOVE. The very platform of Antichrist is PHILEO LOVE OF MAN RELEASED. It is, as I have stated before, the ROOT OF THE GRAND DELUSION. From this root deception spring all other deceptions, and every one of them will attempt to prove that PHILEO LOVE RELEASED IS THE AGAPE LOVE OF GOD. All that man needs to do, says the antichrist spirit, is to REALIZE THAT THE LOVE HE HAS WITHIN IS OF GOD. Man in his delusion will go one step further; he will declare that the love he has within IS GOD. He will then RELEASE IT AND DECLARE HIMSELF GOD. It is all a delusion, all a deception. There is in reality a gigantic gulf between the most perfect of phileo love and the agape love of God. They are wholly different from each other. They stem from different roots. The phileo love of man stems from a root of SELFISHNESS. We will see why this is so shortly. The agape love of God stems from a root of SELFLESSNESS. The two concepts are in reality DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES. There is no COMPATIBILITY, FOR ONE FLOWS INWARD, THE OTHER FLOWS OUTWARD. It is a Satanic deception that the phileo love of man flows outward, because at the ROOT OF WHY IT IS GIVEN IS TO OBTAIN SOMETHING IN RETURN. Thus:  PHILEO Vs. AGAPE The gulf that separates man from God is called by theologians the SIN BARRIER. It is in reality an AGAPE LOVE BARRIER. It is the utter lack, the utter destitution of man in the AGAPE LOVE AREA that erects a barrier between man and God. In reality there are TWO BARRIERS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD. ONE BARRIER IS THE BARRIER ERECTED BY GOD BECAUSE OF SIN, DUE TO A LACK OF AGAPE LOVE, AND THE OTHER BARRIER IS ERECTED BY MAN AGAINST GOD, BECAUSE OF HIS NATURAL REBELLION AND HATRED OF GOD. This hatred and rebellion is aided and abetted by Satan, who took LITERAL DOMINION OVER MAN AT THE FALL. Spiritual death means what it says: TOTAL SEVERANCE FROM GOD AT THE ROOT HEART OF MAN. He not only does not KNOW GOD, he does not LOVE GOD. In point of fact, he hates God and seeks to kill God, just as those that believed upon Christ tried to stone Him to death. AGAPE LOVE LOST IS SPIRITUAL DEATH. We shall later prove this out with a multitude of Scripture. Christ removed the barrier that God erected against man by His work upon the cross. The other barrier, the rebellion barrier of the inner heart remains in full force and effect. This barrier is what modern Christian theology ignores totally, and in most cases declares does not even exist. In their ‘new plan’ of salvation, they IGNORE AND BYPASS THIS BARRIER, CLAIMING THAT THE WORK OF CHRIST REMOVED ALL BARRIERS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD, AND ALL THAT MAN HAS TO DO IS UNDERSTAND THAT AND EMBRACE IT AS AN ACT OF FAITH. If we were to view the two barriers, it would look like this: 
The work of Christ upon the cross REMOVED THE SIN BARRIER. God is now RECONCILED TO MAN VIA THE WORK OF CHRIST. Now we have only one barrier left: 
What does man have to do in order to remove this barrier of rebellion and hostility towards the True God? Jesus told us what we have to do: ENTER THE STRAIT GATE, AND WALK THE NARROW WAY TO THE DEATH. We must undergo A LOVE CHANGE FROM PHILEO LOVE TO AGAPE LOVE, AND WHEN GOD HAS ACCOMPLISHED THAT, RECONCILIATION AND UNION BECOME AN EXPERIENTIAL REALITY TO THE BELIEVER; ALL BARRIERS ARE DOWN. It will be proven later that the ‘many’ held a theology that told them THERE WERE NO BARRIERS BETWEEN THEM AND GOD. They merely had to “make a decision” for Christ and in this so-called “decision” God AUTOMATICALLY AND INSTANTLY GRANTED AGAPE LOVE TO THAT SOUL. Everything was appropriated by an ACT OF FAITH; AN ACT OF BELIEF. FAITH BECAME SALVATION ITSELF. FAITH BECAME CHRIST HIMSELF. Their theology cost them heaven. They embraced it with a whole heart and refuted all the warnings of Christ that it was false. Reconciliation will be fully discussed later, but it is essential you understand THERE IS A HUGE BARRIER BETWEEN MAN AND GOD AND IT IS THE PHILEO LOVE (REBELLION) BARRIER. THE
TREE AND GODHOOD If the fruit of the tree represents an EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF BOTH GOOD AND EVIL, then man must and will enter a form of pseudo GODHOOD. It was the claim of Satan to Eve: “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your EYES SHALL BE OPENED, and ye shall be AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.” (Genesis 3:5) Satan claimed that man would become GODS, knowing good and evil. It is a statement of literal fact. What Satan did not tell Eve was what his definition of God meant. The word “gods” is ‘elohiym’ and it means among other things SUPREME RULER, MAGISTRATE, RULER OR JUDGE. Satan is telling Eve that if she eats of this fruit, SHE WILL BECOME A JUDGE OVER WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS EVIL. SHE HERSELF WILL BE THE SUPREME RULER WITHIN HER OWN AWARENESS. This knowledge will make her A GOD. This is a true statement of fact, for if we have FULL SPECTRUM EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF BOTH GOOD AND EVIL, then we have a COMPARATIVE BASIS. Because man was created with CENTRAL OR CORE AWARENESS OF EXISTENCE, THE GREAT “I AM” THAT SITS UPON THE THRONE OF SELF BECOMES THE RULER AND JUDGE OF ALL ISSUES OF MORALITY AND ETHICS.
FULL SPECTRUM
GOOD SELF FULL SPECTRUM EVIL THE GREAT “I AM” GOD From the graph it becomes quite clear that there is a NEUTRAL ZONE between the TWO FORCES OF GOOD AND EVIL. This is where the great ‘I AM’ of self sits upon the throne as judge and God. All issues of morality and ethics are made on the basis OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Man becomes a LIVING COMPUTER, WITH THE ABILITY TO EXAMINE FULLY THE ISSUE AND MAKE A CHOICE. Herein lies the great danger: HE BECOMES SEPARATE, A RULER UNTO HIMSELF, AND BECAUSE HE HAS NO ABSOLUTE STANDARDS BY WHICH TO JUDGE, he begins to drift further and further away from any absolute standards whatever. The so-called ‘New Morality’ of today is nothing more than the IMMORALITY OF YESTERDAY. He then develops a whole new system of morality and ethics called SITUATIONAL ETHICS. He declares there is no real right or wrong, no real good or evil, and because there is no real good or evil, there is no real SIN. SIN THEN BECOMES A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION. GOD BECOMES A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION. Each race, tribe or nation of man forms their own CODES OF CONDUCT, each based upon their own INTERPRETATION OF RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, based upon THEIR SITUATION IN LIFE. Thus when the Arabs, for example, slay a princess in public for adultery, those tribes of men that do not agree with this code of conduct ARE OUTRAGED BY THIS ACT. Likewise the Arabs are outraged at what they consider lax standards in the West and in Western culture. Japan bashing is the in-thing right now, and Americans are outraged at the remarks of some Japanese rulers on the American work ethic. All of these arguments have a root in RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, RELATIVE INTERPRETATIONS. The move of Antichrist is to claim that THERE IS NO REAL TRUTH TO MEASURE BY. It is the Masonic creed that ALL RELIGIONS HAVE GOOD IN THEM, AND NO ONE RELIGION IS CORRECT, FOR THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Therefore ALL FORMS OF RELIGION, ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT, ALL FORMS OF BELIEFS ARE WHOLLY ACCEPTABLE EXCEPT ONE: THAT THERE IS ONE KNOWABLE, ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Satan cannot allow man to develop any concept that would POINT TO THE FACT OF THERE BEING A SINGLE, KNOWABLE ABSOLUTE TRUTH BEHIND THE UNIVERSE. For this concept to be allowed to develop would PUT THE LIE TO THE MULTITUDE OF SO CALLED “TRUTHS” that Satan has developed over the centuries. It would give man AN ANCHOR THAT WAS OUTSIDE OF HIMSELF. He would then have this ONE TRUTH BY WHICH TO GAUGE THE AUTHENTICITY OF ALL OTHER TRUTHS. Satan’s plan would fall to the ground in ruin.
The tree of knowledge then represents a RADICAL SHIFT IN MAN FROM TOTAL DEPENDENCE UPON GOD TO ONE OF COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD. Man becomes dependent only upon himself, and the great “I AM” ascends to the THRONE OF THE INNER HEART, THE VERY CORE SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OF MAN. He takes the place of God on the throne of self in the most Holy of Holies, and from there each human soul will evaluate and judge what is and what is not right or wrong, good or evil, ethical or moral. Each human soul does then decide BY HIMSELF/HERSELF what is going to be accepted AS TRUTH, and what is going to be rejected AS A LIE. Each soul becomes a true GOD. The Creator God, the God of absolute agape love, is brutally kicked off the throne within the Holy of Holies, and is cast out into outer darkness. This radical shift in GODHOOD then lays the groundwork for man to actually think HE IS A GOD, AND THAT THE REAL GOD IS SIMPLY A FIGMENT OF HIS IMAGINATION. They will begin to imagine that whatever they can conceive of, they can do. They will begin to imagine in their vain world they control their own destinies, and can shape the world to a heaven on earth. This is another part of the GRAND DELUSION. The New Age Movement, the Masonic Lodge and a host of other movements have this claim as a central belief. It is found in the POSITIVE THINKING, POSITIVE AFFIRMATION BELIEF STRUCTURE. With the rise of Godhood status, another problem raises its ugly head: THE
TREE AND THE ISSUE OF RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS Closely tied to the foregoing issue that the tree of knowledge brought to man, is this issue of RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS that we have discussed previously. Because man will know that good is preferred over evil, and that right is preferred over wrong, SYSTEMS OF MEASUREMENT WILL BE INTRODUCED TO CONTROL THE MASSES. We call this GOVERNMENT. Those within a given society that conform to the requirements of their government WILL BE CONSIDERED GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS CITIZENS. They will be perceived as UPRIGHT, HONEST, SINCERE AND DEDICATED CITIZENS, MORAL AND ETHICAL IN EVERY WAY. Associated with this is of course the RELEASE OF PHILEO LOVE. The more released, the MORE GODLIKE ONE BECOMES. The more Godlike one becomes, the FINER CITIZEN HE BECOMES. Each nation develops its own codes of what it considers to be good and evil, right and wrong. This system of RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS will be of man’s own MIND/INTELLECT and from hard experience. It will evolve in time to more complex issues. The vacancy caused by God’s total absence from within the heart of man will haunt man down through the years. Knowing that something is missing, but not sure at all what it is, man will EVOLVE SYSTEMS OF RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE HIMSELF TO HIS ALONENESS. All religious quests will be an attempt to solve the mystery of the UKNOWN GOD. Man will reason within himself that love and good are beautiful things, divine, and thus attribute those to the UNKNOWN GOD. He will then reason that if HE IS GOOD, AND DOES GOOD, AND LOVES, AND HAS RIGHT THOUGHTS, THAT GOD WILL APPROVE AND HE WILL FINALLY END UP IN UNION WITH THE ‘UNKNOWN GOD’. The basis of all the world religions rests upon this primary concept. Christians would call them FORMS OF WORKS, OR LEGALISM. If a soul be good, do good works, think kind and right thoughts, and keep the evil within him at bay, he will then find APPROVAL BEFORE GOD. In other words, it is an attempt to JUSTIFY ONESELF BEFORE GOD. The hope of all of this is that when one dies, GOD WILL THEN APPROVE OF THE CONDUCT IN LIFE AND WILL ACCEPT THAT SOUL. That hope is a total lie, and anyone that embraces it will end up in eternal damnation. Here is why: 
You will notice the little stick figure does all of his work under the RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS SCALE, UNDER THE PHILEO LOVE SCALE. Great and mighty works were done during this soul’s life. Fantastic giving, fantastic love was released. Clothing, food, shelter were supplied to the needy and the homeless. Vast sums of money were given to supply the needs of the Church. This soul was an evangelist who preached the Gospel of Christ worldwide, and brought millions into the sheepfold. He performed miracle after miracle and healed thousands of people with his mighty power from the Holy Spirit. He then dies and stands before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ. To his horror, he is rejected. WHY? Because ALL OF HIS WORKS WERE DONE UNDER PHILEO LOVE. Do you see? He NEVER SETTLED THE AGAPE LOVE QUESTION. He never entered the strait gate and walked the narrow way to find TRUE AGAPE LOVE. All of his works were totally vain. They did not profit him one bit. HIS ENTIRE LIFE WAS SPENT IN VANITY. The real issue between him and his God was never faced, never resolved. All of the toil in his life was FOR NOTHING WHATEVER. This soul remained in PHILEO LOVE RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS. Never once did he come to the living Christ to be granted the gift of PURE AGAPE LOVE WITHIN HIS SPIRIT. Never once did he open the door of his Holy of Holies and allow Christ to ascend to the throne. CAN
WE PROVE SPIRITUAL DEATH? God plainly stated that man would die in the very day that the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil was eaten. Jesus asked us to accept this as a plain and very literal fact. We have shown you that this knowledge of good and evil REMOVED AGAPE LOVE INSTANTLY WITHIN ADAM AND EVE. We have suggested that this REMOVAL OF AGAPE LOVE ESSENCE IS IN FACT WHAT SPIRITUAL DEATH IS ALL ABOUT. This issue is serious, for not only is man separated from God while alive on this earth, HE WILL BE FOREVER SEPARATED FROM GOD IN ETERNITY AS WELL, AND FACE WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS THE SECOND DEATH. The spiritual death of man results in PHYSICAL DEATH AS WELL. At physical death the spirit and soul are separated from the body. The body then goes into the ground, and the spirit and soul go to their appropriate destination, which is determined by one factor: THE AGAPE LOVE FACTOR. If the soul has not received the AGAPE LOVE OF GOD, that soul faces ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM HIS CREATOR. The blood of Christ will not avail that soul anything, the grace of God will not avail that soul anything. THAT SOUL FACES ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD, WHICH CHRIST TERMED THE ‘SECOND DEATH’. He called it the “second death” because man is already dead, he is not aware that he is dead in a spiritual sense, because that aspect is hidden from him. He is not aware of either the Kingdom of Heaven or the dominion of Satan. Both are a mystery to him, unknown, and a secret. He may wonder about them, he may meditate upon them, but they are beyond his natural knowledge. Because man is dead spiritually to God by the absence of agape love within, he is very much alive unto Satan and to the world. Because Jesus Christ claims that all men ARE SPIRITUALLY DEAD UNLESS REGENERATED, then OBVIOUSLY THEY FACE ANOTHER DEATH AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH: TOTAL AND COMPLETE SEPARATION FROM GOD. “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the FIRST RESURRECTION: ON SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HATH NO POWER, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” (Revelation 20:6) There is a SECOND DEATH. This second death is for ALL
ETERNITY. There is no reprieve, no second chance, no way out. The scripture
makes it clear that IF A PERSON HAS NOT LAID HOLD OF AGAPE LOVE DURING THEIR LIFETIME ON
EARTH, AND THEY DIE ON EARTH WITHOUT IT, THEY FACE THE SECOND DEATH. “He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches; HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL NOT BE HURT OF THE SECOND DEATH. (Revelation 2:11) Notice what Jesus says here: HE THAT OVERCOMETH
SHALL NOT BE HURT OF THE SECOND DEATH. Jesus ties overcoming
directly to the second death having no power. We found in 1 John 4:7 that
EVERYONE BORN OF GOD HAS AGAPE LOVE. We found in 1 John 3:1 that IT WAS AGAPE
LOVE THAT MADE ONE A SON OF GOD. We find then a common denominator, that AGAPE
LOVE FOUND AND BESTOWED IS WHAT MAKES ONE AN OVERCOMER: “For WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMETH THE WORLD…” (1 John 5:4) If we are granted AGAPE LOVE AT SPIRITUAL REBIRTH, then obviously WE DID NOT HAVE IT PRIOR TO THAT POINT OF TIME. If we did not have it, we were not ALIVE UNTO GOD. God does not need to grant you something if you have it already. If agape love granted is what makes you a Son of God, and anyone born of God AGAPE LOVES BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN GRANTED IT, THEN ONLY THOSE WHO AGAPE LOVE ARE THE OVERCOMERS! To be an overcomer is to be BORN OF GOD. No one can be born of God unless and until they have OBTAINED AGAPE LOVE, which is IN THE SON. 1 John 5:12 says:
“He who HATH THE SON HATH LIFE; AND HE WHO HATH NOT THE SON OF GOD HATH NOT LIFE.” Jesus told us rather bluntly that LIFE WAS AT THE END OF THE NARROW WAY. He also told us that we MUST ENTER THE STRAIT GATE AND WALK THE NARROW WAY THE FULL DISTANCE TO FIND LIFE. If Jesus IS LIFE, and that LIFE is the destination of the narrow way, then CHRIST WAITS AT THE END OF THE NARROW WAY TO BESTOW AGAPE LOVE TO THE BELIEVER, BECAUSE AGAPE LOVE IS ‘LIFE’. We have come full circle; we have found complete agreement between Genesis and the fall of man to the very heart of the message of Jesus Christ. Christ considered ALL MEN TO BE SPIRITUALLY DEAD TO GOD. He made a remark to one of His believers and followers to that effect. To us it appears rude when we consider the circumstances, for one of His believers wanted to go and bury his father. “And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me FIRST TO GO AND BURY MY FATHER. But Jesus said unto him, FOLLOW ME; and let the DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD.” (Matthew 8:21-22) What Jesus was saying is that ALL MANKIND IS SPIRITUALLY DEAD BECAUSE OF THE FALL OF MAN. Even though man is alive and walks upon planet earth he is DEAD TO GOD in his essence. Because they are dead spiritually, and because they will NEVER COME TO THE TRUE SPIRITUAL LIFE, Christ is blunt: let the dead bury their own dead. They die and await the final SECOND DEATH. What is this second death? “And DEATH and HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. And WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.” (Revelation 20:14, 15) Christ and God both insist that there is a very literal and real lake of fire. All those that are not found written in this book of ‘LIFE’ WERE CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. What is this so-called book of life? We will find that it is the BOOK OF AGAPE LIFE. It is the book in which all those who overcame and were granted the gift of agape love are written. Those that DID NOT OVERCOME, AND DID NOT FIND AGAPE LOVE WERE NOT WRITTEN THERE. For one reason or another, they failed to comprehend THE SEVERITY OF THEIR DESTINATION. The world overcame them, and they go into eternal ruin. When you tie together the comments of Christ here and His statements that one had to be BORN FROM ABOVE, and we couple them with Genesis and the story of the fall, a portrait begins to emerge, and we begin to FIND THAT AGAPE LOVE LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ALL. You will find such words as ‘quickened, born again, regenerated, and life, all have a common denominator: THE BESTOWMENT OF DIVINE AGAPE LOVE TO THE TRUE SEEKER OF GOD. All others go into eternal ruin. Thus it is that any human soul, who will KEEP THE SAYINGS OF JESUS and will DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER, can find ETERNAL LIFE AND AVOID THE SECOND DEATH. They will find AGAPE, and they will KNOW THE TRUTH BEHIND ALL OF LIFE, and this truth shall set them FREE INDEED. To move further in depth to prove that agape love lost is in fact spiritual death, we will explore the conversation that Satan had with Eve in closer detail: “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, HATH GOD SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN?” (Genesis 3:1) The word “subtil” is ‘aruwmn’ and it means CUNNING, CRAFTY. In short an ARTIST AT DECEPTION. Christ claimed that Satan was the Father of lies, and that he is the deceiver of the WHOLE WORLD: “And the great dragon was cast out, that OLD SERPENT, called THE DEVIL, and Satan, WHICH DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” (Revelation 12:9) The vast majority of people on earth DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE IN SATAN. They may have a form of mild belief, but they do not UNDERSTAND OR KNOW THE DECEPTION OF SATAN. The vast majority of apostate Christians do not believe in Satan or his demons either. They are totally under his control and dominion. Satan’s primary method of operation IS VIA TOTAL SECRECY. He operates behind the scenes, an invisible power that sweeps the vast majority of man into eternal ruin. Christ declared Satan WAS REAL. The Bible does not attempt to prove the reality of Satan; it merely says that SATAN IS. The Bible does not attempt to prove the reality of God; it simply states that GOD IS. Jesus said that if we want to come to a knowledge of the REAL TRUTH behind life, we must become as little children. We must SIMPLY TRUST WHAT GOD SAYS, AND ACCEPT IT AS FACTUAL. When we do, and when we comply with the sayings of Jesus, and do the will of the Father, the reality of THE SPIRIT WORLD WILL BE MADE KNOWN. It will be made known in the EXPERIENTIAL SENSE OF THE WORD. The believer on the narrow way will experience first hand THE REALITY OF DEMONS. THEY WILL COME TO HIM AND ATTEMPT TO PREVENT PASSAGE. They will apply every trick in the book to prevent passage down the narrow way, for they must if they are to keep that soul from entering heaven. IT WILL ALL BE DONE VIA DECEPTION. This deception will be in that form of DIVERSION TO OTHER THINGS OR BY FALSE DOCTRINE OR THEOLOGY. Satan has then an advantage over Eve. He is the master of deception. Notice what he does to Eve. He asks a seemingly innocent question: YOU CAN’T EAT OF ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN? He does not point out the ONE TREE HE KNOWS THEY CANNOT EAT FROM, HE SWEEPS THE ENTIRE LOT OF TREES. He knows that this will RIVET EVES ATTENTION TO THE ONE FORBIDDEN TREE, and he does not have to even mention it. “And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, LEST YE DIE. And the serpent said unto the woman, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your EYES SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.” (Genesis 3:2-5) Once Satan has the attention of the woman riveted upon the ONE forbidden tree, he then CONTRADICTS GOD. He says to her, “YEA, HATH GOD SAID?” Satan works the same way today, and clearly works that way through the false teachers WHO DENY OR CONTRADICT JESUS CHRIST. If a searching soul points out to a false teacher or preacher a truth about the narrow way, HE WILL WAVE A HAND AND COME UP WITH A THEOLOGY TO DENY OR CONTRADICT IT. ‘YEA, HATH GOD SAID?’ The invisible power behind the false prophets is Satan himself. To the unbeliever or only casual seeker of truth, he will plant all forms of questions, disputing and doubting about the AUTHENTICITY OF THE WORD OF GOD. He will question its integrity, and that it is really only a bunch of ancient fables. If that does not work, he will then attempt to REINTERPRET WHAT WAS CLEARLY STATED, AND ALWAYS VIA THEOLOGY OR DOCTRINE THAT CLEARLY STANDS IN CONTRADICTION TO WHAT CHRIST SAID. The mark of a false teacher is always CONTRADICTION OR DIRECT OPPOSITION TO THE CLEAR WORDS OF GOD. Satan must and always does CONTRADICT THE WORD OF GOD. A contradiction is at the root a DENIAL OF THE WORD OF GOD. After Satan contradicts it, he then SUBSTITUTES THE LIE FOR THE TRUTH. If Christ said the ONLY way to eternal life is via the strait gate and narrow way, that will be CONTRADICTED, AND THE DIRECT OPPOSITE WILL BE ADVANCED AND HELD OUT AS THE REAL TRUTH. God said that the eating of the fruit of the tree would bring immediate death. Satan utterly denied it, and said it would bring a new form of LIFE. What Satan says always has truth in it, but HE REDEFINES EVERYTHING. Those who have read George Orwell’s 1984 know about the art of DOUBLESPEAK. The communists are masters at the art of doublespeak. They use the same words you use, but their meanings ARE REVERSED. Satan is behind them, he is the driving force behind everything they do and say. Satan traps the vast majority of mankind simply by discrediting the word of God. They simply do not accept or believe what the Bible says about mankind or the mission of Christ. If they come to a realization that it is telling the truth, Satan immediately moves in to make sure that it is not PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD. He takes simple and direct commands of Christ and makes them complicated. Within the complicated theology Satan presents always is a CONTRADICTION, and always that contradiction HAS REDEFINITIONS OF THE KEY WORDS CHRIST USED. The tree of knowledge thus contains a knowledge that has grave implications for mankind, and he becomes A LIVING BUT SPIRITUALLY DEAD ENTITY, AND HE BECOMES A GOD UNTO HIMSELF: “But the Lord is the TRUE GOD, he is the LIVING GOD, and the EVERLASTING KING: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Thus shall ye say unto them, THE GODS THAT HAVE NOT MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, EVEN THEY SHALL PERISH FROM THE EARTH, AND FROM UNDER THESE HEAVENS.” (Jeremiah 10:10-11) “The THOUGHTS OF THOSE WHO DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL TRANSGRESS WITHIN THEM; AND THEY SHALL BE PERVERTED IN ALL THEIR WAYS. THEY SHALL TRANSGRESS, AND THINK THEMSELVES GODS; WHILE EVIL SHALL BE MULTIPLIED AMONG THEM.” (Enoch 79:8-9) Man will drift so far away from his literal Creator that he will begin to think that HE IS GOD HIMSELF. He will develop a spiritual concept that claims that THE GOD FORCE LIES WITHIN, AND THAT ALL MAN HAS TO DO IS TO UNLEASH IT. This God force will be called the CHRIST WITHIN. It will be a total delusion, a deception from Satan, which God willingly allows for they have refused the STRAIT GATE AND NARROW WAY. The root of this deception is the NATURAL LOVE FORCE WITHIN THEM. They will remember the bliss of love in these moments, and they will seek it from WITHIN THEMSELVES. They will explore the inner mysteries of the mind, and will declare that WITHIN LIE THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE. INNER SPACE WILL BE THE LAST AND FINAL FRONTIER. If man can conquer these secrets, he will unlock the DIVINE, AND WILL AT LAST MERGE WITH GOD, AND JUMP THE LAST QUANTUM LEAP INTO GODHOOD AND TOTAL UNION WITH GOD. In many areas the New Age Theology is very correct. It is almost a mirror image of Christianity. Where it is wrong IS THE METHOD OF FINDING THE TRUE GOD. They claim that He lies WITHIN THEM, AND BEATS IN THEIR INNER HEARTS AS THE TRUE LOVE. All they need to do is to somehow UNLOCK THIS LOVE, AND LET IT FLOW FROM WITHIN TOWARDS OTHERS. It is the unlocking of this LOVE FORCE that is THE CHRIST. All mankind has this CHRIST FORCE dwelling within them. The search is not FOR CHRIST, but to UNLOCK THEIR CHRIST FORCE. Again we stress this so called CHRIST FORCE IS PHILEO LOVE, OR NATURAL LOVE WITHIN. They refuse to accept the concept that they ARE DESTITUTE OF REAL TRUE LOVE. They refuse the Scriptural position that THEY DO NOT POSSESS TRUE LOVE AT ALL, THAT IT IS NOT A PART OF THEM OR THEIR NATURE. They CONTRADICT CHRIST who declares they are DEAD WITHIN, WALKING DEAD MEN. According to Christ, man does not have true love within his nature. He could search to unlock true love all he wants, it will avail him nothing, he will die and go i |
