I worry because we Christian pray so much for the health and welfare of our loved ones. That is a good thing to do, but foremost, we should pray for the dead and dying souls of those whom we love, and even those who are our enemies. All of us Christians are guilty of that. We worry so much about the life of the flesh that we are apathetic to the life of the living souls.
God is not deaf, but He does remain silent and inactive. From
the time of Malachi to John the Baptist, God was silent for four-hundred years.
He is silent when whatever is asked is not His Will. God’s Will is given many
options, God has one Will that stands out above all. The paramount Will of God
is that “none should perish.” [i]
Thus, His Will is a plan for the outcome — to overcome the world [ii] and
the Wicked one.
In the beginning, Adam and Eve sinned. God wanted that they
should not perish, so for their safety until the time of salvation, God
provided for them both coats of skin. Sacred literature identifies that “skin”
as the flesh of a sacrificed lamb. Blood must be sacrificed; it either had to
be them or another living creature. Death occurred in a lamb so that Adam and
Eve need never perish.
The same goes for Noah who found grace. [iii] Grace
covered Noah while he worked on the Ark and while God sailed the ship. Grace
was Noah’s “coat of skin;” he was covered by the Spirit of God. God was
invisibly with him on the Ark.
Once Noah was on dry
land, He saw the Grace that He had found. It had been there as a cloud all
along, but once the rain ceased, Noah saw grace; there was a bow of Light in
the sky.
Given two options in the case of both Adam and Noah, God
chose to preserve His creatures. They could have perished with the others or be
delivered to safety on the Holy Mountain. His Will was to have heirs to the
realm of Paradise, whether it be in earth or in heaven, as he prayed:
And He (Jesus) said unto them, “When ye pray, say, ‘Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy Will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.’” (Luke 11:2)
God honors that type of prayer… “Thy Will be done;” not my will
be done! God’s Will then as now is that Earth should be as Heaven… without
sin! Even Jesus struggled with His Flesh. He asked His Father, “If thou be willing,
remove this cup from Me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke
22:42). Even Jesus has dualism of the will. That makes sense since He is the
Son of Man and the Son of God. Paul wrote about the dualism of two wills: “the
Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” [iv]
That dualism was displayed by Noah. After God delivered him to safety, Noah
became the “husbandman” and planted the vine. [v]
He did that right after praying to God, indubitably in thanks that God’s Will
had been done. Noah became the “Father” and “Jesus” (types) when he took on
their roles: “I am (Jesus) the true Vine, and my Father is the Husbandman” (John
15:1). Immediately, the same dualism as in Adam and Eve was established in the
New World. Noah had become “as God” just like Adam and Eve. [vi]
He prayed to God. His soul belonged to God. It even had Grace in it. He had
become a living soul with the Spirit of God in him. On the other hand, Noah had
not found material but grace alone. His flesh, even in the New World, had remained
as sinful Adam’s. God had given him grace but not the glorified flesh in which Adam
had been generated. Noah, when he found grace, was covered, not with a coat of
skin, but the Ark of God. It too would protect him just as the lamb’s skin did
Adam and Eve.
Adam will be regenerated “whole” at the General Resurrection, if not
already! When Jesus arose from the tomb at His Resurrection, “The graves were
opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose” (Mat 27:52). Adam’s
grave is believed to be right there beneath Golgotha, “the place of (Adam’s)
skull.” [1]
[vii]
Not only that, but it could very well be the “place of Noah’s skull.” Noah had
the assignment, made by Adam, to have his bones removed to the Holy Mountain (Calvary)
where redemption would come. [viii]
It is God’s Will that none should perish. God’s Last Will and Testament,
from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 is about God’s Estate, His caretakers, His
blood Heir (Jesus), His adoptive children (those born again), the Promises made
about the Estate and who has rights to it, and lastly the Estate regenerated to
its original condition, to what was in the revelation of God to John. Hence,
the will of the Christian must be the same as God’s Will — that none should
perish. God provided a mission for His heirs, a “Commission:” “Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even
unto the end of the world. Amen. (Mat 28:19-20).
What was Noah commanded? To build an Ark! He already had grace, then the
Ark was a work of grace. So grace delivered him to the New Paradise, but by
building the Ark, Noah overcame the world. They were the eight “nails in Jesus’s
hands ad feet,” so to speak.
That — multiplying living souls — was the same thing commissioned to Adam
and Eve, “God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth’” (Gen 1:22). God was
not so interested in the product of their flesh, to wit: Cain, but the product
of their Spirit, Abel. God was telling Adam and Eve as they planted their seed,
they were planting more living souls. They were planting the Seeds of God in
the empty vessels that are the “souls” of Adam’s kind.
Noah’s Great Commission was the same as Adam’s: “God blessed Noah and his
sons, and said unto them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth’”
(Gen 9:1). Again, as is seen with Ham who saw Noah’s nakedness, it was not the
flesh that God wanted replenished, but the souls of Noah’s kind filled
with the Holy Spirit — the Coat of the Lamb of God!
Is it coincidence that God covered the nakedness of Adam and Eve, and that
He did the same thing with Noah as Shem and Japheth hid their eyes and covered
his nakedness? With the wine and insobriety, Noah was not vigilant, and the “roaring
lion” in Ham would endeavor to devour him, just as warned about those of us to
this day. [ix]
Satan appeared as a Serpent to Adam and Eve. He takes on the identity of
the Beast, the Lion in Peter’s warning, and to Noah, Satan appeared as his own
son, whose spiritual father was the Devil.
There is always at least one demon there to undermine God’s Will. Why is
that? There is a spiritual conspiracy going on in the heaven and the earth. “I (Lucifer)
will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of
the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa 14:13-14). Satan and his demons will always be there… to
do what? Undermine God. To make your will differ from God’s Will.
With that said, be careful just how you pray.
Most often, even Christians focus on the flesh. How many times are
Christians asked to pray for so and so because that person is sick. The flesh
is perishing, and Christians worry about that. Noah did not build an Ark to
save the flesh of men, but so their souls would not perish.
Adam was not covered with the coat of skin protect his flesh, but his “living
soul” [x]
Death is gain because the soul is no longer in danger. The souls of Christians
overcome the world, but their fleshes do not. Not to worry, though, at the
General Resurrection God will regenerate the flesh. Christians need not worry so
much about that!
An atheist once commented, according to a story, that if Christians are
as sincere about the souls of others, that they would not even be able to rest,
knowing that people are perishing. Indeed, this Christian does lay
awake at night, concerned with the souls of those I love!
Salvation is easy, so easy that some take it for granted. They think, I
believe and do not deserve to die. Noah did not think that way because he
found grace and wanted to share what he had found with all the others. He built
a huge Ark because he wanted that none, not even the offspring of
the Wicked One Cain, perish. He loved them so much that he worked for 120 years
to save Eve’s kind, even if they were not Adam’s kind!
I worry about the souls of those whom I love, but I am no “Noah.” I fail
to pray for the souls of those who are my enemies. Noah built the Ark to carry
them all to safety; he was willing, not just to take the gospel to the nations,
but the nations (Semites, Japhethites, and Hamites) to the gospel. He was
willing to carry on his ship even those who scoffed at him. He wanted them to
find grace as well, and if they had only entered the door to the Ark, they
would have found grace on the Holy Mountain.
As master shipbuilder, Noah was the antitype of the “carpenter,” Jesus. He
was merely a type but after he reached safety, he assumed too much as both
“Vine” and “Husbandman.” Even in his new status, righteous Noah was also
unrighteous! He, just like Adam, would be “as God.” [xi]
Noah became drunk with wine and power. He was like Adam who was priest and
king, but like Adam, he would never be God! Wine did him in.
For those of you who have been intoxicated, just how did you feel at
first? Invulnerable and joyful, perhaps? What happens soon after? Perhaps sick
and despondent? That is a “wage” of sin. One should worry when they become
acclimated to wine, and its after affects.
There was another “wage” of sin. Rather than worrying about his sons
perishing, even there on the Holy Mountain, that night he had no worries.
Perhaps that was the night that Satan got into his son, Ham. Perhaps Satan had
not even been on the Ark with them but had gone to and fro in the heavens until
they were settled. If Noah had only been vigilant the night that Satan came for
one of them, we would never need to worry about the wicked Canaanites, and
their would be no Palestinian conflict to this day!
Noah’s spirit was willing because he had found grace, but his flesh was
stronger! His flesh wanted wine, and rather than please God for his grace, Noah,
by self-indulgence, pleased Satan And while he was drunk, Satan had his way
with Ham.
That is what the atheist was talking about. Rather than staying awake in vigilance
of Satan attacking our children, what do so many Christians do? Pleasure as if
there is no Satan to worry about.
Just why is wine a mocker? [xii]
Because it mocks grace. The grace of Jesus was mocked. [xiii]
The soul of Ham was devoured by Satan the night that Noah became drunken. Jesus
had been with Noah for 120 years as grace, then in one evening, Jesus was no
where to be found. Of course, he was there, but Noah only saw the wine and how
it would please him.
Adam did the same thing when he turned away from the Tree of Life, and
took of the fruit of the forbidden tree. Mankind has still not learned much and
to this day; they remain drunken, not just by wine, but things to appease their
fleshes!
When Noah drank wine, the battle of the wills ceased. He had wrestled with
God and Noah in the flesh had won. That was much like Jacob’s wrestling match
with Jesus. [xiv]
There was one huge difference: Jesus let Jacob win, but with Noah, he lost Ham,
his grandson Canaan, and all Canaan’s seed to this day. Rather than concern
with his progeny, Noah drank wine, and that wine dissolved the grace that Noah
had on him.
If he had been concerned just as the atheist suggested, then Noah would
have remained vigilant and still worried about the “Incubus” coming that night
to “lay” with Ham. Satan came to obtain the soul of his child that night, but
no worries, Noah drank wine and mocked the grace that he had found!
When Noah found grace, it was not time dependent. It was immediate. He saw
Jesus and trusted Jesus for deliverance. However, what then happened? Noah worked
to overcome the world and sin for 120 years. He endured to the end of the “world,”
and then Noah was safe.
As soon as Noah was safe on dry ground, he gambled with his grace. In drunkenness,
he put down his vigilance and Satan pounced. Noah remained safe, but Ham perished
that night. So did Canaan and all his seed. No worries — Noah had his wine and
slept through it, all while Satan devoured his seed.
Just when was Noah saved? When death took him from the world. It had
quickly become corrupted, and Noah started it all. He was actually “the second
Adam!” Grace cannot be had the second time. [xv]
Noah held on to his grace, but his son and sons lost theirs because Noah drank
wine.
The point is that Noah did not lose the grace that he had found,
but Grace stood silently by while Noah drank wine. His soul was in jeopardy,
but rather than his, Satan took the soul of Canaan. Noah pleasured so that
Canaan would perish.
On a personal note, that would not happen with me. My fifteen years old
son asked, “Dad, you smoke, so why can I not smoke marijuana?”
He awakened me from my sin. He would no longer be able to use my
sin to sin!
I responded, “I do not smoke cigarettes!”
He replied, “When did you quit?”
To that, I replied, ”Right now!”
God delivered me from sin that moment. At least that one sin. I never
smoked again and lost the appetite for tobacco immediately! I quit smoking
for the soul of my son February 15, 1984, on my 35th year of birth. When
my son Rodger was a toddler, on February 15, 1970, my 21st birthday,
I quit drinking alcohol (for his sake). I never used alcohol for pleasure after
that, and for the sake of my “seed.”
Later (perhaps 1972), I do not remember the date, I quit using bad language
for my four-years old son, Rodger. I did not do those things for God, unfortunately,
but I could never rest with my sons doing what I was doing myself.
Ham could blame Noah, but my children, I was adamant, would not blame me.
The best way to teach is by example. Many students never learn even by example,
and to this day, I pray for my adult children that Jesus will be their Example!
People pray for good things, stupid things, and often things that bring
them pleasure. I never pray for prosperity but for sustenance. I never pray for
sin but for good things. Why so? It is not God’s Will to provide whatever I will
for myself. That is Satanism: “Do what thou wilt; is the whole law” (Anton
LeVey).
The entire Law is really do what God Wills for you to do. Did God Will that
Noah drink wine? No, because he lost his vigilance while is son and grandson
were “devoured” by the “Lion” Satan, just as for any who are not vigilant to
this day. [xvi]
What should Christians pray for and what must be their attitudes? Well,
Jesus is the answer of that:
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His Will, He heareth us: And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him. (1 John 5:14-15)
We pray that “God’s Will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” We do not
pray for things of the world because God provides those things to His children
just as Noah provided crops and safety to his children. We pray for God’s Will
here on Earth — here in the Satanic Dominion where Satan is the Prince of the
Power or the Air.
The Adamic Covenant was what? “And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion…’” (Gen 1:26).
Adam with the Holy Spirit of God in him, was to have dominion in the
world. When Adam sinned, he gave dominion of all things to Satan. Likewise,
when Noah became drunken, he was neither the True Vine nor the Husbandman. When
Noah drank wine — the fruit of the forbidden tree — Satan regained dominion in
that New World, and still has it to this day.
Jesus will reign in the end for 1000 years on Earth. He will depose Satan
to the bottomless pit where the Flood should have deposited him in the first place.
Jesus will then regain dominion over Paradises Lost. What must we do? Have
confidence that Jesus will honor our “petitions.” Both the Adamic and Noahic;
as well as the Abrahamic, Mosaic, Priestly, and the Covenant of Grace are our
petitions to God, and his Promise to honor them.
(picture credit: Fandango' "Clash of the Titans")
[1] For
much more on that, read by book, The Skull of Adam, available on Amazon books,
Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, and other locations.
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