I received some flack because I see the present-day dilemma more than medical but spiritual as well. We are being tested! Just how is that?
“Theses” are assertions. A “thesis” is one assertion. A “hypothesis” is the starting point for an assertion for an investigation. “Hypotheses” are good guesses in discovering facts. A “thesis” is the idea, or very notion, that the guess is accurate. A hypothesis must be tested to determine if the thesis is correct.
The first thesis on record? “The serpent said unto the woman, ‘You shall not surely die’” (Gen 3:4). A thesis is to answer the question, “What is truth?” Pontius Pilate asked that of Jesus. [i] The truth, Adam believed, was from God who said, “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” (Gen 2:7).
God revealed truth, but was it truth? Adam tested God. Rather than “truth”, Adam perhaps thought, that it was a mere assertion. Was he to believe God or the Serpent?
God allowed Adam to test His thesis. The test was forbidden fruit. He said that eating of it would cause death. Eve was confused. She added something to the test outside God’s thesis — neither to touch (Gen 3:3). God did not say that, so, for the testing of Eve was no more than determining the degree of her ignorance. Jesus, much later, answered why Eve’s ignorance was not sin: “They know not what they do.” [ii] Eve did not die because God had only purveyed the reason to Adam and not Eve.
Knowledge was necessary. Eve had no knowledge of anything but good up to that point. She was ignorant of death because no thing had yet to die.
Adam was ignorant as well. Neither did he understand death. Surely, he thought death was the cessation of bodily functions. He understood life, but not death, because he was alive but had never died or had even seen death.
The Serpent made a hypothesis based on the thesis that if they ate, they would die. Lucifer in the Serpent understood death. He biased the outcome of the test by knowing the truth and how to blind them from the truth by deception. Indeed, he was cunning!
Eve was strictly emotional. The fruit that she would consume looked good and that was enough for her. Since she did not understand death, dying meant nothing to her.
For Adam, he knew the truth. God told him His thesis. Would Adam believe God’s Thesis or the Serpent’s Antithesis? — that which is the direct opposite of God’s Thesis.
As a sidenote, “serpent” makes Judeo-Christianity seem like mythology. Isaiah used the Hebrew word, sarap (seraphim). But he also used, nahas (image) in the same verse as the root. [iii] In other words, the Serpent was the image of the seraphim (plural of seraph). It was not a Serpent at all but a false image to whom they were speaking.
The seraph made the test look innocent by using of one of Adam’s fellow, docile beings. That same technique is used to this day. Just look at the characteristics of psychologists. They are told to be non-judgmental and ameliorating. The cunning Seraph did just that! Both Adam and Eve were made comfortable speaking with the most powerful demon of them all.
Any hypothesis is set up that way. The subjects must not feel intimidated. That worked for the Seraph — Satan — and it still works. Propaganda is used to make subjects feel comfortable in what they decide is truth. The Seraph comforted Eve — not to worry, you are safe under my tree.
Now look at the truth: God was not “asserting” but demonstrating. He had recently created two living beings with souls. They knew that to be truth because they had experienced it! The thesis was all about life.
“Life” is experiencing the Spirit of God. They both should have known that because they were alive, and they should have deduced that there was a cause for their lives. Since God was the Supreme Being in the Garden, the logical conclusion should have been that the Serpent did not, and that God did! They had the ability to reason that the animals did not have, at least in that magnitude.
God’s truth was more than a “thesis”. They should have trusted God. Why would God destroy what He had just created? Logic would have it, since they had been good, that God had no reason that they should die. There was no reason to test God.
Eve was not testing God, she either misunderstood Adam or her opinion took pre-eminence to Adam’s allegation. Neither should have been there to allow themselves to be tested. They had entered unto temptation just as God warns Christians not to do! [iv]
Great faith is not even to enter unto temptation. Why? Because the trust of God is correct and expected in the outcome; that death will come. God did not say when or which death, but He told the ultimate truth; that they would die! Because He is the author of Truth, God knew it would be broken. So, He then provided the opportunity for grace.
But Adam and Eve walked right into the test-giver without even knowing there was a test! Eve was the evidence. If she died, then God’s thesis would be correct. If she lived, then the Serpent’s antithesis would be correct. After Eve ate, the evidence was in: Adam did not see Eve die, so he ate. What Adam did not know that God knew, and even the Serpent, is that death is not when the flesh ceases to live but when the soul is emptied of the Spirit of God. Satan had seduced them to his way.
Adam and Eve injected themselves with many unknown chemicals. The one compound that they had not previously known was “sin”. Satan shot, “all the fiery darts of the wicked (one)” into their healthy bodies, and they changed inside. Somehow, they knew that their bodies had been invaded by a foreign substance and were ashamed of themselves.
God’s thesis seemed to have failed since Eve seemed to still be alive. People still think they are alive to this day but with sin in them, but they are spiritually dead. Jesus had something to say about life and death: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, ‘He that heareth my Word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24).
Therefore, “alive” is trusting in God’s word, and “death” is failure to trust in God.
Eve had died and Adam failed to see it because death was in her soul and not her flesh. Then, Adam ate, and he died! God had told the truth after all, and the Thesis of God was accepted!
Their ignorance was overwhelming as they gambled with the Devil without having his knowledge of both good and evil. He cunningly used his knowledge against their ignorance of the knowledge of evil.
Never underestimate the knowledge of evil because it is used against you in the test without end — the testing of the flesh in the world until your flesh dies. What people consider is “living”; is death, if they are without the Holy Ghost of Jesus.
Jesus used the example of the Israelites and Moses [v] to explain what it means to be “born again”. [vi] However, refer to the original test:
6 The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that He take away the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses, “Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. (Num 21:6-9)
The test with Adam and Eve was spiritual in nature, and now the new test was for real! The tester remains the Serpent, and since he no longer had legs to crawl, he was the fiery flying Serpent. [vii] The same injection occurred but the sample-size increased; many of the Israelites were tested. They failed to accept the truth with Adam and Eve because they were still alive, or so it seemed.
The vipers were the “hardware” this time, replacing the fruit as in the first test. The test was a destination: Would they live to make it to the Promise Land where eternal life awaits them? The thesis of God this time was two-fold: (1) that there was a Promise and (2) that there was not only life but eternal life awaiting ahead. The Antithesis of Satan who stood silently by without even conducting the test, so as to make it “fair” perhaps, was this: You cannot survive only by trusting God, you must trust your own selves to keep from perishing.
By their own hand, both Adam and Eve had died spiritually, and Satan was confident that by their own hands, the fleshes of the Israelites would die as well.
The trial can be summarized simply; In whom do you trust? God or yourselves? Satan even removed himself. They would not need to trust him this time because his poison was already in the Israelites with original sin. That poison made them “as God” in their minds! [viii] They were master of their own domain, they thought. God thought, We shall see! Then, God set up the test apparatus. He brought in snakes, poison, and then a “tree” with the Serpent dead in it. The lifeless brazen serpent was to show the Israelites what physical death is like, but underneath it all, how the spirit in Judas would die.
Those who trusted God understood that this was the “Judas Tree” with Satan dead in it. [ix] They also had even more knowledge of good than Adam. They knew this meant that Jesus died on His Tree [x] to defeat Judas in his Tree. Why “Good Friday?” The Jesus Tree was Good, and it overcame the evil Judas Tree with Satan hung there inside Judas! [xi]
Some of the Israelites saw what Jesus would do to THE Serpent and trusted God to do the same for them! That is why Jesus used that test to explain “born again”. [xii]
The test was this: In whom would they have faith? The thesis is that those truly alive would trust their Creator. The antithesis by the “Antichrist” was that they would not trust God but themselves or some other thing.
Perhaps they could dig a lake with deep water, but the flying vipers would merely become swimming vipers. Water would not keep them from perishing. Or perhaps they could set the field afire, but these were fiery serpents. Fire would not cause them harm. The only thing between them and life was a lifeless dumb snake on a fake tree. Some saw Jesus in that “tree” and trusted Him to keep them safe from the serpents.
Although some had been bitten already, just by looking at the Power of God, saved them from death!
And the test is still ongoing: This time, the Devil is holding up the needle. His thesis is that only his needle will preserve life. The needle and vaccine are the apparatuses for his test. This time the antithesis is for God. I AM standing there and call for you; to wit: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44). God calls those who are willing come to Him.
On the other side of the test room is the doctor’s needle surrounded by a viper. The government demands that you come whether you are drawn or not! Christianity is based on liberty to exercise your own will. Autocracies require you, To do as you are told without questioning. Luciferianism is based on deception. The former colludes with the latter to deceive you into doing as you are told.
If the fruit of the tree had really been good, then there would have been no consternation. They would already have knowledge of that from God. Lucifer wanted them to mix evil with good knowledge. He knew that they could easily refuse evil, but deception was hard to reject!
Why call some of the stabs “vaccines”? Because vaccines are known to be good if done under the right and valid tests.
Right now, since the FDA has not approved the vaccine, you are the test. In whom shall you trust? The FDA has some who trust in Moderna, but it is not the FDA’s body, so who cares? On the other hand, they do not have enough trust to warrant their approval.
Well, for me and my family; In God We Trust. Both of us have herd immunity. Why? We did little to avoid the poisonous darts of the Serpent and went wherever we desired to go. We went to church despite warnings. We went to holiday affairs because we trusted God to preserve us!
We knew that we would soon be “bitten” but walked the way out of the dilemma without looking down nor looking back. Rightfully, we distrusted the snakes behind the vaccine and our own vicarious jails. We did not like the idea that if the injections were so good, why did they need to censor even Dr. Fauci’s colleagues.
With this test, Satan was always there; invisibly corrupting the experiment to force the outcome his way. Well, for me and my family, Jesus overcame the Wicked One on our behalf! [xiii]
Herd immunity is from God. In the beginning, I said that I would depend on God with God-given herd immunity. We, just like almost all the Israelites, were bitten by the “poisonous vipers”, but we had our eyes on Jesus.
The best prevention of all is like the Greeks requested of Philip, “Sir, we would see Jesus” (John 12:21). In whom do I trust? I trust in Jesus. He shall keep me safe from harm and, in the end, save my living soul for eternity. In whom do you trust? My bet they are the wicked ones in Washington who are now gods in God’s Face.
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