Most people have missed it, but both the heaven and the earth are the Estate of God. Trespassing is entering in without authority.
On a personal note, I entered a
dangerous area in the conveyance system above when I worked at Corvette. The
sign stated, “AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.” I had official business there, but had
no authority to decide if it was safe for me to enter that area.
A production employee called me
out, “Who authorized you to go there?” My simple answer, as I grimaced, “I did.”
To be truthful, the only person who could authorize that was the safety
director, but there was no process granting authorization, so effectively,
nobody had a right to be there.
The same goes for God’s Estate, “In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1); both what was on
the ground floor and what was aloft to be precise. As the ‘Great Technician’
who brought them into existence — both things seen, and things unseen — belong
to God.
Because of grace, we all have permission
to be here on Earth! “The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken” (permission granted;
Gen 3:23), “So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of
Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of
the Tree of Life” (trespassing into heaven denied; Gen 3:24).
God made it clear — the physical
world is our home but heaven requires authorization to even enter. The Cherubims
keep the way back to the Tree of Life in the middle of the Garden. They
are ‘watchers,’ so to speak, to prevent trespassers from entering where they do
not belong.
Heaven is not for strangers to
God. He must know them, and they must know Him.
Much later, God made it clearer; Moses
was to build an Ark for God and atop it was the ‘Mercy Seat.’ On either side was
a cherub of gold (Exod 25:18). The Mercy Seat would be a throne on which God would
rest to commune with mankind (Exod 25:22).
God said to Isaiah, “The heaven
is my throne, and the earth is my footstool” (Isa 66:1; Acts 7:49). The Mercy
Seat was the receiving end of messages from the throne above. That was the Way
to Heaven where the Tree of Life still stands that God would reveal, and for
some, have mercy on them. He would grant them the Way to the Tree of Life that
is in Paradise.
“To him
that overcomes will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the
midst of the Paradise of God” (Rev 2:7). So, the authorization to enter Paradise
is by mercy — finding grace in the sight of the Lord (Gen 19:19), just as Noah
found grace to enter the Ark of God (Gen 6:8).
Grace is undue favor for the
unworthy. It is goodwill for everyone without regard to their own works or
duration of work, as Jesus pointed out by parable of the householder (Mat 20). Who
deserves what is not up to the workers, but the lord of the estate. Who
got what and how much was not for the servants to say. The lord made the rules
because the vineyard was his. It was the lord of the vineyard who called the workers,
granted them permission to be there, and saw their work.
Perhaps the workers who were
hired late were more energetic than those hired at first. It was not their
total energy that got them their pay, but their zealousness to work and please
the lord. It was their willingness to work that got them their wages, and not
the actual energy that they expended that day.
God had authorized whosoever they
were, “To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the Tree of Life.” It is not
said overcomes what but overcomes, period. All the workers were
called, and some were zealous workers who were paid the same as the routine workers.
The late-coming workers were more energetic whether they worked as much or not.
It was not the amount of work that they did, but the appreciation to the lord for
being called to work!
On another personal note, the General
Motors (GM) Corvette Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky was built from the residue
of Chryslers Air-Temp Division, essentially from the ground up.
The intention was to start afresh
with new employees as the ones at the St. Louis Plant had been troublesome. As
it turned out, not because of the grace of GM, but the GM-UAW National Contract,
those from St. Louis that were willing were called to work in Bowling Green. All
were called but only a few came and those who came first had seniority in the
new plant. Of those that were called, many came but some did not, so GM supplemented
the workforce with local workers.
Although those called who were local
had the least time, they were willing to work harder because the privilege of a
great job exceeded the Contract.
The contract is not based on incentive
or performance but who came first. To get to the point, the late-coming
employees were generally the best because they really appreciated the chance to
receive extraordinary pay. As such, I often asked for Kentucky workers who
would work well in what the community considered to be a worker’s ‘Paradise.’
According to the Contract, all
the workers — both those who came first and those who came last — received the
same pay. (That has now changed with a later Contract.)
The UAW does not own GM, nor are
they servants but highly paid workers, so it is not ‘tit for tat’ the same. However,
GM does own the property and for anyone to enter requires authorization; they
must first be called in order to work. Nobody can just walk in, and even
if they could, they would receive no pay because that is not part of the GM-UAW
Agreement.
On the other hand, the UAW has no
direct say in who is called. GM is the ‘Householder’ and things must be done to
their work rules. To even work there requires for employees to agree to the
rules set out in the Contract. They are fair rules because the workers have
ratified them. Unfair rules can be contested by the grievance procedure.
The basic tenet of employers like
General Motors is the same as the Tenets of God, “Is it not lawful for Me to do
what I will with mine own? (Mat 20:15). Furthermore, “Is your eye evil, because
I am good?” It is not for the employee to determine what is good and what is
evil, but the Householder — whether it be GM, the owner of the vineyard, or the
Creator of the Garden of God.
The LORD GOD sets the rules. The
original sin was mankind (Adam’s), determining which were things were good and
which were evil. They became the ‘Lord’ to which Eve admitted when she
conceived Cain, “I have gotten a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1), meaning that she
got a type of ‘man’ (‘Is, not Adam), and she became the ‘Authority’
and Cain could do whatever he wanted to do, and he did!
GM employees could be disciplined
or terminated based on the degree of the offense. The same would have applied
to the workers in the Garden of God. Both Adam and Eve lost their ‘employment’
with God and went on to be independent workers themselves, even creating their
own workers, willing ones or forced ones, according to their zealousness.
They remained employed but the
work became much harder because they had to work by their own strength outside
the Garden in the world.
The angel Lucifer — the ‘Serpent’
was demoted. He became the ‘worm’ that worked the ground:
Your pom(posity) is
brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols (vocals): the worm is
spread under you, and the worms cover you. How are you fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did
weaken the nations! (Isa 14:12-13)
‘His,’ or better said, ‘Its’
demotion was from angel to worm, no longer even a ‘Serpent.’ Isaiah possibly
revealed the new character of the Cherub, Lucifer; it was cut down to a ‘Seraph.’
(Isa 14:29; Hebrew ‘Serap’).
It was a ‘serpent’ that got into
Eve, but a ‘worm’ that got into Judas (Luke 22:3), as is written about Hell, “Where
their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44).
Judas seems to have had a bad
case of the ‘Worm’ in the manner of Herod Agrippa who Satan had surely entered.
Herod seemed to be ‘God’
to the people, then something startling occurred, “Immediately the angel of the
Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms,
and gave up the ghost” (Acts 12:23). Like Judas before him, the death of Agrippa
yielded the ghost, Satan. Agrippa, in the manner as Herod the Great, whose
grandson he was, died in the same manner as his namesake. Both were ‘Antichrists.’
The penalty for the angel
Lucifer, who stood and was pompous, was finally fulfilled thousands of years
later. God had condemned Lucifer to die a vicarious death. He would live but
its nature would be degenerated to something less than angelic… even demonic!
“The Lord God said unto the Serpent,
‘Because you hast done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all
the days of your life’” (Gen 3:14).
The ‘Serpent’ was not a serpent,
but that was Lucifer’s inner image; The entity appeared to be the angel
of light, Lucifer, but inwardly it was just a cunning beast (Gen 3:1). Lucifer
was not therefore demoted to a ‘Serpent’ but to the ‘Worm’ that infested Herod
the Great, Judas, and Herod Agrippa, and that will infest whoever inherits the
name, ‘Antichrist.”
The ‘Image’ is not what anyone
would think; it is not a snake nor a worm but a spiritual being — an angel — whose
dominant nature, or genetics, is cunning and destructive to the Earth and the
other kinds.
Herod the Great would be the ‘Son
of Satan’ just as Jesus is the ‘Son of God,’ and so Herod Agrippa was the ‘Son
of Satan,’ as well as Judas. All their genetic ‘fathers’ were the Devil (the Satanic
supernature of Lucifer), as is written about antichrists, “You are of your ‘father’,
the ‘Devil,’ and the lusts of your father you will do” (John 8:44).
Therefore, to enter Paradise
without trespassing in the same manner as the ‘Devil’ Lucifer had, it must be
authorized. That requires change; rather than the ‘Son of the Devil’ sons of
devils must be transformed into ‘Sons of God,’ and be reborn with a new ultra-supernature,
as Jesus remarked, “Marvel not, you must be born again” (John 3:7). You must
have the genetics of God in the same manner as Jesus was the ‘Son of God,’ genetically.
To enter Paradise without the
change would be trespassing onto the Estate of God, just as Lucifer did in the
Garden Paradise. Any who enters Paradise must inherit his portion of God’s Estate
and must be ‘sons of God’ by adoption.
Lucifer was cast out into the
world as were the two Adam’s, but he was no longer a ‘bringer of light’ but the
author of death. That small piece of ground where the flesh is buried, will
someday be eaten by worms, and for the sinner, to the dust from which he came,
he shall return. Yes, Satan will follow you to the grave, not as a Serpent but
the Worm he is!
What keeps you trespassing?
Retaining the genetics of the Wicked One, whatever its name. Sinners
have a little Satan in them, not the invisible Image of the Beast, but in your
genetics. You are of Cain who is of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12), so you have
the curse of Cain in your genes.
To be truthful, you must change
to be a legitimate son of God that is authorized to enter onto His Estate in
Heaven. The grace is that God does the changing and you need only to submit.
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