Thursday, December 28, 2023

TRESPASSING NOT THE WAY TO GET IN

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)

 In this case “ground” is not ‘Adam’ in the Hebrew; it is ‘eres, or the earth itself. Satan was not made a man, but would soon have to enter men (Adamah) to do his work.  Lucifer thereafter lost his prestige, and would come to serve both his kind (Cain) and mankind (Adam).

‘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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