The Fall of Lucifer.

Lucifer was an angel who lived in the presence of God. The Bible teaches that he was created perfect, but because of sin, or pride he was permanently removed from the presence of God or Heaven. In Isaiah 14:12-17 it reads "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! ¹³You said in your heart, "I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. ¹⁴I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." ¹⁵But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit. ¹⁶Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, ¹⁷the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?" Satan's sin was a sin of pride, and because of it he was thrown out of Heaven forever. In the book of Job we see Satan appearing before God. Some may ask if Satan was cast out of Heaven when he fell, then how does he appear before God? This is somewhat of a mystery. We know the bible talks about fallen angels in the Heaven realm, which is different from God's dwelling, and it might just be here that Satan and God's angels talk to God in the book of Job. (Job 1:6), (Ephesians 2:6, And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.) Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Because Christians cannot see Satan with their physical eyes, his undercover tactics makes it very hard for the Christian to fight the devil, but the bible also teaches us that Jesus defeated Satan and his angels on the cross, (Colossians 2:15,⁵And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Jesus won the victory for mankind, because it is through His Blood that all men might be reconciled to God, (John 3:16, For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.) Christ's victory over death and the devil are final, and eternal. It won't be long until Jesus sets this world right at His second coming, and God the righteous Judge will rule this Earth, (Revelation 21:3, And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.) This is Mike.

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The Parable of the Ten Virgins.

Matthew 25:1-13 I have discovered a remarkable interpretation of this parable that I would like to share with you. The story in the Bible goes like this: “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ 7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ 9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy som...

Age of Brokenness.

We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and ...

The Biblical Meaning of “Life in the Spirit.”

“Life in the Spirit” is an example that the Apostle Paul gives in the book of Romans starting in chapter 5 and going through to chapter 8. He begins by telling us we are justified by faith (5:1), and have gained access by faith into the grace of God (5:2). We have been delivered from God’s wrath (5:9) and we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son (5:10). He goes on to explain that through Adam all die (5:12), and that the free Gift of God brings justification and righteousness to the believing sinner (5:15-17). Through our conversion we are baptized into Christ and into his death, which frees us from the law and makes us dead to sin (6:2-4). He explains that just as Christ was raised from the dead, we are given new life in Christ (6:4). Our old unregenerate self was crucified with Christ so that our body of sin might be done away with (6:5-6). Because we have died to sin, we now submit ourselves to God being that we are now under grace, not the law (6:8-1...

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