God gave us the solution right in the middle of passing judgement. Yes, God had to punish Adam and Eve, but He also showed them mercy by sharing the “good news” at the same time. The good news, is that God has a plan to save us from the mess created by sin and the fall. The word “gospel” means: good news! This is the first place in the Bible the gospel was given.
Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.
There is so much behind this one verse. Without going too deep, and taking up a couple chapters of my book, I’ll give you this: When God told Adam and Eve that He has a plan to bring them a Savior, He purposely left out most of the detail that we all have now. God didn’t tell them who the Savior would be, and He didn’t tell them when He would come. He didn’t tell them the Savior would have to die, or that He would rise again. All God said is that the seed of woman, (seed is singular) would bring down the enemy (Satan) and restore all things back to perfect.
Adam and Eve could choose to believe in this promise from God, or they could follow Satan and look to create their own paradise on earth. The word “seed,” is the reproductive material men carry, so there has to be a reason God said “her” seed. Women don’t have seed, only men do. How could a woman have a child without a man involved in the conception process? It would take a virgin birth. There is only one human ever born who did not get Adam’s corrupt, sinful, and fallen nature passed down through the normal human conception process. That was Jesus!
The snake was also there when God gave the good news to Adam and Eve. The promised Messiah was anything but good news to Satan though. He took this Word from God and started working to stop it. Since Satan is a created being, he is no match for the God who created him. So, Satan uses man to try and stop the seed from ever being born, or by corrupting the seed line, so none were worthy to be a savior. Eve thought her first born son Cain was going to be the Messiah, so Satan turned Cain into a murderer and he killed his brother Abel. That shows you how fast sin moved, when the 1st kid born on earth, kills his only brother because he was jealous.
This pattern of God keeping the seed promise alive, while Satan does all he can to stop it, happens over and over again throughout all of history. Every God-fearing Jewish mother from the time of Eve to the time of Mary, prayed and hoped their child would be the promised Messiah. This made the Jewish people Satan’s #1 target. If he could corrupt the seed line, or kill any who might be in it, Satan figured he could disrupt God’s plan.
The verse also tells us that Satan would bruise the future Savior on the heel. In human terms, you can strike a fatal blow to the head, but no life-threatening damage comes from a strike on the heel. This was God’s point in bringing up this comparison. The deeper meaning behind it was revealed when Satan thought he won by helping get Jesus killed, only to later realize it was just a strike on the heel, because Jesus arose from the dead and is alive now.
On the other hand, Jesus dealt a death blow to Satan’s head. Satan could no longer hold the fear of death over us, because Jesus rising from the dead would give us life after death. Even though the true end of Satan is not yet here, God is still in control, and Jesus is ruling from His throne in heaven. Make no mistake about it though, Satan is here on earth with a multitude of fallen angels, always looking to stop God’s next step. The problem is, Satan is not all knowing like God is, and so He is always a step behind and too late. In fact, God utilizes Satan and his minions to bring about Jesus’ return, so there is no doubt Satan can only go as far as God lets him.
It was impossible for anyone born before Jesus to know all that verse 15 meant. It didn’t become truly clear until Jesus came, died, and rose again. God slowly revealed the full plan over time, until the day Jesus was born. He did this to keep the plan secret enough that Satan would not know how it would play out. God did give the nation of Israel plenty of clues that would help them recognize when the real Savior came, but as you may know, most still rejected Him when He showed up.
The Bible tells us that until Jesus comes back again, this place will only get worse. Almost every scientist in the world thinks the earth is falling apart. They believe mankind is causing it, and if we would just stop eating cows, stop having kids, and build more wind farms, we can stop the damage. Others are drastically searching for life on other planets, trying to find a place to move to when this earth goes away. It is no coincidence that most of humankind has a feeling that the earth is wearing out. Before anyone ever thought about it, the Bible declared it over 2,000 years ago. What are the odds?
In Genesis 8:22 God says that all will remain predictable on the earth from the time after the flood, until the end. Seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night, will never stop happening. Climate change scientists say nothing will be predictable, because we are seeing weather events and ice melts, that are unparalleled in history. They argue for the opposite of what the Bible says. Climate change predictions see chaos, where summer becomes winter, or the opposite. They are always looking for “never happened before” events to support their predictions. God says everything in our environment will work as usual until the end of the earth. It’s part of a cycle that God created, and it won’t change or go away until the earth goes away.
So, the nightmare scenarios that climatologists have thrown at us for years, is all just part of God’s plan. Man isn’t speeding up or slowing down any of it. God set the timing of it when He cursed the earth after Adam and Eve’s sin. From that day forward, earth was like a ticking timebomb, waiting to be destroyed. For those of us that know this place is not home, there is no need for doom and gloom, because God replaces His creation with a new heavens and earth. It’s the same place we read about in Revelation chapter 21. If you know your Bible, then you will know when we are getting close to the end of earth. I’ll save that discussion for later.
God wants us to be good stewards of this planet and respect His creation, but holding on to a lie that we can stop God’s plan by driving electric cars is willfully ignoring Bible truth. Letting the fear they are selling you invade your life is wasted stress. The earth is passing away. Everything in this world wears out and eventually stops working, just look around. Your car doesn’t start running better, it always runs down. The same with every single thing on this earth. Can you think of anything that gets better and more efficient the longer it is used? Do you understand now why the world makes climate change such a priority? Why do they want to scare you into believing that you are responsible for the earth’s decay, and not Genesis 3?
It’s an attack against God, and Bible truth. If there is no judge, there is no judgement. If there is no fear, they you don’t need them for a solution. The Bible makes clear in many places throughout, that the world is ending because of a judgement against sin. I wrote about this earlier; unbelievers don’t want to believe in a creator God, because that implies that there is someone they need to be accountable to. Of course, they can’t believe the reason why the universe is wearing out, or they would be admitting there is a higher authority.
Almost every fear that the world tries to get you believe is debunked in the Bible. Again, I ask you to think about why they want you to be scared about this place ending? Why do they want you to think that we can do anything about it?
The next major historical event the world does everything they can to discredit, is the flood from Genesis 7. The worldwide flood Noah and everyone alive at that time experienced changed everything. It changed our topography and our ecosystem. For the first time it rained, and millions of people, animals, and birds drown. From this point in time forward, man would eat animals, and animals would eat each other. Most animals were no longer tame, and God put the fear of man in them so they weren’t an easy target.
The flood was brought as judgement on the people of earth because they had become so wicked that every thought of theirs was to do evil. After the fall, and before God brought the flood, Satan was working overtime to stop the seed line from moving forward. He had his fallen angels indwell human men and impregnate the women of earth. This was Satan’s way of trying to corrupt the lineage leading to Jesus.
Now, think for a second about what it took for God to flood this earth and start over with only Noah and his family. The place was nothing but evil, 24×7. Outside of one family, no one was worth saving. That is how bad the world was then. As a teaser for later in the book, Jesus told us in the New Testament that when He comes back again, the earth will be as wicked and evil as it was right before the flood. I can tell you it is bad right now, and getting worse, but I don’t think we are quite as bad as the people who drowned in the flood were….at least not yet. One could easily argue that we are definitely seeing an increase in the presence of spiritual darkness nowadays.
So, the real reason why the world of unbelievers has to target the flood story is this: If we can prove there was a flood, then we prove there was a judgement. If there is proof of judgement, then they have to believe there is a judge. If they believe this, then they have to believe the judge is coming back. Still seeing the pattern? It’s not just the fact that the flood happened, it is the fact that a similar judgement is coming again. That is why they deny it happened, and they tell us the story is just allegory. A righteous God, brought judgment on an evil world. This is exactly what the world doesn’t want to acknowledge. Again, the book of Genesis has so many foundational truths, that Satan is be best served when people cause confusion and doubt about its authenticity or meaning.
Someday, Lord willing, I will show you guys how the geological columns and the fossil records prove the flood, and opens up more questions about what scientists say happened. You have to jump through hoops, make assumptions, and outright try to fool people into believing their eyes are deceiving them, to proclaim our earth supports the evolutionary model. There are millions of animals that all died at the same time from the flood, and were buried instantly, creating fossils groupings that scientists can’t explain. What science tells us happened is more unbelievable than the belief of a worldwide flood. The earth’s crust was opened up and mass amount of water shot out from the earth. This should have left an impression we can see today, and it did. Scientists just won’t show you, because they can’t believe in God. It’s tough to hold onto something as truth, when all the physical evidence of a worldwide flood is everywhere. But who is going to challenge the experts?
One more thing I have to tell you about is in Genesis 10. This is where God documented the beginning of all the nations on earth. This chapter is unparalleled when you compare it to any other ancient writings about the origins of mankind. There is no document in history that comes close to explaining the beginnings of modern nations and cultures like Genesis does. Many of the names of Noah’s grandsons can be directly traced to nations of people still existing today. Other names have lost their meaning and their people groups are a mystery today. From this chapter in Genesis, we know that the world we see today, was settled by a few families moving outward from a place called Babel. All of this took place about 4,500 years ago. I have a map for you of where these descendants of Noah ended up.
Babel is a city that most of the people settled in after the flood. God told the people to be fruitful, multiply, spread out and fill the earth. They didn’t listen, and instead congregated in big cities like Babel, and built a huge tower. God forced their hand by changing their languages, which then caused them all to move away from each other. Mistrust started to build with the people they couldn’t understand, so they spread out into groups and families by language. They refused to listen to God, so He forced their hand. Now you know why your Aunt Steph tells me I am babbling a times, and where that word came from. Read the story of the Tower of Babel and check it out.
I find it interesting that in today’s world, we are moving back to one universal language, English. Hmmm, I wonder if that is a sign of something? I guess to find out, you are going to have to read the end of the book.
After sin came into this world from Adam and Eve disobeying God’s law, death also came. If you notice, before the flood people lived to be several hundreds of years old. The oldest person to ever live was Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years old. There are some interesting theories about why people lived longer before the flood, and what the flood did to change our atmosphere and climate. I’ll save that for a future study.
The rest of the book of Genesis is focused on the nation of Israel. We learn how they were formed, and what they went through as they grew into a nation. Genesis takes us all the way until Jacob (Israel) and his family move into the land of Egypt, where they would later become slaves.
In the background, throughout all Genesis, we have Satan trying to get in the way of God’s promise of a Savior, and God doing what He does to ensure the seed lines moves forward. We know who succeeded because the Savior did in fact come!
The more this book comes together, the more I see what a moron I was. I wasted so much time. I wasted so much of my life wandering in the wilderness those 40 years. I spent every hour of every day, worrying about my future. I was always trying to picture what my life would be like in 5 or 10 years, but the lens I used was the wrong one. I looked at my life through the lens of the world, when I should have been looking at everything that was happening to me through the lens of the Bible. I should have been comparing my life to Jesus, instead of the rich CEOs I worked for.
I put an incredible amount of pressure on myself, and I partied like a rock start to try and forget it. I never lived in the moment; I was too worried about what was next. Most of it feels like a blur now.
I’ve been writing in a journal since I was 15. I have notebook after notebook filled with my thoughts, ideas, dreams, disappointments, and successes during that time. When I go back and look through it all, it’s pretty depressing. Every time I actually sat down to write, I questioned if I would ever get something done. If there is an overwhelming theme from the stuff I wrote while wandering in the wilderness, it is that I was miserable, and I was always waiting for my story/life to unfold. The most common sentences over thousands of journal entries were: “Why am I going through this?” and “am I ever going to write something?” I thought there was no way out from the expectations I set for myself. I thought the failure that hit me over the head all my life was here to stay.
Instead of going to God for relief, I went to motivational speakers, business leaders, published authors, and the countless books and tapes on earthly success. I have a ton of stressed-out writing in my notebooks, and very little that was positive. I’d write when I was totally wigging out about something, but I didn’t go back and write about how God helped me through it. I guess I was more miserable than I ever realized. Not once, was I ever able to confidently say I know what I am going to do with my life. Sure, I thought I knew a few different times, but God squashed those ideas really quick.
Stressing about my life achievements, and when they would happen, is the only thing I was consistent with in my whole life. It sucked. Job after job I quit, failed attempt to write after failed attempt, I lost hope. All this time, God was trying to teach some valuable lessons, but I was either too altered, or too distracted to notice. Every day for me was either a day to forget, or a day to think about what I haven’t done. It is the worst feeling in the world, and it just kept repeating itself for most of my life.
One of the main reasons I was stuck in that vicious circle is because I failed to recognize that God disciplines His children. God puts us through trials and tests our whole earthly lives. This is how we grow in maturity, and how we grow spiritually. Ask my parents how well it went when they tried to discipline me back in the day….
There is a movie I loved when I was a kid called “Back to the future”. There is a scene in it where the bully knocks on McFly’s head and says : “hello, Mcfly?” “Is there anyone home?” I think of God doing that to me for 40 years. Bill, how many times do we have to go through this? Bill, I thought you promised you wouldn’t do that again? Bill, why are you so upset, don’t you remember I always provide? Bill, why do you need that fancy car? Why did you quit your job before I told you to? Hello, McFly?!!!
I don’t think the main issue God had with me was my 30 jobs, it was the fact that I never gave Him credit for hooking me up with the new ones. Every time I got a new job, it was a better one, and I took all the credit. Uncle Bill has a big head, full of pride. I remember going to the in-laws not long after I found a new job. My father-in-law Tom said “I don’t know how you do it Bill, but you always find a better job, every time”. I just smiled, while thinking in my head how awesome I was, and that the in-laws recognize my talent. Lol It’s weird how this interaction stuck with me over all these years. I think about it a lot, because it was a great chance to give credit where credit was due. Instead, I let Tom’s comment fuel the pride in me even more. In actuality, he was probably thinking: “Bill has had more jobs in 5 years than I’ve had in my life.”
On the outside, I radiated self-confidence; but in reality, it was all but gone by 35. How could that have happened? I was a cocky, over-confident punk, who thought the world revolved around me. Someone had to put me in my place, and many tried. It wasn’t until God brought me down from my perch, that I finally learned what humility was. If there ever was a perfect parent, it is God. God got my pride in check really quick. Over the last 13 years, He has made sure I know who really provides for me and my family. Had I never learned this lesson, I would still be thinking every positive thing in my life was because of me. Because I am awesome. Because I am fire!
Thankfully, God never stopped trying to make me better. When earthly parents might give up because their kids are too out of control, or they are adults now, God won’t. He never grows tired of trying to get something important into my thick skull. This only benefits me, why wouldn’t I want to grow? In fact, spiritual growth (becoming more like Jesus) not only benefits us tremendously in this world, but even more so after Jesus comes back again. Keep reading, God has a lot to say about the time when Jesus comes back.
The Israelites who were rescued from slavery in Egypt, got plenty of learning lessons, plenty of discipline, and plenty of time wasted in the wilderness too. You can read all about it in the books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in the Bible. Did you know it took Israel 40 years to reach the land God promised after they left Egypt? Do you know they should have been able to get there in 2 weeks? So, what was the hold-up there? What was the hold-up that had Uncle Bill wandering in the wilderness for 40 years? In both cases, it was man being stubborn, and purposely ignoring God’s attempts to point out our wrongs.
Israel broke God’s laws given to Moses on the mountain. I broke God’s laws, and I broke man’s laws. Most of the people of Israel, who were old enough to know better when God rescued them from Egypt, never made it to the promised land. It was supposed to be a short trip, yet most of them died in the wilderness. In contrast, I already have my citizenship to the promised land. I’m just waiting for the place to open; they are expecting me. I decided to wander around for a while and hang out in the desert first. I chose to try and “live my best life now”, but it never worked. I was always thirsty, hungry, hot, and tired. I just kept wandering, going in circles over and over again. The way I felt, (thirsty, hot, etc.) is what the Bible tells us life after death for the unbeliever will feel like. More on all that later.
Remember one of the questions I posed earlier in the book? Why couldn’t Uncle Bill be good, when he knows God wanted him to be good? One answer is because Uncle Bill was stubborn, and I didn’t learn from my mistakes very quickly.
The other part of the answer lies in what we discussed about sin in chapter 3. We are born with sin; and it is part of our nature. It was passed down through Adam, to every person ever born on earth, minus the One. My sin nature is opposed to God, so it is always working to try and undermine God or my belief in God. I can’t blame Satan for everything I do wrong, but the sin and lies he brought into this world, sure make it hard to be good. In fact, this side of heaven, it is impossible to be as good as God wants us to be. Did you know that? We can’t change who we are, but thankfully God can.
Do you know that your parents didn’t teach you to be bad, but they had to teach you to be good? Which side of a child’s nature comes out first, and is instinctual…good or bad? Did anyone teach me to lie? Nope, I just preferred to lie over telling the truth most times. A lot of times it was because I was too embarrassed to admit that I was a failure. Other times it was to cover up another lie, or to get me out of work, or doing chores. This was another thing God had to work on with me over and over again. I wrote a FB post to Zach 10 years ago about excuses. This sums up how I lived with lies and excuses during my time in the wilderness. Check it out:
As I got older, I could lie and cover it up so well that I believed it in my own head. I had lies that no one would ever know about. There are still lies that I have yet to admit, stupid ones that I know would be fine if I owned up to them now.
Ok let’s give it a try: Dad, if you are reading this book, and you are at this point, I have to tell you something….
Remember the Ford Ranger you used to have? Remember the one time I came home with part of the front all crushed in? Remember when I told you that I was in the parking lot, and when I came out of the store the damage was there? Remember Uncle Tom seeing it and saying it looks like someone hit a pole? Well, that is what I did. I was trying to spin the wheels in the grass at a small church. The grass was wet and I lost control and hit their flag pole. Sorry about that pop! I feel better now, if that is any consolation. Lol The Church also learned to put a large concrete barrier around the pole after that. What a punk I was, and still am sometimes.
This was one of the main reasons that God had to keep teaching me the same lessons over and over. I wouldn’t get it. Thankfully He didn’t give up trying, because I do get it now. It wasn’t until after my 40 years in the wilderness, after all the trials and tests, that I finally stopped worrying about my future. It is the most freeing thing I have ever felt! Living each day as it comes, knowing God has a plan for me and this world, is all I need now.
It was 5 years ago, right around Christmas 2020. The nation was experiencing all the Covid hysteria, and I was winding down a consulting gig God gave me. It was then, before I knew what would come next, that I decided I didn’t care if I ever wrote another thing. I didn’t care about any of the dreams I had my whole life. I was just so happy knowing the Truth, and that God gave me so much time to read and study the Bible. Nothing else mattered to me after that. I finally knew my future, and it wasn’t here on earth that I cared about anymore. God gave that peace to me 5 years before I started writing this book. It’s almost like I had to give up the priority I put on my dream, and put it on God. Once I did that, it all started to happen. Now the dream, and the peace, are both real.
I can’t explain how great I feel right now, writing this. I have not had the stress over my failed life in a little over 10 years. The sick feeling I had in my gut all those years is gone. I didn’t think the day would ever come. I am not sure I could have been further down in the dumps, but now I am more alive and hopeful than any time in my life. This is what a miracle looks like! To come out of the wilderness virtually unscathed, can only be God’s doing.
I have lots of undercover/spy work in my background, so when God asked me to keep an eye on you young whipper-snappers, I already had the experience. My dad had a Dodge K car, and I used to pretend it was my undercover cop car because it fit the profile. (Zach will probably know what that car looked like.) I called it the “FBI-mobile”. I didn’t drive it much, for obvious reasons, but sometimes Ken and I would take it out and park in front of people’s houses I knew. Most of the people weren’t major criminals, but I could see them peak out of their windows, and sometimes come out to their car, like they were getting something out of it. When they looked, we would act like we were writing something down or calling for backup on the CB radio. This is what life was like before the internet. It was hilarious. I would sit there for an hour if I saw anyone checking me out from the house. I remember a couple people bringing it up that next weekend, but they never knew it was me.
So you can see I was a natural at the spy game. Another time I sat outside all night waiting for some young punks who tried to prank my house. They filled up my recycling bin with water and leaned it up against the front door. The plan was that I would open the door, and 30 gallons of water would flood inside the house and on me. (see pics) Luckily, we don’t use the front door, and I noticed it when I came back from the store. That night I waited for them, and I parked my car down the street so if the turkeys ever came back, they wouldn’t suspect me. I got tired so I set up a chair in my backyard by the gate and kept an eye out front. They are lucky they never came back. lol
The funniest time was when I lived in Tempe with all my buddies. There was a 7-11 right across the busy street. The payphones were always in use, and they usually had lines. Yes, the payphones again. This is was what you had to do if you were on the road, and lots of people bought alcohol there so it was always busy. Every day around the same time, we would see the same guys hanging around the phones being all suspicious. They were always looking around, as they made and received calls there. We decided to spy on them, so we wrote down the phone numbers of the payphones when they weren’t around. We walked over to 7-11 at least 3 times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, so there were plenty of opportunities.
The next night the payphone crew was back, and we had a great view of the payphones. Some nights, just hanging out on our patio watching the 7-11parking lot, was entertainment for us. If you went upstairs in our condo, you would have an even better view, so I’d go upstairs and call the pay phone:
ring ring: (the recognizable sounds of a payphone ringing)
Cut to: sketchy looking guy in a green shirt
guy: ”Yo”
me: “Sup dawg?”
guy: “What you want?”
me: “what you got foo?”
guy: “What you need?”
me: “How much you got?”
guy: “how much you got”?
me: “ I got enough to afford better clothes punk”
guy: “What you talking bout? Who gave you my number?”
me: “Your momma gave me your number foo. She told me to tell you that green shirt is ugly dawg”.
Guy starts looking around, wondering what the heck is going on.
me: “This is Tempe PD; you are using this phone to conduct illegal narcotic transactions. We are on the way.”
He would start looking around, we would duck. It was pretty funny. We used to call the phones just to see if the rando walking by would answer it. One time we got girls who just bought a bunch of alcohol to answer the phone. We talked the ladies in to coming across the street to party. Good times.
I now have over a decade of spying on you guys under my belt, and I gathered a lot of intel during that span. You already know that God gave me plenty of time with you guys, and that time allowed me to get lots of insight I needed for this book.
What I observed were some of the most amazing, kind, honest, and caring young people in the world! I have to be the luckiest uncle there is! God wanted me to spend a lot of time with my nieces and nephews, and He couldn’t have given me a better bunch. Thank you for always wanting to hang out with me. (or at least faking it well) Thanks for always talking to me about all kinds of different of things. God definitely blessed me when you guys were born.
So what did the family spy discover?
For one, it made a big difference growing up in Baptist churches. If you compared my behavior at age 17, verses your behavior at that same age, you would see a remarkable difference. If I took a poll of 100 people, and I had them watch a brief flashback of all of our lives, 100 of them would say I was the kid who didn’t go to church. My behavior was horrible; yet all you guys are little angels in comparison? That goes to show you that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Just because little Billy walked in and out of church thousands of times, doesn’t mean he’s a better-behaved kid than those who didn’t.
You can be a Christian on the inside, but look nothing like one on the outside. You can be an unbeliever on the inside, but look nothing like one on the outside. This is what makes it so hard to identify who is a saved and who is not. There is no secret handshake Christians get to help identify each-other. Any one of you could tell me you believe, (and I would trust you) but there is really no way to prove it. Baptism is about as close as we can get to knowing. It’s rare that someone who doesn’t believe in God will go through with a baptism in front of other people. We have an example of that in our own family. Still, under pressure from parents, or from the church, unbelievers do get baptized. There are also many Christians who have never been baptized, so that won’t help anyone be 100% sure.
Here is what I do know… I didn’t have as many questions as you guys do about God. Part of that is your church or lack of church, part of that is your parents not teaching you, part of that is on you for not listening if anyone did tell you, and part of that is the world we live in today. I am sure there were tons of atheists out there when I grew up, but I never heard from any of them. You are bombarded with more false information about God in one week, than I was in my whole pre-internet life. Before I started reading and studying the Bible, I couldn’t have answered most of the questions you guys have about God now. Some of the questions you have, I never would have even thought to ask. That is how different the worlds we grew up in are. My faith wasn’t challenged every day like you guys had growing up.
All of this was by God’s design, so I am not bagging on you guys or your parents. Had you all gone to churches that preach the Bible consistently, maybe you wouldn’t need this book. If you didn’t need this book, then what would I have done? What else would be different? Would I have had the same amount of time with you? What if I had a career with a job that I worked at for 60 hours a week when you guys were younger? Everything happens for a reason. Of course, I would have preferred you guys knew more about God, because I know it would have helped you. But maybe that’s why I am here, it sure seems to be my purpose.
What I had growing up was an unshakeable belief that God created everything, including me. If evolution was taught in school, I don’t remember it. I knew creation history, so nothing ever got me to doubt where I came from. On the other hand, I don’t know how you guys couldn’t have doubts about your origins. In your lives, you’ve probably heard about evolution 10,000 x as much as you’ve heard about the creation account in Genesis. (and that is if you go to a church that believes in God’s creation story) You need more info to defend Bible history than I ever needed, yet you aren’t getting near as much as I had.
I listened as you talked about the preachers who drive Lambos, own jets, and live in multi-million-dollar compounds. I noticed when Haley talked about all the billboards in the south and how they shout God at you, tell you that hell awaits, and crazy things like that. I have heard some of you use the word spiritual in a sense I don’t understand, and I know is not the Biblical meaning. I saw some of you disappointed when a preacher you liked fell from grace. I saw some struggle to identify where the stars and planets came from. In fact, I wrote down all of this stuff when it happened. My decade of undercover work gave me some great insight into what this book should be about. Spy-work was fun, and it felt like just hanging out with you guys, paying attention to you, and chillin, gave me everything I needed to write the book.
One of the biggest areas of question from all of you was about creation. That’s why I spent a bunch of time on it in my book, and I plan to do a creation vs evolution Bible study in the near future. Another insight you needed more on is the sovereignty of God. I wanted to make sure you guys heard that term and understood what it means. I wanted to show you how you can tell God is in charge of His creation by what has happened, and is still happening in my life. I am hoping you will have your own understanding and experiences watching God work in your lives someday, if you haven’t already. I wrote about death, and why so much evil is in this world, because those topics came up a lot. Everything I cover in this book I got from you.
I know that the world you grew up in makes young people feel unimportant, and that your life means nothing. I know what you are being taught in school, and what you are not hearing enough about in church. I know they tell you this earth and universe is permanent, and we are the temporary ones, which is the total opposite of what God tells us. I know the majority of the world is wrong about who God is, and I want to help equip you for that challenge. Most of all, I just want to make sure you know the truth so you can make a decision for yourself. Without a doubt, God is real and the Bible is Truth. You can trust me, or go read it for yourselves. I am also hoping that by reading about what God has done in my life, you will have more insight into who God is and how He works. Everyone lives forever; it is where you live that matters. I want you to live in the same place I’ll be in. Heaven. (more on this to come)
Thankfully, I learned from the side-effects I had early on. I learned that you don’t always have to “tell” people about God. In fact, there is a saying: “preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words”. This time around I was determined to do more “showing” instead of “telling”. How did Uncle Bill handle that situation vs what my teacher told me? Why is my mom so stressed, when uncle Billy doesn’t have a job and he looks relaxed? Why is uncle Bill so much cooler than my parents? Why doesn’t uncle Bill get worked up over silly little things? When we are on vacation, I’m never glued to my phone, because I am talking with you guys. I want to show you how important you are to me.
Tell me that you haven’t noticed uncle Bill is different. Before you think anything, I mean in a “good way” different. lol You’ve seen the unnecessary stress on family vacations and holidays; I made sure I was carefree and go-lucky uncle Bill. I didn’t just show up every once in a blue moon to your events, I was consistent in attending most of your things, for most of your lives. I made fun of other adults, and took your side 90% of the time. Most of the time you saw me I didn’t have a job, but I made sure you knew I wasn’t stressed. Stress is something you can’t hide for long, so you would have noticed if I was faking it. Do you know any adults who are not afraid to die, and would be perfectly fine if it was today? Most of you know I live like that now.
There is absolutely no doubt that you can see the peace I have. Now that you have this book, you don’t have to guess as to why I have it. Peace comes from understanding. I tried extra hard when I was around you to show you how different I am now. I’ve tried to model what God expects me to be to all of you. I have failed many times and succeeded some as well. I’ve tried to show you how different I am because of my relationship with God. I know you are all very perceptive and can tell when adults are being hypocrites. I talk to you a lot and try my best to always listen attentively.
Below is the large poster size sheet I used to write down the topics I got from being a spy. Don’t worry, I am not going to cover all of that in this book, but it will make great Bible study topics down the road.
God sure makes it all sound so easy. All you have to do is believe that you need saving, and accept the sacrifice Jesus made by dying on that cross for us. If you accept the gift, then you are saved. Pretty simple right?
Think of it like a court of law and you are in front of the judge. You are up on trial for not paying your speeding tickets, and they want to throw you in jail. Before the judge can pass sentence on you, a rich uncle comes in and pays the fines and interest in full. If you accept his payment on your behalf, the judge is justified in letting you go because your fines were paid in full. Same sort of thing with Jesus and His death. We are already guilty, we will have to stand in front of the judge, and we are due the sentence of death. Fortunately for us, Jesus came and died on the cross. His blood was an acceptable payment for our debt of sin. The only thing we have to do is believe that Jesus did that for us. We have to accept that offer to pay our penalty.
Belief/faith is all it takes to be saved. Nothing more, and nothing less is required to spend eternity in the good place. But even a simple message like the gospel can get counterfeited by the world. Humans don’t like the fact it’s so simple, so they add rules and rituals. Man wants to work for things so they can keep a checklist and mark off stuff as they earn their way to heaven. They want to feel good about themselves and in charge of their own future. God doesn’t work that way. God says you can’t climb up to heaven on your own. You need Him to reach down from heaven and bring you up there. God says all that stuff you are doing to try and earn your way to heaven is a waste. That type of man based, work your way to heaven philosophy is what the Bible calls “religion”.
Religion is man trying to work his own way to heaven. God’s way is called grace. Grace is a gift. We don’t deserve God’s grace, but we have it anyway. There is a big difference between earning something and being given something. If man earns something, he feels good about himself and all the credit goes to him. If man is given something, the One giving the gift gets all the thanks and praise. See the difference?
Do you know how they train bank tellers and cashiers to spot a counterfeit bill? Do they bring in every possible fake 100-dollar bill out there and make sure the tellers know all the phonies? Nope, there are new versions of fake bills made every day, so they study the real bill. They get to know it like the back of their hand. The feel of it, the weight of it, the coloring, the texture, everything about that real 100-dollar bill they know. Since they were trained on the real thing, they can spot even the subtlest of differences when a fake bill comes across their path. This is how you spot false teachers and false religions too. You don’t study all the religions of the world; you just study the Bible. Once you know the Bible like the back of your hand, you can spot a counterfeit a mile away. Although I did spend a little time on some of the world’s largest religions over the past 10 years, it was very minor compared to the time I spent in the real deal Bible.
Let’s just use a little logic, shall we? There are lots of religions with lots of different rules. Only one religion (Judaism) has the right rules, but Jesus was the only one who could ever meet them all. So what does man do? Man creates rules that man “can” obey. The craziest thing to me, is that all religions build in an “exception” because they know you will break the rules. They tell you that you “have to” follow the rules to get to heaven, but when you break them, you can just say a certain prayer 10 times and you will be ok. If you forget to say the prayer to make up for breaking the rules, then you have to bathe 10 times in holy water. The rules say you have to go to church every week, unless you don’t, then you can just send us a big donation and you will be back on track to heaven. Huh? No, that kind of logic doesn’t work. God sets the standard to get into heaven, and it is perfection. You must be as good as God, 100% of the time, forever and ever, with no exceptions. This is an IMPOSSIBLE task for anyone but Jesus. This is why religions go away from teaching the Bible. Their pride wants to elevate man, while the Bible says God has to humble us before He saves us. You become humbled when you realize everything that Jesus did to save us, especially knowing we couldn’t do it on our own.
There is a common saying that most people think comes from the Bible. It is: “God helps those who help themselves”. Ha! That saying is nowhere in the Bible. In fact, it goes against the whole theme of the Bible. God says we can’t help ourselves, and that is why we need Him. Do you see what I was talking about? Look at what man does to try and get some credit. It’s like God won’t help us until we do our part first. Again, it puts the emphasis on “our part”. God says there is no “your part” it is all “His part” to get you to heaven. If there is anything man can boast about, the Bible says it won’t count.
In fact, just about everything the world thinks is true, is actually the total opposite of how God thinks. I call it opposite world. Here are just a few:
The universe in permanent, and we are temporary: I covered this a little before, but the Bible tells us this universe is temporary and will be replaced. The only thing temporary about us right now is our physical body. Our spirit, which is the real you, lives forever. (we also get that brand new body at the resurrection that will live forever) Fear of the world ending is very high on most people’s fear list right now. This is a fear Christians should not have since we know what God’s plan is for this place.
There are many roads/ways to heaven: There is only one (1) way to heaven and that is through faith in Jesus Christ. Why would God send His Son to die, yet still allow other ways to get in? Why would Jesus have to die in the first place if there are a lot of other options available? No, there is only one way, and those looking for a different way will fall short. Humans like multiple choice, but this a true/false question. Jesus died for you, and your faith in Him is the only ticket to heaven. True or false?
All but the worst of humanity get in to heaven: It will actually be quite the opposite, as most of humanity will not get into heaven. The road to heaven is narrow, and most will follow the wide road that leads to hell. This is just Biblical truth; God doesn’t save everyone. He wants us to be extremely grateful that we were chosen before we even existed, and to not take it for granted that He didn’t choose everyone. God wants us to see what we have been saved from.
We are nothing, and just another part of the evolution process of chance. I covered the creation account already, but don’t ever forget that you were created and that you have purpose. Remember why they want you to believe in evolution. If there was no Creator, there is no one we are accountable to. If we aren’t accountable to anyone, then we can live our life anyway that we want to without consequence. Sounds really good until the day you stand in front of the creator on judgement day and realize it was all bull.
God doesn’t get involved with this place; He just sits up in heaven watching. This makes no sense, as the Bible is full of God being active in His creation. So much so that He sent His only Son into it to save it. People say God just watches, because they can’t understand why God lets bad things happen. It’s hard for a lot of Christians to explain why God does some of the things He does, and why He lets some of the things happen that He does. I will point to just 2 things. 1. Adam’s sin cursed this place, and sin spread causing evil and bad things to happen. 2. Yes, God knows everything that is coming, and He could stop disasters if He wanted to. Do you know how many He has stopped bad stuff from happening? Me either, but I bet it is a lot, maybe 100 x what He let run its course. God knows all of history and all of the future, and we can’t even begin to understand why He does everything He does. One storm today that kills 40 people may end up being the disaster that brings many new believers to God who wouldn’t have otherwise. The Christians killed in the storm are much happier in heaven then they were here. Maybe there was a guy who drowned who was going to be a serial killer but God ended that with a storm. Someday when we get to heaven, God says we will know the whys. I can’t wait for that day.
God will be waiting at the pearly gates with a checklist to see if we deserve to get in. This is part of that greeting card knowledge I was telling you about earlier. Most expect God will ask us “why should I let you in?”, so people spend their life doing stuff they think will help convince God. There is no checklist for believers. Once you believe, you are in, and you go right to Jesus when your physical body dies. There are no pearly gates; that doesn’t come until the new heavens and new earth. We will have been in heaven for at least 1,000 years before the pearly gates come into the picture. If God asks you: “what have you done to earn entrance?”, just say “nothing, Jesus hooked me up with a VIP pass”. Lol The only thing resembling a sort of checklist is when all the unbelievers are judged after the 1,000-year reign of Christ as King. The Bible says the books will be opened and the unbelievers will be judged by them. It has no bearing on getting into heaven, it is just telling them why they are going to hell. More to come on all that.
If my life is going well, then I must be doing something right; if bad is happening, it’s payback for something stupid I did. This is that karma thing that people bring up all the time. We learn from the Bible that your situation in life has little connection to how God feels about you and your behavior at that moment. Many unbelievers live a very happy long life, while many believers live a life full of challenges and pain. Sin has consequences. When we are experiencing what some call karma, that is really us dealing with the ramifications of sin. Sin has bad effects, although God can help us avoid some of those effects if we go to Him with a sincere heart and ask for forgiveness. By faith in Jesus, all of our past, current, and future sin is forgiven; but the earthly consequences of sin are always in play. When things are going well, who gets the credit? If you say karma, that means you give yourself the credit, because you are so good, that good things happen to you. What we should really be saying is thank you Lord for this blessing of a life!
You can’t read the Bible yourself, because you need it interpreted by a holier person than you. Just think about why they would say that. Is it because if you read it yourself you may find out that they are hypocrites, and not following the Bible? Is it because they are making stuff up? God didn’t leave His Word for a few so-called holy people; He left it for all of us. We are the priests now. Don’t trust anyone who says you shouldn’t read the Bible or ask questions about what you are reading. Just look at your Uncle Bill… If this moron can read it and learn, then anyone can.
Jesus wasn’t perfect, He sinned like us. More people believe this than I would have ever imagined. Even a cousin of mine sent me a video of some preacher guy he listens to, and the guy thinks Jesus sinned. I couldn’t watch it past the 11-minute mark when he said it. I thought this cousin knew more about the Bible than I did, because he has religiously been going to church his whole adult life. If Jesus sinned, then He was really just like us and not God. If Jesus sinned, then His blood only paid for His own sin and not ours. If Jesus sinned, then we are calling the whole plan of God a lie. God tells us He would only accept a perfect sacrifice; if Jesus sinned, we have no cure for our own sin. If we think Jesus sinned, then we don’t know the real Jesus and that spells doom. There are probably dozens of reasons why people want to say Jesus sinned, and all of them were created to support a false agenda. I don’t know if my cousin believes what that preacher said, or if he didn’t catch it when he watched it. He sent it 3 years ago and I haven’t responded yet. Maybe there was a reason why? Either way, it goes to show you that studying the Bible is crucial to avoid false teachers.
God has secrets in the Bible only certain people can find. This is true, except the “certain people” is everyone who reads and studies it. There are lots of secrets because no one takes the time to read and study the Bible. Heck, I have probably revealed quite a few of these so-called secrets in my book so far. There are no secret codes, however God does use some numbers to symbolize certain things. For example: the number 7 is used consistently to mean 100% or complete, full. It is not guessing, it’s pretty obvious when you study the Bible. The number 6 = sinful man, 5 = grace, etc.
God wants His children to be wealthy, healthy, and happy. Why? What benefit is it to God? Will we be more apt to thank and worship God when all is so good that we don’t think we need Him? One of the worst positions to be in is a rich unbeliever who never has an occasion to need help. Sometimes it takes bringing people down real low before they reach out to God in desperation. Some Christians will be wealthy, healthy and happy, but that is the exception. Look how Jesus was treated when He was here. Do we expect better for us?
You too can have wealth and health if you just believe enough. They call this the prosperity gospel. If you name it, you can claim it. They say God wants us to be rich, you just need to ask for it and have enough faith that it will happen. Look at them, they have 2 mansions and a jet, because they have HUGE faith and asked God. All you have to do is test this theory out. Go ask God to give your uncle Bill a brand-new corvette. Keep trying. If it doesn’t happen, then you aren’t trusting God enough. Lol It’s all BS! The only ones getting rich are the false teachers. Think about what this does to someone in their congregation when they ask for something and don’t get it. They think Christianity is a scam because of preachers who lie and profit off their sheep.
We are all children of God: Not true. Only believers in the real Jesus are children of God. In fact, unbelievers have to go through a believer for their prayers to be heard. God doesn’t hear the prayers of unbelievers, because they are not praying to Him, but some other man-made version of God. This is why Christians are called priests. We are the go-between for the unbelieving world and the One True God. The Bible tells us to look at God like the best Father in the world. He only wants what is best for us, He won’t give us everything we ask for, and sometimes there are lessons that have to be learned the hard way. He does all of this because He loves His children, and because He is a good Father.
Jesus isn’t coming back. Why would they want you to think that? Is it so you lose hope? Of course, if you believe Jesus is coming back, then you believe the rest of the story. That story does not end well for the unbelieving world, so they will always deny His 2nd coming. If you have hope, then their scare tactics won’t work on you. Jesus has to come back. God promised the Savior would rule as king for 1,000 years from Jerusalem. God always keeps His promises.
The earth has been around for billions of years. We talked about this early in in my book, and according to the Bible, the earth is around 6,000 years old. There is a theory out there that I could see being a possibility. They say since God created the earth in 6 days, and on the 7th day He rested, we could equate that to the age of the earth when the Kingdom starts. Since the earth has had to work under the curse for (6),000 years, they think the next (1),000 years will be rest. (as in the 1,000-year Kingdom) (6)+(1)=7. Remember, 7 is the number for completion or 100% or fully fulfilled. That would be just like God to make it all come together like that to mirror creation week. The earth would be around for 6,000 years experiencing sin, evil rulers, wars, and death, then the last 1,000 years would be rest, because the world is at peace with Jesus as King. Interesting theory, I guess we will see sometime soon if it’s true.
Jesus was man who became God because He died on the cross. The Bible says Jesus was always God, then became man like us for a time. Some religions say the opposite; that Jesus was just a man, and what He did to save the world made him a god. When they say this, they have to ignore the Bible, because it says that Jesus is the One who created the whole universe. See, you always have to take away parts of the Bible to try and prove lies. The Bible is infallible, except in the hands of those who don’t read it or try to purposely distort it.
Pride is a good thing, and we need more of it. If there is one thing God hates and mentions everywhere in the Bible, it is pride. If pride was a 4-letter word, it would be the 4-letter word of the Bible. Lol Pride led to Satan’s downfall, and pride keeps many away from humbling themselves before God. Isn’t it interesting that in today’s world the word pride is celebrated like never before. There are new meanings to the word now, and a whole month out of the year is set aside to celebrate it. Boy, if that doesn’t hit home, I don’t know what will. Pride destroys everything. Read your Bible to see for yourselves.
If you don’t do (fill in the blank) you can lose your salvation. If you do (fill in the blank), you can lose your salvation. This passage below from the book of Romans tells us all we need to know about what, if anything, can take us away from God once we are saved. Nothing can, and the list includes everything you could think of including if someone pointed a gun at your head and made you denounce Jesus. Nothing can separate us from Jesus, because His spirit (the Holy Spirit) lives inside of us. The Holy Spirit is our down-payment or collateral, ensuring that we are God’s children. He wouldn’t put His spirit in us if we weren’t forever His. He wouldn’t write our names down in the book of life before He created the world, if He had an intention of erasing it later.
Romans 8:35,38-39: ‘Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
Your best life is now. Tell that to Jesus, the apostles, and the prophets. Tell that to countless Christians in heaven right now. I’m definitely not living my best life now. The truth is that your worst life is now, no matter how great it is. This life will pale in comparison to eternity in heaven. Remember, no stress, no hate, no fear, no pain, no work, and no death. I’ll take that over my best life here.
There are thousands of religions and false teachers out there, but they are all just pawns for their father Satan. You can always tell religion by the way they give man much more credit than we deserve. If you are looking for praise from the world, you need tell people what they “want” to hear. If you are looking for praise from God, you tell people what they “need” to hear. I find it very interesting that there are so many people who believe there is a creator God, but they just don’t know Him. Why do unbelievers even go to church? Why do the religions seem to prosper? Because the Bible tells us that everyone born has a conscience that can look around at this world and the beauty and know deep down there was a god who created it all. The don’t know who God is, but they instinctively feel there is someone. But, since they don’t have a relationship with the One True God, they search to fill that void through religion. This means that all of you, even if you don’t believe right now, know deep down there is a creator. You can keep pushing that knowledge down even further until you harden your conscience, but God will always be able to say you knew and did nothing to find out the truth.
Because you guys have asked for it, here are some truths about the spiritual world.
Angels are real. They are spiritual beings created by God for a purpose. Angels are sent out to earth to help God’s children. They are called ministering spirits because they take care of us. I can think of a few times that I am sure an angel helped me. One was a pretty bad car accident, and the other was when an old friend of mine tried to fight me. Both times, everything felt in slow motion, I was calmer than I should have been, and nothing in the moment seemed real. It’s hard to explain until it happens to you. There are remarkable stories of humans doing extraordinary things in times of crises or emergency, and I would bet angels are behind a lot of them.
There are different levels of angels, a sort of hierarchy. Satan was the highest, most powerful angel ever created. He was also the most beautiful and most cunning. When you see Hollywood portray Satan as some ugly beast or dragon, that isn’t anything close to correct. He doesn’t look like Sparky and carry a pitchfork like my favorite team’s mascot. He isn’t red, or black, or any color because He is a spirit being. Satan is the most beautiful angel God ever created. He gets way more done being an angel of light, then the prince of darkness. I can name at least a couple religions who say they saw a beautiful angel who gave them new words from God. If they saw anything, it was probably Satan.
Satan used to have the highest and most honored position in heaven guarding the glory of God. He got jealous of God, and wanted all the praise and adoration for himself. He wanted to be God. Satan recruited 1/3 of the angels and they rebelled against God. They were thrown down to earth sometime before the garden of Eden on earth, because Satan was here for that. We call these angels who fell from grace fallen angels or demons. 1/3 of the angels in heaven is a very large number. They are here, taking advantage of the fact their boss is ruler of this place for now. They seek to do nothing but destroy. Satan thought he had the upper hand when He indwelled Judas, one of the 12 inner-circle disciples, and betrayed Jesus. He soon found out that Jesus dying was part of the plan, and that Jesus is coming back again. In the meantime, Satan is busy creating all kinds of unbelief and doubt through false religions and false teachers. A little hint about the end: Right before Jesus comes back to rule as King, Satan gets rid of every false religion in the world except one.
Although there are some people who can communicate with the evil spirits out there, you should avoid trying to at all costs. Think of it like a drug, sometimes all it takes is trying it once and you are dead. It’s the same sort of thing with demons, because that is who these mediums speak to. If an evil spirit can find an opening, they will take it. Most people become possessed only after trying to barge into the spiritual world. Although the majority are probably fake, don’t mess around with fortune tellers, spiritualists, mediums, palm readers, or anyone who says they can contact the dead. The real ones, have real power behind them…Satanic power. I had a relative reach out to me because he felt like demons were tormenting him when he was trying to sleep. I told him to download the Bible app and turn it on so it reads it to him. I didn’t know what else to say, it was what I did every night to go to sleep. He tried it, along with praying, and it worked. I don’t know exactly what happened with him that night he called, but he is a changed man now. I can see the fire for God in his eyes that I never saw before.
Yes, demons can indwell humans. They don’t have as much incentive as you would think, because the Bible tells us once they possess someone, they can’t leave until the host dies. Does that sound familiar? It should, because when our physical body (host for our spirit) dies, our spirit is released and escorted to Jesus or to hell. Same sort of concept with demons. I’ll ask you this, is it just coincidence that most school shooters and mass murders kill themselves? If the demon inside them doesn’t torment them enough to kill themselves, they will be trapped inside that body for years. If that body is locked up in prison, what good would that do for the demon? This is why the evil humans involved in these atrocious acts almost always commit suicide. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same demon or two who are behind most of what we have seen in the US in your lifetime. It takes real evil to kill children, and that kind of evil is not a mental disorder. You can’t cure possession with Zoloft or psychotherapy. The good news is that if you are a Christian, you cannot get possessed. God tells us the light of Holy Spirit lives in us, and there is no room for the dark to enter us. Jesus cast out hundreds of demons when He walked the earth, and they are still here. Jesus also told us that towards the end, demonic activity will drastically increase. I’ll tell you more about that in a few.
Behind all of the different religions and false teaching out there is Satan. He is still causing chaos, because that is what he does. Satan tries to confuse who Jesus is and what He did for us. He wants us to think Jesus is not coming back, or that He already came back and we missed Him. Satan did the same sort of thing to Eve in the garden. He believes the more religions the better, because they detract people from the truth of the Bible. If Satan can prevent any new believers, or make it so Christians are ineffective, he thinks he is winning. Religions are one of the many tools Satan uses to try and stop God’s plans.
So what else does Satan do? He gets people to believe Jesus wasn’t really God, or that He sinned, or that you can be just like Jesus, or that Jesus was just a prophet or a wise man. There are many more I’m sure, but the only one you need to know is that Jesus was, is, and will always be God. Anything short of this belief would make you an unbeliever. Satan has millions of people thinking they worship the same Jesus that’s in the Bible, when sadly they don’t. See how that works? Satan is the father of lies, and the most cunning created being ever.
Millions of people think that Jesus going through all the pain, suffering, ridicule, and being nailed to a cross for us wasn’t good enough. What does that tell you about how highly they think of God? They must think He is a liar, because it is as clear as day in the Bible that the cross was enough. Second, they must not have a relationship with God, or they would have asked Him themselves. If you were God, and you sent your Son to die on the cross, wouldn’t you be pissed if the people your Son died for don’t believe you and want to add more requirements to weigh people down? God planned this all from before creation, and we humans are going to tell Him His plan wasn’t good enough? WTH? Talk about disrespect.
I touched on this in the chapter on the fall, and that is the truth that Satan is a created being. He is not, was not, nor will he ever be, equal to God who created him. Here is a simple example. Jack likes to build massive complex Lego sets. Jack decides to build this huge Darth Vader statue to go with all the others masterpieces he has created. Jack loves that Darth Vader, he dusts it off every week, and talks to him like a friend. Jack even put Darth in charge of all the other Legos to watch and make sure no one destroys anything. One day, Darth Vader decides he doesn’t want to be the one of the shelves anymore, and he wants to be in Jack’s position. (who wouldn’t, that kid is spoiled. lol) Darth decides to try and take over Jack’s room and gets 1/3 of the other Legos to start a revolt. Jack walks in and crushes them all within 10 seconds. There was no battle, there was no rebellion, there was no chance for the Legos. They were just created things, how could they be a match for their creator Jack? Get it?
Satan only goes as far as God lets him. Satan cannot go anywhere God doesn’t want him to go, and he can’t do anything God doesn’t allow him to do. God can destroy Satan in an instant, but He hasn’t, because God will use him and his fallen angels for His end of the age plan. Like Darth Vader in my example, Satan also recruits other created beings (unbelievers) to rebel against their Creator. I tell you all of this so that you don’t think there is actually some war between evil and good. There are some battles that God allows Satan to win, but the war was already over before it even began. But you should also respect those dark spiritual beings like Satan and the demonic fallen angels. They have a lot of power; much more than we do. Fortunately for us, they don’t hold any real power compared to the One who lives inside of us.
THERE IS HOPE MY SON 