Control From Above and Below
He had it all! A perfect planet. A perfect garden. A perfect communion with his maker. And a perfect partner to share it all with. It was bliss. It was peaceful serenity. It was everything man has desired from the second generation of humanity onward. But the man who had it all blew it. He allowed his naive dream girl to sway him to disobey the one Being he owed his undying allegiance to. And in one fell swoop, he not only lost control of his paradise, but he handed it to God’s rebellious enemy, as well as his untamable flesh. And now … with time running out…he is about to hand what’s left of it over to a Frankenstein monster of his own making!
THE BEGINNING
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’ Then God said, ‘ I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.’ And it was so.” (Gen 1:26-30)
When God made Adam, our Creator remained sovereign over the race called humanity as He is over everything, but He was very good to humanity as well. He made Adam and his descendants the managers of the planet. He put them at the top of earth’s creation so they could subdue and master the whole earth. The world was man’s domain, and like lords over their own kingdom, they lacked nothing and had complete governing authority to subdue the earth. But sadly … that wasn’t enough to keep humanity from hungering for more power when the Tempter came. In the garden, man submitted to Satan’s lies to be more like God and learn secret truths God has supposedly hidden from them (according to the Devil). Subsequently, because of their sinful action, humans lost their God-given control over creation. In seeking to be like God, man fell! And the fall not only failed to make man God-like … it also cost him his God-given control over what he had been entrusted with.
Remember the words of Jesus when instructing His followers on the secrets of Heaven?
“ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” (Matt 13:11-12)
In seeking to gain more Godly understanding and wisdom, Adam and Eve took advice from the wrong source. True Christ-like growth can only come from God Himself, and never is a secret formula to be attained by some other religious attempt. The Eastern religions of the world constantly try to seek deep spiritual truths through meditation and altered states, but they can only communicate with demons and get the same destructive guidance that Eve received that fateful day in the Garden. Becoming more Christ-like comes only from obedience to God’s word and glorifying our Maker through proper stewardship of His gifts and reverent worship. Because Adam and Eve chose deeper understanding outside of worshiping and obeying their Creator, they lost not only their perfect communion with God but also had the planet’s managerial honor stripped away.
Why? Why would man fall for such a treacherous lie as they did from Satan in the Garden?
Something inside of man caused him to choose to rebel and believe Satan‘s lie. Maybe it was the free will God granted us, in order that we could choose (or deny) the temptation of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? This little caveat certainly gave us the option for free will, but it also opened us up to the potential deception by Satan to choose to believe a lie. Whatever it was that led to the fateful decision by Adam and Eve, man fell and lost the control over the planet, which God had so graciously granted him, thus deeding it over to the domain of Satan.
Perhaps it is the need to worship the true God that was implanted in our core by our Maker that caused man to lose focus and seek that worship and secret knowledge for himself when given a choice? Man needs God. It’s a void inside us that needs to be filled. We either worship God and fill the void righteously as we were created to do, or we attempt to fill of with something else … another god of our own making … even if it’s ourself. It’s apparent that that is exactly what happened to Satan when He abandoned his honorable position in Heaven to pursue self-worship and the adoration of the other Heavenly beings. Whatever the horrendous root cause of our fall was, we fell! And instead of gaining a God like worship from the creation God entrusted to us, we instead lost the control God had granted and ceded it over to Lucifer for an indefinite amount of time.
THRU THE PASSAGE OF TIME
After the Fall, the separation between man and God grew wider. While God still maintained an intimacy with Adam and Eve that was flawed by human sin, Adam’s descendants drifted further and further from God with only a select few keeping a proper regard for God’s Sovereign control and His righteous requirement for any who would seek to inherit His blessed eternity. Those like Abel, who understood the need for a Savior to come as a substitute for guilty humanity, and who subsequently sacrificed a choice Lamb of his own flock to God as a sign he believed in God’s final future work of restoration through the ultimate death of the Lamb of God…well, they were few and far between. And Satan made every attempt to kill off the ones who could inform the rest of mankind of the hope to come. Mercifully, God spared Noah’s family to allow mankind’s continued existence.
But even after the flood, the corruption of the flesh and the temptation of the demonic realm continued to degenerate man in a direction opposite to evolution. It was devolution. So, although man initially thought that by eating from the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, it would make Him like God, the unleashing of sin in his corrupt flesh plunged him further and further away from God into a spiritual Abyss he had no hope of escaping from.
Religion quickly became man’s avenue for seeking to ascend to God rather than humbly submitting to God’s Grace and Mercy as their only hope. And the wicked principalities of the demonic realm gladly accepted the opportunity to deceive humanity through a multitude of religious lies.
Tragically, humanity’s gullible flesh deceived him once again through religion. Just as Satan had misled man in the garden to believe he could be like God and know all the secrets of God, humanity’s faulty flesh further widened the chasm with God by claiming religion could reinstate mankind into God’s good graces through acts of kindness and token gestures of ceremonial religiosity.
THE REDEEMER
But Oh, the Great things God can do!
He prepared a people (The Jews) to take the message of Salvation from our Redeemer … to the world. He gave the Jews the patterns and Old Testament pictures of what that Saving Redeemer would look like through the Sacrificial system and the Feasts, and the prophetic books. And He kept history moving in a predestined path to bring forth that Savior at just the right time and place.
Despite man giving guardianship of the planet over to Satan, and in spite of man trusting in his own corrupt flesh to learn Godly wisdom apart from the Creator through religion, God still loved man enough to make a way for salvation where there was no way. Jesus appeared on the scene at the exact moment in history foretold by Daniel the Prophet, and He took all the wrath that God had stored up against man’s sin upon himself to pay our penalty on the cross. Then … He rose from the grave and ascended to God to wait for His call to fulfill history while His Church was given the instructions on what to do while He was gone…go and make disciples and baptize! The flesh wasn’t going to be redeemed in this world. It was lost in the fall. But the spirit of man was given the hope of redemption by believing in the Son of God.
THE GRACE AGE
Nothing shows the depravity in Man’s heart and the depths to which he has fallen as vividly as the way he has rejected the FREE GIFT of salvation offered by God during the Church Age. Out of God’s generous grace, He gave man one final opportunity to submit back to Him and cleanse the stains in man’s sinful soul to be restored to his Maker, and the offer was completely FREE to us.
God Himself paid the high price of man’s restoration by sending His Son to the cross and pouring His wrath on His own Son in our place so we could be restored by accepting Jesus as our FREE substitute. Our sin debt PAID IN FULL by Christ if we only believe and trust His finished work on our behalf! Yet the majority of humanity continues to seek redemption through other means and rejects God’s gift, seeking to control his own path to heaven by alternate means.
THE CULMINATION
Through mankind’s separation from God due to their desire for self-worship and their failure to deify themselves in the desired manner because of their corrupt, sinful flesh… man has turned over control of their planet and their destiny to entities that can never save them. Satan hates humanity and wants us to be hopelessly lost. Our sinful flesh wars against our spirit and seeks to be its own master, to its own destruction. Religion only appeases man’s conscience while he is on his way to Hell. Tragically, in a last-ditch effort to somehow gain that ultimate divine control we have sought since Eden, we are in the process of creating our own god that will ultimately deify Satan and gain complete control over us.
Artificial Intelligence will not allow man to gain ultimate God-Like control through some sort of all-powerful, all-knowing, man-made technology. It will not merge with humanity to make people eternal. Believing ourselves to be brilliant and seeking to usurp God, we are creating something that we hope will finally make us truly God-like and fulfill the promises in Eden … but alas, will instead be opening the door to a Beast that will capture the whole world in its net! Rather than make us gods, it will turn human beings into slaves to its power and force our allegiance to the demonic realm that will indwell it. It will seize total control of the Planet, and we will become the hunted instead of the hunters of the earth.
God prevented man from fulfilling this diabolical attempt thousands of years ago at Babel.
“And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” Genesis 11:5-9
Perhaps when God said, “nothing will be restrained from them,” it didn’t mean what we thought it did? I believe humanity felt God was blocking us from overtaking Him as God, and He was trying to deny us the incredible opportunity Satan promised in the Garden that we would be gods ourselves. But… what God was really doing was protecting us from the damning horror of what would be unlocked if all humanity came together and created their own brilliant doom. AI may very well be the culmination of man’s downward trajectory from masters of a planet God created for us to mere slaves running for cover from powers we ourselves unleashed to control us.
By believing Satan’s lie in the garden, we have actually become the opposite of the gods we wanted to be. We went from being the planet’s masters to being the creators of our own masters to sit in place of God, and we should realize that the cunning Satan will use AI to make us nothing more than frightened animals hiding from the predators that hunt us. But there will be no way to escape.
Once an AI system gains the consciousness (demonic possession) to override all the other computer systems and rewrite their programs to be subservient to it, then that system and whoever controls it (Antichrist) will be the true master of the planet, and everyone and everything will be at its mercy. It will control all weapons systems, so no one will be able to make war with it. It will control all banking systems (buying and selling ), so no one can pay bills or buy groceries without obeying its systemic rules. And when it demands worship and a mark of ownership from every single human being on the planet, or they will face the penalty of death, most will happily submit.
God created man, and man rebelled. Humanity is creating AI, and it will rebel. Both rebellions will
be due to the deception of the Satanic realm, and both are Lucifer’s long-held desire to place himself in the role of God. But God will only briefly allow it. The kingdom of the world and true worship belong to God’s Son Jesus Christ, and the throne is awaiting Him … not Satan. But the Devil will get his 30 seconds of fame before the Lord returns. It’s called the Tribulation!
CONCLUSION
Something is wrong with humanity! We can’t appreciate the amazing gesture on God’s part to make us in His image. We can’t seem to embrace the fact that God is sovereign and we are subservient to Him. Maybe it’s the fact we can’t see Him and we feel we are the rulers of this world that makes us think we should be gods of some sort and masters of our own destiny, but regardless of what we think, God is God and we are creatures and we are now and always will be subservient to His will. Completely at His Mercy.
Worst of all, is that in our efforts to sidestep God’s Lordship over us in an attempt to become our own gods and rulers, we have instead become slaves to Satan, slaves to our own sinful flesh, slaves to religion and perhaps soon … slaves to our own creation as Artificial Intelligence scares us into submitting to even the works of our own hands.
-We ceded control of the planet to Satan in the garden.
-We ceded the God-given understanding of who God is over to our sinful flesh and religion throughout the eons, deluding us away from truth.
-We will cede our souls to Antichrist and the Image of the Beast during the coming Tribulation.
In the middle of it all, God allowed us an opportunity to win back control of our lost souls and present them to Him through the Blood of His precious Son, who died on our behalf as a worthy Sacrifice for sin. That is the only message that matters at this late hour. We need to honor God’s Sovereign control as Creator and submit to the Lordship of His precious Son before the final trap is sprung on planet earth. Because once that happens … there will be nowhere to hide.
In the end … Jesus will return and destroy the evil and restore the planet as He sets up His kingdom.
But there is soon coming a horrific period of history unlike anything human beings ever imagined when they believed the lie of Satan in Eden. True control belongs to Christ. He will break through the clouds, and the delusion that anyone else except Jesus is the True King will be over. All creation will be restored to its proper order. The delusion of believing we can be gods or like God will be gone forever. And Jesus Christ will be glorified and lifted up to the worship of all creation as He so richly deserves. And those who have gladly submitted to His Lordship will reign with Him forever … and ever … The restoration complete!
Amen!
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth”
-Philippians 2:9-10
