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8-23-2020 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: Ephesians 1:4-14

Title of the Word: Two mysterious plans of God before the foundation of the earth according to his pleasure

          Before He created the earth, before Adam and all things created, and before the first man, Adam was made, God predestined to adopt his children  in Christ. It is undeniable that Christ is referring to the One who was born on earth two thousand years ago in the name of Jesus.

            If so, how God planned to adopt his children in Christ before the creation of the earth, and even before the creation of the first man, Adam, and even before more than seven billion people living in the world were born, and also even before Christ appeared to the world? This must be a great mystery.

          Before the creation of the earth, no man was made yet, and of course, there was no Satan seen, and there was no sin, then, how God adopt his children in Christ and adopted them as his children. What a mysterious word of God it is? In order to understand it, there must be no other way but to search the scriptures in detail.

         God is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, o When God called Moses and told him to lead his people out of Egypt, God said to Moses, who asked for his name, “I AM THAT I AM.” In other words, God is not only Almighty God to able to be all things, but also has a tremendous power to know the things of  past, present and future as present forever as well as can do all things as present thing forever as “AM”.

          God had already known after  Lucifer the devil, who rebelled against God in heaven before the creation of heaven and earth, and even before laying the foundation of the world, and before he made all things after he created the earth, and before he made man on the sixth day, Lucifer the devil will come in the form of a serpent to the Garden of Eden, and bring sin unto Adam so that he may lose the image of the son of God.  

         Because of this, God had already known of  the miserable thing that all those who would be born into the world would be born in Adam in the midst of sin, death, and curse. Therefore  he had planned before the creation of the world that he would send his only begotten Son, Christ Jesus. Thus, he had planned that many who believe in Christ Jesus would enter Christ Jesus(life) from within Adam(death), restoring them to the image of God, and adopt them as his own children.

        God, who planned this mystical plan before the creation of the world, after Lucifer, who was the Cherubim covering his throne in heaven before the creation of the world rebelled against God with many angels who were the sons of God. Thereafter God created heaven and earth, and he planned to send His begotten Son, Christ Jesus to the earth to destroy the Devil, and planned to adopt his children through Christ. 

         Through the prophet Ezekiel testified of the rebellion of Cherubim covering the throne of God in the Holy Spirit:

“ Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. ” (Eze 28:13-16)

           God  made the prophet Isaiah of the Lucifer, the devil to be cast down the  earth:

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.” (Isaiah 14:12-15).

           God spoke through the apostles about the purpose of sending Jesus, the Christ, to the world. The devil, who was fallen down to the earth because of  rebellion against God from heaven. God foresaw that the whole world lived as slaves of the devil because Adam, the first man  sinnrd. He loved the world and sent Jesus, his only begotten Son, as Christ to save the world. God planned to judge the devil through his death and resurrection against the sins, deaths, and curses that had been defiled by the devil, and to bring those who believe in Christ into the kingdom of God to be adopted as the children of God.

         Apostle Paul and Apostle John testified of Christ who appeared to destroy the devil:

“ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.…. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. ” (Hebrews 2:14-16, 1 John 3:8)

           Also, God’s adoption of His children in the Beloved, Christ Jesus, is to make them praise the glory of His grace. This is because Christ made them put off the body of sins  through Christ’s circumcision through the forgiveness of all sins through his blood according to the richness of his grace. Apostle Paul testified of Christ’s circumcision:

“In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:” (Col. 2:11).

           God gave the Holy Spirit to unto us who were redeemed from all sins and became his children as the deposit of  inheritance  that we would receive, in the day of Christ (day of Rapture) when we put off the body of sins.  We are sealed with Holy Spirit until the day of redemption of our body.  

        Of the second plan of God,, Apostle Paul testified that there was a wonderful plan that God had set up for his children according to the will of his pleasure:

” Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:.” (Eph. 1:9-10

         That’s right! When God’s planned time comes, after lifting His children to heaven, God will give the Jews and all Gentiles as the final opportunity to believe in Christ in the last seven years of the Great Tribulation. After the great tribulation, the Lord Jesus Christ will come again and judge all the unbelieving nations, and then the Millennial Kingdom of Christ will be established. Looking at this day, Jesus commanded his people to pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”(Matt/ 6:10)

           We are living at a time when God’s will of pleasure is fulfilled, things in heaven, things on earth, things in himself, that is, the churches of God are united as one in Christ. There shall be no more devil and unclean spirits that follow him in heaven, and there shall be no more sinners, the wicked, sin, death, and curse on the earth, so that the day when all things created by Christ shall be renewed is on the verge of appearing

          After the thousand years of Christ’s reign, God will release the devil in the bottomless pit for a while, and let him tempt the world again for a while, and then judge with fire all the nations that is Gog and Magog that follow Satan the Devil.  God will give opportunities to the remnant to the end who shall live forever and ever in the new eternal heaven and new earth. After the thousand years is ended, God will judge the souls born before the Age of Grace at the final judgment Seat of White Throne of God according to their works.  Thereafter, God will cast death and hell into the lake of fire that is second death to destroy death forever/  At last, God will create the new heaven and the new earth forever.  Then, the Church of God that is the bride of Christ, shall live with Christ forever in the city of New Jerusalem. God said to Apostle  John:

” Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.… Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.… And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be..”(Rev. 21:5;22:7,12)

Amen!! Hallelujah!