The Last Day Messenger

FELLOWSHIP CHAPEL

THE LAST DAY MESSENGER

SIN IN HEAVEN! WHO IS THE GOD OF SIN?

By Pastor O.E. Bogart (Written 1976 ) Internet 2007 (rewritten) April 2010 Study # 18

The God of Sin is not an angel, but the God of Sin endowed the Angel Lucifer with His power. The method that He used to approach Lucifer is not known, but we can be assured that He was promised the highest rank in the family of the God of Sin, even as Jesus was given the highest rank in the righteous family of God.

Sin is a powerful enemy, and it was needful for God to keep sin from polluting the remaining Angelic realm, therefore God cast out those other Angels, who were overcome by sin, (1/3 of the Angels of Heaven, Revelation 12: 4). Sin was cast out from the presence of God Almighty Himself.

Heaven was not the place for this great warfare against sin, so God prepared the earth away from His Angelic Creation, and brought about a New Creation Who would be able to overcome all sin. The God of Sin is a Spirit and He dwells in a Spiritual Kingdom, even as God is a Spirit of righteousness and reigns in a Spiritual Kingdom.

Lucifer’s Spiritual body was used to convey sin in the world. It was not the body of Lucifer that produced death, but sin that was in the spiritual body of Lucifer. So it is the same in the Spiritual body of Jesus that was used to convey righteousness in the world that the soul might be redeemed. It was not the body of Jesus that produced life, but the Christ-life in the body that offers Salvation to the soul.

In order for us to come to the full understanding of Salvation, it is necessary also for us to have a complete understanding of why God removed the Angels that sinned and were cast out of heaven with Lucifer. We also must see why Jesus was the only begotten Son of God born in sinful flesh. The outstanding reasoning of the Christian world is, that God sent Jesus that He might save souls from sin and while this is true, it does not take us to the real motive of Salvation.

Sin, which originated in Heaven, is the reason for the New Creation. God is not the Author of sin, yet sin appeared in His presence and overcame Lucifer, God’s greatest and most perfect Creation. Sin is the product of a Spirit of evil, which is beyond our comprehension, even as God is a Spirit of righteousness, dwelling far out in a Spiritual realm of which we know and understand very little about. Sin did not start or begin in this world. Sin is a Spiritual product of Heaven. Sin became a disturbing factor in the presence of God in Heaven, and Sin had to be taken care of so God cast Lucifer out of Heaven, because Lucifer, who was God’s most beautiful and perfect Creation, could entice the rest of the Angels to follow Him.

If sin could overcome God’s greatest and most perfect Creation in Heaven, then the whole Creation in Heaven was in danger of falling too.

The God of Sin is a treacherous Enemy to God’s Kingdom and extremely dangerous in the Eternities. The Almighty God of Heaven, called a council with His Son, Genesis 1: 26, and proposed a plan that would assure protection of the Kingdom of Heaven, and I quote,

1st Peter 1:18-20 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”

It was necessary for a Plan of defense, to be set in order by God, that would give the ability of the remaining Angels and God’s earthly people that were to come to resist sin. All of the Angels that were left in Heaven were perplexed and Peter said that they desired to look into this Plan when the Plan was put into action, 1 Peter 1:12 “which things the angels desire to look into.”

This Plan has not been fully understood by all of Christianity, but it is gradually gaining enlightenment through the Holy Spirit, the Great Revelator. It is a Plan steeped with mysteries of which those of us who are hungry for understanding and knowledge of the deeper truths of the Bible, are in this last day receiving a greater blessing through the Word than we have ever received in the past. We rejoice with the Angels of Heaven when a soul is saved, and with the Angels we too desire to understand the full purpose of God’s Creation.

The mystery and purpose of the consultation between God and His Son, in Heaven, resulted in a Plan for a new Creation. The Angelic Creation was insecure, thus a New Creation was necessary. This new Creation was not a Creation of Angelic Beings, but it was for a Creation that could not sin. This Creation must be tested, tried, and proven, and show that the Angels, as well as we, are able to overpower and take dominion over all sin. We know that if we are to properly visualize and bring about an understanding of this subject, there is need of a motive that is always to be kept in mind. Therefore, in the study of Salvation or any other subject in our Bible, we must realize the motive of God, and in doing so, it will keep our thoughts in the right channel.

From Genesis through Revelation the purpose of God’s Creation is centered around the theme and finished product, of Christ and the Church, which are to be a People Who will resist sin, even as Jesus did. The Church, which is shown to be a Body of Many Members, is blended together into One, and the Church of Jesus Christ, is to be taken from the Adamic sinful individual bodies and purified through the blood of Christ, as the Holy Spirit works within each One. This is shown to be a work in progress.

WHO IS THE GOD OF SIN?

The Spiritual life in the Eternities, and the existing realm, has been a mystery that no man on earth has been able to understand. The Prophets of the Bible give very little information on the existing invisible Spiritual life or of the past Eternities. The intellectual minds of the human race, are searching the Heaven and Earth in an attempt to gain knowledge of that which they cannot see with the natural eye.

No expense has been spared. Millions of dollars have been spent that one might solve this Eternal mystery. The heart of the Earth is being explored and the great realms of Space have been ventured, yet, the surface of Eternity has not been touched. Scientists have done wonders in searching out the world and the atmosphere of space but they are still limited to the natural existence and the things pertaining thereunto.

They are now awakening to the fact that man is his own worst enemy in his attempt to survive upon the Earth. Although they have searched out the heavens and the heart of the Earth and have explored the moon, yet, the eternal existence is lost to sight. Only a few more short years and all must pass into the vast Spiritual realm of Eternity.

Scientists have discovered this world to be a Planet hanging in Space, occupied by the inhabitants of humanity. Many of our Scientists of the hour, being at loss to define the creation of the world, would have us believe that it just happened without a Creator, and that the inhabitants upon the earth grew out of a rain-barrel or a pond of tadpoles, and eventually lost their tails and sprouted legs and croaked like a frog. Or perhaps they didn’t lose their tails but use them to swing on a coconut limb somewhere in the tropics. I wonder why man has not been connected with the coconut, since the coconut has a face like a monkey.

All of this is pure nonsense. If one would believe this theory we would be at a loss to explain Creation. Nothing develops out of nothing. There must be a starting point for all existence and without a Creator this could not be. Of course our great intellectual scientific wizards do not believe their theory, but it gets them off the hook and has eased the conscience of many.

The Scriptures reveal TWO great Spiritual Powers. Both exist in their individual invisible Spirits. These two Spirits manifest themselves; One in the Spirit of Evil, and the other One in the Spirit of Good. One in the Spirit of corruption, and the Other One in the Spirit of purity: One is the Spirit of Sin, and the Other in the Spirit of Righteousness. They are contrary One to Another, and are Enemies in their Spiritual realm of Eternity, this is shown by the Scriptures.

This knowledge enlightens us to the Problem that existed in Heaven just before the Creation of this world. How long the God of Righteousness, and the God of Sin, have been Enemies, or how long the great Spiritual power, whom I will refer to as Mr. Sin existed, we have no way of knowing. But this one thing we do know, that the God of Sin broke through the barrier or in some way made contact with God’s most cherished and perfect Archangel Lucifer, and enticed and sold Him on the idea that He, Mr. Sin, could give Him the power to rise up against God, and sit upon God’s throne. The God of Sin persuaded Lucifer that He could be ruler of all Heaven and become the God of Eternity, Isaiah 14.

Lucifer, the Archangel of God’s Heaven, had a great following and took advantage of His great influence and God given privileges, and being overcome with sin, He deceived His followers in an attempt to overthrow God. Mr. Sin imparted the Spirit of pride in the heart of Lucifer and the battle began.

The Spiritual clash of these Two great Powers was so drastic that all Heaven was shaken, and Lucifer and His domain with all His angelic following, were cast out of the Heaven of God’s

God of Sin Page 3

Glory. Lucifer’s world in Heaven was cast upon the face of the deep, and departed in chaos in the bottom of the deep, Isaiah 14:12-17 Ezekiel 28:2.

GOD’S PLAN WAS FOREDAINED

Now let us look at this picture with a realistic view. Lucifer is not the God of Sin. He was a created Angel of the Lord and He was perfect in all of his ways until Mr. Sin came in, Ezekiel 28:15. He did not rise up against God in His own power, but Lucifer was deceived and overcome by the lie of the God of Sin, and he was deceived when He was made to believe that He, Lucifer, could overthrow God Almighty.

If God’s most perfect Creation was overcome by the lie of the God of Sin, and fell from His place in heaven, then if we in our little world of sin, orbiting around in Space, could see ourselves in God’s eyes, and understand that we are looked upon by God as but grasshoppers in His sight, we might change our thinking that we are giants, Isaiah 40:21-22,

God was displeased with His Angelic Creation because They were overcome by the God of Sin. The God of Sin is a powerful Foe, but He is no match for the Supreme God of ALL Power, the God of Righteousness. In Their present state, the Angels in heaven were too weak to resist the overpowering influence of the God of Sin. Almighty God had to devise a Plan that would let His Creation choose between good and evil. Romans 8:20 makes this clear, and I quote. “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willing- ly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope.”

In order to accomplish this Creation He needed Lucifer, Who was infested with the power of the God of Sin, therefore when Lucifer was cast out of Heaven He was not destroyed, but He was held to be used of God in His Plan for a New Perfect Creation.

After the great plan of God and His Son was set up and every detail was worked out to God’s pleasure and satisfaction, there was going to be no mistake. Jesus was to come as a “Lamb slain from the foundation of world,” and as a sacrifice for sin. Peter writes, “Forasmuch as ye know that we are not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by traditions from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as a Lamb without blemish and without spot: verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” 1st Peter 1:18-20.

Jesus was foreordained in the plan of God’s New Creation. He was to come as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, and He came as a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, Revelation 13:8.

Jesus created the world, and then He came and gave His life for us.

Paul also makes a statement in Titus 1:2, of God’s plan before the world began, for Paul says “in hope of eternal life, which God, which cannot lie, promised before the world began.”

Again Paul says in 2 Timothy 1:9 “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.” This Scripture does not tell us that we were predestinated and saved before the world began, but merely tells us that we will be saved and called, after Jesus comes to the Earth after

God’s plan is set in operation.

Paul in writing to the Saints who were present, says, “Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling.” Paul was not speaking in the past tense before the Creation of the World, but of their salvation and calling, after the Plan which God had proposed before the foundation of the word had been put into operation.

All was given in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, that His purpose be fulfilled on Earth in His specified time. Again in Ephesians 1:4, we read “According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and with blame before him in love.”