From part one we learned, or were reminded, that man’s passing judgment on His Creator has a long history dating back to the Garden of Eden. Let us mentally become Adam or Eve for a few minutes. Imagine conversing with the Creator of the Universe face-to-face, knowing that you exist only because He created you, hearing His audible voice, watching Him walk through the paradise He has created for you in order to join you in the evening for an intimate conversation. Imagine knowing that everything that exists, including you, could become non-existent with a thought from this most incredible Being. Adam and Eve experienced all of that and, at the word of a being they found in the Garden, IMMEDIATELY JUDGED THE ONE WHO HAD THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN HIS HAND AND NOT ONLY JUDGED HIM, BUT CONCLUDED THAT HIS WORDS COULD NOT BE TAKEN AT FACE VALUE. As I have stated many times: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE SERPENT, ALSO KNOWN AS SATAN, THE DEVIL.

Since the world-changing fall of our original parents, Satan has caused the vast majority of people who have embraced the Almighty to, at some point, JUDGE BOTH GOD AND HIS WORD AND FOUND THEM TO BE WRONG. Today these people are called “Christians” and number approximately 2.4 billion. They have rejected the most purchased and most stolen Book in the history of the world which tells us all there is to know about its Author. By rejecting any part of His Holy Bible, doubters have no Father-child relationship with Him even though they are totally convinced that they are one with Him, are His son or daughter, are saved, born again and heaven-bound. As was the case in the Garden of Eden, someone “spoke” to them and caused them to doubt the honesty of the Holy Tome they call “the Bible.” That “someone” was the same Serpent that brought about God’s condemnation of Adam, Eve and their son Cain. The same holds true for those who reject any part of God’s Holy Bible today. Adam and Eve died spiritually the instant they sinned. The same fate has destroyed the lives of billions of people ever since. Unlike Adam and Eve, today’s judges are unaware that they are the walking dead the Lord had so much to say to about while He was on earth. Matthew 7:21-23; 15:8,9 and Luke 6:46 being excellent examples.

What so many Bible owners do not realize is that God and His Word are one and the same. His Word is Him in written form just as the man Jesus (the Word–Jn. 1:1-4,14) was Him in human form. Let us be reminded that the man known as Jesus of Nazareth, though He was tempted as we all are, did not sin (Heb. 4:15). Man’s “correction” of one of the Lord’s numerous “errors” took place when man determined that, contrary to God’s Words, the individual is not responsible for his sins. Man’s version of the sin situation has Adam performing a sin-transferal miracle which made sin part of man’s nature. If, as man insists, sin is part of our spiritual dna, how were Abel and Jesus able to withstand the temptations of the Serpent (Satan) to sin? And why did God say through the Apostle John that in order to be His child and a spiritual brother to sinless Jesus, we must “walk as He walked” (1 Jn. 2:6) and overcome (Satan) even as He overcame (Him) (Rev. 3:21)? Both of which are both unnecessary and impossible if man is right. Read Jesus of Nazareth: God, Man or God-man and Sin is a Choice. Key words–God-man and Choice respectively. Question: if Jesus could not sin, why did Satan try so hard to make Him sin? Satan knows what man does not know.

That God, Jesus and Their Words are one and the same is born out by Jesus Himself when he said that anyone who rejected anything the Godhead said and recorded in their Holy Bible DESPISED BOTH THEM AND THEIR WORDS (Lk. 10:16). In Deuteronomy 5:6-10 the Lord reminds us of who and what He is relative to our existence. He goes on call sin INIQUITY, meaning LAWLESSNESS (REJECTION OF HIS LAW (WORD) which reveals that the Law (Word) rejecter HATES HIM (vs 9), thereby EQUATING GOD AND HIS LAW. He promises to “visit” those who reject any part of His Law, meaning to pour out His wrath on them. Conversely, in verse 10 He promises to show kindness to those WHO PROVE THEIR LOVE FOR HIM BY OBEYING HIS COMMANDMENTS (LAW). Jesus would say the same thing thousands of years later in John 14:15,23. Note that He uses “Law” in verse 15 and “Word” in verse 23. GOD’S WORD AND HIS LAW ARE ONE WITH HIM AND HIS SON. THEY CANNOT BE SEPARATED. WE EITHER LOVE GOD AND PROVE IT BY OBEYING THE FATHER, THE SON AND THEIR WORDS, OR WE PROVE OUR HATRED FOR THEM BY REFUSING TO OBEY THEM. THIS INCLUDES HIS SABBATH LAW WHICH THE CHURCH MASSES REFUSE TO OBEY, THEREBY MAKING THEM WORKERS OF INIQUITY. READ MATTHEW 7:21-27. THE MODERN DAY CHURCH IS BUILT ON RELIGIOUS SAND AND IS FALLING FARTHER AWAY FROM GOD EVERY DAY AS SHE SLIDES EVER FARTHER INTO APOSTASY.

In Romans 2:5-11 the Apostle Paul is referring to those who reject the Law/Word/Gospel/Truth of the Lord and what they can expect from Him relative to what He will do for those who believe and obey His Words. Then in 3:3,4 he writes that having people doubt God’s Words/Law has no effect on God or His Words/Law. Here Paul quotes Psalm 51:4 where those who doubt any part of God’s Word are called liars. The Psalmist is speaking to God, saying: “You will be justified in your sayings (Words) and will overcome “WHEN (NOT IF) YOU ARE JUDGED.” Adam and Eve having set the pattern for judging God’s Words and thereby God Himself, their religious descendants have followed in their footsteps, along with their non-religious brethren. Both groups make up what is called “the world.” For this reason God commands those who seek Him to obey First Corinthians 6:14-7:1. Only then will He be their God and they will be His people. Read Who Are God’s People? and “My People who are Called by My Name.” Key words–People and Called respectively.

Where Satan failed, his followers have succeeded. In this way he is enjoying a virtual victory as his parishioners, led by his false prophets, are today leading the religious masses ever farther away from the Lord and His ways. God/Word-doubters are not only increasing in numbers, but are judging more and more of His Scriptures and, to no one’s surprise, finding more and more of them to be in error. The deadly results of this apostasy (falling away from God) will increase when the world’s nations join in an internationally enforced Sunday Sabbath Law that I have written about several times recently. This will bring the entire world against God’s tiny church who will continue to wear the “Sign” of His ownership and who will expose those who have followed the god of this world into apostasy. These people are easily identified by the “sign” they wear–his Sunday sabbath observance. L.J.