10/18/2022
God is Spirit, Divine, Energy, Light!
...... by Pastor Jess Foglesong of God's Touch Ministry, NV
He is a spirit. He is divine. He is energy. He is light!
His presence fills the universe; every object, every animal, plant; every being. His information is embedded within every molecule, within every atom in the universe. He is the ultimate common denominator. He is the “Light” that beams from within all matter, and non-matter. We cannot get away from His illumination, His presence. We are here because He is here. If He leaves, we cease to exist. He is the divine; the ultimate Super Being!
So if God dwells within all of us, what and where is heaven? Most of us think that heaven is up there!
Somewhere over the clouds; somewhere beyond, or “over the rainbow.”
Well, yes … heaven is somewhere beyond the rainbow.
It is beyond our comprehension; it is a place outside our realm; in a higher plateau or sphere. And God does frequent this magical place -- inhabited by angels. It is a glorious realm: pure, majestic, righteous. It is a place reserved for the sinless and righteous. It is God’s dwelling; and He operates His government with justice and love. Heaven is just on the other side of the unseen -- Invisible. And it has a one way door. We (the tainted) are forbidden to enter this door, due to original spiritual sin. The sin committed by the one who wanted to be God; the usurper of God’s will. His name is Lucifer!
Lucifer was an Arch-Angel of the government of God. His duties included steward of planet earth -- including all life forms. He was in charge of all lower echelon angels in the care and support of earth. But Lucifer decided that he wanted to take things into his own hands; to be like God.
Because of his disobedience, sin entered, and God banished him, and one third of his followers (fallen angels or demons) to earth and at the same time condemning all life forms on earth--as part of the same sin. Therefore, due to Lucifer’s disobedience, humans fell into sin as well.
Lucifer was our heavenly representative: he reported to God and His governmental council of angels. Lucifer became known as the ’Red Dragon.’ And he became the devil: manipulating and influencing human kind throughout the ages.
So even though God strives for perfection, He allows His creations to have the freewill to choose. Freewill is universal, given to all of His creations--including angels. And so, the reason why there is evil and strife in the world. Evil was present at the Garden of Eden; influencing Adam and Eve.
Adam: The first Redeemer--failed!
God then decided to experiment in redeeming mankind by creating a human being that was sinless, placing him in a special, heavenly domain known as the Garden of Eden. He was named Adam, and knew only good; he was sinless. And his purpose was to be the forbearer, the leader of a lost race; he was the redeemer. God created a wife for Adam, and they both became the first family--sinless and righteous in God’s eyes, because they dwelled within the sacred garden.
But lurking in the darkness was Lucifer--evil. He knew that in order to redeem a lost race, there had to be perfection in the first born. So the devil--in the form of a serpent or snake--came into the presence of Eve (knowing that she had enormous influence on Adam) and tricked her into eating a fruit from the ‘Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil’ … and offering the same to Adam. And by disobeying God’s instruction of not consuming the fruits; instantly, the experiment failed, as Adam became just a man--he had disobeyed God’s command, and at that moment the garden gates opened exposing the chaotic realm of a sinful world. It would take many more generations before another ’redeemer’ would be anointed. Lucifer (Satan) kept up the pressure through the ages in God’s attempt in bringing forth a new redeemer.
God began His creation of humans by using a known method called adaptation and (in a sense) evolving. He knew that the end product had to be unique and special. So, from the onset of animal and human life He put forth a code system called DNA. It is an extremely intricate set of codes that determine who and what each specie became.
Every form of life was coded; from plant life to animals, to human beings. These codes are very similar for many species, varying just a little. God experimented by creating tree animals such as Lemurs, monkeys, than Apes, before moving on to pre-humans, called hominids--Ape-man like creatures that through time adapted and evolved by coming out of the trees, into walking upright. From this stage emerged the Neanderthal man (200,000 to 30,000 years ago) that exclusively occupied the region of what is Europe today. They were short, tough, stocky and strong pre- humans that were very adaptable to the extreme climate of northern latitudes.
Through time, another specie emerged known as Homo- sapiens or Cro-Magnon man (50,000 years ago). They were very similar to what we are today: tall and slender, very agile, and standing very erect, as well as intelligent. They migrated, out of Africa and settled in all parts of the earth. They actually came into contact with Neanderthals; so far, it is unknown whether the two species commingled.
God’s fine tuning was in the process, in finalizing an exquisite specimen from homo-sapiens. These pre-historic humans freely populated the earth from Africa, to Europe, into Asia, Southeast Asia, south through Australia, and the many tropical islands of Polynesia. They eventually migrated north from China, through southern Alaska, down into the Americas, into Central and South America.
The earth--the world--10,000 years ago, was basically
populated, from end to end, top to bottom. Life flourished everywhere: in all continents, and many of the islands. But most of the earth’s inhabitants were not organized. It was survival of the fittest; some groups made it, some did not. Gradually groups became tribes, then into villages, then into a multitude of pagan societies. Their intelligence developed slowly; gradually learning techniques for survival.
Planet Earth was Shaping up
The earth was shaping up. Primitive societies in all the continents: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America. Ancient pagan tribal societies developed into more complicated idol worshipping, sacrificial, ceremonial types of communities; in general though, still haphazard and chaotic. Then, approximately 10,000 years ago something amazing happened: God was ready to infuse the neshama (Hebrew: human soul) into human kind; giving them the moral choice of what to choose within their surroundings. The freewill, to live a life as one chooses. To choose one God, or false gods. God also gave them the ability to realize that they were created by someone or something greater then themselves. Animals did not have this unique ability, they acquired the nefesh (Hebrew: animal instinct) instead.
After the neshama was instilled in all humans, life on earth developed exponentially, until it really got out of hand. So much that God decided to step in and start over through a man of faith named Noah. He instructed him to build an Ark large enough to house his family (clan) and two of every animal in the “known” world. Noah was obedient and the Ark was constructed, and God made it rain 40 days and nights; water covered every part of the world, every living thing perished. And when Noah, his family and all the animals finally stepped out, onto the dry land, God said to go into the land and multiply. God’s plan was back on track -- a redeemer was in the works.
God’s people multiplied through the years, until a time arrived when He decided to elect out of the millions of human beings, one man (and his tribe or family) named Abraham. And they lived in the Middle East, in a land called Ur (in the country of today’s Iraq). And because God instilled in him the neshama--the ability to understand a spiritual entity--he came to know of a spiritual, invisible Creator; a supreme Father in heaven; . And because of Abraham’s allegiance, God chose him to begin His program of salvation and redemption for all of humanity.
But in-order to bring a redeemer to light, there must be trials and tribulations; illustrations of trust and obedience by the people of Abraham and his clan. There would be “types” of redeemers and a system of rituals and sacrificial offerings symbolizing the coming of a redeemer; a representative of all humanity: even, a future Messiah: The Christ Jesus! Amen!
