Berean Studies

05/31/2026

Falling From Heaven

Many Christians understand "Satan falling from heaven" as a historical event involving a literal rebellion in heaven. However, when viewed through the Bible's parabolic language, a deeper picture emerges.

Spiritually, heaven often represents the kingdom of God among His people, the place where God dwells with His Church. Likewise, to fall from heaven is a picture of losing favor, position, or fellowship with God because of judgment.

During the Church Age, God restrained evil within the corporate church. Wheat and tares grew together under His oversight, and the Church enjoyed God's protection and blessing.

But the Bible teaches that a time would come when judgment would begin at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17). When that judgment arrived, the Church experienced a spiritual "fall from heaven." This does not mean that buildings literally fell from the sky, but that God's special relationship with the corporate church was removed.

This helps explain why Scripture uses several similar images:

- Stars falling from heaven.
- Stones being cast down.
- The temple being left without one stone upon another.
- The powers of heaven being shaken.

All of these point to God's judgment upon His own house.

At the same time, Satan is portrayed as exalting himself into the temple of God and ruling there. This is not a contradiction. As God's restraint is removed, Satan is allowed to occupy a place of authority within the outward church. The result is widespread deception, false teaching, and spiritual blindness.

The Bible then describes a final and complete casting down. Satan and his angels lose their place forever. The old heaven passes away, and a new heaven and new earth come into view. The judgment that began with the Church reaches its conclusion, while God's people are delivered through Christ.

In Summary
- Heaven represents God's kingdom among His people.
- Falling from heaven is a picture of divine judgment.
- The corporate church loses its privileged standing before God.
- Satan is permitted to rule within the judged church for a season.
- False prophets and antichrists become manifest.
- Christ ultimately casts Satan down permanently.
- The old order passes away, and God's salvation is fully revealed.

Viewed this way, "falling from heaven" is not merely a story about Satan. It is a picture of God's judgment upon the corporate church and the removal of His blessing from an institution that had become corrupt, while preserving and delivering His true people through the work of Christ.

05/03/2026

EXCEPT FOR FORNICATION - A Spiritual Understanding

1. The Bible Speaks in Parables
It reveals how God deals with the Church

2. Marriage: A Picture of Christ and the Church
Husband = Christ
Wife = The Church
Marriage = A divine covenant

3. God Requires Faithfulness:
Faithful to Truth - Obedient to God’s Word

4. Fornication (Spiritually):
✔ False gospels
✔ Idolatry
✔ Turning from truth

5. The Church Commits Fornication
✔ Israel (Old Testament)
✔ The Corporate Church (New Testament)
Both: Departed from truth and became unfaithful

6. Separation Without Cause
The Church:
✔ Rejected Christ without cause
✔ Turned to false doctrine

7. Except for Fornication - Christ allows separation only for fornication:
✔ Apostasy justifies separation

8. God Divorces With Cause - due to unfaithfulness:
✔ Gives a bill of divorce (Jeremiah 3:8)
✔ Now, separation of wheat and tares

9. End Times
The Church becomes fully apostate - God:
✔ Separates from the corporate church
✔ Brings judgment

SUMMARY
👉 “Except for fornication” reveals a spiritual law - Not primarily about human marriage.

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10/29/2024

THE BEGINNING: CHRIST, THE CREATION, THE FOUNDATION, FIRSTBORN.…

Mt 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [] at THE BEGINNING made them male and female,

Mt 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from THE BEGINNING it was not so.

Mt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since THE BEGINNING of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Joh 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from THE BEGINNING , and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

1Jo 3:8 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.

Joh 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from THE BEGINNING .

2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from THE BEGINNING chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [] from THE BEGINNING of the creation.

1Jo 1:1 That which was from THE BEGINNING , which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

1Jo 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from THE BEGINNING , that we should love one another.

2Jo 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from THE BEGINNING , ye should walk

Re 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, THE BEGINNING and the end, the first and the last.

Re 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the AMEN, the FAITHFUL and true witness, THE BEGINNING of THE CREATION of GOD;

Lu 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from THE FOUNDATION of the world, may be required of this generation;

Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from THE FOUNDATION of the world.

Re 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from THE FOUNDATION of the world.

1Co 3:11 For other FOUNDATION can no man lay than that is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST.

Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the FIRSTBORN of every creature:

Eph 2:20 And are built upon THE FOUNDATION of the apostles and prophets, JESUS CHRIST himself being the chief corner [stone];

Joh 1:1 In THE BEGINNING was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ge 1:1 In THE BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth.

10/27/2024

TO BE “SPIRITUAL”, IT MUST RELATE TO GOD’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHURCH (CORPORATE OR ETERNAL)

1Co 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of SPIRITUAL {}, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of **the church**.

Eze 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a PARABLE unto the **house of Israel**;

Eze 24:3 And utter a PARABLE unto the **rebellious house**, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

Mt 13:13 Therefore speak I to **them** in PARABLES: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Ho 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; **Israel** shall know it: **the prophet** is a fool, the SPIRITUAL **man** is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

1Co 14:37 If any man think himself to be a **prophet**, OR SPIRITUAL, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

Ga 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, **ye** which are SPIRITUAL, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1Co 2:14 But the **natural man** receiveth not the things of the SPIRIT of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are SPIRITUALLY discerned.

Re 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which SPIRITUALLY is called **S***m and Egypt**, where also our Lord was crucified.

Ro 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be SPIRITUALLY minded is **life and peace**.

Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an **habitation** of God through the SPIRIT.

1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a SPIRITUAL **house**, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.