Question asked on FB: Of all the planets out there in the Universe, why did God allow Satan to come here and influence humanity to compromise with evil?

Christian response,

The Earth was created specifically for and because of Satan in response to Satan’s rebellion in the Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Revelation 21:27). In preparation for removing Satan from the Kingdom, God the Father commissioned the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:35; Colossians 1; John 1; Hebrews 1) to take elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashion those elements into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3). Jesus created the Heavens and the Earth for cause with rapidity. This creation narrative is articulated in Genesis 1 with “yom” representing a literal 24-hour day.

Long story short, Satan was extricated from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) and placed here upon this Earth to be dealt with by the Son, Jesus Christ, at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b), a battle which was first prophesied in Genesis 3:15 and the battle strategy used by Jesus pictured first in Genesis 3:21… fulfilled 4000 years later at the Crucifixion. All of those other planets out there testify of our God’s reality, authority, dominion, so that those who reject God will be “without excuse” at Judgment (Romans 1:18-32).

If not for Satan’s rebellion, there would be no Heaven and Earth and mankind. God was perfectly content with His relationship with the beautiful Angels; that is, until His chief cherub angel coveted God’s dominion and authority and sin was found in him (Ezekiel 28:11-19). We are in the midst of an unfathomable cosmic, spiritual, war that engulfs us yet so few are able to see and fewer still ally with God, Jesus Christ our Warrior, who has already won the victory for us (Exodus 15:3; Revelation 17:14).

I do pity the Jew-the Israelite living today without hope of eternal life as they’re blinded from the Gospel and their heart is hardened from God’s Truth in Yeshua (2 Corinthians 3:15; Romans 11:25). Why such nihilism and hopelessness among Jacob’s children concerning life-death-eternity?

Recently, a Jewish contributor, noting the Tanakh, mocked the Holy Spirit’s testimony concerning the innocence of a child before God when that child dies in this life constrained by Time. This Jew considers death of the body to be the end of all existence and the death of a child as “just the way it is.” Why would the Jew, the Israelite, internalize such a nihilistic perspective about life, God, eternity?

The Tanakh is not focused upon one’s eternal destiny as the Tanakh only offered Sheol-Paradise as the respice for the soul as the “faithful” dead in God waited there for Messiah’s atonement before entering the Kingdom (Luke 16). The Kingdom of God was not accessible to the Old Testament saints (Adamic-Noahic-Law Covenant) as acceptable atonement for sin had not yet manifest even though righteousness (a right standing) with God was granted through faith (Hebrews 10; Hebrews 11). It was not until the Advent of Messiah, His blood atonement, that mankind could actually see the Father’s eternal plan, eschatological revelation through the Gospel and the defeat of the Evil One at Golgotha (1 Peter 1:20; 1 John 3:8b)…Israel, listen to your Messiah’s teaching, Yeshua is Messiah, we ARE living in the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 8:7-12), and get your head out of a Covenant that only defined sin through Law, a Law that points you to your Messiah while that same Law condemned you void atonement (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; Romans 8:3-4).

Children of Jacob…There is life subsequent to the death of this body in Time (John 11:25; 2 Corinthians 5:8). Don’t forfeit eternity simply because you’re too stubborn to read and study the entire Text provided you by the Holy Spirit. Our Creator’s words do not end at Malachi…that’s simply a 400-year interlude/intermission. God’s actual Plan for mankind begins with Matthew…don’t die without knowledge (Hosea 4:6); don’t walk away during the intermission. God did not abandon the faithful in Sheol; God will not abandon you if Yeshua is your Messiah by faith (John 3:16). Do not surrender your soul to the Devil (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). The veil is lifted by faith (2 Corinthians 3:16).

Question on FB: “What happens when a young child dies? Does the Bible answer this question?”

Christian response,

Yes, the Holy Spirit responds concerning the eternal destiny of a child who dies before the age of accountability.

When a child dies not having attained an age of reason sufficient to differentiate good and evil, right and wrong, God’s will concerning the matter of obedience v. disobedience, there is no condemnation awaiting this child as our Lord has told us that where there is no Law, there is no sin.

14 For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless, 15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression. Romans 4

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. 13 For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Romans 5

So then, God, in His mercy, does not hold the mentally ill, the child, culpable for disobedience as their lack of cognitive acuity and immaturity prevents them from fully understanding the consequences of their behavior; therefore, they are innocent before God because the Law is absent, impotent, as an arbiter of their free will relevant to the immature and cognitively impaired.

King David also confronted this question when his child died. King David made the following statement,

21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you got up and ate food.” 22 And he said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’ 23 But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I am going to him, but he will not return to me.” 2 Samuel 12

King David, a man after God’s own heart, knew that his child was secure in the presence of our Lord and that he would, one day, go to be with that child in God’s Kingdom. The Holy Spirit working through King David has revealed this truth for us and may we have peace in this knowledge when the innocent youth die among us?

Jesus also responds in this way…

Why does “sin” remain a relevant issue for the Christian subsequent to the imputation of Messiah’s righteousness?

First of all, sin, a violation of God’s moral law, results in enmity, seperation, between man and God as God is Holy and perfect in righteousness…God will not tolerate the destructiveness of sin in His presence or in His Kingdom (Revelation 21:27). Sin in the unsaved and disobedience in the saved in Jesus is a problem until the redeemed in Jesus rid themselves of this flesh, this body of death…please allow me to explain…

The struggle in the human condition is sin or violating God’s moral law because we are born from an earthly father, Adam, that introduced sin into human kind and through federal headship that sin is transferred genomically to every human being from Adam forward (Romans 5:12); theologically, this is referred to as a “sin-nature” (Romans 7:14-25) and the moment we attain an age of reason/accountability before God, the moment we are aware of our sin and our rebellion against the moral law infused within us and arbitrated by the conscience, we become culpable before God for our own sin (Deuteronomy 24:16; Jeremiah 31:30).

Combating the ramifications of sin is why Jesus Christ came into the World through the womb of the virgin woman; that is, to circumvent the sin-nature of Adam (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 1:23) as Jesus entered the Realm of Time to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b). Jesus walked this Earth in flesh for 33.5-years and fulfilled the moral law of God with absolute perfection (Matthew 5:17) thereby qualifying Himself as the ONLY acceptable atonement for our sin (Hebrews 10). God the Father, by Covenant, agrees to forgive the sin of and redeem anyone who will sincerely believe that Jesus is Lord who died to pay their sin-debt (John 3:16-18; Romans 10:9-10); furthermore, God the Father agrees to impute the perfection of Jesus into the life of the one who believes in Jesus as Lord (2 Corinthians 5:21) and subsequently Gift them the Holy Spirit to live in them and guide them in obedience to God’s will through the daily process of sanctification (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16).

Though the redeemed = the faithful in Jesus Christ are “born again” by faith in Jesus as Lord and seek to walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit, the redeemed in Jesus, though they have a new nature that HATES sin (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16), the redeemed remain beleaguered with a sin-nature in the flesh that wars against the new nature in the Spirit (Ephesians 6; Romans 7; Galatians 5:16-26). It is this OLD sin-nature that, at times, causes us to behave in a way that interrupts intimacy with our Lord and the sin-nature will be a struggle until we exhale our last breath and rid ourselves of this body of death. Sin has been “the problem” beginning with Satan and his rebellion in the Kingdom; sin and free will are the foundation for God’s Law as Moral Law is the arbiter of free will.

Jesus’ mercy and grace is mocked on FB relevant to Luke 19:27: “But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them in my presence.”

Christian response,

Jesus is speaking in parabolic form concerning the Judgment of the Condemned that will manifest subsequent to His Millennial Reign; truly, there is a Judgement for sin that is coming (Rev 20:11-15) when the man or woman who has rejected Jesus our Messiah as Lord and Mediator for sin will stand before Him and be adjudicated guilty for sin and ultimately die the “second death” in Hell; this judgment is not Jesus’ will as Jesus suffered and died to provide us an alternative to Hell by faith in Him as Lord, a salvation earned for us by Jesus through the forgiveness of sin but God will remain true to His words and the soul that sins shall die and NOTHING impure will be permitted to enter the Kingdom of God (Rev 21:27); therefore, if a man or woman does not repent of their sin and trust exclusively in Jesus as Lord for the Mediation of that sin, they will die in sin (John 8:24) and die the “second death” in perdition (Revelation 20:11-15).

The problem with legalism, it destroys the soul in Hell: “It was not legalism for Jesus to do everything the Father commanded; neither is it legalism for us to do likewise.”

Herein lies the problem…you’re a sinner (Romans 3:23) and not capable of doing everything the Father commands; therefore, the Law, which mandates absolute perfection if righteousness is to be attained through same (Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; Deuteronomy 27:26), condemns you and provides you no form of atonement (Romans 3:20-23). But Jesus, Who is God born through the virgin womb (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 1:23-26) to circumvent the sin-nature passed to all of humanity through Adam (Romans 5:12), walked among us for 33.5-years and fulfilled the righteous requirements of the Law of God (Matthew 5:17) and pleased the Father (Hebrews 1; John 5:19); then, Jesus walked to the horrors of a Roman Crucifixion as the Lamb of God (John 1:29), established a New Covenant in His blood (Matthew 26:28) and shed His innocent blood onto the sands of Golgotha outside Jerusalem to redeem mankind from sin and provide a path to covenant relationship with the Father by grace through faith in Him as our Messiah (John 3:16-18); forgiveness for sin is accessed by believing that Jesus died to pay our sin-debt (Romans 10:9-10) and thereby receiving the imputation of Jesus’ righteousness-perfection into our personal lives (2 Corinthians 5:21) and thereby being made “right” positionally with the Father, forever (John 14:6), and then receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Guarantor of our covenant relationship with the Father, forever, as the Holy Spirit walks us daily in obedience through sanctification in preparation for life with Jesus in the New Jerusalem (Ephesians 1:13-14; Revelation 21).

Question was asked: “Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?”

Christian response, God annilated Sodom and Gomorrah because they legitimized sodomy, sexual perversion…defiling God’s marriage covenant…much like America with Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and the murder of 61-million babies via Roe (1973)…this is why America is dying a slow death in communism. This is why our posterity is suffering in Darwin, Lenin, Marx, Nihilism.

What is the purpose of Law in Scripture?

Law has been extant since the creation of the Angels as law is the arbiter of free will (Romans 2:15) and our conscience bears witness to that law infused within us at creation. The Covenant of Law is NOTHING new or special…it is simply a reiteration of the moral law written upon our heart as God codified His Law in stone and scratched it upon parchment through Moses… but this was given specifically to Jacob’s children as they were to be Holy as God is Holy and they were set apart for a special dispensation but NEVER was the Law a means to enteral life as the Law only defines sin void atonement (Romans 3:20).

From the beginning, mankind has found righteousness (a right standing) with God through FAITH (Hebrews 11), NOT works of the LAW because the Law only defines sin void any form of atonement (Romans 3:20). Jesus IS our atonement and Jesus kept the Law in perfection for us and by believing in Him as our Lord we can receive the imputation of Jesus’ righteousness into and over our life, forever, and enter into covenant relationship with the Father as clean vessels in the likeness of Jesus our Savior (2 Corinthians 5:21).

The Law, in the New Covenant, is written upon our heart and administered by the indwelling Holy Spirit and obedience to the Law of the Spirit is relevant SUBSEQUENT to our salvation…law cannot save…it simply points us to Jesus as our tutor and schoolmaster (Galatians 3:24) to lead us to repentance.