You've asked a question that time will not allow a sufficient
response but I'll be as succinct as possible...Though our Creator is
omniscient, He infuses free will into the lives of both His angelic and
human creation and does NOT interfere with that free will for the
majority nor does He predestine anyone to Heaven or Hell (Calvin was
wrong) but allows each to choose whom they will serve; this free will,
volition, is of necessity as our Creator desires intimacy with His
created beings and true intimacy with love and relationship cannot
manifest in an atmosphere void the ability to "choose" to love or enter
into relationship. Reciprocal, satisfying, love and relationship cannot
be predestined nor can it be coerced; both parties must desire that
relationship with integrity and honesty; otherwise, the interaction is
impotent, stale, nihilistic. Love cannot be forced or exist in fear;
therefore, our Father has given His all to provide us a path back to Him
through the Son (John 3).
Elohim's pride
and joy is His angelic creation; unfortunately, Elohim's anointed cherub
angel that served Him in the Kingdom made the affirmative decision, via
covetousness, to assume the sovereignty and authority of God and a
rebellion ensued in the Kingdom and according to Scripture, one-third of
the beautiful angelic host opted to follow this anointed, charismatic,
cherub angel in a devastating coup d'état (Ezekiel 28:11+;
Isaiah 14; Revelation 12:4). God the Father made the affirmative
decision to extricate this rebellion from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) to
minimize its destruction where nothing impure is permitted to exist
(Revelation 21:27) at which time the Father ordained The Gospel of Grace
through Jesus Christ before Time began (2 Timothy 1:8-10) as His battle strategy to destroy the works of the Evil One (1 John 3:8b).
The
Father commissioned the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:35), to initiate our
creation narrative by taking elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm
and fashioning those elements into matter that can be apprehended by
life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3; Genesis 1; John 1;
Hebrews 1; Colossians 1). This is why our greatest scientists,
astrophysicists, will never define our origin because the matter we
"see" finds it genesis in the "unseen" spiritual realm (Hebrews 11:3).
God the Father extricated the Evil One and those who followed him in the
rebellion and placed them partially within the constraints of Time and
physics and on the sixth-day of the creation narrative, Elohim created
human kind in His spiritual image and allowed the Evil One access to
mankind...through Adam's rebellion, the cosmic war between good and evil
rages within Time and Eternity and the Father first introduced the Son,
our Warrior, in Genesis 3:15 and then Elohim provided a picture of His
battle strategy in Genesis 3:21 i.e. the Gospel...the shedding of
innocent blood shed by God Himself to redeem mankind via an imputed robe
of righteousness which was fulfilled 4000-years later by Messiah Jesus
on a Roman Cross outside the gates of Jerusalem with the words "It is finished" (John 19:30).
This
narrative is worthy of a large novel in small print but my objective is
to be as succinct as possible but know that you have been placed within
the Realm of Time as a warrior and you are endowed with free will to
choose whom you will ally with, God or Satan. The previous 6000-years of
horror upon the Earth is serving as experiential relevance for the
two-thirds of the angelic creation observing the unconscionable
suffering resulting from rebellion and the demonic influence of their
former brethren and there is coming a 1000-year span of perfect peace
called the Millennial Reign of Messiah where the Evil One will be bound
and not allowed access to human kind...this span of peace will be a
stark comparison/contrast with the previous 6000-years of horror and
will be the final convincing era where the faithful angelic creation
will KNOW the benefits of obedience to the Father...this example of the
necessity for obedience to the Father will provide a bulwark against
future rebellion in the Kingdom as free will remains extant in Eternity
by necessity.
Those of human kind who have
allied with the Father in this war through faith in Jesus, our Warrior
and Messiah, they will live throughout Eternity as servants of the Most
High in the New Jerusalem in resurrected bodies, a Holy City that will
set upon a foundation on a New Earth and within a New Heaven as this
present Earth and the entire Universe will be destroyed by fire as it is
temporary and the 2nd-Law of TD will accomplish its objective. Thank
you for the question...
I will share some related articles I have written on this subject as the Holy Spirit has desired if you're interested,
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