THE PLAN OF GOD

GOD did not create Adam and Eve sinners nor did HE create them righteous.  Adam and Eve were spiritually neutral.  Before eating the forbidden fruit sin had not yet entered the world.  Adam and Eve did not possess the knowledge of good and evil which is what is required to sin. 

 “To know to do good and do it not is sin.”  James 4:17   

Another way to say what James wrote in the scripture above is; “Whatever is not of the love of GOD is sin.”

Adam and Eve were spiritually ignorant.  GOD warned Adam about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil saying that “in the day Adam ate it he would surely die.”  So then the two trees had a very important function, they were the test that GOD would give Adam and Eve, a test of love and obedience for their GOD or failing the test. 

 GOD in eternity already knew all things as HE alone is omniscient.  GOD wanted the man to make his own independent decision thus showing free will in man.  Questions that need asked;  why would GOD put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden and why would GOD allow Satan access to Adam and Eve ?  If GOD knew the outcome in advance why would HE have created humans in the first place ?  GOD knew all the pain, suffering and death that would result from sin but did nothing to stop it, why ?  GODS plan required free will I human beings. Think, it is impossible to commit the unpardonable sin without free will.

GOD, in eternity had seen the entire human experience, all of it, from the smallest to the greatest of the thoughts and intents of all human spirits.  GOD had the power to make all things work together for good in the end and HIS will would be accomplished.  Would we rather that GOD had not created us ?  We know Adam sinned with knowledge but Eve was deceived and GOD held the man responsible because it is as in Adam all sin not Eve.  

Adam was given dominion over the Earth and all things in it.  Adam had authority.  Notice that when Eve first ate of the forbidden fruit her eyes were not opened until Adam ate. Genesis 3:6-7  Before Adam ate he still had authority even over the serpent and could have voided all that his wife did (See Numbers 30:10-15) but Adam loved his wife more than his GOD and harkened to her voice and ate.  Satan knew to confront Adam directly was not the way to achieve his plan so he would get to the man through the woman and Satan was successful.  

Some say Adam fell from grace, but this is impossible because grace comes after sin not before it.  Adam never even knew grace or good and evil.  Adam failed by disobeying GOD and eating the fruit from the wrong tree.  

If Adam had obeyed GOD he had the authority to void Eves sin and cast the serpent out of Eden (again  Numbers 30:10-15) and later eat the fruit from the tree of life thus gaining for himself and his wife the Holy Spirit and all the awesome things that come with it.  Numbers 30:6,7,8   Adam would have done all this without ever having sinned.  Adam would have been the messiah of humanity and all his offspring would have been born children of GOD.  

At some point afterwards Adam would be changed into a spirit being as would throughout time all his descendants.  The kingdom of GOD would have been on the Earth from Eden forward.  All of what we know as the old covenant and new covenant would have never happened.  Jesus would have never happened.  This we know did not take place because Adam sinned.  Over time GOD, in love, attempted to deal with sinful man time and time again and again but man’s heart for the vast majority of humanity did not respond.  GOD punished humanity for their sins pleading with them to repent and obey HIM but very very few ever did.  None of the suffering, pain and death that resulted in this world was GODS fault it was Adams and Satans.  One man brought sin and death into the world.  

Jesus Christ was born into a world that he was spiritually not part of.  The virgin birth isolated Jesus from the sin of Adam and when GOD created Jesus in his mothers womb HE created Jesus righteous and full of agape (GODS love) thus creating Jesus incapable of sin as Jesus was an exact copy of GODS righteousness and love.  This is why scripture says Jesus was separate from sinners and that in Jesus was no sin.  Jesus proved this to us in his confrontation with Satan in Matthew 4:1-11 as Jesus emerged triumphant over Satan.  The FATHER dwelled in Jesus and Jesus dwelled in the FATHER  the two were one in spirit.  1 Corinthians 6:17   Jesus was the second Adam and was a success whereas the first Adam was a failure.  The prophets declared Jesus would be successful and reign as king of the kingdom of GOD  before Jesus was even born.  Jesus was not GOD, he was a human being but totally in-dwelt by the spirit of his GOD and FATHER.  There has never been neither will there ever be another human being like Jesus Christ.  

We as Christians must measure up to this Jesus and with the power of his GODS spirit in us be transformed in the resurrection to be immortal, impeccable spirit beings just as Jesus is today.  

We will no longer be human because if we are to be truly made after GODS image and likeness we must be spirit because GOD is spirit not flesh and blood as flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD.  We will truly be a new creation of which Jesus was the first, the first born son of GOD.  Jesus experienced this bodily change when he ascended to his GOD and we will too when we ascend to him at his return.  

This will be the first stage of humanities salvation, the first resurrection.  The second stage are the people in the millennium and lastly the second resurrection.  Each stage is progressively larger in number.  The number of the first stage called the elect is extremely small with only 144000 beginning with righteous Able to the last of the elect that is called and chosen and the group called the innumerable multitude.  Then the second stage is the people that repented during the great tribulation that live into the millennium that has ten generations of saints. Lastly the second resurrection will contain all people that have ever lived but never knew the truth.  These are the three measures of meal Jesus spoke about in Matthew 13:33KJV   Salvation is not all at once but in three different times, today is not the only day of salvation. 

 Throughout the entire history of humanity the vast majority have not been given the Holy Spirit and the mysteries of the kingdom of GOD as all this is only for the church, the elect saints, and the rest of the world is blinded until GODS assigned time for them.  Only the FATHER knows what time is right for all people and will deal with each one accordingly.  

This in a few words is the plan of GOD.