God's Interventions In Secular History

God's Interventions In Secular History
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Table of Contents<br>Introduction-Fall of Man<br>Before and Immediately After the Flood<br>Nations and gods After the Flood<br>Wilderness, Conquest, Promised Land<br>The Fall of Israel and Judah<br>God Uses Nations To Accomplish His Will<br>God Uses Satan to Accomplish His Will<br>Miracles In the Old Testament<br>Christ&#39;s Sacrifice<br>Jesus In the New Testament <br>Birth of Christianity<br>Men Sent By God After Christ<br>Conclusion<br>Bibliography<br><br>The purpose of this Book is to show how God used aspects of creation to accomplish His will on the earth. God will use anything, even if it seems not to be logical. He uses Satan, men, nations, miracles, sinners, prostitutes, wars and just about anything He can lay His hands on all to glorify himself in His creation. He will call men His servants who don&#39;t know Him. He will destroy the love of His life if they disobey Him. All of this he does in the name of love even though it may not seem so at the time. He honors and blesses those that are His. He destroys that which prove themselves not to be His. All his ways are just and righteous. He is our personal Father not some far off God living in a spirit realm we can&#39;t understand. He is omnipresent (everywhere at once), omniscient (knows all) and fills all things. He speaks a Word and it comes to pass. He is always on time (His time) as He rushes to deliver one of His possessions. This book will reveal His ways most of which are past finding out. He will annihilate His enemies. <br><br>God&#39;s greatest intervention history is that He created the vast havens and the earth from nothing visible. He created everything we can see and much we cannot. Man was the jewel of that creation and the earth was His focus. He filled created space and filled it with galaxies and trillions of stars and planets with distances between them to far to contemplate. He filled the microscopic world of quantum mechanics too small to see. He foresaw everything that was ever to exist in this physical realm and spoke it into existence with a word: &quot;let it be&quot;. He carved a section out of eternity, called it time, and included in it the physical heavens (universe) and the earth. His spiritual heaven was already created. He created all manner of life including man made in His image. His purpose in physical creation was to integrate this physical realm in the likeness of the eternal Spirit realm (heaven if you will) where He lives. One of the few specific prayers He gave man was: &quot;Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven&quot; (Mt 6:10). <br><br>God began with &quot;the heavens and the earth,&quot; (Gen 1:1) but then chose to the earth, not the heavens, as the theme from which He chose to inhabit man. Having chosen the earth, God now bypasses the angels (fallen angels included) and elects to deal with man. Man is first created below the angels with the expectation that he will rule angels and will in fact rule all of His creation (Psalm 8:5-6). From Adam&#39;s many sons, God chooses Seth (4:25). Of Seth&#39;s many descendants (Gen. 5), God chooses Noah (6:8), and from Noah&#39;s family, He chooses Shem (11:10), Terah (11:27), and finally Abraham (12:1). Abraham has many children, but Isaac is the chosen seed (21:12). Isaac has two sons, Jacob and Esau, and God chooses Jacob to be the recipient of His blessing. He chooses His younger Son Joseph to save a world from starvation. <br><br>God left the remainder of the heavens to the other nations of the earth (Deut 4:15). Most ancient civilizations worshipped Satan through the heavens or the pagan gods associated with him (Sumeria, Babylon, Canaanites, Chaldeans, Medes and Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, Asiatic nations, Native Americans, Romans and countless others. God made this clear in Deuteronomy: So watch yourselves…&quot;so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. &quot;And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, THOSE WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS ALLOTTED TO ALL THE PEOPLES UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN&quot; (Dt 4:15-19). His intention for the heavens were for planting, keeping time and navigation and looking up to see the glory of God. Most other civilizations used the heavens for divination, fortune telling etc. <br><br>Man asks the eternal question &quot;Why are we here?&quot;. He searches the earth, the vast heavens and the minute quantum realm seeking answers to this question. He asks &quot;Are we alone in the universe?&quot; and searches for alien beings and misses what is right in front of his nose. He asks &quot;What was before our beginning 13.7 billion years ago?&quot;. &quot;How did life begin?&quot; The deeper he searches the more questions he uncovers but no answers. Man does not comprehend the basic truth that: &quot;Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and HIS WAYS PAST FINDING OUT!&quot; (Ro 11:33-34). Only the Son knowns the Father who is the creator of all things and those whom the Son chooses to reveal Him (Luke 10:22). Man and all his efforts to know God, without accepting the Son, are utterly useless and futile. The human mind, no matter how intelligent, can never know God and the mind is actually hostile to God because it does not think His thoughts (Romans 8:7). Only those with the mind of Christ will know the truth (1 Co 2:16). <br><br>Why are we really here? The answer for the believer is clear. We are not an insignificant being on an insignificant planet. The answer is that we are responsible for converting the earth into a place that mirrors the spirit world (heaven if you wish). He didn&#39;t make it an easy task. He placed Satan &quot;the adversary, [Peter 5:8] and the accuser&quot; [Rev 12:10] directly in man&#39;s path to challenge him every minute of every day. Jesus defeated Satan through His death and resurrection. But it remains for mankind to make what Christ accomplished on the cross a reality in the earth. Adam and Eve were created into an atmosphere of sinless perfection but they lost it by disobedience to God. However God created a path back to a perfect world and we know the end from the beginning (see Revelation). &quot;Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, [from Eden[ who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;… When the thousand years are completed… the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever&quot; (Rev 20). <br><br>So God had a plan for mankind, that is why he is here. He is working toward the redemption of mankind and he works toward that plan every day. God uses man/women to accomplish this plan. However He intervenes in the affairs of mankind when He finds it necessary. He uses what we call miracles, He uses Satan, He uses nations hostile to Him, He uses men of God (prophets and Kings), He uses secular leaders and all the tools in his arsenal when there is a need. But he does not come down soveringly to do the job delegated to mankind with his invisible hand always in the background. That is primarily the function of this Book, to show how God intervenes in history to accomplish His will. His workings on earth are more of a nudge in the right direction as He accomplishes full redemption for His people. <br><br>When considering God and His plan for mankind after man&#39;s fall from the Garden of Eden we must view secular and religious history in a completely new light. After the fall of man from Paradise in the Garden of Eden He, of necessity, subjected all of creation to a curse of futility. &quot;For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope&quot; (Rom 8:20). We continue to live in that futility today but with hope that: &quot; …that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body&quot; (Rom 8:21-23). <br><br>In protecting and creating israel as His special nation great world Empires crossed paths with God to their ultimate detriment. He used and destroyed great nations at His whim. Learn a side of God you haven&#39;t seen before.

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Kenneth B. Alexander BSL JD Deacon. God's Interventions In Secular History

God’s Interventions In Secular History

Preface

Christ’s Sacrifice. Jesus In the New Testament. List of Miracles Performed By Christ. Below Are the Parables of the Kingdom

Bibliography

A Special Nation for Himself

Before and Immediately After the Flood

Men of Renown: Many polytheistic civilizations had legends of great men performing great feats. These were the Neplilim, the unholy offspring of the angelic like creatures and earthy women. After the fall God had limited His revelation to the new nation He was forming, Israel. The rest of mankind was left to the memories of those of the distant past who had become mighty men, men of renown and mythic gods. These men of renown took the form of a mixture of human and divine with great powers. For instance men worshipped Venus, Mars, Jupiter or Zeus, Saturn, Gilgamesh, Osiris, Isis,Tammuz, Poseidon, Hades, Jason, Anubis, Horus, Hercules Thor, Perseus, the gods of Olympus, Odysseus, the Planets,Hathor, Geb, , Amun, Aton Bastet, Baal, Artemus or Diana. There are hundreds more but all these gods/men had great powers and were definitely renown during their time as later societies’ legends and myths were derived from this pre-flood period

After the Flood

Wilderness, Conquest, Promised Land

The Fall of Israel and Judah

God Uses Nations To Accomplish His Will

God Uses Satan to Accomplish His Will

Miracles In the Old Testament

List of Miracles

Christ’s Sacrifice

Jesus In the New Testament

List of Miracles Performed By Christ

Below Are the Parables of the Kingdom

Birth of Christianity

In 313 Constantine I and Licinius announced that it was proper that the Christians and all others should have liberty to follow that mode of religion which to each of them appeared best thereby granting tolerance to all religions, including Christianity. This edict made the Empire officially neutral with regard to religious worship; it neither made paganism illegal nor made Christianity the State religion at that time. However in 325 the Emperor held the first Council of Nicaea, called the first Ecumenical Council wherein Christianity was established as the official Roman religion and guidelines and creeds were enacted to govern this new (to Rome) religion. These changes included establishment of church authority, elevation of the cross as the religion’s symbol, the preparation on a uniform Bible, and in a sense he began what was to become the Catholic (Universal) Church. Bishops and church leaders were established in various places, and eventually moved from the Eastern empire of Constantine and the City of Constantinople to the Western empire and the city of Rome. Eventually, after East and West unified, the Bishop of Rome ultimately became what was later called the Pope. There was great doctrinal conflict between the East and West church for centuries

Men Sent By God After Christ

Conclusion

Bibliography

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Birth of Christianity

Men Sent By God After Christ

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However when man, who he had been left in charge of this perfect world, sinned by disobedience he was faced with a decision. Either destroy all he had worked for or provide a way out for man to be able to return to the perfect land. Therefore cursed the serpent (Satan) and left open the possibility of another outcome by giving His creation the ability to choose God with their free will. When man chose disobedience over obedience God realized that the forces released by that decision could no longer exist in His perfect world; otherwise man would live eternally in a sinful state. He realized that if this occurred He would have no choice but to destroy the entire creation. As God put it: “Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” [meaning evil would live forever]—therefore the Lord God sent man out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life” (Gen 3:22-24). Instead of destroying man, His mercy gave him another chance and set about to redeem him from the jaws of evil. But in the meantime He put man out of the Garden and into a world of futility to put limitations and controls over him until the coming of the Messiah.

He subjected creation to futility but in hope that, through that futile creation, He could still work His will which was ultimately the perfection of man and creation. Romans 8:20-22 states: “For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now”. God confirmed this by what he said to the serpent in the Garden. I will put “ENMITY Between you [Satan] and the woman [Israel or Mary], And between your [Satan’s seed] and her [the woman’s seed Christ]. He [Christ] shall bruise [crush] you on the head, And you [Satan] shall bruise him on the heel” (Gen 3:15). Therefore God, at the point of Creation, prophesied the defeat of Satan through the seed of the woman—Christ.

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