When the angel Lucifer first sinned and God kicked him out of heaven, was he the evil devil who promotes horrible sins such as murder, rape, child molestations, and all the horrors that sin has ravaged upon the human race? Would Lucifer have been horrified if God had shown him the evil he was going to become?
Lucifer was a created being. We know those beings as angels. This is what God tells us about Lucifer in Ezekiel 28:15, “15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” Lucifer was perfect because he was innocent, as a child is innocent until he reaches the age of accountability. God did not create us as robots to do his bidding blindly. He created all of us, angels and humans, with the free will to make a choice on whether to accept or reject God.
Angels were created to serve in heaven, but they were to have a choice just as humans, have a choice. God described Satan as beautiful and full of wisdom. Yet that beauty and his greatness among the angels gave him pride as it says in Isaiah chapter 14:13-14, “13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”
From that beginning, Satan began conspiring against God to overthrow him and take his place on the throne of heaven. God did not immediately cast Satan out of heaven though. Satan had time to organize and gather followers from among the other angels who then made their choice, as Lucifer had done, to reject God. Satan made merchandise of the other angels, or in other words, he used them for his own ends and purposes. As a result, there was a war in heaven (Rev. 12:7) and God cast Satan and the fallen angels out of heaven to earth.
Satan uses the same techniques on earth as he used in heaven. He makes merchandise of people for his own ends and purposes. He is still at war with God and as far as he’s concerned he is going to take as many humans as possible with him, just as he took a third of the angels with him from heaven. His first task on earth was to turn all humans against God, but God had Noah and Satan failed. He next tried to unite the world against God through Nimrod, but God once again foiled Satan. He then tried to destroy God’s people by destroying the nation of Israel, but once again Satan failed. Satan’s idea was to prevent the redemption of humans by destroying us before God could save us.
Then God sends the Messiah and now Satan’s task is to kill him before God can set up his kingdom. He thought he had won when Jesus, the Messiah, was put to death on the cross. However, Satan failed to realize that was God’s plan all along. Next, Satan has to try to destroy the Church or people of God who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Many martyrs died, but God’s people were not destroyed.
God reveals to us what is going to happen at the end of the Church Age, right before he sets up his kingdom, as Satan thought he was going to do at the first coming of the Messiah. There will be a falling away from the things of God where people declare good evil and evil good. Satan once again will attempt to unite the world, but now he has his own “Messiah” planned who will once and for all destroy God’s people, both Jew and Christian.
Where there used to be many Christian nations that held to the Godly values of right and wrong, now there is only one, and it’s tottering on its foundation known as the Constitution. That nation is the United State of America and we have people in our midst determined to destroy the foundation of this nation, because once this last nation is destroyed, then Satan can unite the world against God through his own “messiah,” which we Christians know as the anti-christ.
The effort to destroy America began in earnest in the 1880s with the rise of Fabian socialism which became known as progressivism in this country. The plan was to convert America from a Biblical worldview to a humanistic worldview. They began with teacher colleges and textbook publishers. They then moved to alter the constitution by taking out the safeguards against a big socialistic government, which they accomplished through amendments, but especially the 17th amendment when Senators would be elected by popular vote instead of by state legislatures which protected the states from federal government interference.
All this time the goal has been to convert America from a Biblical worldview to a humanist one. This goal was never intended to be accomplished overnight. The battle is still being fought and Christianity has lost a tremendous amount of ground in the fight. So much so that we are currently witnessing an entire American political party call good evil and evil good. As this has happened look at the consequences of calling sin good. We now kill babies as a nation. Sex trafficking is running rampant and it appears that many high-ranking people participate and are being allowed to get away with their crimes. Our children are being further injured by causing them to question even their gender, which is leading to suicide and greater problems down the road mentally for these misguided children.
Did early progressive presidents like William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson forsee this moral collapse when they were advocating progressive reforms in America? What about progressives in Hollywood in the ’30s and ’40s? Did they foresee a movie industry that would promote homosexuality, abortion, the exploitation of children, and extreme violence where evil triumphs over good?
My guess is that many of the early progressives would be appalled to know the depths this nation has sunk to. If Satan had known the consequences of his rebellion against God, would he still have rebelled? If the old-time progressives had seen the consequences of their actions, would they have rebelled against the Biblical Worldview under which America used to operate?
These people have been made merchandise by Satan as he made merchandise of the angels. They have rejected God and Satan has used them to fight against God, meaning they must take the opposite tact away from God. The opposite of God is evil, and so to justify their evil they call it good to ease their own consciences until God gives them up to a reprobate mind.
Romans Chapter 1:20-32 seems to be a history of the progressive movement in America from God’s point of view.
(They grew up in an America with a Biblical Worldview and they knew a great deal about God, the Bible, and right and wrong, as a result.)
(They knew of God, but they didn’t know God, and as result, they rejected God and the Biblical Worldview.)
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
(Their pride, like Satan’s pride, began leading them down a path of destruction and the nation they were to lead.)
(They accepted the theory of evolution and rejected the creation of God, making them fear for the future of our planet and accept notions that climate change is man-made.)
(All this rejection of the things God included in his mandates against sin began to be openly embraced, which has led to other perversions of sex and gender.)
(By rejecting God they set up man as the highest being and that, by default, makes government the greatest power available to men where they go for answers for how to solve the problems of humanity, when it’s that very rejection which causes the problems in the first place.)
(The Women’s rights movement has led to women killing their own babies in the name of choice and wanting to become men in both mind and body. Which has led to confusion as to what it means to be a woman as God created the woman.)
(Men openly engage in homosexuality and other sexual perversions that have led to confusion as to what it really means to be a man as God made us.)
(Because people have chosen to reject God and his morals, God has seared their conscience so that they have no internal barometer from which to judge if a path is right or wrong. Therefore, the next three verses describe what happens to those that reject God and refuse to be guided by his morality.)
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
(Do the above three verses sound like modern America?)
(America has become so far gone, that those who have rejected God and his morality now rejoice and vote for the people leading them down into the pit of destruction and they cheer as they descend into that pit.)
Thankfully, there’s still a choice in America and we still have something to fight for. As American citizens, we need to fight for our country by assuring the Republican Party continues to be based on the Judeo-Christian ethic. We then need to politically fight the Democrat Party which operates under the humanistic philosophy.
As Christians, we need to fight with love by offering an alternative to the world and world solutions. We need to be different. We need to have the peace which surpasses all understanding. The world seeks peace, but peace is not found in the world. Peace is found in God. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 10:10 explains the difference between Satan and God. ” The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Who do you choose to follow?
The obvious answer is – they create their own standards of right and wrong based on what a majority of those millions say it is. They do this by electing lawmakers that share their belief that morality is situational and to be determined by the group, and not God or the individual.
Therefore, the question of who defines our morality becomes even more important because there is a concerted effort to destroy our historical tradition based on the Bible. What does history tell us about attempts to destroy the Judeo-Christian ethic?