God's story

What's the very worst thing that can happen to us? 

There are a lot of bad things to choose from.  We can become ill, lose our friends, family members, or pets, lose our jobs, our homes, all our money, or be victims of crime or natural disasters - but, by far the very worst that can happen is to lose our life forever, to cease to exist and to be no more.

No one really wants to die. To die means that our hopes, dreams, aspirations, our physical bodies, our appearance, our families, pets, talents, emotions, our struggles, have all been for nothing. What a waste, and what a shame, to lose it all forever!

But the fact remains:  We will all die as a result of sin.

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom 6:23

Eternal death is the consequence of breaking God's Law.There is no getting around this.

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Rom 3:23

We have "all sinned and come short of the glory of God". This eternal death is not really a "punishment from God", but is the direct result and consequence of the damage done by the violation of the Ten Commandments (The Law of Love) and the entrance of sin into a once sinless and perfect world.

God's Commandments are inviolate and immutable forever. They can not be changed nor added to by "one jot nor by one tittle". This is clearly stated in the Bible:

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Mat 5:18

The reason Jesus Himself had to die to redeem us from death, was because the Ten Commandments are eternally valid as the Law of the Universe, and can not ever be altered nor done away with. This Law is the law that binds all of God's creation together in perfect sense and harmony. Without the structure of this Law and its guiding principles, there can be only chaos, cruelty, sickness, depravity, murder, destruction, and death. The breaking of this Law perverts the order of life and results in certain death.

Satan's biggest lie is that we will not die if we violate God's Commandments. He has attempted to mislead us constantly all through history into believing that if we break the Commandments, nothing will happen and we won't die, despite God's warning that if we sin, we will surely die. He wants us to think that death is not absolute, and that we are able to speak, act, or participate in what goes on in the world after we are dead. He can cause the dead to seem to "speak" to us through mediums, the "apparitions" of dead people, statues of saints "crying", and etc., by using the many supernatural powers at his disposal. This is all Satanic trickery, as God's truth says that the dead "are sleeping and no longer take part in anything that goes on under the sun".

This "Great Controversy" between God and Satan began in Heaven, when Satan was cast out because of his rebellion against God's kingdom of love, and then came to make war on His children by speaking through the serpent (which was his first supernatural manifestation), assuring Adam and Eve that if they disobeyed God, they would not die - even though God told them that they would die if they violated the precepts of love. His purpose is to separate us from God's love and the salvation and eternal life now available to us through Jesus.

Satan hates us because God loves us. He loves nothing better than to see our suffering, death and destruction. Hurting and destroying us satisfies his desire to rebel against God Himself. He is constantly working to cause doubt, fear, and lack of faith in God's children. He unceasingly points out our deficiencies to God and strives endlessly to lead us into sin and away from Jesus and His love and saving grace. He wants us to believe that God is a cruel and exacting taskmaster instead of the loving and tender Father that He truly is. He wants us to think that God is the cause of all the woes and suffering in the world, when actually it is Satan who causes all this pain and destruction.

According to biblical prophecy, which is God's own word, we are now living in the "End Times". The Second Coming of Jesus and our salvation is imminent - "at the very door". Satan presently has at his disposal the use of "all powers and principalities" to deceive us and lead us into eternal death and destruction. He is "roaring up and down the earth like a lion, seeking whom he might devour", and evil and chaos are rampant under his direction. But, though it may not seem like it, there are still many who have love in their hearts, and who resist evil, and it is intended that they be saved. (You, yourself, may be one of those people!)

Remember this: If you were the only person who would accept God's love and salvation, Jesus would have died on the cross just for YOU! You are not unknown to Him; He loves you, and He wants life for you, not eternal death! God is always near and hears every prayer, even those unspoken ones. And he hears yours, too. He is waiting for you with great yearning and with outstretched arms. When one soul receives Jesus, there is great rejoicing in Heaven.

We need all the truth of God's word to avoid being deceived and tricked into eternal death. All need to learn the path that God in His mercy has provided, to guide us to Him and His Salvation, in these perilous and evil times. The ultimate deception of Satan will be his impersonation of Jesus himself, in his last and supreme effort to mislead God's children away from salvation, and to recruit followers to wage battle against God in the Final Conflict (Armageddon). We must be prepared, and put on the "whole armour of God" to withstand these attacks, to keep from being deceived, and to be able to stand blameless in the sight of God at the end of this world.

It is my intention to reveal God's Plan as it is explained by Himself in the Bible, in a simple and "true to our times" way, so that all can understand the truth of God's love for us, and the beauty of His plan to save us from death and give us eternal life.