TESTING AND FALL OF SATAN

WE HAVE DEALT WITH THE TESTING AND FALL OF SATAN FROM TIME TO TIME THROUGH THE YEARS, BUT IN THE LIGHT OF WHAT SOME ARE TEACHING IN THIS HOUR OF TIME, I FEEL THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO TAKE SOME TIME AND GET THIS FRESH AGAIN IN OUR MIND'S. I HAVE FOUND THROUGH THE YEARS, THAT REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY TIMES SOME HAVE HEARD SOMETHING TAUGHT, THERE JUST SEEMS TO BE A TIME THAT THE SPIRIT QUICKENS IT TO THEM. NATURALLY WE DO NOT EXPECT EVERYONE TO CATCH EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, AND SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT WE WILL TOUCH ON ARE THINGS THAT OPEN UP OTHER SCRIPTURES TO OUR UNDERSTANDING, SO WE WANT TO BE SURE EVERYONE HAS THEIR CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND WHY MANKIND IS IN THE MESS IT IS FOUND IN TODAY. WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END OF GENTILE TIME AND IT SEEMS THAT EVERY SPIRIT OF HELL IS VYING FOR THE ATTENTION OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN A CREATOR, TRYING TO GET EVERYONE SIDETRACKED WITH SOME PERVERTED VERSION OF WHAT IS JUST AHEAD FOR BELIEVERS. I REMEMBER, BACK AROUND THE TIME WHEN I WAS IN THE FIFTH GRADE, IN ONE OF OUR HISTORY BOOKS, THERE WAS A REFERENCE MADE TO DARWIN, THAT HE HAD COME OUT WITH A THEORY THAT MAN WAS JUST A PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION, AND THAT THERE WAS NOT A GOD, A CREATOR IN THE PICTURE AT ALL, THAT THINGS JUST HAPPENED. THE WORD EVOLUTION REALLY HAD A CHILLING, SCARY FEELING FOR ME. I HAD ALWAYS BEEN USED TO HEARING CREATION THE WAY RELIGION HAD BROUGHT IT. TIME MOVED ON AND THE WAR YEARS CAME, NOTHING SEEMS TO BE DISTURBING THE MIND ANY MORE, BUT IN THE 1950'S, VERY SLOWLY THIS SPIRIT BEGAN TO CREEP INTO OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM AND IT HAS REALLY GAINED MOMENTUM THROUGH THE YEARS SINCE. THAT IS WHY I WANT TO PRESENT THIS MESSAGE TO YOU AT THIS TIME. I WANT YOU TO SEE A SOVEREIGN CREATOR FIRST AND FOREMOST, AND THEN I WANT YOU TO SEE A DEVIL THAT IS TOTALLY DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PERVERTING THE WORD OF GOD AND DECEIVING THOSE WHO WOULD DESIRE TO WALK WITH GOD; AND I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW THIS DEVIL ENDED UP BEING A DEVIL, AN ADVERSARY OF THE CREATOR, WHEN IN HIS BEGINNING, HE WAS A BEAUTIFUL ARCHANGEL.
I am not the smartest person in the world, but when we are finished with this message, I am going to ask you, Can you find anywhere else in the world that you can hear what you have just heard, except from brothers in various places that see these scriptures as we do? You will not hear anything like this in your denominational systems of religion. When I get to a certain place in it the message, I will be talking a lot about horses, because I like horses. If you like dogs or other animals, just transpose what I am saying to the animal structure you are most interested in. You that like cats, do likewise. Or maybe you like cattle. Evolution is still going on, but that which is evolving was first created, so do not let the word evolution throw you. When we are dealing with mankind in this era since our beginning in Eden, we have to see beyond evolution, which is still continuing on in the animal kingdom, but we also have to see redemption. Evolution is a beautiful thing if you can see it with a sovereign Creator behind it. If you cannot see God behind it, as far as I am concerned you may as well go look for some place that you can agree with, because I assure you, all that you will hear from me, will be about something that first began with an original creation of a sovereign God. I want to say these things today because I know somewhere there is some educated professor, maybe not in America, but this does go into certain colleges in Africa, that will try to tear all of it apart. I hope they will take it and analyze it. First off, scientists and evolutionists that want to believe things just happened, they have no proof whatsoever that their theory is right. Whatever they have from scientific discoveries, can easily be explained within the realm of creation by those who have a proper understanding of the scriptures. I want to take and use a certain position which represents the planet as it has moved out of time past into our era of time, to start this message. Now that we are living over here in the closing of this Grace Age, we can look back through the binoculars of spiritual revelation, because we can see what has been going on from here to here, (pointing to chart, from creation until now). We can see exactly how to look at and interpret certain things that have only been theories before now, and we can make them express reality. We can compare it to certain things that are taking place over here. Keep in mind, back in this era, (before Genesis 1: 2) there was such a thing as prehistoric man. This is a drawing, an illustration of the last stage that the prehistoric creature supposedly evolved to. He is referred to as the modern man. Because evolutionists do not want to believe in God and what they read in the Bible, they are trying to say this creature is still evolving, and that we are the result of it. Well, God played a trick on them, but they still do not want to admit it. Before I read any scripture, I want to make a few comments. This symbolizes the planet earth (Pointing to chart) somewhere in the eons past. We are using a proximity of sixty five million years ago. I do not really care if they want to say it is billions. That is alright with me. I will not argue that point, because being so exact on that, is not essential to what we are going to talk about. If they want to go into trillions, that is O.K. , but when they try to bring it all about without God in the picture, I pity them. Do you know why I pity them? Because this last state of evolution over here in this creature, was the serpent that was resurrected to be at the head of the animal kingdom given to Adam. Do not get the idea that the animal kingdom God gave Adam was just a new bunch that God fashioned from a mud hole somewhere. No. Think of it like this, They had already existed in eons past, so God just resurrected them in whatever stature of size He wanted them to be. What scientists call the modern man, they claim to have traces of ninety thousand years ago, and they want to think we evolved off of that. That was the serpent that had been resurrected along with the rest of that animal kingdom. I realize the critics can say, Why do you say He resurrected them instead of creating them? All because it establishes this, if we can look forward to a resurrection, listen to me, if we look forward to a resurrection, what would hinder God from resurrecting something that has evolved through millions of years of time and has been brought to that progressive state? Then God destroyed it all in a catastrophic state of judgment. Then for Adam's sake He revived it, that which He wants to use to start this new process. There are those that will say, Well you have no trace of anything that proves there is a broken interval between that modern man of millions of years ago and man as he is today, living here in the closing years of Grace Age time. I believe the Bible gives it to us. While it is true, the Catholic Church is now saying some things, and I will read it to you, I still hold to my understanding of the prehistoric era. This was given to me a few weeks back, taken from one of the News Papers. It is a release from the Vatican.

Cardinal John O'Connor of New York said this, "Adam and Eve may have been some other form than human, and it is possible that the first living creature was a lower animal. Cardinal John O'Connor told worshipers at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The comment Sunday by the head of the New York archdiocese came a month after Pope John Paul II said the theory of evolution was more than just a hypothesis. It is possible that when the two persons we speak of as Adam and Eve were created, it was in some other form and God breathed life into them, breathed a soul into them. That is a scientific question, O'Connor was quoted as saying in today's daily news. Perhaps the spirit of God that brought forth life into the earth was a lower animal, he said."
I would be ashamed of myself to represent a universal religion that is supposed to believe in Jesus Christ, to go so far as to say Adam and Eve might have been created first in a lower form of life. That is a terrible thing for such a man to say. Let us turn to Genesis 1, and read something. If I cannot have confidence in what I am about to read, why have confidence in any of the rest of the Bible? While it is true, it was not written at the time Adam was created, it was written by Moses when they came through the wilderness journey, between 1400 and 1300 B.C., but I have total confidence in the accuracy of it. He wrote the first five books of the Bible as the Creator instructed and enabled him. A lot of people might say, Don't you believe a lot of this can be legendary? No, because God said that of all the men that He had spoke to, there was not a man like Moses. He spoke to him face to face. If God wanted His word, the story of the planet and so forth, and what has been progressing from the beginning of this era of time until then, I do not believe God just let this man wander through the wilderness, leading a group of people to a promised land, and let him base his historical writing upon a bunch of legends handed down through time. I believe God spoke to him exactly in the fashion He willed it to be recorded, and Moses wrote it as he heard it. Notice the first verse of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (It does not say how long ago that was.) The religionists of today want to say that in six twenty four hour days God created the heaven and earth. That is not the way I see it. The Bible itself proves it was not like that, and that the religionists are reading it wrong. In fact I cannot understand how they can go to those colleges and universities and seminaries and get their degrees in theological learning, and become so blinded and naive. The next verse gives us a clue. "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." That second verse tells us this, that at the time this verse applied to, according to the record that was being written by Moses, the earth was without form and void. Void means it was rendered useless: It was uninhabited: There was nothing alive on it. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. The word deep does not speak of a hole in the ground: It speaks of the vastness of space. Darkness was upon space around the planet. "And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Why is it important at this time that He move upon the face of the waters? Where are the waters he spoke of? They are everywhere around the planet. There was not only water upon the earth, there was water in the air all around it. That is why these excesses of water so filled the space in the area around the earth that darkness, sunlight which was still out there millions of miles away, could not penetrate all the clouds of fog that was generating from the planet, because the planet was cold. That is why it took the Spirit of God to move on that, first of all. With that in mind, we realize this is enough to give you and I something to provoke our thinking, that time for us was not back before here. (Pointing to chart showing the earth before Genesis 1:2) Here is where our time started. When God reached a time that He was going to use the planet for us, at that time, darkness (There it is.) was upon the face of the deep. The earth was formless, shapeless and void. With that in mind just remember, there are many prophecies in the Bible which speak of that and give us a true description. First, when we go through the Genesis record, how God began to move upon the deep, then He began to separate the waters that were above the firmament, (That is the heavens which He was going to allow to be the atmosphere around the planet.) from the waters that were below. The waters that were below, He gathers together on the earth itself. In other words, the fog definitely had to settle as light broke through. He pulled that which was up here, on out into outer space and there is where He formed a vapor belt that you could not see with the natural eye. That is definitely what God put there to protect the earth from the extreme ultra violet rays of the sun as it is shining on planet earth. When you read it, that is exactly the picture you will get. To say that was a day of twenty four hours is merely hypothetical. When you come on over to the 2nd chapter and 4th verse, after He has finished the seventh day and has rested, it says, These are the generations. How can you use a day of twenty four hours and refer to it as a generation? You cannot do it. "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens." That goes to show that this process involved generations and generations of time. Therefore I hope you will forget this day of twenty four hours kind of thinking and look at this record the way God wants the bride Church to look at it. That is all the denominational religionists have used, because they have been blinded by their own education. As we move on here, there are so many things I want to get started on, and each one starts down a long road that I do not want to go too far on just yet because it leaves to many unanswered questions back here. As you get down the road a way you think, Well what about this, what about this, and what about this? That is why I ask for your prayers, because I do not want to present this just for my own interests, but for the glory of God, and to give Christian people something to really look at and realize God will not leave His people in ignorance when we see what the devil, in the closing of Gentile time, is doing his utmost to accomplish. If we can accept the fact that right here, as God begins to deal with the planet and bring it back into relationship with what He wants to use it for, (which was our beginning) it was still in a judged state from judgment on a prehistoric creation, the rest of it will make a lot more sense to us. Our beginning, when it starts, read the 2nd chapter and 8th verse. "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden." (That gives you the geographical direction of where Adam was placed.) The word Eden means paradise or beginning of God. Not His beginning, but the beginning of whatever He is purposing to project. It is in relationship to how God wants to form a beginning for man. It tells you here, that in the midst of this garden, He put the man. Then out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree. Here comes the plant life, vegetation. Then the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life, but they did not grow out of the ground. They are two mystery trees that were in the MIDST of the garden. They existed in the spirit realm. "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." This garden is not a small place in God's back yard. No sir. Right here, (pointing to chart) in this area, is where the garden was. Here is the Nile River. It refers to the Nile, the Euphrates, the Havilah that runs cross wise of this area of Saudi Arabia. Keep in mind, that is the geographical description before the flood. It is not like that now. So this is the territory that Eden bounded by for your and my beginning. Did you notice, Not a thing is mentioned about diamonds, sapphires, rubies or anything else like that in this garden? It is a garden in the natural, that portrays the geography and the plant life, or vegetation. There are two of these gardens in the Bible. Therefore I want to say to these carnal religionists and the scientists that doubt God, How come you have overlooked this fact?
Let us open our Bible's to Ezekiel, chapter 28: I want to bring these parallels along as we go through this. Ezekiel was a prophet who lived in a time when God was bringing certain conditions of judgment on outlying communities and cities in and around the environment of Israel. Off the main coast line of south Lebanon is an island area. There used to be an ancient city there by the name of Tyrus. This city in its day was a metropolitan city of commerce and sea trade. The king of this city had built it to a metropolis, a place of lust and carnal attraction. People were drawn to it just like they would be to New York City or other places like that today. As God, through the prophet Ezekiel, is speaking of things yet to come upon these places, He reverts to something that was of the past. He can be talking and speaking through the prophet, bringing out a natural picture of things. All of a sudden the spirit of that prophecy goes beyond the present tense and goes into the past tense, but usually it is speaking of the spirit that has motivated the whole thing. Now he is speaking about the spirit of Satan that has caused the king of Tyrus to elevate that place and elevate himself to such a way of thinking. We come down to the 13th verse and find the spirit of the prophet is not talking about the king of Tyrus. The prophecy is talking to the devil, and says, "Thou hast been in Eden." This Eden here, does not refer to our Eden where Genesis 1 & 2 is dealing with this present creation, if you understand what I am saying. It is speaking of Satan's Eden, the place where Lucifer was tested. Eden is not necessarily the geographical spot, but it is where God puts His beginning, and then it becomes that, for that particular purpose. "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, (Notice the reference to stones.) the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created." Now saints, let us settle it in our minds, God did create the angelic family. When we come into the record of Genesis, to our beginning, starting in this era, we do not read a thing about Lucifer and his angels that went with him being created. They were already in the picture when the time came for them to move in. They were already fallen angels, and are referred to as devils, or more accurately, as demons. Do not try to picture their beginning as though it was here in our beginning. It was not. They had already been created by God, tested, and become fallen angels, as a result of failing their test of faithfulness to the Creator. It is very evident by the way the Bible lays it out, that this is why that period of time lasted so long. Right there, is where the angelic family was being tested. Naturally when God brought it to its final state of judgment, a category of the angelic family had been deceived by this mastermind Lucifer. That was his original archangel name, Lucifer. Here, he is referred to as that spirit. In the 14th verse, notice how the prophet reminds him, "Thou art the anointed cherub (so he is not just an ordinary angel) that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou was upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity (which means rebellion or lawlessness) was found in thee." I want you Christians to know, as well as religious people who may hear or read this, it was not in our era that this took place, and neither was it in our garden that Lucifer had his beginning that brought about his fall. That was not when he was found full of iniquity. It was coming through here (pointing to charts representing prehistoric era) that all that was brought out. Isaiah, who was also a prophet, had something to say about this, so turn with me, and we will look at his utterance concerning this same thing. These are prophets of the Jewish people. It is from the Jewish people we get our Bible, so our record of all that has been recorded of times past. We are going to read Isaiah 14:12. It is very strange how God let each one of those prophets speak out something about this angel. Isaiah the prophet, as he was speaking, says, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" Now that absolutely has to have a certain meaning, son of the morning. Well angels are known to be sons of God also. That is why as we read about Job, we find the same terminology used. One day when the sons of God were being brought forth and God was having inspection, here came Satan among them. It is recorded in the 1st chapter of the book of Job. Verse 6, "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? (Watch this.) Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." (That lets us know where Satan spends his time and what he is doing, and I think we all know why: One of the Epistle's says he is going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. That all goes to show, that at that time, he was already a fallen angel. He was there watching God, as He was taking a look at the other righteous angels. The point is, Lucifer had already fallen from his original position in the plan of the Creator. Lucifer was also a son of God, but now in the perverted sense, because he had already fallen at this time. When you read, Son of the morning, concerning him, it speaks like that because he was created in the dawning of time. The word dawning, means, when time had its beginning. If you notice, in these regenerative days here in the Bible, the way it is laid out, it says, "And the evening and the morning." That period starts with an evening, the sunset, and the rising in the morning. The evening and the morning were the first day. The evening and the morning were the second day. Morning is speaking of dawning. Evening is speaking of the night closing in. Son of the morning, therefore, refers to an angel, and he had great power, or potential, invested in him. What a great position God had delegated to him, when he brought him into existence in the beginning of time. That takes us back to right here (pointing to chart in prehistoric era). Notice what it says, "For thou hast said in thine heart." Ezekiel said, until iniquity was found in thee. Well something caused iniquity to be found in him, and Isaiah exposes it. "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: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." Can you now see why the devil is spoken of by the apostle Paul as being the god of this present world system, and the prince of the powers of the air? To a certain degree he is just exactly that. It is so, because when he took that power and authority that God had invested in him and perverted it and used it for a wrong purpose, using it as a means to deceive other angels which eventually took sides with him against the Creator, God never took that power away from him, but He will only let him use it for the purposes through which God can get glory. The point is, Lucifer had a beginning back here, not here. I hope all of you can see that. What he did in our garden was only because God allowed it for Adam's testing. As for Satan's reason for doing what he did, that was one way he could take a slap at God. That is what we have to look at, and what we must see, in order to understand what took place in our Garden of Eden. Sure the evolutionists and atheists want to squawk about it, but this Bible is going to bear record all along. It will let you and I know that this era is not a myth, that it really existed. It is a shame that religionists today want to say they believe this was all created right here and God did it in six days of twenty four hours each, and that all the animal kingdom they find, that they were in our garden, and in Noah's boat. The only thing is, when the flood came they were of smaller dimension. Therefore I have to say, That is what you call total ignorance. It is a shame, that preachers who claim to be called of God to preach His Word, are in total ignorance concerning what took place with Adam and Eve and the serpent, in our Garden of Eden. "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." This is the end of it. These two scriptures let us know that Lucifer, the great anointed angel, did have a beginning, and that somewhere in time he had used this power wrongly. Let us see how Jesus speaks of this. To me, these are spiritual fossils. They are just as important to us as what the atheists, the scientists, and the evolutionists find, when they go out and crawl all over the face of the earth with a teaspoon and toothpick, looking for every trace of his past. Their question is, How did I get here? One thing is sure, now that God wants the picture to be seen from China, to Russia, to Siberia, to Africa and all over, they are hauling bones from here to there by the truck loads. God says, Take a look at it. I watched a documentary recently, where a bunch of scientists and archaeologists went to China, in the high plateau country. Here they are unearthing bones of dinosaurs that existed millions of years ago, hauling them away in trucks. I could not help but say, God, you are taking the wraps off of everything. You are showing this religious, ignorant element of people who have studied theologies and theories for so long that they have become totally blinded by their own mentality, that there is more to it than what they are willing to admit. They cannot see these passages of the scriptures that we have been looking at, but if we can accept the fact that Satan had a beginning somewhere on this planet, long before God put Adam in the Garden of Eden, we can understand what these prophets were speaking of. Turn with me to St. John 8. Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees, the most religious element of people in the Jewish society of that hour. They were like many of our religionists of today, the most devoted, the most holy and so forth. They wanted to be known by their loyalty to the prophets, to Abraham and to God, but they missed the mark, just like those of our day are missing it. Jesus has been speaking here and all of a sudden he could read the minds and thoughts of anger and hostility in many of those who were listening to Him speak. The things He was saying, they were rejecting. Their minds were moving toward a position of getting ready to say something like, Away with this kind of talk, you devil! All of a sudden Jesus says to them, in the 44th verse of the 8th chapter, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. (Jesus is saying this.) He was a murderer from the beginning." Where was his beginning? Not over here where Adam had his beginning: Lucifer's beginning was way back here somewhere. That does not mean his fall came instantly after he was created: He had his chance to obey God and chose to go his own way. Back here somewhere, is where it all had a beginning, then somewhere in this process of time he did fall. Just as God gave us a beginning, and we fell soon afterwards, so did he. Let us finish reading here in John. Jesus says, referring to Lucifer, or Satan, "He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. In other words he is the master mind: He is the one that designed every lie that has ever been spoken. We are not going to go into explanations and try to find out just how this came about. We more or less want to get a picture of things here. If we can see that there was a time when the angelic family was created and put in charge here, then it helps us when we go back and begin to look at the evolutionary side of things as we come on through time, and the scriptures . All these writers are giving us clues. That is why I say, that to us, they are like these fossils and bones they are finding in various places. These are scriptures that have been laying there in the structure of God's word, but now they just seem to loom out at us. Turn with me into the epistle of Peter. As Peter, in his 2nd epistle, is writing, telling how people rise up, change the truth, not content to stay within the revelation, and then he transposes it over like this. In the 5th verse, is what Peter brings it down to. "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah." He is talking about what happened, but before that he says, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned." Now the point is this, Peter, where did you get that information from? What are you talking about? Are you talking about back in our garden? No. Peter knew at that time, "but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment." That is telling you and I, that somehow Peter knew that angels had done something so evil, so bad, that when God cast them down to hell, He put chains around them and they have been there ever since, and no way can they get loose to reenact what they did before. That does not mean all angels were immediately chained down. No. But Peter is saying there are some that God cast into hell, where He put them in locks and stocks and they will stay there until the final judgment of all things. Notice also, how another Jewish apostle speaks. Where did he get this? It lets me feel, here is the Jewish race and God causes this Jewish race to be a small nation of people in which He will give the revelation of Himself and they will start the process of writing the word that is to become recorded, to be useful, informative as a means by how people might learn, as He drops these insights of the past into their category. Just like fossils, they remain there. People have read them and overlooked them, but now it is very evident that these apostles were talking about the angels that sinned way back in that prehistoric time. Here is Jude. He did not write much, but when he wrote he too was talking about how people were conducting themselves, how they were treating the revelation, how they were rising up in self will, to do away with certain things. "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." The apostle Paul tells us that we shall judge angels. In that great day, when the great white throne judgment is in process of judging all, we shall judge angels. Well saints, I believe that establishes a fact and gives us an insight that angels were created and therefore had a beginning, but it was long before Adam's time. If they had a beginning, where would that be? It absolutely points way back here. When God gave this earth over to angelic beings, for them to have a position of authority and power over it, I want to show you what happened. It is not speaking out of turn. I think it is in the book of Hebrews, and this is our millennium age, right here. Then when we go beyond our millennium into the eternal age, I believe it is in Hebrews that Paul speaks of how God has set angels to again be in a position right here in the eternal age, which is the world to come. Now that lets us know, God made angels and they are spirit beings, ministers of God that are definitely set forth in the spirit world in and around this planet. When we think they are some ornament hung in space on a wire, and we read about them, but cannot imagine they have any job to do, I have to say, Christians, wake up! Get the cobwebs out of your thinking. Angels have things to do that you and I cannot now imagine. Everything that functions around you and me is directed and guided by them. That is why in the book of Hebrews, Paul says, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" He takes that from the 8th Psalm, because in that Psalm it says, "What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the Son of man, that thou visitest Him? For thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned Him with glory and honor?" Angels have their place. It is on this planet that you and I are tested. If we can see that, then that is why we want to look at the evolutionary side of things. I hope I can make this as clear to you as I see it, but I had to establish first, that devils, or demons were not created as devils in the beginning, but that they were righteous angels that went astray when they were tested for their faithfulness. Their fall came about when they turned from the purpose of their Creator. Where did they fall? They fell somewhere in that prehistoric time when Lucifer was in control of God's creation in a prehistoric hour.

I have a National Geographic Magazine here, and I want to show you something in it. There is an article in it about the prehistoric hour. We have these descriptions here, and we have blown them up to enable you to see them. This is what they call the modern man from that cave man era. This is actually the last three in their evolutionary progression. In this National Geographic Magazine, it takes you back and gives you about five or six stages of this prehistoric man. As I read this, and read about where many of his traces have been found, millions of years have come and gone from the various stages, but If you have a revelation, none of this is unexplainable. I want to read some of this to you. This is the scientist of evolution from the National Geographic magazine. I want to read to you what it says about this so-called modern man. Does he not look exactly like Professor Fosdick? I have my reason for saying that. By the time I finish this message, you are going to see why we have Professor Fosdicks around. They are just exactly what they are. Anyhow your evolutionists say this, the things we are about to read.

"In the 1980's, scientists unearthed the remains of modern humans who had lived in the region at least 90 thousand years ago. Recent dating of the bones of a Neanderthal woman suggest that the Neanderthal may have lived there as far back as 170 thousand years ago. Perhaps the two peoples lived side by side for tens of thousands of years, yet during that time the modern human showed no signs that they had superior technology. Both peoples were living in the same way, hunting the same prey, burying their dead in the same manner. Then around 50 thousand years ago something profound happened."