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TESTING AND FALL OF SATAN

SEEING GOD'S MAIN PURPOSE

Once the time had come that plant life was flourishing everywhere throughout the planet, God could then bring forth animal life, allowing it to progressively materialize throughout the planet. That was the main purpose. It started in Africa, but it is evident that most all land continents back then had a connection. The planet did not have areas back then, that were enveloped with these large bodies of water like we have today that prevent land travel, therefore animal life could migrate from place to place at will. However the Creator, which is God Himself, had ordained it to be that way, and in the closing era of the last million or two million years of time, there was animal life on every continent on this planet. Down in Antarctica they have found fossils of prehistoric animals. That baffled them. How could it be, that they could be there? I have to say, If this world has been here sixty five million years, or whatever, I do not believe it was always as cold there as it is now. If you can understand what I mean by that, I believe God had this planet positioned so there was a mild climate from pole to pole, from hemisphere to hemisphere, without any disruption. Remember, He is God: He created all of this. He can bring it to a certain relationship to the sun, and have it turning a certain way, and He can pull a lot of this water up there and put a vapor barrier out there, and you will never have to wipe the sweat from your brow ever again, and never have to build a fire to keep warm. That is a perfect climate. If there was animal life eating grass, and a cud found in the mouth of one, frozen, in Siberia, and if palm leaves were found in a glacier in Norway, what does that tell you? It tells me that at one time on this planet, there was a climate that was so suitable for everything, that plant life flourished everywhere. Let us turn our eyes westward, to the North American continent. In the western states where we have so much arid desert country, Arizona, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest and so forth, I would have to say, A man would be a fool to go there and stand looking at all those rocks, which are giant logs, that at one time were tall towering trees, their tops reaching toward the heavens, and not realize that something drastic took place to cause it to be like that. Whenever it did, there was a climatic condition that caused those trees not to decay. God turned every bit of it into rock. Then through processes of time, those trees of giant rock fell and they are still lying there for us to look at and wonder. As thy fell, some broke into pieces. It looks like someone has been there with a power saw, sawing blocks of wood. Three years ago we had the privilege of taking Bro. & Sis. Strommen out through there. I had always wanted to see it myself, so that was a good opportunity. I just had to say, Yes, at one time, these were living trees; and at one time, there was a prehistoric animal kingdom moving among this forest, eating leaves from them, but it is obvious that something drastic took place to change all of that. When God brought it to an end, He never intended for those areas to flourish ever again like they did back then. Now in saying that, I do not want to be responsible for anyone moving out of those areas because I said that. It is obvious that they will never flourish again in this age, like they did back then. The point is, I believe all those places where Lucifer, (now Satan) did the worst perversion, are scarred, ancient battlefields. Every continent has a giant desert. Does that tell you anything? Every continent has a desert today, from Africa, to China, to our southwest. Everywhere you go it is like that, even India. If you could study them, and we had some way to actually look that far into the past, we would find there had been gigantic battlefields of evil forces that turned the animal kingdom upside down, and into such hatred for each other, just like the devil has done with living creatures since our beginning in our Garden of Eden. Mankind in the earth today, is being populated to its peak, making it difficult to support an existing population like this. Here, the dirty devil is doing his utmost to turn man against man and he is having an alarming rate of success doing it. I heard a program sometime back, dealing with various aspects of life as we know it, that really provoked my thinking. Back when we had the strategic air command in full swing, when we had giant planes flying twenty four hours around the clock, loaded with atomic bombs, ready to blow Russia to pieces if necessary, it was said at that time, that the government had also allocated, in case of an atomic catastrophe, because there would be a need for fresh sperm, in order to start a new supply of human beings when so many people would be killed. When I heard that said, because I know what kind of man they want, I could not help but shudder. They want that man right there. (Pointing to prehistoric man on chart.). That is the guy the devil has been interested in all along. That is the guy that runs this world. How many understand my point? That is the guy they call the modern man because they think that is the one we evolved from. I want to say this, In our garden, when God did give Adam an animal kingdom, that creature was there, because that is the last one of the whole evolutionary strain. He was the most intelligent. He had evolved to this point. He had a brain to be able to calculate, to figure this and that. He knew everything there was to know about the earth. He had begun to design weapons and different things. They began to bury their dead different than the others had. In our day, they have found all these traces. Any way you look at this though, this creature was not a son of God: He was of that animal kingdom. When God took Adam and says, It is not good that man should be alone, what does the Bible say then? Out of the ground the Lord formed every creature after its kind. God already knew what they looked like. Let us go to the second chapter of Genesis and read that. You need that Bible terminology fresh in your mind's, as we continue on with this. 18 "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof." Now go back to chapter one, and find the rest of the revelation. 21 "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." God resurrected that portion of that animal kingdom that had evolved to the state of intelligence and maturity that He willed to exist and go on, and that is what He brought to Adam. There stood this fellow. (Pointing to chart) He looked like man, but he was not a son of God. That is the character that yielded his influence, his psychological side of himself to the devil, Satan, to seduce Eve. He had the capacity to vocally communicate. He was not a snake walking on two feet. He was the most upright, modern looking creature there was. I want all of us to fully realize, if we lose sight of the fact that there are spirits out there, in the spirit realm around this planet, we lose sight of the basic foundation around which this Bible story functions and reveals. Just as sure as there is a God that fills the universe, the next thing God does in the spiritual sense, He wants offspring, He wants beings He can relate to and through, to help carry out His objective. That is why He said in Genesis 1:26-27, "Let us make man in our image and after our likeness." God was not talking about three persons of a trinity. If the trinity minded person says this, then let them show me where the Bible shows us three distinct persons of a trinity, and I will shut up. The Father (the Creator) has never been seen as a person, only as a temporary manifestation in the form of man. Only the Son of God has been seen as the one and only person of the Godhead. God, the Creator, dwelt in His begotten Son, after His baptism by John, in the Jordan River. The apostle Paul wrote, that God was in Christ, reconciling His lost family of children back to Himself, so that He could begat more sons and daughters to Himself by and through the Lord Jesus Christ, making Jesus the begotten Son of God, our Redeemer, the firstborn within the family of God. We should see it only in that light. Remember though, angels definitely assisted God in everything He did with and through His creation. After sex education went into force back during the early 1950's, a breakdown in the morals of society has taken place. Just look at the sadness, the heartbreak, the broken homes, and the perversion of our environment that is so widespread since then. That is all because the dirty devil is a fallen angel. He knew exactly how to strike out at God. That is what He did in the garden, when he inspired the serpent to seduce Eve. He is now taking his last hack at God, just before he goes off the scene. I am saying that for this reason, If this is what Satan can do to try to mess up the whole plan of God, then please let your mind imagine what in the world he was doing back here. Angels know every law of God, and it was imputed unto them to have authority within these laws, how they are to be executed and as to what they are to produce; and it is their duty to watch over and keep every creature pure in its origin. When the devil took a slap at God by having that serpent creature come around behind Adam's back talking to Eve, it threw everything off course and brought about a need for a Savior, one that could offer Himself as a sacrifice to the Creator for the sins of all mankind. Of course I realize traditional religious people will say that is a lie out of the pit of hell and cannot possibly be so, but I just have to say to them, No. It is a revelation given by the Spirit of God, and those who are filled with His Spirit do not resist that which He reveals. Do you not realize, that if Jesus Christ Himself would stand here and say exactly the same thing I have said, you would say the very same thing about Him? In His days upon earth, those religious Jews of that day said the very same things about the SON OF GOD, that you who are void of revelation say about those who dare preach the truth in this day and hour. I will tell you this for sure, When that serpent came to Eve there in the garden, she was not looking at a snake, she was not looking at some hunch back, bow legged, snaggle- toothed thing with a club in his hand. That creature was not abominable to look at. He no doubt looked just like what we have up here on our chart. The Bible says he was more subtle than any of the other animals (Genesis 3:1) "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" The word subtle is used to describe the serpent, and when you look it up in the Dictionary, it means Skillful, clever and crafty. It means he was cunning, having the mental capacity to think and reason. His brain capacity had enlarged. Not only that, he came to Eve speaking very distinctly what was on his mind. This is why that creature, (if things never had gotten out of line) would have been hoeing your garden for you. Yes, "Yea, hath God said?"he would have been hoeing your garden, driving your tractor and doing all the rest of your work, simply because he was made for that purpose. That is why God resurrected him. He already had an earthly intellect. He already knew how to think earth wise. He knew all about plant life and natural things. That is why he had evolved to that state: God had a job for him to do. However when the devil got behind him and used him to entice Eve to go against the instructions the Creator had given them, he became a tool in the hands of the devil instead of a servant for Adam. Satan had a plan for that creature. It was the way he took this creature, and took Eve and caused her to conceive by intercourse with him. Now I want to say to the atheists and scientists who want to think life all started whenever they say, with just one little cell, and that there was not a designer behind it all. Is it not strange how something so small would evolve to produce living creatures of different species and identity, yet all of them, as they come into existence, are able only to reproduce themselves by being sexually mated male and female? How can your evolution produce that? It just proves that your evolution theory is pure nonsense. If we can take this little cell of life and say that it is God Himself, then if He wants to bring this about like this, and that ever so often He will project something else into motion, it did not start from one cell: It started from ONE GOD that can break Himself up into many different species of things and establish certain genetic laws pertaining to them. As time passes, it is the business of God's angelic family to watch over all of this, because they are responsible for making sure each creature definitely does become a fixed species of its kind. That is why tree life stays to itself. That is why bird life stays to itself. Even marine life stays to itself. Now I want to get back to something at this time. Let us go back to Genesis. We will start with the 26th verse of Genesis 1. "And God said, Let us (He is speaking to His angelic beings) make man in our image, after our likeness: (We know by this, that angels are spirit beings also. It is to them, (the angels) that God says...) and let them (meaning man) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Coming back to this book here, we have seen how the horse has evolved through time. After the advent of Christ, you had the Arabian horse in the Middle East being domesticated, but he is a small horse. Then as you come into the 12th century, into the Crusade period, the European Crusaders began to pull that horse out of the Middle East, bring it back to Europe, and from that little Arabian horse you now have what is known as the Thoroughbred. The British bred it up to be a fast runner. They call it a race horse. As time went on though, that little Arabian horse has been the bedrock of many species of animals that have evolved into the creatures they are today. In here, it shows the Appaloosa and the Pinto. Where did they come from? Morocco, Africa is where the spotted horse came from. How did it get to the new world. The Spaniards brought it into the southwest in 1500 and something when the conquistadors from Spain were landing on the Mexican shorelines and starting their advance inland. They brought the Grecian horse, which in reality was the Appaloosa. In ancient times that was called the sacred horse because it had unusual spots and coloration on its body. The spotted horse came from Morocco. I am saying all of this in order to show you, It was from the Middle East, the Fertile Crescent, where we got the main bloodline. As the Spaniards brought them to the new world, many times these animals got loose because of some kind of a skirmish with the Indians, and got lost, and ran wild upon the plains. By the time we come to 1800, there was an old cavalry rider riding for the U.S. cavalry, that wrote various articles we can draw from. He said when he was with the U.S. cavalry, he can remember out on the prairie skyline, that all you could see in the distance was horses, just no end to them. Well Saints, man was to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. What did God mean by that? I never knew when I was growing up that we had an intelligent fish called the dolphin, that man could literally play with. I never knew there was such a thing as a killer whale that man could train to do what they have done. Here in the last fifty or sixty years man has really began to find out the intelligence there is in some of these creatures, especially the dolphin. It is a fact, in that dolphin, you would not think it has a brain big enough for anything much, but there is an intelligence in it that is quit extraordinary. It is true, it cannot speak your language, but it can communicate with you by actions. As you watch it through glass, how it is trained, they have taught it to kiss you. They have a movie coming out soon about a dog and a dolphin. I have seen other movies about dolphins, but this dog is in the water and this dolphin comes up under him and brings him back to the dock. Just imagine that. You might say, What does that have to do with the gospel? Just wait until the Millennium era gets here. When you get there, you are going to see more dolphins than you can now imagine, children playing with them, and the intelligence that really is in those creatures. Wouldn't it be wonderful today, if more people were learning how we could play with dolphins, instead of making bombs to blow the world apart? Just look at it this way, If they can train these dolphins to take land mines down and lay them beside the hull of a ship, what potential really lies within those creatures? They do not train them by any language we know of, but they have trained them to be little servants in the military. I must say, That is intelligence. Man has done it. If man knows to do that, do you not think there is a spirit behind it? Absolutely! Take my word for it. I must say this, When the Millennium comes, man will not be studying warfare then: He will beat his sword into plowshares and his spears into pruning hooks and he will study war no more. Everything that has a source of intelligence that is in the animal kingdom, the marine kingdom, as well as the fowl kingdom, will be totally different than what they are now. The knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the waters that cover the sea. What a beautiful place this planet earth will be. For a thousand years of time, with the righteous angels, and man that has been redeemed to fulfill God's plan, this planet earth is going to know what it is to be ruled in righteousness. That is something to look forward to.

ALL LIFE CAME FROM GOD


I want to do everything in a justifiable manner as we continue on in this message, and I realize I do not say things by speech or expression the way scientists or evolutionists would, but my explanations will all have God in the picture. I want you to be able to see God as the designer, the planner and promoter of everything that has been done on this planet earth. It is a fact, this planet earth was not just made six thousand years ago. This planet earth has been in existence for eons of time. Scientists will say approximately 65 million years. It may surprise some, but I can go along with that, even a hundred million or whatever, because after all, time with God, is nothing. He does not live in time: Time exists in Him because He is eternal. Anything that is, has to have its origin in Him. That cell of life these evolutionists talk about was God Himself. That is why Paul could stand on Mars' Hill in the city of the Mediterranean's most educated people in his day, right in the midst of the Greeks, and say, I see the sign you have attributed to the unknown god. That is the one I want to talk about to you. It is a fact, in Him we live and move and have our being. We exist in Him. I will explain it like this, When you see that fishing worm crawling on the ground after a warm shower in the spring, God gave forth the life that is in it. God has expressed Himself in all the creatures you see on this planet, and each of them had an important function in the plan of God. You do not call God a worm, but when you see that worm, its life was derived from God. I am going to use that as I talk on this subject. That little fishing worm which you look upon as being unimportant, is very vital to the health of the ground you live on. Some of these little hard shelled bugs that are no larger than a bee, you look at and think, What good are they? About four or five years ago, the National Geographic magazine published an article about certain things in the plant life structure of evolution on the planet. The drawing was a cubic foot of earth. In one cubic foot of earth there are so many thousands of known microscopic species, as well as insects, bugs, worms and such, that are vital to the health and fertility of the soil. Then it goes on and breaks down the purpose of all of them, why they are so vital. Before I go any further with this thought, I want to reemphasize something I will remind you of all through this message: The Bible speaks of two Edens. I do this to let religionists who read Genesis and want to put all of it in six days of twenty four hours, know that their ideas do not match up with the other scriptures. They think all of this animal kingdom was created then, the animals that went with Noah in the ark. It is true, there was an animal kingdom with Noah in the ark, the animal kingdom we have today, but the animal kingdom that was with Noah in his ark, was not the animal kingdom in exactness, as it was back in the prehistoric hour before Genesis 1:2. I do not doubt that somewhere from here to the region of South Africa, is where Lucifer's Eden was, because that is why Ezekiel 28 spoke of that anointed cherub and said, "Thou hast been in Eden." Look up the word Eden. It means paradise of God, or beginning of God. You find both meanings. Our Eden was not there. Our Eden was right in here. (Pointing to chart). That is where our Eden was. When you read about it, you find that it had one river that had four heads. It gives the names of them. Keep in mind, that was the geographical description of our Eden before the flood. There was no Mediterranean Sea before the flood. That was a long valley. The garden given to Adam was a garden of much vegetation, plant life, trees and such. That is why it says, an God planted a garden. When God plants a garden, it is a garden of spiritual things, not natural things. Eastward is a directional word, and, in Eden is a geographical title attached to a certain territory of land. That was where we had our beginning. We understand then that the Bible is balanced. The Bible is only a confused book to people who do not want to believe in God at all. When they shake their head, saying, There is no God, there is no devil, then to them the Bible is a confused book. On the other hand, those who are willing to accept the fact that everything was created by God, the Bible then becomes to them a book they can put dependence in. It has all the answers, and God leads us to them when the time is right. In that first EDEN, it was God's plan that the whole world of that hour would be populated by an animal kingdom. It was to that era of time that angels were set in charge. I have no library book to read what God might have said to the angels when He gave them that animal kingdom to rule over, but looking at certain things that unfold in our present world environment, both good and evil, you can almost see behind the scenes of some of those events, and you cannot help but see that there are angelic beings directing mortal man in his earthly purpose. I just want to say to the doctors of divinity, It is a shame you have studied so much theology of the Bible, that you are totally ignorant concerning the reality of it. As we go along here, you will understand what I mean. I think I have already said, When this planet was eventually blown out into space from a gigantic explosion, that was not an accident. That was designed by the greatest chemist there has ever been. That chemist is God Himself. As this planet was pushed out here, and when everything got into its proper place, God stopped it. Therefore it began to function in relationship to the universe it is a part of. There was no life on the planet because the heat that would be generated from this thing would be so exceedingly hot that life could not exist. We just have to realize it hung here, turning and evolving, and went through many years of time as we count time, slowly cooling down. Volcanoes scattered throughout the globe, were constantly erupting; and as I have described already, it was like a large vat of cheese bubbling. What were these volcanoes doing? They were spuing out lava and dust. This dust was being carried by the natural winds around the planet. This dust did not look like earth's dirt does today, in the sense that we plow and cultivate today. But it was the beginning of the substance we call soil on this planet. Some critics might say, Bro. Jackson, where do you get that? By watching some of these documentaries people show, and watching what is going on in the earth today, like what happened over in the Philippines. Did you ever stop to think, every time one of these volcanoes erupts and spills out several feet of this lava and stuff like that, and it cools down, in a few years they are plowing that stuff, raising pineapples in it, or whatever. There is also the type that becomes rock: They do not plow that. When that stuff flows out and dries up like ash, it will not be long until it becomes soil. As that ash is pushed out here on the planet, you know you cannot get plant life to grow in a hard rock, but there has to be a certain amount of substance we call soil. All over the planet this ash, this dust, is being blown out just like Mt. St. Helen. A few years ago that literally devastated that whole region for miles. It leveled giant Redwoods, just broke them like toothpicks and scattered them down over the mountain sides. Out of that volcano came gray looking dust that filled the air and drifted eastward, yet it settled around the mountain there. Today young spruce and seedlings of every description are coming up, on that mountain and flourishing. It goes to show there is plant food in that ash that is necessary. As time goes on we realize this, that these trees grow and begin to put out foliage and pine needles and all that stuff, that will fall into this new ash or dust type soil. That is what God uses to put what we call humus into the soil. It keeps the soil from settling and becoming hard. As I studied this article in the National Geographic magazine, I could see in eons past, when God was slowly preparing this planet, making it habitable, it first had to become climatized. There had to be something guiding certain plans and processes, to get everything right for life here. I have to believe angels were the instruments and servants of God that watched over the laws, knowing each angel was given a certain domain wherein the authority invested in him was to function and bring about the cultivation of certain things. As this ash and dust will come and fall, common sense tells you if there is water now added to the planet, marine life will have to live on something. Did you ever study marine life? What does it live on? It lives on decayed plant life that has rotted on the mainland, and washed by floods and rivers down into the oceans. That becomes the food marine life will feed upon. Let a flood come and fill the waters with a new run off, and fish go wild because they suddenly have plenty to eat. Now, to break this all down, we will have to accept the fact whether the atheists and evolutionists want to or not, that angels were definitely set here in charge. We cannot read these passages of scripture about Lucifer falling, what he said in his heart, how he would go up and sit on the sides of the north, he would exalt himself and be like the most high God, without asking, Well where did it happen? There had to be an allotted time that it happened. It sure did not happen since our beginning. Right here, is where we had our beginning. We have written records of that.

THE ETERNAL AGE

We talk about the eternal age, but just how much do we know about what leads up to it? I want to put in something at this time. If we can see the planet earth as it has a beginning and comes through here, and then there is a catastrophic judgment, and much, much later God starts again, and eventually the whole thing ends up in the eternal age, we are getting close to understanding something. God does things in threes, you know. What we read in Revelation and Isaiah 65 and 66, lets us know the eternal age is the finished product of what God through eons of time, started way back over here. When we get over here, we are going to see a planet that is filled with the knowledge of God forever. There is going to be a people that is the family of God and they are going to be people that are spiritual offspring of God Himself, that have become redeemed from their fall, that has come through time, and that is why we put the cross here. Our redemption started there (chart). There is going to be an animal kingdom on the planet with man. It is very important that we see this. That eternal age is going to be worlds without end. I believe the apostle Paul speaks of it, worlds without end, meaning ages, ages, and ages of time, with no ending to it. As life began on the planet, in its microscopic form, it definitely had to work in the areas where there was going to be soil. If you were to go all over the face of this earth and inspect the types of soil and you go deep enough, you will find underneath most of the soil, a clay substance, a base. That is the original part that has come out of volcanic eruptions. Some might be gray, some might be red, some might be slightly blue in color, but all of that is of volcanic origin. It came forth out of the bowels of the earth to form on the solid surface of the earth. As God would create microscopic life to begin the work, then there is going to eventually be the beginning of certain types of small plant life. I cannot take the time to stand here and go through a long process, like, Now first He made a blade of grass. That lasted for ten thousand years and on and on. I am not going to do it that way. You have to understand there had to be the beginning of a small category of plant life. This microscopic life was going to work in cooperation with the whole plan of God. Though the beginning of this might have been very limited in various areas of the earth, keep this in mind, To the evolutionists and scientists, as life of some description begins on the planet, there was not a hostile environment. You did not have cannibalism and warfare going on with each little species. God does not dwell in that. Our Millennium tells us, that when Satan is bound up, our animal kingdom will be at peace with us, insomuch that children will play with the bear and wolf and so forth. You read that in Isaiah 65. Even the creature that was cursed, called the serpent, he is still here in the reptile family, and dust shall still be the serpent's meat. Once God cursed him and put him down there, he was there to stay, never to be reinstated to his original form. It stripped his arms and legs, his vocal capacity, and now he is in the reptile family, crawling on his belly, and he is still there. When we see these things, just as I read in that National Geographic Magazine, as soil began to be built, it created an environment in the soil, so that as some types of plant life begin to grow there, God's plan is not just one kind of grass or something, but that eventually the earth would be filled with many kinds of plant life, vegetation. As it is so, then the soil had to become climatized. As I read, there are multitudes of microscopic life. Everything that is of plant life that dies, this microscopic life jumps on to it. This is what sets up mold. When you see a weed laying there from two or three years back, all of a sudden you uncover it and it looks like mold growing all over it, that is microbes breaking it down, tearing the structure down, taking it back so that it becomes humus in the surface of the soil. It showed also, some of the little hard shelled bugs. To look at them you would think they are worthless, but they have followed the tunnels these hard shelled bugs dig, ten feet down through hard clay soil. They are the instruments, the servants of the Creator, that open and aerate the soil, so that when the Lord lets it rain, the water trickles down those little tunnels into the subsoil, eventually going into the subterranean regions. Therefore water sets up a cycle. Eventually it finds its way to the main underground streams and back out to the ocean. God just keeps it going like that. Here are little long, flat, thin worms, that look like they have a thousand legs, not any larger than a hair. That little worm lives on rock. As he crawls on certain types of rock, it becomes appetizing to him. He secrets an acid from his body, a little old thing not even an inch and half long. As he secretes that acid on this rock, that acid sets up a breaking down of the surface. Then that little worm eats it. That is his food. So we can say, from a rock, he has broken it down, and it becomes part of his body, then it lives so long and lays its eggs for the next crop of the same kind of worm to come along. That which became rock is now in his body, and then it decays and adds more humus into the soil. You can see how over centuries of time God might have let this planet hang here several million years, slowly building itself into a habitable environmentally climatized planet that can begin to accept life in a larger, and major manifestation than what it would have in the initial beginning. We can say this, As the planet became more and more prepared, conditioned the way God wanted it, it was definitely the angelic beings, or by their authority the laws were set in motion for the evolutionary changes of such little creatures. As the time came for it, then we have to say there was a balance of plant life, as well as a balance of marine life in the ocean waters. Then there came the time for larger animal life. It is when we begin to get to the larger animal life that we can say the planet is beginning to grow toward a fixed point in time when God is going to look specifically upon this animal kingdom. Because this animal kingdom, we read about what the scientists and archaeologists describe about finding their skeletons and stuff, it is hard for us to imagine just what the purpose was. Nevertheless, as these larger type creatures were brought into existence, there is no doubt there were other lesser type things began to pass off into nothing. In other words, they just became extinct because the planet is more and more all the time moving toward a fixed point of what God wants it to be. There is no doubt in my mind, angels worked in perfect harmony getting it that way. Just imagine, if we have to accept the fact that the atheists and scientists know it all, and since they do not know the difference between good and evil, and they want to think evil was present the minute good started out, I would have to say, It might have been billions of years before we would be to where we are right now. We have to understand, for eons of time, everything was slowly being prepared for its higher purpose. God was not going to allow life to be materialized when there was not an environment to accept it. Bring all of this into the agricultural realm and what do you see? A farmer goes out and prepares a five acre field for the seeding of alfalfa. He will seed it with the best seed he can find. He will fertilize it and give it all the necessary plant food it needs to grow on. When that seed begins to come up, it looks like it is flourishing. It is thick on the ground and growing rapidly, but out here in nature, is parasites, viruses, which are microscopic, and you cannot see them. They hang around to live on some type of plant life. They do not live on animal life. They live on plant life. They are the negative seed. It isn't long until they find their way into the alfalfa field. After a while you see the little alfalfa plants wither away. What in the world has gone wrong? The next day you see little patches of it. The next day big blotches of it. We call in the county agents and they take the plants and send them to the state university laboratory. They will investigate and find the microscopic virus working their heads off to kill the plant and live on it. If that type of atmosphere had been in existence the minute the first type of life came forth, it would not have got to first base. You absolutely have to accept the fact that God had everything clean, and there was no hostility, no evil present, and it went on like that until everything was prepared. Now if angels were put here, and they are going to be tested, there is no doubt in my mind that as the animal kingdom, from out of its lesser size, had evolved into the larger size, and the animal kingdom begins to be functional, you have the large, what I call lizards. You can call them dinosaurs and give them their names, but I call them a big bunch of lizards. That is what they are. In 1974 we were in Accra, Ghana Africa. In the hotel where we stayed, there was a veranda off of the kitchen, and you could sit out there. There were waiters to take your order. Out of the tropical bushes that grew there in the lawn of this hotel, were these huge lizards. They were very large, and though the back legs were short, the front legs were long. Right down the back, there was a row of humps. Now if you take that lizard and blow him up, he would look exactly like one of those characters you read about in the prehistoric world, that they called dinosaurs. Here he comes out of that bush and right in on the concrete. They would not hurt you, but they would raise up on those hind feet and look around and you would wonder, what next? They would zip across that concrete and be gone. As I sat there watching them, I thought, If you knew genetically, how to make those fellows reproduce themselves in giant size, you could scare people half to death. He looked exactly like some of those dinosaurs you see pictures of. I will never forget, when Walt Disney was still in California, coming out of the 1940's on into the 1950's, they made a movie titled, The Fight of the Dinosaurs. I read the article in Reader's Digest. They went to South America, into the Amazon River jungle where there are two known species of lizards. They are very hostile to each other. They captured them, brought them back to California and kept them in sort of a zoo. When they were ready to make this movie, they turned the lizards loose to meet each other in a mock environment like the prehistoric world where they were supposed to have lived. I imagine many of you have seen it. Testing and Fall of Satan-Continued

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