| Seven Sermons 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
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