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• Escrow Super and Ultra Super – Grace
• Interim Grace
• Ultimate Sanctification
• Surpassing Grace
▪ Toward Unbelievers as the provision of historical factors for their preservation and
potential for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
• Laws of Divine Establishment
• Divine Institutions
• Gospel of Christ
• Personal Love directed toward the Righteousness of God
◦ Toward other members of the Trinity.
▪ Each person of the Trinity directs His Personal Love toward other persons in the
Godhead who possess coequal and coeternal righteousness.
◦ Toward Believers who have made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
▪ Believers are the recipients of divine Personal Love because they have received the
judicial imputation of the perfect righteousness of God at the moment of making
Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
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However, in every situation and every category of Love directed toward creation, the Righteousness of God continues as the Point of Reference for the creature and the Justice of God continues to be the point of contact for the creature. God’s Impersonal – Unconditional Love and Personal Love are only motivating factors in man’s relationship with Him. The Justice of God is always man’s point of contact and it is the Justice of God which keeps the believer alive in the devil’s world. Every attribute of God is compatible with the Love of God and before the Love of God can motivate action toward any creature for any reason there must be agreement or compliance with all the requirements of ALL the attributes of God, particularly the Standards and Values of the Absolute Righteousness of God. The reality of this fact is the purpose of the DEMONSTRATION of God for angelic creatures as Human History.
Divine Self Esteem
Divine self-esteem is God’s Love directed toward His own perfect Essence especially His own Absolute Righteousness and Absolute Justice. Divine self-esteem is the perfect and eternal poise, self-confidence, self-possession, and self-assurance which each member of the Godhead possesses. Being omniscient and eternal God knows the perfection of his person and has His Love directed toward that Absolute Nature. This is part of Divine Personal Love which emphasizes the perfection of the object. The object of divine Personal Love is Divine Perfect Righteousness, the perfection of all Divine Standards and Values. Each member of the Trinity has a perfect and eternal Essence, therefore, each person in the Trinity has divine self-esteem directed toward His own Absolute Righteousness. No person in the Godhead ever feels threatened by another person in the Trinity nor by any form of creature failure, sin, or rebellion because He has perfect Divine Self-Esteem. God the Father DEMONSTRATED His Love for His own Integrity, His Divine Self Esteem, by sending God the Son to receive the imputation of and judgment for all human sins and requiring His payment for them with His own Substitutionary Spiritual Death. (John 3:16, John 9:4)
Divine Impersonal – Unconditional Love
From the point of physical birth until the individual makes Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone, he is the objects of God’s Impersonal – Unconditional Love. Impersonal – Unconditional Love always emphasizes the Virtue, Honor, and Integrity of the SUBJECT and the unworthiness of the object. Prior to the fall of man in the Garden, the Love of God as the motivation of God toward man only required the provision of Blessing to perfect man who functioned completely under the Grace Plan of God and in alignment with the Standards and Values of the Righteousness of God. The Man and Woman were the objects of God’s Love and received everything to sustain their life on this earth through the Justice of God because of motivation from the Love of God because they were in compliance with the Righteousness of God.
However, they caused this to change because of the original sin. There was no need for the function of Divine Justice toward man in judgment or punishment prior to the original failure of Ish, Adam and Ishah, Eve. The Lord Jesus, The Christ consistently gave warnings to Ish and Ishah during bible classes in the “cool of the evening” which came from the Justice of God as insight into the Standards and Values of the Righteousness of God. (Gen 2:17) They were Page #277 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents repeatedly told, and at least Ish clearly understood (apparently Ishah did not and was later deceived concerning the reality of this by her serpent pet), that if they violated the prohibition of God regarding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they would DIE spiritually and eventually DIE physically. Then, at the very moment of their transgression regarding the prohibition of this Knowledge of Good and Evil, under the Authority of God, both Ish and Ishah died spiritually. This moved them into a state of total depravity, total separation from God, and total helplessness to use any human ability to reenter into a relationship with God.
Now living under Evil within the Cosmic Dynasphere Systems and its rules of function, their newly formed Old Sin Nature from its area of strength tried in operation fig leaves, to regain fellowship with God through their human effort works to make adjustment to each other. This was the first manifestation of the result of their Sin and of their spiritual death.
The issue for mankind in the Garden was recognition of and obedience to God’s authority or rejection of the same. As long as man chose obedience, his point of contact with God, the Justice of God, provided ONLY blessing motivated by divine Love. So the issue was obedience or disobedience to the divine prohibition with regard to one tree. The issue for mankind originally came from the Righteousness of God through the Justice of God, but divine Justice was not the point of contact with JUDGMENT and PUNISHMENT for man until man entered into disobedience to the divine prohibition. The clearly stated Will of God for mankind when he was in a state of creative perfection was the issue of obedience or disobedience. The original sin was not a sin of immorality, but of disobedience to the stated will of God under conditions of perfect environment. Authority orientation was first rejected by the woman and then later the man turned his authority over to the woman and followed her instead of leading her as was God’s design and intention for them. As a result of this original sin, the Justice of God became the point of contact for them with God for Judgment, Condemnation and Punishment and it will continues to be so for all mankind until the end of human history, the END of the DEMONSTRATION of God. This will continue unless and until the individual chooses from his own free will to leave the system of Evil of the Plan of Satan and enter the system of Grace of the Plan of God.
Therefore, now, as a result of every member of the Human Race being under spiritual death at the very point of physical birth, he is in a condition of total depravity, total separation from God, and total helplessness to have any relationship with God, (Rom 5:8) consequently, he can only be the object of the Impersonal – Unconditional Love of God. Therefore, God has to initiate Love toward man. God the Father’s Impersonal – Unconditional Love for mankind is expressed toward mankind in several ways: (John 3:16, Rom 5:8, 1John 4:9-10, 1Pet 3:18, Rom
• God provides soul life to the human soul and combines this with Biological Life to form
Human Life at the moment of physical birth.
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• God provides the imputation of Adam's Original Sin to the genetic Old Sin Nature resulting in the condemnation of Spiritual Death which provides the potential for Eternal
Salvation.
• God provides the potential for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through the
Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for ALL human sins.
• God provides Common and Efficacious Grace to enable the spiritually dead individual to
comprehend and make a lucid decision regarding the Gospel of Christ for Eternal Salvation and entrance into the Plan of God.
• God provides Eternal Life for the new believer at the very moment of his making
Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
• God also provides through the Sealing Ministry of God the Holy Spirit, Eternal Security
at the very moment of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
• God provides Logistical Grace support for every believer to give him equality of privilege and opportunity to execute the Protocol Plan of God to completion.
• God provides interim grace for every believer after his physical death prior to receiving a Resurrection Body.
• God provides a Resurrection Body for every believer at the point of the resurrection of
the believers in his dispensation
The Impersonal – Unconditional Love of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for mankind is demonstrated by His decisions in Eternity Past and in time during the 1st advent to go to the cross and receive the imputation of and judgment for all human sins and to pay with his own Substitutionary Spiritual Death. (Eph 5:25, 1John 3:16) The Impersonal – Unconditional Love of God the Holy Spirit is demonstrated throughout all of Human History by His revealing of the TRUTHS of the Gospel of Christ as the ONLY mechanism for making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by man. (John 16:7-11, 1Cor 2:10)
In the case of God, He is perfect and eternal Righteousness and Justice with perfect Virtue, Honor and Integrity. Therefore, under the principle of Impersonal – Unconditional Love, God Loves both fallen angels and unbelievers in the human race because of who and what He is,
not because of who and what they are or do. God Loves the spiritually dead person, who has no merit at all before God. Therefore, clearly, the individual being able to come to God for salvation through faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone does not depend on what kind of a life one may be living or intends to change to.
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inability to do anything about it. However, because God is perfect Integrity, having Absolute Righteousness and Absolute Justice, His divine Love is devoid of unfairness, prejudice, and discrimination toward members of the human race who are under spiritual death. Because of Spiritual Death God has to initiate Love toward man and man cannot initiate any level of relationship with God. The Love of God initiates toward mankind first with the condemnation of Spiritual Death for possessing an Old Sin Nature which demands the imputation of Adam's Original Sin culpability to every human being. He then initiates Impersonal – Unconditional Love again with the provision of the mechanics for mankind being able, based on his own personal decisions, to regain a personal relationship with God through Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
Divine Personal Love
Personal Love emphasizes the worthiness and attractiveness of the object, not any aspect of the character of the subject, therefore, God’s perfect Personal Love can only have as its object Absolute Perfect Righteousness, the only source of which is Divine Righteousness. This is the basis for God’s Personal Love toward the others in the trinity. All three persons in the Trinity possesses divine Personal Love toward each other, therefore, each Loves the Perfect Righteousness of the other two members of the Trinity, since all three possess co-infinite, coequal, and coeternal Absolute Righteousness. So God’s Personal Love is always directed toward Perfect Righteousness. In Personal Love, it is the virtue, attractiveness or compatibility of the object which is emphasized.
At the point of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, the individual becomes the object of God’s Personal Love because he receives from God the judicial imputation of God’s own
Divine Righteousness. The Personal Love of God can only Love perfect righteousness therefore, God has personal rapport Love for believers ONLY because they have received from God the
imputation of His Absolute Righteousness at the point their making the personal choices for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. As a Result of this imputation by God, He can now Love the believer with a Personal Conditional Love. (Eph 1:5, Eph 2:4, Eph 2:7, Eph 2:10) Since God the Father’s Absolute Righteousness is imputed to the new believer at the moment of his making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, and because God the Son’s Righteousness is shared as a result of Positional Sanctification through the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit, believers in the Church Age have a double portion of God’s Righteousness. This also results in the believer becoming part of the Royal Family of God. Therefore, the possession of the Absolute Righteousness of God means three things for the believer: • Justification: being proclaimed Justified by God, at the moment of Salvation Adjustment
to the Justice of God.
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• Becoming the object of God’s Personal Love after salvation.
• Being guaranteed to be sustained by logistical grace support for his entire lifetime which comes from the Justice of God to the imputed Righteousness of God in him.
The Love of God & Protocol Plan of God
The motivation in the attributes of God for the unique spiritual life of the Church Age is the Love of God which directs the Righteousness of God as the Point of Reference for the believer’s functions in that Spiritual Life. ‘Reference’ means:
• To direct or focus attention onto something important, something of personal interest.
• Recourse for the purpose of information.
• To endorse a person or course of action.
The Love of God causes the Standards and Values of the Righteousness of God to establish the parameters of the Unique Spiritual Life of the Church Age and present this information to the believer to endorse his course of action to execute the Protocol Plan of God to the tactical victory of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. The point of reference motivated by the Love of God from the Righteousness of God directs the believer’s attention to something important, Bible Doctrine especially the priorities and mandates of God for the postsalvation spiritual life of the Church Age believer. The Motivation from the Love of God causes the point of reference from the Righteousness of God to provide something of personal interest for the Christian, New Testament Mystery Bible doctrine. Point of reference means recourse or access to the infallible word of God from accurate Bible teaching for the purpose of information about the unique spiritual life of the Church Age. The point of reference endorses a course of action related to Motivational Virtue
and Functional Virtue derived from a saturation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul from consistent function within the Divine Dynasphere, the Power System of God. The motivation for all of this is the Love of God, the sponsor of the greatest life that ever can exist. Since in the attributes of God the Love of God is the motivation for the postsalvation spiritual life, it is imperative that the Love of God be involved in punishment when the believer chooses to violate the standards and values of the Point of Reference with God and to become sinful and leave the Plan of God. It is also imperative that the Love of God be involved in his blessing when he adheres to these standards and values and advances in the Spiritual Life. Whether the believer is sinful or spiritual God’s Personal Love for him does not ever change. The Personal Love of God is the motivation of God which must pass the regulation of the Righteousness of God in order to engage in the desired functions through the Justice of God.
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It was the deliberate contention of Lucifer during the Angelic Conflict Trial for his revolution against God, because he refused to take responsibility for his own bad decisions, that the Love of God was not working with the Righteousness of God and Justice of God in judging him for his revolution against God. In the Angelic Conflict Trial of Satan in Eternity Past, Satan, not wanting the fulfillment of his condemnation to the Lake of Fire, impugned the Character of God by inferring that God was condemning him and all fallen angels using the Righteousness of God and Justice of God but not involving the Love of God and if he were actually a God of Love he would not and could not condemn his creatures to the Lake of Fire. God agreed to allow this appeal to provide a clear DEMONSTRATION to Satan and all of angelic creation that even though his Love is always in effect it is always limited by His Absolute Righteousness and though Love motivates God that motivation must always comply with what the Standards and
Values of the Righteousness of God demand or accept so that the Justice of God can then
provide toward his creatures.
Since divine Integrity is maintained by the Sovereignty of God plus His incorruptible, Immutable, Infinite, Unchanging Virtue, God’s Love can never be compromised or compromise
the Essence of God in any way nor have its capacity diminished or limited. Therefore, the creatures sinfulness and failure cannot, and does not, change or effect God’s perfect, eternal, immutable Love for him. However, the motivated function by the Love of God through the
Justice of God based on the standards and values of the Righteousness of God will definitely change according to the status quo of the Creature in question. Leaving the Plan of God for the Plan of Satan causes the Love of God, which desires all members of the Human Race to
acquire Eternal Salvation and maximum blessing in time and eternity, to authorize the necessary Divine Discipline to try to motivate this individual to return to the Plan of God.
Therefore, even the Divine Discipline one receives is from His Love. Consequently the contention of Satan is proven false in the life of every individual believer and the combination of God’s perfect Righteousness and Immutability indicates that divine Love is eternally consistent in its function in coordination with all aspects of the Essence of God.
This is illustrated by the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the Cross for all human sins. Christ received the judicial imputation of and was judged for ALL the sins of the entire Human Race without any compromise of divine Essence. As a result of his Substitutionary Spiritual Death as universal payment for All human sins the entire human race is benefited by having the POTENTIAL for Eternal Salvation, and this is a clear demonstration of the Love of God the Father working in coordination with His Righteousness and Justice to Page #282 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents solve the problem of the universal Spiritual Death of mankind. The issue in eternal salvation is nonmeritorious faith because the Love of God has provided all of the salvation work and
mankind is only required to accept that gift freely. At the cross and whenever the believer is involved in sinfulness, Divine Love connected with the Justice of God motivates the provision of punitive action, but this does not change the Love behind that punitive action.
The Love of God & Grace
The motive behind Grace is Love. But God’s Grace motivated by His Love cannot come
through the “Grace Pipeline” to man until Absolute Righteousness and Absolute Justice have been satisfied. When The Lord Jesus, The Christ received the judicial imputation of all human sins, He was perfect Righteousness in His humanity having never sinned or violated any divine standard. That satisfied the Righteousness of God as a barrier between man and God. When the Father Judged Jesus for all of mankind’s sins, and accepted the payment of his Substitutionary Spiritual Death, the that satisfied the Justice of God and the barrier of Justice was removed. Now the Love of God can motivate the flow of Grace provisions through the “Grace Pipeline” to the regenerate individual because the Righteousness of God and Justice of God have been satisfied by the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for one’s sins, which the individual has freely accepted as a GIFT from God, thus removing them as an impediment to this Love function. Therefore, man can only meet the Love of God at the cross where he must choose to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone for his personal sins. THEN and only then can the 40 assets from God including the Personal Love of God and Eternal Life come through the Grace pipeline to this new believer. Then, those who appropriate, freely accept, this Grace gift from God in salvation cannot ever be separated from the Love of God. (Rom 8:38-39) The Love of God toward Grace Policy
This can be classified as ‘anthropopathic’ Love. In Rom 9:13, God’s attitude here describes the difference in divine policy toward a believer and unbeliever. Both the concepts of human love and human hatred are used as anthropopathisms. God doesn’t Love nor hate, which is a sin, in the human sense of the terms. God “Loved” Jacob in the sense of perpetuating the new racial species of Israel through Jacob the younger rather than through Esau the elder because Jacob was perpetuating the Spiritual Life first embraced by Abraham and Esau remained as an unbeliever rejecting the Gospel of Christ.
Summary of the Love of God
The principle regarding the Love of God is that Divine Personal Love can be directed only
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toward perfection. In its internal sense, Love does not take an object; God Loves His own Integrity. But in its external sense, the Love of God goes toward the other two members of the Godhead, and toward perfect righteousness wherever it may exist. Nothing imperfect can come from perfect God; therefore, the man and the woman came under motivation from the divine attribute of Love for blessing because they had not violated any divine standards or values.
Everything man received in the garden had come via the motivation from the Love of God
which was acceptable to the Righteousness of God through the Justice of God ONLY for blessing. In Love, God was motivated to provide the trees “good to the sight” as stimulation for their souls, and the trees “good for food” as delicious sustenance for their bodies. (Gen 2:9) Because Adam and the woman were created as adults who did not have to grow up, the Love of God motivated the Righteousness of God to cause the Justice of God to supply them with
instantaneous capacity of soul to appreciate their lives in the Garden which they acquired simply by eating the fruit from the Tree of Lives. This required a volitional choice to remain in and function under the Grace Plan of God for their lives in the garden.
All the blessings of the Garden came from the motivation of the Love of God, but there were several things Adam and the woman did not have. There was no function from the Justice of God for discipline or punishment because man had not violated any of the standards or values of the Righteousness of God. As perfect individuals, still sinless, the first two human beings offered no compromise to the character of God thus the Justice of God only functioned as their Point of Contact with God to provide blessing to them. As the guardian of Divine Essence, the Justice of God was not authorized to punish man because he had not violated the standards and values of the Righteousness of God. Therefore, the Justice of God was free to provide for them strictly based on the motivation of the Love of God for blessings.
Only one reference to the standards of the Righteousness of God and the Justice of God
regarding the potential for condemnation and Divine Discipline existed in the Garden. This was a warning that the Righteousness of God would restrict the Love of God motivation for functions of the Justice of God which would then become their point of contact for judgment and the condemnation of Divine Discipline IF they ate from the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In contrast to the Tree of Lives, which gave man and woman an opportunity to express their positive volition toward and appreciation for God’s plan and provision, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil embodied Satan’s plan and was chosen by God an an appropriate test for this Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. With regard to the statement of “Good and Evil” the connective use of “and” is not a contrast; it is a link between similar concepts. “Good and Evil” was, and still is, the sum total of Satan’s policy for ruling the world and for proving himself to be as capable as God in handling creation; to eat from this tree was to acquiesce to and accept this plan of Satan. Ish and Ishah were created perfect and were insulated from the spiritual warfare which already had been raging for an unrevealed length of time in the created universe, and which in fact was being waged unseen all around them. They would continue to be protected from Satan’s influence as long as they stayed on positive volition toward God and the Bible Doctrine principles taught them by The Lord Jesus, The Christ in the garden in the “cool of the evenings”.
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A principle is revealed which indicates that Integrity is required for effective Personal Love.
Man lived under the Motivation of the Love of God for blessing in the Garden because he did not violate any standards of the Righteousness of God, but there are some things that even perfect Personal Love cannot do. It cannot maintain motivation for blessing and provide Eternal Life because there is no permanence in a relationship based solely upon Personal Love.
God's Personal Love, like all His attributes, is Immutable, Eternal and Perfect; but man, with his free will could change at any moment and become imperfect by violating the standards and values of the Righteousness of God and thereby no longer be able to be the object of the
Personal Love of God. All man had to do in the garden was eat the forbidden fruit, which he did. God’s Love could not guarantee that man would never sin, and therefore God’s Love
could not guarantee that man would be qualified to live with Him forever. Today, the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, with his Point of Reference being the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God and the Point of Contact being the Justice of God for BOTH blessing and cursing, has the tremendous blessing of Eternal Security because of his personal decision to make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. This is HIS decision to move under this motivation of the Love of God based on his compliance with the standards and values of the Righteousness of God so that the Justice of God could provide for him the
blessings of Eternal salvation. At this point he became the object of both the Personal Love of God as well as the Impersonal – Unconditional Love of God who provided according to the
principles of GRACE all that was needed for him to have Eternal Life and Eternal Security
without regard to his character or condition. He thus becomes a member of the Royal Family of God forever, and nothing, not even God Himself, can remove him from his position in
Christ. (Rom 8:32) In fact, he has more than eternal security, also temporal security, so that when he chooses to effectively use his Logistical Grace provisions from God and reaches spiritual maturity, he then comes under complete security for the Escrow Super – Grace blessings he receives from the Justice of God God in time.
Every day when the Lord came to the Garden at sundown, He provided all the Bible Doctrine
that Adam and the woman needed; He repeated the prohibition each day and warned them of
the results of disobedience. And if the original parents had gone through that particular day without violating His Norms and Standards and Scale of Values, He renewed the contract with them for another twenty four hours, never more, never less. In perfection, man was given one day at a time. (Gen. 2:17) Love was unable to motivate the Righteousness of God and Justice of God provide Ish and the woman with Eternal Security based on their functions because they possessed VOLITION, but moreover, it was unable to stabilize them and their volition even for one day at a time. Divine Love provided Bible Doctrine, and Bible Doctrine does sustain, but divine Love itself cannot sustain even perfect man in the face of temptation. Therefore, in Human History for all of the Human Race, Human volition is the sustainer or the spoiler.
When the woman was tempted, she failed to resist the subtleties of Satan because sometime
between her creation and her fall she had developed arrogance and lost respect for authority.
She had rejected all authority but her own; instead of responding, she had begun to react.
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as though he were an old friend. She should have recognized Satan’s cynical innuendos as being anti-doctrinal and immediately told Adam. But she did not because she had rejected her husband’s authority. Adam was not the only authority over her which she had rejected. The other Authority designed to protect her was the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible doctrine that He communicated. Even though she had been attending Bible class every evening, she had stopped concentrating. She apparently resented the Lord’s teaching, especially His prohibition of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The woman’s rejection of the Lord’s authority was clearly demonstrated in her conversation with Satan; she leapt at the prospect of becoming smarter than Ish and as smart as God. Furthermore, given an opportunity to comment on a point of doctrine (Satan was flattering her by asking), she gave a wrong and distorted interpretation. Christ had taught her, “thou shalt not eat of it,” but in her vanity she added to the Word of God by saying “I cannot eat or touch the forbidden fruit”. She added to the truth by suggesting that the tree was somehow poisonous, which it was not. She evidently believed that it was, however, for after taking the fruit from the tree she carried it around as if to mock the Lord and then deliberately ate the fruit. If her soul had been saturated with doctrine, she would have been impervious to Satan’s flattery, but instead, her soul was filled with vanity which actually drew in Satan’s false compliments! She was deceived by being flattered. Her vanity was not sinful because the only sin, violation of the standards of God, possible in the Garden was disobedience to the divine prohibition. But she set herself up for the Fall by rejecting every authority designed to protect her. She cast aside the awe and respect which holds together true Love. Wanting to be a “free spirit,” she ended up with her Human Spirit completely freed from her life and found herself spiritually dead.
Throughout her temptation by the serpent, the woman’s point of reference with God, who was motivated by His perfect Love, was His attribute of Absolute Righteousness so that the Justice of God was only required to provide blessing. Why could the Love of God not sustain her in the crisis? The Love of God can only motivate the Essence of God based on the creature’s acceptance or rejection of the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God. The Love of God can only motivate to bless through the function of the Justice of God when the object adheres to the Righteousness of God. When the object violates the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God then the Love of God motivates the Justice of God to engage in correcting this aberrance by providing adversity or pressure in some way. The Love of God motivated the Righteousness of God to activate the Justice of God to provide Bible Doctrine for them in the Garden, but where negative volition rejected the authority of the Word of God, Love was only able to motivate corrective measures for that behavior. The Justice of God is free to bless or punish based on the motivation of the Love of God and adherence or rejection of the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of the Righteousness of God. Let’s fact it, in reality, PUNISHMENT from Justice is a much stronger motivator to resist temptation than is blessing. Love, to provide motivation for blessing required Adam’s and the woman’s consistent positive volition regarding the standards and values of the Righteousness of God, established for them ONLY as the prohibition of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. While the Love of God can motivate for cursing or discipline when one is under Negative Volition the Justice of God can function equally well toward positive volition, toward believer or unbeliever, for blessing. Love, is helpless to provide Page #286 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
blessing toward man after the Fall until and unless his volition becomes compliant with the Righteousness of God. Love can only motivate the Righteousness of God to engage functions of the Justice of God based on compatibility with the results of the VOLITIONAL choices of man.
For all believers in Human History the Love of God FOLLOWS the standards and values of the Righteousness of God. The Righteousness of God provides the standards and values of the CAPACITY for Love in God, eternally and infinitely, and requires equivalent Righteousness as its object. Therefore the Personal Love of God follows a specific course from the Absolute Righteousness in Him to the Righteousness of God imputed to the believer at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. The ONLY reason God can ever Love believers with Personal Love is because He has given the believer His Absolute Righteousness. The truly amazing thing is that GOD has the same Impersonal – Unconditional Love for every Christian whether he is advancing or retrogressing, spiritual or carnal, saturated with Evil or saturated with Bible Doctrine from functioning under GRACE. Therefore, what the Love of God wants for man the Righteousness of God must approve so that the Justice of God can provide it. The Love of God is Impersonal or Unconditional FROM the Integrity of God toward all believers because all
possess the identical Righteousness of God and this results in his OBLIGATION to provide
Logistical Grace as lifetime support. The fact is that the Love of God is only the MOTIVE and never the source of anything, blessing or cursing, from God; while the Justice of God is the ONLY SOURCE from God, and the Righteousness of God encompasses all the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values to which both are subject. The Love of God is PERSONAL
toward those believers like Abraham who become winners in the Power System of God by
attaining Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and it ONLY motivates the Justice of God in compliance with the Righteousness of God to provide for these believers ONLY, Escrow Super
– Grace blessings. These are the believers who use their own volition and are persistent in the execution of the Protocol Plan of God and conform to the function of The Lord Jesus, The Christ as he was described on the Mt. of Transfiguration by GOD to Peter.
Impersonal – Unconditional Love from the Integrity of God is the only Love of God that is
directed toward the unbeliever who lacks the Righteousness of God imputed at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God and this is what motivated God to provide the mechanics for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. The Love of God is Impersonal – Unconditional Love from the Integrity of God toward all believers in the provision of Logistical Grace support after Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, interim GRACE after death and the Resurrection Body after the resurrection of each dispensation of believers. This Interim Grace provision does not differentiate between the believer who dies under Dying Grace Blessings or the Divine Discipline of the Sin Unto Death. Therefore, at the very point of physical death the Human Soul and Human Spirit of the believer leave the human body and enter an interim body and this reflects the principle of God’s Impersonal – Unconditional Love from the Integrity of God. God gives the same interim body to every believer after their physical death to LOSERS
who fail to live the Spiritual Life as well as WINNERS who succeed in living and completely executing the Spiritual Life. Therefore, God is as gracious toward the LOSER as he is toward the WINNER believer and when the rapture occurs every believer also receives a resurrection body.
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There are 3 places where God discerns but does not discriminate:
• At Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God with the provision of 40 assets including
Eternal Life.
◦ Logistical Grace begins at this point and its origin is the Justice of God and the
recipient is the Righteousness of God imputed to the new believer at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God
◦ This goes to ALL believers for their ENTIRE life no matter their personal status quo in
the Spiritual Life.
• At physical death the provision of an Interim Body and Interim Blessing in the presence
of the Lord.
• AT the Resurrection ALL believers, winners or losers, receive the Resurrection Body for
their Eternal Life with God.
The Love of God is PERSONAL Love in the provision of temporal and eternal Escrow Super or
Ultra Super – Grace and Surpassing – Grace blessings and rewards to the WINNER believer who completes execution of the Protocol Plan of God in his lifetime and minor blessings to any believer who advances in the Spiritual Life. The Impersonal – Unconditional Love from the Integrity of God is NON-discriminating. So the believer is mandated, in his Royal Priesthood and Royal Ambassadorship, to function under Impersonal – Unconditional Love based on HIS
OWN Integrity. Impersonal – Unconditional Love must be directed toward ALL, whether they
are attractive or unattractive, whether they hate you or love you because it emphasizes the Virtue and Integrity of the subject never the attractiveness or lack of it in the Object. The Love of God as personal Love comes to us from the moment of Salvation Adjustment to the
Justice of God and continues on forever. This Love perpetually exists as a result of God giving to us his Absolute Righteousness at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. The believer cannot lose the imputed Righteousness of God therefore he cannot lose the Personal Love of God nor his eternal salvation though he may fail God in many ways. (Heb 12:6) Page #288 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents The Veracity of God
Definition
Veracity is the quality of being true or the habit of telling the truth; it is truthfulness or honesty, especially when consistent or habitual. Veracity also connotes precision or accuracy and something true, a truth.
Veracity & Deity
Veracity means that God is absolute truth and the sum total of divine Veracity revealed to the human race is bound up in the canon of Scripture. Before the Canon of the Bible was
completed, God’s Veracity was revealed in various ways:
• He spoke verbally to the recipients (Gen 17:1-2; Heb 6:17-18)
• He sent angels to teach
• He used prophets, priests, and other human communicators which he taught by the 1st 2
means
Veracity (Ps 33:4, Heb 6:18, Num 23:19) explains God AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Therefore, God honors the Absolute Truths he has revealed to man through Bible Doctrine when it is resident in the soul of the believer. This is one of the great principles to be derived from an understanding of the divine attributes of God. God is Truth as one of his attributes, therefore, He must honor Truth resident in the Believer’s soul. God vindicates and honors His Word wherever it is found so that a saturation of Metabolized Bible Doctrine into the soul of the believer results in Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God or a completed relationship with the Integrity of God. At the point of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God the new believer receives the Judicial Grace Imputation of the Righteousness of God to provide a Target for functions from the Justice of God. If he uses his time in this life properly and accumulates a saturation level of Metabolized Bible Doctrine into the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of his Soul he has accumulated the THINKING OF CHRIST (1Cor 2:16) which is tantamount to the principles regulating and forming the Justice of God. This completes his relationship to the Integrity of God by allowing the Love of God to direct incredible benefit and blessing to him.
However, now that the canon of Scripture is completed, God speaks only through His written word, the Old Testament Scripture and New Testament Scripture bible. The divine decree, through which God established the existence of every detail of reality, is based on all the attributes of who and what He is, which He has objectively revealed in the written canon of Scripture. God’s Veracity guarantees His absolute freedom from compromise, contradiction, or falsehood in all He thinks, says, or does. (Deut 32:4)
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racity, God is perfectly rational and totally logical. Divine Veracity is not merely Truth toward other persons, but God is and must be true to Himself, His own essence, His character. Man says, “I speak the truth,” but God says, “I am the truth”. (John 14:6, Ps 12:6) God does not acquire the truth, He is the truth from eternity past. Within God every truth in every form of knowledge dwells in absoluteness. The application of all of this is that in reality, when functioning objectively, there ARE absolutes not just relatives. This accounts for the absolute dogmatism of the Bible Doctrine of the Word of God which guarantees the genuineness of divine revelation. (Deut 32:4, 1John 5:20, John 6:32, John 15:1, Heb 8:2) Bible Doctrine, Absolute Truth, is the expression of the Integrity of God and it is directed toward Himself and in part revealed to mankind. God’s Veracity is clearly evident in His words (John 8:45-46), in His works (Ps 33:4), and in His functions (Rev 15:3). Therefore, God does not and cannot compromise with what He says in all His revelations, including His mandates, promises, and warnings. The Veracity of God the Father is affirmed by God the Son. (John 7:28, John 17:3, John 14:6, 1John 5:7) God’s Truth is therefore first directed toward Himself and then revealed to us through the varied mechanisms God has used in the past to enlighten man and now
ONLY through the written canon of scripture. God is Absolute Truth because He cannot ever be unfaithful or untruthful to Himself.
If God has made a promise, His Veracity must be satisfied, God cannot fail to fulfill that obligation, therefore, God will ALWAYS keep His promise and fulfill every facet of His word.
Having made a promise to Abram veracity had to be satisfied and God could not back out of
the obligation of his promise. The ritual of Circumcision was simply a recognition by Abram of the fact that even though he was completely sexually dead God could and would revive his
sexual function along with that of Sarah. Therefore Abraham through circumcision having
reached and held the status quo of Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God, became the
father of a new race, and circumcision was the sign of his Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God NOT ITS CAUSE.
The Relative Attribute of Veracity (Ps 33:4, Heb 6:18, Num 23:19) explains God AS ABSOLUTE
Truth. Therefore, being Truth, God honors the Absolute Truths of Bible Doctrine he has
revealed to man when it is made to be constantly in residence in the soul of the believer. The fact that God is perfect Veracity toward others is a secondary aspect of his character as a relative attribute related to moral beings. The primary fact is that billions and billions of years before any creature existed, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit were each true to Himself and therefore always has had perfect Integrity based on Absolute Truth. God is the Truth from eternity past and the Truth has never been diminished or compromised in Him.
Therefore, God as the Source of Bible Doctrine has provided his Absolute Truth to man because from the Truth that God is comes the Truth He has prepared, presented and preserved for man in the written form of the Canon of Scripture, as Bible Doctrine. Therefore, the characteristic of the perfection of divine Veracity guarantees that divine revelation in any form, spoken (pre-canon) or written (Canon), is accurate, perfect, and absolute. (Deut 32:4, 1John 5:20, John 6:32, Heb 8:2) Page #290 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
God provides real options and opportunities so that man has genuine freedom of choice. God’s Veracity guarantees that any divine offer is legitimate. Because God IS truth, if He made an
“offer” to the Jews and held them responsible for their decision (Luke 13:34-35), however, if no genuine option existed, He would be violating His Veracity and Righteousness. Veracity is the TRUTH of God’s thinking, Immutability means this thinking cannot change and is perfect and 1Cor 2:16 tells us that Bible Doctrine is the thinking of Christ. Therefore Bible Doctrine becomes the confidence of the believer IF he will learn it and then apply it to his life. It is the Veracity and Immutability of God which guarantee ALL of His revelations including ALL of his promises. Because God IS Truth and can only tell the truth, lies are an insult to the Veracity of God. Therefore, it becomes clear that the principles of EVIL, which are Lies directed toward the GRACE Plan of God in the attempt to prevent completion of the DEMONSTRATION of God and fulfillment of the sentence on Satan to the Lake of Fire, are completely incompatible with the GRACE and Veracity of God and unacceptable to the Integrity of God. Because God is Absolute Veracity, Absolute Truth, He can only reveal Himself in terms of truth, therefore, Bible Doctrine IS Absolute Truth. God’s being Infinite includes His Veracity, His Absolute Truth, therefore, the application of God’s truth, Bible Doctrine, to one’s life causes him to grow spiritually.
Veracity & History
Therefore, Bible Doctrine is absolute truth while the facts of history are true but not necessarily truth. The facts of history at any given time may be the function of man under the influence of Evil to produce sin, crime, Human Good, deception, lies, etc., but their occurrence is true.
Lies are told, deception occurs, so while that is true it is not Truth. The Doctrines of the Word of God ARE Absolute Truth while the facts of history, both good and bad, are simply
true facts. Therefore, true describes the accuracy of the historical events as they come from the reality established by the Divine Decree, while truth is both an Attribute of Eternal and Infinite God and the content of the Bible Doctrine. The source of truth is God, the revelation of it is Bible Doctrine; the source of what is true is history as it unfolds from the Divine Decree established by God. The believer who rightly divides the Word of TRUTH will always distinguish between what is true and what is Absolute Truth.
The administration of the Absolute Truth from God occurs through His Grace policy. The
Veracity of God guarantees both the Absolute Truth of Bible Doctrine and the accuracy of
everything that happens in Human History, both true and false. Therefore, the Absolute Truth which is Bible Doctrine, must be distinguished from the facts of Human History which include both the true and the false. Therefore, Veracity is one of the most important parts of our understanding of what constitutes the Christian way of life. In addition God honors all Truth where it exists and punishes the false in Human History. Only Divine Truth can advance the believer and only the Lies of false doctrine can hinder the advancement of the believer.
Therefore, as a part of His Veracity, God reveals to man the TRUTH of his potential for
Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God to the point of Eternal Life with him and the
Eternal Security that it WILL occur.
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God is Infinite Perfection in Absolute Truth and Faithfulness and that Truth is expressed to man in Bible Doctrine. God honors and vindicates Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the soul of the believer so that with spiritual growth there is increased capacity and incredible blessing.
Therefore, the Christian cannot grow up spiritually by things he does such as witnessing, praying, doing things around the Local Church or in helping others. Beginning at the very moment of one making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, God provides divine Logistical Grace support to the believer for his entire life regardless of how good or bad he may be. This Logistical Grace support is to provide EVERY believer with the Equality of Opportunity and Privilege to engage in consistent Post Salvation Epistemological Rehabilitation as Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine and by this means reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and achieve a Tactical Victory in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. In effect God provides everything a believer needs to move from Spiritual Infancy to Spiritual Maturity and in that process develop the capacity for life which God then rewards with 7 categories of incredible Escrow Super – Grace blessings.
God’s faithfulness is eternally linked to His Veracity which is Absolute Truth. (Deut 32:4) That Veracity is manifest in everything He does, in all of creation. (Ps 86:15, Ps 25:10, Rev 15:3,
Dan 4:37, Ps 33:4, Ps 111:7-8, 1Kings 17:24, Ps 19:9, Ps 119:151, Ps 138:2, John 17:17, 2Cor
6:7, Eph 1:13) Above all else His Veracity is manifest in His Word, Bible Doctrine derived from the Completed Canon of Scripture. (2Sam 7:28, Ps 119:142) Divine Veracity as part of the Essence of God is an expression of the Righteousness of God. (Deut 32:4) The principle is that IF God is to be faithful to us, and HE IS, He must first be Truthful with us. Man therefore, must have all the understandable facts concerning Him as well as mankind in his creation.
Therefore, the sum total of what man can comprehend as divine Veracity to the human race is bound up in the completed Canon of Scripture. Before the Canon of Scripture, the Bible was completed, God’s Veracity was manifested to mankind in various ways. However, now that the Canon of Scripture is completed, God speaks only through His Written Word, the Canonical Bible.
At the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus answered the unbelieving Jews by saying He had come from God the Father who was TRUE. (John 7:28) He prayed that all of mankind would know the
only true God. (John 17:3) Of God the Son, The Lord Jesus, The Christ, John said that Jesus had come in order that man might know God the Father who is TRUE, and the one whom
believers are in union with by the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit, The Lord Jesus, The Christ who is true. (1John 5:20, John 1:14, John 14:6, Rev 19:11) John also said that God the Holy Spirit bears constant witness to the TRUTH of God because He also is Absolute Truth. (1John
5:7, John 14:17, John 15:26, John 16:13) Veracity & Arrogance of Ignorance
The Power System of Satan which begins with the Interlocking System of Arrogance includes the Arrogance of Ignorance which rejects the fact that God is Absolute Truth, Veracity, as an eternal part of His character. Therefore, because God is Absolute Truth, Veracity, He cannot be complicated by ignorance, arrogance, or the resultant absurdities of life. Consequently, Page #292 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents God’s Plan, Will, and Purpose for every believer’s life is related to His Absolute Truth and it is impossible for the believer to execute the Protocol Plan of God and thereby receive the Escrow Super – Grace blessings which glorify God apart from cognition of the Absolute Truth of Bible Doctrine.
The Arrogance of Ignorance results from rejection of Absolute Truth categorically. This is rejection of Divine Truth in 3 categories:
• The Gospel of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for the unbeliever
• Laws of Divine Establishment for both believer and unbeliever
• The entire content of Bible Doctrine for the believer
This rejection eventually builds Scar Tissue of the Soul resulting in strong delusion so that the arrogant one in ignorance can only believe the lie. Because of a rejection of Absolute Truth, these individuals function under Self Righteous Arrogance in prosperity and Self Pity in adversity so that the oscillation between these leads to total instability. Because God is Veracity He cannot be complicated by ignorance or absurdities. Man’s life is constantly complicated by ignorance therefore, it will be complicated by absurdities. Therefore, God makes war against the Arrogance of Ignorance and the Absurdity of any involvement in the Interlocking System of Arrogance. (James 4:4, James 4:6, 1Pet 5:5) Consequently, the Arrogance of Ignorance is the greatest enemy of the Veracity of God. Man’s I.Q. is meaningless unless it is exploited through Spiritual I.Q. in learning Bible Doctrine or Laws of Divine Establishment. Therefore, God gives grace to the humble individual because the humble have learned Bible Doctrine and / or the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions as believer or unbeliever. The Veracity of God means GOD IS TRUTH and this is an eternal part of the Divine Character of God therefore God always makes WAR against that which is not true because it is absurd and Arrogant. Therefore, when under demon influence from residing in the Cosmic Dynasphere systems GOD makes war against both believers and unbelievers.
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God is Eternally present everywhere. (Deut 4:39, Ps 139:8, Prov 15:3, Acts 17:27) The whole of God is in every place. God is the total of His essence, without diffusion, expansion, multiplication, or division, therefore, He penetrates and fills the entire universe and everything beyond the universe to infinity. (Ps 139:7, Jer 23:23-24, Acts 17:27) God is also free to be local as He was with Moses on the mountain. (Ex 19:18-24) He resided in the Holy of Hollies in the Temple as the Shekinah Glory. (Ex 40:34, Lev 16:2). He “became flesh and tabernacled among us” (John 1:14) while at the same time existing throughout all space and beyond all space.
Omnipresence is the term descriptive of space in relationship to God. Immensity is the term descriptive of God’s relationship to space. Since God is the creator of space, if space were defined in boundaries, God would exceed those boundaries to infinity. The conception of God which is sustained by the Scriptures is that He is everywhere present. (Prov 15:3) Such an apprehension is indeed hard for the puny finite human mind to form. God is personally present everywhere. The whole of God is in every place. God, in the total of His essence, is without diffusion, expansion, multiplication, or division, and penetrates and fills the universe.
(Ps 139:7-8, Ps 139:18, Jer 23:23-24, Acts 17:27) God sustains space and time and gives it purpose and value. God sustains the changing realm of succeeding events (Linear Time) and is conscious of every movement and every action of every creature in all of creation and particularly in Human History. Therefore, God is omnipresent and ubiquitous, that is, He is found or exists everywhere. (Is 66:1, Deut 4:39) He is the Sovereign over of both Space and Time and therefore, Human History, which is contained in and delineated by both Space and Time. These things are in reality incomprehensible to man but the fact is that God IS
personally present everywhere at all times. Unfortunately, when man tries to understand the invisible spiritual conflict in which he is engaged during Human History, the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, he often ascribes this ability to Satan and his Fallen Angelic followers TO WHOM
IT DOES NOT APPLY. When they are present here they are not anywhere else. This IS the
fallacy which many deluded individuals apply to Lucifer considering him to be able to be in multiple places at the same time. During the Upper Room discourse, Lucifer was indwelling Judas Iscariot so Jesus WAITED until Judas left the meeting and to go to betray him, and then He explained the coming of the Church Age with its mystery doctrines in his absence. It was not until Lucifer received reports from his fallen angelic followers who were still present in the upper room that he realized the implications of this new dispensation and then INTENSIFIED
his attacks directing them toward every believer and no longer against The Lord Jesus, The Christ who is absent in this dispensation.
God however, is not limited by space or time; He invented both of them and He is immanent
and transcendent of them, but having invented them for man’s existence He recognizes space and time in man’s functions. God’s presence is not limited by time or space because he
created time and space specifically for the DEMONSTRATION of Human History. (1Kings 8:27.
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escape the presence of God (Ps 139:7, Prov 15:3) but this should be comforting for believers to know that He will never leave them nor forsake them. (Heb 13:5, Ps 23:6, Ps 139:8-10) God’s Immanence in relationship to space and time means that God indwells all of space. God’s
Transcendence regarding space and time means that God existed prior to, is exalted above it, and is the inventor of both. (John 14:23, Jer 23:23-24, Acts 17:27)
Omnipresence is expressed in the fact that heaven cannot contain God, that He is actually far, far greater than heaven. (1Kings 8:27, Acts 17:24) He is free to become flesh and dwell among us, John 1:14. The Father is “above all, and through all, and in you all”. (Eph 4:6, Jer 23:24) God the Son is present where two or three are met together unto His name (Matt 18:20, Matt
28:20, Col 1:27). The Spirit, like the Father and the Son, is said to indwell every believer.
(Rom 8:9) The difficulty for the finite mind arises when both revelation and abstract reason assert the ubiquity, or Omnipresence, of God. All other beings known to man, including
angels, are restricted to a given place at a given time. Material things occupy some part of space, but never all of it. Space has been defined as “extension void of matter or body, and capable of receiving or containing matter or body” (Dr. Dick, Theology, 98). It is thus that space exceeds all that it contains. God is the cause of space and is therefore not subject to it.
(1Kings 8:27) God exists beyond spatial limitations. He is Immanent and Transcendent.
Immanence means His entire essence is always present everywhere in nature, in history, in all the affairs of mankind (Jer 23:23-24; Acts 17:27-28). Transcendence means He is independent of the created universe so that no particular place exclusively contains Him (Ps 113:5-6, Is 55:8-
9, John 8:23). Immanence and Transcendence exist in balance, so that (Is 6:3), His whole being is present in every point in the universe, while at the same time He is “holy” and “lofty and exalted” infinitely beyond the universe. (Is 6:1, Is 6:3) He pervades the universe, while at the same time He is free to be in a specific location such as: •
Giving the Law to Moses (Deut 4:10)
•
As a Theophany (Gen 18:1, E x 3 :2-6 , Num 14:10, 1Kings 8:10-11, John 12:37-
•
As the incarnate person of Jesus Christ (John 1:14)
•
Indwelling of the believer (John 14:20, John 14:23, 2Cor 6:16).
Therefore, Omnipresence assures mankind that no believer will ever be alone. (Heb 13:5) God the Father fills heaven and earth. (Jer 23:23-24) God the Son who is in the Father and in the believer (John 14:20 Col 1:27) promises to always be with the believer. (Matt 28:20) God the Holy Spirit indwells all members of the Royal Family of God in this Church Age. (1Cor 6:19) Therefore, the equality of the trinity means that like all characteristics of the Essence of God Omnipresence refers to all three persons of the Trinity. In fact, Jesus Christ, in his deity, holds the universe together. God being omnipresent and Lord of both time and history, therefore, relates to the fact that Jesus Christ controls within the DEMONSTRATION OF GOD, Human History.
Therefore clearly, Omnipresence naturally relates God to the universe where other beings are and as present with them. There are at least three arguments for the divine Immensity and Omnipresence which abstract reason advances:
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• The perfection of God demands that He be present everywhere.
◦ If some place were void of Him, the human mind could conceive of a greater being
who filled all places and thus God would be imperfect to the degree in which He did
not answer the idea of immensity.
◦ To suppose, therefore, God to exist only in one part of the universe, to be in heaven
but not upon earth, to circumscribe his essence within any boundaries however widely
extended, would be to conceive of him as similar to his creatures.
• The very nature of God requires that He be everywhere present.
◦ The exercise of His attributes is not restricted to locality but is ubiquitous, hence, as He is where His attributes are, He is Himself ubiquitous.
• Since God used no mechanism or agents in creation and since all came into being at the
same time, He was present at that time wherever creation took place.
The real danger is that the puny human mind, when attempting to make real the ubiquity of
God, will think of Him as diffused abroad in the sense that only a minute part of Him is
present in a given place, as human life is but partially present in any particular part of the body which it occupies. God, however, is wholly present in every place. If the divine nature is resident in many places, that is not accomplished by diffusion to the end that each may share a small portion of that nature. He is wholly present as fully as though He were nowhere else, Father, Son, and Spirit, in every human temple in which He dwells, and in every part of His dominion. Dr. Samuel Clarke has well said: “That which we can most safely affirm, and which no atheist can say is absurd, and which nevertheless is sufficient to all wise and good purposes, is this; that whereas all finite and created beings can be present but in one definite place at once, and corporeal beings even in that one place very imperfectly and unequally, to any purpose of power and activity, only by the successive motion of different members and organs; the Supreme Cause, on the contrary, being an infinite and most simple essence, and comprehending all things perfectly in himself, is at all times equally present, both in his simple essence, and by the immediate and perfect exercise of all his attributes, to every point of his boundless immensity, as if it were really all but one single point” (Samuel Clarke, Discourse on Being and Attributes, p. 46, cited by Dick, ibid., p. 100).
Consequently, it is in no way reasonable for the finite mind to suppose that it can understand the divine mode of Omnipresence. (Ps 139:6) The Scriptures abound with declarations regarding the divine ubiquity. (Ps 139:7-12, Amos 9:2) To reasonable men, the Omnipresence of God becomes a power to restrain the impulse to wrong action. (Gen 16:13) With similar effectiveness, the Omnipresence of God is an indispensable consolation to the ones having received his Perfect Righteousness. The point is that man cannot go where God is not! To the righteous, honorable man in every place and at all times he may meet a friend, a protector, and a supporter. The voice of thunder, the raging of the ocean, the fury of the tempest all announce his presence. The believer in The Lord Jesus, The Christ therefore has nothing to fear of anything in this life because the Love of God for them presides over the commotions of the elements. They readily perceive Him in the more tranquil scenes of nature, in the silent progress of vegetation, in the smiles of the skies and clouds of the heavens, and in the regular logistical provisions which supply their returning needs, and diffuses much happiness among all Page #296 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents classes of animated beings! The thought that He, God, in whom they repose absolute confidence, is so near that they may always assure themselves of ready and effectual aid is delightful! It is these thoughts which are fitted to enliven every scene, to sweeten every condition, to make the springs of joy burst out in the parched and thirsty wilderness, to clothe the naked and cheerless waste, to give a relish to a dry morsel and a cup of cold water. It will lighten the pressure of poverty, and soothe the pangs of affliction. It will dissipate the horrors of prison and console the exile from his country and his friends. The believer may LOSE all the details of life but NO ONE, no friend or enemy can ever succeed in causing him to think or complain that they have taken away his God. (Ps 73:23-24) Omnipresence vs Pantheism
Omnipresence is not pantheism, since pantheism denies the existence of the life and personality of God. Pantheism says God is in every object and this is a false doctrine. God the Son, The Deity of the Lord Jesus, The Christ, being present at all times, in all places, (Jer 23:24) creating and sustaining both time and space, also maintains them. While the humanity of Christ was an infant in a cradle, the Deity of Christ was maintaining time and space.
Therefore, divine Omnipresence is God being both in space and in time, and also totally outside of, above, and superior to space and time. Having created space, space is subject to God, therefore ALL scientific discoveries about Space and its consistent functions form into DIVINE
LAWS not Scientific Laws.
Omnipresence & Creation of Man
The Omnipresence of God provides Him with the availability to create soul life and human life outside the mothers womb on the occasion of every physical birth in the human race. Every individual is the beneficiary of two creative acts of God:
• The creation of soul life
• The imputation of that soul life to the biological life of a fetus creating Human Life.
As a part of his Omnipresence God fills space and time with creative acts. The Omniscience of God in divine fiat plus the Omnipresence of God (present at all times in all places) plus the Omnipotence of God which has created and continually sustains time and space, therefore,
creates the individual at the very point of his physical birth. The human zygote or fetus cannot determine that a human being will come into existence; because the zygote or fetus in the mothers womb is not a union of immortal soul and the Biological Life of corporeal matter.
Whether the zygote or fetus eventuates in a human being or NOT, is determined by forces
outside the zygote and its informational capacity, which in fact is ZERO, and these forces include:
• The Sovereignty of God
• The Omniscience of God
• The Omnipotence of God
• The Omnipresence of God.
• The Love of God
• The Justice of God
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In eternity past God the Father when He devised his plan for creation, knew about the circumstances of this generation. God is perfect in His essence, and because He is perfect essence He devised a perfect plan. His Omnipresence in this generation in time means He is right here, He always knows what is going on because he is a witness to it. Omnipresence means He is personally here, an eyewitness to every activity of each and every individual life and of all angelic history and Human History which in fact is his DEMONSTRATION to angelic creation of the consistency of function of his Essence.
The Omnipresence of God is one of the factors that made it impossible for Jesus Christ to go to the cross as God. Deity cannot reduce itself to one place; therefore, He had to become true humanity in order to be crucified. When Jesus Christ received the imputation and subsequent judgment for all human sins He did not do so in His Deity but in His own HUMAN body. (1Pet
2:24) All 3 members of the Trinity have Coequal and Coeternal Omnipresence; God the Father (2Chron 2:6), God the Son (Matt 28:20, Eph 1:23), God the Holy Spirit. (Ps 139:7) Therefore, Heathenism is a choice because in His Omnipresence God is always everywhere; He therefore overlooks no one who desires a relationship with him. (2Chron 16:9, Ps 34:15) With regard to Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, His Omnipresence is not an issue, except that He witnesses man’s failures, and has known them from Eternity Past and still provided soul life for him at his physical birth and a mechanism to enable man to acquire forgiveness and a relationship with Him. Jesus Christ is a personal witness, God the Father is a personal witness, and God the Holy Spirit is a personal witness to anything that any person may think, say or do, and therefore, there is no way that any member of the Godhead can be deceived.
Being Omnipresence God has overlooked no detail of any situation of pressure or prosperity, and His comfort is as near as Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul of the individual Christian.
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Definition
• Omniscience is God’s objective knowledge of the universe and all the self conscious
creatures in it, angelic and human.
◦ Omniscience is not all the knowledge of God but is one category only.
• Omniscience refers to creatures and His creation.
All God’s knowledge about creatures has always existed and God has always known everything about every creature that has ever existed or ever will exist. Since God is infinite this knowledge is without regard to time or space or any other limitation. Omniscience, in dealing with the universe and with creatures knows everything that has ever happened since creatures existed and everything which will ever happen. The Omniscience of God is outside of the self knowledge of God.
Omniscience, an English word is derived from two Latin words: ‘omnis’, meaning “all” and
‘sciens’, meaning “knowing” therefore it means “all-knowing”. Omniscience (Ps 139) can be classified in three ways:
• Eternal
◦ God is eternal life and being omniscient, He has all knowledge, has always known
everything. (Acts 15:18, John 21:17)
• Comprehensible
◦ Many Infinite things which are incomprehensible to the puny finite mind of man are
clearly comprehensible to God.
▪ The Bible reveals only a small fraction of God’s knowledge, only that which man
is to some extent capable of understanding. (Rom 11:33)
• Wise
◦ Total knowledge as well as total wisdom belong to God’s Omniscience. (Eph 3:10,
1Sam 16:7, Ps 44:21, Ps 147:5, Prov 3:19, Prov 5:21, Prov 17:3, Is 40:13-14, Jer
17:10, Jer 51:15, Nah 1:7, Matt 6:18, Rom 8:27, Rom 11:33)
▪ Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge and experience to make good decisions
and sound judgments based on what has been learned and from experience, or
from the knowledge and understanding that gives this ability.
Omniscience is the second category of God’s knowledge and it has two facts:
• Omniscience knew every thought, every motive, ever decision, every action of every
person who ever lived and how it relates to the thoughts, actions motives, decisions of
every other person.
• Omniscience also knows the alternatives, the things that could have happened and did
not happen.
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God is wise; He has perfect wisdom because he has Absolute, Infinite, Perfect Knowledge of all that is knowable, whether actual or merely possible. There never was a point in his existence when He did not know everything that is knowable. Moreover, God never learns anything
because He has always known everything; He knows the end from the beginning (Ps 33:13-15,
Ps 139:1-4, Ps 147:5, Prov 15:3, Is 36:9-10; Is 44:28, Mal 3:16, Matt 6:8, Matt 10:29-30, Acts
15:8, Heb 4:3, Heb 4:13, 1John 3:20). He knows firsthand every believer’s weaknesses, problems and circumstances and He has personally provided the solutions to these back before creation in Eternity Past.
Every detail of all creation and all of Human History is in God’s mind at all times and always has been from eternity past. (1John 3:20) This is God’s mentality connected with His Infinity.
Time has nothing to do with God’s knowledge, therefore, Omniscience means that the future is as perspicuous to God as the past regarding his creation. In fact, God foreknows the future, having Decreed it from his Omniscience as a result of His knowing what would actually happen, in order that it WOULD BE UNCHANGEABLE REALITY. Therefore, all events are assured to take place according to His Divine Decree, so that He foreknows, but His foreknowledge is not predetermination but an understanding of what he KNEW would actually
happen, so that he has put these things as REALITY into the Divine Decree. He knows every step every individual will ever take, every motivation, thought, decision and action of every creature ever created, but He never interferes with the free will volition which he has freely given to all moral creatures. That is his GRACE Plan in action. Although He never interferes with freewill, God is gracious and all-wise and therefore does not merely sit on the sidelines.
He may guide which choice should be made through His gracious influence, through Bible
doctrine resident in the soul of the believer or through His control of the variables of life that are beyond human control, very often erroneously called “fate” or “luck”. The focus of this chapter will be the Omniscience of God but there will be some considerations of the other
categories of the Knowledge of God.
Categories of the Knowledge of God
There are 3 categories of the Knowledge of God
• Self Knowledge – God’s knowledge about God, as Divine Self Esteem, which is infinite
and eternal.
▪ God knows everything about Himself.
▪ God is eternally Himself, and knows Himself to be beyond comparison in His
absolute and eternal knowledge of ALL things, therefore, He never feels threatened
by any blasphemy ever uttered by a creature, angelic or human.
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▪ Each person of the Godhead has infinite and eternal knowledge about Himself as well as the other two persons of the Trinity inasmuch as they have identical
essence, therefore, God is said to be one in essence and 3 in personality.
▪ Each member of the Trinity has perfect subjective knowledge of Himself and all
His attributes of deity, plus how they function in relation to Himself and the other
members of the Godhead.
▪ God’s self-knowledge is His infinite and eternal genius.
• Foreknowledge – God’s knowledge concerning the content of the Divine Decree, the OUTPUT of the Decree as reality in creation and especially Human History.
▪ This is God’s eternal knowledge of the actual thoughts, motives, decisions, and
actions of every creature which ever has been created set into the Divine Decree
as REALITY in creation now concerning the Human Race in Human History.
▪ Specifically for believers but inclusive of all creation, all of God’s knowledge is
simultaneous, therefore, there never was a time in all of eternity when God did
not know everything about each and every believer in Human History.
▪ He knows every thought each believer would have, every motive that would be
formed from those thoughts, every decision he would make from thought or lack
of thought (which is impulsive), and every action which results. (Is 41:6, Is 42:9,
Is 43:9, Is 46:9-10, Acts 2:23, Acts 15:18, 1Pet 1:2)
▪ However, NOTHING was or could be foreknown until it was first Decreed and to
be decreed it must have been known by the Omniscience of God first.
▪ Foreknowledge links man to God in terms of reality and is a means of relating
man to the Plan of God as an individual and thereby provide a sense of security.
▪ The Believer is never lost or forgotten by God and is always in God’s thinking,
therefore, the stupidity of self-pity.
▪ Foreknowledge makes nothing certain, but merely acknowledges what was known
by the Omniscience of God to be certain, the content of the Divine Decree.
• Omniscience – God’s total infinite, eternal and perfect knowledge of everything which
ever has been, is or will be in all of His CREATION and beyond from Eternity Past and
into Eternity Future. (1Sam 2:3, Job 26:6, Job 31:4, Job 34:21, Job 37:16, J ob 42: 1 -2 , Ps
139:1-6, Ps 147:4, Jer 16:17, Ez 11:5, Matt 10:29-30)
▪ Therefore, this is God’s objective knowledge of the universe and all of heaven
outside of the universe, dealing with things outside the sphere of self-knowledge
regarding CREATION.
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▪ This is the source of INPUT into the Divine Decree using ONLY what God KNEW
would occur and would be reality and not what could be or could have been.
▪ Since the Divine Decree establishes unchangeable reality, Omniscience includes all
that is in the Decree plus all that is not part of the Decree.
God is Sovereign. Therefore, His knowledge is superior, it is infinite, eternal, absolute, all encompassing and perfect and in control at all times. God has never lost control of anything.
As the creator, Jesus Christ controls Human History and allows the volition of mankind to take man into situations that are very often very miserable even disastrous to him. No matter how desperate or out of control a situation may be, it is never out of the control of The Lord Jesus, The Christ in heaven. (Historical Trend #1) God gave believers a spiritual life to enable them to understand and apply that fact, and never be out of control of themselves in an uncontrollable situation.
Omniscience is God’s knowledge about His Creation, including both the actual (what really has been, is, or will be) and the potential or possible (what could have or might have happened), therefore, both the cause and effect, the reality and potential, have always been known to God.
Such knowledge in reality transcends human comprehension. Because God, as a person, is
perfect, possesses self-consciousness, self-determination, and absolute and simultaneous knowledge of all things, He is absolutely perfect in His knowledge. God’s knowledge is never irrational in contrast to many people who have knowledge about many things, but are most
often completely irrational, theoretical, and / or speculative. God’s knowledge is absolute and compatible with His eternal nature, His sovereign will, His integrity, and His perfection and all of his other attributes and characteristics.
Because He is immutable, God has never changed; and therefore, God’s knowledge has never
changed God! Because God cannot change He cannot be inaccurate in His knowledge thus,
Divine knowledge is Absolute Truth. However, God is clearly aware of all the changes in His creation and His creatures. His knowledge is never complicated by ignorance, absurdities, or emotional reaction. In man, when his soul is under the control of the emotion, this blocks knowledge out of the soul, however, this does not apply to God who does not have emotion as man can understand it. Some of what is in the Scripture is revelation about Satan, about creatures, and about history. However, in the midst of all this revelation found in the Scripture, though it may be true, there is the Absolute Truth in which God reveals Himself, His Policy of Grace and His Plan, to mankind up to the point of man’s finite understanding limitations. Being Absolute Veracity, Absolute Truth, God cannot lie or deceive regarding what Page #302 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents He knows. Anything which God intended to remain inscrutable to man’s finite mind was not included in the Canon of Scripture. (Deut 29:29) Certainly, no one will or can grasp the doctrinal content of the Bible all at once, because in the mind of man knowledge is built on knowledge; but if he remains consistent in the Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine it can be accomplished, and should be done! Always remember, every book in the Bible was written by a human author who understood what he was recording under the guidance of God the Holy Spirit, therefore, all of it can be understood completely.
God’s knowledge precedes both time and space, it is infinite, without boundaries or limitations, and eternal, therefore, absolute and perfect in all of its aspects. Therefore, long before time and space even existed, God had total, absolute, and complete knowledge about everything that would ever be related to creation along with time and space which, in fact, were created just for God’s DEMONSTRATION, Human History. Therefore, God’s knowledge is not subject to time and space. Omniscience knows all that would have been involved in every case where the individual action, decision or thought might have been different, ALL the Actual and ALL the Possible results. Omniscience does not affect free will and volitional decisions in time. It is merely aware of what volition will think and do before it occurs and wrapped all of this into the Grace Plan of God for His DEMONSTRATION to angelic creation all which in Human History is ultimately designed for man’s benefit.
Omniscience & The Divine Decree
True vs Truth must be distinguished. The the word “true” refers to the facts of history
whereas, “Truth,” refers to the Essence of God. The Essence of God is truth, veracity, and what He has entered into the Divine Decree from His Omniscience in eternity past comes out as True, both as to sequence and interaction. So there is a vast difference between true and truth. The facts of history in any given generation may be based largely on Evil, they may be based to some extent on GRACE, but in both cases they are true events according to what has been put into the Divine Decree. Whatever happens in Human History is true, however, the Bible Doctrine of the Word of God is Absolute Truth. Because Bible Doctrine comes from the Omniscience of God (1Cor 2:16) and is based on the Standards and Values of the Righteousness of God it IS Absolute Truth. Because the facts of history are the results of man’s decisions, motives and functions, they are true but may or may not be based on TRUTH.
Therefore, Man’s destiny is the result of the outworking of his own thinking, his motivation, his decisions, and his actions, all of which God knew simultaneously in eternity past. Man’s volition or self-determination is the immediate cause of his destiny. But God knew in eternity past what his decisions would be and what his thoughts and the motives that preceded the Page #303 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
decisions would be, and what the actions that followed those motivations and decisions would be. That is Omniscience. The Decree of God removes no man from within the sphere of his
own experience which is completely the outworking of his own choices, acting from his own
judgment, based on his own desires, his own motives, his own thoughts and his own circumstances. Whatever free will choice anyone makes on a given occasion in time is, in fact, the execution of the Divine Decree for his life. There are no surprises to the Omniscience of God therefore, no part of the Divine Decree opposes in any way human freedom.
Omniscience and Self Knowledge preceded the divine Decree and Foreknowledge logically follows the Divine Decree. Therefore, the Decrees are the eternal and simultaneous knowledge of Omniscience expressing the Will of God by which all things are brought to being reality and controlled, after all it is HIS DEMONSTRATION, and made subject to His divine pleasure, and result in His eternal glory. Foreordination is also known as Predetermination which is an act of the infinite and eternal Omniscience of God determining the certain futurition of all events related to the believer. God’s Decree did not originate from His Foreknowledge because Foreknowledge is the understanding of the content of the Decree. The logical order of the determination of REALITY for Creation including the DEMONSTRATION of Human History is: Omniscience, Foreordination (the Divine Decree), then Foreknowledge. The Divine Decree makes all things certain, not Foreknowledge.
The Divine Decree of God is the sum total of God’s plan for Creation including the human
race, anticipated through Omniscience in eternity past. It is God’s purpose, relating to all events of every kind, which constitutes one single all comprehensive intention, perceiving all events in Omniscience, the free as free, the necessary as necessary, together with all their causes, conditions and relations, as one indivisible system of things, every link of which is essential to the integrity of the whole. It is His eternal, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be, in their courses, conditions, successions, and relations, and determining their certain futurition. The Divine Decree ensures that EVERYTHING will happen just as God knew it would in eternity past. Therefore, the Divine Decree of God is His Eternal and Immutable Will regarding the future existence of
events which happen in time, and the precise manner and order of their occurrence. It is therefore, the eternal plan by which God has rendered all things certain, including past events, present events, and future events of both human and angelic history. The Omniscience of God has placed in the Divine Decree every person of both the Angelic Race and the human race.
Though placed in the decree simultaneously, they all come into being chronologically since God invented time and space in which the Divine Decree is designed to function. Therefore the Divine Decree is the perception by eternal Omniscience, the eternal purpose of God, the councils of His will and inevitably the promotion of His glory. No matter how many people fail, or how great the saturation with Evil any period may be, it all ends in the completion of History with God being glorified, it is in fact HIS DEMONSTRATION and will END just as he Page #304 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
Omniscience & Foreknowledge
Foreknowledge is more limited in scope than Omniscience. Foreknowledge merely acknowledges the content of the Divine Decree, which in fact are derived from Omniscience, but does not have anything to do with what was not entered into the Decrees. Therefore, God foreknew the function of every free will in every creature which ever has and ever will exist.
(Heb 4:13) The principle is that in human history, the Sovereignty of God and the free will of man coexist by Divine Decree. Therefore, God’s knowledge of the outcome of human volition actually has nothing to do with the actual function of human free will. He simply knew what each person would think, say or do, what he would decide, what his motives would be in every given situation and with this knowledge He created the Grace Policy and Plan for his DEMONSTRATION and He put all of this into the Divine Decree. The point is that NO human
thought, decision or action is ever coerced by God; they come strictly from one’s own free will, therefore individuals must sooner or later wake up to the FACT that they must take total
responsibility for their actions. The Sovereign Will of God desires that every member of the human race make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God and receive Eternal Salvation and subsequently that EVERY believer then reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and
receive his Escrow Super – Grace blessings God provided in Eternity Past. However, the Omniscience of God recognized in Eternity Past that billions of people would not make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by Faith alone in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone and that of those who would MILLIONS would not make the good decisions needed to reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. The Omniscience of God then put these actual decisions of individuals to reject The Lord Jesus, The Christ and to fail to execute the Protocol Plan of God, into the Divine Decree as the reality of their own CHOICES. This clearly indicates that the Divine Decree contains the actual thoughts, motives and DECISIONS of man as REALITY apart from the Sovereign Will of God for man.
However, Man, who makes his own decisions, therefore MUST take responsibility for them, just like Lucifer and his followers must. This clearly demonstrates that the Sovereignty of God and the free will of man coexist in Human History by Divine Decree.
Omniscience & The Creation Plan of God
Therefore, based on Divine Omniscience, the Divine Decree and Foreknowledge, God designed
his creation plan to take these things into consideration and designed his DEMONSTRATION to angelic creation of the consistent coordination of the attributes of his essence, which is Human History, to encompass these to show that His character always acts consistently and in coordination, NEVER separately or independently. The Omniscience of God also relates to the fact that Jesus Christ controls history. Basically, Human History is designed to be GOD’S
DEMONSTRATION to ALL Creation regarding the consistent, interrelated functions of his entire Essence and Character no matter the direction of the functions of those creatures in it. Try to grasp the concept that Human History, is in its entirety, THE DEMONSTRATION OF GOD, not
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condemning Lucifer and all his followers, both fallen angelic creatures and unregenerate human beings to the Lake of Fire for all eternity. Creation is God’s GAME PLAN and he has a right to include or exclude whatever players he wants in the game for whatever reasons he may have.
Therefore, in time, in history, God’s purpose and plans ARE fulfilled and this cannot be otherwise.
Omniscience & the Essence of God
God’s perception and sagacity is totally compatible with the entirety of His Essence. Learning with us is progressive, but God knew everything instantly and simultaneously. Just this fact clearly demonstrates that man CANNOT actually comprehend who and what GOD IS. God is
omnipotent, therefore His knowledge is superior to that of any creature and its application is infinitely greater. Every minute detail of both angelic and human creation is completely and perfectly in His mind at all times. God knows all that would nave been involved had He
adopted any one of an infinite number of different plans.
God’s knowledge is not subject to development, reasoning, regretting or foreboding. Because God’s thinking is not subject to regrets, foreboding, or depression; all that He knows never makes Him unhappy. If one knew just some of the details God knows, if he could see the
future, he would be completely upset most likely in hysterical panic immediately. The United States of America is headed downhill, and if one knew what was in store for this nation and its people in the next few years, he would most likely be shocked and terribly unhappy about it.
God’s knowledge is always total and perfect; therefore, it cannot develop beyond what it already is. God knows all the conclusions as well as all the premises; hence, even though He is totally reasonable and rational in all things, He never needs to reason things out. This also means that man cannot ever second-guess God and there is no possible way man can improve on His system. Man, just as was the case with angels, can simply GO ALONG with His
perfectly wise policy, GRACE, which has the best interest of the Individual believer and the entire Human Race as His desired outcome, OR NOT! However, if man chooses not to follow
the divine course, the Power System of God, the Protocol Plan of God, this Grace plan goes right along without him, and rolls right over him. God knew every decision of every creature ever created and put the decisions into the reality of the Divine Decree for his plan and
organized his entire plan around those decisions and much more.
Lucifer, Satan, is the best illustration of what happens to one who tries to outsmart God.
Satan’s entire strategy boils down to an attempt to outsmart, second-guess, and outmaneuver God. Satan thinks his earthly rulership plan, EVIL, will produce the same results as the GRACE
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take God’s place. He has been trying to do this since his Revolution in Angelic Creation. The result of Satan’s brilliant, though Arrogant, efforts to improve on or counterfeit the divine plan using his own plan of EVIL, is the confusion apparent in the world today. Eventually Satan’s rival plan will result in his own eternal relegation to the Lake of Fire forever as the execution of his Angelic Conflict Trial sentence, it is inevitable because, it IS the end result of GOD’S
DEMONSTRATION. While believers will never experience the Lake of Fire in eternity, their imperfect and unwise plans and decisions can create misery for themselves and others during their lifetime on this earth.
Omniscience, Man & Sin
God invented creature freedom and gave all self conscious creatures the function of Volition, free will choice. This is the reason God does not stop any individual from making bad
decisions. However, the Omniscience of God knows and has always known every decision of
every creature, every human being in all of Human History and every thought and motivation which preceded it as well as every action that followed it. Although, knowing sin would
occur, the Omniscience of God put sin into the Divine Decree but because he permits it to
occur does not mean that He sponsors sin. God was cognizant of all human sin in eternity past and the Omniscience of God entered that knowledge of sin into the Divine Decree without
being the cause of any sin in human history. In addition, while God knew of and permits the rejection of the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Christ for ALL human sin, provided for man’s salvation, He does not sponsor it or encourage that rejection. Therefore, clearly in human history, the Sovereignty of God and free will of man coexist as an extension and for the resolution of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial. Therefore, God knew in Eternity Past all about Evil, the resultant Human Good, Sin and Crime but He is not the author of it. It is creature free will, self determination, which is the origin and source of Evil, Human Good Sin and
Crime in All of Creation and in Human History. God uses both the acceptance and rejection of The Lord Jesus, The Christ and the function under Grace with Divine Good production and
under Evil with Human Good, Sin and Crime production in his DEMONSTRATION to angelic
creation that His character always functions consistently and ALWAYS blesses functions which align with the Norms and Standards and Scale of Values of His Absolute Righteousness and ALWAYS disciplines functions which oppose those standards.
The production of Sin, Crime and Human Good along with acceptance of the Substitutionary
Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross and resultant production of Divine Good are entered into the Decree of God by the Omniscience of God. The first entry is the function of the Permissive Will of God while the second entry is the function of the directive Will of God, however, BOTH are part of the Divine Decree which comes from God’s knowledge of what would actually occur in Human History, from his Omniscience. Therefore, God Decreed in Eternity Past that human volition would eventuate in acts of Sin, Crime and Human Good and that these would eventuate as a result of man’s freedom, his free thought, free
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God, was taken in its entirety and set aside, collected and saved and NOT EVER imputed to and judged, condemned or sentenced in the individual who committed the sins. This is the importance of the Omniscience of God. Were it not for the Omniscience of God no human
could ever have been eternally saved to have a personal relationship and live with God. In order to provide for the Human Race the potential for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God the Omniscience of God in Eternity Past knew that free will would be involved in X
number of sins, and He held back the judgment for those sins and imputed the responsibility for them to The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross. Then he Judged them unacceptable and condemned Christ for them and sentenced him, The Lord Jesus, The Christ who paid the
penalty of the sentence for each judgment and condemnation with his Substitutionary Spiritual Death for each of them. The Omniscience of God had to know ahead of time every sin which
would ever be committed so that the Righteousness of God could reserve them to be judged in Christ, otherwise there would be NO gospel presented and therefore no eternal life salvation.
Without the Omniscience of God salvation would be impossible. Consider what could have
happened for mankind IF The Lord Jesus, The Christ had decided in his humanity to avoid the Cross.
Consequently, to provide incontrovertible proof of the consistency of the Character of God, in the Human History DEMONSTRATION of God the anticipation of the Omniscience of God, the
reality of the Divine Decree, Foreordination, the adoption of the Elected ones, does not preclude, hinder or even contradict the function of the Righteousness of God when He judges, condemns and sentences and the Justice of God when He executes the required sentences. Nor does any of these in any way hinder or contradict the Righteousness of God when it approves and justified and the Justice of God when it blesses. Therefore, Foreordination or Predestination does not hinder, coerce or abrogate the function of the free will of man so that God never tampers with man’s free will and therefore neither can man EVER tamper with God’s judgments or blessings. It is ONLY on the basis of the judicial imputation of divine Righteousness to those who make Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by faith in Christ that the Justice of God has the right to condemn those who do not accept the sacrifice of
Christ. It is ONLY on this same basis that the Justice of God has the right to bless those who do. This also applies to the administration of disciplinary punishment to those believers who do not attain Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God during their lifetime because of rejection of Bible Doctrine and blessing to those who reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God because of consistency in Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine. It is God’s Omniscience having total cognizance of all the facts which results in the Righteousness of God accepting or rejecting one’s functions and the Justice of God disciplining or blessing in any given situation.
Omniscience & Problem Solutions
In the mechanics of God solving the problems of the believer, He first isolated the problems in eternity past. He could do this because of His Omniscience thus knowing all the problems and how they were developed and what choices can be made to solve them. The point is that the believer never faces a problem that was not known to God in eternity past and a for which a Page #308 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents solution was not provided. All solutions to all problems revolve around the principles of Metabolized Bible Doctrine circulating in ones Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul. M
e tabolized Bible Doctrine creates two systems for the isolation of problems:
• The mirror of Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the soul
• The 10 problem solving devices on the Forward Line of Troops of the soul
This is what provides the solutions to the problems of the believer’s life in this world ruled by Satan. It is the mechanics of the spiritual life which not only overcome the problems of life but accomplish two additional functions:
• Living by principle rather than instinct and emotion
• Acceleration of spiritual momentum by which one fulfills the purpose of Tactical victory in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial and glorification of God by being a recipient of
Escrow Super – Grace blessings in time.
The principles encompassed in the concepts of dispensations prove conclusively that even though the phenomena of history occur based totally on man’s choices and decisions in the
devil’s world, they are shaped by God. No catastrophe, no political maneuvering or national turmoil has ever caught God off guard; from eternity past, His Omniscience foresaw every
event. In addition He shapes and controls Human History without coercing human volition.
Free will was the issue in the creation of man and continues to be paramount in this stage of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial.
Omniscience & Salvation
In making the choice to engage in Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God one’s transfer from the kingdom of Satan to the Kingdom of God is a spiritual transfer and does not in any way imply an immediate permanent change of station (PCS). Rather, upon one’s regeneration and consequent enlistment in the Royal Combat Battalion of God, his life has taken on a special meaning. In the tactical disposition of His Royal Troops, Divine Omniscience has allotted every believer a specified portion of time and a specific place on earth where he can best serve his Lord, Jesus Christ.
The Omniscience of God in taking cognizance of the fall of man graciously provided a plan
based on 7 imputations from divine Justice. These 7 imputations are designed to provide maximum blessing for mankind in time and eternity. The all encompassing Omniscience of God designed this plan to provide maximum happiness for the human race, the Protocol Plan of
God, with its 10 problem solving devices including Sharing the Happiness of God. This plan involved the Omniscience of God feeding into the Divine Decrees 7 imputations which provide maximum blessing for mankind in time and eternity. The Decree contains the historical reality of every member of the human race and his degree of attainment with regard to the Protocol Plan of God. The function of human volition can fall far short of any of the potentials provided by God’s plan. However, to what extent every individual advances in this plan was known to the Omniscience of God in eternity past and written into the Divine Decree.
Unfortunately in too many cases the potential of the Plan of God for man far exceeds the
reality of what man attains and ONLY THE REALITY was Decreed. From this fact emerges the
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chosen to use to glorify Himself and to give Himself pleasure. Therefore, the glorification of God is related to the believer’s advance to maturity and the resultant imputation of 7 categories of divine Escrow Super – Grace blessing. The Omniscience of God knew in eternity past what thoughts, decisions, motivations and actions would carry one believer to Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and another into the 8 stages of Reversionism. However, God has prepared the most magnificent things for both categories in the individual’s Escrow Super – Grace blessing, but these cannot be released to the individual believer unless and until he fulfills the Escrow Requirements. Consequently, He has also prepared the most horrible discipline for the Reversionistic believer who fails to execute the Protocol Plan of God during his life in order to motivate him to return to the Grace of the Plan of God.
Omniscience in eternity past knew every individual who would believe in Christ throughout all of Human History. Election is that part of the Decrees dealing with the thoughts, decisions, actions of believers who are related to the plan of God. Therefore, ALL election is related to the Lord Jesus Christ. (Is 42:1, 1Pet 2:4-6) The written Word of God details two general elections in history: • Israel (Matt 24:1-25:46, Rom 11:1-7)
• The Church, the Royal Family of God, (Eph 1:3-6, 1Thes 1:4, 2Thes 2:13, T itus 1: 1 ) Election, is therefore, the plan of God for the believer designed in eternity past, entered into the Divine Decree by the Omniscience of God IN ETERNITY PAST. Election always takes a
believer found in the context of the Divine Decree and relates him to his time in history. For example, if a believer lived in the dispensation of the Age of Israel then he would be in the election called Israel. The believer today lives in the Church Age therefore, his election is the Royal Family of God because the Omniscience of God knew in eternity past who would reject and who would accept the Gospel of Christ. For the one who accepted through nonmeritorious faith alone the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Jesus Christ the Divine Decree includes Election, Foreknowledge, Predestination or Foreordination. For the one who rejects the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ the divine decree includes only judgment, condemnation, sentencing and eventual execution of the sentence in both time and eternity. The technical terms of Predestination, Foreordination and Predetermination are synonyms and refer to the output of the Divine Decree. These terms are used to describe the act of the infinite, eternal Omniscience of God which determined the certain futurition of events related to each and every believer.
Omniscience & Judgment or Punishment