On Truth and Falsity

                            Rebellion continued

Although evil remains as a mystery, one can speculate as to how evil came to be, or actually not to be. In Isaiah 45:7, God declares that He "creates evil." But since God can only be Holy and Pure, He cannot deliberately create evil. Habakkuk 1:13 (KJB). God also states that He "creates darkness," and darkness covered the void that was the earth. Genesis 1:2 (KJB). This means that if darkness covers evil, then, at that time, God did not see the void that was the earth. God could see the water that covered the earth, but He could not see the void. This means that whenever God makes a positive creation, a negative void is left behind covered by darkness. This means that God accidentally created evil when He created the positive universe, and He did not know that before Lucifer's rebellion. But being pure and innocent, God felt guilty about His accidental creation of evil even though He could in no way be blamed for it. God grieves over the pain and suffering and destruction that evil causes. God did not learn about the the non-existence of evil until Lucifer rebelled. God can still not directly see evil, but He can use His real idea of nothing to indirectly discern its presence. Habakkuk 1:13 (KJB). God can now see through darkness so that He can move to counter the workings of evil in the earth. Psalm 139:11-12 (KJB).

But the deepest mystery about evil happens to be the question: How did a non-existent something ever invade the being of Lucifer and cause him to rebel against God? A clue to this answer can be found in the story of the maniac of Gadara found in Luke 8:26-39 (KJB). When Jesus came to heal the maniac with the legion of devils, they begged Jesus not to cast them back into "the deep." This word must have meant the void from which they came. The Bible also calls this void "the bottomless pit." Revelation 20:1 (KJB). Apparently, when God created positive consciousness, such as angels, He also accidentally created negative consciousness which filled the void with devils. Positive consciousness can get no idea of how a negative consciousness could exist, or actually non-exist. God possesses an eternal and omniscient knowledge of all of His creations, but He may have accidentally created all of the devils when He began to create. All that a positive consciousness can know about the devils is that they are totally evil and destructive. They happen to be the opposite of creative power.

In some unknown way, evil can gain access even into Heaven. The devils somehow emerged from the void to infect Lucifer and cause him to rebel. Lucifer led an army of fallen angels in a war against God, and God defeated him and cast him down to the former earth where God hoped he and his fallen angels would repent and return to favor with God and love for Him. Ezekiel 28:13-14 (KJB). In His mercy, God gave Lucifer a world to rule. But Lucifer continued his rebellion and somehow led an army in another assault on Heaven to try to defeat God. Ezekiel 28:16-17 (KJB). In the future, in the Tribulation period, Satan, with his fallen angels, will lead an attack against Heaven, but Michael and God's angels will defeat his army and cast him back to earth. Revelation 12:1-17 (KJB). Through his minions, the Beast and the False Prophet, Satan will again make war against Christ when He comes to rescue Israel from destruction and put an end to the Tribulation period. Revelation 19:11-21 (KJB). Satan will again be defeated and cast into the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). But somehow, near the end of the world, Satan will be able to emerge from the bottomless pit to again lead an army to make war against God, but God will devour his army with His fiery wrath against evil, and He will cast Satan into the eternal lake of fire from which he will never be able to emerge. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB).

Evil persists in its wars against God. But when Lucifer led his army in his final assault against Heaven, God was finished with him. God used His fiery wrath to dissolve the beauty of Lucifer, recover all of the good attributes that God had put into his creation, and God cast the totally evil part of Lucifer to the earth as a being called Satan who is totally empty of all positive being. Ezekiel 28:16-19 (KJB). Those who worship Lucifer are wasting their time because he no longer exists. Satan now exists, or non-exists, as a Devil who belongs in the bottomless pit, but God will finally cast him into the lake of fire along with all of the evil that infects humans. Satan is a negative consciousness with destructive powers. Positive consciousness cannot understand that. It is a mystery. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). This means that just as God dissolved the being of Lucifer to recover all of the good attributes that he had put into his creation, so God will, near the end of the world, cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to repent and return to faith in Him so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all their beings to recover all of His goodness that He put into their beings so that He can recreate them to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

One can speculate that because God, in His eternal plan, works toward the creation of a holy realm of absolute righteousness, so total evil has the power to work toward non-existence; that is, a complete annulment of all that is good and righteous. Perhaps, total evil only has power because it has figured a way to steal it from God's realm.

When Jesus died on the cross, the Devil had three days of opportunity to annul God and all righteousness, but he failed when Jesus rose from the dead.