II Chronicles 33:6 KJB
King Manasseh of Judah sunk himself into the lowest depths of evil. His father, king Hezekiah, had been a Godly man. So, what happened to king Manasseh? The Devil has not changed any of his lies since he tempted Eve. The Devil's message to Eve and to all humans to this day is that you don't really need God. Humans can have power and wealth and pleasures that are independent of God's care. Humans can be little gods on their own. Genesis 3:1-6 (KJB). Humans simply have a choice. They can try to be little gods independent of God's Love, or they can serve God and become whatever God creates them to be.
Evidently, king Manasseh looked around him, and he saw that many of the pagan nations that worshipped false gods had become very prosperous and powerful. So, king Manasseh decided to become even more evil than they were. He made his children to pass through the fires of the idols, and he used witchcraft and all the demonic, occult practices. He even put idols in the house of God. King Manasseh saw that the Devil had his own kingdom in the world, and king Manasseh wanted his own little kingdom of evil. II Chronicles 33:1-10 (KJB). To this day, demonic, occult practices often work to give its practitioner power over others and wealth and sinful pleasures because the Devil desires to reward his own. But evil practices can also lead to very bloody acts of murder and mayhem because the Devil hates humans.
Two curious phrases occur in this account about king Manasseh. Two verses state that king Manasseh worshipped and made altars for "all the host of heaven." II Chronicles 33:3; II Chronicles 33:5 (KJB). These phrases seem to indicate that king Manasseh worshipped actual beings who formerly were in Heaven. All of the idols of the pagans could have represented fallen angels whom God allowed to roam the universe and force lesser beings to worship them. These fallen angels were not those who rebelled with Lucifer because God cast all of them into Hell except for a few whom He chained in the river Euphrates. Revelation 9:1-15 (KJB). God probably cast these fallen angels out of Heaven because they remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer.
God creates every human in His image to be good and creative. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Most humans choose to try to live good lives because they desire to adhere to their good natures and obey God even if they do not know Him or any of His commandments. Nevertheless, because of a weakness in their free will, all humans will inevitably sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). When that happens, the Devil injects spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans who sin with the hope that sin and evil will so thoroughly sully and mar the righteous natures of humans that they will become totally evil and demonic to the extent that God will have to reject them, and they will be forever dead and lost from God's Love forever. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Job 2:5 (KJB). God creates life. He never causes permanent death. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The "seed" of the Devil can only be a planted spiritual death. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). But the Devil did not count on God's Love being so great that He would suffer the spiritual deaths of all humans, and the sins and evil that causes it, and bear it all Himself on a cruel cross, and He would rise from the dead to give His own spiritual life to all humans whom He would save by His grace, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to burn up the evil natures of the rest of humanity so that He can recover and recreate their repentant, good natures to live forever on His recreated earth. John 3:3; John 5:24; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).
God spoke to king Manasseh and to all who followed him to try to get them to return to faith in Him, but they all refused. II Chronicles 33:10 (KJB). So, God decided to punish king Manasseh by having the evil ruler of Assyria to capture him and put him in prison in Babylon. When king Manasseh experienced the horrors of being separated from feeling God's care, he repented and returned to faith in God. God then forgave him and rescued him from prison and returned him to His kingship in Jerusalem. II Chronicles 33:11-13 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will do the same for all humans who did not become saved by His grace. Christ will visit all of His living humans whom He had to consign to the regions of death and those who remain on the earth because they failed to become saved by grace, and when they see His tremendous majesty and love for them, and they have experienced the horrors of being separated from feeling His love and care, they will all repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Christ will then use His fiery wrath to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their good natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).
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