Trumpet Ministries,The Origin of Sin
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At some point in time, so many eons past as to be incalculable, God through the Logos, whom we now know as Christ, created the inhabitants of the heavens.
For by him [the Logos] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Colossians 1:16)
Now the Throne of God was surrounded with all sorts of heavenly beings, some of them so majestic, so lofty in personality that we cannot even comprehend them.
Satan, a cherub, was one of these. He and another cherub covered the Throne of God with their wings.
The Logos, their Creator, the only Person begotten from the Father, also stood before the Throne of God. The Logos was and is the only begotten of the Father while these other personages were creatures created by the Logos. Sometimes they are referred to as sons of God, or stars, but they did not proceed from Person of the Father as did the Logos. They were created by the Logos for His pleasure.
It is our point of view that God knew even then that these new creatures would one day rebel and had already planned what He would do. But, as always, God permits situations to work out so the wisdom and justice of His decisions can be seen and understood by everyone.
How long this supremely glorious company dwelled in heavenly joy we do not know. But at some point it came into Satan’s heart to compete against God.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:12-14)
This was the origin of sin. The authority structure of the heavens was thrown into disarray. A creature had challenged the wisdom and power of the Father!
God withdrew above the heavens to make His plans.
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. (Psalms 8:1,2)
"The enemy and the avenger."
The wicked lords of the heavens arrayed themselves against the Father, bringing accusations against His righteous Character.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. (II Samuel 12:14)
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? (Job 1:9)
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12:10)
"The accuser of our brethren." Satan is still accusing God concerning the conduct of God’s elect.
While the rebellious lords of the heavenly palace plotted against the Father, One stood true—the Logos. He revealed the righteousness and faithfulness of His Nature, having been born from the Father.
Now we have the Father. We have the Logos standing in righteousness and faithfulness before the Father. We have also a number of very highly placed spirits in various stages of rebellion and disobedience.
What will the Father do to deal with all of this?
The Father decided in His own counsels, while withdrawn above the heavens, to create a new kind of person, a person capable of union with God and with others of his kind. The new individual would be created in helplessness, bound to a planet by gravity.
The Father would make His eternal throne in the Logos and then They, the Father and the Logos, would make Their eternal throne in a multitude of the new persons called the Church (called-out ones).
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23)
Notice in the above verse that before we are privileged to become the throne of God we must keep the words of the Lord Jesus, strictly observing every one of them.
The Father determined to bring forth His plan through weakness and helplessness, through babies, through mangers, through the foolishness of preaching—all with the intention of confounding the high and mighty lords who are so full of their own conceits.
The next move was to create, through the Logos, the physical heavens and earth, and the new kind of person—man.
Man would have to be touched with the sickness of the rebellion and then provided with an antibody, Christ, to create an eternal immunity to sin and rebellion.
The next step would be to begin to speak to the wicked lords of the heavens through the mouths of certain of the new people, the prophets. The words of the Bible are addressed primarily to the wicked lords, to the Logos (Christ), and to those who become part of the Logos.
The first words of the Lord to Satan were as follows:
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Genesis 3:14,15)
It is our point of view that the "dust" mentioned in the above verse refers to the material form of man. It is a hidden message addressed to Satan and his followers who have been bound with an insatiable desire for human flesh. Perhaps this accounts for the sexual lust and perversion that spring up wherever God’s commandments are ignored.
The Ten Commandments are a judgment on the wicked, rebellious lords of darkness against whom we struggle. They are an abridged form of the larger, more comprehensive eternal moral law of God that had been violated by the ambitious angels.
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by [through] the church the manifold wisdom of God, (Ephesians 3:10)
For example, the tenth commandment forbids us to covet. Satan coveted the authority and majesty of the Father. God spoke to Satan through Moses: "Thou shalt not covet."
The statements that pose the most threat to the fallen angels are those addressed to the faithful Logos. The Father has determined to give everything to the Logos and to assign the rebellious lords to eternal punishment. The Lake of Fire is prepared for the devil and his angels.
The envy, jealousy, and spite the Father’s decision has aroused in the rebels is past our comprehension. Their envy, jealousy, and spite account for the slander, strife, striving for preeminence, and other aspects of the adamic personality found so often in the Christian churches.
Look what the Father has said to the Logos:
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. (Psalms 2:6-9)
The above passage is interesting because the Father is referring to the Logos, the eternal Word, as His Son. Furthermore, the Father is inviting the Son to pray for that which He originally had created—the nations and the ends of the earth.
Part of the Father’s infinitely wise plan to put an end to rebellion and sin was to have His Son, the Logos, born into the world of human beings. And born in a manger at that! Imagine, the Creator of all, being born as a Baby! So great is the wisdom of God!
If the Logos, the Son, was to inherit and govern the new creation He must be brought low before the Father. He had to learn obedience. He who would be raised to the highest throne must be brought lower than any other person. And so it happened.
Now the Logos is Son of God, Son of Man, and soon would be Christ—the One anointed with the Holy Spirit to establish the heavens and the earth in righteousness, and to say to Zion, "You are My people."
Christ grew up as a Jewish boy. As He pondered the Scriptures the Holy Spirit spoke to Him:
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Psalms 45:2-7)
How the heart of the Boy, Jesus, must have burned within Him as He read these words.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. (Psalms 110:1-4)
Also:
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:3-5)
The supreme glory was to be His and the supreme suffering was to be His. He cried out, "Not My will but Yours be done." This statement marks the beginning of the end of the heavenly rebellion. Now the Father had a Beginning, an Anchor, a Point from which He could proceed with His plan to put an end to sin and rebellion.
Perfect righteousness and perfect obedience had been found. What would have taken place if the Son had refused to do His Father’s will? Only God knows that but it would have been a horror of horrors.
Some teach that it was impossible for Christ to sin, and it will be impossible for the saints to sin "once they get to Heaven." We cannot agree with this. It always has been possible for Christ, for people, and for angels to sin and it always will be possible for Christ, for people, and for angels to sin. This is why there is a wall around the new Jerusalem and why the saints will govern the works of God’s hands forever.
If it were impossible for Christ sin He would not have been tempted in all points like as we. It simply would have been impossible for Him to be tempted.
Making the Lord Jesus a third person coequal with the Father, or making Him the Father or the Father with a different name, or claiming that it is impossible for Him to sin, has about it a sense of reverence. In our desire to ascribe to Jesus the majesty due Him we go beyond the Scriptures.
Is the Father greater than Jesus? Yes, He is.
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (John 14:28)
Jesus is the Son and Servant of God and would be the first Person to tell us that His Father is greater than He. However, this is to say that a million to the millionth to the millionth to the millionth power is larger than a million to the millionth to the millionth power. Both numbers are so large as to be incomprehensible. It has been said, in fact, that nine to the ninth to the ninth power is a greater number than all the snowflakes that have fallen from the beginning of time.
To say one eternity and infinity is greater than another eternity and infinity may be permissible in theory but ordinarily it has no practical value. However, in the case of the Father and the Lord Jesus it does help us very much that our Lord, Christ, although having been with the Father from a period incomprehensible to us and being our Creator, has nevertheless become our elder Brother. "Go and tell My brothers that I ascend to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God, He joyfully announced to Mary." (John 20:17).
It adds no glory to Christ to make Him out to be another God coequal with the Father, and such a concept does render many passages of the Scriptures void of meaning.
Also, the Jews will have nothing to do with such an idea. The basis of their theology is that their Lord is one Lord. They are monotheists and will have nothing to do with polytheism.
We can never become another God. But we can become another son of God. We can never be another Firstbegotten from the dead. But we can become another person begotten from the dead.
The most acceptable manner in which we can show our love and reverence for Christ is to do what He says.
Will Christ sin? No, He will not; not because He cannot sin but because He chooses not to sin. Otherwise the cry in Gethsemane, "Not My will but Yours be done," is a farce.
Will we sin when we are in the new world of righteousness. Not if we have had Christ formed in us. We always shall be capable of sinning but we shall choose not to sin because we like Christ have now been born of God.
Our task will be to govern the creation so that sin never arises again.
All sin and rebellion have one proper home—the Lake of Fire. They do not belong in the creation of God—not now, not ever!
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