Life on Earth Destroyed

Because they had failed to overthrow their Creator, Satan and his demons were full of hatred and bitterness. Like spoiled children who could not get their own way, they wrecked the face of the earth.

Earthquakes shattered and trembled across the planet, while volcanoes burst and overflowed with molten lava.
Poisonous gases filled the sky, choking everything that breathed, and shutting out the sunlight. The oceans and seas smashed against the land until the whole earth was covered with water. All physical life (dinosaurs, plants, insects and other prehistoric life) was destroyed.
Today, the scarred and beaten moons and planets, in decay within our solar system and throughout the universe, remind us of that great angelic war.

Satan’s rebellion proved to God that there was only one kind of being that could be trusted to manage and rule over His creation— other God-beings!

The Awesome Potential of Man
God is love (I John 4:8). His way of life is based on His spiritual laws of love and outgoing concern for others. It is the way of giving, assisting, helping, sharing and cooperating with others (Matthew 7:12; 22:37-40). Our Creator is not selfish, cruel, heartless or hateful. He does not—and cannot—think those ways. He cannot break His spiritual laws of love, which means that everything that He does is for the benefit of others. This is God’s holy, righteous character.

Godly character is: (1) The ability to know and decide what is right from wrong. (2) To choose the right way over the wrong way. And (3), despite overwhelming obstacles, to do what is right and reject what is wrong. Holy, righteous character is so precious, so special and unique, that it cannot be created all at once, in an instant. Just as it takes much time, patience and learning to be able to paint a beautiful masterpiece, godly character must be developed and grown over a long period. It is impossible for God to instantly create a being (whether angel or human) that has His character.

Instead, it must be developed over a lifetime of experiences.
And God wants to develop His character in you! God wants you to become just like Him: Fair, honest, patient, selfless, trustworthy, pure, innocent, kind, humble, sincere, good, reliable, truthful, respectful, peaceful—without sin!

Since the fallen angels (now demons) were made of spirit, they cannot die. They are doomed to live forever in misery as selfish, proud, greedy, angry, twisted beings. Never again will they experience the joy of living God’s way of life.

The Eternal understood that only another God-being—one who thinks and lives like God, and always puts others ahead of himself— could be trusted to take care of, manage and rule over the universe. So God decided to reproduce Himself—to expand His Family, just as your parents decided to expand their family by having you. He decided to create physical beings—humans—in whom He could develop His righteous character. With a small portion of His Spirit working in their minds, they would literally become God’s sons, yet still be physical. If they practiced seeking and obeying Him throughout their physical lifetimes, He would change them into spirit so that they could enter His kingdom. With His holy character fully developed within them, they would become just like God!

Only then could they be trusted to manage and rule the universe God’s Way. Beginning with the earth, they would convert, or change, dead, battle-scarred planets and moons in countless galaxies throughout creation into garden paradises. They would also help and guide other humans into developing godly character so that they, too, would be born into the ever-expanding God Family.

But, if human beings refused to obey their Creator—if they rejected His laws and practiced the way of greed, selfishness and vanity— the way of sin—God would have to reject them. In His mercy, He would end their physical lives, never allowing them to suffer forever in misery like the fallen angels.

Therefore, God the Father and the Word, guided by their supreme wisdom and intelligence, spent many years carefully planning and preparing for their next creation—MAN!

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