Entropy?
Resolving this conundrum, this vexing paradox, is difficult, in the short run, and persistently perplexing in the long run, because of their “intermingling alliances,” or “entangling combinations.” These “disheartening domains” may engender mental responses and emotional adaptations that are deleterious to peace of mind and a restful spirit.
Life and Liberty are gifts, blessings, or endowments from our Creator! Many are the choices we must make. Even more numerous are all the attempts of Human Beings at answering the greater questions that often plague our very “state of being,” or “just plainly being Human!”
Where did life come from? Why is there evil in this world? Is there “an after-life” following biological death? Is there a connection between our lives on Earth and our eternal destiny in the Universe? How can we have certainty in our quest to understand these perennial paradoxes?
We are; we exist; we are real! Yet, those ultimate answers that are not yet made manifest, appear to remain beyond our capacities to grasp or acquire with complete understanding, or fulfilling comprehension! We are “in-the-know,” and yet, uncertainties might cause us to have anxieties leading to stress. The only answer is: Jesus!
“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:4–5)
God had created the bright shining light of the Stars as revealed in the Book of Genesis. What is physical is physical. What is spiritual is spiritual.
As the Apostle John teaches us through God’s Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus, there is another “form of light” that is as real and true as “natural star-light.”
To be “in darkness” is to be “living in sin” for which no repentance is forthcoming in the pursuit of forgiveness for newness of life. Our sinfulness contributes to the limited capacities or characteristic-capabilities of our discerning faculties.
Darkness, spiritually speaking, not only “symbolizes” the reality or presence of sinfulness and evil, amongst us and within us; but, materially darkness also “signifies” night-time darkness, or “the absence of star-light.”
Cain, who murdered his brother Abel, was “in darkness;” not only had he “a sinful nature,” but he succumbed to temptation; he “externalized” its imperturbable and impenetrable intrinsic dysfunctions when he killed his own brother “in cold blood.” Before the coming of Christ, Humanity was permanently chained to the bondage of un-forgiven sins. Thus, Cain gave birth to “forms of behavior” that confirmed and affirmed his “need for salvation.” Cain’s murder of his brother also occurred before the Law, or preceding the times when God had given the Ten Commandments to Humankind through Moses.
Thus, in biblical history, from Cain to Malachi, the last Prophet under the Old Covenant preceding the birth of Christ, that is, until John the Baptist “entered the scene” by the will of God: Such was the “state of Humankind” before the coming of Christ.
Sin, inherited, not only biologically but also spiritually from Adam and Eve, was passed onto their children; which was, “the seed of rebellion” against God’s sovereign authority, in imitation of Satan whom God had to cast out of Heaven for the same reasons.
As Satan sinned, in the form of a Serpent, Cain sinned, thus reflecting “the sin of rebellion” against God for which Satan was cast out of heaven by God.
In Genesis 3:15 is established the “God-ordained relationship” between “the Son of Man” and “Lucifer,” “the false light,” — “Cain’s spiritual father” before “the Law” was established by God through Moses.
“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 3:15).
“The seed of Satan,” that is, his spirit of evil for machinations of wickedness in people who do wrong, demonstrates that those wrongdoers are acting in his “image and likeness,” rather than in God’s own “image and likeness.”
Satan exploits the sinfulness of Human Beings, which he was accountable for, in the first place, in order to “carry out” on the Earth, “the plan” that he could not bring to fruition in Heaven while he was an angel or “cherub” in service to God. That is, Satan attempted, but failed, in usurping the sovereign authority of God in the heavenly realm; but apparently, partly succeeded “in supplanting it” on Earth, in the lives of Human Beings, even before “the Law.” And after “the Law,” preceding the birth of Christ as well. Many times, too many to mention, God had to “discipline” the “children of Israel” for their continual rebellion against His sovereign authority, the “spirit of rebellion,” “the Seed of wickedness” as propagated by Satan’s hate-filled wickedness.
But God always “kept a Remnant” of faithful Israelites in order to fulfill His plan of Salvation for Humanity.
First, as a “Serpent” in Eden, Satan had deceived Adam and Eve to cause them to commit the “sin of disobedience.”
But, when Christ came on the earth as “the Son of Man,” while being also “the Son of the living God,” Satan altered his approach or changed his plan. He “saw and opportunity and took it.”
Then, Satan, figuring he’d “kill two birds with one stone,” conspired to “tempt Jesus” who had sojourned in the Desert without food and water for 40 days. For Jesus was both Son of Man and Son of God. Jesus rebuked him and he went away, waiting for a “more opportune time.” (Matthew 4:1–11).
Meanwhile, Satan continued to exploit the sinfulness of Humankind, as allowed by the manifestation of God’s will in sinners’ lives. Human Beings on the Earth, were Satan’s “winning ticket” to materialize his lust for power as he continuously attempts to alter or change what would otherwise could not take place “in the heavenly realm.” He failed in dethroning the Majesty of God’s Omnipotence and was cast out Heaven, for once and for all.
But, Jesus had been preparing Himself for “such a time as this.” Jesus, the Son of Man, was not only “fulfilling all righteousness” on Earth by submitting to being baptized by John the Baptist; but He was also commended and approved as “the Son of God” in whom “God is well pleased,” stated by God, during two separate occasions. (Matthew 3:17 and 17:5; John 1:32).
Jesus had already been baptized by the Prophet John the Baptist, on the one hand, and on the other hand, God had already confirmed the mission of Christ on the Earth when He said, “And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straight way out of the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him. And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:16–17; Matthew 17:5).
But, still, Satan could not help being “utterly inane.” He had to try! He cannot create anything original himself, for he, himself, was an angel, “a cherub,” created by Almighty God. Satan is indeed the author of evil and the contriver of wickedness.
God’s plan was a mystery, hidden, not only from Satan, but also unknown to the people whom he would use against the righteous.
And thus, as the infallible Word of God tells us in the Holy Bible:
“But we speak of the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory, Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known
