All cultures recognize that some things and some activities of man are good, and some bad. Usually the good and bad represent similar categories in most societies. Family and life is good, death is bad; Love and prosperity is good, thievery is bad; generosity is good, selfishness is bad, etc. These are universal truths and why they are so have existed from the moment of creation. Mankind has slowly become aware of them from the time of his fall when he first exhibited the vice of pride.
Let me tell you a story. When I was very young, I loved going to Church. It was a place of intrigue as well as awesome beauty to me. You might say that the spirit world spoke to me through all of the traditional physical trappings of the church. There were the beautiful stained glass windows displaying the life of Jesus, The Holy Family and the apostles and all the saints. The statues portrayed the saints as they might be remembered by us for their holiness. The smell of the candles, traditionally made of beeswax; and the liturgy itself. Even though it was mostly in Latin, the priest would turn to the congregation and read the Epistle and Godpel in English. The Gospel always began, “At that time”,followed by the good news
Whenever we heard “Ar That Time”, we know the story of Jesus life on earth would follow. When my parents of teachers started a story it would begin, “Once Upon A Time.” With either announcement we know a story followed. It might not have possessed a word for word representation of the events conveyed,but there was always a truth expressed that could not be denied. It might have been showing the bravery, compassion or virtue lived by the characters or it might show their vice and how it would affect their society. This is such a story.
The Story
Once Upon A Time – there was a great King who had 12 sons. All of the sons were given an equal part of the kingdom to oversee. With their good business sense, they gained fairly equivalent wealth and great prestige in governing their protectorates. The youngest son was seen as a favorite by his father who never failed to treat all of his sons equally. On the 20th anniversary of the younger son’s birth, the King announced that upon his death, his youngest son would succeed him as King. Five of the sons were angry over their fathers decision and even though their father, the King, had always provided everything they needed to gain great weath and status in the kingdom, they rebelled and saught to create division within the family. The great distress in the kingdom caused by this rebellion was about to destroy the Kingdom. The King,. Therefore, stripped the rebellious sons of their place in the land and exiled them to a foreign country hoping for their change of heart with a desire to return to the kingdom. The rebellious sons however spent their days at war with the kingdom hoping to overcome the King and take it all for their own. The war lasted up until this day and the division has never healed.
Who is right and who is wrong in this story? Does the King have the right to give his kingdom to whomever he wishes? Was anyone treated unfairly? It is eaasy to see that evil entered the otherwise peaceful kingdom when the five brothers rebelled, and that evil festered continually from then on. What wiwll fix the divide?
This story is an example in human and physical terms that reflects the story of the creation of evil in the real world before the dawn of man. Traditionally, accounts about the source of evil are shrouded in the stories of creation of the Jewish and other major cultures of the world. Genesis of the Old Testament Torah, and the Book of Enoch both discribe the creation of angelic beings like unto God in the spirit world. The description includes the event of the falling of at least 1/3 of the trillions of angels when God announced to them His plan for mankind. The fallen angels, lead by Lucifer, the brilliant shining one, due to their pride, could not reconcile Gods desire to make mortal man His children with the inheritance of heaven. The rebellious angels would no longer serve God and were cast out of heaven. They could not exist in the presence of God, who was all good when they rejected His being of love itself. They were spirit beings like unto God and none of their angelic nature was shed when they were cast to the ,’earth’, the physical world , out of the absence of God.
Reference in Reality
Now God creates man to be His children and heir. Not in the sense of replacing him but to live with Him forever in heaven. The angels are pure spirits but with great knowledge and power over their environment with free will and personality but without permanent material bodies. They can, however,assume bodies at will and when acting in the service of God, they would appear to men on earth as a guide or messenger. When they are acting in opposition to God, as with the fallen ones, they will deceive men on earth to draw them from God’s path as in the traditional story of creation found in Genesis.
Man was created good and pure by god and with freedom, lived in harmony with the rest of creation, to care for it in the presence of God. Lucifer saw how happy they were and through his jealousy of man assumed the shape of the serpent to tempt them. What was the temptation? You don’t have to do what God tells you, after all, He made you free to choose. You can be like God. Wasn’t that Lucifer’s sin? He wanted to be in charge, he knew better how to create and govern God’s universe. Evil entered the world at that time and all the fallen angels thought they were successful in Lucifer’s cunning win over Adam and Eve. We can choose to reject this truth while we goo about our daily lives. It might not be convenient to acknowledge that there is an authority above our own in the universe but it does not make it so any more that refusing to believe that the earth is round or that men did not really step on the moon.
Evil, because of it’s manifestation by Lucifer, the leader of devils, is alive and deadly in the world today. The deception and lies promoted by the devil has turned morality upside down in today’s liberal society. Even though many people consider truth a subjective idea in order to justify their position on moral issues that are questionable, truth is a matter of fact that is not subject to the changing mood of morality in today’s society. For instance, love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it is forgiving. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. If we live by today definition, that is; “Love is a complex emotion that can be a feeling of strong attraction, emotional attachment, or a benevolent concern for the welfare of others,” then what happens when my feelings change? Love becomes subjective and can increase of decrease with the self interest of those involved.
The natural expression of Good vs. Evil has been with us since the beginning of time. The following presentation identifies historical evidence to justify this view.
ANGELS vs ALIENS { UFO’s }
Each person has the power and freedom to either accept the evil temptation to let self seeking desires rule their lives, or to reject that temptation and seek to better their society by contributing to the advancement of those programs that enable families to prosper. The future uis yours. Good exists in reality as much as evil and when we seek to align our lives with the desires of the creator, humanity will change for the better.
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