We are still in the book of Genesis, the book of the beginnings of everything except God. We left where I shared the evolutionist theory about God, who evolved. We said if God were to evolve, He would be responsible to whoever He evolved from, but we whom He created are accountable to Him, meaning we account to Him. They can write book after book trying to figure out stuff, but whatever they come out with or discover will not change the fact that there is hell and heaven. 

Today, let’s pick from verse two (Genesis 1:2: And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.) The word “void” in Hebrew is “Tohu v’vobohu”, which is “without form and void’. Verse one of Genesis says God created heaven and earth, and verse two tells you and me it’s already empty. For more enlightenment on this, let first read Isaiah 45:18: “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none else.” If the same God said in Isaiah that He did not create heaven and the earth empty, He recorded in Genesis 1:2 that the earth is now empty. Suppose you study the scripture carefully, especially noting what is written in the books of Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel chapter 28. In that case, you will see an event in heaven where one of the great angels became a rebel against God, his creator. Allow me to read some verses from Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. Let’s quickly glance at Isaiah 14:12: “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!” Let’s also read Ezekiel 28:14-15 “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down amid the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”. It’s clear that after Satan was kicked out of heaven, he came on earth, and up to now, he is called “the god of this earth” Am not meaning a believer in Christ. I watched a movie where a top government official always opposed the government during meetings, resulting in him being kicked out of the government and losing his position. When he was leaving, some people followed him in the bush. They were rebelling within the same country; they did not go to be rebels in a nearby nation. The president organized to follow them into the bush and destroy their camp. Listen, this is an example, but much relates to our study. The government no longer provides you food; you have to loot, no air conditions, rain wash you in poor structures, and no peace because the choppers could hunt you as you hide miserably.

Satan was on earth before what we read in Genesis 1, so God wiped out the world, and that is why verse two of Genesis chapter 1 records the earth as void and empty. Looking at the “B” part of Genesis 1:2, we read that there was darkness, and the spirit of God was upon the earth moving. God often comes when there is a mess. Presently, because of Satan’s rebellion, he is not at peace because whenever he enters a person, we drive him away. 

I have learned something: when Satan was with God up in heaven, everything was okay, but when he was cast down on earth, life was hard. In Christ, life is good both now and even after we die. 

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