The Big Pitcher.
The Big Pitcher: part 1: in the beginning.
The Big Pitcher: part 2: The role of Satan.
The Big Pitcher: part 3: the life of the sinner!
The Big Pitcher: part 4: The life of perdition.
The big Pitcher : part 5: The last chapter. Sorcery.
The Big Pitcher: part 1. In the Beginning.
In the beginning God created all things.
God created the universe, the earth, our planetary system, times, and seasons.
God also created the angels, man, and spirits.
It was God that created the laws of physics and science.
God also created the spiritual laws that govern the entire matter and substance of all his creations.
We know God created man and woman in his own image.
When God created man in his own image, that image was three parts. The body, spirit, the soul .
The body was physical, it was destined to die physically.
The spirit was spiritual. And the spirit of man will never die. But will continue on into eternity.
The soul of man is also spiritual, the soul is the seat of the hearts affections and motives.
The soul is connected to the spirit by the heart.
The spirit is connected to the body by the mind.
When the heart has been programmed by sin, then the life lived will follow that darkness.
This arraignment made the spirit, the middle or “inner man” of that person.
The soul has a unique property, in that it can die, even though it is spiritual.
However, the death of the soul is not that it ceases to function or ceases to exist.
When the soul dies, it is because the death and the darkness of sin, has taken control of the soul.
In Gods perspective, Death refers to Satan and his dark domain. The Bible uses the word death
(of the body), and death of the soul, (Satans dark domain), interchangeably. When God said to Adam, in the day that you sin, you will die. Adam lived 850 yrs. after he has sinned in the garden. This raises a question: I thought he was supposed to die the day he sinned? Adam’s soul died because sin and its darkness took control of Adams heart and mind. The seat of his affections and the darkness of his thinking. And Death of the body was fulfilled like God said. Here we see the two different applications of the word death, in the bible. Jesus had the same perspective as God, when he said Lazarus (who had died ) was only sleeping.
The souls power to control, is found in the influences it has on the hearts affection and desires.
Whoever or whatever sits on the throne of the soul, has complete control of the heart.
The heart has a strong influence on the mind, but it starts out as an influence only.
This influence will eventually take over the control of the minds ability to reason.
Since the “mind” of the spirit is not under the direct or absolute control of the heart or its desires, therefore the souls power to control is limited to suggestion and desires. But the “mind” has the power to choose or reject those influences.
But this ability to choose, wont last long. The influence will eventually take over.
We see this in Mathew 6:22-23.
Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
This is why there are things we may want to do, but our better judgement tells us not to do it. We have a choice.
That freedom of choice wont last long. Until darkness takes over. Then it has complete control.
This is why Jesus added the statement in Mathew 6:24. He was not changing the subject. He was revealing the outcome! Something is going to win in the battle for control!
Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The power of choice, and the power of reasoning, are temporary. Until they are brought under the influence of something. It may start out as innocence, then progresses to Daddy and Mommy, then progress to siblings and friends. Then adolescence comes, and everything gets mixed up. In the sorting out of reality.
This is the battle between choices of the mind, influences of the heart, influences from others, and the secret undermining of sin, the oversight of the conscience, and the still small voice of the Holy spirit. These all are competing for control in the spirit. This is the war in our spirit. Somebody or something is going to win that war!
The wholesome example of Godly parents, who teach their children to build their lives on the foundation of Gods word, is beyond measure. When the storms of life come, (that war in the spirit), their lives will not fall apart, and they will survive every storm of life. because they have built their lives on something that is unmovable and sure. This solidness, is the foundation of Jesus Christ!
Building their lives on the shifting sands of times, opinions and or circumstance, (that war in the spirit) will always cause their lives to fall apart when the storms of life come because they have no foundation! Only God’s eternal word is qualified to be an unchanging foundation. Everything else is always changing!
Read Romans chapter 7. Watch for this battle of the minds knowledge, the heart desires, sins influence, the conscience, the spirits leading, and the truth of the law. (Gods word)
The never dying spirit, and the souls influences, the conscience and guilt are limited to man only!
- Plants only have the physical aspect of existence. They have no spirit, no soul, and no powers of reason.
- Animals possess the physical, limited powers of reason, and have a limited spirit.
- Angles have the spirit and the power of reason, but have no soul! they have no physical properties.
Sin can enter the mind of man and or his affections, but man has the power to reject or accept those suggestion. (Insight; See Genesis chapter 3.) That’s persons choice and outcome, will depend entirely on (the absence or presence) of somebodies prayers, and (the absence or presence) of scripture!
If the soul is innocent, and the heart is innocent, and the mind is innocent, then the life is innocent.
And the spirit is said to be alive! Because God who is a spirit. Is the source of life. and God breathed into Adam, and Adam became a “living” soul!
“Living” because the breath of life was breathed into him from God, who is the source of life. this “life” also entered into Adams soul! Man became a living soul!
It’s interesting to note: it’s the spirit that gives life! Quickens means: to be made alive.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Since this life came from God, and God is eternal, the spirit is also eternal. Why? Because the spirit came from God and God is eternal!
It could be said: the soul is also eternal. But if the soul has been defiled with sin, and God said the wages of sin is death. And that word death means eternal death or eternal punishments. the souls eternal existence is that of eternal punishments, because of sin!
If that person is in the grave. (Grave: meaning still buried in the ground, and not in heaven, and not in hell.) The life that resides in the spirit, has been made as though it had no power to live, thus the spirit and soul still rest in the grave. but in eternity, they both are quickened, or made alive, to face judgment and their eternity.
Joh 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Whether they be in hell or heaven, the soul and spirit are not separated. When it says the soul was cast into hell, it’s understood to mean, that whole person, with an eternal never dying spiritual body.
This is why a person in hell, though under great punishments of fire, but is never consumed! the soul and spirit are both eternals, and can never die! Even when that person is given a spiritual body, that spiritual body will never be consumed by the flames!
It’s interesting to note: the spirit is life: life is full, sweet, full of adventure, strong, sunshine, water, pure, true and full of love.
Death on the other, hand is just the opposite! Empty, searching, wearisome, dark, evil, fearful, dry and deceitful and without God.
(This will be looked at again later, and we will see the importance of these attributes)!
The Big Pitcher: part 2. The Role of Satan.
In the big pitcher of things, we must also consider the role that Satan plays in it.
When God created the angles. He created all the angles. Nowhere do we find God created more angles after Genesis.
Satan started out as an angel in heaven. His original name was Lucifer. The title Satan, is not a name, it’s a position that means destroyer. After he was kicked out of heaven, he was called by other names, such as Apollyon, or Baal.
Satans heart was lifted up with pride, and he thought he could replace God. He thought he could do better than God.
He wanted everything God had made and God had done.
(speaking of Satan) Isa 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isa 14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Isa 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Isa 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!
Isa 14:13 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:
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Luk 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luk 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Satan after being kicked out of heaven, sought to regain his power and authority. But he could not even consider heaven again! He knew how that worked out! He lost really bad!
He lost again in the Garden of Eden. Why? Some will say Satan won in his undermining of Adam and Eve, and as such caused them to be kicked out of paradise, and destroyed their innocence and fellowship with God. But lets look at his motives and the result of his actions!
Satan lost in his attempts to take over heaven. he got kicked out.
He lost to take over paradise! It didn’t work! He got kicked out of that also!
He lost in destroying their innocence. But God restored it with a sacrifice and offering.
He lost in trying to break their fellowship with God, but God still came and met with them.
He lost in wanting to control them, But God stopped that also! They still had a will.
Satan lost in ruling humanity; because they still has a free will also!
God promised to use their seed, (descendants) to destroy Satan. This was done through the linage of Jesus Christ! When we follow the linage of Christ all the way back to Adam, as we see in Luke 3:23-38. Some may wonder why this linage was included in the New Testament, but in reality, it is the fulfillment of Gods word back in genesis! And YES, the devil lost again!
Satan lost in his repeated attempts to destroy the Israelites. (Because he knew his doom was coming through them)!
He lost in stopping the birth of Jesus. She was considered unfaithful and would have been stoned.
Satan lost in destroying Jesus as a child. He tried to use Herod. (Satan knew what was coming!)
He lost for 33 yrs, trying to get Jesus to sin! If Jesus had sinned, he would have lost his sonship with the father, and all humanity would have been doomed without hope.
He lost in repeatedly trying to kill Jesus. He used. Storms, Pharisees, Scribes, vigilante groups, Sadducees, hunger/thirst, Prostitutes, Soldiers, pride, deceits, miracles, false brethren, hired killers, exhaustion, discouragement, judicial “set-up” trying to get him stoned, and more!
Satan lost in trying to get Jesus imprisoned for tax evasion, sabbath desecration, and defiance against the king.
When the time came for Jesus to die on the cross and provide for our salvation, Satan thought he had finally won! He thought he could kill the prince of life, and take over heaven and earth! I don’t want to know what was going on in the underworld, when satan thought he had finally won in killing Jesus, and as such, he thought he would dethrone god! HOW STUPID WAS THAT!
But the mystery of salvation through Christ death and atonement was hidden in the Old Testament laws. And hidden from the realm of darkness!
Eph 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
IF Satan had known, the death of Christ would bring about the salvation of the world, sin destruction, and Satans loss of power, and his own eternal damnation, HE would have been terrified at the death of Christ! But he did not see it coming!
Satan lost again! And it was his greatest loss ever!
Satan lost in every single attempt he has ever made against God or his people.
The only area Satan has ever won, is in deception! He deceives the sinner into thinking:
- They have to sin every day. (This keeps them out of heaven.)
- And that Satan will someday win against God!
Satan is still losing! all through the book of revelation! It is filled with Satans attempts to play god, and he keeps loosing!
Satan final and greatest loss, will be at the battle of Armageddon, when Jesus, by the authority of his word, cast satan and all his followers into the lake of fire fore ever and ever!
Satan sees the big pitcher, and he is terrified!
The Big Pitcher: part 3 the life of the sinner!
So. He enters the garden of Eden and begins his lies and deceits, to get Adam and Eve to rebel against God, just as he himself had done! He planting the seed of thoughts against God in Eve’s mind. HATH God said? He is trying to get Eve to accept his deceits, by way of the intellect. This he succeeded to do. because Eve accepted his words! Then, those words created a desire in the heart, and led to her cooperation in the rebellion against God. Then she went to Adam, and did the exact same thing to him, that Satan had done to her! And they both allowed the sin of rebellion, to enter their hearts, and it went directly to their souls!
There is the path of sin! It worked in the Garden of Edon, and it still works today! He plants some thought of desire, promising something he knows will get their cooperation in rebellion against God. Then he puts on a show like they are really doing something great!
In a sense, they are doing something great! Great darkness, great deception, great rebellion, and finally great damnation! They have become great fools!
If they had accepted the word of God, and rejected the deceits of satan, they would have seen the big pitcher.
But their tunnel vision only allowed them to focus on what they wanted. And what they thought they could get!
Like Eve, they traded the promises of heaven for the deceits of darkness! Where they could have entered heaven, the land of the eternal righteous and the blessed, but now they will enter hell and the lake of fire, forever, the place of eternal burning and screams of unmetered pain, and eternal torments.
All because the deceiver fed them some promise of power, recognition, success, or pleasure!
Satan is still feeding people’s ego. Just as he did Eve! Adam and Eve are in hell. They have been there a long time!
They will be there for a lot longer!
They will be there Forever! Every sinner will follow them into the lake of fire!
It’s interesting to note: the spirit is life: life is full, sweet, full of adventure, sunshine, water, pure, true and full of love.
Death on the other, hand is just the opposite! Empty, searching, wearisome, dark, evil, fearful, dry, deceitful and without God.
Luk 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Luk 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luk 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Why is the unclean spirit seeking rest and water? Because he has none!
Why was the house clean, swept, and garnished? Garnished means: provided for.
Clean of sin! Swept of all selfishness! Full of Gods goodness and all the attributes of life! : life is full, sweet, full of adventure, sunshine, water, pure and full of love! They want it all!
If sin is so desirable, then why didn’t the unclean spirits have it all! But, They don’t have any of it! They want yours! They want you to sin, because they know the holy spirit will not abide with sin. Once the spirit is gone, he is no longer protecting the home. but he leaves all his wonderful things there!
Sin and darkness want it because they don’t have it! But they will promise that you can get all of it! (More deceit.) Then when you accept them. And open the door: They come crashing in like a band of thieves, to kill, steal and destroy!
After they have shamed and destroyed you in every way, they start their “sooth saying and blaming” speeches again! To get you come and cast your lots in with them! Let all have one purse they will say. But THEY will control the purse strings, and you will be their slave to misery!
The Big Pitcher: part 4. The life of perdition. / Ichabod” IcK’- a-bod.
The word perdition means damnation. Or doomed to future damnation.
The word ICOBOD also applies here! Icobod means “Gods glory is gone forever!” i.e., his presence!
Perdition and Icobod are different than the causal sinner going to hell.
The bible says a sinner knoweth not God.
1Jn 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore, the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
But for perdition and ichabod, there is a much deeper and fearful meaning!
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
The big Pitcher: part 5: The last chapter. Sorcery.
There are those who serve Satan, knowing they are rejecting God! They Became his follower. And they followed him right through hell and into the lake of Fire!
This is referring to those who traded their souls in exchange for the temporal pleasures and excitements of this world!
Here we see, those who once knew God, and rejected him! They placed themselves under the self-curse of the hottest damnation and wrath, that can be poured out on the souls of men!
They have made their allegiance with satan! Believed his lies and accepted his temporal values. Not seeing the big picture is their own eternal punishments in the deepest of hell.
They have turned their backs on God, insulted him in every way, mocked his mercy and shunned his grace.
Therefore, they are despised in Gods eyes, and beg for his wrath!
At the end of time, when God turns out the light of earth, Satan and all who followed him will be cast into the lake of fire!
What an horrific end, for those who sought the rewards of satan! Eternal burning is his reward, and they found it too! They found it in the lake of fire!
That was his rewards and it will be theirs too!
All through the Bible, it is recorded how God is the real God of heaven and all eternity.
They fell like Adam and Eve. and will burn with Adam and Eve.
They didn’t see the big pitcher!
(But they will then!)
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