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Is there a purpose in human beings being here?
Were we put here or did we just evolve from

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a spineless amoeba single-celled amoeba?
Where are we going? Is there purpose to life?

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And what is the way?
And let me say here that I bring you absolutely

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certain hope a hope that is absolutely sure
and that is that there is coming in this generation

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in the generation in which you live world
peace! prosperity! universal prosperity happiness!

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brimful and running over and salvation to
mankind.

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The Word Tomorrow, The Worldwide Church of God presents 

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 The World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong

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Ladies and gentlemen, Herbert W Armstrong.

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All you read in the newspapers, all you hear in newscasts, is bad news.

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You hear of the evils of the world and it
seems that there is nothing good.

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What was the cause?
Is there a devil?

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And if there is a devil how did where did
he come from?

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I'm going to answer all of those things but
to answer let me say it's a good deal like

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going into a motion picture show.
And you go in about three fourths of the way

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along in the movie and you don't know what
went before. You didn't see what led up to

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what you're seeing near the end.
And, you can't understand it.

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It doesn't make sense if you don't know what
went before.

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In order to answer the questions that I put
to you that are the most important things

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in this world to know, I must begin at the
beginning.

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And the beginning is not history. It's prehistory.
It's before there was any history. It is before

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Jesus Christ.
Now I suppose that most people would say that

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the beginning if you're going to begin at
the beginning in the Bible would be Genesis

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one verse one.
That's the first verse in all the Bible.

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In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.

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But that is not the beginning.
There is a prehistory considerably and it

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might be even millions or billions of years
before that.

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Because the number of years the amount of
time is not revealed at all.

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And the beginning then is John the first chapter,
and the first three verses. In the beginning

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was the Word.
Now that word, "Word," is translated into

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the English language from the original Greek.
It means the one who speaks and is the spokesman

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of the Godhead.
"And the Word was with God and the Word was

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God." Now the Word was one personage.
That personage was with God another personage.

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But the first personage, the Word, was also
God.

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And so they are both God.
That is the real beginning.

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And that is before there was any earth.
That is actually before

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there was any such thing as a physical universe.
There was no earth. There was no sun.

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There were no planets.
There were no galaxies.

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All that had come later.
The second verse says, "The same was in the

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beginning with God" that is the Spokesman,
the Word.

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"All things were made by him; and without
him was nothing made that was made."

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In the third chapter of Ephesians is a verse
that says, "God... created all things by"

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and through "Jesus Christ."
Now in the 14th verse of this first chapter

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of John, you will read that "... the Word
was made flesh... "and dwelt among us; and

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we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the father, full of grace and

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truth."
That Word then became Jesus Christ.

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Now there is no evidence of any physical universe
of any kind at the time. There was just an

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outer space if you can think about that.
I can understand how this God and the Word

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who were alone in space and no other living
creatures of any kind in existence anywhere

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and how they must have thought and thought
out what to do and planned. And they might

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have taken millions of years doing it. The
amount of time is not revealed at all in the

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Bible. We don't know.
But we do know this that they created angels

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first.
Angels are made out of spirit.

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They're not made out of matter.
Now, angels were created before the earth.

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You know Job was a man who lived long, long
ago in most ancient times and Job apparently

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had built a great building.
And I feel that it is certain that Job was

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the actual designer and builder of the Great
Pyramid of Giza.

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Job was a man of great ability, great knowledge,
great mind.

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Job was so near perfect that even Satan the
devil couldn't find anything wrong with him.

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Satan is the accuser of God's people but,
Satan wanted to accuse Job and had nothing

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to accuse him of.
And Satan argued with God that if you take

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away from him all he has then you'll find
he'll turn against you and he will begin to

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commit sin.
So God allowed it. And Satan took away all

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of his sons his children all of his great
vast wealth. He was the wealthiest man in

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the East.
And left just Job and his wife penniless.

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And still Job did not sin.
Satan then came to God and says Well, a man

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will do anything to save his own life.
Let me touch him!

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And then see if he doesn't turn against you.
And God says All right, I'll let you touch

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him.
But spare his life I will not give you any

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right to take his life.
So Satan thought of the most painful thing

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that he could inflict on Job short of death
and that was to fill him with boils from head

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to foot.
Then, Job's three friends came and they began

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a discussion.
That's what the book of job is all about.

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His three friends thought that all that happened
to Job was Job's own fault and he'd brought

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it on himself. And Job insisted on his own
righteousness, and that it was not a result

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of any sins on his part. And in the 38th chapter
it says, Then the Eternal answered Job out

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of a whirlwind and said verse four "Where
wast thou when I laid the foundations of the

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earth?" Now, this doesn't make sense if Job
had not built a great building the greatest

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building on earth the tallest and highest
building until the Woolworth Tower was built

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in down in Wall Street, New York or just off
of Wall Street.

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So, Job had built some great building.
"Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who

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hath laid the measures thereof the measures
thereof if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched

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the line upon it?" Talking in the language
of one that would build a great master building.

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"Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
Or who have laid the cornerstone thereof?

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"When the morning stars sang together.
"And all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

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In that case that is long before man was created.
Therefore, the sons of God, therefore, are

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and all the way from the first chapter of
Genesis referred to as the angels.

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The angels then were in existence before the
earth.

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They shouted for joy at the completion of
the earth.

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Why did they shout?
Because this earth was created to become their

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abode.
Angels occupied this earth before any human

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man.
Now, how many know that?

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How many ministers? how many evangelists ever
tell you that? They don't begin way back there

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at the beginning. And if you don't get that
beginning, you can't understand the present

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unless you know what has led up to it.
Now, God created angels out of spirit still

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no matter until we come to the first chapter
of Genesis which comes next.

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"In the beginning God created "the heavens"
and it should be plural as Moses wrote it

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in the Hebrew language "and the earth."
In other words God created the earth and the

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whole universe but He created angels first.
Now He created the physical material universe.

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He created it at first for the angels.
He had a most important job for them to do.

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That is the way God created the earth. That
is the way He created the entire vast universe.

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He did not finish it. He put angels on the
earth and their job was to finish it.

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God had a great job for them to do.
And that's why they were put on the earth.

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But now what is the most important thing that
God can create?

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The most important thing that could be created
is something God cannot create directly by

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fiat at all! And that is holy, righteous,
perfect character.

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If God made the angels so that they had to
do just that right perfect thing and never

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could do anything else, they would be like
a machine that does what its maker has intended

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but it has no mind. It can't think.
There's no character.

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That isn't what God wanted.
So He created the angels with minds. He gave

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the angels knowledge. He showed the angels
His way of living. And when He had put them

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on the earth in order that they would work
together in accomplishing His purpose and

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this was the trying ground and if they should
succeed in finishing what He wanted finished

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on this earth, then they would go to the other
planets of our solar system like Mars, Jupiter,

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Saturn and the others.
And after they'd finished our solar system

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which is only part of a great galaxy then
they would go to the other planets in our

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galaxy and after they'd finished that, to
the other myriad galaxies as far as outer

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space goes.
Now I'm going to show you that instead of

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building up and finishing it they destroyed
the earth and tore it down and started wrecking

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what God had created instead of adding beauty
and other things to it. Now God is the author

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of beauty. God is the author of light.
Satan is the author of chaos, of confusion,

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and of darkness.
And but I want to show you a little more about

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God put over those angels a super archangel

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the most perfect, the most powerful being
that God could create. But remember I told

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you the one thing God cannot instantly create
without taking away the right of free choice

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the right of any character whatsoever is CHARACTER
holy, righteous, perfect character.

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And so God did not create the angels with
that. God showed them and taught them the

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right way but he did not force them to go
the right way.

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They had to make their own decision even as
you and I and ultimately the whole world will

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have to but most of the world is not called
to judgment as yet.

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Now, in the 14th chapter of Isaiah you'll
began reading about the King of Babylon who

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was a type of sin on the earth the ancient
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

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And then it comes to the 12th verse and speaks
of someone not, not human at all someone far

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greater of whom the King of Babylon was only
an earthly servant or type and, and so on.

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He says here, "How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer." That's the great antetype.

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Just as Nebuchadnezzar was the first ruler
of an empire the ruler over the world so this

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is someone who was put as ruler over the whole
earth in the time of angels.

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"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer...."
His name was Lucifer. The name Lucifer means

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'shining star of the dawn' a light bringer
a bringer of light and truth "son of the morning!"

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Well, that's another word that even describes
the meaning "son of the morning" "light bringer."

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He had fallen from heaven.
"How art thou cut down to the ground.

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"Which didst weaken the nations" or a better
translation how are thou who did weaken the

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nations, cut down to the ground.
'For thou hast said in thine heart, I wiil

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ascend into heaven.
"I will exalt my throne above the stars of

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God."
Now he had a throne. I want you to notice

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that. He was a king!
He was over the angels.

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He had a throne. His throne was on the earth
because he was going it was under the clouds

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he was going to ascend to heaven above the
clouds. "I will sit also upon the mount of

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the congregation, in the sides of the north."
That is the only description in the Bible

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of the place of the throne of God in the far
north. Astronomers find very little in the

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far north.
He continued and said, "I will ascend above

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the heights of the clouds." So he was on the
earth.

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"I will be" it says here "like the most high"
but a better translation is "I will become

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the most high myself." I am going to take
away the throne from God. I'm gonna sit as

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the ruler myself."
"Yet thou shalt be brought down" here "to

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hell" which in the Hebrew language it's 'Sheol'
and means 'the grave'.

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Now I'd like you to turn next to Ezekiel the
twenty eighth chapter and here again we find

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something mentioned of him.
Now here it starts out talking about the prince

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of Tyre in the second verse.
Then finally it comes to the great antetype

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that he represented actually.
"Moreover the word of the Eternal came unto

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me saying, "Son of man, take up a lamentation
upon the King of Tyre.

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Now it started out talking about the prince
of Tyre the human ruler. Now it talks of the

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King of Tyre who was not human.
"And say unto him," thus says the Lord Eternal:

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"Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty."

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Never can you find a place where God says
that of any human man perfect in beauty. The

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only one that it could possibly be said of
would be Jesus Christ.

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"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God"
so He was here on the earth and that's where

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His throne was "every precious stone was thy
covering" and then it goes on to mention many

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of them.
And continuing now in verse fourteen "Thou

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art the anointed cherub that covereth." Now
that takes us immediately back to the twenty-fourth

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and twenty-fifth chapters of Exodus where
God was revealing to Moses, something about

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the throne of God in heaven.
"Thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;

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thou hast walked up and down in the midst
of the stones of fire."

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Now get this listen! "Thou wast perfect in
thy ways from the day that thou wast created,"

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he was not born being like we are. He was
a created being.

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And he was perfect in his ways from the day
he was created, "till iniquity was found in

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him."
Now, as I say, if God had made him perfect

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you know he couldn't do wrong there would
have been no character whatever.

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God created him with a mind of his own.
God showed him the right way. God showed him

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the way of holy, righteous, perfect character.
God set the example in that God had that Himself

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and and this Lucifer could see it.
But he had gone the wrong way.

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Now, he had made that choice himself.
He had chosen the wrong kind of character.

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Now the next verse here is, "By the multitude
of thy merchandise" and of course it was the

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king of the local prince of Tyre. It was the
commercial center of the world.

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"They have filled the midst of thee with violence,
and thou hast SINNED;

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Therefore I will cast thee as profane out
of the mountain of God; and I will destroy

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thee," or 'remove' thee is a better word O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones

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of fire.
Now this great archangel now became no longer

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Lucifer the bringer of light and truth but
now the bringer of darkness.

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And a destroyer instead of a builder instead
of... building up and adding to the earth

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and making it more glorious and more beautiful
(... which is the way of God) he now was making

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it ugly and destroying and tearing it down.
Thou "was lifted up because of thy beauty,

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thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of
thy brightness and I will cast the to the

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ground...."
Now in the 12th chapter of the book of Revelation

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you will find where John in his vision saw
him and a third of the angels falling to the

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ground from heaven when they had tried to
ascend up to heaven.

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Now this great Lucifer now, had had led his
angels into a rebellion.

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That left the earth in the condition that
we find described back here in Genesis the

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first chapter and beginning with the second
verse. "And the earth was" that word 'was'

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is otherwise a Gre... the Hebrew word is translated
'became' because God didn't create it this

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way. It came to be this way "without form
and void." Now those words in that Moses wrote

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in the Hebrew language, were 'tohu' and 'bohu.'
It means chaotic, confusion, waste and empty,

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and it it means corruption and degeneration.
It is not the way anything could be created

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it is the way things become through evil and
so here the earth had come to be in that kind

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of a condition. "And darkness was upon the
face of the deep." Now we find that the whole

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earth was covered with water at that time.
And it was all dark. Satan had brought darkness

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where God had put light.
Now the first thing then that the word did

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who later became Christ was to say, "Let there
be light."

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But I don't wanna get ahead of myself again.
Now, I'd like to have you turn to the one

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hundred and fourth Psalm for just a moment.
And the 30th verse where it says, "Thou sendest

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forth thy spirit," that is, God sends forth
His spirit "they are created:" and God does

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His creation by the Holy Spirit and through
the word of Christ. In other words the way

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God creates He creates through Christ. Christ
is the Word and He speaks!

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And, it is done. How is it done?
The spirit of God is the power that does it!

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Now, it says here, "Thou sendest forth [their]
spirit, they are created: and thou RENEWEST

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the face of the earth."
When did God renew the face of the earth?

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Back in the first chapter of Genesis, you
find that.

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Now, after the angels and all of that, we
come back to Genesis one and we find that

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the earth had become chaotic and waste and
empty and darkness covered the surface of

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it, but it was a surface of water all ocean
no dry land.

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And the spirit of God moved upon the waters.
Now, I just read to you how God first sends

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forth his spirit.
And then Christ speaks and it is done.

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And God said now the Word let me go back again.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and

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the earth." The word for God there is not
the word that means just Christ alone or God

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The father alone.
The word is 'Elohim' in the Hebrew language

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and it is a uni-plural that means God the
Father and Jesus who later became the Son,

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by human birth.
Now they had been put on the earth and the

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earth had, had come to this state of darkness
and chaos and confusion. That is the result

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of what the angles did instead of adding to
it and building up.

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So the angels had failed in the great purpose.
Now decay is not something created. It is

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the way something becomes as a result of a
better creation and that's what we found there,

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that's what was on the Earth.
Now here is what I want to show you.

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At that point it left only God the one that's
called God and the one called the Word at

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that time this is before Jesus had been born.
So just God and the Word and they were the

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only two beings in the whole universe now
that had holy, righteous character that because

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they would not, they could not ever commit
sin. They could be relied on never to go the

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wrong way.
God wanted billions of people who would finish

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His great creation.
God created man then in His own image in His

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likeness! But He created man out of flesh,
out of matter!

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God's purpose now to reproduce Himself the
greatest feat that even God could ever accomplish

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and that includes bringing us into righteous
and holy and perfect character required man

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to be made of physical matter.
That's why God had created matter.

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Because He foresaw that. It is like a failed-safe
plan.

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Now what is the one thing uppermost in my
mind of God now?!

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He has human beings on the earth and the thing
uppermost in the mind of God is to restore

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the government of God and the character of
God in humans.

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Now until you understand all that background,
you can't understand the truth about mankind,

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beginning with Adam, and coming on up to Christ
and from thereon.

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And until you understand these things, you
don't know why you were born, you don't know

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why things are like they are on this earth,
you don't know what's ahead, and how it's

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all going to come out finally with Christ
coming back as the the King of Kings and the

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Lord of Lords to He's already qualified and
He will come back to take over the reins of

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government of every nation on earth.
Actually Satan has been in charge and has

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deceived all nations.
Now how he has deceived that has to come in

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another program later which I hope to bring
you very soon.

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And should come one week from now.
And, I will go on and show you what led man

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into all of the troubles that we have, how
we are to be delivered out them, how God's

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plan works, what salvation is why the world
is so deceived and doesn't understand the

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truth of God.
You'll have to begin at the beginning.

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Today I have begun at the beginning. And I
have brought you up to the time when God was

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restoring and re-creating the surface of the
earth for man.

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Next time I will begin with the creation of
man and what went on from there.

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So that will be it for this time. Goodbye
friends.

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