Circumstances and Consequences

Seminar 216-01

June 3-6, 2009
Seminar Topic:
 
The Two Witnesses – Part I

Larry Wilson

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These three Gods chose to permanently join themselves together in marriage for the purpose of endlessly creating a larger universe, both in physical size and population.

 

These three Gods united in a marriage covenant and on that special day they became ONE in purpose, plan and action.

 

Their first decision as newly formed Godhead was easy. They decided that each of their offspring should be created in their image, after their own likeness.

 

For reasons that are forthcoming. they decided to create children in their likeness so that everyone would see certain aspects of an infinite Godhead radiating from each other.

 

In other words, each child of God would radiate some aspects of God and that child would be recognized and admired among his peers for his particular “God-like” behavior.

 

(The admiration of peers is a trait that comes from the three Gods that adore and admire each other.)

 

Because the members of the Godhead are free moral agents, the Godhead decided that every creature being must be given liberty and freedom and the power of choice (self direction), too.

 

These three Gods did not want a universe of robot-like-children.

 

No! Every child of God must be free to grow, explore and learn, free to choose his own direction and to make choices according to his thoughts.

 

These three God’s wanted to have a house of endless happiness and they knew that freedom was the cornerstone of happiness and the power of choice is only useful if there is freedom.

 

So, they agreed that every created being would be given a wide range of freedom and within this freedom; each creature could exercise his power of choice as he thought best.

 

These three Gods also understood and agreed that any child could rebel against them and their house rules if that child wanted to do so.

 

In other words, each child would be given free will and with that comes the ability to determine attitude and behavior.

 

Each child was free to choose love or hate, submission or rebellion.

 

(Again, these are the attributes of each God, and each child has them because we were created in God’s image.)

 

OK, that was Job One: The Godhead agreed that children would be created in their image and given a wide range of freedoms, fully capable of exercising their power of choice for self direction.

 

Of course, freedom and the power of choice meant each child would be held responsible for his actions – just as each God is held responsible for His actions by the other two.

 

The second decision of the Godhead was also easy. There would be two house rules.

 

The first rule is this:

 

Everyone must love and adore the Godhead in the same way that the three Gods love and adore each other.

 

Think about this: The first rule requires all created beings to love God with all their hearts, minds and souls.

 

You might think this would be easy in a perfect universe, but it isn’t.

 

It is a big challenge for free will beings, even among sinless beings, to always put God’s will first!

 

Remember, at one time Lucifer and his followers had sinless natures and they lived in a sinless place, yet they eventually found it impossible to love and adore God above everything else. In fact, they came to despise God!

 

Also, Adam and Eve had sinless natures at one time and they lived in a sinless place, and Adam found it too much, even in a sinless state, to put love for God first.

 

Back to the earlier point: The Word of God always produces confrontation, a challenge – even for sinless beings that have very good brains and the freedom to exercise their power of choice.

 

It is a challenge for a free will and free thinking being to maintain constant submission to God’s infinite and unusual wisdom.

 

More about Lucifer and his failure to do this later…)

 

The second law of love the three Gods embraced is this:

 

That everyone in the universe has to love those around them as much as they love themselves.

 

This is the way the three God’s treat each other and their children.

 

Again, you might think this would be easy in a sinless state, but it is a challenge for highly creative and intelligent beings having the power of choice to constantly put the welfare of others on the same plane as themselves.

 

I’ll demonstrate this in a moment when we get to the angels who sided with Lucifer.

 

Even though these two house rules are easy to recite, these two house rules are not simple at all.

 

They are not shallow and they are not easy to live by – even in a sinless universe, but conformity to them is the key ingredient to eternal happiness.

 

As I said earlier, the Word of God is designed to test, to educate and to reveal areas of growth in His children.

 

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