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AS YOU know, my name is Stephael and I am an Archangel. My job was to protect Dallas Taylor and his family. I told you I was going to tell you how I changed things so the Devil would not know the time that Dallas would be born. I was ready to tell you the story, but God told me I was supposed to tell you about the Devil and how he became the god of the earth. Since I was commanded to tell you the story of the things that happened before the earth was formed and the story of the things that will happened on earth right up to the Rapture, I believe it is best to start at the beginning.

  The story begins before there was an earth. God formed all things and without God, nothing was formed. Before He, the Son, and the Holy Spirit made earth, They created a group of special beings called Angels. There are two kinds of angels. There are the regular angels and then there are the mighty Archangels. I am one of those angels, as are Lucifer, Michael, Azael, Raphael, Uriel, and Gabriel, just to name a few.

  Before there was an earth, our job was to do anything God commanded us to do. As you read this, you may be wondering: What could an angel do in Heaven? One of the most important things we can do is to praise the Creator and give him all of our worship and honor. That is really where the story begins.

  We angels love to praise the Lord and give Him the honor that is due Him. But there was one angel that thought all of that praising and honoring was useless and was not needed. His name was Lucifer. Even though he was an Archangel and the very first being that God ever created, he was not like the other angels. Lucifer had a lot of pride in his heart and he was not satisfied with the idea of being just an Archangel. He wanted to be more than just a servant.

  Lucifer knew that he was the first angel that God ever created and he knew he was the most powerful angel that God ever created. Knowing those things is where the problem first started. Pride can affect even a being as powerful as an Archangel. Once an angel or a human gets to the point where they believe they are more than what they are, there will be a problem.

  I will say there were other problems with Lucifer other than the pride. Lucifer was also jealous of God and when God created more angels, he was jealous of them as well. The main reason he was jealous of the other angels was because he wanted to be the only angel in Heaven. Once God created the second angel, the jealousy began. Then, when God created another angel and another, the jealousy deepened and the jealousy turned to hatred.

  When God created Michael, who is the second most powerful Archangel, the problems with Lucifer started to overflow. Lucifer hated Michael from the very second God created him. God placed in Michael a very strong personality that was willing to summit to God, but not to other angels. Michael would not submit to the commands of Lucifer and that made Lucifer very mad. As a matter of fact, the hatred drove Lucifer to the point of wanting to kill Michael. However, that is something that God would not allow. God can make an angel cease to exist, if that is His will. He has a place where He can put an angel that rebels; that place is called Hell. God knew before They created angels that many of them would rebel and They had to make a place where they would be for eternity. That place was made specifically for the Devil and his angels.

  From the time that God created Lucifer, God knew the heart of the greatest angel He had ever created. This angel wanted to be God or he wanted to be like God. Lucifer knew in his heart he could never be God, so he wanted to be like God. If he could be like God, he could command the angels to worship him and they would do what they were commanded. Lucifer did not realize there would be a problem, because he did not know that all the angels would not follow his commands. God is the one who commands and most of us follow His commands only. Those following the commands of Lucifer were the ones that thought things should be the way that he was telling them they should be.

  Lucifer tried to command all of the angels in Heaven to do the things that he thought should be done. Some of the angels followed his commands, while others would only listen to the things that God commanded. Two thirds followed the commands of God, while one third decided to listen to Lucifer. By listening to Lucifer, they were going down a road they would regret for eternity.

  The battle that will take place in Heaven will not take place right away. God is longsuffering and He gives chance after chance to the angels that are not abiding with the commands that He gives. Even though the angels and their leader are not committing sins, they are on the verge of doing that very thing.

  God knows everything and He knew that He was going to create a place called Earth. He also knew that He wanted there to be a Universe and in the Universe there would be billions of Galaxies and, in each Galaxy, there would be Solar Systems. Earth would be in a Solar System that would have a Sun and other planets. It would be placed exactly where God wanted it placed so it would not be too close to the Sun, where it would melt or boil the planet, and He placed it so it would not be too far from the Sun, so the planet would be too cold for life.

  The reason God wanted Earth to be placed exactly where He put it was because of what He was going to do in the near future. He was going to create a human being. When He told all of Heaven what They were going to do, we angels had no idea what a human was going to look like or what function a human would have. We never tied the two together. What I mean is, we never thought that Earth was going to be the place where humans would live.

  When I said we angels never thought that Earth was going to be formed for humans and we had no idea what function a human would have was not totally correct. There was one angel that started thinking about the planet and about the human. Because of the heart of Lucifer, he started to think about the human that God was going to create. This being, called a human, may have a will as strong as Michael, but he may not have. If he does not have a strong will, he will be easy to command. If he is easy to command, he could do everything that Lucifer commanded him to do. This would include worshipping the created other than the Creator.

  Lucifer continued with his assault and intimidation of the other angels. More and more of the angels were giving in to the pressure from Lucifer. For some angels, the pressure was too great, and they fled to the throne of God. At the throne, they could find refuge and they knew Lucifer would not enter into that area, because of his rebellion toward God.

  Like I said, God is longsuffering and he gave Lucifer every chance to change his ways and to get straight with the Lord. He did not want to seek forgiveness. As a matter of fact, Lucifer became worse than ever. God has drawn a line and, if you cross that line, there are no other chances God will give you. The same thing holds true for Lucifer. God let Lucifer get away with one thing after another until Lucifer demanded that the angels who followed him drop to their knees and worship him as God.

  When Lucifer made the decision to have his followers drop to their knees and worship him, God had seen enough. Lucifer had crossed the line of no return. God proclaimed that Lucifer had committed a sin and that sin would expel him from the heavenlies. It was also the time that God changed the name of Lucifer to Satan and the Devil. All the angels that were left in Heaven knew Lucifer as Satan and, to show even more contempt for him, they called him the Devil.

  Because God is Holy, He cannot look upon sin or have sin in His presence. The Devil and a third of the angels, who followed him, had to be expelled from Heaven, God's home. However, that did not mean they were expelled from the heavenly area. The Devil and his angels were still in an area of heaven until God created the universe.

  At that time, God created Earth and, a little later, God created a human being that He called Man. Man would have one job and that was to cultivate or to till a place that God called the Garden of Eden.

  The garden had all kinds of plants, flowers, and trees. Two of the trees that were in the garden were the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Both of these trees were very unique. If a human were to eat of the Tree of Life, they would live forever and, if a human were to eat of the Tree of
Knowledge of good and evil, they would know the difference between right and wrong.

  God commanded that man could eat of all the fruit in the garden with the exception of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. God stated, "For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." God then commanded the man, whom He named Adam, to name all the animals He had created. The name that Adam chose for the animals would be their names forever.

  After naming all of the animals, God looked and saw that each animal had a mate with the exception of Adam. God then put Adam into a deep sleep and removed a rib and formed a help meet for him. Adam called his help meet Woman, because she was bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh. Adam now had someone to help him in the Garden of Eden.

  The Devil looked upon earth and knew what God had done. He saw the man and the woman and his desire to be worshipped overwhelmed him with pride and greed. The Devil looked upon the earth and saw the most beautiful creature that God had ever created and he decided to talk with the serpent. We were never told what the Devil said to the serpent, but whatever it was, it was enough for the serpent to commit a sin.

  The plan was made and the serpent knew exactly what he was going to do. One day when the Woman was walking in the garden, the serpent asked a very simple question, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

  Immediately the man and the woman had their eyes opened to the fact that they were naked. They found fig leaves and sewed them together so their nakedness would not be seen by God when He came into the garden. Every day, God would go to the garden and talk and walk with Adam and his wife. When God entered the garden Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

  The plan the Devil had devised worked perfectly. However, the serpent failed to realize that it would cost him a lot. The serpent would be cursed and the way he would live would be changed forever. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of they life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The serpent begged and pleaded with God to change His mind, but the serpent was guilty and there is always a price to pay when one is guilty.

  Adam and his wife were guilty, also, and there had to be a price they would have to pay. They would be expelled from the garden, which was a small price to pay. The real price they had to pay was their fellowship with the LORD. No longer would the LORD walk every evening with Adam and his wife in the garden. The close fellowship Adam and his wife shared with God no longer existed. Adam and his wife had a new companion walking with them and that was sin. Not only would sin be with Adam and his wife, but sin would enter the human race. Every human born on earth with the sinful blood of Adam would be cursed. The only human born without the sinful blood of Adam would be the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

  When Adam and his wife were expelled from the garden, the curse that God pronounced upon them would start. Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

  God knew that Adam and Eve would be able to live forever if they were to eat of the Tree of Life. In order for that not to happen, God placed a guard at the entrance of the garden to protect the Tree. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to gurad the way of the Tree of Life.

  Adam and Eve knew each other and they had a child by the name of Cain. Because of the sinful blood of Adam, he passed it to his son and to every human in the world, with the exception of one human and you already know who that person was. Cain was just like the Devil, that being the pride and the arrogance of a being that believes they are more than what they really are.

  With Cain came the first real victory over a human that the Devil registered in his book called the Book of Death. Every person that rejects God, or His Son Jesus Christ, will be in the Book of Death. God does not register those people in the book; it is the Devil. When the Devil believes he has won the victory and a person is walking down the path of destruction, he will place them in his book. Many times, he has to change his book because when a person is on the verge of death, a person will accept Christ. When that person accepts, the Devil must remove that person's name from the Book of Death.

  The complete opposite is true for the believer. Their name is written in the Book of Life. The Book of Life is the book that God keeps on all humans. Before the Earth was ever formed, God knew who would accept and who would reject. All humans that would accept had their names written in the Book of Life. All those that reject never had their names written in the Book of Life.

  Adam and Eve had a second son by the name of Abel. Abel was a true follower of God and Cain was a true hater of God. The hatred Cain had for God followed Abel into the field one day. Cain took a club and struck Abel in the head and killed his brother. When asked about his brother by God, Cain answered and stated that he was not his brother’s keeper. God knew what Cain had done and that innocent blood was shed. The battle between good and evil had started and the Devil had won the first battle.

  There would be many battles to follow, but the one battle that was fought on a hill in Jerusalem was won by the Lord Jesus Christ. With that battle, Christ died for all of the sins of the world. All a human has to do is to accept Him and they will be born again. Abel had placed his faith in God and, when he was killed by his brother, he received eternal life.

  When that battle was over, God informed the Devil that he would be the god of the earth and that some of the angels that fell with him would become demons. However, not all would become demons. There was a group that was so terrible that they were chained up for eternity, so they would not be able to tempt humans.

  The End Time prophet known as the Care Taker is in the same dangerous field that Abel was in when Cain found him a
nd killed him. Death is licking at the heels of Dallas Taylor and, if it was not for God sending me to protect Dallas, he would have ended up just like Abel. He would have been murdered.