Pastor-teacher
Don Hargrove
Faith Bible
Church
Sunday, August,
16, 2009
Mat 7:22-23
THE ANGELIC CONFLICT & HUMAN HISTORY
(Messiah &
A.C. #244)
A. The Angelic Conflict.
1. The angelic conflict refers to the warfare
between God and Satan as it is played out in the arena of the freewill choices
of the human race.
2. The angelic conflict and philosophy of
history.
3. Between the passing of the sentence &
its execution at the end of the Millennium, an appeal trial is occurring in
human history with volition as issue.
4. The angelic conflict includes 3 trial
phases.
5. One of the main reasons for the creation of
mankind was to duplicate the conditions of the prehistoric angelic conflict.
6. The pattern of negative volition started with
Satan's original sin, Isa 14:12‑15.
7. Human volition and angelic volition are
tested in the same manner.
a) Satan and Adam were both created in a perfect
state of “innocence.”
b) Angels and man have freewill.
c) Adam freely and deliberately chose to follow
the pattern of arrogance. d) The Fall of Adam duplicates the fall of
Satan.
e) The rebellion of Satan in the Garden of God
resulted in the fall of angelic beings (Rev 124b), just as the disobedience of
Adam in the Garden of Eden.
f) Through the exercise of freewill angels are
divided into categories, elect and fallen (Heb 2:);
Rev 12:7; humans are also divine into two categories, Jn
3:36.
g) All humans are on a stage and our decisions
in life constitute a theater-type produced for all angels to witness the
perfect justice and love of God.
h)
Therefore the issue is what man’s volition chooses just as the issue in
the angelic realm was volition.
i) It is not what God allows, or what Satan
endeavors to do, but what man’s freewill allows, chooses, and pursues.
j) It
really is all about volition – for POG of KD.
k) The issue in human history is twofold: salvation and the plan of God. 8. Christ’s Victory in the Angelic Conflict and
the challenges and privileges He provides for every church age believer.
B. Bird’s Eye view of the AC throughout human
history from eternity past to David.
1. The eternal
existence of the triune God.
2. God creates the universe – ex nihilo, Gen
1:1.
3. God creates Lucifer along with over one
hundred million angelic beings differing in intelligence, authority, and power,
Eph 1:21; Col 1:16; Dan 10:13; Heb 1:13-14; Mt 22:30; 2 Sam 14:20; 2 Pt 2:11;
Mt 24:36; Gen 19:1; Ez 28; Mt 24:36; Gen 19:1; Isa
14:12-15.
4. Lucifer rebels and thus gains the title of
Satan.
5. Satan becomes the great revolutionary, the
enemy of God and every member of God’s family, and anything that is associated
with the true God, Rev 12:9-10.
6. Satan was able to persuade a sizeable number
of angels to join him
7. Judgment and devastation throughout the
universe, Gen 1:2.
8. God:
opportunity of grace for Satan and his angels.
9. Rejection of grace and sentencing of Satan
to the Lake of Fire, Mt 25:41.
10. Satan’s countercharges and appeals to
God.
11. God’s decision to give Satan’s rebellion a
thorough trial.
12.
God’s move: restoration of the earth and creation of Adam and Eve.
13.
… Satan's move: temptation and
fall of Adam and Eve.
14.
God's move: Promise of a
Redeemer, Gen 3:15
15.
…Satan’s move: murder of Cain to prevent the coming of the Savior.
16.
God's move: Seth – the line for
the Messiah. .
17.
…Satan's move: corruption of the
human race, Gen 4-5.
18. God's move: Enoch, Gen 5:22.
19. … Satan's move: demonic infiltration into the human race, Gen
6.
20. God's move: Flood and Noah.
21. …Satan's move: Tower of Babel.
22. God's move: Diversity of languages.
23. … Satan's move: Religion and polytheism – diversity!
24. God's move: calling of Abraham.
25. … Satan's move: temptation of Abraham.
26. God's move:
Israelites into Egypt.
27. …
Satan's move: attempted
annihilation of all Jews, Ex 1:8-22.
28. God's move:
Moses and 10 plagues.
29. …
Satan's move: motivated Pharaoh
to destroy the Israelites.
30. God's move: exodus.
31.
… Satan's move: use testing to incite God’s people against
Him.
32. God's move:
provision – logistical grace and the WOG (MC).
33. … Satan's move: Golden Calf.
34. God's move: getting the people to Kadesh Barnea.
35. … Satan's move: terror in hearts of
Israel, unbelief and revolution
36. God's move: new generation under Joshua.
37.
… Satan's move: compromise and decadence, Judges 21:25.
38. God's move:
raise up Samuel (1 Sam 1-3).
39. … Satan's move: Samuel's evil sons and the clamor for a king.
40. God's move: Saul.
41. … Satan's move: Saul's apostasy and demonism.
42.
God's move: David and the Davidic
covenant.
C. Overview of the first five direct
prophecies of the Messiah.
1. #1, Gen 3:15; 4:1, the Messiah, Seed of
Woman.
2. #2, Gen 22:18; Gal 3:16; Messiah, through
lineage of Abraham.
3. #3, Gen 49:10: Messiah through lineage of Judah.
4. #4, Numbers 24:16-17, King Messiah
5. #5, Dt 18:15-19,
the Messiah will be like Moses.
D. Jesus, not Mohammed, is the fulfillment of
the prophecy about the Prophet/Messiah who would be “like” Moses.
1. All “likenesses” that Islam uses to compare
Moses and Muhammad are arbitrary and as a result of eisegesis.
2. Correct interpretation requires the
understanding of the importance of isagogics and the principal of authorial
intent.
a) To whom is God speaking?
b) Who are the brothers? (Dt
18:1-2)
c) What is the likeness?
3. Biblical likeness = the prophet would be a
mediator.
4. Biblical likeness = the prophet would speak
in the name of Yahweh.
5. Biblical likeness = the prophet would not
speak presumptuously.
6. Biblical likeness = the prophet would know
God face to face, Dt 34:10; Ex 33:11; Jn
17:5, 24-25
7. Biblical likeness = signs, wonders, and
might power, Dt 34:10-12.
8. The New Testament confirms that Jesus is the
promised prophet like Moses, Jn 1:45; Luke
24:27, 44; Acts 3:22;