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3. In this series, we’ll look at some of the following:
•Were does evil come from?
•Did evil always exist?
•What can man about evil?
•What has God done about evil?
Where did Evil come from and did it always exist?
•Genesis 1:1 and 2
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth [became] without form,
and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters.
4. Gen 1:1 ในปฐมกาลพระเจ้าทรงเนรมิตสร้างฟ้าและแผ่นดิน
Gen 1:2 แผ่นดินก็ [กลายเป็น] ว่างเปล่าความมืดอยู่เหนือน้าและพระ
วิญญาณของพระเจ้าปกอยู่เหนือน้านั้น
•The text says that God created the heaven and the
earth.
It was a completed creation.
“For thus says the LORD that created the
heavens; God himself that formed the earth
and made it; he hath established it, he created
it not [empty], he formed it to be inhabited: I
am the LORD; and there is none else.” (Isaiah
45:18)
18 เพราะพระเจ้าผู้ทรงสร้างฟ้าสวรรค์ (พระองค์คือพระเจ้า) ผู้ทรงปั้นแผ่นดินโลกและทา
มันไว้ (พระองค์ทรงสถาปนามันไว้ พระองค์มิได้ทรงสร้างมันไว้ให้ยุ่งเหยิง
พระองค์ทรงปั้นมันไว้ให้มีคนอาศัย) ตรัสดังนี้ว่า “เราคือพระเจ้าและไม่มีอืนนใดอีก
5. To get the complete picture, we have to go back further
than the creation of the earth.
•God first created the angels (and gave them their own
place to inhabit) and there was no evil or sin.
He created 3 levels of angels:
Lower angels (they would look like and be able
to act like humans – you couldn’t tell the
difference )
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for
thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
(Hebrews 13:2)
2 อย่าละเลยทีนจะต้อนรับแขกแปลกหน้าเพราะว่าโดยการกระทา
เช่นนั้นบางคนก็ได้ต้อนรับทูตสวรรค์โดยไม่รู้ตัว
He created a class of angels called seraphim: they
were used by God to do his work.
6. He created a higher class of angels called cherubs.
These were very different in appearance from
what we think of as angels.
Above these cherubs, God created a special
cherub full of light and very beautiful, with
perfect wisdom; perfect in all his ways and he had
musical instruments built into him. He was so
bright that he was classed as the light bearer
(Lucifer).
Some people believe that he was in charge of
leading the other angels in worship of God.
He was the only angel allowed to be close to
God.
7. Ezek 28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
(12) Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyre [the
angelic power behind Tyre], and say to him, Thus said the Lord
GOD; You seal up the sum [you were the unique highest being of
my creation], full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
(13) You have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,
the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your
[tambourines] and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day
that you were created.
(14) You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you
so: you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up
and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
(15) You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were
created, until iniquity was found in you.
9. Job 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation
of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
Job 38:5 Who set its measurements – if you know – or
who stretched a measuring line across it?
Job 38:6 On what were its bases set, or who laid its
cornerstone –
Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang in chorus, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy?
So we know that Lucifer was a perfect holy angel
because there were no evil angels and Lucifer had to
have been there shouting for joy along with the other
angelic beings – in fact probably leading them.
10. Lucifer was there
leading the celebration
Job 38:7 when the
morning stars
sang in
chorus, and all the
sons of God
shouted for joy.
11. •This brings us up to Genesis 1:2- Something happened.
Gen 1:2 And the earth [became] without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.
•What happened was a rebellion in the heavens that seemed to
have effected the earth.
Ezekiel 28:15-17 and Isaiah 14:12-14 tell us of the sin that
entered into Lucifer’s heart.
Ezekiel 28:15-19 and Isaiah 14:12-17 give us a more
complete picture of the sort of destruction of the earth that
happened as a judgment against Lucifer.
So we see that pride was the first sin, and we can see that
it’s at the heart of all sin.
12. Ezek 28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day
that you were created, until [sin] was found in you.
Ezek 28:16 By the multitude of your merchandise they
have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have
sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the
mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezek 28:17 Your heart was lifted up [full of pride]
because of your beauty, you have corrupted your
wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to
the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may
behold you.
13. Ezek 28:18 You have defiled thy sanctuaries by the
multitude of your iniquities [sins], by the iniquity [sin]
of your traffic [merchandise]; therefore will I bring
forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour thee,
and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all them that behold you.
Ezek 28:19 All they that know you among the people
shall be astonished at you...
Ezek 28:15 เจ้าก็ปราศจากตาหนิในวิธีการทั้งหลายของเจ้าตั้งแต่วันทีนเจ้าได้ถูก
สร้างขึ้นมาจนพบความบาปชันวในตัวเจ้า
Ezek 28:16 ในความอุดมสมบูรณ์แห่งการค้าของเจ้านั้นเจ้าก็เต็มด้วยการ
ทารุณเจ้ากระทาบาปเราจะกาจัดเจ้าเสียจากภูเขาแห่งพระเจ้าและเครูบผู้
พิทักษ์นั้นก็ขับเจ้าออกไปจากท่ามกลางศิลาเพลิง
15. And so Lucifer was kicked out of heaven, although he
still has access to heaven and the throne of God to
accuse God’s people before the throne and God.
And now we come to the familiar event recorded in
Genesis 3.
God re-created the earth and it was pure and holy.
God even said it was “very good.” (Gen. 1:31)
Then along came Lucifer (who was now Satan) and He
deceived the woman with the same tactics he has used
in one form or another throughout the ages.
•Doubt: “Oh, has God really said that?…” (Gen.
3:1)
•Denial of God’s punishment for sinning: “You shall
not suddenly die” (Gen.3:4)
16. •Make God to appear to be evil: “God knows you’ll
have your eyes opened and become like Him and
He’s jealous of that, He’s evil to make you stay blind
to what you can be” (Gen. 3:5)
•Appeal to pride (his first sin): “You shall be like
God.” (Gen. 3:5).
Eve yielded to the temptation, although Adam was right
there (probably warning her against eating the fruit),
and disobeyed God because she doubtless let her pride
cause her to rebel.
Then Adam ate of the fruit to join Eve in her rebellion.
In that way evil entered the human race and it brought
the curse of death with it, as God promised it would –
not suddenly, but very surely because all of us will die
some day – if Jesus delays His return.
17. This is the way Satan presents
himself to us – as an angel of
light.
He tries to convince us that what
he wants us to do is not evil, but
will give us pleasure or will be
beneficial or “Nobody will know.”
He seldom appears as anything frightening or evil like
we see in popular presentations of him.
He uses his wisdom to try to cause us to doubt God’s
clear word and to twist it to have another meaning than
the clear word has.
18. Bible versions used in this presentations were:
King James Version and Thai Holy Bible 1971 Version