introduction to the kingdom of heaven
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INTRODUCTION TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
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Jesus prayed to His Father and asked Him to teach us on earth how to mirror
what was happening in the heaven. What God was doing in heaven should be
happening on earth.
God’s plan from the beginning was that the earth should be a mirror picture
of heaven.
This is what these teachings are about. Teaching you how we can mirror
heaven on earth.
Introduction Let’s start at the beginning of everything. Jesus was with His Father and the
Holy Spirit in heaven from the very beginning. Even before God created our
earth, the galaxies, Adam and Eve (the first people), they were there.
They looked down from heaven and saw that we had forgotten what heaven
was all about and how God wanted us to live according to His laws. His laws
are the rules He made long ago.
They knew ages ago what was going to happen on earth and God asked his
friends on the earth to write down everything He taught them and spoke to
them about. That is why we have the Bible today. You will see what God spoke
happened. God always speaks the truth and cannot lie. So should we speak the
truth and not tell lies. Then when we say something, people will believe and
trust us.
God is so clever, He even knew that people would start teaching us that He had
not created us and would start using big words like BIG BANG and EVOLUTION.
They try to close our ears and eyes with lies from hell because they do not
believe in God.
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As you learn more about God’s wonderful Kingdom and His plans you will fall in
love with Him and follow Him with your heart.
To come and teach us again, God told Jesus (His Son) that it was time (as they
had decided millions of years ago) to visit the earth and to come and teach us
Himself about heaven and His Kingdom. Jesus was the best person for this job
as He lived in heaven. He knew all the rules as He is the KING of heaven.
In these teachings you will learn heaven’s kingdom laws. This means what to
do and what not to do. God wants us to be happy and understand that what
He is doing in heaven, He wants us to be doing on earth.
To explain it plainly.
When you look in a mirror you see yourself. You’re looking at the original you.
So Jesus came down as God’s ORIGINAL MIRROR from heaven, God HIMSELF.
He came to teach us how to fix our hearts and follow Him to make His heart
and our Father God in heaven happy. In fixing our hearts we become more like
Jesus and our face in the mirror becomes more and more like Jesus.
When Jesus came down from heaven to visit us, He was described in our Bibles
as the second Adam. God sent Him from heaven to the earth as a Master copy
of HIMSELF this time around to teach and save us.
As we fix our hearts and start listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit and follow
God’s rules, we start to mirror heaven on earth.
And this has been God’s plan for always. He wants the earth to be like a mirror
picture of heaven.
Because we do not listen and obey God’s kingdom laws, this mirror copy is
broken and everything around us is broken too. When we do not listen and
obey God, He says that we are sinning against Him. This is what sin means in
plain language – breaking God’s rules.
Other people doing bad things to us can also break our mirrors. The reason we
can’t see Jesus clearly when we look into the heavenly mirror is:
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• Our own hearts become clouded and dark because we are angry
everyday with those people that hurt us.
• We are breaking God’s laws.
Working through these teachings will help you fix the broken mirror pieces of
your heart. As you listen and start understanding the Word and voice of God,
your life will start to mirror heaven on earth. And one (there is much more) of
the greatest gifts will be given to you…a new heart with God’s laws written on
it. Then as you look in your mirror you will start seeing the face of Jesus more
clearly.
By looking through our Bibles at the way Jesus and our Father God in heaven
did things, we too will understand what to do and how to do it on the earth.
When Jesus visited us on the earth He told us that He only does what He sees
His Father doing in heaven. He also only speaks what His Father in heaven tells
Him to speak. What Jesus is saying to us is that He is following His Father by
copying Him. Can you now see that Jesus was taught by His and our Father God
in heaven?
A wonderful thing happened. God’s trusted friends on earth, with the help of
the Holy Spirit, recorded the Words and actions of Jesus when He visited the
earth. How great is this? So, if we study the Bible (God’s Word) we too can
speak the Words of our Father in heaven. If we start understanding the Bible
and start doing what the Bible teaches us to do, then we too, just like Jesus,
are copying our Father God in heaven. This is going to make Jesus and our
Father in heaven very happy! The Holy Spirit will be happy too.
This is easy enough to understand.
Father God had also trusted friends that wrote down (recorded) what He, Jesus
and the Holy Spirit did on the earth from the beginning. So we have a lot of
heaven’s history to learn from. This is very exciting and means while we are on
the earth we can never stop learning about Jesus and His kingdom in heaven.
Why should we listen to God?
Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have to obey the rules of the earth as
they decided what those rules were going to be. They wrote the rules of
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heaven and earth. These rules stand for ever and ever. Not even God will
change these rules. They are called KINGDOM LAWS or KINGDOM RULES.
God gave us a copy of heaven’s rule book and called it the Bible.
God cannot ask us to listen to (obey) His rules if He breaks His own rules.
Then we will not listen, because we will say God is naughty and not listening
to His own rules, so why should we. Because God follows His own rules, we
have no excuse but to obey and live His rules.
Everything God does was already planned before He created us. He always
shares His plans with His close friends. Even today He still shares His plans
and rules with His close friends. God told them to write down His plans and
rules and they had to keep them in a safe place for us. Today, when reading
those plans and rules in our Bibles, we can see with our own eyes that the
Lord never tells a lie. He is true and always keeps His word. If He says yes, it
is a yes. If He says no, it is a no.
Did you know there are great rewards if we obey the Lord? But the first step to
these rewards is to ask Jesus into your heart. Upon asking Him into your heart
you are connecting heaven and earth in your own life. This is a SACRED portal.
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You are planting heaven’s flag in your heart and saying to the world and
heaven that your heart is now KINGDOM territory.
LIFE ORIGINATES AND FLOWS FROM THE HEART!
Now, together with God, you can start fixing your heavenly mirror. This means
the more you obey, talk to Jesus and listen to His voice and read your Bible, the
more clearly you will start to see Him. His Kingdom will start to grow and
expand in your heart. More and more of your heart will start to belong to Jesus
until Heaven’s kingdom is occupies all the space in your heart.
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Right at the end of our lives when we breathe out our last breath, we will go to
heaven and be with Jesus forever. How great is this?
Before we start looking at the life of Jesus, you can ask Him into your heart. I
wrote down a prayer which you can pray by reading it out aloud. If you are not
ready it is ok.
As you listen to these teachings and get to know Jesus, you can pray this prayer
ANYTIME and be at any place to accept Jesus and invite Him into your heart.
Jesus will be waiting for you! He is already knocking at the door of your heart.
Dear Jesus
I want to ask you to come into my heart please.
My heavenly mirror is broken because I was not listening to Your rules. I am
very sorry for all the wrong things that I did. I want you to please teach me and
help me fix my mirror so that I can see you face-to-face.
Amen
Now! Heaven’s treasure chest on earth is open!!!
You will now start to receive gifts and treasures from heaven.
Jer 31:33
The Message
"This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel
when the time comes. I will put my law within them--write it
on their hearts!--and be their God. And they will be my
people.
Luke 12:31-34 (MSG)
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Steep yourself in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
Don't be afraid of missing out. You're my dearest friends! The Father wants to give you the very kingdom itself.
"Be generous. Give to the poor. Get yourselves a bank that can't go bankrupt, a bank in heaven far from bankrobbers, safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on.
It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.
Luke 12:31- 34 (KJV) But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure
in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Today you will find the following gifts.
• A new heart with God’s Kingdom Laws written on it.
• Heaven’s flag planted into your new heart – proclaiming that heaven has
expanded on the earth.
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Eze 36:26 (MSG) I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed.
Homework assignment:
It will be good if you can get a book and write down your own words on paper
what you feel in your heart and what you think as you work through these
teachings. You will be happy if you do it. When you read through your book
(which is called a journal) and you look back at what you wrote, you will see
how God spoke to you and how you have climbed God’s ladder. You will also be
amazed to see how you have grown. I have written many journals. It is on this
website under Governmental Training.
As the Lord taught me I wrote it down and this is how these teachings came
about.
If you have invited Jesus into your heart…congratulations! You are now a CHILD
of the living God.
Asking Jesus into your heart means that something huge has happened.
Although you are living on the earth as a citizen of your country, you were also
born into heaven’s kingdom. You are now a BABY citizen of heaven’s kingdom
that needs to be taught heavens rules and how to start living your life on earth
and become a mirror picture of heaven.
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In your treasure chest (heart) you will find your heavenly birth certificate. You
are born into heaven’s Levi tribe on the earth and as you obey God’s Kingdom
Laws as His kingdom expands in your heart, you will grow into the Morning
Star generation.
GOD WANTS THIS GENERATION AIR BORN!
We need to start sitting in heavenly places!
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HEAVENS MIRROR
Let’s look at heavens mirror and see the same thing happened with Jesus:
Jesus was also born as a baby over 2000+ years ago on the earth.
Although Jesus had been living in heaven as a citizen of heaven, His
Father (now your Father too) sent Him down to earth. The only way
to enter earth is to come as a baby. God made this rule and He was
sticking to His own rule. That’s how you entered the earth too.
But although Jesus came as a baby, He was still a citizen of heaven and would
return to heaven 33 years later after He had taught us about Him and His
Father’s, the Holy Spirit’s and heaven’s rules (Kingdom Laws).
Now you want to know about the Holy Spirit. All I am going to tell you now is
that God is ONE God, although we talk about Father God, Jesus and the Holy
Spirit. As this is God we are talking about DO NOT TRY TO FIGURE HIM OUT
WITH YOUR BRAIN. Accept it, as this is how God explained Himself to us.
The Holy Spirit is the very BREATH of God (Ruach). Because we have breath we
are alive. When God created the first person (called Adam) out of the dust of
the earth, God blew His Holy Spirit (Breath) into his nose and he got breath. He
became alive.
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Then God created a woman out of man. He took one rib from Adam and
created the woman called Eve. Both were now created in the picture (image)
of God. If they looked in their heavenly mirrors they could see God very clearly
because they followed all His rules and spoke to him face-to-face EVERYDAY.
They were CONNECTED to heaven.
Then one day they sinned because they broke God’s laws. God had to punish
them and they were asked to leave the Garden of Eden that was like heaven.
God placed them on the earth.
Not knowing, God gave man and woman a measure of the same POWER as He
had. We too can create life. We can create babies. When a man and a woman
make love the man plants his seed into the woman’s body. If the woman’s
body is ready and it is the right time of the month in her cycle of birth, the
man’s (husband’s) seed and her seed meet to become ONE seed. This process
is known as conception. God had given the woman a safe place in her body
called the womb where this seed can safely grow into a baby. The baby stays in
the womb until its birth, connected to the mother through a cord which is
called the umbilical cord.
Adam and Eve created babies this way and this how the earth started filling up
with people.
When we look into our earthly mirrors, we look like both our parents.
God wants the same thing to happen when we are born into His kingdom.
When we are born into His kingdom, when we look into our heavenly (Spirit)
mirror, we should see Him (Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit).
This is God’s creation Law: At conception the child receives DNA from both the
father and mother. DNA is the carrier of our genetic information. It is passed
down from generation to generation. All the cells in our bodies, except red
blood cells, contain a copy of our DNA.
Because He is God, He knew millions of years ago that He had to give man a
measure of the same power to create life.
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Why?
How else could He send Jesus to the earth? He follows His own rules.
The birth of Jesus
Jesus was already alive and living in heaven and God needed Him to become a
baby born from a woman on earth according to God’s own rules.
So what God did to follow his own rules was this:
It is very interesting to see how clever God’s plan was. He already had the seed
(Jesus), He also had the Holy Spirit (breath) that would bring Jesus to life. But
he needed a safe place on the earth to plant heaven’s seed where it could
grow into a baby.
God is a Holy God. He always keeps His things separated and apart from sin.
He looked for a young girl that had never slept with a man or had sex before.
She is called a virgin. This means that her body and the safe place where babies
(her womb) grow, had never been used or entered by a man before.
God foretold the birth of Jesus many times over in the books of the prophets,
Psalms and Genesis in the Old Testament. To make sure people would KNOW
that it was Jesus that was born, in one of the books of the prophets a prophet
wrote what God had told him to write many years before. He wrote that a
virgin would conceive and give birth to a son. And they would call Him
Immanuel which means, our God is with us.
What God did with Jesus not to break His own rules and written word was this:
He found a young girl whose name was Mary. She was a virgin. The Holy Spirit
came upon her and the power of God hovered over her. Therefore the child she
brought to birth was called Holy, the Son of God, because He was conceived in
a supernatural way.
So, Joseph was not the father of Jesus, but our Father in heaven is and was the
Father of Jesus.
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The birth of Jesus was truly a miracle!
By now you should SEE that when we are born into the kingdom of heaven, it is
a MIRACLE all over again.
Walking on the earth…The mirror Jesus looked into was never clouded or
murky. He could always SEE HIS FATHER in HEAVEN and TALK to HIM FACE-to-
FACE.
That is why, when Jesus was a grown-up on earth, He told us that He only does
what He sees His Father is doing in heaven. He also only speaks what His Father
in heaven tells Him to speak.
You are ready to be taught further!
Every person on earth is born into a family. This gives each of us a place in a
family tree.
If you read Matthew 1 in your Bible you will notice an account (record), not of
heaven, but the human family tree of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was both man and God on the earth. He came from the family of King
David and also from the family of Abraham. And then a list of his ancestors
follows.
Jesus was born in a town called Bethlehem which was in the area of Judah.
Bethlehem means “the house of bread.”
King Herod ruled this kingdom from the capital city of Jerusalem. Wise men
(some call them Magi) came from the East to Jerusalem and paid King
Herod a visit. They asked a question: “Where can we find the King of the
Jews who has been born? We have seen His star in the sky in the East (the
Morning Star) and we have come to worship him and have brought him
gifts.”
These wise men were star watchers and very clever men. One of the things
they learned from watching the stars is when it is the best time to plant
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seeds and harvest crops. They wrote down everything they learned, so
should you.
They also understood kingdom laws. When one visits a king you have to
come with a gift. A person is not allowed to come before a king without a
gift. They brought their best gifts.
But when King Herod and the people in Jerusalem heard a new king had
been born in his kingdom, they were afraid.
He called all the high priests and the (people that write books about what is
happening in a kingdom) scribes. They came from every religion and every
corner. The king was worried and kept asking them where this new king
Jesus Christ would be born.
After searching for the answer, they all agreed. They told King Herod that,
in the book of the prophets a prophet had written what God had told him
to write many years before. He wrote that this birth would happen in
Bethlehem of Judah.
And this is what was written in the book of the prophets in our Bibles, as we
know it today: “Bethlehem of Judah, although you think you are
unimportant in the eyes of the kings of Judah, from you shall be born a king,
who will be a shepherd to my people Israel.”
Again we can be assured that nothing on this earth happens without God’s
true friends knowing what is going to happen. Years ago God also had true
friends and they wrote down everything God taught them and spoke to
them about. God has messages in His Bible that explain to His friends what
He is planning. Yes! Even for today and our future. God has good plans for
His friends and He wants us to grow in His Kingdom ways. He wants you to
become a true friend as well.
King Herod called the wise men and had a secret meeting. The king had a
wicked plan in his heart and needed more information. He asked questions
and learned from the wise men when they had seen the star for the first
time. Now he had all the answers he needed for his wicked plan.
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He told the wise men where to find the new born baby king. He then sent
them to Bethlehem, and said to them: “Go but be careful. Ask around for
the boy and see if you can find him. Once you have found him, come back
and tell me. I might want to go and worship him too.” He was not speaking
the truth as his mouth was full of lies.
As they left King Herod, looking up at the sky, they saw the same star (the
Morning Star) and it was showing them where to go. They followed this star
until it stopped. It stopped at the very place where the new baby king was.
The morning star made them very happy.
They entered the house and there was the baby with his mother Mary. In
worship they fell on the ground before the new born king and worshipped
him. They opened and unwrapped their gifts and gave them to him. These
gifts were gold, nice smelling perfume (frankincense) and an expensive
cream (myrrh).
Each time we come before our King Jesus in prayer, we should also come in
worship with a gift. The best gift we can give Jesus is a clean heart. The
more we clean our hearts, the more they become like gold and the nicer our
hearts smells to Jesus. This makes Jesus very happy as he then likes to visits
us because He comes and smells the perfume of our hearts. When He sees
that we are working at cleansing our hearts, He shares His secrets and plans
with us, His friends.
Have you ever fallen on your face on the ground to worship Jesus?
When the wise men left the baby, they had a dream. The dream told them
not to go back to King Herod. They were to go back to their own houses in
their own country. They listened and took another road.
After the wise men had left, an Angel spoke to Joseph in a dream. The Angel
said: “Get up, take the baby and his mother, get away from this place. Go to
Egypt and stay there until I tell you to come back. King Herod is getting
ready to come and kill the baby.”
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Joseph listened and got up immediately. He took the baby and his mother
when it was still dark. They went to Egypt just before King Herod had time
to put his wicked plan into action.
Did you see that Joseph always listened and did what he was told
immediately?
They stayed in Egypt until King Herod died. In the book of prophets a
prophet wrote many years ago: “I have called my son out of Egypt.” This
story now had come true, because God had said it would.
King Herod was still waiting for the return of the wise men. When King
Herod saw that the Wise men had not returned as he had asked, he got so
cross his face turned red and blue. He called his army. It was time to put his
wicked plan into action. He used the answer he got to his question to the
wise men. He counted the time since he had met the Wise men and came
up with the age of the baby boys that he needed to be killed. The age of
the baby boys his army had to kill was two years and younger.
Today the people of the world are still following King Herod’s wicked plan.
They kill their babies even before they are born. Or even more heart –
breaking, they throw away their babies in toilets and in rubbish cans
immediately after they are born. This breaks Jesus’ heart and makes him
cry.
Satan is also going to try to stop you. He hates you and he wants to kill you.
You are now a baby born into heaven’s kingdom on the earth. You are now
a danger to Satan and his wicked plans. Therefore you need to do these
teachings and obey God and make sure that you grow up fast and become
strong in the Word of God.
Again what a prophet wrote in the book of prophets came true. Many years
ago God told the prophet to write:
“A voice was heard in Ramah, crying and crying and crying. Rachel crying
for her baby boys. And no one could stop her from crying because the baby
boys were dead and would not come back.
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Years later the king died. When King Herod died, an Angel visited Joseph in
Egypt in a dream and said to him:
“Get up, take the boy and his mother and come to the land of Israel. Those
people that wanted to kill the baby are dead.”
If we stay close to Jesus He will warn us of danger in front of us.
Joseph listened and got up immediately. He took the boy and its mother
and started their journey to the land of Israel.
Did you see that Joseph always listened and did what he was told
immediately? Every time when he listened, he saved the life of Jesus. When
we listen to the Word of God, we also save our own lives.
Joseph heard that King Herod’s son Archelaus had become king in his
father’s place. He was afraid to go there and the Lord saw it. In another
dream God showed Joseph to go to the land of Galilee and not to the land
of Israel.
God can see what we are feeling and thinking in our hearts. If we stay close
to Jesus and talk to Him every day He will show us or tell us through a
friend, a dream, His Bible what to do or where to go. He will never leave us
alone or forget about us.
In the land of Galilee they stayed in a city called Nazareth. Again what a
prophet wrote in the book of prophets came true. God told the prophet to
write many years ago that Jesus shall be called a Nazarene.
If you live in Durban for example, you are called a Durbanite. Jesus stayed in
Nazareth and was therefore called a Nazarene.
I think as the Lord’s children on earth we should be called “Heavenites”or
“Kingdomnites” as the kingdom of heaven is already established within our
hearts and we are connected to heaven through our spiritual birth. This
means by accepting Jesus into our hearts we are now born into the
kingdom of heaven.
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Yes! While we live on the earth we now have dual citizenship. This means
we are a natural citizen of the country in which we were born AND we now
have spiritual citizenship of heaven called the Kingdom of Jesus.
Heaven
In heaven’s kingdom where Jesus lives there is no sin. God wants us to
mirror heaven in order for people to see heaven through us because we
can’t see God. This will attract people to God and they will also then have a
desire in their hearts to become part of this kingdom of heaven.
Sadly, you also need to be introduced to the Devil. He goes by many names
such as Satan and Lucifer. He is a fallen angel. He LOVES sin and wants
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everybody to sin and break God’s kingdom laws. He is teasing and mocking
God.
Here is the story about angels and fallen angels. Once you understand what
happened in heaven you will understand why our heart’s are so important
to both Jesus and the Devil. You will also understand why the earth looks
the way it looks and why people are acting the way they do and why there
is so much fighting going on around us.
Even before God created man (Adam and Eve) and the earth we live in, God
created angels. He created them to worship and serve Him. After God
created man, more jobs were given to the angels. God instructed them to
bring messages from heaven to the earth, to protect man. They had to
serve man but not worship man. They had a choice – God let them choose if
they wanted to serve Him and listen to His kingdom (heaven’s) rules. God
gave man the same choice.
We too can decide if we want to listen to God and follow his rules.
Now, this angel Lucifer was the most magnificent of all the angels God
created. God gave Lucifer a huge job. He was trusted and put in charge of
all the music in heaven and had many angel friends in heaven.
The Devil (who is called Satan or Lucifer) was looking at the throne of God
and became jealous of God. He started thinking in his heart that he could be
a better god than God himself.
How can anybody think that? God created the angels and not the angels
God. They were under the Lord’s orders and protection as long as they
followed God’s rules.
Lucifer made a big mistake! He did not protect his heart and allowed the
wrong things he was thinking to grow in his heart. Instead of talking to Jesus
and sharing what he was thinking in his heart and asking Jesus to help him
not to think all these wrong things, he went to his angel friends and started
talking to them.
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Not all the angels listened to these wicked and wrong thoughts. Those
angels that knew that God was the only God and that He had created them,
walked away from Lucifer.
This did not stop him. He kept on sharing his bad ideas and thoughts with
the angels around him. From his heart started to flow words of death,
poison and rebellion against God. He wanted the angels to choose between
him and God.
He wanted the angels to serve him and leave God. He wanted to take over
God’s throne and claim it for himself. Lucifer wanted to become God.
Jesus said that our hearts are where life begins. This means we should
always try to speak words of truth and live this truth as we are taught in the
Bible, then truth will flow from our hearts to the people’s hearts around us.
If they receive this living water from heaven, it will produce life in their
hearts too. That is why it is so important to protect our hearts.
The angels that did not follow this kingdom rule and did not protect their
hearts, started drinking from the poison and death that flowed from
Lucifer’s heart as he shared his rebellious thoughts and poison with them.
That seed started to grow in their hearts. They started to believe Lucifer
that they could overthrow God’s thrown. Lucifer was building up an army of
angels whose hearts became wicked and rebellious towards God. He
managed to poison one out of every three angel’s hearts against God in
heaven. He managed to win over one third of heaven’s angels. One third
was poisoned to believe that Lucifer would be their God.
Now, God was not happy at all about this rebellion against Him. God
commanded Lucifer and the angels that had chosen Lucifer as their new
god to leave heaven.
You will notice that Lucifer had to obey God. God was superior to Lucifer.
And Lucifer and his angels were thrown (expelled) from heaven. God is a
holy God and can’t associate Himself with sin.
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In all fairness, God gave Lucifer his own kingdom and territory and sent him
to this kingdom which is called Hell.
Hell is a place without the presence of God. It is the complete opposite of
heaven.
In this place called Hell, Lucifer could rule and be a god over his angels. He
could now make his own kingdom rules which these wicked angels had to
follow. The Bible refers to these angels as fallen angels. They have fallen
from heaven and have fallen from God’s grace (mercy).
You need to understand something very important. There are ETERNAL
KINGDOM LAWS that God created right from the start. These LAWS cannot
be broken or changed. Even God follows His own rules. As Lucifer was a
citizen of heaven before, he was taught these laws and he understood
these laws. He was judged by these very same laws and therefore expelled
from heaven. We as the human race are also judged by these laws and
were given the Bible as God’s Law book.
Understanding what God did to Lucifer will make us understand why we go
to heaven or hell depending on the status of our hearts…depending which
god or GOD we choose to serve. Depending which god or GOD is ruling as
king over our hearts. This will make you understand HOW MUCH GOD
LOVES US. He had a plan through His Son Jesus because He knew what
Lucifer was going to do to the human race…me and you. He had a plan to
save us from committing the same big mistake as Lucifer did.
Let’s look at what happened to Lucifer’s heart and that of his fallen angels.
They did not listen and obey this very important kingdom law to protect
their hearts. The more they lived without the presence of God, the darker
and more wicked their hearts grew. There was no more space for God and
heaven’s kingdom rules. From these fallen angels’ hearts flowed poisonous
water that killed and destroyed every heart that came in contact with them.
Their hearts and minds became totally twisted and full of pride. They have
reached a point of no return. They serve Satan and the kingdom of Hell and
darkness with all of their wicked hearts.
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Satan hates us because God loves us so much. He wants the human race in
Hell with him. He does not want us to make space for Jesus in our hearts.
Working through the rest of these teachings will teach you how to make
more space for Jesus in our hearts.
Let’s start by cleaning our hearts…Jes