Genesis Lecture 12 (Spiritual Being 1)

Bible passage: Genesis 1:1 
“ In the beginning God created heavens and the earth”

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord.

 All saints from branch churches, and local sanctuaries. GCN viewers and all children of God who attend the worship online. 

This is the 12th Lecture on Genesis. Let’s review briefly what we have learned so far. In the beginning, God the Origin existed in the original space in the form of the Light that contained the Sound (or Voice). At a certain time, God the Origin cohered as a light at the vertex of the spiritual realm to begin the human cultivation. At the same time, the original space was divided into four spaces that have different density of the spirit and different brightness of the light. This is how the first, second, third, and fourth heavens were created. 

The light that cohered at the vertex of the spiritual realm was divided into three different lights, and each put on a spiritual form that is like that of man. That is, God the Origin became God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The process of God the Origin being God the Trinity was the Division of the Spirit in which original entities came forth from the one original entity. That is, two more original entities were made from the only one original entity. The division of the spirit in which the others original entities from the original entity took place only once and at this time. And it is only God the Trinity that has the ability to separate spirits from its original entity. Therefore, not only God the Father, but also God the Son and God the Holy Spirit can freely divide their Spirit as They please. However, it is the division of the Spirit that “sub-entities” come out of the original entity. Through the division of the spirit, God the Trinity has managed so many works throughout the history of human cultivation. 

Different names are used in the Bible according to the characteristics of His work done, or to the roles of God. There are about 30 names that refer to God the Trinity. I spent last 8 lectures to explain the meaning of each of these names. Beginning with this lecture, I will explain the works of the Creation after God the Origin became God the Trinity. God the Trinity created what is necessary first in the place where He stays. When God existed in the original space as the light that contained the sound, He didn’t need a separate place to stay. He did not need a place because He was in the form of light and sound. However, He now needed a place to stay since He put on a form. God the Trinity, or course, can either put on the form or not when He is in the Fourth Heaven. 

God can change His form as freely as He pleases in His heart. Because the attribute of the Fourth Heaven is the same as the original space. However, God the Trinity puts on a form in the Third Heaven. And there are places for God the Trinity own to stay in the Third Heaven. Of course, there is a place for God the Trinity in the fourth heaven as well. It is the place that is necessary only when God the Trinity puts on a form. When He created this place, God the Trinity created spiritual beings that co-exist with Him and that He oversees.

 There are two kinds of spiritual beings that God oversees; they are ‘angels’ and ‘cherubim.’ God created angels and cherubim with His word. I am going to explain about these angels and cherubim over the next few lectures. An angel is almost the same in its form as that of a man except that it has wings. There are various shapes of ‘cherubim’. The spiritual beings that have the appearances of forms such as lions, eagles, and cows are all cherubim. Dragons are generally considered imaginary creatures, but they were originally a kind of cherubim. I will come back to ‘cherubim’ later, but for now, I’m going to tell you about angels. 

Let’s take a look at general characteristics of angels. Since the shape of angels is almost the same as that of a man, some parts of the Bible described ‘angels’ as ‘men’. For example, when the Lord resurrected, the women who went to the tomb saw an angel. For this, Mark 16:5 says that ‘they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe.’ The angel looked like a young man. For this same scene, however, John 20:12 describes it as ‘two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.’ When the Lord ascended into Heaven, two angels appeared to His disciples who were gazing into the sky. 

But for this, Acts 1:10-11 says that ‘two men in white clothing’ told them that the Lord would come back. From the fact that the people of the bible who witnessed angels described them as men, we can see that the shape of angels is similar to that of men. When they spread their wings, it’s easy to know they are angels but when folding their wings, it’s difficult to tell if they are angels or humans. Their backs with their wings folded look almost human-like, making it difficult to tell whether they are angels or not. Just as man was created in the image of God, angels were also created in the image of God. Of course, angels were created before men. However, there is a clear difference between men and angels. Angels only resemble the outward image of God, but man was created to resemble even His heart. This I will explain in great detail when we get to the creation of Adam the first man. 

Now, since the shape of an angel is similar to that of a man, is the size and height also similar each other? There are angels that are similar to men. However, there are very tiny angels and huge angels as well. There are also male angels and female angels (in attribute?). However, it doesn’t mean that angels have physiological features of a man or a woman. Angels don’t need to marry or to breed just as men do. They just follow the orders of God and do their roles. However, according to their roles, they may have the form and characteristics that are masculine or feminine. For example, if there is an angel who plays the role of an army general, which form would be more appropriate, a male form or a female? Of course it is a male shape. What about dancing and singing? Then a female form might be more suitable. Well, I don’t mean that there are no male angels that dance and sing. Just as there are male dancers in this world and they play their roles, there are male-like angels as well. 

Dear brothers and sisters. When God created angels and cherubim, He didn’t give them the humanity. Humanity was not given to angels He created them so that they would only obey orders according to their hierarchy. However, angels can also feel the heart of God whom they are serving. Let me make an example of animals. Man raises animals such as cows, horses, pigs, chickens, and dogs. Among these animals, for example, can chickens feel the heart of their owner? No, they can’t. There are exceptions as with dogs. If dogs stay with their owner over a long period of time, they can feel the heart of their owner a little bit. If an owner gets angry, his dog can feel it, put its tail between legs, and tries to read the owner’s face. On the other hand, if the owner rejoices, his dog also wags it tails and they rejoice together. Likewise, angels can also show various facial expressions and attitudes according to a given mood. If their master sings praises and dances with joy, the angel also follows the master in happiness. 

If the master laughs at something funny, the angel also laughs following the master. If the master becomes sad, the angel also looks sad, and sits down helplessly. According to the status of the master’s mind, the look and attitude of the angel also changes. The characteristics of angels also vary according to their given duties. For example, the angels that sing or dance usually laugh with ease. Some angels are playful, and they are good at making funny faces. On the other hand, the angles that play the role of a security guard don’t laugh. In the same way, there are angels that are given a unique duty in the spiritual realm, but there are other angels that minister the children of God on earth. Hebrews 1:14 says, “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” Angels are spirits sent by God and He sends them to this earth for His children. 

So, each of you has an angel. And they serve you If you live according to God's will, you can avoid disasters and diseases because your angels protect you from the enemy, Satan the devil. Since God sends angels for the heirs of salvation, if one is not saved, his name will not be in the book of life and no angel will be sent. As recorded, a child of God is assigned at least one angel that ministers that child. If you believe this fact, what should you do? If you doze off during a worship service, you should know how much your angel tries to wake you up. The angel will say like, “Master, you shouldn’t doze off. It is rude before God”, and desperately try to wake you up. However, the voice of angels is spiritual, and so you cannot audibly hear it. It is because you are spiritually asleep, not fleshly. In other words, you have too much untruth in your heart. So, when you listen to the Word during the worship service, you cannot understand it due to your fleshly thoughts. Moreover, if you have idle thoughts, you cannot concentrate and easily fall asleep. In this case, no matter how desperately your angel tries to awaken you, you cannot hear its voice. On the other hand, to the extent you fill your heart with the truth you can hear the voice of the spirit well. 

Even if you cannot see your angel with spiritual eyes, you can sense, “The angel must be feeling like this now.’ Even if you cannot feel it, since you know it now, please try to do what your angel desires for you. It is also doing what God likes. If you gossip and speak ill of someone, your angel will stay away from you. The Bible tells us not to gossip, not to judge, not to condemn. People who always judge others talk and condemn them as if they can read their minds. But if you do so, you have to break that frame of thinking, otherwise you are far from going to the spirit. Also if you backbite others, your angels turn back from you. This is justice and the law in spiritual world. Well, your angel will say first, “You shouldn’t do this or that.” However, if you don’t listen to it, but continue to do it, the angel will stand farther from you and eventually turn its back to you. 

They stay about 10 to 20 meters away from you. If your angel ignores you like this, the enemy devil and Satan will never lose this opportunity. An angel should be by your side to protect you, but because it don't, dark forces take advantage of that gap. They will incite and instigate you to speak more words of untruth. On the contrary, if you live by the word of God, your angel will be so much pleased. And it will stay close beside you, keep you, and protect you. It is a blessing to have an angel by your side. As your faith grows and you move further into the spirit, your guardian angel changes. A bigger and more powerful angel comes to protect you. Even if you encounter a dangerous accident, an angel can keep you safe. There are many believers who have been involved in a car accident and had their car damaged to the point of being scrapped, but were not physically injured. Also some believers who are fine even though their bodies are thrown out the window of a car traveling at high speed and fall on the ground. And they said that they felt someone was holding them up and supported comfortably. 

If you live in the light by the word of God, you can be protected by angels in any situation. In addition, angels are recording your every word and action in Heaven. There is an angel who records all your heart, thoughts, intentions, actions and words. Therefore, not a single word spoken on this earth falls to the ground, and on the day of Judgment, you are judged according to your words. If you remember these things, you will not speak carelessly. Please keep in mind that those who speak carelessly will be judged for it on Judgment Day. Are you too scared of this? So the Bible tells you to live honestly and get rid of even a form of evil. If you remember what you said carelessly and repent, you can be forgiven, but the problem is that many people do not remember. It's written all over the Bible that a word you speak has authority to kill or save, and that you will be judged based on that. You can remember your actions, but you can't repent of what you said because you spit it out and don't remember it. As time passes by. 

So, because the wall of sin was not torn down, it remains. So, even if you have said something, you must quickly repent. ‘Oh, I spouted untruth,’ ‘I said something evil,’ ‘I judged and condemned someone.’ Even if you are jealous and envious, you must be able to repent right away. And the record will be submitted as the evidence of judgment during the Great White Throne Judgment. I don’t mean that you can’t be saved because of telling something bad. As long as you do not commit sins that lead to death, you have a chance to be saved. The Bible records cases in which people cannot be saved: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, blasphemy, disobedience or pretense, sins that clearly crucify the Lord on the cross, lukewarm faith that abandons God, and God will reject these cases. The Bible records that in cases like this, people are abandoned if they don’t turn back from the wrong way. 

These things will eventually destroy the rewards you have accumulated. In Matthew 18:10, Jesus said, “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.” The Bible tells us not to despise even one of the little ones. That child also has an angel guarding him. If you look down on him, his angel will see you and present you to God. According to this Bible verse, the angels who protect others and who protect you always see the face of God and report it to Him. Therefore, I urge you to live all the more perfectly in the light by believing that an angel is right beside you. Don't ignore these words. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. God created the whole universe, and searches every man on earth. An angel is assigned to each man on earth, and records their every word and action. These angels are in Heaven. I also told you that at least one angel is assigned to each man on earth to minister to them. 

The number of these angels is so huge. The total number of the angels that God created is uncountable. And the world of angels is well organized. In the Bible, there are not only angels, but also heavenly host and archangels. Luke 2:13 says, “And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host.” Here, the heavenly host is the heavenly army. They are heavenly soldiers. Therefore, we can see that there are angels that play the role of soldiers. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 also says, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God.” In this way, the existence of an “archangel” indicates that there is a hierarchy in the angelic world. In fact, the world of angles is very strictly organized like a government organization of a nation in this world. The government of this country has the Prime Minister who is the head of the Administration, and there are many departments beneath him. 

There are the Department of Defense, of Administration, of Culture and others, and the head of each department is called a Minister. The Minister-equivalent in the world of angels is the archangel. Archangels play the role of God the Father’s hands, feet, eyes, and ears, and they search various fields. They receive direct orders from God the Father, and they report to Him. Underneath such archangels, there are countless angels. In fact, there are many different ranks and organizations in the spirit world, but in the Bible they are only expressed as archangels and angels. Below the archangel, there is a certain number of head angels. It is very similar to the Roman army's centurion system. Just as a commanders led a thousand soldiers and a centurion commands a hundred, modern armies also have different ranks such as company commanders and battalion commanders, each with a different number of soldiers under their command. Our church also has a similar organization. pastors of the Great Parish, Parish each manage a different number of members, and under them are regional leaders, district leaders, and other workers.

 In the world of angels, there are various levels of angels centered around the archangel. Each carries out in precise order, following the orders of its superior angel. In the world of angels, there is no such thing as disobedience. There is only obedience. So, when Lucifer rebelled against God, 1/3 of her sub angels participated. Disobedience is impossible. When the head archangels give an order, the angels below them have no choice but to obey. Those of you who have spiritual eyes opened can see that the size and dignity of angels are not the same from each other. That’s why angels are in different levels and their given duties are different. 

The organization of angels that consists of archangels, different levels of leading angels, and angels underneath them are well organized. Once an order is given from the top, it is precisely conveyed, and the reports made at the lower level are well conveyed. Even if an order has to go through many steps, it can be conveyed instantly. Since the order is very precise like this even though there are countless angels, the rule of God can be well practiced. Even though God is sitting on His throne, He can search everyone on earth because angels work like this. Of course God is almighty, and He can manage all this all by Himself. However, angels directly check all things by themselves, and report it to God. Like this, angels play not only the role of a reporter, but also the role of the witness to it. This fact adds the light of justice to God’s judgment when God judges something. 

Even though God searches even the heart of man, He doesn’t judge anything alone. He decides and judges in justice according to the report of angels that see and hear all things directly. For example, how did God work when He judged Sodom and Gomorrah? Genesis 19:1 says, “Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening.” I come back to this in greater detail later, but for now, these two angels are actually archangels that are directly under God. Before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, God sent these archangels under His direct supervision to check on them again like this. Although Sodom and Gomorrah were in sufficient condition to be judged, God sent his closest archangels to go through the confirmation process once again. Through this, we can see how just and accurate God is, and this is God’s law. However, the people of Sodom were very devious even desiring to harm these two angels. Finally, God brought the judgment of fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. 

Likewise, angels are the workers of God, and they help the government of God be managed in perfect justice. There are many records about various works of angels in the Bible. Here are a few. In Revelation 7:11, there is a scene that all the angels were standing around the throne and worshipping God. When our Jesus was born, a multitude of the heavenly host praised God. It is written Luke 2:13-14, some good shepherds witnessed it, and they found baby Jesus. In Daniel 6:22, Daniel said in the den of lions, “My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths and they have not harmed me.” The lions were left in a starving state, and when a prisoner entered the den, the lions attacked and ate him. Daniel entered that cave, and God shut the lion's mouth through angels. 

The angels closed the mouths of the lions, so the lions must have been very surprised. Fear prevented the lions from moving. So Daniel told the king that God had shut the mouths of the lions so that he was not harmed. Also, in Acts 12, there is a scene where an angel rescues Peter from prison. This means that even if the disciples were in prison, an angel rescued them. Such angels could be seen with the human eye because they came out of the spirit space. If angels appear that way, we too can see them. In Revelation 8:3-4, there is a scene where an angel puts the fragrance of the saints' prayers in a censer and offers it to God. Matthew 4:11 states that when Jesus passed the three tests of the devil after fasting for 40 days, “angels came to him and ministered to him.” In this way, the angels rejoiced because the Lord passed the test and won. When the test comes, you too have to pass it once, twice, or three times. Then, you receive blessings and answers. 

If you do not pass all the tests, you are not ready to be blessed, so you must overcome them all. Only then will your soul prosper. You will win if you just move forward with faith without wavering. If you say you believe and do not change your mind and do not turn to one side, you will win in the end. If you do this, there is no reason to be tempted or have a hard time. All you have to do is pray silently and show your faith to God. Then, when the time comes, God gives you the strength to pass the test and then gives you a blessing. If the test was big, the blessing is big, and if the test was small, the blessing is small. A ‘mighty angel’ also appears in Revelation 10:1 and Revelation 18:21. In Revelation chapters 8 to 11, there is a scene where a great disaster will come upon the earth every time the seven angels blow their trumpets during the coming seven-year tribulation. And in Revelation 16, there is a scene where seven angels pour out seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth. 

These angels are powerful angels who do great things under the command of God. There are also angels who execute God's judgment, as 2 Samuel 24:16 says, “The angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it.” Psalm 103:21 says, “Praise the Lord, all you heavenly hosts who serve him and do his will.” And in Psalm 68:17, it says, “The chariots of God are thousands and ten thousand,” which gives us an idea of how large the heavenly army is. This means that the chariots of God are not all, but they are thousands, and ten thousand. How many? Just multiply 1,000 times 1,000 times 10,000. How many numbers there are. In times of emergency, God sends the heavenly army to protect His people. By sending so many heavenly armies and now sending the heavenly armies of angels, who, much less anyone on earth, would slander us? I don't dare disturb you. For example, if you read 2 Kings Chapter 6, Elisha was surrounded by the army of Aram. At this time, Elisha’s servant was seized with fear and worried so much. However, Elisha said to his servant, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 

And as he prayed to God to open his servant’s spiritual eyes, the servant saw “horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” Since the heavenly host is riding on the horses and chariots of fire, it means that the heavenly host came in a great mass at that time. Eventually, Elisha was not harmed at all. There are many more works that these that angels do. Even the names of some angels are mentioned in the bible. They are Gabriel and Michael. In fact, they are all archangels. Since their names are written in the bible, they must be given very important duties. There are countless archangels and heavenly hosts, and the fact that their names are recorded in the Bible means that they are archangels with such an important mission. I will explain the duty of these archangels in the next lecture. I’ll cover the roles of other archangels in the next lecture as well. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. 

The air that we breathe all the time is invisible, but it surely exists. Likewise, the spiritual realm is invisible, but it actually exists. Just as our bodies are in the midst of the air, this physical world is actually subordinate world to the spiritual realm. This physical world - fleshly world - is an extremely small part of the whole world that God created. Therefore, understanding the spiritual realm becomes power to you.

 You too must know the spirit world. The more clearly you know about the spirit world, the more powerful you become. Also, through faith, you can receive answers because you know it. The more you know about the beings of the spirit world, that is, angels, the better you can understand the Bible and receive help in your life of faith. May you make bread from this Genesis Lecture to become all the more powerful children of God, in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, I pray!

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