Excerpt from Eternity...The Wager
Earth’s fate hangs in the balance as humanity stands condemned in Heaven’s Supreme Court of high crimes against God, themselves and nature. The Accuser, architect of mankind’s fall from grace, leverages man’s sins to demand the immediate commencement of the Biblically forewarned “End of Days.”
A Brief History of Eternity lays the foundation for Eternity...The Wager by reaching back before the time itself to uncover pre-history. There we find the unimaginable Luciferian rebellion against God in Heaven itself. In response God offers His glorious albeit fallen angels the options of summary judgment or a Trial. A Trial that continues to this very hour and which will soon culminate in a Heavenly War spilling onto Earth...
Why? by God the Father .Summary
No question so defines and plagues us as that of Why? Defying answers, we make them up and proceed about our lives. Still the haunting question remains. Scripture offers an explanation for those willing to invest the time and effort to find it. This psalm goes a step further, raising the question, "Does God ask why?" Does Omniscience every wonder? If so, what answer would you give?
Why? by God the Father .
Im plagued with a question. One shared by Creator and creation, though from vastly different vantage points.
Why?
Unlike you I know why. I've known from Eternity. Yet I feel the full impact of the burning question. Ages before creating angels and long before their Rebellion I was intimately familiar with every detail comprising the Answer.
It's Mine alone to understand the minutia of every concept, opinion and point of view. Mine to know the myriad of primary, secondary and tertiary reasons for Lucifer’s and Adam’s Rebellion. And that of billions of glorious angels and a hundred billion Earthly men and women.
Still. Why?
Such a tiny question to shoulder such consequence in time and eternity. A singular inquiry at the heart of so great a mystery. One tiny word to bare the weight of such scrutiny by both creation and Creator. For bound up with the answer is the eternal fate of over a hundred thousand million souls.
I too yearn for more than explanation. For more than understanding. I languishes for a gift even I can neither give or receive. My family’s lost innocence.
My only begotten Son and Savior is also acquainted with grief. He too carries creation's sorrows. Like Father like Son, it's a family trait. Yet My grief has a depth unknown to even the Son of Man. As Father of creation every woe is alive in My soul from before time and will be so forever. I remember it all as if happening now. Not just what was but what could have and should have been. A terrible knowledge I will bear long after the Rebellions are dealt with and the redeemed mesmerized by Heaven’s joys.
For redeemed creation's sake I look forward to that time. I savor their awe over the incomparable wonders soon to be revealed. Marvels such “as eye has not seen, ear has not heard nor has entered into the mind of men...” I share both My children’s boundless joy and bottomless sorrow. Like Mary, the mother of the Redeemer, I treasures every precious moment, storing them up against grief.
Mine is the capacity to experience everything in infinite detail. Its for Me to carry the weight of knowing from beginning to the end, baring the brunt with an intensity unknown to all but the First Person of the Trinity. My story is that to which Job’s life was a metaphor. Like the patriarch of patience, My goodness is taken advantage of. Like Job I suffer great loss. My blessings raided. My beloved children destroyed. My soul wracked with pain and misery. And like Job, My latter state will exceed the former. But at such cost...
Yet despite the day of reckonings approach, or because of it, My heart groans for the infinite time. Why! Why should those given everything demand more? Why prefer lies over truth, horror over beauty and evil over goodness? Why had so many chosen eternal death over life?
And what! What horrific fault had creation found in Me to incite insurrection? What more wouldn’t I have given had they but asked? What will I do with the gaping whole in My heart left by tens of billions I've loved and lost?
From the height of Omnity I survey all. As Judge I look down through time and eternity at the aftermath of Lucifer’s revolt, the angelic rebellion and man’s expulsion from paradise. I weep as only I can, moaning scripture, the truth of which fills My soul with eternal regret, “how.. the.. mighty... are.. fallen...”
Wanted: Guest Psalmists What do you think? Do we need Modern Psalms to address the questions and issues of modern life? If you'd like to submit a psalm for consideration please contact Rob Pennington at Rob@GodBlog.net.
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