In the beginning God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him (Genesis 1:27). God was perfect and so was man, for he was created in God’s likeness. Blessings Before the Fall
Man was immortal, given the breath of eternal life (Genesis 2:7). His body was ethereal and radiant, like that of God’s glorious body, shining brighter than the sun (Philippians 3:21, Daniel 12:3). Neither the blight of death nor sickness nor aging had any hold on it (1 Corinthians 15:52).
Man was upright (Ecclesiastes 7:29). He had no knowledge of evil. His thoughts were pure; his motives, holy (Genesis 3:5).
Man received blessings in a fashion that was “exceeding abundantly” (Ephesians 3:20 nkjv). God was King and man, a prince given to royal treatment. He had access to everything that God owned (Luke 15:31) and he could appropriate them at will. He did not know the meaning of poverty or want. He shared in the omniscience and omnipotence of God; and with it came unbounded creativity. He was appointed god and ruler over all creation (Psalm 8:6), even over Lucifer (Genesis 1:28). He had authority (the right) and power (the ability) to act for and on behalf of God.
Man partook of God’s love and bliss (Matthew 25:21). Immense joy, serenity and contentment overflowed inside and outside of him.
Disobedience
The relationship between God and man was perfect, harmonious and joyful, that is, until man disobeyed God. God gave him freewill (the freedom to choose, to be what he can be) and he chose to disobey God.
14 (God) made man in the beginning, and then left him free to make his own decisions. 15 If you wish, you can keep the commandments, 16 to behave faithfully is within your power. 17 He has set fire and water before you; put out your hand to whichever you prefer. Man has life and death before him; 18 whichever a man likes better will be given him. ECCLESIASTICUS 15
Lost Blessings 
The disobedience led to serious and dire consequences:
The pure was stained with sin. Human nature transformed from godly (radiant, beautiful and pure) to ugly (dark, sinful and impure).
Man was separated from the life of God (Ephesians 4:18). He was banished from the realm of the living (the Garden of Eden) and made to walk the realm of the dead. Psalm 115:16 says, “The earth the Lord has given to man.”
God hid from him, and he from Him, because God was a consuming fire to the impure (Deuteronomy 4:24). The impure may not look at God’s face and live (Exodus 33:20).
God’s Spirit had to vacate the human spirit because no sinful vessel could contain the Spirit and live. <The human spirit is the virtual head of the human soul. Proverbs 20:27 and Ephesians 3:16 describe it as man’s inmost being. Luke 6:45 and Ephesians 3:17 refer to it as the heart of man.>
The vacancy left a vacuum which the demonic spirits filled. They indwelt the human spirit and clung to it like to a pestering leech. They nagged man to disobey God some more (Ephesians 2:2). And the human heart turned “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9 kjv). It produced evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly (Mark 7:21-22).
The immaterial man (whom Genesis 2:7 kjv describes as a “living soul”) was clothed with garment of flesh (Genesis 3:21). It offered him an alternative lifestyle: drunkenness (loss of God-awareness), dissension (rebellion against godly order), sensuality (limited sense of reality), carousing (excessive pursuit of fleshly desires), selfish ambition (self-centered life direction), envy and jealousy (covetousness), impure thoughts and actions, immorality (unfaithfulness), outbursts of anger (impatience), idolatry and sorcery (ungodly practices in search of power), partisanships (factionalism), and social conflicts (enmity, heresies).[1]
God took away man’s breath of eternal life. Sickness, aging and death visited him—a reminder to us that anyone who does not deal with the corruption that is in him, to dust he will return (Genesis 3:19).
Man lost his connection and access to omniscience and omnipotence. His creativity turned into mediocrity and, often, into failure. In lieu of superabundance, he found poverty and want. The earth was cursed (Genesis 3:17). He had to labor by the sweat of his brow so he could eat and drink.
Lucifer usurped man’s dominion. Left without authority and power to act for and on behalf of God, man began to feel weak, insecure and fearful, even of those he used to lord. Joy, serenity and contentment stopped overflowing in him and were replaced with conflict, restlessness, emptiness and suffering.
The serious and dire consequences above were passed on to everyone in the whole world (Romans 5:12). Today we are born physically alive but spiritually dead (Ephesians 2:1).
Lucifer
Lucifer is the ruler of the evil empire in the spiritual realm. Scripture refers to him as the enormous red dragon (Revelation 12:3), the ancient serpent who tempted Eve (verse 9), the devil meaning slanderer (verse 9), the prince of this world (John 14:30), and the ruler of the kingdom of the air (Ephesians 2:2). The world popularly calls him Satan but it’s not his real name; his fellow demons call him “Chitanam.”
The descriptive nouns adversary or opposition or enemy of God’s people in the Scripture are an allusion to Satan. But here is an occult secret: Lucifer does not really feel alluded to by any of them.
The evil empire has seven levels. Its fourth level (the astral kingdom) is governed by “Lord Naga” and his assistant “King Elam” whose other name is “Sat An.” Whenever the name Satan is invoked, Lucifer is not the demonic spirit who appears or manifests but Elam. [2]
For the sake of truth and to clear the air of disinformation, this book shall use the name Lucifer whenever reference is made of the devil or the ruler of the evil empire, or the adversary or opposition, or the biblical Satan.
The Restoration Process
You might think, “Our destiny is cursed and cannot be altered. We are children of disobedience, born sinners and sinners we will die. So today let’s eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.” Lucifer loves that kind of thinking. But we are not totally hopeless. God is a loving God.
After the first disobedience was committed, He did not bring man to judgment. He banished man with hope that he would appreciate life better when death is in sight. With hope that the stain of disobedience might forever be removed from him. With hope that in the face of mediocrity and failure, poverty and suffering, he would desire to receive abundance from His hand, partake of His bliss and immeasurable love, and get to celebrate life anew. God hoped that man would desire to be restored to his original blessed state, gain re-entry to His kingdom, and stay in it throughout the rest of eternity. God wanted man to be reconciled to Him and become part of His royal family again.
This explains why man was given instructions to live by, instructions summed up and unified in the Decalogue called Ten Commandments.
The instructions (summarily called the Law of God or simply the Law) blueprinted the way of life in heaven. It gave man focus on what to achieve over and above the hustles and bustles of his day-to-day existence. Man—who was weak (Romans 8:3) and error-prone (Hebrew 8:8)—was told what to do in given situations so he might not miss the mark. “Miss the mark” is the literal translation of the word “sin.”
The instructions reflected God’s love, plan and hope for man. Clearly it was not to abandon him in the realm of the dead but to provide him with a roadmap to the realm of the living.
17 If you want to enter life, obey the commandments. MATTHEW 19
8 The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. PSALM 19
5 Follow the practices and the laws that I give you; you will save your life by doing so. LEVITICUS 18 tev
17 I am the Lord your God who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way to go. ISAIAH 48
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future… 14 I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile. JEREMIAH 29
50 God’s command leads to eternal life. JOHN 12
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