The Bible is an ongoing record of God's frustrations, and His plan to deal with the rebellious who prefer an adversarial spirit to following His will. This, as we all learn to participate as workers with awareness, in a creation that is necessarily built upon opposites, including good and evil. It is still ongoing, regardless if the church insists they are the end all in instruction, even as they once did and often still do, reject the Kingdom themselves for the adversarial world of man. We are at a stage now where we are personally given a chance to repent of both man's and elohim's adversarial ways to the will of God, and to join the Kingdom before the end of our personal age, showing our worthiness for the next step in creation. Many may think they have applied, but few understand the process. It started before the earth was formed and will continue when it is gone.
God has battled adversity since before the creation of our universe. Again, as I have said, there is a necessary plan in place to set things right but that is often overlooked because it is hard for us to comprehend the time required to have both elohim and man properly adapt to the knowledge of good and evil. Remember, creation of our comprehendible universe is made up of opposites, and for elohim and man alike, and in order for both to be servants to God rather than self-serving despots, we all must come to terms in dealing with this knowledge without trying to assume control. It is God's plan, but He is timeless, while to us it seems forever for His plan to come to fruition.
As a side note, but of extreme relevance, we can look back on the Nuremberg trials after WW II. It focused on the leaders of Nazi Germany and a psychiatrist that was charged with determining whether they were sane enough to stand trial for their crimes. He came to the stunning reality that they were indeed sane and intelligent, cool and calm, yet extremely evil and manipulative, turning the human concept of evil on its head. These men saw their thinking and leadership as superior and godlike, resembling that of the rebellious elohim, although possibly, like humans who have a winner take all attitude, they believing life ends with death so grab what you can. This, of course, corresponds with how the powers and principalities, the rebellious elohim, have always influenced leaders to control the people and to do the will of God's elohim adversaries. These leaders came to resemble the serpent in the Garden on their demeanor. It happened pre-flood, post Babel, and all through time until now as these rebellious elohim exert their influence upon willing mankind. It produced wars among nations but there has since been a frightening change. The chain of command has abandoned the middleman, and leaders are no longer necessary.
We now live in an age where the electric power of the air fuels communication. Turn on the tv, radio or internet. Media has become the new 'elohim influenced' leader of humanity, and humanity itself has taken on the character of those former Nazi leaders, minds now numbed to the evil we have become. We no longer think for ourselves and now directly bow to the same elohim powers and principalities that have always corrupted mankind. We too have become the serpent. We've gone from the old ways of isolated warring nations into a global warring of leaderless people against people, not of nations but even within the home. It only took 50 years for this to happen and today it is not just the leaders, but the sane people themselves that have taken on this evil attitude in their continuing and growing support of divisiveness and self-authoritarianism.
The obvious result of this will be world-wide annihilation of each other. We not longer follow leaders, but all assume the role of evil itself in pursuing this divisiveness and hating family and neighbour over feigned indignities, contrary to the will of God. It's all part of God's greater plan, but it ain't gonna be pretty as the grain is separated from the tares. Take a step back and review your life and whether you have fallen under the spell. You might be surprised. Chaos has returned with a vengeance.
© ...timothyu