“Thou was perfect in thy ways from the day thou was created, until iniquity was found in thee.” Commentary: It was 1986 and we were in India in the middle of our three year mission there in a village named Danishpet. It was in the State of Tamil Nadu and we had finished a crusade and the crowds had left and it was early morning so like we did so like so many times we slept on cots outside until daylight so we could return back to Yercaud our place of residence. In India it was almost like camping out for those three years! When the night sky with all those beautiful stars above it is a unique experience! Not a ceiling of sheetrock and paint but the open sky above! I used to think of those shepherds near Bethlehem sleeping outside and then God put on a light show to announce the birth of his Son! The bats were hanging in the tree above us and the chickens were roosting in the tree to escape the fox! Our cots were near this dirt road and sometime in the night a man walked by us shouting, “I was before the beginning” in the local Tamil language. He was drunk coming home from a bar and somehow even though drunk eternity was in his heart! This is all about people searching for purpose! Why am I here? To what end is my life for? Is all vanity like King Solomon said? The angels were created for worship just as we are created for worship! We are given a free will to worship God or reject him! We like the angels have a choice to do good or evil. Lucifer the praise leader in heaven decided to split with the God of heaven and earth and go his own way! Iniquity moved into his ways! There is a way that seems right to a man but those ways lead to death! He and 1/3 of the angels that followed him got kicked out of heaven! The word “perfect” used in this scripture means to meet the standard of God’s Law! No sin found! His “ways” means living a way to worship God! Then “created” means to bring into existence! The word “iniquity” means to live unjustly! To live outside of the mercies of God! To live with no justice! A law breaker! To war against the justice of God! To invoke his judgment upon you and me! The Trinity pre-existed creation! From Genesis we know the Father, Son and Holy Spirit were active in creating the heavens and the earth! In creating man! Since Jesus always existed and was never created that means redemption preceded creation! Redemption is not necessary without a heaven and a hell. God even before creation knew the world he was about to create would need a Savior! Satan’s opposition the this began in heaven in his rebellion against God and his Christ! I always say war first began in heaven! All of God’s creation is eternal! Heaven and hell is eternal! World without end! Our physical death is not eternal but our soul and spirit is eternal living in either heaven or hell depending on what we do with Christ! We will never know everything about God but the scriptures give us enough to know he loves us! The purpose of Satan is to deceive you into the lie that God does not love you! He did that to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden! Without faith it is impossible to please God! Do not follow ideologies such as Darwinism where his denial of God and his existence caused him to develop an ideology to try to replace him with the principalities and powers of darkness! To oppose God and deny him and his authority and power is what Satan did in heaven and on earth! Follow Christ creator of heaven and earth worshiping him in the here and now and forever! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYouChurch.com