This Thing Called Iniquity

 This Thing Called Iniquity – Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/02/25/this-thing-called-iniquity/ The finiteness of the human brain can be most frustrating. Infinite questions sometimes rumble around in fruitless searches and, of course, find no answers. One such imponderable question, comprising several others that encircle that primary quandary, is: From whence comes the thing called iniquity? Yes. There is, of course, a definition of the term, as there is for all other words within dictionaries of the world. But we don’t ask: “What” is iniquity? We are living throughit! We can see it manifest in every direction we look on today’s horizon of egregious activity. We know “what” it is. What we want to know is: “From where does all that evil, that wickedness that the term defines come?” As believers in the inerrant Word of God, the Bible, we look there to find out the only information there is about this infinite term and the question posed that befuddlesthe finite apparatus of human thinking –the brain. We look here for ultimate answers to life because the Word of God –the Bible—comes from the Mind of the Creator of all things. His Answers ARE the answers we desire and the ones we can absolutely take as 100%Truth. Therefore, we have to look at the thing called iniquity through the Perfect Prism, which is the Word of God. God, the Creator of all that is, Created everything Perfectly. God cannot make mistakes, just like He cannot tell a lie. He is Absolute Truth. His Son, Who Created all thatis, is the Way, the Truth, and the Life… So, if God can do no wrong and Creates only Perfectly, from where comes this most perplexing thing God’s Word calls iniquity? Here is where that blasphemous evil term firstappears, disrupting God’s Perfection. “Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyros, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thouhast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes wasprepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy waysfrom the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee” (Ezekiel 28:12-15). Isaiah the prophet next describes the mind-boggling moment iniquity was found in Lucifer. “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, Iwill ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa 14:12-14). Iniquity was possibly first found in Lucifer, maybe the Apex Angel of God’s Creation in considering Heaven’s Angelic Order. I say “possibly” and “maybe” because there arethings of the Eternal Sphere that the finite mind is neither privy to nor can grasp. I.e., the thing called iniquity could have been interjected into being earlier, and there might be an Angel above Lucifer’s Heavenly Status; we just can’t know at this time.We can know only what God’s Word illumines for now. We might know at some time in the Eternal future when we will be like Him. Thou wast perfect in thy way, Ezekiel tells in speaking to Lucifer. He was blameless, as given for the term perfect in other translations. Repeatedly, the designation perfectis translated as “without defect” (Leviticus 1:3, 10; 3:1, 6, 4:3, 23, 28, 32; 5:15, 18, etc.) The word perfect or blameless is used to describe God once, but the majority of the time, it describes humans. The perfect God created all beings, angelic and human,in perfection. God’s inerrant Word clearly shows that God created everything that was created only in Perfect order. This Truth magnifies the thing called iniquity and its strange, inexplicable entrance into that perfect order. It is a thing beyond finite understanding or explanation. To begin, we acknowledge God’s absolute Sovereignty. That is, He is Omnipotent and Omniscient, and, of course, Omnipresent. He answers to no one and is governed only by HisOwn Holy Righteousness. However, our finite minds are equipped with fertile imagination, and I think it is not counter to God’s Holy Will to use imagination to pose a possible, even most likely,probability regarding this thing called iniquity. He has chosen to let us know that the evil that is now saturating His once Perfect Creation came to be through the thing called iniquity. It first entered, so far as He haschosen to let us know, when it entered the perfectly created Majestic Angel Lucifer. The manifestation of iniquitous behavior was in the form of Pride that welled within this glorious creature, who determined that he was equal or even greater than his Creator.Lucifer, then, obviously was Granted by God the Creator, the ability to choose. He was given volition. The most likely reason for granting this, considering the matters involved from this weak, finite brain function, is that God wants His Creation –whether Angels or humankind,to have the freedom and the ability to have free will…volition. He didn’t want robots that had no choice in the matter of obeying Him. Obedience, in God’s Order of things, equates to love. Jesus, Who is God, said to those who would follow Him: “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). In Jonathan Brentner’s and my new book, HEREAFTER: It’s Far Better Than You Imagine, we scripturally document that Eternity in Heaven with God Forever will be populated onlyby those who love Him. There will be no more sin infection from which came into God’s Perfect Creation this mysterious evil called iniquity. To be among that population, Perfected like those Reconciled with God the Father through God the Son, you and I must obey the Instructions Given by Jesus, Who is the veryWord of God (John 1:1). Here is what that Word Commands/Instructs in order to be in Glory Forever: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heartman believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10: 9-10).