About My Father's Business

By Elliot Brent

Coming to know God is a matter of faith. About My Father's Business addresses this case. Truly knowing God causes us to live lives that set us apart. It is an odyssey that requires the participation of our heart, mind, and soul. Many in the word of God had experienced God according to who he truly is, while many who profess him never does. There

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penmanship Publishing LLC
• Release date: Dec 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781736313312

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Chapter 1

The Lightbearer

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world (Revelations 12:9).

Generally, the Lord’s prayer is widely known. It is:

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)

What is of interest is that in the Lord Jesus’ model of prayer, he states "thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." The Lord Jesus makes known that there is a will of God in both heaven and earth; but, before in the beginning is where this will comes from that is mentioned. One sign of intelligence is organization, and in us coming to know God, we find that God is meticulously organized. This is conspicuously replete throughout the scriptures, also. For one example, in our first introduction of God by way of His word, he is shown putting things back in their proper places, returning order to the earth that he had created back in verse one of the opening chapter of the Bible. On this wise, of God being extremely organized, arrives this will that his Son mentions being in both heaven and the earth. This will was before God began creating. Omniscience is defined as infinite knowledge. Stupendously, before God began creating anything, he saw everything that he will allow to come into fruition; and he knew his purpose and his plan for each. The scripture writer of Hebrews brings validity, saying, By whom also he made the worlds (Hebrews 1:2). Through further observation of that scripture, one will see that the antecedent of he is God’s Son and that the word translated into English as world was originally written a Greek word aion, which means age. So, that word of God can be read: By whom he also made the ages. Because God is eternal, he extends through time: and in him being all-knowing and organized, he has in mind an interconnected design of all things, or a will in both heaven and the earth—to say that plainly.

In one of these ages that God conceived, the very first one is the antechaotic age. This age is significant because it consists of the dispensation of the angels. A dispensation is simply a moral time. It is a probationary period or a length of time of a certain testing by God. The dispensation of the angels is the very first of God’s proving of his creations. The purpose of this dispensation was to test angels to see if they would remain true to Him before using them eternally as trusted servants.¹ And, being that God is a God of order, in the earth God had a regent in place over the earth.

For an unknown length of time, Satan was once called Lucifer, son of the morning (Isaiah 14:12). He was perfect in all of his ways from the day he was created until he became the fiend that he is today (Ezekiel 28:15). These ways, spoken of in the book of Ezekiel, was the means of God’s testing of the angels. This will for him was broken by him. The scriptures later say,

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)

The scripture says of him that he abode not in the truth or that he did not dwell within the manner in which God placed him. God created him to be the anointed cherub, and his dominion was Earth. He is seen as the first rebel because he is the first of God’s creations to choose to act outside of God’s way. Although the magnificence of God’s angelic regent that he created could not be any better, Lucifer objected God’s word: and the motive of his objection is because he said in his heart,

I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit 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. (Isaiah 14:13-14)

He desired glory that was not his, so he disregarded the perfection that he walked in for the purpose of being like God. He is the first contradiction. He steps outside of perfection to be as the Perfect One. Howbeit, his foolishness is not completely foolish, for in this great wisdom, whereby he was created, he knew that his aspirations would be briefly granted. With God being light, love, life, all-knowing, forever present, and eternally existing from everlasting to everlasting, to act outside of God’s decree is death, darkness, and deceit. So, the Bible calls him the father of lies (John 8:44), because he pioneers the thought that there is another way. The scripture recounts all of this:

By the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee out as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness. (Ezekiel 28:16-17)

The wisdom in which he possessed the day he was created yet exists: it has just been corrupted. And so, when Christ, the Son of God, walked the earth, he told his followers, Enter in at the strait gate (Matthew 7:13).

For, there is much wisdom in this world: however, all wisdom is not of God. He says,

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)

This lightbearer has light that darkens lives through his wisdom. In the name of wisdom, he has caused men to know evil:

And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:4-6).

By causing man to follow in his same footsteps of desiring to be more than he has already been created, Satan caused man to also step outside of serene, fixed conditions as God had already furnished. And those who he leads outside of God’s way, he claims lordship over unto becoming their god. Nevertheless, his reign is unlike God’s. God is love (I John 4:8); and so, in who He is, He reigns over his creations. He is light, and in him is no darkness (I John 1:5). God is holy. He has all power, but he has limited his own self by giving his creations choice, because God is love. Because God is love, he is no tyrant. He has given his creations the capability to either receive or to refuse Him. And this matter of free-will is our moral agency. On the other hand, the Lightbearer’s reign is lifeless and is more like chains of tyranny upon us who are made of flesh. In his way of destruction, one can see that their life is becoming ruined, but yet has not the sense or the ability to cease the destructive activity that is destroying. Sin by nature is destructive. The original Earth, which Lucifer had reigned over as regent unto God until his revolt, became ruined and left in a chaotic state. And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, the scripture says (Genesis 1:2). Satan’s reign is captivity, and it ends in darkness, which essentially becomes the manifestation of God’s judgement. But, while living, Satan’s reign is captivity and ending in darkness is the fragment of one’s self that is left after he has come into one’s life and has ravaged it. The word of God says, The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy (John 10:10).

I was once there myself. So many of us have either been or becomes slaves to toxic pleasure—a pleasure that steals from, kills or destroys us in some way. The wisdom of Satan permits him to identify that there is a wide gate. There is more than one way to acquire peace and happiness. Yes, both the strait and the wide gate opens. And, of either way that each one travels, the narrow or the broad, comes at a price. But where we are ultimately led, after we