When He Has Come...: He Will Crush the Luciferian Agenda

By Wiley B. Edmonds

After spending over half a century as pastor, evangelist, teacher, and businessman, the author has agonized over the lack of understanding by the average Christian on the "Big Story" behind their faith. He found Christians to be, for the most part, unaware of the ongoing battle in the spiritual dimension just beyond human sight. The forces of the armies of the Eternal God, led by the Holy Spirit, and the armies of the Satan, whose name is Lucifer, have relentlessly been fighting since man was only a concept in the mind of Eternal God.

Eternal life for the human and his inheritance is at the core of that battle. Man's right to ascertain that inheritance and Lucifer's battle to stop it is the "Big Story" of the biblical narrative. The Holy Spirit, God's prima director of that war, invests His power in you to personally defeat Lucifer's hidden agenda. Embodied in the final words of Jesus at His ascension back to heaven is the promise of a personal empowering of the Holy Spirit, henceforth, to be made available to every believer as he bursts onto the scene at Pentecost.

When He Has Come is the backstory of that relentless battle for eternal life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098073350

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When He Has Come...

He Will Crush the Luciferian Agenda

Wiley B. Edmonds

Copyright © 2021 by Wiley B. Edmonds

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All Scripture, unless otherwise stated, is taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.

All special emphasis added have been italicized by the author.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Introduction

The Bible, in its very essence, manifests God to mankind. The Bible is God’s medium of revealing Himself to us, His creatures, whom He loves. However, we are often inclined to miss the full impact of scriptural emphasis by the way we approach our reading and study of the Bible. Choosing a daily Bible text by randomly selecting a scripture and dutifully reading that passage for inspiration and wisdom are woefully inadequate for an enlightened approach to understanding the Bible and completely overlook the big picture.

The very structure of the Bible is large-scale: conveying spiritual, prophetic, and historic venues into a single narrative; weaving historical periods across its books ; linking the past to the present and future and on into eternity. That narrative being that our soul-bearing Homo sapiens–created parents, having been given the right of free will, chose for their progeny the excitement of immediate gratification as the default sinful nature in lieu of eternal life.

Working within the perimeters of man’s free moral agency, aka free will, the eternal God—determined to not give up on the creature He loved—extended a lifeline, giving to every human an opportunity to reverse the death sentence imposed by sin. That lifeline was the gift of His Son’s lifeblood as payment in full to erase the inherent debt of eternal death.

The Old Testament is the history of Lucifer’s war against God to taint Adam’s bloodline so as to make a sinless sacrifice and paying the debt acquired by man’s progenitor impossible. The New Testament is the historical narrative of mankind’s redemption. God has made available to every man the right to reclaim his birthright of eternal life by defeating Lucifer through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus.

Lucifer lost the battle to prevent man’s availability of eternal life the moment Jesus cried out from the cross, It is finished! Losing the battle, Lucifer did not lose the war. The war for the souls of mankind is still raging in the dimension just beyond our human visibility, in the spiritual realm (Ephesians 6:12). The Luciferian agenda has mobilized into full, no-holds-barred warfare, using deceived humans as useful tokens, pushing them headlong into an eternal abyss.

The New Testament historically records for us the coming of the Holy Spirit with a new counter platform, empowering each Spirit-filled believer with the personal power to overcome the wiles of Lucifer, defeating him on a personal level. All people sheltered under the Tabernacle of the blood covenant, provided by the death of Jesus on the cross, are sheltered from acquiesce to the treachery of Lucifer.

When He Has Come is the story of the Luciferian war—contending for the title deed to our planet Earth—and the coming of the Holy Spirit, equipping every believer with the personal power to recognize, engage, and defeat every Luciferian onslaught. In the climatic events of this war to actually be fought in the near future, Jesus will return to earth—bringing with Him the host of the armies of the eternal God—and quash at Armageddon the armies led by Luciferian forces and establish His millennial kingdom, ruling from the throne of David in the city of Jerusalem.

Acknowledgments

This writing project has been a seemingly endless journey, which has transpired over many months and through several personal challenging events. One such event being the loss of the computer file containing about ten chapters because of a computer glitch.

It must be noted that this project was not the result of my efforts alone. The prayers of my prayer partners in my Sunday school class and the continued encouragement of my many friends must be recognized as imperative throughout. For that, I shall forever be grateful.

Special appreciation and gratitude is given to Susan, my wonderful wife and constant companion for the last fifty-six years, having endured my endless hours in front of the computer and still patiently and lovingly giving me latitude to proceed. She—with some degree of trepidation, I’m sure—observed the endless drafts, hoping each one to be the last.

And finally, last but not the least, many thanks to a couple of close friends and associates, Shirley Miller, Rosaline Scherrer, and Judy Messett, for spending hours of their time editing and consulting. Special thanks to Rosaline for helping and advising with sentence structure and punctuation.

Many thanks,

Wiley Edmonds

Chapter 1

In the beginning, God created… (Genesis 1:1). These are the first words in our English Bible. There is no treatise attempting to prove or justify the existence of God. There is no background dissertation on why one should or should not believe or trust the premise of the declaration. There is no endeavor to prove the creative wonders were manifest by the Word of God (John 1:1). It begins as an affirmation of faith. The concept is that God exists and that He is indeed the Creator—period. No further discussion needed, case closed.

The entirety of the Bible is based on the premise that God exists and that He is in actual fact the creator of the heavens and the earth. This is the very essence of faith in its purest primal form. Without this confidence, the totality of the Bible becomes, for all practical purposes, a book of myths and legends or, at best, a source of unreliable historical value.

This confidence is the foundation upon which every tenant of the Christian faith is founded. This belief consists of the fact that God does indeed exist and that He rewards all who diligently seek Him and reveals Himself to them (Hebrews 11:6). Without God, there is no hope of eternal life beyond this existence, and we would be a miserable sea of humanity (1 Corinthians 15:19).

Upon finalizing the recreative process of the planet Earth, God completed the crowning work of His creative acts in the creation of man. God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness (Genesis 1:26). It is interesting to note God speaking in the plural sense. Let Us make man in Our image. This is the very first instance of God being represented as a multifaceted and omnipotent deity, which the Apostle Paul spoke of as the Godhead (Romans 1:20). From the vantage point of the completed Bible canon, we can know that the Godhead consists of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7). A triunity that we have come to know as the Trinity consists of three but one, each having their own agency. This mystery was to be fully revealed as God slowly began unfolding His eternal plan for mankind (Ephesians 3:11).

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. (John 1:1–3)

He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. (John 1:10)

Verse 14 of the same scripture declares the Word to be the preincarnate Son of God. In human form, we know Him as Jesus, the Christ.

Genesis 1:2 reveals to us the Holy Spirit for the first time. And the ‘Spirit of God’ moved upon the face of the waters. A careful reading of this scripture setting reveals a designation between the reference to God (v. 1), and the Spirit of God (v. 2). Thus, we find the unfolding of the doctrine of the Trinity advanced in the very beginning as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He placed the man and woman, whom He had created. Eden, meaning Garden of Delight, was beautiful and prolific with scenic flowing rivers, fruits of every kind, and abundance of stunning vegetation. Magnificent trees dressed its striking splendor and opulence, far beyond the scope of our finite imagination. The animal life, fish in the rivers and sea, and fowl of the air were healthy, abundant, and without fear of man. The lion and the lamb would lie together in peace and harmony! No sickness, no pain, no death. Grief and sorrow were unknown. God had created a perfect paradise for the progenitors of the human race and their offspring to inhabit forever. The planet Earth was made as a home for mankind to possess and enjoy. No thorns, thistles, or poisonous insects to mar the delight of the day. Food—healthy and abundant—was available and delicious. Fruit of every kind was borne by the many trees throughout the garden.

God’s directives to man were few and simple. ‘Dress the garden and keep it.’ Then God said to Adam, ‘Of the fruit of every tree of the garden, you may eat freely, except for the fruit of the tree, known as the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Of the fruit of that tree, you must not eat of it, for if you eat of it, you will die’ (Genesis 2:17). Many volumes of pointless speculation, relative to the kind of fruit borne by the forbidden tree, have been conjectured. Thus, we have settled for the proverbial apple. We know only that it was pleasing to the eyes and gratifying to the appetite.

The commandment to not eat this fruit was the simple test chosen by God to determine whether they, Adam and Eve, would be obedient. Could they be trusted to carry out His established eternal plan for them and their offspring? Would they multiply and subdue the earth, filling it with righteous people? Or would they choose a deviant route in lieu of obedience to their Creator?

The first couple, living in complete innocence, delighted in their