Satan Is Alive and Well — Hal Lindsey

Spiritual Beings and the Supernatural Realm

Men in various fields of science are being forced to admit that there are spirit beings in this world beyond human comprehension. And as we have seen yesterday, there is a tremendous and growing assortment of evidence to indicate that not only are there spirit beings in the world, but that they are increasing their assault upon mankind.

I'd like to quote an article that is one of the most startling I've ever read. It's from the Columbus, Ohio, newspaper, and it's dated April 20, 1970. On the headline, as you can see, it says, Inventor of Xerox Copier Got Idea from ESP.

Quote, The Xerox copier, the machine that has made millions and millions of dollars, is not an earthly invention. The idea came to Chester Carlson, founder of the Xerox company, from the world beyond.

Few people know that records in trust at Duke University reveal beyond a shadow of a doubt that Carlson was one of the world's leading psychics. Now, a few months after his death, Carlson's own last will and testament discloses the astounding news that the Xerox machine is founded on a brain wave.

While members of the American Society for Psychical Research praised Carlson for his contribution to the psychic research, the millionaire's deathbed confession astounded ESP experts in London. Carlson poured millions of dollars into psychic research to repay a debt, claimed Lester Otis, 55, a longtime friend of the late tycoon.

He owed his entire fortune to ESP. Before his death, he realized that the dilemma posed by any psychic discovery, if he revealed a source of the invention to the public, the Xerox company could be discredited and lose business.

So he did the next best thing. He tried to make ESP into a reputable science. In this way, he could reveal his secret as being legitimately scientific and not the half-baked notion of a crackpot. But ESP had long been in the hands of con men eager to astound in clever profits hungry for money.

Carlson countered with huge donations to the Duke University parapsychology laboratory in Durham, North Carolina. Just before Chester died last October, he wrote me a long letter describing how he discovered the Xerox machine by conversing with a spirit from the future.

Otis said his wife, who had convinced Chester of the validity of ESP experiments, taught him how to meditate and communicate with the spiritual realm. One night while working late in his home, Chester suddenly heard voices.

They instructed him on the principle of making carbon jump to a charged drum and imprint copies on other sheets of paper. When Chester asked the voice to identify itself, the spirit said he came from the second millennium.

Rigging up a machine recording to the extrasensory specifications proved an easy matter, but convincing the patent office that the machine actually worked was quite another story. I think they refused patent on the Xerox machine three times, Otis said.

The fourth time around, Chester brought the machine with him and shocked the patent office into giving him the patent. After that came the story of a million dollar empire. Looking back, I think it was I who drew my husband into field of psychiatry, or I should say parapsychology, his wife said.

The psychic phenomena definitely occurred. There were many aspects of them. They came one after the other. During one of these visions, Chester Carlson received the vision of an empire, for without the existence of ESP and his utmost faith in the little understood science, the world might yet be without Carlson's fabulous invention.

So there is something that is recorded in documents, which our own trust in Duke University assigned to the parapsychology department there, which show beyond the shadow of a doubt that this man received a scientific invention from a spirit, an invention that was so radical in design that the patent office said it couldn't work, and yet it did.

Now, I believe that this spirit from another world was a demon. We're going to see tonight that they have great insight into the physical laws behind the physical existence that we have here on earth, and have that ability to give information about phenomena such as a Xerox machine.

What was the purpose? Well, I believe the purpose was just another one of the many plots of this arch spirit being called Satan, to set up a respectability for his supernatural phenomena in order that he can begin to bring the world over to supernatural phenomena that will bring them to finally worship him.

Plus the fact that a machine like this and Mr. Carlson's dedication to repaying the debt that he owed made it possible for large sums of money to be given to a godless parapsychology study. And I say godless not because I feel that these men are necessarily immoral in the parapsychology departments, but because they reject in the main the idea of God and yet are trying to experiment in the field of the supernatural.

Witchcraft, Parapsychology, and Spiritual Deception

Another thing that just came today, and those from UCLA, I'm indebted to them for bringing it. This came out in the Daily Bruin today. It's called Barbara the Gray Witch, and it's an article telling about her radio station and her broadcast.

This is what it says. It's an advertisement to the students, and obviously there are enough interested to make an advertisement like this worthwhile. It says this, Barbara tells the truth about modern witchcraft.

This is the first album that gives you a series of tests to tell if you were born a witch or a warlock. Many of the authentic prayers and chants that help you call forth spirits, achieve prosperity, beckon and pay homage to Satan, and exercise evil spirits.

Barbara tells you what you can gain today from practicing witchcraft. She introduces you to witches and warlocks who will describe everything from the appearance of a demon to the everyday problem of witchcraft in a modern society.

Barbara will tell you how to develop and practice your witchcraft ability even if you're only a mortal. Some of you may think that's a lark, but I'll bet you that she gets plenty of responses from UCLA.

Because as I quoted yesterday from the article in the Los Angeles Times by a man who has a Ph .D. from Harvard, there is virtually an epidemic in the United States of turning to witchcraft. I'd like to read something else that will point out the existence of spirit beings and particularly how these spirit beings have played a role in the shaping of history.

Demonic Influence and the Rise of Nazi Racial Ideology

Particularly this has relevance to modern history. As we're going to see tonight, Satan is in control of a vast world system that is made up of all of those who are not believers in Jesus Christ. But this is a startling revelation from a great scholar, William Elsher, and it comes from the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

Now he shows in this statement what was really behind how Adolf Hitler got the idea of a super-race and racial supremacy. I'd like to quote this because it's so startling. Quote, it is probably no exaggeration to say, as I have heard more than one follower of Hitler say, that Chamberlain, that is, Houston Stuart Chamberlain, was the spiritual founder of the Third Reich.

Hypersensitive and neurotic and subject to frequent nervous breakdowns, Chamberlain, a famous English scholar, was given to seeing demons who, by his own account, drove him to relentlessly seek new fields of study and get on with his prodigious writings.

One vision after another forced him to change from biology to botany to the fine arts to music to philosophy to biography and then finally to history. Once in 1896, when he was returning from Italy, the presence of a demon, he said, became so forceful that he got off the train at Gardone, shut himself up in a hotel room for eight days and, abandoning some work on music that he had contemplated, wrote feverishly on a biological thesis until he had the germ of the theme that would dominate all of his later works, the theme race and history.

Since he felt himself goaded on by demons, his book on Wagner, Goethe, Kant, Christianity and Race were written in the grip of a terrible fever, a veritable trance, a state of self-induced intoxication so that, as he says in his autobiography, Lebenswege, he was often unable to recognize these writings, though they were his own works.

But it was on the Third Reich, which did not arrive until six years after his death, whose coming he foresaw, that this Englishman's influence was the greatest. His racial theories, his burning sense of the destiny of the Germans and Germany were taken over by the Nazis, who acclaimed him as one of their prophets.

During the Hitler regime, books, pamphlets and articles poured from the presses extolling the spiritual founder of the National Socialist Germany as Chamberlain.". So here's a remarkable thing from the rise and fall of the Third Reich, where by Chamberlain's own testimony he received the inspiration for the writings about racial supremacy and about the supremacy of the German people as a super-race from a demon.

And by his own testimony, the chief work which Hitler used almost as his Bible was written while almost in a trance-like state, which after it was finished, Chamberlain himself could hardly recognize it as being his work.

That's how much he was under the control of a foreign spirit. And we all know how history was changed and how many destinies were changed by the fact that a demon was able to inspire Chamberlain to do this and to then put it into the hands of a madman like Adolf Hitler.

This, more than any other thing, shaped the thinking of Hitler and drove him to become the tyrant that he became. Now I believe that there is all kinds of evidence in history, and I'll be bringing out more as the week goes on, to indicate that there are spirit beings that are behind the scenes in history.

Satan, War, and the Bible's Authority

And as we look at the history of man, we can see that there has just been one thing after another. Even if a man doesn't believe in God, he's driven to explain why is there such suffering, why is there such evil, why does war persist when if there's anything in history that man should learn, it's the utter futility and uselessness of war.

But yet why does it continue? In the little over 6 ,000 years of recorded history, there has been less than 280 years where there was not some clash of arms somewhere in the world. All of this done under one system after another, and yet man still has not learned to live without war.

I believe that in back of all of this is an arch-fiend, a super-being, a spirit being to be sure, but one who is very real and an actual person, not just an influence. And I believe that as we begin to look into the supernatural and as we look in back of the scenes, that the only way we can really understand the phenomenon that is more and more coming out into the open today is to look into the Bible.

Because the Bible looks into the realm of the supernatural with the same ease that it looks at any phase of history, and it gives us the only authenticated and accurate way of discerning what is in the spirit realm.

The schools of parapsychology, which reject the Bible, have no chance of really discovering what is in the realm of the spirit. I believe that as we look into the Bible, we can find where all of these things really got their start.

Where was the start of evil? Where did evil really begin? Why is evil? Why is man unable to live with his fellow neighbor? Why does he continue in war? Please turn to Ezekiel chapter 28. Here God, through his prophet Ezekiel, projects the light of his understanding into eternity past.

We're actually going to reach back before the creation of man to see about a being of super power and super intelligence. Now, this is couched in a very interesting way in Ezekiel chapter 28, because the passage starts off by talking about a historical ruler, the Prince of Tyre, who was a mighty ruler of a great empire.

And it talks about how this man had great intelligence. He had aspirations of being like God and so forth. He was a ruthless ruler. But then in verse 11, there's a whole new scope and dimension added to this analysis of the Prince of Tyre.

So it says in verse 11,. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the King of Tyre. First of all, we need to look at what this word lamentation means. A lamentation is a song of sadness.

A lamentation is a heart-rending song of sorrow about something. A lamentation is a song that you sing in grief over someone that you love. And what this is, is God pouring out his sorrow and his grief over the greatest created being that ever came from his hand.

And he is to take up this song of sorrow over the King of Tyre. Now there's a difference between what is said in verse 2 and verse 12, obviously. In verse 2, the Prophet Ezekiel is talking about the Prince of Tyre.

In verse 12, he's talking about the King of Tyre. And the two words are very significant because the word used in verse 12 means to have superior authority and rule over the one that is called the Prince.

And what Ezekiel does here is show us who is really behind the ruler of Tyre, where he got his inspiration, where he got his wisdom as a man. And it's really an angelic being that is described here. Let's read on and you'll see.

Ezekiel 28, verse 12,. "...Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the King of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God, Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.". Now this phrase in Hebrew, sealest up the sum, means to be the epitome of perfection.

So what God is saying of this being being described is that you are the epitome of perfection. And he says you are full of wisdom, which means to have super intelligence, and perfect in beauty. Now when God describes something as being perfect in beauty, you can rest assured it's beautiful.

He goes on, he says, "...Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God, every precious stone was your covering. The sardus, the topaz, the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, the carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of thy tablets and thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.". All right, right there we know this is not talking about a human being. Because in the scripture, a cherub is the highest order of a sphere of spiritual beings called angels.

And cherubs are the highest among those beings. And it goes on to say that not only is he in the highest order of these spirit beings, but he is the anointed cherub, which means he has the greatest station among them.

It goes on to say, "...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 ways from the day that thou wast created.".

All right, let's step back and take a look at this. This is describing the greatest created being to ever come from the hand of God. And he is described as being full of wisdom, the epitome of perfection, perfect in beauty.

And in verse 13 where it says, "...you have been in Eden, the garden of God.". This is talking about the place of the personal presence of God. This creature had apparently free access at any time into the presence of God.

It talks about every precious stone being his covering. This would indicate that this creature had the highest honor. These stones depict degrees of honor, and he had all of the precious stones, which would indicate the highest level of honor that God could bestow on a created being.

In the latter part of verse 13, it says, "...the workmanship of your tablets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.". Now, in other words, it says this creature is a created being.

And tablets and pipes refer to the same thing that you see up there. It's something that's used of a pipe organ, and it's describing the fact that this creature had the most beautiful voice and apparently the greatest musical ability of any creature that's ever been created.

And it's describing this creature as being the first and the greatest of musicians. Apparently his voice would be like a thousand pipe organs going at one time, modulated in perfect unison and harmony.

Now in verse 14, we get something that's extremely important about this person. "...thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.". This tells us something very important about this creature. When it says the anointed cherub, the word anointed is the same word that's referred to Messiah.

Messiah, in Hebrew, means the anointed one. And to be anointed, in the sense of this Hebrew word, means to be appointed as the sovereign ruler over something. And when it says the anointed cherub that covereth, the word cover really means to rule.

And so what it's saying here is this was the anointed ruler over all of God's creation. That this was the highest created being in wisdom, intelligence, beauty, musical ability, apparently had all kinds of talents of art.

And not only that, this creature was appointed as the co-regent of God. This created being was second only to God in power and in authority, and apparently ruled over all of God's universe. Given the greatest authority, authority second only to that of God.

And God says, "...and I set thee so.". In other words, God said, I'm the one that gave you this great authority. And you know, Hebrew, the original Hebrew of this passage, Hebrew is capable of expressing emotion.

It's a language that's very emotional. And through here, you can almost feel the tears and the sobs of God as he grieves over this creature. Now why does he grieve over this creature? Why does he grieve over this one that was the greatest and the most magnificent work to ever come from the hand of God, the one that had the greatest authority?

Because it says in verse, or it says in verse 15, "...thou was perfect in thy ways from the day thou was created till iniquity was found in thee.". In other words, this most perfect of beings rebelled against God.

The one who was closest to God and was God's fellow rebelled against him. And you know, it's been well said, no one can hurt you like someone who is closest to you. And it grieved the heart of God. And even here, he expresses the song of sorrow over this creature.

This is written in beautiful, poetic language. And so he tells us that this creature was perfect in all his ways. Apparently, this person is called Lucifer, and we'll see that name in just a moment in Isaiah.

But this great spirit being who had authority over all of God's creation was named Lucifer, and apparently he was perfect in all of his ways. He walked in perfect unison with God, and he led all of the angelic realm.

He led them in their worship of God. He led them in rulership over the vast universe of God's creation, and he was perfect in all of his ways until iniquity was found in him. Now this tells us something extremely important here.

Many people say, well, if God knows all things and if God has all power, why did he create the devil? Why did he create evil? Well, the answer to that is right here. He didn't create evil and he didn't create the devil.

He created Lucifer, but he did not create the devil. Now here's what I mean by that. This was a perfect creature. It was created perfect, but God took a calculated risk. God created Lucifer along with all of the angelic beings with what is called the image of God, and God took a calculated risk because in the image of God he gave will, intellect, and emotion.

These are the factors of personality. Now he gave these creatures, and particularly Lucifer, he gave these creatures free will or choice. Now the reason God took that risk, there's always, when you give free choice, free will, volition, there's always the chance that the created being would use it against God.

But God made the calculated risk because he did not want robots. He wanted creatures that could respond to him in love. He wanted creatures that could love him back. And unless there is freedom of choice, there can be no genuine love.

You would just have robots who would have to do what you told them to do, and there would be absolutely no spontaneity. They can only move when commanded. Well God wanted creatures that could fellowship with him and that could, of their own free choice, have genuine love and love him back.

And so God took this risk for that reason. Not only did he give them freedom of choice, but he gave them intellect, and apparently much higher intellect than the measure that he has given to man. These angelic beings have vast and high intellect, and we'll see this as we study these creatures throughout the week.

He gave them intellect because he wanted them to understand his character and his perfection. He wanted them to be able to have intelligent fellowship with himself, and so he gave them the ability to discern and understand and to comprehend.

He gave them emotion so there could be fervor in love, so there could be an aesthetic quality to their personality, so they could appreciate the beauty of God's creation and appreciate the beauty of God's plan.

They also had moral reason, and this is part of the image of God. They had the ability to discern the evil of rebelling against God, and God apparently lavished all kinds of love and gifts upon all of these creatures, but none received such a display of love and affection and of honor and gifts as Lucifer did.

And yet, in spite of all of this, it says iniquity was found in this creature. Now I want you to turn to Isaiah chapter 14, where we will see what iniquity was found. By the way, hold your place here in Ezekiel, because I want to turn back in a moment.

Page 765, Ezekiel 28. Hold your place there and turn to Isaiah chapter 14. That's page 634. Isaiah chapter 14, verse 12. Now once again, this is in a context that is talking about a real ruler of history.

This was talking about the king of Babylon. It was predicting the licentious and unbelieving king of Babylon who would be in charge of Babylon when it fell. In other words, Belshazzar, as Daniel chapter 5 reveals him.

But this prophet, once again, looks behind the dynamic of this world ruler. He looks behind the scenes to the spirit being who is inspiring and motivating this licentious world ruler. And he says in verse 12, and here is another lamentation.

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? In other words, God raises another song of sorrow. He says, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how have you fallen?

The Hebrew word, Lucifer, by the way, is a word for radiant light. It means radiant brilliance. In other words, even the name of this highest of angelic beings means something of beauty and honor. He says, he is called the son of the morning.

He says, how are you fallen? And then in verse 13, God reaches back into eternity past and he gives us an insight into how evil started in the universe. You want to know where all of the suffering and all of the murder and the evil that is in the heart of man started?

Here it is. Here is the origin of sin in the universe. Verse 13, for thou has said in thine heart, I will 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. Five I wills. This is when iniquity entered the heart of Satan, our Lucifer, and he became known as Satan, the devil, the evil one, Apollyon, the destroyer.

Up until this time, he was perfect in all of his ways, but he became lifted up in his heart with his importance and his authority. And it says that behind the first sin was the desire of this highest of created beings to exalt his throne above the stars of God.

That's very significant. In other words, this being wasn't satisfied with being co-regent with God, with being second in command, but as he became impressed with his importance and inflamed with his beauty and intelligence, it says he wanted to have it all.

He wanted to have his throne above the throne of God. And then the last faithful I will, I will be like the most high. And this has ever been the ambition of this spirit being this highest of all created beings.

This is how evil entered the universe. This is how the devil was born. This is where Lucifer became the devil, the arch enemy of God. From that time on, he's been in a relentless war against God, seeking to make his throne above the throne of God and seeking to be like the most high, to be worshiped.

Pride, Free Will, and the Origin of Evil

Now back to Ezekiel 28 for a moment, verse 17. What was the motivation behind Satan's actual sin in his heart? Now notice the first sin in the universe, by the way, happened inside the mind and the heart.

It was a mental sin because you see, there's where sin starts in human beings as well. In verse 17, here is the dynamic behind the first scene. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty. Thou has corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness, literally by reason of thy brilliance.

It's a word for super intelligence. In other words, Satan began to cease to be thankful that God had created him with that beauty and created him with that intelligence. And he began to use this very gift of God as something to say to himself, I am worthy to be better than God.

In first Timothy chapter three, verse six, there's a very interesting statement. It says, as it talks about appointing men elders in the church, it says, do not appoint a novice or a young believer to a position of leadership lest he be lifted up with pride and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Now that tells us what was really behind all of this. It was pride that came out of his great beauty and his great brilliance and intellect. Well, that's how evil entered the universe. Now after this occurred, apparently God, who is love and he is justice throughout his character, apparently God gave this creature opportunity to repent, to change his mind.

And I believe that this is why God allowed Lucifer, who became Satan, which means the resister or the adversary, it means he's the adversary of God and of all those who follow God. I believe this is why God let him run loose.

And yet, instead of taking the opportunity to change his mind about his sin against God and throw himself upon God's mercy, what this creature did was begin to run rampant through the whole angelic realm.

And he began to lead the highest of the angels after him in a great rebellion against God. You see, these angelic beings were used to following the leadership of Lucifer because he had been the highest arch ruler.

And so he began to lead them off into a rebellion against God. Now what would he have said that would have caused these super intelligent beings to follow him? Well, I believe that he used the same temptation that had swept him off.

And that was, you will be like God if you follow me. You'll be like God and you'll have the intoxicating feeling of independence. And so in Revelation chapter 12, we're told that a third of the angelic realm called the stars of God, this is another title for angels, a third of them followed Satan in his revolt against God.

Two thirds of these angelic beings remained loyal to God. Now apparently, Satan was trying to gather enough angelic beings to follow him to where it would be impossible for God to bring judgment upon him.

But two thirds of the angelic realm remained loyal. And we just have to project what we know of scripture into this unknown area and simply deduce what must have happened after Satan led this third of the angelic realm in rebellion.

We know from the scripture that God has already judged Satan and his followers. Now we know this from Matthew chapter 25 verse 41 where it says hell was created for the devil and his angels. We also know this from other passages.

In the gospels, Jesus spoke directly to a spirit being that he called a demon that was inside of a man. And this demon said to Jesus, we know who you are, you're the holy one of God. And then it said, have you come to torment us before the time?

Now this indicated that this demon knew that there was a time set when it was going to be judged and put away. Now also, it's obvious that Satan knows that his doom has been sealed by what is said in Revelation chapter 12.

It says that he knows his time is short when it grows near the second coming of Christ. Now we know then that Satan was judged. And as we look into the scripture, we find that apparently what happened was that God rounded up all of the angels that had followed Satan and he brought Satan into judgment with them.

And sentence was passed upon these rebels and apparently when God told Satan and his followers that they were banished from the presence of God forever and they were going to a place of torment forever and ever, apparently Satan said to God, you're not just and you have no love.

And because at that moment God wanted to bring about a plan that would have much greater implication, God chose to set forth another plan that would demonstrate not only to Satan and his angelic beings, but to all of the angels called the angels of God and the elect angels that he was both just and that his love was incomprehensible, it was so great.

And so this was the point, when God elected to start a whole new program. God elected to create a whole new realm of beings. And he started what we might call Operation Man, because God elected to create man in his own image, just as he had created angels.

There would be a difference in this, in that man would have will, intellect and emotion, just as the angelic beings have, they would not have as much intelligence as the angels, but they would have the same capacity for understanding and for making choices.

The difference would be in the area of their corporal being. Man would be mortal, that is subject to physical death, whereas angels are not subject to physical death. He would have the limitation of having a physical body.

Now angels apparently have a form of being, but it is not the kind that limits them to the planet earth, or limits them to the things of physical existence. And so man was created with this limitation, and he was created with the image of God in himself.

Humanity in the Image of God

Now the test was set up, God created man in his own image. We read about this in Genesis, and I'd like for you to turn to Genesis chapter 1 for a moment, page 1, Genesis chapter 1, and we read of how God created man.

We know at this time that probably there were many galaxies in the universe that existed before Genesis chapter 1. We know this from Job chapter 38, verses 1 through 7, where it talks about a sequence of creation, and it talks about the fact that God created the material universe, and the angelic beings called the sons of God shouted for joy when this occurred.

So we know that there was a created universe before the creation of man, and it happened at some time after the angels were created. But, apparently God created the galaxy in which the earth dwells, and he set apart one of the planets in this galaxy to be the stage of testing.

And in a sense this would become like a giant, well like a giant Super Bowl, where man was going to be tested under certain conditions, and God was going to demonstrate certain things about himself to both the good angels and the fallen angels.

And so we read of the acts of creation. God chose to create the world in six days, and on the sixth day we read about the crown of his creative activity in this galaxy. He says in verse 26,. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, and the image of God created he him. Male and female created he them, and God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

God created man in his own image, and the important part of this statement here is that in man's immaterial being, he had the very image of God. He still has it. He has the factors of the image of God, which is will, intellect, emotion, moral reasoning power, and everlasting existence.

Once man comes into existence, his immaterial part will always exist. It will always live. So in that sense, man is in the image of God. Now one of the tremendously important things about this statement here is how God tells us that he gave man authority over himself, and also over all of the earth, over every created thing.

God gave him the legal right over himself and over all the created things. Over the earth itself. Now that's very, very important to keep pegged up here. After God had given man the power of attorney, legally, over himself because he had freedom of choice, and God had committed to him the legal right of ownership of the earth, the legal right of having dominion over every living thing on earth, he was put into a garden where God gave him every conceivable need that he could ever experience.

When God created man, he saw that he was going to need companionship, and so God created the most beautiful creature that he could create in the form of a woman. God saw that man would have that need, and so he created her.

And Eve must have been the prototype of the most beautiful of female existence. And he brought her to Adam and gave her to him. And he gave this pair a garden that was a paradise. There was nothing that God held back from them that would be necessary for their pleasure and enjoyment, for their well-being, for their satisfaction and feeling of completeness and so forth.