In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it and he said, “It is good.” There was one thing missing, God wanted a family, so he created man in his own image. The man he created, Adam, was given the rulership of the earth as the son of God. It did not take long for a deceiver to appear on the scene, a nemesis, who sought to usurp both God and his heir and through his temptation of man did just that. He deceived, man fell, and sin, death and destruction were brought into the world. His goal and his tactics have not changed.
Today the sons of Adam are under the same onslaught of deception of the evil one. As he questioned Eve, “Has God said?”, he is still sewing doubt in the minds of men. He has challenged God’s creation in the form of evolution, a ludicrous theory that says nothing exploded and created everything! Today, he continues to cast doubt about God himself, the truth of His word, heaven, hell, sin, and eternity. It is tragedy that millions have listened to the same deceiver that lied to Adam and Eve.
However, he is not satisfied to deceive the deniers of God, he has set his set his sights on a greater target. His sights are set on those who seek God. He cannot use his nefarious lies denying God’s existence against those who seek God so he must use a cleverer deception. He must create lies and deceptions against the truth of God’s redemption of man, he calls it religion. God has made it clear from the beginning that man’s sin must be atoned for so that man can be redeemed and this atonement only comes through the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22). This shedding of blood must be from a perfect sacrifice. In the Old Testament, it was a spotless lamb, which only pointed to the real lamb, Jesus Christ, the son of God and the lamb that would take away the sins of the world.
