Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
A careful study of this chapter reveals the sin of the angels that took place that caused G-d the Father to curse the Earth before the advent of man.
Jeremiah 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
They did not know what the SON looked like or if HE was ever going to show at all. All they had were promises given to them by Father who saw the end from the beginning.
In Genesis 1:26 G-d says let us make man in our Image and after our likeness. HIS new creation man began to make HIS old creation the fallen ones jealous it was going to be through man HE would come and reveal HIMSELF to the creation as the loving creator HE is.
I am not going to blow smoke like some people I know; mine will not go from black to white G-d chooses HIS leaders by also making them instruments of HIS judgment against the wicked. The wicked are those who do not put their faith in HIM but war against HIM.
He made the Spirits before making the vehicles in which they would drive.
He began talking to and praising HIS SON long before this moment we call the big bang. Just as we know Jesus prayed to HIS FATHER the FATHER always knew the SON. It was the creation that needed to know HIM.
HIS choice for leader this time was based on pre-existence and showing love unconditionally. The whole theme of the scriptures is forgiveness and love unconditional; the only condition G-d placed on man to enter into heaven is accept the SON the angels rejected the very reason we are here, to begin with.
I do not know how long G-d went alone before deciding to begin filling HIS home with creatures of faith; faith makes everything possible. It got me through eighteen years of my life, and I never knew HIS name, I always believed HE was. He hid from me with good reason, I was a sinner with a constant seeking to understand the questions as to why HE would HE hide from us?
Adam and Eve began the first hide and seek after they fell into shame, embarrassed at their disobedience of failing someone who loved them so very much. In the garden, they felt his presence always, right up until the fall when their eyes opened, and their hearts darkened.
All of G-d’s creatures in heaven speak and think some are made like the seraphim whose only purpose is to declare HIS holiness and reveal HIS glory.
Isaiah 6:1-3 and Revelation 4:6-9
So the serpent that spoke to Eve in the garden was not uncommon.
They made a choice to believe in what another said rather than in HIM. The fall of man would be a constant challenge to HIS word over another’s.
The creation is full of voices, some our own some theirs fallen and not.
So how will you know G-d’s voice among all the others?
G-d has no beginning and has no end but knew somewhere in the middle HE would need to reveal himself to the creation. Faithless people start wars and get it so those who have none blame those who do. The cruelest thing is to pretend to the world you have faith and still not listen. While forcing others to do their will while pretending to know G-d, this is every cult and false religion, traitor, backslider and the like.
Many of the angels in heaven did the same thing they lied about the knowledge of the SON while some naturally doubted.
In the old testament, G-d was defining what acceptable behavior to HIM is. War was not one of them. However, because of the fallen ones who lacked faith who were now only spirits inspiring men to do their bidding. G-d had to teach us how to war. They the fallen ones were jealous over the idea of the SON, and they purposed to stop HIM from coming at all costs.
G-d needed to protect the seed he would come through by using one people group to reveal that HE is very real and HE is in the affairs of men who love HIM.
Like the fallen angels there are Christians who would like to stop me because they do not know G-d, the plan of G-d, or the purpose of it all.
Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Isaiah 53:1-6
(1) Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
(2) For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
(3) He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
(6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Forever in HIS care.
Brother Abel