The Standard of Truth

The Standard of Truth

Since the expulsion of man from the Garden of Eden, Man has lived with a false standard.  The devil swindled man out of his divine inheritance and call; leading him to accept lies and falsehoods.  For the past 6,000 years dishonesty has triumphed and has gone unchecked.  Man wanted to choose for himself the standard, choose for himself that which is right and that which is wrong.  Just as the devil was once a bright morning star, an angel of the highest rank; a cherubim of perfection and beauty; one that sang God’s praises continuously at the throne of the LAMB; his voice was purity of sound and his music delighted the heavenly host; his vanity took hold of his senses and he said to himself; “I can be like the Most High, in fact I can be the most high!;”  so did Adam say that he could be his own god and rule himself.  Just as the devil’s vanity led to rebellion and his perfection turned to iniquity in his heart; Adam’s intellectual vanity turned to iniquity with one fatal act of disobedience.  Eve was deceived; and Adam could have been her savior; he was still without sin.  He could have led his wife away  from sin, away from the standard of lies and into the light of the LORD.  Instead, he followed his wife instead of leading her.  The first marriage became a disaster; and all mankind was led into accepting lies and deceit as the standard.  Adam accepted the devil, the enemy as his god.

KING OF TYRUS AN ANALOGY OF THE DEVIL

God came to the prophet Ezekiel in a vision and revealed the fall of Lucifer to him as a type of king of Tyrus.

1.  This was the WORD of the LORD

2.  This being was the sum of wisdom, beauty and perfection.

3.  He was in Eden with Adam and Eve; all mankind was cut off from Eden.  Only God, the devil, Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden.

4.  His “pipes,” his voice was perfect workmanship of the Creator.

5.  He was a Cherub that covered the throne of God; one of three; the other two are Gabriel and Michael.

6.  He was at the mountain of God; at His throne.

7.  He was perfect from the day he was created until iniquity was found in him.

8.  His beauty and brightness led to vanity.

Ezekiel 28:11-17 KJV Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,  (12)  Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.  (13)  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.  (14)  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and 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.  (15)  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.  (16)  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.  (17)  Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

LUCIFER’S FALL FROM GRACE

God also came to Isaiah and revealed the truth about the fall of Lucifer; about how he allowed his vanity and intellectualism to lead him into iniquity.

1.  Lucifer fell from God’s Grace.

2.  He was the son of the morning (in Hebrew; the Morning Star).

3.  He believed that he could remove God from His throne and take over; that he could be the same as the Most High or be the Most High.

4.  Man will someday look upon Lucifer in his pitiful and powerless state; laugh and ask, “Is this the one we have been afraid of?  Is this the one that made the earth tremble?”       

Isaiah 14:12-17 KJV 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!  (13)  For thou hast 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:  (14)  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.  (15)  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.  (16)  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;  (17)  That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

We can’t even imagine a world without deception, lies and inferior products.  Just in my short 52 years a false standard has become normal.  A one pound can of coffee is now only as little as 9 ½ ounces.  A one pound can of fruits and vegetables; is now around 10 to 12 ounces.  The Good News is that a new world is coming to replace injustice with justice.  It will be a world that will stand on a new standard.  It will be the standard of truth.  It will come with the return of Jesus Christ!