"From Eden to Exile" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, indeed, the war is all around us and even within us. So help us, Lord God, to walk in the peace and the direction and the wisdom of your Holy Spirit, that your will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us as we walk through this minefield of wickedness and lies and deception and counterattacks and all of those things that Satan is trying to throw at us.

0:50 Father, I pray that you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart to receive the revelation of your love and truth for us this day, that you would encourage each one as they're listening, wherever they're at right now. Pick them up, Lord God. Get them out of that place of despair and bring them into the place of hope and joy and peace and vision. I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us, that you paid the price in full. We are ransomed. We have been ransomed. We are free, free to do your will, free to live and move and have our being in you, Lord God, free to live the eternal life, that you died to give us the abundant life. And I thank you, Jesus, for giving us power over all the power of the enemy, that nothing shall by any means hurt us, Lord God, that we will take and learn how to use that authority just to submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee and say no to him.

1:34 Use your authority, use your words, use your words as weapons to tell the devil to go to the pit, get out. He doesn't have right, he doesn't have operating privileges in your life, in your temple, in Jesus' name. And we thank you, Lord God, for the favor, the blessing, and the restoration, the promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said, deed done, or action taken will be able to be used by the enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble, reproach, or discouragement, loss, or despair to us, our. Families, those who work for us, pray for us, love us, and our possessions, the things that we do, the work of our hands, the fruit of our labors, that it will all be blessed and protected by the Most High God and the angels of heaven, the heaven of God in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Hey, what are we talking about today?

2:17 We're talking about God. Oh, good. That's a big subject, honey. Hey, our relationships, you know, we started talking about relationships. Yeah. And you actually wrote a book on relationships, doing relationships God's way. And so, we want to talk about God, and let's talk about the start out at the beginning. Right. In our relationship with God, is He your friend? Is he a foe or is he a father? And we're going to do this kind of, I think, as a three-part series. So today we're going to start out with, is he your friend? Well, yeah, when we go back to Genesis, right? Yeah, that's where we have to go back to. Adam, God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground, and yet he'd made him in the image of God. It's just pretty wild.

3:05 But there was the original relationship. With God. Adam and Eve walked with God in the Garden of Eden. There was that immediate presence of God. There was that oneness of God. That friendship, yeah. But then, you know, that friendship was there, but then something happened that wasn't so good. Yeah. For a while, they walked with God in the cool of the day, every night, every evening. And I suppose they discussed the matters of the day. And I would imagine God was teaching them things about the garden, about the intricacies of, you know, even molecular structures and whatever all DNA and wavelengths.

3:46 I'm sure God was talking to them about, you know, these things, or maybe they already knew them. I don't know. But the thing is they were walking, conversing as friends in the cool of the day, and that was their regular affair, regular deal. Yeah, regular communication with the living God. and I'm sure that the actual intelligence, the brain power, of Adam and Eve was just amazing. I'm sure they had just supernatural knowledge of God. Yeah, they might have communicated telepathically. They were unspoiled by sin at that point. Right. So God had created them for companionship, fellowship, and relationship.

4:28 Companionship. He didn't want to be alone. God is love. God does not love to live in a single existence with himself. He wanted objects, people to love. Because love isn't love until it's given away. So he had to create someone to receive his love. And that's what companionship, fellowship, and relationship was. But in a relationship, things can go bad. Like every relationship, they can change. They can start out good like Adam and Eve and hopeful and sweet. But as we know, in our own personal relationships, they can turn bitter and hateful and broken. And I think one of the things about relationships, they can be the place of your greatest blessing or the place of your greatest pain.

5:09 There's probably no more painful thing on earth than to be in a broken relationship. I mean, it affects the heart. It affects your words, your conversations, your hope. Everything around you is affected by relationships. So what happened in this story, it's almost like a fairy tale with no fairy in it and lots of tale, that this true story, once upon a time there was a true story. And in that true story, God created a man and a woman, children, made in his own image and likeness, and walked with them in the garden. And then we have the villain entering, as we all kind of know the story, came in the form of a serpent, a snake, the serpent, and he began to beguile Eve.

5:50 And, you know, they were told, God told them, there's two trees in the garden, many trees, but there's one tree called the tree of knowledge, and the other good of life, the knowledge tree of life. And so they were supposed to only eat off the tree of life. And what happened? They partook from the. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So they didn't know evil. Evil existed because way back when, you know, Satan rebelled against God, who was Lucifer, who was the worship leader of heaven. He had instruments in his body. He had jewels in his body. He was beautiful. He was basically almost like the guardian of the throne of God and the worship leader of heaven.

6:32 But he just decided at one point, he says, I want to be like God. I don't want to be just here next to him. I want to be him. Yeah, exactly. And with that iniquity was found in him, and with that vendetta, that hatred, that contempt, he lost his true inner beauty. But when he seduced Adam and Eve, there was an enchanted... The word enchantment, we have many fairy tales in the enchanted forest and the enchanted this and the enchanted that. And it's all, but that's really what this was, that she was deceived, enchanted by this beautiful fruit that she believed would make her wise and was good for food in Genesis, the chapter where she's being tempted.

7:19 And so she was seduced, she was deceived, and that poisonous apple, which was not necessarily an apple, was definitely poisonous. And that's kind of where we even get some of these fairy tales, like Sleeping Beauty, where she fell asleep after she pricked her finger and the poisonous apple and all these things that happen, that our relationship with God is often reframed in these fantasies and fairy tales. But nonetheless, everything went dark. Humankind fell asleep, and our relationship with God really took a terrible turn, actually something you could not even imagine.

8:00 It went from so beautiful to so black in a second. And so sin and separation and Satan entered into the garden. Well, yeah, you know, and there was, well, entered it, not only entered into this garden, the paradise of God, but yet they were driven from that garden. Well, yeah. There was a curse that came upon them. They were really, you know, seduced by this quest for more, wanting to know more. I think that's what the streamed knowledge of good and evil is about is I want to know more, more about more, more, more, more, more, what, what, what. And so nowadays we have this flood of knowledge. We can go to Foxfire. We can go to Safari. We can go everywhere. We can Google, whatever you want to do, to find more knowledge about something.

8:43 So this was, they were being seduced with thinking they didn't have it all. But when they were walking with God, they really had it all. They already had all of it and didn't know what they had. Lucifer was trying to, you know, trying to, he actually did, you know, tempt Eve to say, oh, there's something missing. God is withholding something from you. because he knows if you eat of this, you will be like God, knowing good and evil. And so knowing evil intimately was not a good thing. It corrupted them. Knowing evil corrupted them to be evil. We wanted to be like God, which was the same thing that Lucifer wanted, to be like God.

9:26 Amen, exactly. Even though we're created in his likeness and image. God is still God, and we are not him. Yeah, we are his children and made in his image and likeness. But so what was happening here is the sweet, almost you'd think perfect relationship between God and Adam and Eve was somehow Satan had penetrated into that beautiful relationship with a question, with doubt. Did God say, you know, is this all? Isn't there something more? What's on this tree that you don't know about? And so God's friendship as a friend, a benefactor, was breached. And you and I have the same thing happening in our relationships a lot of times.

10:07 You think you've got this perfect husband, this perfect wife, this perfect child, and all of a sudden something comes in there. Some thought, some temptation, some lie, it's always a lie, comes into the mind of one or the other to begin to corrupt them, to not be satisfied anymore, to think they're missing something, to think there's something better out there. And if we don't have a solid relationship with God in the first place, then witchcraft becomes a super seductive opportunity because Satan uses witchcraft, the anti, you know, it's rebellion. It's anti-God in every way. He uses that witchcraft to seduce the people with instant, instant answers, instant gratification.

10:53 And we're all about instant because we hate waiting. So when you pray and the devil answers the prayer and all of a sudden a magic thing appears or some power, you're empowered with something you didn't know you had. But really what you're getting is you're getting tapped into commanding demons to do your work for you, but you don't know that. But there's a price that they're charging you for this that you don't realize it's your soul. But anyway, so there's a breach in your relationship. This is always, always what happens in every human relationship as well. You're with a friend and And all of a sudden, there's a gossip, there's a rumor, there's an offense. You know, offense is a big thing that Satan uses to break, break, break up relationships.

11:35 And we could say, well, Eve was offended because she didn't believe anymore that God was totally, genuinely sincere and honest with her because he was keeping those things from her that were on the tree. Well, that, yeah, that was the implication. God is, you know, Lucifer is saying, who came in the form of a servant, that God is withholding stuff from you. Yeah. And he wants, you know, you could be, you know, you should, don't you want to know good? I mean, they already knew good. They knew God. They knew, but then he said you can also know evil. Yeah. Like, you know, but the thing is the knowledge of evil. And have power.

12:17 That's the thing is we think knowledge, and Eve thought, oh, this is really good. She did not know what evil was. She didn't know what evil was. She didn't know. But the idea was, oh, I can be like God. I can know more. I could be like God. I can know. Inquiring minds want to know. It always seems like knowledge is a good thing, and it's not always a good thing. But going back to this, what happened then is they became estranged from God because of the sin. They were separated, sent out of the garden, lest they eat from the tree of life. And so what happened is their friendship with God, God is a benefactor, a friend. They turned away from him. And what was substitute, the substitute, they worshiped now.

13:00 They turned their worship, their idolizing, two idols, sticks, stones, golden calves, shiny, shimmering, luring objects the devil set before them, just like the devil, like the fisherman, the deceiver sets a lure before a hungry fish. And they began to do all kinds of things that God told them not to do. You know, they began to, you know, every one of the original commandments, you know, eat the food I've given you, be fruitful and multiply, don't cross the kinds, have no other gods before me. All of these things, just one after another, were just knocked down. And so they began to substitute all of the lies. The fallen angel stepped in into the midst and began to seduce the children of God.

13:44 And the children, because they were not cunning. They were not devious. They were not well informed about the wickedness of evil, or become just no match for the devil's cunning. And so he seduced them to steal their birthright as God's sons and daughters and to steal their souls. I think that the reason that their birthright as sons and daughters of God was very disturbing to Satan because of the fact that He had not been made an official, you know, son of the Most High God. He was called one of the sons of God. The angels were called the sons of God, but they weren't the actual, you know, offspring of God. They were not created in the likeness.

14:27 An image of God. Of God. Yeah. And so Satan didn't want to be a babysitter. He didn't want to have to be the angel that took care of them or his angels, you know, sent as ministers to the heirs of righteousness because we are the heirs of righteousness. And he didn't want to do. So what they did, they wanted to be like humans, and so humans could procreate, and they could have families, and they could, you know, live on the earth and all this stuff. So Satan decided to break that law and take wives, the enemies, the fallen angels, some of them took wives for themselves. And so then the whole world began to be corrupted with Satan's vendetta and with his desire to create.

15:08 So he started to create things, and he created a mess. But he started with the things that God had created and crossed them, mixed them, bred them to one another in unlawful ways. And we got monsters and giants and chimeras and centaurs and creepy creatures. And those were not just fictional characters in Greek mythology. No, this is not a fairytale fairytale. This is a real tale. You can find this out, I mean, in Genesis chapter 6. I'm just going to read part of this, beginning with verse 1. It came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God, that would be those fallen angels, saw that the daughters of men and saw that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

16:02 Somehow, so there's an intermingling of kinds that the Lord had forbidden right from the beginning. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man, for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years. And it goes on. There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward when the sons of God came into that had sexual relations there with the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. And it gets on here. Verse 5. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

16:47 And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and he was grieved at his heart. You think of coming, Marjorie, from the place of being so intimately in communication with God that you get to the point where this is a powerful statement. Every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Every intent. Every imagination. He had been so corrupted so thoroughly. Everything was only evil. There was no good in there. It was only evil, and it kept going on and on continually. Well, the thing is, we see that very same thing today, that the corruption.

17:29 When God said, you know, thou shalt have no other gods before me, what he was really giving them was a way to be protected. Because once they started worshiping these entities and demons and whatnot, every time you worship that, you give it more permission and power in your life. And so Satan was stealing their power because they had been given power and authority over the garden, and Satan wanted that too. He wanted their position, he wanted their power, and so he was going to corrupt them to the uttermost and to this very day. When you see it now, you see the demonic possession that's taking over some people in such gross and horrible and diabolical ways, people suffering from. Their lives are nightmares, demonic nightmares, and they don't know how to get out of it because people don't realize that the devil not only took over their position and their power, he was also taking over their place, which was their body, their temples.

18:22 And so that's why we have these relationships today that are so out of control. People are so insanely beside themselves that not even a medication can calm them down, and that's what we try to use those medications for, but they're just berserk. They're insane. They're programmed. And that is because the demons have taken over their minds, their hearts, their bodies, every part of them. And so this is how corrupted the relationship can become, especially if you give place to these entities. And this is many generations later. So the enemies have had hundreds and thousands of years actually to work to take over our lives. It gets down to who you worship. It really does, yeah.

19:04 The whole area of worship, it's like— Whom you yield yourself, servant to obey, his servant to become. And it's not like God is on some big ego trip. Right. Well, after all, I'm God, and you have to bow down and do everything I say—. He's got the authority to do that, but let's look deeper at this, is that he does not want us. He knows that if we go into idolatry, we go into demon worship, we open ourselves to the control of the evil one. And the superstitions. And it results in broken relationships, broken bodies, alienation from God.

19:46 Death. Death, all this stuff. He's just basically, his rules. God is grieved. His Ten Commandments, if we look there way ahead from where we're talking about in Genesis 3, we're there to protect the people. It's like, you know, it's like there's a boundary here. It's like, you know, it's like boys and girls, don't go out and play on the freeway. It's like you put your two-year-old, your toddler, your 18-month-old in a playpen. It's so you're protecting. him. He was giving them the boundaries, the laws to keep them protected from the traffic that was flying across in the street across from them. And so here's, but here's the problem.

20:30 You know, Satan was making it look like God was mean and vindictive. And so really putting lies in our hearts, their hearts about the goodness and the intentions of God. God did not create them to be slaves. He created them to be sons and daughters. Satan is the one who wants to turn us into slaves. And so here's what was part of the problem. They had been separated through sin and Satan had got a hold of them. But the worst thing was that really Adam and Eve and the human race was now in legal trouble. And you know, that's a messy place to be with your offspring when they got to go to court and they're going before a judge and don't know what's going to happen and who's going to testify against them.

21:10 But what the legal trouble came from was the verse that says the soul that sins shall die. And it was written in the Bible, in the book of Ezekiel, that that there was no remedy. If there was no savior, no remedy. No interaction, no extraction from this mess, that they would die. And so the only thing that could be done, because they were already slaves, they were already marked for death, they already could not die in their own place to save themselves because they were already bought and controlled by the devil, that there was no way that there was anyone qualified to lay down their life or die in behalf of the human race.

21:54 And that's where this tale takes a remarkable turn of events. So God has been rejected. God has been cast off. God has been called a liar. They went after their lover, the spirit of lust and perversion that drew them away from God into the idol worship, into the idolatry and adultery. And so we see that God now is alone, abandoned, rejected. Of course, he's got all of heaven, but he wanted—this is what he really wanted. This is what was in his heart. It was to have a friendship with man, and now we have rejected him. We've cast him off. We don't want anything more to do with him. And yet, yet, going back to the last conversation God had with Adam and Eve before they left, when he was, you know, cursing, putting the curse on the devil, and the man was going to, you know, labor by the sweat of his brow, and the woman was going to, and her desire was going to be towards her husband, he would have the rule over it, which made her in a very vulnerable position.

22:53 God did say that because the devil had used the woman to mess up the garden, so to speak, God was going to use the woman. Eye for an eye, right, to fix the garden by bringing out through her the seed of the head crusher. And so Satan knew in a way there was this veiled threat that he was in trouble. A head crusher would come to step on his head. And he was also told that he would be able to bruise that head crusher's, bruise his heel, but the head crusher would crush him. And so that was kind of like the veiled threat and promise that God made to Adam and Eve in the garden, and yet that promise was lost to humankind.

23:39 I think people completely forgot that there was hope coming, and in the meantime, they drifted further and further away into the debauchery, crossing the kinds, until the DNA was so corrupted that God had to step in, even before He finished His promise, had to step in to save them, to keep them so they could get to the promise. Yeah, and that's why the flood came. And he had to just wipe everybody out except for Adam. Not Adam, Noah. Yeah, Adam actually died right before the flood. Right, right. Except for, you know, and then you had Noah, his wife, and his three sons and daughters. They're the only ones that survived, the only ones that still had good DNA for the most part.

24:20 Noah had great DNA. It was not corrupted. It was not defiled. And so God said, you know, okay, I'm going to wipe out mankind. And start over. And start over again. But, you know, and then it gets to the point down the line where Israel, for the most part, who became, you know, Abraham becomes a friend of God. He is the father of the faithful. Yet his, he said, God said, you're going to have so many children, you won't be able to count them. You know, they're like the stars of the sands on the shore and they're like the stars in the sky. There's so many. But what happened, for the most part, with Israel, they rebelled and they got to the point where.

25:07 In Ezekiel 5, verse 7, Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you and have not walked in my statutes nor kept my judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you. Therefore, thus says the Lord, Indeed, even I am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. So we can see here that the friendship of God, the sorrow of God, the pain of God, the grief of God is beginning to turn into having—he's having to take the position of a foe. We're going to talk a little bit more about that in the next show, but in going into that, see, it's drifting into this place of more and more separation.

25:56 You read it in your own relationships. It starts out with a fight, a misunderstanding. More fuel is added to the fire. People refuse to forgive. They refuse to repent. They refuse to confess their sin. And they go on and on. So here we have the dilemma, the drama between God and his promise to deliver them, which he made to Adam and Eve in the garden. I will send the head crusher. I will send the redeemer. I will send the one who will deliver you from the grip of the terrible one, from the grip of death. I will send him. But in the meantime, Satan, if you stop and think about it, has done everything he can to try to thwart that forward motion of God to bring that rescue, to bring that redemption, to bring Jesus Christ as we know it now, to the place of Bethlehem to the cross.

26:48 So what Satan started to do in that beginning promise, I believe he said, ah, the seed of the woman was his clue to go after the DNA. And that's where he began to go after the DNA and switch it out. And so when he was crossing humans with fallen angels, and he was crossing different animal kinds, and crossing men with angels and men with animals, that's where we do get all these real, not mythological, but real creatures, the chimeras, the centaurs, and that sort of thing. And so when the flood came, that wasn't an act of violence, although God's heart was broken. It was an act of mercy. And it was an act of, yeah, what would we say?

27:32 Just not even desperation, but in desperation, he was willing to forego all the creation, And half the creation that now existed on the earth, not half, maybe part of it, but it was all messed up by Satan anyway. So Satan, in his laboratory experiments to cross this and that with everything else, he got all these crazy creatures that had no souls. They didn't belong. And then out of that mess came the demons. And those demons were not created by God because God did not authorize them. And they were the laboratory experiment that went bad when Satan and his angels crossed themselves with the human women. And so these demons are half human, come from a human spirit, half a human spirit, and half a fallen angel spirit, a demon.

28:17 That's where the demons come from. That's exactly right. And so that's why they, and they're disembodied now because after the giants fell, their house, their habitation was gone. So that's why they're looking now, even now spreading all this discord and disease and filth among the human race to, you know, enclose themselves with human beings. It's like they're like living in us like parasites and they eat off of us. They drink our food, water, eat our food, and they grow fat and they grow strong and evil as we diminish. So they're sucking your life out of you. And people don't even believe that humans can have demons, but they can, because we see it all the time.

29:00 And we know this for the fact, one simple fact, Jesus said, cast out demons. He didn't say cast them out of your dogs. He said, cast them out of people, as he cast them out of people. So there's a truth here that people, humans can have demons, and even Christians can have demons. And we know this for a fact, because you can't deny reality when you see a believer who's manifesting, or even any time that you give place to the devil, whether you're lighting up a cigarette, and I'm not saying you're going to go to hell because you do that, but that's not... Part of our divine nature, or you're telling a lie, or you're slapping your wife across the face. Anytime you do anything like that, you are not living in your divine nature.

29:41 There's something going on in you that's causing you, as Paul said, causing me to do what I do not want to do, Romans 7, 20. And if I'm doing what I do not want to do, he says, it's not me doing it. So we see now this war, this broken relationship that started out with sending them out of the garden has now. Revealed itself even in the inner courts of our hearts and minds and mouths, in our souls, in our relationships with one another. So this vile disease, this contagious evil thing called hatred, violence, murder, contempt, and that's what happened. That's what sin does. And so we'll talk more about that relationship with sin in our next episode, but realizing that as we leave this part, that the people were now in torment, in bondage.

30:26 They were victimized. They were victimizing one another. They were killing their children. They were offering human sacrifices, their own babies, to the devil to appease them because the demons are so insecure and so moody. You've got to always keep them happy and beg for stuff from them, although they could have got it all straight from God for free. But the thing is, so now we're in this mess. We're in the middle of a drama here. We're in Act 2, where, okay, now everything is going bad, and yet God has made the promise. In the end, he's going to set them free and bring deliverance. But in the middle, Satan's trying to mess the DNA up so that there will be no head crusher to come out of the woman, and that there will be everything.

31:10 All the rebellion, that there will be absolutely, people will just be snatched away by the enemy, and God will have to act as a foe to us. And we I already just peeked into that a little bit with this scripture in Jeremiah. God has to act as a foe. And so, Father, we just thank you right now for... Part one of this love story, actually, of how you have come to lay down your life, stand in our place to destroy the head crusher yourself. And so, again, we thank you for your overcoming love that you didn't become bitter. You didn't become despondent. You didn't turn away from us. You didn't abandon us to our fate, Father.

31:51 We thank you in Jesus' name for sending Jesus, and we thank you for making us. Creating in us a clean heart, is putting your spirit into us and causing us, drawing us back into our full identity as your sons and daughters. And we recommend that you get a copy of Doing Relationships God's Way by Marjorie Cole. How can they get that? Just go to Amazon.com and Doing Relationships God's Way, Marjorie Cole. Another thing you might want to check on our website, which is not on Amazon, is the war between God and Satan for the souls of men called God on Trial. And this is a dramatization of the very story that we're telling us yeah it's genius and you know you can buy those episodes for i think under five bucks you know i think it's like three something you know and it's you can put those in your car or put them on your now i guess you don't use cds anymore we don't but put it on your on your ipod or your your radio or your phone and listen to these stories and you'll get to work so much faster and you'll you know be profit using your double use of your time, not only driving to work, but also encouraging your heart. Those are God on Trial.

32:58 Download them, check it out, and we'll talk to you again soon. Music. I have an emergency. What is your location? Oh. Three, two, one.