Why did God allow the serpent to deceive Adam and Eve?

      Why did God allow the serpent to deceive Adam and Eve?

God decided to create man and woman in His own image (Gen 1.26).  The purpose of God's creation is to produce the New Jerusalem (Rev 21.2).  Whatever project one undertakes, the end achievement or result is the goal or objective.  The goal of the Lord God, our Triune God’s whole deal about creating humanity is to produce the New Jerusalem which is the bride of God.  The New Jerusalem which constitutes the redeemed, glorified church after the millennial kingdom will be God's partner for eternity.  Hallelujah.  Glorified church is a corporate entity of human beings who with their freewill chose to obey the Lord God, no matter the cost while they were on earth.  These people upheld their testimony and have denied their soul life even unto death.  Their testimonies and their precious lives are the stones on which the Lord Jesus is building His church .  For these testimonies to be perfect and acceptable by God, it need to be without coercing and follow the Lord willingly.  In order to achieve that, the Lord has to show His creation what is evil, since He is good and all that belongs to Him is Holy.  The serpent as an incarnation of Satan introduced a never before entity into the creation, sin.  Eve’s disobedience led to Adam’s fall which gave birth to mankind’s first sin.  Subsequently, man continued to fall from one level to another.  God intervened during man's every fall and judged them accordingly.  At the same time, He set aside for Himself a group of people who would remain faithful to Him.  During the Old Testament time, God gave His people hope and promised a future messiah who will redeem them and save them from their sins.  God’s chosen ones in every age before Christ had faith in Him and the One who was to come.  They were encouraged through the prophecies of the coming Messiah and dispensation of God’s infinite love through Him.  Before Christ, people were battered by the law which induced fear of death, condemnation and slavery until the Word became flesh and dwelt among men.  Lord Jesus as the Lamb of God fulfilled the law through His perfect life, death and resurrection.  As the second Adam, He abolished death and ushered in abundant grace.  Through His great work, a new glorious entity was born out which is the church.  The church as the body of Christ on earth today functions according to God’s will.  God can move and accomplish things on earth through this body.  Secondly, church is the foretaste of the coming God's kingdom.  The church over the course of time will transform mostly through tribulations into the New Jerusalem.  This perfect New creation is possible indirectly through the participation of the devil.  In a negative way, Satan is contributing to the building of the church thought he thinks he is destroying it.  Through the satanic evilness in the world, we can know what God is not, what He hates.  When we choose God over the trampled and crushed serpent we will be the goal of God's creation, the New Jerusalem.    Amen.

God's residence is the Glorious Church

The Church is the foretaste of the coming Kingdom of God.  It is the most precious living entity on Earth today and we are fortunate to be part of it.  When the church gathers, the Lord is in her midst (Matt 18:20).  This shouldn't be a mere assumption or a vague idea, but rather, the fact that the living God is in our midst like every person gathered in the name of Lord should be our firm belief.  But, most often we search the altar, or ponder over some message to vaguely feel the presence of God and in reality living Christ is in our midst. 

Church is the right setup to experience the presence of God where saints gather to glorify God and help others to glorify God effectively.  There is no other place on earth where one can experience Him richly.  When I attend the church, my focus is not on the material, physical stuff, but the invisible but definite presence of God.  The physical and material things are nothing but expressions to worship God in the spirit.  He is not even at a distance from me as far as the altar, but He is near me and He is in my spirit.  These words should not be a mere soothsaying, or an objective wish, but rather, a real experience because it is the truth.  

When we see the church as an Entity which is already in the Heaven (Eph 2:6), we will start appreciating it because the Lord is in her midst.  We know that God resides in an inexpressible glory, in the middle of an unapproachable light (1 Tim 6:16).  When God is among the people who have gathered in his name, He is in such a glorious state.  If only we have a vision of the glory that we are participating, we will lead our church life with a joyous trembling as we are experiencing something that is more real and meaningful than our own lives.  When we fail to see the true vision of the church, we would engage with the fellow believers in a careless, evil and in a futile worldly way.  Our conduct in the church is not a matter of being an exemplary, rather respecting the presence of God in a real way.  May God grant us the vision of the church life and how much He has blessed us to become part of His holy Church.  Hallelujah for the church life.