How to Understand the War of Good Vs Evil: You Can Never Fight God and Win

How to Understand the War of Good vs. Evil:

You Can Never Fight God and Win

Ken Kapreilian

Copyright @ 2020 by Kapreilian Publishing

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ISBN 978-1-329-09789-6

Table of Contents

How to Understand the War of Good vs. Evil:

You Can Never Fight God and Win

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Hand of God

Is God Self- Evident?

Judaism & Christian

I AM WHO I AM

What is Truth?

Truth or Consequences

Summary

Chapter 2 – Understanding God’s Relationship to His Universe

The Circle of Time

The Multiple Dimensions of the Fabric

The Timeline Of The Beginning Of The War Between Good vs. Evil

The Fabric is Complete

How Do Events Move From One Realm to Another?

Thinking About How an Angel Can Appear

Summary

Chapter 3 – The Battle Begins

Why does this war exist?

What Caused Satan to Engage God in War? Pride

Revenge

The Role of Good Vs. Evil in Our lives

Understanding the Tree of Knowledge and Temptation

Where did the battle first come to earth?

The Being, the Battle, the Quest

The Weapons used in Battle

Discernment in Battle

Open his eyes that he may see

Vengeance is mine

David Vs Goliath

The If Question

How to respond when tempted

How to resist the Devil, Putting on the Whole Armor of God

Demons Possess a Man

The Power of Jesus to overcome Satan

Summary

Chapter 4 - What Does This War Mean to You and the Opposing Quests

The Quest, into Er

Richer/the Gospel of Money and Supreme Happiness

Mephistopheles would be proud

Now wait a minute!

Know fear

Wiser / Now wait a minute!

The Indignant Man

I Surrender All

Summary

Chapter  5 - The Godly Quest, Into Ion

Job’s Restoration and the Mystery of Iniquity

The Bazaar is Open

Understanding the relationship between faith in God and temptation

Where Were You

The Final Question From The Lessons In Ion

Salvation

His Journey into Er

Chapter 6 – I am Free

Where Was God When?

The Power of the Holy Spirit and Personal Freedom

Chapter 7 - Understanding God through Faith

Holding On To What You Believe

Understanding the Relationship between Faith and Belief and Desire

All things are possible to him who believes

Worry

Sin blinds us from our own sins

The Weapons of Doubt and Deception

The Great Apostasy

Summary

Chapter 8 - Final Thoughts

Understanding the Need for Eternal Quenching

Understanding our personal value

Lead us not into temptation

Eliminate the Will to Sin

Happier / the Paradox of Emptiness

Wisdom of the years / Living beyond the moment

Why would someone reject God?

Other

Doing the Right Thing

The Personal Philosophy Paradox

Wisdom in Proverbs and the Personal Philosophy Paradox

Understanding of the two components of hope

Understanding How Knowledge Becomes Belief

The Chasm

The Antichrist

Uncertainty

The Fog of War

This is a Spiritual battle

The Battlefield Is In the Mind

Who Will Die At The End of This War?

So then what lies beyond the war between Good vs. Evil?

Summary

Appendixes

Appendix A - "Desire

Appendix B -  Believe

Acknowledgements

Preface

When we consider the current situation that the world is dealing regarding the virus pandemic of 2020, they are two perspectives.  The first perspective is theological and the second perspective is secular.  Depending on your perspective, this is going to determine how you think and act during this situation.  From a theological perspective based on the Judeo-Christian belief this brings into consideration the war of Good vs. Evil.  From a secular perspective the war of Good vs. Evil as defined in the Bible it is not a consideration. How we look at a situation affects what we see.

Here are some questions to consider when reading this book.

What is your perspective, theological or secular?

How would you speak to people about the situations that have a different perspective than you?

Since many churches have been closed and thus being deemed nonessential, how do those closures affect your perspective on the local church?

Do you believe in the eternal struggle?

If not, what do you believe in?

Do you believe in Satan?

Introduction

This book is an illumination into the war of Good vs. Evil and as such, it will present a clear picture of that event. The war in heaven was the climatic event; it is the nexus between Good vs. Evil. Therefore, we will come to understand that Evil, although the opposite of Good, had to originate as a part of God’s plan. Thus, the war of Good vs. Evil is now a part of the human experience.

So then, let us begin at the beginning. God created the heavenly beings or angels. Satan was one of those angels. Now, a strange and violent force influenced Satan and the other angels. A force they did not fully understand. This is a force so powerful that it can transform even heavenly beings. What is this force? This force is sin. Sin is an act of rebellion against God. Therefore, we also understand that sin existed outside of humanity. Sin and temptation gave Satan the will to wage war against God. His will was to overthrow God and make his (Satan’s) throne higher than that of God. Satan did not understand that you can never fight God and win. Therefore, that era of a tranquil existence was finished. The following verses describe the fall of Satan from heaven.

Isaiah 14:12 - "How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world.

Revelation 12:7–9 7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, ⁸ but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. ⁹ So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

By reading the previous verses, we come to understand that this war took place in Heaven. It is very important to understand that this war transcends both space and time. These distinctions (transcend both space and time) make this war unlike any other war. It is helpful to understand this war and its impact on humanity.  All wars have casualties and this war is not different in that respect. This is a war of ideologies and philosophies. There is not any demilitarized zone.

The war of Good vs. Evil is multifaceted. The dualism of the war of Good vs. Evil is understood as follows, their origin was in the first eternal realm which is Heaven. The war of Good vs. Evil exists as opposites because Heaven was the genesis of the morality paradigm designed by God. By extension, the Biblical world view represents that morality paradigm.  So then according to Christian theology, Heaven is the eternal place of existence for those who God has deemed are Good (those who have chosen to be saved). Then Hell represents the eternal place of existence for those who God has deemed Evil (those who have chosen not to be saved).

Since this eternal realm is also external to the human physical experience, the second part of the dualism exists when the thoughts of a person become created in their mind. Then these thoughts become manifested by their subsequent actions.

So then the individual determines who they will become (choice or free will). This determination is based on their adaptation of a moral code that defines certain actions as Good and other actions as Evil. Therefore, subsequent actions then become an integral part of their self-identification. By extension, then a person can choose to believe that their actions are directly related to their success.  This is because our morality is part of who we are.

As a direct result of this war, sinful acts are a now a part of the will of both heavenly and earthly beings. So then, by extension, sin and temptation influence our emotions. Some of these emotions or desires are (pride, envy, jealousy, the desire for power, the need to possess what we currently do not possess). All wars have casualties and this war is not different.  Therefore, in order for people to survive this war and not become causality, God gave us His son.

¹⁶  "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. "There is no judgment awaiting those who trust him. But those who do not trust him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God. ¹⁹ Their judgment is based on this fact: The light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil" (John 3:16-19)

So now, we come to understand the manifestations of the second part of the dualism as follows; the war of Good vs. Evil are part of the human experience. Hence we have the following understanding of Satan.

Satan’s monomaniac concern with himself and his supposed rights and wrongs is a necessity of the satanic predicament. He has no choice. He has chosen to have no choice. He has wished to ‘be himself,’ and in himself and for himself and his wish has been granted. To admire Satan is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. The hell he carries with himself is a hell of infinite boredom. C. S. Lewis

Summary

Therefore, we can now answer the question of how God’s morality and sinful behavior of affect humanity.  The answer is that, God’s morality is also a part of His creation. To those who disagree with the previous answer, this disagreement is understandable because of their feeling of having to be influenced by something they do not believe in (but they loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.).  As such, those people would prefer to put their trust and belief in something that they can see, touch, feel and understand (self) rather than God. In conclusion, we come to understand that the mind of individual is influenced by their beliefs; and then by extension their beliefs will determine how they think and act.

Chapter 1 - The Hand of God

Consider the following scripture:

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily upward into heaven and saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 56And he told them, Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand!" (Acts 7:55-56)

Is God Self- Evident?

There is a duality to the self-evidence of God. This duality is to be understood as follows;

God is Self-evident outside of the realm of humanity. I AM THAT I AM (Exodus 3:14) KJV, is the scripture basis for this first type of self-evident. This text (God's response to Moses) can also be understood with a future tense as in, I will be what I will be.

The second type of self-evident is that God is self-evident to humanity. The primary revelation of this is that humanity (as a whole) and the individual seeks to understand who God is.

²⁴For God is Spirit, so