CHECK POINT

A Leadership and Intercessory Letter written to those who desire Integrity in the Inward Parts  (Psalm 51:6)

“Prototype”

Written by Esther Dummer

Fifth Edition - October 8, 2001

Definition:  “The first thing or being of its kind; original; model; pattern; A person or thing that serves as a model for one of a later period.”

The enemy wall of the ages has been created from its inception to withstand the move of God toward mankind.  This wall, a line of defensive and offensive measures have been used by the enemy to define between that which he considered his and that which he desires to make his.  There has always been conflict between his interests and that of God’s love and desire towards humanity.  We all know of the original fall of Lucifer, the creation of Adam and then Eve, and the results of their coming into agreement with,

Lucifer’s plan for their life, which is death.

Satan, the common name of the fallen angel, stood in a place to speak into the life of Eve, with full intention of pulling her over to his side, drawing into question God’s goodness and intentions toward her and Adam.  And his voice has never stopped speaking into the Adams and Eves of our age. 

We are now them.

God has always drawn lines, from the very beginning.  We have created similar lines for our children and call them fences.  In spite of our own understanding of the lines that we have placed between our children and disaster or death, we still tend to misunderstand why God would allow within the reach of Adam and Eve a tree that they could not eat of.  That tree in the Garden of Eden represented a knowledge that would open a carnal world and carnal thinking to the innocent minds of Adam and Eve.  It is for the same reason that we try to keep our children’s innocence as long as we can.  We know that once they taste of certain fruit that they will desire more of the same. 

The very first line that we read of in the Bible was the one that God drew at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  This tree was not to be eaten from.  This warning and admonition to Adam and Eve, and their taking God at His Word, was the difference between life and death for them.  It was the difference between fellowship with God and being cast away from His fellowship.  It was the difference between man staying innocent and becoming worldly-wise.  It was to Adam and Eve what the first illicit sex, the first drink, the first lie, the first knowledgeable sin that stole our innocence was to us.  The purity of innocence was gone forever by one choice to lay down with the carnal world and all it’s deadly charms. 

It was in that first tree that the serpent lay in wait because he knew that if he could just get the human to even take a small bite, that all of the innocence of their relationship with God and each other would change forever. 

For them to take of this tree’s fruit was the difference between knowing God and they themselves becoming their own god.

The first time they ever bent their knees at their own shrine or image was when the serpent convinced them that they were worthy of self-indulgence and worship.  So they stepped over the line and “became god.” 

Without understand the gravity of the deed that they did, they simply walked from the Father’s House into the enemy’s camp.

He, Lucifer, was the first lawless one.  He was the first to split the Tabernacle of Heaven into camps of thought that ran separate and counter from the Father’s thoughts and ways.  He, maybe even eons before, faced a line the Father had drawn for him.  This line stood between him and The Throne.  Exactly when he stepped over that line could be found deep inside his secret thoughts, before his mouth or body ever moved and inch. 

He stepped over it by pride and jealousy, by coveting, by his own desires running unchecked, opposite of the nature of the Great and Eternal God Who sat upon The Throne. 

The Father tells us in His Word to us to,

“Cast down every thought.”

We know that this is God’s word to us today. Do you suppose that this is the pattern that originated in heaven to rule the minds of the angels?  It is true that Lucifer had a free will, which later went unchecked and moved him into an assault on the Throne and God Who sat upon it.  I believe that this could have been a governing rule that existed before the creation of man. 

The thought of overturning the Kingdom of Heaven was concocted in an unruly mind.

Is it possible that there was a governing structure expressed by God to guide those who were created by Him to be Ministering Angels, Worshippers and Beings of great mental strength by nature of their creation.  Were they cautioned, as we are, to watch out for thoughts that would arise that would conflict with the Father’s thoughts and ways?  The power of choice did lay with them to serve Him or to not serve Him in His Kingdom.  I believe that they knew the rules of conduct to keep their wills in line and their thoughts and deeds in check to the pleasure of the Godhead. 

When Lucifer was near The Throne, he thought thoughts that were not God thoughts.  He stopped thinking how beautiful God was and began to focus on himself.  He stopped making every move he made with God in mind, but instead began to make moves closer to the line that separated him from The Throne. 

In earlier days, when he prepared The Throne for God, bathing it with loving worship, and expectantly waiting the entrance of the Great Eternal God he so adored, his whole being would beat with desire to please Him.

He was so totally captivated by his love for God, his creator.  His worship flowed with truth from the very core of his worshipping being.  There was never a time he didn’t have a song that originated fresh from his heart for God.  The words never ceased to amaze him as his worship was created in the Throne Room out of his heart of love.  They resounded with great desire and understanding of Who God was to him. 

Now, when he prepared The Throne, his hands has started lingering a little too long as his desires began to move unchecked in the depth of his heart.

He had never felt anything like this before and it stirred emotions in him that he had never felt in worship before.  The thoughts strangely began to satisfy a part of him that he never knew existed. 

It was adultery in the making as his love began to wax cold for God and self-love began to take its place.

He eyes began to turn from God, inward upon himself as desires, unchecked began to grow deep in his being.

I’m not sure that Lucifer even noticed when the seed that was planted, a seed that was foreign to his life, something that had never existed in heaven until that moment. He had become so self-focused that he no longer thought about anyone but himself.  His own ambitions and desires began to grow in intensity. If you could have watched him, you could have seen the metamorphosis beginning to take place, right before your eyes.  The watchful eyes of heaven where only purity had existed, until that moment, could not miss what was on his countenance.

Other patterns for “future humanity” were already being developed deep inside him, patterns that would equally devour the time and attention of the man to come.

He was the prototype that many would be developed after, at a later date.

If God had arisen from His rest and left the seat “vacant” for even a moment, Lucifer would think about slipping over and “trying it on for size.”  Just to sit on that Grand and Royal Throne could cause his mind to reel with grandiose desires that accentuated who and what he thought he was going to be, if given the opportunity.

He never gave it much thought that God’s presence could not be escaped; he was so full of his own presence now. 

But God noticed.

Lucifer appeared to still be doing his job as a “covering cherub.” 

  His mouth still moved, speaking words like,

“Holy, Holy, Holy.”

His beautiful voice still filled the Temple of Heaven, but now his heart was far from his words.

They even began to sound sort of hollow in his own ears.  Something was definitely transitioning.  He could feel the distance, even though he was close.  He looked at God differently now. 

Desire to be noticed, honored, revered, and yes, worshipped, now so overwhelmed him that he barely noticed that Great Eternal God, Who sat upon The Throne.  He no longer looked with eyes of adoration. 

Oh, yes, outside, he looked beautiful, but inside, death and corruption had begun its work of devouring his potential and destiny.

The seed he had planted through lust, now was growing and the fruit was beginning to sprout. 

Fruit, like

Pride,

Jealousy,

Envy,

Hatred,

Variance,

Strife,

Backbiting

And

Murmuring.

  He was a tree, bearing fruit.

It was only a matter of time before he offered his fruit to others.

The thoughts that he had entertained now began to entertain him.  He took great delight in playing the whole scene of godhood out in his head.  His delight was no longer in the Lawgiver, but his delight was settling into playing out his lawless nature that now was beginning to govern him. 

No more rules.

No more God.

No More!!!

  He was tired of playing second fiddle,

Tired of watching others always gathering around

“That throne”

And

Bowing down to

“Him.”

  “Why should He get all the attention?”

“Why should He be so “High and Lifted Up?”

“After all, wasn’t he just as anointed, just as good?”

“Nobody hardly noticed him and he was always there too.”

Everything that was now developing in his new nature was creating a new pattern in heaven, one that was sure to clash with the,

“Old System.”

If he could just get some followers to see things his way, then he could overthrow The Throne and take it for himself. 

He would have never thought of it as “Mutiny.”

It just “seemed” right to him.

That word would later be added to his new dictionary of words that would mark his kingdom. 

Words like,

Rebellion,

Deception,

Jealousy.

So he, Lucifer, set about writing a “New Constitution” for Heaven. 

It would be titled,

“I WILL.”

After he had finished writing it and had read it over several times with great self-satisfaction, he decided to take it around and gain some approval and followers. Yes, that was it, he needed to bring others into his plan, get them to agree with him, somehow.

He, unknowingly, was developing into the prototype for the “Wolf.”

He was honing skills that he and his future followers and minions all down through the ages would use successfully over and over to divide and conquer other’s kingdoms and citizens.

So, on a given day in Heaven, he took the “New Constitution” around the Eternal Kingdom and began to knock on door after door of the hearts of the Heavenly citizens.  He knocked upon the doors of the angel’s hearts and lay out before them what he felt about everything. 

He was now creating the prototype of “slander and gossip and undermining of leadership.”

Most of the doors were slammed in his face, but he did find a few who bought into the line that he was sharing with them.  Some took several visits to bring them around to his side.  Some were ready but still a bit afraid, so he had to woo them with the promises of what they could get out of it.

With nothing more than a toehold established, he used that once glorious voice of worship to talk and talk and convince and reason and undermine.

He used it to flatter with cunning words placed just right for the greatest effect.

Some just barely opened the door, out of curiosity and then finally allowed him in to “share his ideas and concerns.” 

The listeners, now with their “eyes off of God,” began to focus on this glorious and beautiful creature before them.  They had known him a long time as one who had such a high place of honor.  They had known him as the Son of the Bright and Morning Star and “here he was, talking with them.” 

They were flattered and they were, “had.”

They took a bite of the fruit of pride and love of place and position that he offered them. 

They too could be “like God!”

Eventually, to his great delight, he had gained the favor of a great number of angels and now carried an authority with them. He had shown them what they could get out of it for themselves, shown them the new constitution and had offered them things they had never dreamed of before. 

Now it was time to cross the line.

Emboldened by his great success and receiving strength by the angels that followed in his wake, he approached The Throne with the new constitution in hand. 

He began declaring the ousting of

“The Seated Eternal One”

And declared

That,

“His kingdom had now come” to take its place.

He read his

“I Wills”

To a stunned audience of worshippers.

The silence of that great Throne Room was deafening.  Moments before the very air was electric with the thundering applause and worship of Heaven for the Majestic Being Who sat upon The Throne.  The very doorposts had shaken with the sounds of praise that reverberated from every fiber of all that was in existence in that room. 

And now, all of heaven held its breath and stood still with great awe and fear upon them for what they were witnessing.

They had never seen rebellion, pride or lawlessness before, but now “it” approached The Throne. 

With a great flare of self-importance and arrogance, Lucifer stepped over the Line.

He never knew what hit him, but suddenly he found himself catapulted through space, falling, falling, whirling totally out of control and unable to stop the event of his fall. 

The atmosphere around him changed.

The air was filled with the screams and wailing of the fallen angels who were just being introduced to a “new kingdom,” in which not one ounce of Holiness remained. 

All Light had disappeared.

They were in Darkness.

Surely this had to be a trick.

They had never been separated from God before.

They had never felt anger, hatred, rejection, jealousy, envy or lust before, but now it was all that permeated the atmosphere of this kingdom.

The question loomed up within their fallen minds. 

Where was Lucifer, the one who had promised them so much?

Then their eyes fell upon him.

He was a “FALLEN ONE” too.

“PROTOTYPE”

  Genesis 1:26-27 

Then God said, “Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves.  They will be masters over all life….

  Genesis 2:7

And the Lord formed a man’s body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life.  And the man became a living person.

God Draws a Line

Genesis 2:15-17

The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it.  But the Lord God gave him this warning:  You may freely eat of any fruit in the garden except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die.

  Questions Raised

  Genesis 3:1-3 

Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the creatures the Lord God had made.  “Really?” he asked the woman.  “Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?”

“Of course we may eat it,” the woman told him.  “It’s only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat.  God says we must not eat it or even touch it, or we will die.”

The Flattering Lie

Genesis 3:4-5

“You won’t die!” the serpent hissed.  “God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it.  You will become just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil.”

Crossing the Line

  Genesis 3:6

The woman was convinced.  The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise!  So she ate some of the fruit.  She also gave some to her husband, who was with her.  Then he ate it too.

Fallen

Genesis 3:22

Then said the Lord God, “The people have become as we are, knowing everything, both good and evil.  What if they eat the fruit of the tree of life?  Then they will live forever!”

Banished!

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God banished Adam and his wife from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

Eternal Life Lost

Genesis 3: 24

After banishing them from the garden, the Lord God stationed mighty angelic beings to the east of Eden.  And a flaming sword flashed back and forth, guarding the way to the “Tree of Life.”

  Well, what could God have expected?

He had humiliated him in front of everyone, including those who followed him in the revolt against The Throne.  He had aspired to so much and the sudden fall had caused his mind to reel with rage and embarrassment. 

The Prototype of Revenge, Satan, had executed a deathblow against the humans that God had lavished so much love and devotion upon.  He had hated them from the beginning of their life and now he had destroyed them.  

The woman, beautiful and perfect in her creation, had been as easy as the fallen angels to deceive.  His tongue, with practice, had become silky and smooth.  The words had just glided off of his lips.  She had fallen right into the snare of words, which were still directed at The Throne. 

If he couldn’t be “god,” he would convince others they could. 

No one, if he had his way, would ever bow again at the feet of

“Him Who Sat Upon The Throne.”

Eve had taken of the fruit he had offered her and true to the pattern she had shared it with Adam.  Satan watched as they were driven from the Garden and denied access to the Tree of Life. 

He watched as death worked in their family.  His lies of jealousy had taken their toll in the life of their oldest son Cain, who then rose up and slew Abel, his brother.  He had crouched near him for a good while, until the door had opened. 

It had worked that way in Heaven with the angels and true to pattern it had worked here.

He watched down through the centuries as the original sin, introduced by him at the beginning of humanity, continued to destroy mankind’s future with God.  He really did not have to work all that hard, once he had got the ball rolling. 

It was a real scare to him and his kingdom when the infant, Jesus, was born.  He recognized “Him” right away and set out to destroy him.  He had heard his former friends worshipping on the night he was born.  The sky was lit with their brightness as they sang of His Glory. 

All of heaven seemed to be rejoicing over “The Savior” that had been born.

Even the night sky had lit up with a brilliant star, which now hovered over the place where this small baby lay. 

Every plan he could come up with to kill the destiny of this child would be used to the fullest extent of his lawless nature.  He would incite others to do his dirty work; Herod and the Roman soldiers failed in the first two years of Jesus life. The Scribes and Pharisees, the religious leaders in later years would do his work for him, he was so sure of them.

They would do the dirty work “In The Name of God!!!”

Judas, with the nature of greed working in his life, had played into his plan so nicely. 

He had worked perfectly in the plan of betrayal.

 It was then to his great delight to speak words of hopelessness and death to him.  To sit there and watch him hang himself had given him a great sense of satisfaction.  One of the ones who had sat with Jesus as a close member of his own group was now dead.    

So now, thousands of years since his fall, he was now satisfied. 

  “Another Tree” loomed up before him.

He had been there when religion had finally accused and caught up with this Jesus.  The Christ, “The One” who had angered him in Heaven who had watched him fall from Heaven, now hung lifeless upon this “Tree.”  He had watched Him take His last breath.  All that had consumed him now was satisfied. 

He had killed God!!!

It was finished and he was the victor.

  But Lucifer forgot the principle of the Third Day.

If he would of have been listening, he would have caught it, because Jesus Himself had talked repeatedly of it. While Satan was giving himself a victory party with all of the fallen ones, bowing at his feet, he felt his world shake violently.  The One he had seen hanging upon the Tree was now standing before him demanding all of the keys that he had held all of these centuries.

It brought back old memories of the raw terror he felt when he was flung out of Heaven.

Jesus, in front of everyone, spoiled his camp, taking all the prisoners held captive by death out and up with him.  It was a mass of humanity that went that day, into the Kingdom of Heaven, including the thief who had died with Him.

Then the unthinkable happened right after that. 

From the very belly of the earth,

To the atmosphere above it,

Into the galaxies that surrounded Earth,

To the very portals of Heaven’s door post,

All was shaking as a Mighty Power Surge of Victorious Resurrection Life flooded into the body of Christ.

  Heaven and Earth rejoiced that day as Jesus rose as the Conquering King, over death, hell and the grave.

Colossians 2:14-15

He, God, canceled the record that contained the charges against us.  He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ’s Cross. 

In this way, God disarmed the evil rulers and authorities.  He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the Cross of Christ.

Romans 5:17

The sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over us, but all who receive God’s wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.

Well it appears that we have come full circle. 

There was a second Adam and Satan had missed it, altogether!

Jesus had stretched out His arms and had bridged the gap as a Man of Intercession for the fallen men and women of Earth.  And now, just days later, was once again back in His High Estate, next to The Throne, and now speaking for anyone that believed in Him. 

It was too easy!

It was not fair!!

And He was embarrassed, again!!!

Pastors, Intercessors, People of the Church, we must continue to see Satan embarrassed by the Cross of Christ.

How?

  1. By enforcing the Victory of the Cross of Christ.

2. By taking back everything Satan has stolen from us; our families, our churches, our nation and the uttermost parts of the world.

3. By modeling our lives after the likeness and image and nature of Christ, as revealed in the Word of God.

4. By using the keys that Jesus has placed into the hands of the Church.

5. By accepting nothing that Satan has to offer us, no matter how good it looks, or the promises (strings) attached to it.

6. By picking up our cross and following Jesus in obedience to His call upon our lives.

7. By being a people of faith, authority and integrity with a desire to spoil every scheme of the enemy who continues to entrap and snare hapless victims by his darkness and deceit.

8. By standing in the gap, interceding to see souls saved, healed and delivered.

9. By worshipping God with such intensity and sincerity that He will not even miss the beautiful voice of a once worshipping Lucifer.

10. By crying Holy, Holy, Holy with a multitude of voices that will ring with the sound of many waters around God, mingling our voices with the Great Cloud of Witnesses that have gone before us.

11. By yielding up the fruit of clean lips before a Holy and Righteous God, Who is Worthy of All Praise and Glory and Honor!

12. By honoring the Lamb Who was slain from the foundations of the Earth, for He is surely coming again in Clouds of great Glory at which time we will ride with Him to utterly destroy the enemy’s camp, thereby winning the War of The Ages.

  Folks, we will see him bound and cast down.  We will be able to say, as a witness,

“I saw Satan Fall!!!”

  God Bless the Faithful Watchman on the Wall of the Church!

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