The "Who Rejected God, How, And What Happened To Them" Game

It seems an interesting project right now to consider who in the Bible rejected God, how they did it, and what happened to them. There just might be a message from God in it, or at least a bit of wisdom.

I am going to start in a place you totally do not expect: with God. You see, Jesus Christ, the Son of God who IS God, was crucified for those who reject Him from BEFORE the foundation of the earth. That means that God knew that rejection was coming because He was the one DOING it; i.e., He was making us ignorant and unlike Him in that. If He was doing it, He couldn't blame us unless we persisted in rejecting Him after we had the wisdom to know better. Not repenting EARNS one hell. So having evidence and still explicitly rejecting God gets us a toasting in the eternal stinking toaster as our rejection by Him.

This may be parallel to Adam and Eve's (the Ineffable's consciousness and imagination) becoming independent of God by eating of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden--they became material, ignorant, and their relationship to God "dead." Their materiality was acquired - Cain - but was without spiritual awareness, i.e., its spiritual consciousness was zero - Abel (abel in Hebrew literally means zero, nothing).

This may not be the teaching you have been getting in your spiritually dead church. They generally do not teach it in seminary. You have got to learn how to look at scripture and see what it is trying to say to you. The authors saw the truth, and wrote it out in a code which ILLUSTRATES it. Look at it as a picture.

Mankind generally lives in this spiritual darkness of ignorance of what man really is (we are God flipped into the unwitting stupidity of physical life). There is a progression of improvement toward spiritual illumination: the antediluvian patriarchs (you've got to translate their names and consider their implications). I believe they are actually steps to spiritual understanding culminating in a state of mental rest, of confidence in God. This would require God-like holiness on the voyage, but Ham (heat) is undisciplined, rebellious, and all that follows that is cursed as rejection of God. Cursed until it is redeemed, that is.

Nimrod strives to setup a kingdom for Cush, the son of Ham's error. He seems successful to the world, but Shem (the nature of God) destroys him, and Shem's descendants (the Ashurai, Genesis 10:11/10:22) take over and spread out from what had been Nimrod's "success."

Well, I think the game of Who Rejected God, How, and What Happened to Them is clear enough. A list of bilical characters who rejected God might include Moses, who killed an Egyptian and struck the rock, the Egyptians, the Jews who rebelled in the wilderness, Achan, the Northern Kingdoms of Israel, any number of kings, David, the Jews of the first Temple, the Jews of the second Temple, the Jews who rejected and/or crucified Christ, Paul, Peter, you and I and our families and neighbors. How many can you find? Like I said, I think there may be a message for today's world in it.