What is Man?
Let’s have a look at this all important question that Satan plants in the ear of men to confuse and tempt them into despair and hopelessness -- after all, we are but dirt. With this understanding we will examine the answer --
(Job 4:12-13) A word was secretly brought to me (Elphaz), my ears caught a whisper of. Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
(Job 4:15-16) A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
(Job 4:17) 'Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
(Job 4:18-19) If God places no trust in His servants, if he charges His angels with error, how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!(Job 4:20-21) Between dawn and dusk they (mankind) are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever. Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'
Gal 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,Gal 4:5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.Gal 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."Gal 4:7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:2Cor 6:17-18 Wherefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.1Jn 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.1Jn 3:3 Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
2Co 6:18 I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
(2Co 5:1) Now we know that if the earthly tent (body) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.Repeat:
(2Co 5:2-5) Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.(2Co 5:2-5) Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. NIV
(1Co 15:51-53) Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
(2Co 5:21) God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
(1Jn 3:1) How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
(1Jn 3:2) Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
(1Jn 3:3) Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
(Php 3:20-21) But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord YaHshua the Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to bring everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body.
While our true citizenship is in Heaven and we live as strangers on this earth, we are "waiting" on Him to bring our certificates of citizenship, so to speak and to change us into the same immortal Spirit He is of -- literally to be born again. We will "be like His glorious body", fit for eternity.
(2Co 5:2-5) Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
We are extremely important to our Heavenly Father and even though Satan and his gang of demons do not like it and would love to make us doubt our own destiny, he has lost the battle and has been tossed from Heaven. This, however, is not so good for mankind, because Satan and His angels are no longer in Heaven, causing trouble, but now, on this earth, trapped, no more access to Heaven, and he does not like it. You can read about this in Revelation 12 – there you will read a brief, a sampling of what has already happened since our Lord came to earth and then was caught up to Heaven to be, again, with the Father. Contrary to what some teach, there is no war in Heaven, that is finished and the Angels of Heaven rejoice, but woe to the inhabitants of the Earth – for Satan and his angels are incarcerated here, on this Earth.
Past Tense -- this has already happened:
When you look at the context of this event you will see it is after our Savior, YaHshua is caught up to Heaven that this war takes place. And the Angels of Heaven rejoiced because this trouble maker, Satan and his angels were cast out. Satan is not sitting in Heaven accusing the brethren day and night, as some suppose, that is past, he is cast to the earth and his place in Heaven, along with the angels that followed him, is not more.
(Rev 12:10) Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
Read this closely – "For the accuser ……. has been hurled down". Those who quote this verse leave the last part out. He, Satan, the accuser, is no longer in heaven accusing anyone, He and his angels have been "hurled down" – down to this Earth -- and are having fits, throwing tantrums as is evident from our history and our present, modern times, so called, witnessed by the daily news cycles.
(Rev 12:12) Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short."
So, those in Heaven can rejoice because this evil Spirit is not long among them, he has been hurled down – "But woe to the earth and the sea…". The earth and the sea would mean the whole planet, all of earth, the land and the sea. Satan and his demon angels, then, are everywhere, or better still, have access to all that we know and call earth, but he and his bunch no longer have access to Heaven.
These demonic forces of Satan are set to tempt and chase after the people of God. Again, from the history of man from the time our Savior, and before, but especially in our modern historical past we have seen this pursuit of a class of people trying to destroy the People of God as seen in the people of Israel, the Jews. They have managed to get a new foot hold in the land of their ancestors and still there is an evil force and influence present in this earth trying to destroy them. How brazen some have been, calling for the complete annihilation of the people of Israel and hardly a sound from the rest of the world. In fact, when Modern Israel protects themselves they are seen as the aggressor. If these evil forces were ever to overrun the Modern nation of Israel, there would be a blood bath greater than anything mankind has seen before. All we have to do is look at what the ISIS hordes are doing and trying to do -- this is the mental break down of humanity being inhuman toward others they hate, for seemingly no reason, even murder for the sick pleasure of it -- and that is evil.
[2023 - October 6 Update:Another pattern, another murderous group, hiding under the umbrella of a hate religion, breaking out from its darkness into the light of day, to kill and commit other unmentionable acts, being exposed to the whole world as to what they are, and have been all along. But, while this woke some parts of the world up, and while it sickened the mind and thoughts of those who cannot deny this act of barbarism by these Palestinian thugs, and the immediate response was to strike back, and to put an end this these this killers club, it was not long before the streets of some major cities were filled with protesters claiming this was all the victims fault, and that it was the victim (Israel) who should be annihilated. Different people? No, the same people, different name. Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran, and what do these have in common, other than they are all claim to be followers of Allah, all Islam? They have strings, or more like ropes tying them to IRAN. There are many others such, glorified groups, and mini groups, like the now diminished ISIS, and Al Qaeda terrorist, also claiming Islam as their purpose, as their excuse for being the murderous, killers that they are. We can only hope and pray for the day that is coming when our Savior, YaHshua returns and opens the eyes of those so blind. It is not only these killers who will come to repent before our Lord and Savior, whose hearts will be changed, will have to be changed, but also those living in the lies of the world, being returned to truth, even in the simplest of things. For this day we do pray, but we pray not for those things that must happen, and will happen, things out of mankind's control, things that will be the beginning of His Return to save this world -- and believe me, if you watch the news at all, or for as long as I have, decade after decade, you will see, and understand why this coming time, just before His actual return, is necessary -- just read a sampling, found in the opening of the 6th Seal, in Revelation 6:12-17]
The leaders of this terrorist gang of thugs makes no other claims, than its ambition to establish a Caliphate, a single, united Islamic State governed by Shari Law and enforced by penalty of death -- to all none converts to their religion. They are a murderous bunch and have been enjoying some success, mostly because Europe and the USA are sitting on their hands.
[2024 UPDATE: ISIS as first called, later many changed to ISIL, as explained previously, and in full murderous operation 2011-13. In late 2019, the international rejection of this terror group was apparent, beginning their downfall, and capped off by the USA President Donald Trump, 2020, and very little is heard from that evil groups since. But, some still say they are working behind the scene, in smaller numbers, but not quite as dead as many would like.Now -- October 2023 - January 2024 -- Israel struck back, and after warning the population in Gaza that they were going to strike hard, beginning in the Southern region and to evacuate, a warning they gave 2 weeks before they began their actual assault into Gaza, and began uncovering Hamas underground tunnel system, where the enemy of Israel was scurrying around like rats, living in the the dark -- well, the Israeli troops, and bombs began exposing these evil works to the light of day. This may be too political for some, but the Bible does warn us about such things. I mention these things in light of Bible Prophecy and what we have been told before hand, and, hopefully, to help open the eyes of some for why we need a Savior. Yes, even those we classify as terrorist, need to be awakened, and see their need to repent and for a Savior to enter their lives. And as we watch what is going on in this MODERN World, with all of its technology, and advancements in knowledge, not bringing peace at all, and is certainly not saving mankind from its rush to extinction, the need to put a stop to this movement toward the eventual outcome of total destruction, something has to happen, something beyond mankind's control, something that will stop us -- by "us" I mean all of mankind, "all" of us need to be saved, in order to stop the madness, or no one will survive -- Matthew 24:29-31 -- Revelation 6:12-17 --Mat 24:22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.Mat 24:36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my FATHER only.Mat 24:29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;Mat 24:30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.Mat 24:31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.Rev 6:12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.Rev 6:13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.Rev 6:14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.Rev 6:15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.Rev 6:16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of His wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"________________________________
We can see these events and many, many other events from the past that demonstrate Satan and his influence in the earth and his constant chasing after the woman that gave birth to the Son of God. YaHshua came out of Israel, a Jew of the flesh and the irony is how many of those of the Islamic religion honor YaHshua as a great prophet but want to kill His people.
What does this have to do with Satan asking the question in a damning way? Proof that he is here, he and his angels (demons) are among us and constantly influencing evil men and women to do their worst. Yes, women too. What kind of woman would send their son out with bombs strapped to their body? What kind of woman would go on national TV and brag about having more babies to be martyrs for Allah? Women, willing to sacrifice their own children to the god of war and to Moloch the god of fire.
The ultimate demands of their leaders is insane – the complete and utter annihilation of the State and people of Israel – this is the treat they want, this is the answer to their problems. If that is not a Satanic ambition then what is?
Conclusion:
Satan is among us and he still asks this question, whispering into the ear of weak and fragile mankind, "What is man but a piece of dirt. Why should God ever care about you?" From Satan's point of view, which he would like mankind to admit, we are nothing but dirt, with a very short life span, so -- why even bother breathing? But there is a Hope, and that is found in YaHshua, and only Him, for who so ever would confess Him will have everlasting life -- Rom 10:9 ... that if you will confess with your mouth that YaHshua is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Unfortunately, this is way to hard for some. Of course, leading to such a confession is the act of repentance and then the reason behind this confession becomes clear. Killers, will not enter the Kingdom of God , not without their confessing YaHshua and they cannot do that unless they "repent" of their unholy acts and then and only then will His Blood cover their sins great and small. Rom 10:10-11 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed."
You have read the answer, and so, when this question ever comes up, you can know in your heart, unworthy as we are, by the Blood of YaHshua, we are destined to be made into more than dirt, we are to inherit the Kingdom of God, because we are His Children.Heb 13:15 Through Him (YaHshua), then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to the FATHER continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to His Name.Php 2:9-11 Therefore the FATHER also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; that at the name of YaHshua every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YaHshua the messiah is Lord, to the glory of God the FATHER.