‘ The whole focus of this page is NOT upon you, ‘Christian’ (or any human being for that matter), but upon the dark one having deceived you. The struggle on earth is not against humans, but against the evil one ( Ephesians 6:12 ). To cast light upon dark practices is a command from God at the hand of Paul in no uncertain terms in Ephesians 5:11 . Satan, God’s instrument of evil, only does his job, for all of us to yearn for Jehovah, the GOD of the BIBLE , the GOD of BEAUTY , the GOD of LOVE ! It’s 11:59 ! Lucifer tries to copy God and sees himself as God’s substitute, the God of the Bible reflected below. The God who IS the Holy City Jerusalem ( Revelation 21:10 ). Psalm 48:1-10 “ 1  A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD , and most worthy of praise , in the city of our God , his holy mountain , 2  Beautiful in its loftiness , the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion , the city of the Great King . 3   God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress . 4  When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together, 5  they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror. 6  Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor. 7  You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind. 8  As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty , in the city of our God : God makes her secure forever. 9   Within your temple , O God, we meditate on your unfailing love . 10  Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth ; your right hand is filled with righteousness.” - New International Version God gave Lucifer wonderful attributes while he was still in Eden, qualities characteristic of Paradise, which is Christ Himself ( Luke 23:43 ; 1 Peter 2:4-5 ; Revelation 21:10-11 )! Ezekiel 28:12b ““Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “’ You were the seal of perfection , full of wisdom and perfect in beauty .” - New International Version Ezekiel 28:13 “You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you : carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared .” - New International Version But these attributes God took away from Lucifer, because it was time for this cherub to be banned from Paradise and to become Satan. God changed all his former attributes into antitheses, however, them still to be the fake veneers of the original, as trick to deceive the world. The ‘ perfection ’ is to be pursued, fostered by ‘free-will’; ‘ wisdom ’, to be attained in controlled academy and its credentials be used as bait unto financial success and personal power; worshipful ‘ beauty ’, to be programmed into architecture , art , rituals and vestments of exclusivity. God’s goal with all this is to have ALL mankind experience adversity in the counterfeit, in order for ALL to ultimately appreciate the sharing in HIS Truth and HIS magnificent glory forever more! God made Lucifer full of splendour and then He destroyed him Ezekiel 28:14-17 ““ 14  “ You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there . You were on the holy mountain of God ; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire. 15  “ You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you . 16  “By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence , And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you , O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire. 17  “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you.” - NASB 1995 About the GOD of the Bible: GOD is in control of ALL! Philippians 2:13 “for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.” - New International Version Nobody has free will! God determines EVERYTHING! Isaiah 45:7 “ I form the light , and create darkness; I make peace , and create evil . I am Jehovah , that doeth all these things .” - American Standard Version GOD predestined EVERYONE! Acts 17:26 “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place ,” - English Standard Version WHY did God create man in the first place? To SEEK Him, to anxiously GROPE for Him and to FIND Him! The interpretations in virtually all Bible versions of the following verse 27 are just SO incongruent, saturated with deliberate uncertainty (e. g. “perhaps”, “might”) that I give my own version here, transliterated from the Westcott & Hort 1880 Greek version: Acts 17:27 “ζητεῖν τὸν θεὸν εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν, καί γε οὐ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα.” - Westcott & Hort 1880 Acts 17:27 “ seek the God to anxiously indeed grope for Him and find [Him] , and indeed not far from one each of us He is .” Acts 17:27 And the question to ask here? WHERE will people anxiously grope for Christ? At least one of the following three Here on 1   earth , in 2   hades (sheol), or in the 3   gehenna (Lake of Fire = Christ Himself ). And the GOOD NEWS here? God is there WITH EVERYONE , wherever it may be, with His corrective, but LOVING hand! Sore for sure, but with the beautiful anticipation of the joy that lies ahead for EVERY PERSON ! 1 Earth Paul to the Corinthians 1 Corinthians 11:32 “But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.” - Douay-Rheims Bible 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 “ 8  For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself . 9  Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death . But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead . 10   He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again .” - English Standard Version 2 Hades (Sheol) The parable of the “rich man” in hades Luke 16:24 “And he called out , ‘ Father Abraham, have mercy on me , and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame .’” - English Standard Version 3 Gehenna (Lake of Fire) Revelation 21:8 ““But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars , their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone , which is the second death.”” - NASB 1995 Make no mistake EVERYBODY will be salted with Fire! Mark 9:49 ““For everyone will be salted with fire.” - NASB 1995 God indeed created all humanity with the purpose that all search for Him, albeit from out a state of anxiety, or bewilderment. In other words, ALL need Him (knowingly, or unknowingly) and will need Him! Moreover, God sees to that , that ALL fall short and miss the mark and ALL will fall short and miss the mark. This is exactly where the Law of Grace comes in! Romans 3:23-24 “ 23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24  and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” - New International Version Romans 3:27 “Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith .” - New International Version And how does God do all that? With adversity, with suffering! THAT is the very reason why Adam and Eve HAD to leave Paradise. They just had one field day after another, didn’t have a clue of WHO God was and that they indeed needed Him. Before Adam and Eve were created, Satan was already there, for his first assignment. God had lots in store for him! With this being said, what follows will show Satan’s immense role in all. The mere fact of the indescribable glory that awaits ALL humanity, is reason enough for the suffering that has to precede this Godly jubilance! It’s ALL about the Grand Finale! But, before we go any further and since we deal here with the two laws, let’s first see what Paul says about these laws. Romans 7:15 “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” - New International Version Romans 7:23 “But I see another law at work in my body , warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.” - Berean Standard Bible Romans 7:24-25 “ 24  What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin .” - New International Version Romans 8:6 “The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.” - New International Version 1 Corinthians 4:4 “My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.” - New International Version 1 Corinthians 11:32 “But when we are judged by the Lord , we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world .” - Berean Standard Bible And what about CHRIST? JESUS CHRIST IS GOD 1 John 5:20 “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ . This one is the true God and eternal life .” - NET Bible JESUS CHRIST IS THE BRIGHT MORNING STAR Revelation 22:16 ““I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”” - New International Version John 8:12 “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “ I am the light of the world . Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness , but will have the light of life.”” - New International Version JESUS CHRIST IS THE LION OF the TRIBE of JUDAH Revelation 5:5 “Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”” - Berean Standard Bible JESUS CHRIST IS THE LAMB OF GOD John 1:29 “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” - Berean Standard Bible JESUS CHRIST IS THE CORNERSTONE of HIS HUMAN HOUSEHOLD Ephesians 2:19-20 ““ 19  Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household , 20   built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets , with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone .” - New International Version ‘Christian’, what is a household other than a group of PEOPLE? A household is NOT a building at all! A household has NOTHING to do with concrete, but is ALL about a SYMBOLIC house! Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of His Symbolic house. He is NEVER EVER to be representative as a concrete block, ceremonially built into a building structure! Satan FEASTS on the tangible and too many do not even realise it! Acts 7:48-49 “ 48  “However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: 49  “’Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me ? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be?” - New International Version JESUS CHRIST IS THE PEARL OF GREAT VALUE Matthew 13:45-46 ““ 45  “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46   When he found one of great value , he went away and sold everything he had and bought it .” - New International Version Matthew 6:19-23 ““ 19  “ Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth , where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven , where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21  For where your treasure is , there your heart will be also . 22  “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy , your whole body will be full of darkness . If then the light within you is darkness , how great is that darkness !” - New International Version JESUS CHRIST SEES WHERE MAN CANNOT SEE! 1 Samuel 16:7b “For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”” - Berean Standard Bible JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY ANCHOR THERE IS! Hebrews 6:19 “ We have this hope as an anchor for the soul , firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain ,” - Berean Standard Bible JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY! John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “ I am the way , and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” - NASB 1995 Jesus IS the Everlasting Father! See Isaiah 9:6 . Believe in His salvation for ALL and just talk to Him directly ( Matthew 11:28 )! JESUS CHRIST IS THE HEALER of ALL TIMES! Matthew 15:30 “And great multitudes came to Him , bringing with them those who were lame , crippled , blind , dumb , and many others, and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them ,” - NASB 1977 Revelation 22:2c “And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.” - Berean Standard Bible JESUS CHRIST CREATED ALL Colossians 1:16 “For in Him all things were created , things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him .” - Berean Standard Bible JESUS CHRIST CREATED LUCIFER! Ezekiel 28:14a ““ 14  “You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there.” - NASB 1995 JESUS CHRIST ABANDONED LUCIFER! Ezekiel 28:17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you.” - NASB 1995 Christ’s primary role for Satan is to sustain the evil He ( Christ ) has created (see Isaiah 45:7 ), evil that is summarized under the umbrella of IDOLATRY . God created false gods and paganism for mankind to painfully experience the counterfeits of Him and ultimately to have humanity opting for the TRUE God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And how? Through suffering. Christ draws with correcting LOVE , or WRATH for that matter. There is NO peace within anyone who is NOT in Christ, that is the TRUE Christ who died for ALL and saved ALL! Everyone finds Him through suffering, within one’s HEART ! And just for the record, it’s never Satan who is in charge of anything, it’s CHRIST! Christ dictates to Satan. The whole drama was already in place before creation, in detail! To bring the golden thread between evil and judgement into perspective, God’s total control of all gives the answer. Since suffering builds character ( Romans 5:3-5 ), trials are necessary. For trials to be justified, trespasses are necessary. Growth can only take place with pain involved. Moreover, you who believe in the ‘free will’ nonsense, which painful trials will you ‘choose’? NONE! See how ridiculous this fallacy is? CHRIST chooses which trials you can handle and which not ( 1 Corinthians 10:13 ). Every human being on planet earth is uniquely created by Christ ( Colossians 1:16 ) and equally loved by Christ. And this includes all principalities and rulers of darkness as well. Difficult for many to understand, let alone accept. Important to remember that ALL will be judged and judgement is painful ( Mark 9:49 and Hebrews 10:31 ). Christ is the Potter and never ever to be questioned ( Romans 9:20 ). He knows exactly who can handle what. God has a purpose for everyone and no purpose is inferior, or less important than another, ever! Christ went through utmost torture. He HAD to suffer intensely for a reason; so that you and I were SAVED through HIS suffering. He did NOT hold the Roman soldiers accountable ( Luke 23:34 ) and neither Judas! Fact is, BOTH the Roman soldiers and Judas were SAVED as well, however, they were not spared judgement, i. e. painful correction ( 2 Corinthians 5:10-11 ). Both were given their jobs by Christ HIMSELF! In the end nobody will remember ANY of his or her sufferings on earth ( Isaiah 65:17 ). All will just have never ending BLISS! Okay, back to Lucifer Lucifer lost face BIG TIME, losing his name as well! Ezekiel 28:17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you.” - NASB 1995 No wonder Jesus is Satan’s Arch-Enemy #1. Needless to say, his main goal is for HIM to be the one being worshiped, not Christ at all! So, being his haughty power-hungry self , he tried to tempt Jesus into worshiping him, but failed miserably ! Matthew 4:8-10 “ 8  Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9  “ All this I will give you ,” he said, “ if you will bow down and worship me .” 10   Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘ Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only .’” - New International Version God did not leave Satan on his own. No, God equipped Satan with everything necessary to do his job. Things like the right mindset and all the ‘tools’ he needs, like alchemy, iconography, architecture, neuromarketing, power, greed and entertainment and the list goes around the globe. But, for the sake of the title of this page, we stick to ARCHITECTURE and specifically with both SOLOMON’S TEMPLE and the SECOND TEMPLE , both of which God had destroyed as a result of detestable practices within them. Where is worship still taking place today? In ‘church’ buildings and cathedrals. Satan, after his failed attempt with Jesus, carried on with his assignment. Crafty as he was, (ready for his next target(s)) he most likely said to himself: “Oh well, this didn’t work. So, let me revive Solomon’s temple and make millions of copies, but with a masonic twist. THAT will work for sure!” Explore country by country, to see for yourself! See how even the smallest towns have these steepled structures, triangles, columns and capitals that catch the eye, sneakily incorporated in churches and city halls alike. He even made them tourist attractions, having successfully blinded millions with a programmed false perception of beauty in oblivion of what’s built into these visual rhetoric structures, called architecture. The dynamics of spatial interaction within them go by totally unnoticed and Satan loves every minute of it! Their geometric shapes, originating from the days of Pharaoh, disappear in the eyes of the oblivious. To see these cloned structures around the world is proof of Satan’s immense success. Cloned structures? Yes, buildings representing him. How many like these are around the globe? Even one is too many! This is not a church, but an IDOL! Isaiah 66:1 “This is what the LORD says: “ Heaven is my throne , and the earth is my footstool . Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be ?” - New International Version Ephesians 3:17 “for Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith, being rooted and being founded in love ,” - Berean Literal Bible