Liberating Planet Earth
by Gary DeMar
by Gary DeMar
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54 <strong>Liberating</strong> <strong>Planet</strong> Eatih<br />
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from<br />
Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there. If I make<br />
my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the<br />
morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there<br />
Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.<br />
Near and far, high and low, in heaven and in hell, God is present<br />
with His creation.<br />
‘Am I a God near at hand; says the LORD, ‘And not a God afar<br />
off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, so I shall not see<br />
him?” says the LORD. “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the<br />
LORD (Jeremiah 23:23-24).<br />
This is a crucial aspect of God’s covenant. It is the one that<br />
Satan, a creature, does not possess. Satan is not omnipresent; he<br />
is neither transcendent nor immanent. This is why Satan needs<br />
(and never gets) followers who fi.dly understand his will and perfectly<br />
obey it. This is why the crucial aspect of Satan’s covenant is<br />
hierarchy, which is section two of God’s covenant.<br />
2. Hierarchy/Authorz”ty (submission)<br />
The second principle of the ‘covenant is that of hierarchy/authority.<br />
The King of creation comes before men and demands that<br />
they submit to Him. God required Adam to obey Him. The relationship<br />
between God and man is therefore one of command and<br />
obedience. The covenant is therefore a bond. It is a personal relationship<br />
between responsible individuals. It is to be a union. But this ‘<br />
union is not ontological. It is not a union of common “being.” God<br />
is not some pantheistic being. Men are not evolving into God<br />
(Eastern religion), The covenant establishes a personal relationship<br />
based on authorz”~ and submission.<br />
Each person is wholly responsible before God. God needs no<br />
intermediary institution to command a person. No person stands<br />
before God on judgment day with a committee of sinners beside<br />
him who will take some of the blame. Thus, God constructs a bottom-up<br />
hierarchy. He deals with each person individually. Social<br />
institutions therefore must not usurp God’s function as sovereign
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