Spiritual manna no. 32
"The Cosmic Chess Game." By Fritz Springmeier,
shared 11/27/01
God keeps asking us to calm down and enjoy the show. It is written, "He
that
sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision."
PS
2:4 The angels are busy watching the show. (cf. LK 15:10, 1 CO 4:9;
11:10)
Have you ever been traveling and realized that your gas gauge indicates you
will not make it to the next refueling point? You continue on the same road,
but you know at some point you will be stopped. Likewise in chess, we can
sense we have been defeated but we can drag the game out for a long time.
Have you ever started watching a chess game in the middle of the game? It
takes some time and thinking to orient yourself to what is going on.
This planet has been experiencing a chess game between its Creator and his
clever and experienced, but outclassed, opponent. As you watch this chess
game, it would be helpful to bring you up to date on the past moves of these
two cosmic chess players.
If you see Bobby Fisher play an intermediate player, you know that even if a
play looks bad for Bobby Fisher, he has everything in hand, and that his final
victory is assured. Likewise, our Creator's final victory can be anticipated.
His opponent, who seeks to crush Him and destroy God's reputation, can be
expected to overextend himself and place himself into checkmate. This
intermediate level player's big weakness is his overconfident delusion of
brilliance. Much of this is a mask, and his reputation is quite a sham.
God's opening move was to make creation.
The Adversary's move was to lead some of that creation in rebellion.
God's next move was to create earth, and man in His image to reflect His own
glory, and to have dominion over the earth, and to fellowship with his
Creator.
The Adversary couldn't let God create something good. He had to bring his
spirit of rebellion into this paradise, and separate God's image from God. To
do this, he promised the image that it could become God; it simply had to
ignore the boundaries of God.
God turns the world over to Satan. He in effect is going to give Satan all the
rope he wants to hang himself. Rather than renege on His promise of free will
to man who was created in His image as a free moral agent, He creates a plan
to redeem mankind. This plan involves Him displaying His self-sacrificing love
and maintaining & respecting man's free will agency. By allowing Satan free
rein, God will identify a pure righteous group of faithful who are perfect in
their love for Him. He will atone for their sins Himself, to cover any faults
they may carry around.
The Adversary recognizes that God is going to redeem mankind, and so he plots
to destroy this possibility by having fallen angels mate with women to create
Nephalim. These Nephalim (found today in Illuminati covens and called
Guardians) help terrify the elite of mankind into submission to demonic rule.
Mankind, by mixing its seed with alien beings, is no longer the reflection of
God, but of Satan.
In order to preserve His creation & the created Image of God, God is forced
to
destroy the world. He deals with the Nephalim, binding guilty fallen angels
up. Yahweh-Jireh (Yahweh-will-see-&-provide, a name of God) saves Noah and
the
rest of the Ark for a good seed to rebuild his Creation, and to preserve the
lineage through which man's redemption shall come.
Having failed to directly complete the destruction of the Image of God, Satan
decides to entice man to pride. He will encourage man to elevate himself to
the point he no longer feels he needs God. He will not focus on genetically
destroying man; he will get man to break off his fellowship with God. The
fellowship was one of the reasons God created man. Man is told that he can be
a god, that nothing is beyond his abilities, but that he must unite himself
into a giant United Nations. In other words, put all his talents together to
elevate his race. Satan knows that he must camouflage his rule, because he
doesn't compare with God, and given a fair popularity contest God would easily
win.
God's countermove is simply to destroy their first attempt at world
government. He destroys their United Nations skyscraper (Tower of Babel) which
becomes a symbol of how He forms national language barriers to prevent Satan
from effectively ruling his world. These national barriers serve as blocks to
prevent evil from unlimited growth. God asks mankind to respect these
boundaries, which limit Satan's ability for mischief.
The Adversary decides to concentrate on destroying the bloodline that God will
use to bring atonement and salvation to all mankind, past, present or future.
Not only does he ruthlessly attack and enslave this bloodline, he also begins
to create a false bloodline through the tribe of Dan.
God sidesteps all these puny moves, and preserves Christ's lineage.
Satan then attempts to kill the Christ when he is born.
God is able to preserve Christ.
Satan attempts to outsmart Christ.
Christ maintains his perfection and his perfect love of his heavenly Father.
Satan then succeeds at crucifying Christ, humiliating his reputation, and
scattering Christ's disciples.
God raises Christ from the dead, and shows Satan he can "trump"
Satan's
biggest threat which is death.
Satan mistakenly thinks in his pride that Christ's death is something to be
proud of. It takes about 100 years for his pride to admit that he was
outsmarted. After about 100 years, he switches tactics and rather than brag
about the crucifixion, he attempts to suppress its historical records. Satan
really was blind to how the game had been lost at this point. The rest of the
game is simply playing things out for God, although Satan can still swing a
good punch, and can still wreck havoc with God's creation.
Satan then plans to co-opt Christ's work, and begins dogging the true
Christians with persecution.
God allows Satan to throw his best punches, knowing that they are the dying
gasps of a defeated opponent. From everlasting to everlasting He remains the
Almighty.
Satan makes a supreme effort to rule the world for the purpose of destroying
it. Satan realizes that he can't rule this planet as he would like in the long
run, so he plans on installing himself as god over mankind and then destroying
the planet in a grand finale. This is like Hitler's Gotterdammerung, where
Hitler wanted all of Germany to go down into ashes with himself. And that is
the point in time that our generation has entered the picture. Satan, like
Hitler, knows he is defeated, but he doesn't dare admit it to his generals. He
still packs a wallop, and he wants to take his entire empire down with him.
And someday, all the fools who followed Satan are going to be disappointed
much like the Hitler Youth, who woke up one day and realized they'd been lied
to their entire lives!
We might at times want to fast forward to the happy ending. But the games must
be played to the end.
The Alpha & Omega of it all says, "For I am YHWH, and there is no
other; I am
God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from
ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure." (!!) ISA 46:9-10. While God does
what He
pleases (PS 115:3b), He makes a point to reassure us a few verses later that
He isn't so caught up in His cosmic chess game not to be mindful of us. (PS
115:12).