Jammin with Jamin

I got to thinking last night about Heaven, hell and Earth. And after sorting out my thoughts, I came to the conclusion that in the realm of God, earth just makes sense- its being; its reason; its existence. I apologize, however. This is one of those subjects that I can only truly understand in my mind and have trouble putting it into words.

First off, let’s enter into discussion remembering where it all started: the Kingdom of Heaven. Here we find Satan himself chillin’ with God as an angel. We have perfection to the fullest. All the angels are there worshipping the Most High who is, in fact, the image of all that is Good and Perfect.

This seems unreal to us. Perfection just doesn’t make any sense at all. 

And we even come to find out that this is unreal. While we have this image here of true 100% perfection in goodness, we also come to terms with the fact that even among the angels there is capacity to do wrong. Satan is the prime example. It seems as though God has given even His very own angels free will to live how they want. There are no atheist angels-they know exactly who God is. There are only angels that for some moronic, selfish, and evil reason decide to go against all that is Good. All this evil is cast out of Heaven and into hell.

Later we see God recreate free will, but this time apart from the Heavens. He tries to give perfection another chance, but still without creating robots who are built to automatically worship Him. This time, however, we are built into a world where there is already Good and evil, because without the chance to do evil, free will really doesn’t exist. Yes, the earth is Good, but Satan corrupts humanity and henceforth corrupts the earth with sin. After taking a bite of the forbidden fruit we see perfection ruined again and we distance ourselves from what is Good. And because of that bite we opened ourselves to have the capacity to do evil. But at the same time, we are still capable of doing Good.

We have this idea of Heaven of being really high in regards to earth and the idea of hell being at the furthest depth from us. This concept actually creates a wonderful chart we can look at to grasp better the meaning of Earth. Take a look at my beautiful picture here:

My amazing artwork… Except not so much… I apologize for the countries that weren’t drawn in.

The concept here is that we have Heaven (Good) at the top and Hell (Evil) at the bottom. We are the middle ground between these two and given instruction on what will get us where. We can accept Jesus as the Son of God and live for Him on a journey to the top or we can do nothing and stay at the bottom. It’s not necessarily a ladder concept, but more of a “do you want to be the best for God that you can be” concept.

I explained it to a friend earlier this week like this. We’ve got two kingdoms ruling over the earth: The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan. We are not the kings of either and never will be, but we will follow a kingdom whether we know it or not. We are born into the Kingdom of Satan and Evil and unless we choose to join the other side of God and Goodness, we will continue to live in hell on Earth. It’s funny because we realize that hell is a horrible place that none of want to go, but we complain because the other Kingdom requires us to do something in order to get in.

A popular question among people is that if God is good, holy and loving, how could he ever condemn us to hell? Well, if we live our life in hell’s kingdom of evil on earth, then how can God let that evil enter His goodness. I imagine that the hardest thing that God has to do is let people go to Hell. He loves us all unconditionally and for that reason, it must rip Him apart to be separated from us for eternity.

This whole idea written here may be hard to understand or swallow, but I thought I’d just give you my thoughts on it. Trust me, I had a hard enough time trying to understand it myself. I hope this gives you something to think about while I know it’s hard to read because of the hard time I had writing this.