False Reality
May I Have A Word With You
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (June 18, 2022)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1,
King James Version [KJV]).
Greetings In The Holy Name Of Jesus Yahshuah,
My sisters and my brothers, I know you possibly feel darkness trying to overtake you and bear down on you until the very breath of life that God breathed into you to give you life is stifled and you find that you have lost your breath and you are threatened to lose your life, for you cannot breathe because the air around you is gone. There is no air circulating providing you with fresh air. You try to inhale fresh air and the fresh air around you is gone. There is no air in the atmosphere around you. This is not because someone is pressing on your larynx or your wind pipe—-your trachea, in your passage system in your body but because the very air that you want to breathe is missing from your immediate atmosphere where you stand at. You find yourself gasping for oxygen-rich air but there is no air available to you where you stand at. You find yourself searching for air initially you might panic and breathe in and out—-exhaling and inhaling but nothing is coming your way. Yes, this is a scary position to find yourself in. There is no wonder that you begin to become aggressively confused in your search for air because without oxygen-rich air coming through your air passage system, you could die.The problem here is life without air is no life. Metaphorically speaking we must consider that your body is now in a ship without the wind needed to blow your sails in any direction; just to move you out of your moment of despair into the Word of God where you are a living soul. You are dead now until you can find your breath, get your breath back or breathe in oxygen-rich air that is your gift of life. Figuratively, you know you are the walking dead because you have not passed out yet so you have a few moments to consider what is the single-most important thing that you want to do in your last few seconds of life because life is leaving you. Most importantly, literally speaking you cannot live without oxygen-rich air. This is truth. There is no getting around this fact that your air is cut-off and you are without air. The body needs air to live. This gift of life is an everyday awareness of what God gifted you with.
We say why is this a false reality because we have not introduced this thinking to you yet but let us try to go back to the Garden of Eden where we find Eve is coming under the influence of the devil because she is not following the Word of God. God told Adam and Eve, Do not eat of the fruit of good and evil. Yet, Eve could not stay away. She let the devil draw her to him in a false reality that the devil speaks Truth when we all know that the devil is a liar since the day he was born. The devil drew Eve to him and Eve was drawn to him and listened to the words of the devil. The devil influenced Eve. The devil was standing in the Garden of Eden but he was not in God’s plan. The devil got in God’s plan through Eve. He influenced her and she listened to him and did what he said. How did he influence her? The devil influenced Eve with subtlety in words. He did not give her money. He did not promise her wealth. He called God a liar in such a subtle way that she believed he was Truth yet we know the devil is a liar. That devil made Eve feel that God was hiding the Truth and it was up to the devil to deliver the Truth to her—- open her eyes to the Truth. However, we know that the devil’s subtlety in words is a false reality. The devil was trying to get into the Plan of God in a big way because good would have to deal with evil everyday of life because the fruit of good and evil would let the devil in with all the evil-intentions to steal, kill, destroy the plan of God for the heavens and the Earth, for all of mankind and all of God’s creatures. Was man prepared to think as a God to know in his conscious that the God he serves is a living God who was walking with him and present with him in the Garden of Eden until Eve and Adam ate of the fruit of good and evil which made Adam afraid to even let God see him because now he knew he was naked. Was this nakedness a false reality because now the influence of evil made the absence of clothes an evil thing? Now, Adam wanted clothes. God gave Adam clothes but he punished Adam, Eve, and the devil.The influence of the fruit of good and evil questioned what God commanded in Word to Adam and Eve. As if, to say, that man was on his own and needed to think for himself because God was not with him but God is with us, still even after the fall of man. I do not wish to think that this false reality is binding us to death in a life of sin as a sinner because we are afraid to feel the love of God because the questions of our lives as a sinner for God because the devil influenced us and Eve let the devil influence her and Adam let Eve influence him, to eat of the fruit of good and evil. In a subtle atmosphere you are breathing in a false reality because this subtle lie threatens the very air that you breathe; your life. This subtle atmosphere threatens to take your breath away. You cannot breathe in this subtle atmosphere. You are influenced to just accept the words of a liar because you cannot breathe. You feel you must accept the words in order to breathe. But, God did not put you in that subtle atmosphere with out oxygen-rich air. The devil drew you to him and influenced you to take his words as Truth and deny the Words of God. Why would the devil want you to believe that he knows what is best for you more so than your God? This is ludicrous. This is assinine. This is a liar.
Let us listen to the opening words of the devil’s lie to Eve to get her to let him in to the plan of God because at that moment the devil used Eve as the gatekeeper to the plan of God because he drew her to him and influenced her to let him in the plan of God—-to let evil in the plan of God. God did not come to Eve to intercede. God waited to see what Eve would do with the Word of God. God waited to see what Adam would do with the Word of God. God waited to see what the devil would do with the Word of God. God’s commandment spoke to Adam before Eve was made, And the LORD GOD commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2: 16 - 17, King James Version [KJV]).
Then God made Eve for Adam, “And the LORD GOD said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. …And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (Genesis 2: 18, 25, KJV).
Was there discussion between Adam and Eve about what God commanded before Eve was drawn to the devil to discuss what God commanded. Obviously, there was discussion between Adam and Eve because she told the devil what God commanded yet she remained to hear the word of the devil after the devil in his subtlety rebuked the Word of God which is Christ Jesus.
We hear the words of God coming from the woman standing strong at this point facing the devil. That woman was Eve, the wife of Adam:
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” (Genesis 3: 1-3, KJV).
However, strong she was at the beginning she fell under the influence of the devil. The devil retorted and bold-faced her and rebuked the Words of God that Eve spoke to him. The devil called God a liar. “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:” (Genesis 3: 4, KJV)
This is the point where Eve could not deal with the devil. She needed Adam but she was alone with the devil and she was falling under the influence of the devil. Eve should have run for her life away from the devil. Did she run for her life away from the devil. No, she stayed right there. Then, the devil began to put her completely under his influence and he spoke in a manner of authority as if he was head of God and he could chastise God by telling Eve that God knows that what he told them was not Truth. The devil spoke condescendingly to her, he spoke down to her to say God is not with her because he did not command them in Truth. But the death that God spoke was not just a physical, it was a every king of death; physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, a every kind of death and the devil knew that he had to persuade her by a lie but he did not think Eve could fight him over this because she was a woman. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3: 5, KJV).
Do you think the idea that Eve was enticed to do wrong, to disobey God because the devil told her she would be a god just like God is. Was it Eve’s ambition that doomed us to hell that she would be a God. Or, was it because she was afraid of the devil because with all this talk of Gods what was the power of the devil and she was alone with the devil?
Eve is falling under the influence and she is ready to taste of the fruit of good and evil. The devil knows he is in there; he is in the plan of God through Eve:
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”(Genesis 3: 6 - 13, KJV).
We know Eve was almost immediately feeling guilty about what she did and was now out from under the influence of the devil but the damage was done, the fall of man, had begun. We know she was completely broken but God drew her back to him for she said, “The devil beguiled me.“ Do you know when you need to escape when the influencer is stronger than you are and you need help. Eve did not call out to God. She did eat of the fruit. She did give the fruit to Adam. We clearly understand from this dialogue between Eve and the devil, Eve needed to escape without eating the fruit and without taking the fruit to Adam. A liar will tell you anything to get in where he wants to get in. This was the biggest deal of all. To get into the Plan of God. But God cursed that devil. God did not make it easy for the devil to steal, kill, and destroy his creations. This false reality of making people think that everything belongs to you when everything does not belong to you but to Jesus, that you are superior when you are not superior; Jesus is the Son of God, that you are the Word of God when you are not the Word of God; Jesus is the Word of God. This is your false reality and it must become contagiously wretched in the heart of mankind and all of God’s creations, for God is love.He is a generous lover. God is with you even in your darkest when you cannot breathe in your breath of life. God is still with you always. Stay in the faith of God. Christ be with you.
