Mankind is After the God Kind!

Orion Nebula photo by SubMeet (Pixabay)

by Leonard V Johnson

A few days ago, I discovered, rather by accident, an exciting YouTube channel ── Stargaze. Realistic simulations of what it would be like to descend down to distant planets in God’s Solar System. To me it’s exciting to think about this very concept and having the ability to do this! Truly, something that is congruent with mankind’s ultimate potential!

Recently I typed up an article “We Are to be Like God!” where I took us all the way back to the Book of Genesis. In this article I will do the same. An extension of that last article ── glorious truth from Almighty God, and truth that we should always keep in the forefront of our mind.

God ── the word God here is the Hebrew word Elohim. A plural word, meaning more than one. The God family, which at this time consists of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. God explained to Adam, the very first man, the Way and the purpose for man and just what mankind’s ultimate MOST FANTASTIC POTENTIAL CAN BE! But sadly, Adam decided to take upon himself “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” ── deciding for himself and his progeny what is good and what is evil. His wife Eve was confronted by the Whisperer – known by the name Satan, which originated from the Hebrew word ‘ha-Satan’. In Greek diabolos, the Devil. In Latin his original name was Lucifer, which means “light bearer.” So, she was confronted by this evil one, whom God calls “the serpent,” and she didn’t do very well. She rejected the LORD God and convinced Adam as well.

In the beginning… well, not in “the” beginning, but rather, in a beginning, God placed upon the planet Earth the great archangel Lucifer, and 1/3 of the angels. They were to complete the beautification of the Earth in preparation for mankind. Sadly, it appears that very few people know that before mankind was created upon the earth, angels were occupying the Earth. But as we read in God’s living word, chapter 2 of the Book of 2nd Peter (2 Peter 2:4), these angels sinned, and God cast them down to hell – the word here being the Greek word tartaroó, meaning “a place of punishment.” Recall our Lord Jesus mentioning this very thing, saying, “’ I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.’” – Luke 10:18. So, according to God’s living word, there was at least a third of the angels that sinned. We get a sense of just what a great number of them were here on planet Earth at that time from Hebrews 12:22 ── “an innumerable company of angels.”

Upon the very creation of angels, God wanted them to begin developing godly righteous character. God had explained to them the Way and their purpose, the LORD God’s truth of the Way to perfect righteous character. Again, God had intended the angels to work on the beautification of the Earth. And, as I’ve spoken about before, angels were created long before even the physical universe ── before there was an Orion Nebula, or even this Solar System!

Truly, as we are told in the Book of Job, that “the morning stars sang together” at the creation of the Earth ── Job 38:4-7. Now, at that time, Earth was not complete in its beautification. And just as mankind is still not complete, because the spiritual creation of mankind is occurring in man ── at least a few from every generation at this present age. But God wanted the angels to complete the beautification of Earth, preparing it for the creation of mankind.

Now… of course we’ve been taught ── probably from childhood ── that the planet Earth was formed by… and all you need to do is type into your favorite search engine on a computer, or even cell phone, and it will supply you with this world’s most popular theory… that around some 4.6 billion years ago, “our” solar system began as a massive cloud of dust and gas known as the solar nebula. And that this nebula collapsed under its own gravity. As the nebula collapsed, it began to spin and flatten into a disk. Within this disk, particles of dust and gas began to clump together due to gravitational attraction, forming larger bodies known as planetesimals. Whether it happened like this or not isn’t what is vitally important, God’s living word is, “Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world STAND IN AWE OF HIM. 9) For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” – Psalm 33:8-9. The very first verse of the very first Book ── “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Apostle Paul righty teaching us, “By faith we understand that the worlds [the Greek word aión, meaning “a space of time, an age.”] were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen WERE NOT MADE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE VISIBLE.” – Hebrews 11:3.

Now, it should be said that God intended mankind to complete Earth’s beautification. But what has mankind done? Sadly, we have polluted everything that we’ve put our hands upon ── including now polluting the Moon, Mars, and even distant asteroids. It seems we, as a species, can’t keep our garbage to ourselves. 

We’ve polluted the atmosphere. We’ve polluted the oceans, rivers, and lakes. We’ve polluted the very soil under our feet that helps produce the food that we eat. We have, even on a molecular level, changed a great many things that the LORD God intended to be greatly beneficial to humanity. One example: seedless fruit, which the very concept is an oxymoron. Sadly, a great many people don’t realize these things, looking at it from today’s societies, and you don’t stop to think ── many of these man-altered things were never meant for mankind. 

The LORD God taking the man (here meaning mankind) and placing them in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it ── Genesis 2:15. Eventually the whole earth could have looked just as beautiful as the garden of Eden was. So, the LORD God placed over them the government of God which is based upon the Law of God ── summed up in one true emotion, godly love. The Way of loving “the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” And loving “your neighbor as yourself.” ── cf. Matthew 24:37-40. The Way of outgoing concern for others, the Way of assisting and helping others, instead of the way of get, and take, and of destruction. 

But as I said ── 1/3 of the angels sinned. Rather than building godly righteous character, they rejected serving under the Word ── and literally ascended into the upper heavenly realms, and tried to exalt their ruler above the stars of God, and to even “sit on the mount of the congregation [the Hebrew word, mow`ed, meaning the very site of the worship of God; the third heaven]” ── cf. Isaiah 14:13. But they were “brought down to Sheol” – vs. 15. Because of this, the beautification of the Earth stopped abruptly! Now, God had placed in charge over a third of the angels an anointed cherub who covered, named Lucifer, who was perfect in his ways from the very day that he was created ── till iniquity was found in him ── cf. Ezekiel 28:12 17.

Over time ── possibly billions of years ── Lucifer influenced and came to turn the third of those angels against the LORD God and against their Way. Therefore, holy and righteous godly character was never built inside any of them. Instead, they became filled with violence and pride, anger and hatred, lust, and vanity, jealousy – which can be a very dangerous emotion ── envy, the wrong type of competition, and strife and utter destruction. Lucifer’s whole character changed ── now becoming the LORD God’s adversary. 

Now, this great cherub’s original name, Hêlēl (in Hebrew #1966), Lucifer in Latin ── meaning, shining star of the dawn. One who brings light and truth, but instead brought just the opposite, resentment, bitterness, and rebellion. So, there was a great rebellion, and because of this the beautification of the Earth stopped. We see this in the very second verse of the very first Book ── “The earth became without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. …”           

Well… let’s speak a moment of decay. Because, apparently, even one of the greatest spiritual teachers of God’s living word of the 20th century didn’t fully see that decay was an original part of creation ── “The law of decay is a physical law described in mathematical manners that describes the properties of a nuclear atom in a state of decay. The radioactive decay law states that this decay is constant. For if nothing was done about this law of decay, this corruption will ultimately lead to the complete annihilation of the universe. For I refer to a little physics here, the laws of thermodynamics –

• First Law - Energy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system.
• Second Law - Entropy – or disorder – always increases. 
• Third Law - The entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches heat, and eventual death. 

Understand that mankind was going to die – no matter if they were to have chosen the tree of life, or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Had they chosen the tree of life, they would still have lived out their days and died. “For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” But Adam and Eve would have, after losing consciousness, “in the twinkling of an eye,” been resurrected unto eternal life! But we know of which tree they chose.

But here, now, in verse 2 of the 1st chapter of the Book of Genesis ── planet Earth was in a state without form, and void, and utter darkness [the darkness of evil] was on the face of the deep. There was at that time just what we see on the Moon, or Mars, or Pluto ── and even Styx, a small natural satellite of Pluto. They are all lifeless and void. 

Now, might I be so bold as to ask, “Is Jupiter really a planet?” Or is Jupiter a failed star ── because Jupiter and the Sun are more alike than you know. Of course, all the experts tell us that it isn’t a failed star. And I only mention this to say, what if everything we’ve been told about the universe is wrong?

And so here we have this gas giant with a gravity approximately 2.4 times stronger than Earth’s ── which means that if you weigh 220 lbs. on Earth, you’d weigh 529 lbs. on Jupiter ── that is a vacuum cleaner for this Solar System! And God is so awesome and great that He created everything, creating all of the known planets in this Solar System, creating them all for a purpose (and most for a future purpose). 

God, with infinite Wisdom, came up with a fool-proof way of creating trillions upon trillions of beings with His very holy and righteous character that would also have the ability to create, and that was for God to reproduce themselves. And we see this in the Book of Genesis, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness; …’” – Genesis 1:26. Angels were never meant to be sons of God – Hebrews 1:5. And again, the word God here is Elohim, the One that was called the Word and the One that was called God ── “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” – John 1:1. Two separate beings, that have always existed and were (and are) self-existent. There was never a time when they didn’t exist. And don’t worry, our minds cannot even fathom a concept as that ── I certainly know mine can’t. They had no beginning, and they will have no end.

So, the Word would later become known as our Lord Jesus Christ, he became the Son of God. Originally, he was not the Son of God, He was coexisting with God from eternity.

So now begins ── in all its greatness, splendor, and awesomeness ── God’s Master Plan from the Beginning! The reproducing of the God kind! To reproduce themselves with the understanding of duplicating, in human beings, their own holy and righteous character so that God the Father can have trillions upon trillions of sons and daughters. And this great knowledge from the LORD God is surely almost so incredible to believe – the glorious potential for every human being past present and future. A God family so innumerable that they are spread out throughout the entirety of the vast universe! Are you able to grasp this greatest of good news? 

The very first purpose of God in man is the development of holy and righteous godly character. And a great part of that comes from the LORD God through their Spirit, but it also comes with our own decision upon being called by Father God, our own decision and by our own free will. And we must make that decision. 

So then, utter destruction and spiritual darkness was upon the planet Earth. But if you continue with verse 2 of the very first Book, that “the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” So here, as the Apostle Peter, under inspiration, wrote, was the Earth, “For this they [are] willfully [ignorant]: that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6) by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.” – 2 Peter 3:5-6.

So, the Earth that then existed was flooded with water. 1

But if we turn to the Book of Psalm the 104th chapter, the 30th verse ── “You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH.”       

God begins to renew the face of the Earth. God renews the Earth after it had been placed in a state of a type of “watery grave” with spiritual darkness upon the face of the deep. Those sinning angels had been yoked to “chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.”

In six days, God renewed the face of the Earth and then created mankind upon it. Again, mankind being created in the very image and according to the likeness of God. “’Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.’” In other words, ‘Let’s make man after Us.’ God had ‘let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth according to its kind.’ Lions after its kind (and I still think – though I could be wrong – that lions are an homage to God’s mighty and powerful archangels), a calf after its kind, etc. So, there was the Word that would become our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, renewing the face of the Earth and bringing forth not only life, but light (Genesis 1:14-19). 

We learn that man was created a little lower than the angels (now there are different classifications of angels, “regular” angels (messengers) do not have wings, yet they can fly – certainly not after cherubim, that are referenced some 69 separate times ── they are uniquely different from angels and seraphim), yet, mankind was created to become much higher than even the cherubim’s – the highest order of angels. Because the day will come when those of us that have been called by Father God, and in whom ── by our own consent and choice ── has been building holy and righteous godly character, may come to judge the angels – 1st Corinthians 6:3. 

So, here was Adam, and in order to qualify to take over the throne of Satan the Devil upon the Earth, he had to outright reject Satan’s way ── first. And second, they had to accept the glorious Spirit of God and God’s government. God’s Way. A Way that is built upon law. Because you cannot have government without a basic set of laws, or a constitution of some type. Every type of government on Earth, whether local, city, county, state, or federal has some type of basic laws. And Adam had to accept the Law of God and the Way of God in order to qualify to replace Satan the Devil and to establish the government of God upon planet Earth.

But Adam ── and “Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression” – 1 Timothy 2:14 did not obey the LORD God, and so came into a 6,000-year sentence for mankind. God driving them out of the garden of Eden, placing cherubim at the “east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life.” – Genesis 3:24. □   

1) U.S. National Science Foundation, 10 March 2020. Retrieved 1 Dec. 2025