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    Created to Be Gods
    Created to Be Gods
    Created to Be Gods
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    Created to Be Gods

    By William E. Brown

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    Much of Christianity seems to have lost its way, its peace, and its joy because it has allowed the Lords vision to become vague. The entirety of this thesis is based on a reminder that we are created for His pleasure and not our own agenda.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 27, 2013
    ISBN9781449788971
    Created to Be Gods
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    William E. Brown

    William E. Brown has been in the ministry since 1969. He has been a pastor, evangelist, and missionary in much in the Middle East, including having lived in Turkey four years planting churches in Ephesus and Pergamos. He has family spiritual roots in Azusa Street from around 1910. He has been married fifty years and has five children and seventeen grandchildren.

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      Created to Be Gods - William E. Brown

      Copyright © 2013 William E. Brown.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-8896-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-8897-1 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-8895-7 (hc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013904955

      WestBow Press rev. date: 03/25/13

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Phase 1—Creation

      Chapter 2: Phase 2—Redemption

      Chapter 3: Phase 3—Heaven

      Preface

      I have undertaken to write this with the conviction that this has come together as revelation knowledge from the Lord. I do believe that it explains with clarity God’s creation in such a way that it mutes evolution. The mandate that the Lord left for his people has never changed, yet the people have changed in that they are much more informed concerning the earth and humanity’s beginnings.

      Nothing is allowed to ever contradict God’s holy Word, the Bible, but this book does contradict the traditional teaching of a world that is only six thousand years old. Doubtless the world is much older than that, as is easily understood by our much-touted fossil fuel supplies.

      Our abundant coal, gas, and oil deposits began on the surface of the world as trees and foliage. When the surface was turned under, these were buried deep underneath the earth for thousands of years, at least, and probably more. Tithe green foliage turned to black coal, oil, and gas. I cannot imagine this happening in less than six thousand years.

      Furthermore, I have attempted to present the overall plan that God has for humans in three phases. The first phase is the creation of humans and our world. The second phase is devoted to redeeming fallen humankind. And finally, the third phase speaks of humans being in heaven, fellowshipping with God face to face, not merely as superhumans but in fact as gods themselves.

      This book does not require a bibliography as I have not quoted any other writers. The only quotes that I am using are from the King James Version of the Bible, 1611.

      Introduction

      In the late ‘90s, two friends and I were traveling between the old biblical cities of Pergamos and Thyatira in modern-day Turkey. Off to the side of the road, we discovered a large gypsy encampment, a disorganized cluster of tents, cars, and campers. We pulled off and parked near the center of the camp and watched some of them weaving baskets to sell at market. These gypsies followed the harvest from area to area, depending on the season. In the off-season, they weaved baskets.

      One of my friends had a Polaroid camera and began taking pictures of the children and giving them to the proud parents. This was our way of befriending the gypsies. He also gave them candy.

      I took out my guitar and began to play and sing. After about fifteen or twenty minutes, I asked them if they would give me about ten minutes to speak to them. There were about seventy-five people present, and they responded that they would listen. Gypsies are despised in Turkey.

      I preached the simple gospel to them about Jesus and how he came to save. I asked them to bow their heads and pray with me. As they bowed to pray, I asked them to raise their hands if they would like to accept Jesus as their personal Savior, and almost all of them did.

      When we had finished praying the sinner’s prayer, behind me a man began to scream, I know God! To be frank, it unnerved me until I understood what he was saying. The Spirit of God had revealed to him that now, as he was screaming, he knew God. This gypsy man had received a revelation from God that brought him to a relationship with the heavenly Father. He did not just have to join a church or a new religion.

      Little did I expect what the day would bring as we started out that morning. I can only marvel at God’s timing. We did not know that the gypsies were there, but God did. God had placed those people there at that moment of time.

      I have served the Lord for almost forty-five years and have never heard the things that I have written in the following pages. I believe God runs his Earth in this way.

      LET’S BEGIN

      Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Rev. 4:11, emphasis added)

      And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:26)

      So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Gen. 1:27)

      The last phrase in Revelation 4:11, for thy pleasure they are and were created, is vital to our understanding of why we were created and what our role is in relation to God. Simply stated, we are the creation

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