The great familiar spirit

"Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." (1John 1:3).

Every epistle introduction involves two persons at the throne of heaven. And there are only two thrones.

"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." (Rev. 3:21,22).

And there is no third throne for a third divine being, because Jesus was the the Person who said those words. Jesus is the Spirit. He is our Comforter. Don't let anyone steal Jesus from you. Don't let His tenderest care for you and all of His children be taken away, and be attributed to somebody else claiming divinity.

Three is a big number in religious matters, and can be seen from the most ancient archeology. It appeared long before Christianity. Hecate was possibly the earliest myth of a divinity that had the attribute of three. Long before there was a Zeus or Hera. Long before Osiris or Isis. And Baal or Ashtoreth. Hecate seems to predate all the gods. Wicca is called the oldest religion, and Hecate is older than Wicca.

Hecate is a goddess. She is the goddess of the sky, the earth, and of the underworld. That translates to ruler over heaven and Earth and hell. What infamous being do we know who lays claim to the same? Wouldn't Satan represent the antitype of Hecate? Wouldn't Satan usurp the number three for his spiritual habitation? Who could run from a god who rules all that men can conceive? Who would not feel terror living under such a manifesting potentate?

This is just as the narcissistic master of manipulation would have it. This background explains why Christianity has a Trinity of unbiblical gods. Satan refused to accept his expulsion from the government of heaven.

"The Sovereign of the universe was not alone in His work of beneficence. He had an associate—a co-worker who could appreciate His purposes, and could share His joy in giving happiness to created beings. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” John 1:1, 2. Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father—one in nature, in character, in purpose—the only being that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God." Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 34.

"The Father wrought by His Son in the creation of all heavenly beings. “By Him were all things created, ... whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him.” Colossians 1:16. Ibid.

"So long as all created beings acknowledged the allegiance of love, there was perfect harmony throughout the universe of God.... There was no note of discord to mar the celestial harmonies. But a change came over this happy state. There was one who perverted the freedom that God had granted to His creatures. Sin originated with him who, next to Christ, had been most honored of God and was highest in power and glory among the inhabitants of heaven. Lucifer, “son of the morning,” was first of the covering cherubs, holy and undefiled. He stood in the presence of the great Creator, and the ceaseless beams of glory enshrouding the eternal God rested upon him." Ibid. p. 35.

In Lucifer was found a condition that he harbored even after long instructions from the King through His Princely Son. When infinitely wise love seeks the restoration of a drifting soul, and cannot penetrate that soul's stubborn resistance, eventually its condition becomes incurable. Every appeal turned down, however politely, however nicely, however affectionately, hardens that soul into an infidel hardihood. 

Once Lucifer, filled with proud self-justification, arrived at that utterly lost state, then he sought to turn others of the angelic family into his path of self-exaltation. Once he committed that intentional affront to God's autocracy, then God arraigned him as treasonous, and shut him out of the glorious and life-giving presence of the only self-existent One. The reality of God's permanent disposition toward him finally occurred to him and settled in. That's when despair gripped him, only too late. He had shaken his fist at the Most Holy One too many times to justly overlook. 

How could God maintain discipline and order in His kingdom if He gave undue respect to the deceitful pretenses of the most ingenious of the powerful angels who excel in strength, both physically and mentally. That would be subordinating Himself to a weak created being. How could the infinite universe be governed and upheld by a created being, the Father allowing the highest creature to play games with his Creator?

"Satan in heaven had hated Christ for His position in the courts of God. He hated Him the more when he himself was dethroned. He hated Him who pledged Himself to redeem a race of sinners." Desire of Ages, p. 49.

So, to this day, Lucifer has tried to reinstate himself to the position he had at the beginning. But if he could never have it in reality, he would at least play the part, imagining himself not only in the presence of glory, but, as he had come to yearning for, himself the center of glory. To have such recognition and worship could only happen by forcing the human race to turn away from Jehovah Father and Son, and receive a new construct. Satan would own the whole throne as God does. 

He would appoint himself to be Vicar of God. He would take over God's office as Comforter/Lifegiver. Thus, he could make himself appear to recognize God's government as legitimate, but really place himself in the most involved office and most pleasing to a quintessential narssissist, the office that works the affections. The human being no longer under th strong spiritual control of the holy God, they could be lured around by stimulating their need for acceptance. The undue familiarity of the familiar spirits.

"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God." (Lev. 19:31).

"And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people." (Lev. 20:6).

"And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity." (Eze. 23:3).

And to keep up the pretense of honoring the government of heaven, the vicar of God has instituted his own high priest, the vicar of Christ. That must be why Jesus represented the Revelation's dragon and  beast similarly, both having seven heads and ten horns, and both war-mongers.