I really like the adjectives/choices of words you used in the section called, THE GREATEST HYPOCRITE OF ALL.
I highlighted those parts in blue from what Stuart sent out last night and did a copy/paste into the email. Hope it transfers like I want it to. Think I’ll underline it just in case the blue doesn’t show up when it gets to you.
Everything that men or angels saw and heard from God before the Son was revealed was only part of an incomparably cunning performance and by that wonderful performance, God kept “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” hidden until His appointed time. For millennia, God patiently,even graciously, received Satan into His presence, sending him on missions that were clearlyimportant. Creatures in heaven who judged by appearances came to the conclusion that Satan was an exceptionally good servant of God, but they were fooled more by God’s magnificent hypocrisy than by Satan’s. God’s holy and wise act, His perfect performance, concealed the truth about everybody and everything until He revealed the Son.
God’s shrewd performance, His sweet hypocrisy, we may say, sprang from a heart full of humility and love for us. Satan’s hypocrisy sprang from a heart full of pride and love of himself. Because God was a hypocrite, we have eternal life; because Satan was a hypocrite, he and millions of others are forever damned.
Sheila