The five stages of Mankind

The Heavenly Father reveals timely advices, directives and other relevant information to facilitate the development of mankind in accordance with its stage of growth. The Gospel of 1-Peter 2:18-20 says ‘ Servants, be subject to masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully’ was relevant at a time when slavery was acceptable in the society. But today when every man is born free, this Gospel is no longer valid. The servants need to be loyal and faithful but need not subject to their masters with all fear.

To understand the stages of growth of mankind better we need to jot down its history as given in the Bible. The mankind can be compared to the human skin. Every moment thousands of cells die and wither away and thousand others take its place. Regardless of this continuous regeneration the skin remains the same. (The stars in the universe is a similar case.)

The mankind is just the same for God. Though thousands die and are replaced every moment mankind as a whole is a single creation for the God. A creation that took the first breathes in Adam and lived until now.

God fosters mankind the same way a father cares for his child. Like every human being the mankind also has five stages of growth- infancy, childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. A woman is aware of the time when a child is born in her womb and the time of its delivery but has no control over its growth inside the womb. She can feed herself with nutritious food and facilitates the growth but can’t control it. Likewise the Father knows the beginning and the end of his creation, can facilitate its growth but can’t control it.

This generation of Mankind has a definite beginning and an end unlike the New Man.

Infancy (Adam to Noah)
Mankind was born when God, the Heavenly Father created Adam. The Father, unlike his creation, the child, is forever and is beyond the concept of ageing.

Now let’s see how the Creator (the Father) treats his creation (the child) through the stages of development.

The Father loves the child and takes care of its needs. There are inherent weaknesses in the child as his heart is bent towards evil from the beginning. Then there is the danger of unwanted influence of outsiders (children of God) who are caught up in sins and the child has to be protected from them. The Father takes measures (like helping a man to bear children) to ensure that the child survives and proceeds to the next stage.

Childhood (Noah to Moses)
The child is further strengthened during the time of Noah. (Life span was reduced to one hundred and twenty years; the children of God were removed from earth) All precautions are taken to rectify the inherent weaknesses. The child, in his innocence, claims to be as big and mighty as the Father and sets out to built a tower (of Babel) to prove it. The father is amused and decides to teach the child languages. (People were grouped on the basis of languages and scattered to different parts of the world and the Father devoted his attention on the direct lineage of Noah. The rest were left out from his direct attention till the period of adulthood)

During the time of Abraham the child learns to stand on its legs independently (At this stage man developed capacity to procreate on his own) and the exalted Father showers blessings on him. He is so proud of his child that he promises to multiply him like the stars of the sky.

Towards the end of childhood the child starts showing signs of rebelliousness.

Youth (Moses to Jesus)                                                                    
This is the stage of turbulence when the relationship between the Father and the child is strained. The Father tries to relocate him to the Promised Land and the child rebels and protests even during the time of relocation because he feels that the Father is exerting excess control over him and it is the starting point of break up. The worried Father tries to exert more control on the child by giving him a set of laws (Ten Commandments). It is disregarded and the Father punishes him. The child starts to have a wider view of the world and is interested in false gods and starts idol worship, ignoring the Father.

The father finds it difficult to accept the bitter truth that the child is now interested in worshipping false gods and blames the child of prostitution.
The father, by now worried of losing his child, advises him and scolds him.

The child becomes too rebellious and he is threatened with dire consequences but to no avail. The father punishes him but is dejected because despite his attempts the gap between them widens and both are unwilling to relent. The father, disappointed, curses his child and decides to accept him only if he returns to him. The decision is painful but inevitable.

He decides to eliminate the bad company of Satan (fear of hunger, thirst, loneliness, despair etc. and other temptations producing negative power) and bestows his Spirit on a virgin who gives birth to Jesus, the Xavier, who is the Father himself in essence. (Jesus was born to Mary just the same way Cain and Abel were born to Eve, from the Spirit)

He gives two simple mantras to mankind that will rescue them- 1. Pray to the Lord, your God with all your soul, mind and heart (in other words develop power of concentration) and 2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

Adulthood (From the time of Jesus, the Son of God to the time of the Son of Man)
(During this period Father is interested not only in the lineage of Issac, Ish-ma’el and Lot but also in other members of mankind who were descendants of those other than the first borns)

As the child reaches adulthood the Father decides not to bother him again with advices and instructions. No more threats and no more scolding, and he watches his child’s activities silently from a distance. He doesn’t talk to his child because now there is no need for it; the child will only be irritated by it. He has already let mankind know his expectations –they are to love and trust each other, live peacefully and cordially, and they have to consider mercy above morals.

The Father watches silently whether the child is able to withstand the temptations of Satan; whether he is able to break free from sins? Can the hope of eternal salvation make him hopeful and make him lead a good life? Can the fear of everlasting fire scare him to lead a better life? The father keeps on watching patiently.

Old Age (From the time of the Son of man to the Creation of the Kingdom of Heaven)
This is the time when the child reaches the last stage of his life- the old age. This is the stage when the child has to show maturity. He is responsible for his decisions and his decisions are to be based on the knowledge he has acquired so far. And this is the time to make peace with the Creator and consolidate his position and start preparation for the end days.

Now the Father is ready to disclose whatever truths that were withheld from the child. As promised by Jesus, he has bestowed his spirit on a Son of man, the Spirit of Truth, so that he teaches the world of all truths and shows the world things to come.

Points to be noted:
What the Father talks in the child’s adulthood will be different from what he talks during infancy. If you are a parent or if you have observed parents then you will agree with me.

The God who instructed to kill those who worked in Sabbath corrected himself and taught through his Son that one should observe Sabbath but at the same time has to uphold humanity. ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ was corrected to ‘you love your adversaries, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be the children of Father which is in heaven.’

A father can demand love and respect when the child is young. But when the child is grown up it has to decide how to reciprocate the love and affection of the Father.

Now that we have seen that mankind is in the final stage let’s understand who is going to separate the wheat from the chaff or who is going to Judge whether you should go to the right or to the left or stay in the center.