Lessons Seven and Eight established that angels governed this earth before Adam — and that the world you live in is a rebuilt version of one that was destroyed by angelic rebellion. That context matters for this supplement, because the practical truths here flow from a simple reality: God rebuilds what sin destroys. He doesn't abandon ruined things. He redeems them.

Then in Lesson Eight, we saw how God restored the Earth to a second habitable state in six literal days, creating new fish, birds, land animals, and humanity. We also explored why God did this. His original purpose in creating the Earth was to fill it with intelligent free moral agents—beings He could reveal Himself to and bless forever with all the good things of life.

God's blessings on His creation were wonderful—beyond what human words can describe. If humanity had never sinned, there would have been no sickness, disease, defeat, harm, pain, suffering, sorrow, misery, failure, or any of the corruption that's now in the world through lust.

Because it was never God's will for humanity to sin or for these conditions to exist, we can safely conclude that this is still not His will.

Scripture—and common sense—both affirm that if humanity hadn't fallen, everyone would have been healthy, wealthy, and wise. It's equally clear that all free moral agents were meant to work toward the best public good according to the will of the Moral Governor. Even now, under sin's influence, every person is naturally obligated to consecrate themselves to the best good of all society.

God Himself, as the Supreme Moral Governor, is under the same moral obligation. Therefore, it was—and still is—His highest will that all creation exist in the highest state of perfection so this goal can be reached. It could never be God's will for even one person to be given over to anything that would hinder their part in helping all of society achieve the highest good.

So sin, sickness, poverty, want, unhappiness, and failure are foreign elements in God's eternal perfect plan for creation. Because they're foreign, they must be eliminated before God's plan can be fully realized. They are not—and cannot be—any part of God's will for His creation. They are the works of the devil and are enemies of God and all creation.

If they're enemies, then we should treat them as such. We should wage constant, aggressive warfare against them until they're entirely driven out of the personal life of every child of God who cooperates with Him. Think of it like weeds in a garden—you don't negotiate with weeds or welcome them as "blessings in disguise." You pull them out relentlessly until your garden flourishes the way it was designed to.

As long as Christians count these curses as friends, blessings in disguise, or the will of God, they'll be failing God and cooperating with their own enemies to destroy themselves and mar God's perfect plan for humanity.