In the Beginning...Part One

Before I go back to my study on “Isaiah’s End Times Timeline”, I wanted to go back and study the beginning again. God says He declared the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:9-10), so a study of end times must include an understanding of what God declared or made known about the end in the beginning. So, I used my Bible software and started searching on the word “beginning”. I study the Bible this way because that is how I believe God wants us to find His knowledge (Proverbs 2:1-5) – by seeking and searching His word. Computers make it much easier now!

Creation of heaven and earth happened in the beginning, which is explained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis (Genesis 1:1-13, Genesis 2:1-25). I kept searching on “beginning”, though, and found out that God didn’t just mention the story of creation in Genesis. So, in order to get the whole picture, I needed to bring all these scriptures together. I compared scriptures in several Bible versions, but the one that I thought had the best translation of the Old Testament verses was the “Jewish Publication Society Bible”. So, from these scriptures, here is my understanding of the beginning.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.' And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good. And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so. And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

(Gen 1:1-19 JPS)

I believe God created the heaven and earth just like a baby is made.

For Thou hast made my reins; Thou hast knit me together in my mother's womb. I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My frame was not hidden from Thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written - even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How weighty also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

(Psa 139:13-17 JPS)

In a woman’s reproductive system, a woman’s egg is unformed and floating around in the darkness of a womb. Well, so was the earth when God created it. A womb has to have the right lining or “atmosphere” in order for the egg to be fertilized. That is what the spirit of God was doing when it was hovering over the face of the waters. Fertilization happens when the sperm penetrates the egg. Earth started changing from an unformed and void state when God’s Word (His seed) penetrated it.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

(Joh 1:1-5 ESV)

“…The seed is the word of God.” (Luk 8:11 ESV)

God had heaven and earth on His mind before He even created it. He had it all planned out. The brain triggers the hormones that are needed to produce an egg in a woman’s body. God planned that His Wisdom would be the body where life would begin and where it would be nurtured.

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of devices. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall find me. Riches and honour are with me; yea, enduring riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my produce than choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice; That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries. The LORD made me as the beginning of His way, the first of His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep, When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep showed their might, When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth; Then I was by Him, as a nursling; and I was daily all delight, playing always before Him, Playing in His habitable earth, and my delights are with the sons of men. Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me; for happy are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. But he that misseth me wrongeth his own soul; all they that hate me love death.'

(Pro 8:12-36 JPS)

*Please also read these BLT Lessons –

http://www.basiclovetraining.org/BLT_Level1/L10_TheHolySpiritinthebeginning.pdf

http://www.basiclovetraining.org/BLT_Level1/L11_TheHolySpiritandLife.pdf