In the Beginning...Part Two

"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created." (Rev 4:11 ESV)

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (Heb 11:3 ESV)

Earth was not made from pre-existing things, or a pre-existing planet or universe. Heaven, Earth, and the universe were on God’s mind as unformed substances before He spoke them into being. In His thoughts, He had a plan on how He would form them and He had a unique purpose for all of them before they were created.

God’s will, His plan from the beginning, was to form a man’s body and a woman’s body, make them new again, and then bring them together as one in Him – body, soul, and spirit.

Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'" (Heb 10:5-7 ESV)

Jesus Christ is the perfect man’s body that God planned on making from the beginning and the Bride of Christ would be the perfect woman’s body that would be joined to Him for eternity.

…then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first so that He may establish the second. By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Heb 10:9-10 MKJV)

Jesus came to do God’s will here on Earth. God’s plan was to create the first form, or body, and then to renew it to make it sanctified, perfect, and eternal.

As You have sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. And I sanctify Myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth. And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one, I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me, that they may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me, for You have loved Me before the foundation of the world.
(John 17:18-24 MKJV)

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer is. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband. And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain; for the first things passed away. And He sitting on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. (Rev 21:1-5 MKJV)

God’s Word became flesh as the body of Jesus. God’s Wisdom was established as a city – Jerusalem. She is the body that God chose where His people would be nurtured.
(Prov 8:12-36 JPS)

His plan was to make Jerusalem new again as New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ. We become a part of God’s Wisdom, citizens of New Jerusalem, when we allow God’s Word and Spirit to move in our life, making us born again.

(*Please read this BLT Lesson – http://www.basiclovetraining.org/BLT_Level2/AllMyHeart3_childandheir.pdf)

I am the LORD, and there is none else, beside Me there is no God; I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me; That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me; I am the LORD; and there is none else; I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, that they may bring forth salvation, and let her cause righteousness to spring up together; I the LORD have created it. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker, as a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it: 'What makest thou?' Or: 'Thy work, it hath no hands'? Woe unto him that saith unto his father: 'Wherefore begettest thou?' Or to a woman: 'Wherefore travailest thou?' Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask Me of the things that are to come; concerning My sons, and concerning the work of My hands, command ye Me. I, even I, have made the earth, and created man upon it; I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. I have roused him up in victory, and I make level all his ways; he shall build My city, and he shall let Mine exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
(Isa 45:5-13 JPS)

He had planned from the beginning to build a city as His dwelling place, making it new again upon the foundation where He first established it and it would all be done through Jesus!

And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;” (Heb 1:10 ESV)

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
(Isa 40:21-22 ESV)

For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth; the LORD, the God of hosts, is His name.
(Amo 4:13 JPS)

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. (Isa 65:17-19 JPS)

"Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities. How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man." (Jer 31:21-22 ESV)

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Rom 8:18-23 ESV)

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him. For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Heb 11:8-10 MKJV)

*Please also read this BLT Lesson –
http://www.basiclovetraining.org/BLT_Level3/L15g_JoinedbyoneSpiritintoonebody.pdf