Part I
Before Time Began
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.-- 1 Corinthians 2:6,7 (NIV)
Chapter 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
-- John 1:1,2 (NIV)
“Love requires a choice.
If one has no choice but to love then there is no love at all.”
In the throne room there was a discussion going on, although
not so much a discussion as a simple statement of fact. After all, simply being spoken by the living,
omnipotent God makes any statement the truth and therefore a fact.
The topic of discussion was loneliness and God’s desire to
love and be loved.
“We will create them to have the choice to love us or not –
we will call them ‘man’.”[i]
“Yes. We will make
man in our own image having the ability to reason and to choose his own path. He will desire to love and to be loved.”
“We will place into him the desire to know Us. So that he will know his purpose, we will
create in him an instinct to seek Us – an insatiable desire to know and commune
with Us. He will have no peace until
this need is met. When he seeks us We
will be waiting for him and he will find Us.
And when he accepts Our gift to him we will give him the right to be
called a Child of God.”
“Yes, very good. And
we will create for man a new realm. A
realm especially suited to his pleasure.
In this realm he will reside and make his choice to love us or not. We will
call this new realm the earthly realm. It
will be beautiful but imperfect, unlike our own heavenly realm.”
“In the earthly realm he will put on a physical body which
is finite and imperfect. When his time
in the earthly realm is complete he will shed this imperfect body to return
fully to the spiritual realm with only his perfect spiritual self.”[ii]
“If, when man has completed his time on Earth, he has chosen
to follow our command and accept our gift of life, he will live with Us in the
heavenly realm experiencing the full measure of Our love. If, however, he chooses to reject our gift of
love for him, he will be left to observe the goodness of Our love from
afar. He will exist in anguish never
experiencing true love for himself.”
“His reward for choosing to love us will be to experience
the fullness of our love and the perfect beauty of the heavenly realm. During his life, man will normally not be allowed
to gaze beyond his own realm. Some,
however, will receive glimpses of the heavenly realm along the way and through
their words others will be heartened and desire their eventual reward.”
“The earthly realm will exist in a set of dimensions all its
own, We will call it the universe. This
universe will be governed by laws We will set forth.[iii] In the universe man will be aware of the
distance of space and the passing of time and he will learn more about these
laws as time in his universe progresses and his knowledge grows.”
“Man will be born of man.
Each new physical life will be a derivation of his parents’ inhabited by
his own unique heavenly spirit which has been ordained for him. As his physical body is born of his parents,
so will be his eternal soul.22 Man will continue to propagate for as long as
time exists. In the end, We will draw
them to Us by manifestation of our persona in human form. God and man will become one and through that
union man will be given a path to everlasting life.”
“Our Earthly persona will be called God Saves, Joshua,
Jesus, the Son of Man, and the Son of God.
He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and
Prince of Peace. He will be the Chosen One,
the Messiah, the Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Through Him man will be created and through
Him man will be saved from his own just rewards to eternal life. Man will be created but for one purpose – to
love Us - and will exist, live and die according to our pleasure.”
“In the end, after the time of the first universe is
complete, we will make our home with man in a new and perfect universe.”
“Yes, it will be so.”
[i] Genesis
11:7 (NIV): “Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not
understand each other”. Here God is
speaking to him self and refers to himself in the plural. Also in Genesis 1:26 we see: “Then God said,
“Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish
of the sea…”. We see from these verses
that at least some of the time when God speaks to himself he addresses himself
in the plural. This is understood to be
God the Father referring to Himself as the triune
God, namely God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
[ii] The
burning of the sun is a result of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. That law states that all things move to
entropy – hot things get cooler and cold things get warmer on their way to a
state of equilibrium. The result is that
everything is moving toward decay. In
the new Earth described in Revelation 21 there is no sun and no moon (21:23)
because God provides light from himself.
This second creation will be perfect with different physical laws and
will not be subject to decay. Paul in 1
Cor. 13 describes the current world, as beautiful as it is as only like a dim
mirror compared to the perfect that will come.
Clearly, this first creation by God was designed to be imperfect in
anticipation of He who would come who is perfect. After perfect comes the old imperfect
universe will pass away to be replaced by a new and perfect universe.
[iii]
Jeremiah 33:25; Psalm 104; Job 37-41
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