Chapter 5
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.-- Romans 1:20
Seated high upon His throne which shone as brilliantly as a
Sapphire in the Holy of Holies, God observed all things in the heavenly and
earthly realms. His teams of Angels
prepared themselves for the coming of man into the universe and the Son
prepared the universe for the same event.
Above the throne flew the beautiful Seraphim.
The train of the robe of God flowed gracefully down and
filled the temple. Encircling the throne
was a brilliant light glowing beautifully like a rainbow and sparkling like an
emerald.
Flowing from out from the throne was a river of water which
was calm, as smooth as glass and crystal clear.[i]
The omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent God the Father witnessed
the creation of the earthly realm and was pleased.
He watched the reaction of the angels of heaven as well as
they sang and danced and praised Him. He
paid particular attention to Lucifer who was watching the creation of the
universe unfold intently and quietly.
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Jesus immersed Himself in the universe of His making, moving
about in it at will, back and forth in time as it pleased Him.
He moved to the correct moment in time and stood upon the
depths of the waters that covered the surface of the Earth and lifted his arms
high in front of him his palms down.
“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and
let dry ground appear,” he said.
As he raised his arms and rotated and opened his hands the
sea began tremble.
With the process in motion Jesus moved back into the
spiritual realm, back to the throne room in heaven to rejoin the nexus of the
triune God.
The waters began to rush back and forth and the waves grew
higher and higher. The elements obeyed
his wishes and he smiled broadly as quiet rumbling noises began to grow louder
and louder. As the tectonic plates of
the Earth shifted the entire surface of the deep seemed to swirl and rush back
and forth, too and fro, looking for a place to escape. At the height of the violence peaks of mountains
began to lift their heads above the surface of the water. Waters rushed from the slopes of the peaks as
the mountains grew higher and higher out of the deep.
As time passed the land continued to rise until a large land
mass was fully exposed above the surface of the water. The violence of it all caused the molten
metal and rock which existed in the center of the Earth to gush forth spewing
ash and lava creating great islands of volcanic rock. Steam from the volcanoes filled the
atmosphere along with vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
The massive single land mass separated into seven great
continents which slowly drifted apart.
Like the author of a book covering eons of time in a single
chapter Jesus wrote the pages of the history of the Earth. He called the dry ground “land” and the
waters he called “seas”.[ii]
Gazing on in proud joy, God the Father, saw that it was good
and continued to watch as His plan came to fruition.
Once again in the throne room God gazed from the beginning
of the earthly timeline to the end. The
canvas was in place and the background was painted, a background of glorious
beauty which on the surface seemed simple but in reality was intricately
complex.
This background set the stage for what was to come. The heavenly hosts thought they had seen
greatness until they saw what was coming next.
Now Jesus re-entered the earthly realm and brought himself
to an area of land which jutted high into the atmosphere. From here the vastness of the earth opened up
before him.
“Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and
trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various
kinds,” he said.
The brilliance of the Living God began to show itself now even
more clearly. In a universe which was
created such that it would eventually fly apart and where all matter moves to
decay, Jesus created matter which took on a life of its own. This matter would reproduce itself and would
adapt to its environment in a world utterly hostile to its existence.
And so, like a cosmic computer programmer Jesus put into
place the programming language that He would use to program life.
The structure He used to hold His code consisted of two long
polymer strands called nucleotides joined together with sugars and phosphate
groups. Attached to the sugar he placed
sequences of the chemicals which would come to be known as Adenine, Guanine,
Cytosine, and Thymine. These chemicals,
or bases, were used to tell a protein how to arrange amino acids into other
proteins. These were the basic building
blocks of life.
Using this code Jesus designed all aspects of life. Each sequence of code told the protein how to
produce other kinds of proteins all working in concert to build a cell. Many cells then worked together to form an
organ and many organs worked together to form an organism.
Jesus programmed every aspect of plant life on the
earth. Because of Earth’s design, vast
amounts of carbon dioxide filled the atmosphere, and Jesus programmed plants to
feed on it.
Jesus programmed the plants to use what light seeped through
the canopy surrounding the earth as an energy source to fuel consumption of
carbon dioxide. Plants absorbed water and
minerals from the soil and expelled oxygen as a waste product.
From the largest trees to the smallest blade of grass, he
programmed them all in wondrous variety.
He started with smaller plants which grew quickly and died off providing
nutrients for other plants. Over time
these gave way to larger plants growing taller and stronger and living for
longer periods of time. As time continued,
magnificent trees began to grow which would live on the Earth for thousands of
years.
From his throne in the heavenly realm God the Father
continued to gaze upon His creation and saw that it was good.
The third step was complete.
The time for God’s greatest creation grew closer. With each step the Earth was becoming better
suited for habitation by man.
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