The End! From the Beginning, God's Eight Days

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Before the Beginning

There Was God

Before there was a day, before creation existed, and before the divisions of time were brought forth, there was the eternal God: God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God (Ps. 90:2).¹

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (Rev. 1:8).

Fear not; I am the first and the last (Rev. 1:17).

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death (Rev. 1:18).

God is self-existent (ref. Isa. 46:9, 10), omnipotent (refs. Gen. 18:14; Rev. 19:6), omniscient (ref. 1 John 3:20), omnipresent (ref. Ps. 139:7–12), omnisapient (God possesses all wisdom and knowledge; refs. Rom. 11:33; Col. 2:2, 3), and immutable (ref. Heb. 6:17–18, 13:8). The Hebrew name for God elohiym is a plural name for the Godhead, the Triune God (ref. Matt. 28:19). One God, yet all three are one, performing manifestations of his person and works through his creation and written word. God the Father is a living soul, God the Holy Ghost is Spirit, and Jesus Christ is physical body, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (ref. Col. 2:9). The Triune God coexists in all attributes and power, performs all his works purposefully for his pleasure, and dwells in unity propagating his glory. One God, Body, Soul, and Spirit (ref. Eph. 4:4–6).

God Designed His Creation

Before time began, God formed creation in his heart and mind, the end from the beginning. God purposed and determined by his divine counsel and will what perfect work he would bring forth to the praise of his glory.

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let [prevent or hinder] it? (Isa. 43:13).

"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" (Isa. 46:9, 10; emphasis added).

Before Time God Created Angels

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life (Gen. 3:23–24).

God created a host of angelic beings not mentioned in Genesis chapter 1—seraphim, cherubim, and those given names: Lucifer, Michael, and Gabriel.

As recorded in Ezekiel 28:12–19, the king of Tyrus is described as the anointed cherub that covereth who had been in Eden the garden of God. This reference to King Tyrus is generally taken to depict Satan, Lucifer in the garden of Eden. This Scripture portrays Satan as perfect in his ways from the day that he was created until iniquity was found in him. His heart was lifted up because of his power and beauty which corrupted his wisdom by reason of his brightness.

The Scriptures give us the reason for Lucifer’s fall: For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (Isa. 14:13, 14).

And God gave His answer, Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (Isa. 14:15). How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isa. 14:12).

In the Gospel, Jesus said of Satan, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke 10:18).

The angels who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day (Jude 6).

The scripture of Isaiah 14, describing Lucifer falling from heaven, states in verse 17 that Lucifer made the world as a wilderness; whereof Genesis 1:2 describes as without form, and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep. Satan was cast out of the light of God and became a kingdom of darkness, void, and empty of all righteousness and purity, totally evil and wicked, separated from God and light, with a great gulf fixed between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. Satan’s nature became deceptive in all his lying works among all humanity.

Jesus when speaking to the Jews said of the devil: Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:43, 44).

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In the Beginning

God Created the Heaven and the Earth

In the beginning God created the heaven [singular] and the earth (Gen. 1:1).

The word created means to make as recorded in Genesis, and God made the firmament (1:7), and God made two great lights (1:16). God made his creation by design. Every element of creation from the smallest element hydrogen (chemical symbol H), which is composed of one proton and one electron to the largest element ununoctium (chemical symbol Uuo), which is made of 118 protons, a number of neutrons, and 118 electrons were designed by the Creator. No chaotic Big Bang could produce such order in the elements. God possesses the power to produce them out of nothing and controls all reactions between these elements. Each successive element contains one proton and one electron and possibly a neutron more than the previous element. Although all 118 elements are made of the same three particles of materials, they individually possess totally different characteristics; there are gases, liquids, and solids. All solid elements differ in characteristics; there are metallic elements and there are earthen elements. Each individual element never deviates from its reaction to all other elements. These 118 elements makeup all creation—the sun, the moon, the stars, all vegetation, the animal kingdom, and human bodies. God created these elements and upholds all things by the word of his power (ref. Heb. 1:3).

The First Day God Separated the Light of Jesus Christ

from the Darkness of Satan

Some catastrophic event, apparently from the casting of Lucifer from the light of God, brought darkness upon the face of the deep in Genesis 1:2. Lucifer, the anointed cherub, was given dominion over God’s creation but lost his position of dominion by his sin of pride and rebellion. However, because of the power the Lord God allows him, he maintains the claim of dominion over God’s creation as the god of this world (ref. 2 Cor. 4:4). As yet, Jesus Christ has not put all enemies under his feet (ref. 1 Cor. 15:25, 26).

The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and God called forth the light to shine in the darkness.

Jesus Christ said, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (John 8:12).

Jesus Christ was in the beginning with God and was God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not (John 1:1, 4, 5, 14).

The light of this first day was the light of the glory of Jesus Christ. The light of Jesus Christ possessed power to dispel satanic darkness before there was a sun, moon, or stars. God divided the light from the darkness and called the light Day and the darkness he called Night, and the evening and the morning were the first day.

Those who believe and receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord are called the children of the light and the children of the day; and not of the night, nor of darkness (ref. 1 Thess. 5:5).

All unbelievers have not experienced the new birth of the word of God and of the Holy Spirit; therefore, they are not the children of God.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother (1 John 3:9, 10).

Jesus said, For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God John 3:20, 21.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple (Ps. 119:130).

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (2 Cor. 4:6).

God’s priority on the first day put a difference between light and darkness, between the kingdom of the light of Jesus Christ and the kingdom of the darkness of Satan.

The Second Day: God Separated the Waters

On day two, God separated the waters in the firmament from the waters on the earth and God called the firmament heaven. According to Genesis 1:2, the earth was completely submerged in water and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water. God stored half of the earth’s water in the firmament of heaven (ref. Gen. 1:7). Then God separated the water on earth into seas and caused the dry land to appear (ref. Gen. 1:9, 10). God used the waters in the firmament to condense into rain forty days and forty nights during the flood (ref. Gen. 7:4). The earth will not be destroyed by flood again, for God made a promise; however, he has determined to melt the elements with fervent heat, the earth shall be burned up and the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved (ref. 2 Pet. 3:10, 12). The elements of that great sun, around which the earth orbits every twenty-four hours, melt with fervent heat emitting light, heat, and radiation upon the earth. The sun dissolves in volume and size as these elements melt and so will the elements of the moon and of the stars of heaven melt and dissolve in God’s time. The elements of this present creation will disintegrate out of existence as God created them out of the words of his mouth, and then he will create a new heaven and a new earth (ref. Rev. 20:11, 21:1, 5). God said it will come to pass and that makes it truth.

The Third Day God Made the Seed of Vegetation

Designed after His Kind

Day three, God gathered the waters on the earth into seas and caused the dry land to appear, which God called earth.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so… And the evening and the morning were the third day (Gen. 1:11, 13).

God provided beforehand food for all physical life of animals, fowl, beasts, and humans which he would make on day five and day six to sustain their livelihood. All grass, herbs, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and all manner of vegetation whose seed is in itself and after his kind was how God made them.

God’s provision does not suffice modern humanist. Modern experimentation with the seed of vegetation produces hybrid species whose seed is not in itself (seedless hybrid), which will cause a shortage of food upon the earth in these last days.

God controls his creation, oversees, and upholds all things that pertain to his creation by the word of his power.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. (Heb. 1:1–3)

Eventually God will overthrow and bring deterioration and destruction upon the corruptible inventions of the ambitious greed of man’s own works.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth (Rev. 11:18).

The human race destroys the purity of God’s creation. The love of money to obtain the riches of this world and the desire for fame to make a name for themselves corrupt human nature.

What price does man’s greed put upon a twenty-cent gallon of gasoline when you go to fill up your car or a five-cent loaf of bread when you go to the grocery store? Those were the prices when I grew up in the early 1940s. What changed other than greed of fallen human nature?

The Fourth Day God Made Lights in the Heavens

to Sustain Physical Life

Until day four, there was no physical light upon the earth. Natural life of all creation is sustained by photosynthesis of light and heat from the sun reacting with the elements of the earth to produce growth. God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: Time originated with God for the human race to keep track of events in the history of life on earth.

God made the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also for our enjoyment.

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 two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 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 the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (Gen. 1:14–19)

The light of the fourth day is physical light, whereas the light of the first day is spiritual light, Jesus Christ himself being the light of the world and of the glory of God.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:4, 5).

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof (Rev. 21:23).

The Fifth Day God Made All Marine Life after Their Kind and Winged Fowl after His Kind

God made great whales and all marine life in the waters after their kind and God made every winged fowl after his kind to fly in the firmament of the heaven. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day (ref. Gen. 1:20–23).

God made each species of flesh after his kind. That truth remains today as it did in the beginning. The fallacy and falsehood of the theory of evolution do not exists between the flesh of fish and fowl of day five nor the flesh of beasts and humans of day six.

All evidence of archeological discoveries excavated from the graveyards of yesteryear only prove the reality that the wages of sin is death and the imaginations of man’s heart are only evil continually. Lucifer’s exalted pride ingrained into the nature of fallen humanity cannot comprehend the Creator as creations friend. God’s judgment is based upon facts of truth and righteousness. Long before modern medical science ever existed, God revealed the truth regarding life of the flesh.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul (Lev. 17:11).

Modern medical science has established the truth that blood transfusions between the species are detrimental and fatal when attempted. God made the flesh of fish, fowl, beasts, and humans different from each other as he did their blood.

But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds (1 Cor. 15:38, 39).

God made man with intelligence to search out truth and live by it or else die in sin and condemnation. God did not give the fish, fowl, and animal kingdoms intelligence as he did man. Animals can be trained to do tricks, but none can be taught a language to communicate intelligently as humanity. No beasts of the field have denied and disobeyed God as man has denied God and the truth of his word. All men exercise their power and privilege for decision making, whether or not, they believe God and truth or believe the lie to be damned.

The Sixth Day God Made His Final Creation Work

God made the beasts of the earth after their kind.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good (Gen. 1:25).

All the beasts today reproduce after their kind as God ordained from the beginning. That was six thousand years ago. There is not one centaur, bigfoot, or a half monkey-half man been seen, nor ever will be seen, roaming the dark, uninhabitable forests or the streets of our cities. If that were possible, there would be millions of them.

Moreover, all fowl, beasts, men of the earth, and the fish of the seas reproduce after their kind and will remain so as God ordained (ref. 1 Cor. 15:38, 39).

God Made the Man Adam a Living Soul

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Gen. 2:7).

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezek. 18:4).

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive (1 Cor. 15:22).

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matt. 16:26).

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls (Pet. 1:9).

Adam Was Made in the Image of God

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:26–28)

God made man with a physical body from the dust (elements) of the ground after the image of the body which God (Jesus) possesses. An image is a physical form, a body with identifying features.

God likewise took upon himself a physical body in Jesus Christ and was made like unto his brethren, except Jesus is without sin (ref. Heb. 2:14–17, 10:5). Before the foundation of the world, God prepared himself a body in Jesus Christ for the purpose of regaining the position of dominion over all creation and King of all kings to rule God’s kingdom which Lucifer and Adam had lost through sin and death.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. (Luke 1:30–33)

For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. (1 Cor. 15:25–27)

Jesus Christ came into the world, and redeemed and reclaimed the right to restore fallen creation back from perdition into the perfection of God’s likeness.

Adam Was Made with the Likeness of God

The likeness of God refers to the personal being of God—personality, character, and attributes. The man God created possesses no power to attain equality with the Almighty, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent God as does Jesus (ref. Phil. 2:5, 6). However, man was made with intelligence, emotions, and volition (a free will with the power of decision making) in the likeness of God.

Adam Was Made with the Likeness of God’s Intellect

No man other than Jesus Christ possessed intellectual capacity for learning and retaining knowledge as Adam.

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field (Gen. 2:19, 20).

In the garden of Eden, Adam attended the institution of highest knowledge and taught by the Master Teacher Jesus Christ himself.

Adam possessed a brilliant, unclouded, and sound mind. His thesis in every field of science and knowledge was given orally before the Lord God.

If degrees were conferred at that time, God would have conferred upon Adam doctorate degrees in every field of learning. Adam was a walking encyclopedia of knowledge in all that God created.

The Lord God commissioned Adam with the position and title of dominion over all creation, the highest position that man could hold on all the face of the earth the king of the whole world (ref. Gen. 2:27, 28).

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth (Gen. 1:26).

This position Satan lost and so also did Adam lose. Jesus Christ regained this position of dominion over all creation through his redemption price of death and raising from the dead (ref. Eph. 1:20–23).

God Made Adam with Emotions and Feelings

Man was created with emotional feelings of affection and after his fall, infirmity of his fleshly being. Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh, experienced every possible emotion and infirmity in his fleshly body yet without sin, flaw, or failure.

As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men (Isa. 52:14).

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (John 16:33).

The world is described in 1 John 2:15–17.

God Made Adam a Free Moral Being

Adam made his free will choice when he partook of the fruit that Eve gave unto him. Likewise, every individual decides and determines