I WELL REMEMBER THE LADY TEACHER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL THAT FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
I WAS 7 YEARS OLD. MY DAD HAD SENT ME THERE. I DID NOT REALIZE AT THE TIME MY DAD WAS RAISED IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
THAT DAY WAS MONUMENTAL AS I NOW LOOK BACK ON IT. IT WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLY BIBLE.
I WAS A KID FASCINATED BY ALL THE CREATION AROUND ME. MY EYES JUST ABOUT POPPED OUT OF MY HEAD AS SHE READ "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH." WOW..... I HAD MY ANSWER, IT WAS A BEING CALLED GOD, WHO MADE ALL I COULD SEE. I FIGURED ONLY SOME MIGHTY, POWERFUL BEING COULD DO ALL THAT I COULD SEE.
I BELIEVED IN GOD FROM THAT DAY FORWARD.
THE FENTON TRANSLATION PUTS IT THIS WAY--- "BY PERIODS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND EARTH." HE SAYS THE WORD "BEGINNING" IS IN THE PLURAL.
YES OF COURSE IT IS TRUE PARTS OF THE UNIVERSE ARE OLDER THAN OTHER PARTS. AND STARS COME AND GO. THE UNIVERSE IS MOVING AND GROWING ALL THE TIME, AS OUR GREAT SPACE TELESCOPES NOW TELL US SO VIVIDLY.
THEN CAME A TIME WHEN THE EARTH WAS ENCASED IN WATER AND BLACKNESS, AS THE SECOND VERSE OF GENESIS TELLS US.
OTHER PARTS OF THE BIBLE TELLS US HOW THIS CAME ABOUT.
"FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS: GOD HIMSELF THAT FORMED THE EARTH AND MADE IT; HE HAS ESTABLISHED IT; HE CREATED IT NOT IN VAIN [CONFUSION]; HE FORMED IT TO BE INHABITED....: [ISAIAH 45: 18].
THE EARTH WAS NOT SOME BITS OF DUST AND WHATNOT SLOWLY OVER BILLIONS OF YEARS FORMING INTO THE PLANET OF TODAY, AS EVOLUTIONISTS TRY TO TELL US.
IN THE BOOK OF JOB, GOD FINALLY ANSWERED HIM----
"WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH....WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS FASTENED? OR WHO HAS LAID THE CORNER STONE THEREOF?....WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER, AND THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY....." [JOB 38: 1-7]
THE ANGELS ARE DEPICTED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION AS STARS; THE ANGELS ARE SONS OF GOD BY BEING CREATED BY GOD.
THE ANGELS SANG FOR THE GLORY GOD MADE THIS PHYSICAL PLANET; ITS BEAUTY IS EVERYWHERE. THE BBC HAVE MADE GLORIOUS MOVIES OF PLANET EARTH; FROM SPACE IT IS A JEWEL SET IN THE BLACKNESS OF SPACE, YES THE BLUE PLANET CREATED FOR LIFE!
GOD GOES ON TO JOB--- "OR WHO SHUT UP THE SEAS WITH DOORS, WHEN IT BROKE FORTH, AS IF IT HAD ISSUED OUT OF THE WOMB? WHEN I MADE THE CLOUDS THE GARMENT THEREOF, AND THICK DARKNESS THE SWADDLINGBAND FOR IT. OR ESTABLISHED MY DECREE UPON IT, AND SET BARS AND DOORS, AND SAID YOU SHALL COME HITHER AND NO FURTHER, AND YOUR PROUD WAVES SHALL BE STAYED. DID YOU COMMAND THE MORNING SINCE YOUR DAYS, AND CAUSED THE DAY-SPRING TO KNOW HIS PLACE, THAT IT MIGHT TAKE HOLD OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH...." [JOB 38: 8-13].
GOD COULD JUST SAY THE WORD AND IT WAS BUILT, OR PERHAPS HE DID TAKE SOME DAYS OR WEEKS OR MONTHS TO BUILD THE EARTH, WE ARE NOT TOLD, BUT THE END RESULT WAS FOR THE EARTH TO BE INHABITED.
AND IT WAS INDEED---- THERE WAS TRULY A DINOSAUR AGE OF MIGHTY AND SMALL CREATURES AND MIGHY AND SMALL VEGETATION AND TREES, AND RIVERS AND OCEANS. IT WAS A PHYSICAL WONDERLAND!
WE ARE TOLD IN THE BIBLE THAT JESUS THE CHRIST GOD, DID THE CREATING OF THIS UNIVERSE, OF OUR HEAVEN AND EARTH. IT WAS BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF NOTHING; YES THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE WAS BROUGHT OUT OF NOTHING. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE UNIVERSE DID NOT EXIST, AS MOST SCIENTISTS NOW ADMIT AND SO TEACH.
THE SPIRIT ANGELS ETC. WERE ALSO CREATED AT SOME TIME IN THE DISTANT PAST; WE ARE NOT TOLD HOW FAR BACK THAT WAS UNDERTAKEN BY GOD.
WE ARE TOLD IN SOME DETAIL ABOUT ONE SUPREME ANGEL, A COVERING CHERUB OVER THE THRONE OF GOD. THE TWO PASSAGES ARE--- EZEKIEL 28: 11-17 IN TYPE WITH THE KING OF TYRUS. AND IN ISAIAH 14: 12-14.
THIS SPLENDID COVERING CHRUB WAS GIVEN THIS EARTH TO CARE FOR. HE BECAME TWISTED IN HIS MIND, HE WANTED THE THRONE OF GOD! HE ASCENDED UP TO TAKE GOD'S THRONE. WE ARE TOLD IN REVELATION 12 ONE THIRD OF THE ANGELS REBELLED WITH HIM. THERE WAS WAR IN THE UNIVERSE. BUT HE WAS THROWN BACK TO EARTH, AS ISAIAH SAYS, AND AS JESUS SAID HE BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN.
THIS WAR IN THE HEAVENS WAS ALLOWED BY GOD THE FATHER. THIS EARTH BECAME NULL AND VOID. THIS EARTH WAS SHAKEN AS THE HUMAN MIND CAN HARDLY IMAGINE. SCIENCE HAS DISCOVERED SO FAR I THINK IT IS, 4 PLACES WHERE MONSTROUS COMETS HIT THIS EARTH, THE CRATERS THEY MADE HAVE NOW BEEN FOUND.
IT WAS THEN AT THAT TIME THAT THE EARTH WAS COVERED BY WATER, ALL OVER, A GLOBAL FLOOD THAT BLOWS THE MIND TO TRY AND COMPREHEND.
WE HAVE THEN COME TO VERSE 2 OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS!
WE ARE NOT TOLD HOW LONG THIS WORLD-WIDE DELUGE WAS ON THE EARTH.
BUT FINALLY GOD'S SPIRIT WAS MOVING ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS!
AND SO THEN BEGAN GOD'S NEW RE-FORMING OF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AS WE READ IN GENESIS CHAPTER ONE..
YES IT WAS A LITERAL 7 DAYS GOD TOOK TO RE-FORM THE EARTH; THE BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS WAS STARTING TO LIFT BY THE POWER AND WILL OF GOD.
EVENING AND MORING WERE BROUGHT INTO BEING!
THE FIRST DAY, THE SECOND DAY, THE THRID DAY ETC.
THE BIBLE COMMENTARY BY ALBERT BARNES PRETTY WELL HAS THE STEP BY STEP TRUTH OF THESE FIRST CHAPTERS OF GENESIS.
IT WAS INDEED LITERAL DAYS NOT AGES WHEN GOD UNDERTOOK TO BRING THE EARTH BACK TO BEAUTIFUL FORM.
DURING THIS TIME OF THE EARTH BEING UNDER WATER, THE VARIOUS STRATA WERE MADE; SO THE STRATA WE SEE TODAY IN THE VARIOUS MOUNTAIN RANGES. THE WORLD OF THE DINOSAURS BEING BROUGHT UP IN DIFFERENT HEIGHTS. THE BAD LANDS OF MIDDLE ALBERTA, THE DINOSAURS ARE FOUND NEAR THE TOP OF THE SURFACE OF THAT PART OF THE EARTH, SO IT VARIES IN OTHER PARTS OF THE EARTH.
YES IT WAS 7 LITERAL DAYS [THE BEES AND FLOWERS DEPENDING ON EACH OTHE] CREATED NOT WITH AGES OF TIME BETWEEN THEM.
THE SEVENTH DAY WAS BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED--- IT WAS NOT AN AGE OF TIME, BUT A SINGLE DAY; HENCE A PART OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED SINCE THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE.
THIS I WAS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AT THE AGE OF 7; IT WAS EASY TO UNDERSTAND, THE SANCTIFYING OF THE 7TH DAY. AND ALSO TO READ ABOUT IT IN EXODUS 20, AS WE LATER DID IN THAT CLASS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL I WAS IN.
I SHALL CONTINUE LATER IN STUDY TWO, OF GENESIS 1 AND 2.
Keith Hunt
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