How many times have you read a portion of the Bible, or heard a
sermon and thought to yourself, “I want to know more about what the rest
of the Bible says concerning this?” Well I have good news for you the
Bible clearly reveals’ itself to those who are willing to do a little
research. In fact the Bible is one of the easiest set of books to
understand. I said set of books because the Bible is not just one book;
it is actually 66 books, penned by different authors, written in three
different languages, from nearly every walk of life. These authors were
statesmen and paupers, kings and shepherds, fishermen and priests and
more. Some were educated and some were uneducated. Most of them did not
know each other, and wrote at different periods of time, over the space
of 1,600 years... and yet this volume of books is still one book since
they deal only with one subject: the redemption of the human race.
Let’s
begin looking at what the Bible has to say about the Beginning of time,
about God, and about itself. When we open to Genesis Chapter One, the
first phrase we read is “In the beginning.” In the beginning refers to a
period of remote time; a time that is unknown to most. This is a time
period that has been hidden through the ages and it is a time period
that is revealed only through a thorough study of Scripture.
Of
course, this beginning starts with the creation of the Heavens and the
Earth. We call this time “The Creative Ages.” I want to stress that the
term The Creative Ages means it is a time the stretches from the
dateless past before Genesis 1:1, to the end of the seven days of
creation. The seven days of creation actually begins in Genesis 1:3, and
not Genesis 1:1 as some believe; but we’ll cover that in more detail in
a moment.
When I talk about The Beginning or, The Dateless Past I
am actually talking about a time which is the introduction to the Bible
and all of history. This is a period which marks the boundary between
time and eternity. We can see this clearly spelled out in scripture.
To
summarize the rest of the episode: God created the universe to be
populated with intelligent beings to whom He could reveal Himself, and
with whom He could enjoy life. After the heavens were created, then God
created the Earth. There was a time after Genesis 1:1, during which
people, and animals lived on Earth, and because of their sin during this
time, there was a flood.
No one knows just what God did in the
eternal dateless past since He has not seen fit to reveal all His
activities. All we know is that He has always existed, and that sometime
in The Dateless Past God brought all things into existence. The present
things that are on Earth were brought into existence in six days after
the destruction of the first creation of free moral agents that lived on
the Earth.
Stay tuned for more info, and for the upcoming webisodes from Revival Streams.
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