Jeremiah 10:12 "HE hath made the Earth by HIS power, HE hath established the world by HIS wisdom, and hath stretched out the Heavens by HIS discretion."
GOD's Plan: Commencement
The Scriptures marvelously detail all GOD presently wants us to know about HIMSELF, ourselves, and HIS plan for the universe. They contain the storyline revealing GOD's intentions and purposes for HIS creation. The LORD has gone on record, informing us how it all began: by HIS WORD. HE formed the entire cosmos, including Earth, and then filled it with HIS creation. Many texts in addition to Genesis document the world's inception: "When I consider THY heavens, the work of THY fingers, the moon and the stars, which THOU hast ordained, what is man. . ." (Psalm 8:3-4a). "By the WORD of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of HIS mouth." (Psalm 33:6 pictured above). "All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). "For by HIM were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in Earth, visible and invisible" (Colossians 1:16). "THOU are worthy, O LORD, to receive glory and honor and power: for THOU hast created all things, and for THY pleasure they are and were created" (Rev. 4:11).
Believing that GOD is the SOURCE of everything is vital. Evolutionists have assaulted not just the Bible but also common sense and rational thinking. It is imperative that we firmly stand on the infallible, inerrant, GOD-breathed revelation (2nd.Timothy 3:16 pictured above) ! Hold fast and believe GOD's WORD regarding creation. Rest assured that the LORD has told us the truth concerning everything recorded in HIS WORD, including how this planet began and how man came into existence. If we can have faith in the Scriptures for the very redemption of our soul, certainly we can trust their record concerning life's origins.
Nehemiah 9:6 "THOU, even THOU, art LORD alone; THOU hast made Heaven, the Heaven of heavens, with all their host, the Earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and THOU preservest them all; and the host of Heaven worshippeth THEE."
GOD's Plan: Continuation
The Bible teaches that everything in this universe had a beginning. Further study reveals the continuation of that which the LORD has created, in other words, GOD is at work sustaining all of HIS creation. The Scriptures affirm that GOD is preserving this world, "upholding all things by the WORD of HIS power" (Hebrews 1:3 two pictures above). The LORD JESUS CHRIST declared to HIS disciples, "Without ME ye can do nothing" (John 15:5 pictured above). Have you ever considered the ramifications of this statement or given thought to the fact that apart from GOD's sustaining hand upon everything in this universe, it would all collapse ? We have HIS precious promises that all things will continue for as long as the LORD desires them to do so: The sun will stay in its course (Psalm 19:4-6); the moon and stars will remain fixed in the heavens (Psalm 72:5); the Earth will continue experiencing its seasonal cycles (Genesis 8:22). And, GOD has pledged HIS assurance that HE never again will destroy the planet with the water of a flood (Genesis 9:11-17).
The Bible assures us, on an individual level, that GOD is presently working out all things according to HIS own plan and purpose (Romans 8:28 pictured above; Ephesians 1:11). HE is concerned about the details in life, and HE uses them to teach us truths we need to learn (Genesis 50:20). Perhaps one of the most difficult lessons, we all face is the need to trust HIM absolutely (2nd.Corinthians 5:7). HE has taken care of man's greatest problem, namely, the payment for sin; since the LORD has done that should we not believe that HE can and will remedy subsequent problems and hardships we face ? Life's trials can overwhelm us, but the same GOD WHO sustains the universe is at work in and through us as well.
1st.Corinthians 15:24-28 "Then cometh the end, when HE shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the FATHER; when HE shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 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. But when HE saith all things are put under HIM, it is manifest that HE is excepted, which did put all things under HIM. And when all things shall be subdued unto HIM then shall the SON also HIMSELF be subject unto HIM that put all things under HIM, that GOD may be all in all."
GOD's Plan: Consummation
We have considered GOD's commencement and continuation of the universe, but the Bible also teaches that the LORD is taking HIS creation to an ultimate end -- HE has a purpose that HE is working out right now in light of eternity. For believers, the future is a glorious one in which we will see not only the Millennial kingdom, as so many Old Testament texts affirm, but also a new heavens and a new Earth (Revelation 21-22). This present world is not all that exists. Following the prophesied kingdom, over which JESUS CHRIST will reign from David's throne in Jerusalem for 1,000 years (Luke 1:32-33 two pictures above; Revelation 20:1-10), the LORD will vanquish "all rule and all authority and power" (v.24), including "the last enemy that shall be destroyed . . . Death" (v.26 pictured above) !
Death was not a part of GOD's original creation; it entered this world through man's sin in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:17; 3:1-8). It is something not just foreign but absolutely antithetical to what GOD designed for HIS creation. Yet, as powerful and devastating as death is, it, too, one day will be defeated. Perhaps even today the LORD will return, and those who are CHRIST's will be resurrected at HIS coming, souls will be reunited with the bodies they once inhabited, and these corruptible bodies will be changed -- glorified -- "like unto HIS glorious body" (Philippians 3:20 pictured above). By raising the dead and establishing HIS kingdom, CHRIST will show to all that even in a fallen universe, HE is in control, and nothing can thwart HIS hand. Not even Satan can defeat HIM. HE will have the final WORD in all matters, and HIS sovereignty will be on display in a planet that has been the battlefield between the god of this world and the GOD of all glory. GDF
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie
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