Summary: We begin with Man in Eden and progress through the timing of man’s creation and the new heaven and new earth, and the New Jerusalem. We look at the great statement, “It is done.” Part 5 draws to a close all that has gone before.

MAN HAS TWISTED, CONTORTED, INVERTED, AND OPPOSED ALL GOD’S CREATION – PART 5 – GENESIS CHAPTERS 1 and 2

This message will bring to an end the series looking at the first two chapters of Genesis to see how everything God instituted and created has been set aside by sinful man who has twisted and opposed all that God did. Satan is the great deceiver and his delusion has spread its blanket across mankind to turn men’s hearts and minds from God. we have looked so far at the creation of the universe, evolution, destruction of gender, abortion and other matters. We continue in this next article.

Remember that I am using irony and sarcasm here and there throughout the series. After the Genesis reference the opposition and sarcasm is contained in inverted commas and [[ ]] and italics.

THE ELEVENTH MATTER

{{Genesis 1:31 “God saw all that He had made and behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD, and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”}}

[[“NO IT IS NOT GOOD. We reject this notion of God and the bible. It is for old women. Fairy tales. We follow science and listen to our environmental leaders. There is no god anyway. We only need to look at the earth to see how bad it is so god lied to us.”]]

Make no mistake about it all you humanists, socialists, atheists, environmentalists (in the sense of worshipping nature and locking the earth down), Christ-haters and haters of what’s good, a day of reckoning is coming and the wrath of God will burst over this earth. You give God no options. Either repent from your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour or you will meet the wrath of God that is coming soon.

When we examine those first 28 verses in Genesis 1, we see in ALL of them man rejects what God says, and inserts the exact opposite. Everything that is of God this world overturns. It is a serious issue, for God is not mocked. God says, “Let there be light,” but the wicked people on earth say, “Let there be darkness.” The evil of people’s hearts betrays them. He who is not for Christ, is against Him. All scripture is given through inspiration from God, and he who dismisses scripture dismisses God and heads towards hell.

This ends our thoughts in Chapter 1 but there are three more things I wish to do.

[A]. THE TWELFTH MATTER

{{Genesis 2:7 “Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING.”}}

[[“That is utter nonsense. Man is not made of dust. He is a complex mix of chemicals developed over millions of years from pond slime and a tiny amoeba that began it all. The people who wrote the bible knew nothing about science. Let us honour science for it is our guiding light.”]]

Listen to the wisdom of fallen man! This is what you get when you dismiss God – [[“In biology, the origin of life is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities on Earth was not a single event, but a process of increasing complexity involving the formation of a habitable planet.”]] Well, there you have it, and there is a special name for that theorised process of God rejection – it is called “abiogenesis”.

The great problem atheists and mockers have is the very one Paul wrote of in Hebrews – {{Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” AND Hebrews 11:6 “Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.”}}

This chapter contains the expression “By faith” at least 17 times, and that is the secret of understanding and wisdom. The unbeliever will not exercise faith either because he thinks it is stupid and simplistic or he can not accept God to start with. How do we accept Genesis chapter 1? By faith, and by no other means though it is interesting that some science can confirm what is written in Genesis.

Hebrews 11:3 is very interesting. The NASB says the WORLDS were prepared by the word of God. “Universe” is a better translation. The word “prepared” means “It represents the having been created at the same time as a having been placed in a completed or perfect condition. Strongs Concordance adds - “I prepare, perfect, for his (its) full destination or use, bring into its proper condition (whether for the first time, or after a lapse)”

There is none of this big, chaotic bang here. God completed the universe in a perfect and proper condition. We accept that by faith. The very God who created the universe by speaking the word is the same God who called Lazarus to come out of the tomb. It will be the same God who will one day speak the new heaven and new earth into existence.

[B]. THE THIRTEENTH MATTER

{{Genesis 2:8 “The LORD God planted a garden toward the east IN EDEN, and there He placed the man whom He had formed,

Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and PUT HIM INTO THE GARDEN OF EDEN to cultivate it and keep it,”}}

[[“That is a fairy tale for children to do colouring in. It is mythical and fanciful. There was no god to begin with and we all know how man came to be and it was not anything to do with some god or garden.”]]

God spoke the universe into existence but in Eden He planted a garden. It had to be done with perfection. That garden was Eden and was located in the Tigris/Euphrates area. This is what God did. Eden was God’s earthly perfection, the perfection of God in creation. In Genesis the earthly Eden (a homophonous root meaning “delight”, or from Summerian “edin” meaning a plain or steppe, or from the Akkadian “edinu”) was the perfection of creation for man. Eden is translated “paradeisos by the LXX (Septuagint) which comes from the Old Persian “pairidaeza” (park, pleasure ground) which in time became “paradise” in English. I do not think the Eden of Ezekiel is at all related to the Genesis Eden but is the special created setting God made for Lucifer.

Nearly all DNA testing companies like to trace back DNA to migration routes with developed haplogroups. According to these companies, and also promoted by evolutionists, man’s origin was from central Africa and the name Lucy is given to some original ape-like ancestor. Christians just can not believe that for it immediately negates Genesis, and is yet another example of the twisting and distortion and rejection of scripture. Some people in churches claim to accept theistic evolution, in other words God used evolution to make Adam or they just dismiss Genesis altogether as myth or legend.

It is amazing what fertile minds of godly rejection can contrive, and when it comes to the origin of man, theories and speculations run amuck. Most of these so-called scientists and anthropologists don’t agree but are like free spirits running around all with different fancies like headless chooks. Here is what “Dr Google” said on 28 October 2019 – [[“A new study suggests that the earliest anatomically modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in what was once a vast wetland that sprawled across Botswana in southern Africa. Later shifts in climate opened up green corridors to the northeast and southwest, leading our ancestors to spread through Africa.”]]

Cited studies done by many world universities feature in an article in Science.org and I quote just a sample for man’s origin –

[[“Specifically, Hayes and her colleagues argue that the homeland was in what is now the Kalahari region of northern Botswana. Although the Kalahari is mostly desert and salt flats today, it was a lush wetland from 200,000 to 130,000 years ago near what would have been the largest lake in Africa, according to climate data and simulations in the study.

The team proposes that people with the L0 mtDNA (Mitochondrial DNA) thrived in their Kalahari homeland until about 130,000 to 110,000 years ago, when CLIMATE CHANGE opened green corridors to the northeast and southwest. Some individuals left their homeland and evolved new mtDNA lineages that the team identifies.”]]

Ahh, good old CLIMATE CHANGE! Just blame all man’s problems on climate change. What does God call all these proposals from humanists about man’s origin? He calls them this – {{Colossians 2:4 “I say this in order that no one may DELUDE YOU WITH PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT” Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND EMPTY DECEPTION, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” AND 1Corinthians 2:6-7 “Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, A WISDOM, HOWEVER, NOT OF THIS AGE, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away, but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory –“}}

[C]. THE TIME OF MAN’S CREATION

A few things in closing. I make no apology, nor spread any seeds of doubt about the creation of man and woman – male and female – the time frame being fairly close to 6000 years ago. I think those who would extend man’s origin right out have serious issues with the chronology of the word of God. I refer only to the creation of man and woman, not to the universe.

There are approximately 2000 years between Adam and Abraham and about 2000 years between Abraham and the Lord Jesus. There is almost 2000 years from the crucifixion (I believe that to be AD 29 or 30) to us today. That is 6000 years - and 1000 years remain for the Millennium to bring us to 7000 years, 7 being God’s perfect number and the number of completion.

You don’t have to agree with me, but neither do I think Christians who hold literally to the bible can disagree with that. Skeptical man has opposed, twisted distorted and confused all aspects of the creation that God did so perfectly. Yes there are two camps – those who are in God’s will and those outside His will. Those outside will continue to contrive all sorts of demonic and humanistic proposals. Be steadfast in the word of God and don’t let the world’s philosophy turn you from the bible. Amen.

[D]. THE NEW CREATION

When God finished His creation in the six days, He said, “It was very good.” Genesis 1:31. However there remains yet another creation in the future. It will be as glorious as the first one but this second creation will be permanent and sinless and perfect in every way. God’s glory is largely unknown to us until such times as we are in the very presence of our Saviour. Then we will know what true glory is, and in the new creation we will understand and appreciate that glory.

Let us look at the relevant passage – {{Revelation 21:1 “I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.”}}

Following the Rapture of the Church, there is a terrible time of 7 years on the earth during which Antichrist and the False prophet have control but at the end of the seven years the Lord returns at the Second Coming with His Church, to the battle of Armageddon. Then He sets up His Millennial Kingdom on earth – {{Revelation 20:6 “Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ AND WILL REIGN WITH HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.”}} During that thousand year reign, Satan is chained in the abyss – {{Revelation 20:2-3 “and he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed. After these things he must be released for a short time.”}}

At the end of the 1000 years there is a short satanic revolt and Satan is cast into the lake of fire. Then the serious matter of the great white throne occurs for all the unsaved of all the ages.

Straight after that The Lord will create the new heaven and new earth. Man has destroyed the earth and put his space items in space but God will create in pristine order. We can’t wait for that time! It will be beyond our comprehension. Man will never again destroy or twist or distort any of God handiwork for sin will be gone forever.

[E]. THE NEW JERUSALEM

Right on the heels of the creation of the new heaven and earth, a marvellous thing happens. It is described this way - Revelation 21:2-6 and I saw THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be among them, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall no longer be any death. There shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. The first things have passed away.” He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new,” and He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” He said to me, “IT IS DONE. I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.”}}

I do not want to explore all this at the present time except to say that I believe the New Jerusalem will be the home of the Bride, the Church. It is immense, a cube whose side is 1 500 miles. Imagine a creation of God being 1 500 miles or 2 400 kilometres high sitting on the new earth.

Only two last things I will say. Think about this verse – {{Revelation 21:6 He said to me, “IT IS DONE. I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. . . .”}}

1. IT IS DONE. You know, this will end all God’s creation unless He has glorious things still unrevealed. There was another time this expression “It is done – It is finished,” was used and that was at the cross. The suffering and death at the cross sealed the New Covenant that is eternal and glorious. The last of God’s creation will also be eternal and glorious.

2. ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. This takes us back to a verse that opens Revelation – {{Revelation 1:8 “I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” AND {{Revelation 1:17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as a dead man, and He laid His right hand upon me saying, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last.”}} Our glorious Lord Jesus Christ began the creation in Genesis 1:1 and ends it here in Revelation 21:6

it is just marvellous the way matters are introduced in Genesis and they are all wrapped up in Revelation. In the meantime fallen man under the influence and delusion of Satan has created chaos and ruin on this earth. Man acting outside the will of God is not capable of acting according to truth. He destroys himself.

How blessed are those in the Lord Jesus Christ who have an inheritance beyond description, who did not deserve the good things of God, but love and grace gave them to us. Let us praise the name of our dear Saviour who will bring about all His purposes of glory to the earth and the heavens.

Amen and Amen.

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