A brief history on the other side of Jordan:
💥 John 1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by HIM (the Word); and without HIM (the Word) was not any thing made that was made. 4 In HIM (the Word) was life; and the life was the light of men.
There they were together: God and The Word
God spoke ... and by the Word "it" was created instantly.
(They
didn't have to go out and gather materials to create. There were no
materials. The materials were there the second the object was created.
The Word caused both the materials and the object to appear from
nothing.)
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Everything
that was created was created by the Word spoken by God. The Word was
with God from the beginning and when God spoke, that thing spoken was
done!
When God spoke that which was created appeared by the Word spoken.
So God said: Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
God and the Word were there together and when God spoke, The Word caused it to happen.
"The
Word" who was with God was later sent to earth in the human form as a
man and was called "Jesus". At first God and The Word were spirits.
Today they are together in heaven again and are spirits.
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God and The Word created the heaven and earth ... God and The Word
created all plants and all animals ... God and The Word created the man
and then the woman in the image of God and set the man and woman to rule
on the earth ... and God creates all they will need to sustain life in
their environment.
"And God saw that it was good." (Gen. 1:10)
Genesis 1:25 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.
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The commandment of God and the disobedience of the human to God's Word:
26 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.
27 So God created man in HIS own image, in the image of God created HE him; male and female created HE them.
28 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.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that HE had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The human had all he needed to sustain life.
God created a perfect environment for the human.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
God has created everything needed by man to sustain life and it is perfect.
Genesis 2
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there HE put the man whom HE had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
This
is the commandment God gave to the man and he told his wife. Then she
listened to Satan's reasoning and her own desire to be wise in her own
eyes, not needing God's wisdom, was
her major downfall and became the downfall for all creation. She ate
of the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband to eat and God put
penalties on all humans as a result and also on Satan.
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Disobedience to God's word:
Genesis 3
(Notice how twisted the devil speaks.)
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Eve added to God's word. When you do this you cannot stand because inwardly you know only part of what you say is true. Therefore you cannot stand.)
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Eve added to God's word. When you do this you cannot stand because inwardly you know only part of what you say is true. Therefore you cannot stand.)
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
God's
creation was very good. Perfect. The sun, the moon the stars stayed
in the place God put them but the humans and Satan fell through
disobedience. They wanted to be their own God. They even want to be
above God. This resulted in the need for a better covenant. Jesus
Christ came to die and HIS blood paid for our sins. They had the Old
Covenant but they couldn't obey it either. God set in place a new
covenant where HE would put a new heart in us and a new Spirit, HIS own
heart and Spirit so we then could obey HIM.
So
by the transgression of one, sin came upon all men from Adam and Eve on
to the end of the world. Obedience also comes by one, Jesus Christ.
Through Jesus, The Word, God made a way for humans to be saved.
Ezekiel 36 (God says)
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.
28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be MY people, and I will be your God.
Hebrews 8 (The New Covenant through Jesus)
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, HE saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
(Through the promise to Abraham, God also gave salvation through Jesus to the Gentiles, to all other nations: Genesis 12 Now
the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew
thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will
bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Jews and Gentiles) 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; )
Hebrews 8
Hebrews 8
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Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they continued not in MY covenant, and I regarded them not,
saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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As
long as we live on this earth we are created over and over in the image
of Christ, by that Word which God speaks to us by HIS Spirit.
God's chosen people were first Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (His children, the 12 tribes of Israel),
Joseph ... then 400 years in Egypt ... then deliverance from Egypt with
Moses leading. Then God gave the tribes of Israel their own lands
after HE brought them out of Egypt. Jesus
came to earth and shed HIS own blood for our sins. Jesus sits as the
right hand of God in heaven and calls HIS own people and sets HIS own
ministers in the Church of the New Covenant. And from one
generation to another we go to God through Jesus all over this world ...
then comes the end of this world and the new heaven and new earth
wherein dwelleth righteous. The believers in Jesus will be taken there
and live there with God and with Jesus for all eternity.
But everything has to do with the Word.
Jesus says:
John 14
2 In MY Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME.
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