In the Beginning...

Without a beginning there will be no end, process that for a minute and the penny should drop, helping us understand God as an eternal being. God had no beginning and therefore can have no end. That which doesn’t exist can never be because it has no beginning until HE who IS, the creator of all things brings that into being. But He is the great “I AM”! A complete mystery, He who has no beginning and yet His existence, a fact obvious to all, for He has given us creation, which proves His presence; “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:19-20)  

 

The man Jesus had a beginning and the more I consider it, the further my mind is sent into orbit. The lengths God went too to rescue his creation from certain destruction. God became a man, live in a body that had a beginning and an end, to save the sinner and restore Satan’s shakedown.

Let me pose a question, consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the fields and what do we see? We behold the brilliance of God’s creation. God spoke creation into being, He has the power to perform such brilliance and it all happened in the beginning…” That exactly how the bible opens; “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”  (Genesis 1:1) - Make no mistake the world as we know it will come to its end. Plant as many trees as you like or recycle as much as you will, God will destroy this earth and replace it with a new one. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.” (Revelation 21:1) – God alone has it in his power to implement such an act, He holds the privilege to that right as Creator regardless of the world’s diverse opinionated voices. At the end of the day they will carry very little weight, God always has the final say. Get in line with his objectives or pay the price, period! It’s always been death that’s ushered in life; “But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.” (1Corinthians 15:35-36)   

 

Everything as we know it will come to an end, but not that which is spiritual, that part of God’s creation appears to be locked into the eternal realm. If we settle on this, it should help us wrap our heads around certain truths concerning eternity.

 

Now let us consider the Garden of Eden; Adam was created and then Eve with the potential of an eternal existence at their fingertips. God had planted the tree of life in the mist of the Garden and yet they never ate from it. Their minds had not yet managed the meaning of death. But once they had eaten from the tree of the “Knowledge of Good and Evil” death became their reality and now they wanted to live. So in order for the fruits of sin not to have eternal reign God protects the tree of life, that now becomes the forbidden fruit; “He drove out the man, and at the east of the Garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.” (Genesis 3:24) – God will not permit sin to be an everlasting fruit tainting His Holiness. The rule of sin will have its end just as it had its beginning. Interestingly enough sin was conceived in the spiritual realm, a time when Satan rebelled against God and convinced one third of the angels to follow him.  

 

The Lord Jesus reversed the curse through His achievement and all those covered by his sacrifice have been sanctified in his accomplishments, not our own feeble attempt to find favour with God. But for those not covered by His righteousness their rule will have its end in the Lake of Fire. A place prepared for the devil and his angels; “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Matthew 25:41)  

 

The brilliance of Gods plan for rescue is found in the Lord Jesus Christ, the man. It’s what he achieved that offers rescue to whoever would dare to call upon Him for release. Although he had a beginning and an end; he was born miraculously. God the Holy Spirit impregnated a virgin Girl, he was conceived, went through a normal nine month cycle in the womb and birthed like every other baby, he then lived a life of complete obedience to His Father, died a cruel Roman death, crucified for a penalty he never committed and because of his perfect work on earth, God raised him from the dead. He is now seated in heaven with a glorified body at the right hand of God the Father. A phenomenal consideration, God placing himself in a position of vulnerability as he took a flesh and blood body with the possibility of failure. The enemy objective whilst in this state, was to get Jesus to sin, which he never achieved, praise the name of Jesus now and forever more, Amen and Amen! Without this achievement all of mankind would be doomed to a pitiful state of eternal torment in the Lake of Fire. Jesus defeated the last enemy, death! Because of his brilliant achievement, millions will be rescued from that punishment, WOW! I hope this truth blows your minds into orbit and beyond.  

 

With this now understood what is left for mankind to do? Individually what must we do? It is simple; “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”” (Romans 10:13) we must call out for rescue or pay the eternal price of torment in the Lake of Fire as there will be no state of Limbo as some suggest. You see, there is a register in heaven known as the book of life and without our names penned into that book we will be doomed to eternal damnation. The only way we reverse that sentence is to cry out to Jesus for rescue; “And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”  (Revelation 20:15) – If your name is not etched into the book of life you are doomed to eternal torment, be sure!

 

Christian as the screws tighten, take encouragement, not far from now we will see our glorious Saviour and receive a body like his and what a day that will be and although that will have its beginning it will have no end as it resides in the spiritual world. The misconception of the thought “here today, gone tomorrow” is a lie.

 

“To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.” 

 

Signing off

 

Tyrone