1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
Yesterday we completed the final chapter of Revelation and today will begin to study Genesis chapters 1-3 verse by verse. This will be an interesting chance to examine the beginnings after recently studying the end-times. A good reason to do this is that the beginning of history points to and explains the consummation of history. Notice in this first verse of Genesis that it is God that creates. It is part of God’s very nature to create, God is and so He creates. Also too notice that heaven and earth were created. It is God that has no beginning or end. Everything else is created, everything. And so from the beginning there is a distinction between the Creator and the created. This distinction should lead to worship of the Creator by the created. The distinction also should frame our perspective. God is before all things and so He knows. God as creator is therefore also all knowing. So God’s opinion is fact and therefore truth.
Yesterday we completed the final chapter of Revelation and today will begin to study Genesis chapters 1-3 verse by verse. This will be an interesting chance to examine the beginnings after recently studying the end-times. A good reason to do this is that the beginning of history points to and explains the consummation of history. Notice in this first verse of Genesis that it is God that creates. It is part of God’s very nature to create, God is and so He creates. Also too notice that heaven and earth were created. It is God that has no beginning or end. Everything else is created, everything. And so from the beginning there is a distinction between the Creator and the created. This distinction should lead to worship of the Creator by the created. The distinction also should frame our perspective. God is before all things and so He knows. God as creator is therefore also all knowing. So God’s opinion is fact and therefore truth.
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