Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

John 1:1 In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God

The First Cause is God Who was not caused.

Once upon in the eternity of God, the Causeless, there was no element, no sub-and-atomic particles – no existence except God. Then God created time; God entered time; God created in time.

The earth, as we know it, is part of a well arranged galaxy called the Milky Way, which is about 100,000 light year broad, containing about twenty clusters of galaxies, each with its own planets, stars, gas and moons. They have a concatenation of gravitational influences on one another. It means that each planet, for example, is able to maintain its elliptical path because of neighbouring planets and stars and objects – otherwise, a total collapse of the system. The earth is able to maintain its path in space due to influences of its gravity pulls on some planets and stars and also due to the forces of these celestial bodies on it. The Milky Way is a small part of a eerie whorl of arranged galaxies in space. All of creation is in place because of the earth. All of the earth is in place because of man. All of man is in place because of Christ – the template of “our form and likeness.” Man is to display God, Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature. For him (Christ) were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him and for him (Colossians 1:14-16). And he is before all things and in him all things consists (verse 17). God, the First Cause brought all things into being for His own self. Here is not trying to attempt to teach the orders of creation. No. But we do know that there were many beginnings in the Holy Scripture. There is a phrase of before the foundation of the world or before the world began. There is a foundation beginning that predated that of Genesis. In Genesis, we see the Creator Who was the Godhead. However, the job of creation in Job was witnessed by some creatures. Which is to prove that before man came to become, there were some beings who predated him. Where was thou when I laid the foundation of the earth?… Who hath laid the measure thereof…? Where upon are the foundations thereof fastened? When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy (Job 38:4-7). In the creation of the earth, recorded here, the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy when they beheld the beautiful planet earth placed in space. This was before the creation activities of Genesis.

In the New Testament writings, we even have curious glimpses to before the foundation of the world. We want to deal with three items before the foundation of the world. 

1. God loved and bestowed glory on the Lord Jesus Christ before the world began. The Lord Himself prayed for the disciples “… that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world (John 17:24) and He also prayed to be glorified with “the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5).

2. Then there is the mystery. Apostle Paul writes of the”revelation of mystery kept since the world began” (Romans 16:25). In another place, he tags it the “mystery of Christ (Ephesians 3:4); and, yet in another place, it’s “the mystery which had been hid from ages and from all generations” (Colossians 1:26). And as if to complete the mystery, the Book of Revelations speaks of the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelations 13:8).

Jesus Christ, the Creator, was ordained before the world began to become the Secret Mystic of God, to bring about brethren like Himself, to flag off a race. The expected race of man failed in the First Adam. The Last Adam, answering His foreordination, stepped in as the Heaven through which a new race of man would come. The plan, coming off from the ages, wasn’t known to any creature (which was why it’s called mystery), not even to the Angel that stands before God. Christ wasn’t only a mystery on earth, He was a puzzle to heaven and angels as well. Heaven and earth never knew the mystic man until He happened on earth. He came on the scene to take on Himself the punishment of the judgement due to man, thereby bringing reconciliation between God and man. By Him, God became able to be just (righteous) and yet be able to justify man. Concerning the mysterious moves of God in the ages, James writes: “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world” (Acts 15:18).

 

Father, the Just and the Justifier of the sinner, we say thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ, the de-mystificator of the eternal Mystery, our Saviour. By Him we have been reconciled to You. In Him we live, we move and we have our being.

Thank You, Lord