The Book of Beginnings - Part 4
Matthew 13:34 & 35
New Life trans: "I will tell things which have been kept secret
from the beginning of the world."
Mess. B.: "I will open my mouth and tell stories;
I will bring out into the open
things hidden since the world's first day."
* Psalm 139:13 Mess. B: "..you shaped me first inside, then out."
That is God's way of doing things and He never changes!
Romans 1:20
So for God to shape (mature) His people...He would need an inside
(a within place) and a (without place). A environment that would be your
present world to prepare you for existence in another world, that is yet to come.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning of "time" an uncreated Being created and the
first thing that He created was "time." He just is! Always was, always will be!
Psalm 90.2
New Life trans.: "2 Before the mountains were born, before You gave birth to the earth and the world, forever and ever, You are God."
Psalm 104:24 In the beginning of "time" God opened up Himself . The
earth was filled with all that God is!
New Life trans.: "24 O Lord, how many are Your works! You made them all in wisdom.
The earth is full of what You have made.
Message Bible: "What a wildly wonderful world, God!
You made it all, with Wisdom at your side,
made earth overflow with your wonderful creations."
Watch the transition at the end of the Book -
Revelation 10:5-6 Time as we know it suddenly ceases!
Rev. 10:5 & 6 Worldwide English trans.: "5The angel that I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand toward the sky. 6He made a promise in the name of the one who lives for ever and ever. He made it in the name of the one who made the sky and everything in it, who made the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. He said, `There is no more time."
Why would time cease? Rev. 21:1 No more water needed and a whole new universe or a whole new world before us then what we have been accustomed to!
What happens when parents have a child? Their world is suddenly altogether different, is it not? For the child that was in the womb and for the parents as well.
Earth is God's training camp for man.....He is King of kings and Lord of lords, right? A ruler (which God is) can only give birth to what?
Matthew 19:28
Mess. B: " 28-30Jesus replied, "Yes, you have followed me. In the re-creation of the world, when the Son of Man will rule gloriously, you who have followed me will also rule, starting with the twelve tribes of Israel. And not only you, but anyone who sacrifices home, family, fields—whatever—because of me will get it all back a hundred times over, not to mention the considerable bonus of eternal life."
Existence in a place where "time" ceases to be, as we know it.
Acts 17:27 -29
Mess. B.: "We live and move in him, can't get away from him!"
NLT: "28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Worldwide Engl. trans.: "28 In him we live, and move, and are alive. Some of your own writers have said, "We have come from him".
We are in the womb of God being prepared for what is yet to be! How many times did Jesus say...I in you and you in Me?
When a child is to be delivered "there are birth pangs or birth pains." Even when you have victory over the pain...they are there!
Jesus talking here about what was to come for the people of the world:
Mark 13:8
Ampl. "8For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines and calamities. This is but the beginning of the intolerable anguish and suffering [only the first of the birth pangs].
And as time goes by....Jesus continues in His discourse here....
verse 19
Amp. verse 19 : "19For at that time there will be such affliction (oppression and tribulation) as has not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until this particular time--and positively never will be [again]."
What will come forth out of these birth pains...will be a new race of people. A people made in His image and in His likeness!
1 John 3:2
Amp.: "2 Beloved, we are [even here and] now God's children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God's children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is."
It's only at birth that the child gets to see the parent as they
really are!
1 John 4:12 Amp. - "12 No man has at any time [yet] seen God."
John 1:18
Amp. "18 No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known]."
I want you to see though that before the body or His creation could come forth out of the birth canal that "the Head" must go first.....
Romans 8:29
NLT: 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Jesus here talking about the new birth and it's importance -
Message Bible: John 3:5-6 Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the 'wind-hovering-over-the-water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it's not possible to enter God's kingdom. When you look at a baby, it's just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch—the Spirit—and becomes a living spirit."
The God that opened up Himself by giving birth to "the heaven and the earth". What is He truly like? Psalm 148:13
Mess. B: "His radiance exceeds anything in earth and sky."
Contemporary.B: "The glory of God is greater than heaven and earth."
New Life trans.: "His shining-greatness is above earth and heaven."
This is why no eye has seen what is yet to be....for as of yet God cannot be
compared to anyone nor anything that we know.....but...you are His offspring
being prepared for your future in the intimacy of His womb.
Psalm 139:7 "Where can I go from Your presence?"
Now, this scripture makes so much more sense...Matthew 23:37
Ampl. "37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!"
Worldwide Eng. trans: "37`Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You kill the prophets. You throw stones to kill the men who are sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your people together, as a mother hen gathers her little ones under her wings. But you would not come!"
In reference to our present world: Deut. 32:11 says this in Mess. B:
"He was like an eagle hovering over its nest,
overshadowing its young, Then spreading its wings, lifting them into the air,
teaching them to fly."
An explanation of the umbilical cord:
1 Corin. 8:6 Ampl. -"Yet for us there is [only] one God, the Father, Who is the Source
of all things and for Whom we [have life], and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through and by Whom are all things and through and by Whom we [ourselves exist]."
John 15:1, 4-6 ....a pretty good picture of afterbirth
Song of Solomon 2:4
Mess. B. - "All I want is to sit in his shade,
to taste and savor his delicious love.
He took me home with him for a festive meal,
but his eyes feasted on me! "
We get a picture of this in scripture when John the Apostle was lying on Jesus' bosom at the last supper. Because He stayed there all of the rest of His life....nothing could harm Him.
Isaiah 40:11 King James..."He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in His bosom."
This scripture makes a lot of sense now too. Isn't it what happens for
both the child and the parent after birth transpires: Isaiah 65:17
New Living trans.: 17 “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,
and no one will even think about the old ones anymore."
Contemporary trans.: "17 I am creating new heavens
and a new earth; everything of the past will be forgotten."
Message Bible of Isaiah 42:5-9 "God's Message,
the God who created the cosmos, stretched out the skies,
laid out the earth and all that grows from it,
Who breathes life into earth's people,
makes them alive with his own life."
Isn't that what a mother does in the womb?
Purpose for this message:
Too often we think this or feel this by what we see before us:
Isaiah 49:14-15
Mess. Bible: 14But Zion said, "I don't get it. God has left me.
My Master has forgotten I even exist."
15-18"Can a mother forget the infant at her breast,
walk away from the baby she bore?
But even if mothers forget,
I'd never forget you—never.
NLT: "14 Yet Jerusalem[a] says, “The Lord has deserted us;
the Lord has forgotten us.”
15 “Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child?
Can she feel no love for the child she has borne?
But even if that were possible,
I would not forget you!"
When a child is born there is blood everywhere....in the battle of Armageddon there is blood everywhere...to the horses bridle!
When a mother is pregnant...rest doesn't come easily.....
Genesis 2:1 & 2/ John 5:17
Amen tonight!
