Genesis 1:1, 2 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of
the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters”
This shows the creation and the
power of the Almighty God. Before all these were made, there was the word of
God. John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the word, and the word
was with God, and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him
all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made”.
This word is Jesus Christ. John 1:14
– “The word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son,
who came from the Father, full of grace and truth”.
God created the heavens and the
earth. Heavens is plural. That means it is not only one heaven, you can expect
different types of heaven. In the book of Psalm
102:25 it says, “In the beginning you
laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands”.
There are people who have asked me whether there is only one heaven or not?
That time I started thinking about it and then when I read Genesis 1:1, I wanted to explore more, since each and every word in
the Bible has meaning. So according to studies from sources and the verses,
there are 3 heavens.
God is in the 3rd
heaven, since in 1st and 2nd heaven described in the
Bible, you can’t find God. Of course the Spirit of God is there everywhere. God
is seated in the Heaven and we can find it in Psalm 2:4 “The one enthroned
in heaven laughs”. Now in which heaven God is seated? Definitely he will be
seated at the highest one. 1 Kings 8:27
say, “But will God really dwell on earth?
The heavens, even the highest heaven cannot contain you”. This heaven is
termed as “Paradise” where Paul was
taken according to 2 Corinthians 12: 2
– “I know a man in Christ who 14 years
ago was caught up to the 3rd heaven. Whether it was in the body or
out of the body I do not know – God knows”.
The 2nd heaven is
referred to the outer space. It is where the sun, moon and the stars reside.
The Bible mentions about this in Mathew
24: 29, Deuteronomy 17: 3 and Jeremiah 8: 2 are some. “They will be exposed to the sun and the moon
and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which
they have followed and consulted and worshipped”. God created all the
objects in this heaven. Scientists are exploring new objects in this heaven
every day. “The heavens declare the glory
of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands” – Psalm 19:1. Just a word of God, still now heavenly objects are
being created. How powerful is God’s word? Same God loves you and me.
The 1st heaven is the
atmosphere around the earth, which is the immediate sky. In Genesis 1:14 (KJV) it says, “And God said, let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs; and for seasons, and for days, and years”. It consists of the clouds
and the atmosphere, until we come to the stars. In describing the rain that
brought the flood on Noah’s time in Genesis
7:11, it says, “On that day all the
springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were
opened”. Again it is mentioned to confirm the 1st heaven in Genesis 7:19 – “They (water) rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains
under the entire heavens were covered”.
There is the worldly finding from
NASA as the world came from a “Big Bang”. According the Bible teachers, yes it
has come a billion years ago. It was created by the word of God. That word of
God is the Big Bang. The proof is, the bible mentions about how the world ends.
The world’s end is mentioned in Revelation
16: 17-21 “The 7th angel
poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from
the throne, saying, it’s done. Then there came flashes of lightning, rumbling,
peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred
since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. The great city
split into 3 parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered
Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his
wrath. Every Island fled away and the mountains could not be found. From the
sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people.”
If God can end the world with a Bang, he is the one who made the world with a
Bang. According to the NASA findings, the age of the world is more than millions
of years. Bible scholars have found out through the scriptures that, yes the
world was formed millions of years. Even the earth was formed millions of years
back. Then what was the earth for? You can find in the next verse – Genesis 1:2.
2nd verse explains
about darkness covering the earth. Scholars teaches us that this was the time
when Lucifer, the Satan rebelled against God and was thrown out of the heaven.
They further teach us that initially Earth was made to put Satan inside it.
Earth was made for the fallen Angel. “Thou
hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the
iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of
thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in
the sight of all them that behold thee” – Ezekiel 28: 18. That is the reason why Satan told Jesus to bow before
him to get everything as it is his property. “The devil took him (Jesus) to a very high mountain and showed him all
the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. All this I give you he said, if
you will bow down and worship me” – Mathew
4: 8, 9.
Just the first 2 verse of Bible
contains an encyclopaedia of things to study. This proves how great our God is.
This great powerful God, left his glory, came to the Earth and became as an
ultimate sacrifice for our sin to make us free. How do you respond to it? Would
you say yes to Lord?
Prayer
Loving Heavenly Father, Lord you created the heavens and the earth by a
word. You are the creator of everything. Thank you Lord for blessing me with
the salvation and forgiving my sins. Thank you for dying for me on the cross,
leaving your Heavenly greatness. Please cast out all the diseases and curses
from me and my family and help me to be your vessel to bring your Kingdom on this
earth. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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