CREATION – ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE

   So, you do not believe in the creation of the heaven and the earth.! So, you think that makes no difference! Just who is your God, then? Jesus IS GOD in the Flesh. Jesus is not another Being. He created every thing, “All things were made by Him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3). “Him” is Jesus (John 1:14). Therefore, If you do not believe in God, you cannot believe in Jesus because when you see Jesus, He is God that you are seeing (John 14:9). Now for today’s passages:

KEY VERSES: ¹² And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; ¹³ And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. ¹⁴ And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places… ¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Rev 6:12-14,17)

  On that Great and Terrible Day, the wrath of God will show them just who IS Creator! “The heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together.” That seems to show, not who is the Creator, but that God can also destroy. Now compare that process to the Creation:

²¹Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: ²³ That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. (Isa 40:21-23)

  The wrath of God after the last “seal” is broken results in the end of existence for the unrighteous.  What God stretched out as a “curtain,” in the beginning will be rolled up as a “scroll.” The wrath of God is the reversal of the generation process.

  On the fourth “day” God made the heavens (Gen 1:14). That was the age when He stretched the cosmos out as a tent to dwell in. The celestial sphere is concentric to the earth and is as old as existence itself. It forms a dome (firmament) from wherever a person stands on Earth, like a dome-shaped tent. As a tent (tabernacle) the Earth was created as a place to worship God. When the time comes that He is not worshipped in Spirit and in Truth, then the cosmic tent will be put away, so to speak. God will roll it up as a scroll just as He unfurled it as a curtain. (Note that the dome of the celestial sphere appears to be a flat screen because distance makes depth seem flat).

  There is much speculation about the seals. However, the sixth seal is perhaps the end of six-thousand ages. It took six ages to ready the void for mankind, and surely six ages to tear it down. Peter referred to the sacred writings of Enoch when he wrote, “Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Pet 3:8). That cannot be thrown out as metaphor or rhetoric. It is there for a reason! Peter was referring to the sixth seal. He was speaking of how long God would keep the Earth before it is destroyed. It would be thousands of years; six thousand to be precise.

  The time is at hand. The Jewish year in 2021 is 5781 AM. It is near the end of “day” six, or the end of the six-thousandth-year of the world. God’s day of wrath when He rolls up our tent, the cosmos, is at hand.

  Do not count on the Jewish calendar as being accurate to the year or even the century; it may be today! Look around you; is it not as in the days of Noah when “the windows of heaven were opened” (Gen 7:11), you know, the windows that the curtain covered! The first harbinger was drawing the curtains of heaven and opening its windows. That was a warning for the coming destruction when the heavens ae rolled-up and put away.

  According to Masoretic text the windows were opened on “day” two — 1656 AM (Anno Mundi, the year of the world). That was four “days” ago in God’s time. The Great and Terrible Day is the time of salvation for the righteous and the time of perishing for the unrighteous.

  Anno Mundi was not based on the year of the world but the birth of Adam for whose kind the world was created. God promised Adam, according to sacred literature (Books of Adam and Eve), 5-1/2 days or 5500  years before he is saved. Is that 5500 years until Jesus died for him or is it 5500 days until Adam is glorified at the rapture? Apparently, the rapture is on day six, and the millennial reign of Jesus on day seven, where that “day” interval is one -thousand year, or one millennium.

  That makes sense with the sixth seal as well. The heavens will be rolled up before Jesus’s Millennial Reign. Genesis 3:15 was fulfilled 2021-33=1999 years ago, or two “days.” There are inaccuracies due to many things, it seems that we are nearer the time of our salvation than when we first believed (Rom 13:11).

  The crucial point, though, is that to believe in God’s Plan for our future, we must believe in God’s Plan from the beginning. He will undo what He has done, and rather than make it “very good” (Gen 1:31), it will be made entirely good to perfection. What was not so good about the Creation? Satan sneaked into the Garden, unaware to Adam and Eve, to harm them. When the re-genesis occurs, cherubim will still be there guarding entry to Paradise just as in the beginning (Gen 3:24) and in the ending (Rev 4:6).

(picture credit: Pinteest; "Heavens Rolled Up as a Scroll")