WHY Genesis ?

[Berean]

Hi to all,

Why Genesis?
This booklet was originally presented as a sermon on April 4, 1901. It shows that there was a reason for the writing out of the book of Genesis at the time of the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt. It was not done merely because they were starting to lose their knowledge of the past, but for a much greater reason.

That reason, Jones argues, was because their deliverance was to be accomplished by the creative power of God, and so they needed to become acquainted with that power, as revealed in the creation of the world.

Furthermore, the creative power of God is revealed again in the presentation of the final gospel message to the world (see Revelation 14:6,7). Therefore, we also need to become acquainted with the power of creation, and how that power works for our salvation and the final display of the gospel. 21p

Contents

1-When was Genesis Written?
2-Where Did God Want to Bring Them?
3-Organized by Creation
4-The People Choose Man’s Organization
5-The Church Organized by God’s Creation
6-The Creation to be Finished
7-Genesis Written For Us
8-God Creates Us Anew
9-God’s Way of Organizing
10-The Brooding Holy Spirit
11-Successive Creations
12-Finding the Spoken Word
13-The Sabbath a Seal of Perfection

 

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Why Genesis?
THE book of Genesis gives the history, the means, and the
process of creation. But that book was not written at cre￾ation. I call your attention now to that fact, and want you to think for a while upon the meaning of that fact. I will state it
again:

The first chapter of Genesis gives
the history, the means,
and the process of creation;
but it was not written at creation.
Then is it not plain that, since the account of creation was
not written at creation, but a long time afterward, there was a
purpose in the writing of it beyond its being only a record of
creation?
If the 1st chapter of Genesis had been written the next day
after creation, it might be said that the primary purpose of the
writing of it, was to give men an account of creation, but
since it was not written until nearly two thousand years after￾ward, it must be plain that, since the people all this time had
gotten along without any written record of creation, the pri￾mary purpose of the written record was beyond—the same
thing, and more—than to tell how creation was wrought.
For if I could get along all right for forty years without a
certain record, and then God should cause that record to be
written for me, would it not be plain that I need that record
for something more than simply the record?
When was Genesis Written?
When was Genesis written? Genesis was written by Moses
during the forty years he was keeping the sheep of his father in-law; but that was after the message had come to bring the people out of Egypt.
The Lord had called Moses to deliver the people, but Moses
had not yet learned just how. He made a mistake at the very
start, and had to take forty years of instruction before this deliverance could be wrought; and in this forty years he wrote
the book of Genesis.
The book of Genesis was, therefore, written at the time of
coming out of Egypt, when God was to deliver His people
from Egypt and set them a light in the world for all the world forever.
Where Did God Want to Bring Them?
Look now in the 15th chapter of Exodus—the Song of Moses
and the children of Israel after the crossing of the Red Sea; for
that gives to us the statement of what it was to which God
was bringing His people when He brought them out of Egypt.
Exodus 15:13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which You
have redeemed, You have guided them in your strength unto
your holy habitation.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them: by the greatness of
your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people
pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which You have
purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
your inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which You have made
for yourself to dwell in; in the sanctuary, O Lord, which your
hands have established.
This is emphasized in Revelation 15, in the record of that
company which stands on the sea of glass,
Revelation 15:2
…having the harps of God,…[and who] had gotten the vic￾tory over the beast and over his image, and over his mark,
and over the number of his name,
[singing] the song of Moses the servant of God.

First, “You shall bring them into your holy habitation”—to
the place where God himself dwells; secondly, into “the
mountain of your inheritance”—the land of God’s inheritance,
“in the place, O Lord, which You have made for yourself to
dwell in.”
Revelation 21 describes this same thing. The time comes
when it is said,
Revelation 21
3
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God him￾self shall be with them, and be their God.
“In the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have estab￾lished.” This is the heavenly sanctuary, for
Hebrews 8:1
…of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We
have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched, and not man.
In Acts 7, it is said,
Acts 7
17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God
had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in
Egypt.
Then the deliverance came. God had sworn to Abraham,
and had promised to give his seed the land which he saw, the
world to come.
Exodus 6:2
And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the
Lord:
3
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob,
by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was not known to them.

4
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage,
wherein they were strangers.
5
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
6
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord,
and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
7
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a
God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, which
brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which
I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and
I will give it you for a heritage: I am the Lord.
When God gave that promise to Abraham and gave His
oath, it was to Abraham and his seed: not to the seed without
Abraham, or to Abraham without his seed. So when God was
to bring them into the land which He swore unto Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob to give it to them, they were all to be together.
God was to bring all of his people into the inheritance.
Whether it would happen immediately or in process of time,
is not material. The great object which God had in bringing
the people of Israel out of Egypt was to bring them into the
land which He had sworn to give to Abraham, and that land
He says, is His holy habitation, the place which He made for
himself to dwell in, the mountain of His own inheritance, and
in the sanctuary which His own hands had established.
Since that was God’s object in bring the people out of
Egypt, and that promise to Abraham is the new earth which
God will create, do you not see the object in the giving of Genesis then?

 

To be continued

God bless

[Berean]

<h3><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>FOLLOWING OF </span></h3>
<h3><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>           WHY GENESIS ? </span></h3>
<span style=”color: #0000ff;”>          Organized by Creation</span>

<span style=”color: #0000ff;”><b>
</b></span>It was so that they should become acquainted with creation,
with creative power, so that God by His creative power might
recreate them and bring them into the new world, which He
was to create and give to Abraham, according to that whichHe had promised him.
The object of God’s giving Genesis just then was that the
people might be prepared for the work which He had to do by
them for all the world: the work by which He would prepare
them for the work which He was to do by them. For God’s
work is always creative.

<span style=”color: #ff0000;”>What God does is always by creation.</span>

The great thing of all to which God was to bring His people,
was the newly created world. But it was impossible that they
should come to that without being newly created themselves.
Therefore, in order that they might have instruction in creation, He wrote out an account of creation as an object lesson,
a school of instruction for every soul, that all might become
acquainted with God’s processes, with God’s means, with
God’s creative power, so that God’s work by them might be
accomplished through its first being wrought in them.
And so they were a “church in the wilderness.” Jesus Christ
took His place as the Head of that church. And here again we
see His own processes of organization. He continued it, and
kept it up until He came into the land of Canaan, and we have
heard as to what God’s object was in the land.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>
<span style=”color: #ff0000;”>          The People Choose             Man’sOrganization</span></p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>
But the people missed God’s object, and failing to see God’s
purpose in the instruction which He had given them, began to
organize themselves. And the organization which they estab￾lished when they did it themselves was a kingdom. They must
have a king. Don’t forget that; remember it as you walk along the street, wherever you may be—never forget that the ultimate end of every organization that man ever established is</p>
kingship, monarchy. And kingship among men, in the place of
God, is despotism—and that is ruin.
This downward spiral began to be worked out in Israel,
when they chose a king instead of the Lord, in the days of
Samuel. Instead of keeping God’s organization, and holding
fast to the Head, they turned aside and made a head of their
own, that they might be like all the nations around them. And
indeed, they became like all the nations, and came to an end,
as did all the nations around them.
First came the destruction to the ten tribes in the days of
Babylon, and then the destruction of all the tribes at the destruction of Jerusalem, when they chose Caesar instead of God. For when Pilate had put before them the challenge,
John 19:15 Shall I crucify your King?
They replied,
15 We have no king but Caesar.

<span style=”color: #3366ff;”>The Church Organized by God’s Creation</span>

<span style=”color: #3366ff;”><b>
</b></span>Then God started again on His course with His church, with
Christ as the Head and the organizer. And the mystery of God
was manifested and made known unto the sons of men as it
was not known in all the ages before. The mystery which had
been kept secret in times eternal, was made known to His saints, which is:
Colossians 1:27 Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Christ was the head of every man, and the head of all by being the head of each. But the mystery of iniquity arose, and put itself in the place of God, passing itself off for God. And so
the mystery of God was hid again for ages and generations.

To be continued

God bless

[Berean]

FOLLOWING

OF

WHY GENESIS ?

The Creation to be Finished
But thank the Lord, the day has come, when:
Revelation 10:5
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon
the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6
And swore by Him that lives for ever and ever, who created
heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and
the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things
which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,
as He has declared to His servants the prophets.
The mystery of God shall once more stand forth in its sincerity, in its purity, in its power; and that power is the power of God. The “seventh angel” referred to in Revelation 10 is the
seventh trumpet angel, described in these verses:
Revelation 11
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great
voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He
shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on
their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshiped God,
17 Saying, We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which
are, and was, and are to come; because you have taken to
yourself your great power, and have reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and
the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that
you should give reward unto your servants the prophets, and
to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great;
and should destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there
was seen in His temple the ark of His testament: and there
were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

The “time of the dead, that they should be judged,” commenced with the ending of the 2300 day/year prophecy of
Daniel 8:14, which reached from 457 BC, when the final decree was made to rebuild the temple and city of Jerusalem
(Ezra 7:11-26); all the way down to 1844 AD, when Christ entered upon His final work of judgment and cleansing in the
temple of heaven.
There is to be no more delay, thank the Lord; there has been too much.
Isaiah 11
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant
of His people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam,
and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of
the sea.
And He is to bring us into the land which He promised,
which He swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
But that is to be by creation only, for He that sits upon the
throne, when that day comes, says,
Revelation 21:5
Behold, I make all things new.
So then, we are to enter into the promises and inheritance
of Abraham only by the creative power of God. 

Genesis Written For Us 

The 1st chapter of Genesis is written for us, because those for
whom it was written in times past did not learn the lesson. It
has been delayed, frustrated, thrown aside here, thrown aside
there, set aside in other places, but now the Lord has
promised that there shall be no more delay.
Hebrews 10
37 For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and
will not tarry.

This is the time. God’s purpose in the writing of Genesis has
been frustrated so far, and now the time has come when He
says it shall be done. Then the book of Genesis, and of all
things the 1st chapter of Genesis, is present truth to us.
Genesis 1
1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And how did He do it?

Psalm 33
6
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the
host of them by the breath of His mouth.
9
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it
stood fast. 

Now remember that is not written primarily as a history of
creation, but primarily to bring to us God’s means, God’s
process of creation, and to make us acquainted with that
process. This is so that He can bring us to the great creation
which has been prepared and promised ever since the days of
Abraham.  

What does that mean to us?

In that first word in Genesis there is a lesson for every one
of us. God created the heavens and the earth, by His word.
What about us?
1 Peter 1
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass withers, and flower falls away:
25But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the
word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
That word by which God created the heaven and the earth
in the beginning is the word of the gospel, which is now
preached unto you. Then the first words of Genesis contain the
gospel. The first words of Genesis are the preaching of the
gospel. And with that thought is connected the following:

Ephesians 2
8
For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God:
9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God has before ordained that we should
walk in them. 

We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Then the
first step in Christianity, the first step in the course which
God would have men take, can be taken only by creation, can
be taken only by our being created. And becoming a Christian
is just as much creation as was the making of the world in the
beginning. No man can ever become a Christian except by being created, just as the world was created in the beginning.
God Creates Us Anew
And the great beauty of that truth is that it is so easy for it
all to be done. For when we have it settled that it can be done
only by creation, self is utterly left out of the picture. The human knows that there is no source of creation in himself; he
simply has to quit trying.
And when he knows that it can be done only by creation,
and is brought face to face with the Creator, then it is easy.
God can create simply by speaking the word.
“He spoke, and it was.”
Let us read on:
Genesis 1
1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep.
Now we were all darkness; but God creates us new; and our
lives, until God does create us new, are less than nothing,
worse than nothing. Yet when God creates us new as for any life of righteousness, any life of godliness, what is the situation? Isn’t it formless and void?
When God takes a man from the world, from the darkness
that may be felt, and creates him new, all that is before him is
new. So I say as to that new life which the man is to find, and
which is to be found in the man, what is his condition as relates to it except formless and void? But behold the next
thing:
Genesis 1
2
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Now the word “moved” means “brooded.” It is the same
thought exactly as Jesus spoke to the people of Jerusalem:
Matthew 23
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and
stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have
gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her
chickens under her wings, and you would not!
The meaning is:
“I would have gathered you; I would have brooded over
you: I would have sheltered you and brought from this
brooding that newborn thing, to the glory of God.”
The thought that Jesus expressed in these words about
Jerusalem is precisely the thought that He spoke in the second
verse of Genesis. The Spirit of God brooded upon that created
thing, which, until the Spirit of God came upon it, was without form and void. But when the Spirit of God came and
brooded over it, organization began. Then began God’s way of
organizing.
God’s Way of Organizing
Organization comes to the individual first of all, and from
him is carried forward to others. God’s organization must come from the Head, which is Jesus Christ, the Head of thec hurch, and it then reaches to the individual.

Each individual is brought face to face with God, to stand
there alone only with God. And God organizes him. This
makes him self-governing. But no man in this world can be a
self-governing individual except as God in Jesus Christ is his
Head, and the man is governed by the power of God.
The only self-government, true self-government, in the
world is a man standing in the liberty wherewith Jesus Christ
has made him free, master of his worst self, and living in the
divine self, which is Jesus Christ.
Then he has met the enmity, the evil, and has it underfoot;
and there he stands in the heaven-born liberty with which
God has made him free—a free, self-governing individual, as
God made him to be in the beginning, and as He makes him
to be when He creates him again.
Each one, then, must have set up in himself, and must be in
himself, a local self-government, to the glory of God. But no
man can ever do that, except by the power of God in him: and
no man can do that and remain a local self-governing man,
except he stands alone with God, apart from everybody else,
and everything else, in the wide universe.
Now that does not separate him from all other people. Our
truest unity, with other people is our sole loneliness with God.
Our truest fellowship, our sincerest love, our tenderest sympathy, reaching out to all people, is found only in standing absolutely alone, separate from all other things, with God.
We must be brought face to face with God, each for himself
alone, and alone with God. And for what shall we be brought
face to face with God? To find our bearings, which we have
been exhorted to find. And having found our bearings, then
let God in Christ be the Head, and the grand organizer.

To be continued

God bless

[Berean]

The Brooding Holy Spirit
But this is accomplished only by the Spirit of God, who
broods upon all. Jesus was here once, and was the Head of theChurch when He was here. But He said,
John 16:7
It is expedient for you that I go away:
It is not good for you that I stay; I must go.
7
…for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto
you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.
There are more reasons than one; but the reason which concerns us just now, why Jesus should go away that the Comforter should come, is that Jesus in the flesh could not be in all
places at once. He could not be in Australia, and be as well
here in this place now in the flesh.
But when He went away, He sent us the Holy Spirit, which
broods over all God’s creation; and by that Spirit, Jesus Christ
can become the Head of every vestige of His creation.
Then when any soul, any individual on the earth, has found
this creation, has become a part of the creation of God, the
Holy Spirit broods over him; and so Christ becomes the Head
of the individual, and that man has a Counselor who is more
capable of giving counsel than is any man ever seated in ahead office.
One of the chief advantages in that, is that Jesus Christ, the
Head of that individual by His Holy Spirit, can give counsel
and send help immediately, just when the help is needed.
That is an immense advantage over any other form of communication. May the Lord join us to Himself; may we find
that creative power in God, by which each soul shall find Jesus Christ, his Head and his Counselor, day and night forever.
This is the process of creation. Again to the first of Genesis:

Genesis 1
2
And the Spirit of God moved [brooded] upon the face of the waters.
3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And the light was the life. But creation was not finished.
The creation was not completed; it was not perfected even
now while the Spirit of God was brooding upon it. Other steps
were taken. I need not follow each one in detail.
The next thing was the firmament; then, the next day, the
waters gathered together into one place, and the dry land appeared; then the next day the earth brought forth fruit; and so
on through the six days.

Successive Creations

Now note this next thought closely, and carefully, for it is a
subtle thing, and requires a subtle mind to catch it; but when
it is caught, it is forever. Those successive steps in the creation
of the world, through the whole process of the creation, were
not taken by growth from the original creation. The successive steps of the 1st chapter of Genesis were not taken by
growth from the original chit of creation. How were those
steps taken? By successive creations.
We become Christians only by creation; we remain Christians only by creative power; we grow in Christian grace only
by successive creations of God. There is no development in
Christian life except by the direct creative power of God from
heaven, through His word, by the Holy Spirit.
Now do you begin to see the philosophy of giving the
record of creation to Israel as they come out of Egypt? God
wanted each individual of Israel to know the creative power
of God abiding in his life day and night, so that the creative
power of God should be his life. But that has been delayed,
delayed, delayed, and it has now come to you and me; and we
are the people now to whom God has written the 1st chapter of Genesis.
In our time the 1st chapter of Genesis is being set aside, and
everything is explained to be made by evolution instead of
creation. But it is precisely in this time that God is revealing
to us the true philosophy of the 1st chapter of Genesis. In His
people, God wants to hold up before the world His light and
the power of His creation against the insidious deceptions of
Satan, that are leading away the world into the everlasting
abyss.
That is what is in this; and God wants every one of us to become thus connected with that creative power, to find that
creative power living in us, as the only means of our progress,
of our Christian growth, in order that we can stand in the
light of God, and upon that firm foundation of the word of
God, and certify to the world in such a way that the world cannot doubt it.
They may reject it by not choosing to surrender to it; but
they cannot doubt it; the power will be in it.
• He wants us to certify that the evolutionary explanation
for the 1st chapter of Genesis is a false philosophy, and
merely so-called science.
• He wants the true science of Genesis to stand out.
• He wants the true philosophy of Genesis to be a light to
the world.
The true science and philosophy of Genesis is creation. And
no man can teach it, no man can set it forth, unless He knows
it in his own life.
Now, these successive steps in creation were not by growth
from the original. Each step was taken by a direct creation by
God speaking the word.
Genesis 1
6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters…
7 …and it was so.
9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night…
15 …and it was so.
But when we have to grow by trying to do better, and
swearing off this, that, and the other, it is a wearisome, tiresome, and fruitless process.
Finding the Spoken Word
Oh when we know that the true progress, the true growth
of Christian life, the true development of the Christian heart,
is by the successive creations of God through His spoken
word in the Spirit, then all that is needed is to find the word;
and it is done. Here is the true remedy.
Have you found yourself barren? Have you found things in
your life, while trying to establish righteousness, that utterly
failed? What is the remedy?
When I find a lack in my life—that which is not of God, that
which is not a reflection of the word of God—I must search
the Scriptures till I find the word of God speaking to me on
that question, and then that word creates me new in that
thing, and the old is passed away, and all has become new.
That is the philosophy of searching the Scriptures. To search
the Scriptures for doctrine, to search the Scriptures for ser￾mons, to search the Scriptures for arguments, is all vanity,
vexation of spirit, and idolatry.
But to search the Scriptures to find the creative word of
God, to choose creation, the righteousness of God in the place
of my sin—that will put the power of God, the strength of God, in the place of my weakness; that will make God appear
in the place of myself,—that is the searching of the Scriptures,
that is the salvation of the soul. And is there not room
enough? Is there not sufficient ground for us to begin that
kind of searching of the Scriptures?
It is a blessed prospect, a message of good cheer, to every
soul who finds himself destitute, who finds himself cast down,
who finds himself the victim of the power of the enemy—it is
a blessed message that God sends, that:
Psalm 33
9
He spoke, and it was done.
Only find the spoken word of God, and your infirmity is
gone before His creative power, spoken through the Spirit.
“He spoke, and it was.” This word of God is just as much the
spoken word of God as was that word which He spoke in the
beginning; the word that created the heaven and earth.

To be continued

 

God bless

 

[Berean]

The Brooding Holy Spirit
But this is accomplished only by the Spirit of God, who
broods upon all. Jesus was here once, and was the Head of theChurch when He was here. But He said,
John 16:7
It is expedient for you that I go away:
It is not good for you that I stay; I must go.
7
…for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto
you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.
There are more reasons than one; but the reason which concerns us just now, why Jesus should go away that the Comforter should come, is that Jesus in the flesh could not be in all
places at once. He could not be in Australia, and be as well
here in this place now in the flesh.
But when He went away, He sent us the Holy Spirit, which
broods over all God’s creation; and by that Spirit, Jesus Christ
can become the Head of every vestige of His creation.
Then when any soul, any individual on the earth, has found
this creation, has become a part of the creation of God, the
Holy Spirit broods over him; and so Christ becomes the Head
of the individual, and that man has a Counselor who is more
capable of giving counsel than is any man ever seated in ahead office.
One of the chief advantages in that, is that Jesus Christ, the
Head of that individual by His Holy Spirit, can give counsel
and send help immediately, just when the help is needed.
That is an immense advantage over any other form of communication. May the Lord join us to Himself; may we find
that creative power in God, by which each soul shall find Jesus Christ, his Head and his Counselor, day and night forever.
This is the process of creation. Again to the first of Genesis:

Genesis 1
2
And the Spirit of God moved [brooded] upon the face of the waters.
3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And the light was the life. But creation was not finished.
The creation was not completed; it was not perfected even
now while the Spirit of God was brooding upon it. Other steps
were taken. I need not follow each one in detail.
The next thing was the firmament; then, the next day, the
waters gathered together into one place, and the dry land appeared; then the next day the earth brought forth fruit; and so
on through the six days.

Successive Creations

Now note this next thought closely, and carefully, for it is a
subtle thing, and requires a subtle mind to catch it; but when
it is caught, it is forever. Those successive steps in the creation
of the world, through the whole process of the creation, were
not taken by growth from the original creation. The successive steps of the 1st chapter of Genesis were not taken by
growth from the original chit of creation. How were those
steps taken? By successive creations.
We become Christians only by creation; we remain Christians only by creative power; we grow in Christian grace only
by successive creations of God. There is no development in
Christian life except by the direct creative power of God from
heaven, through His word, by the Holy Spirit.
Now do you begin to see the philosophy of giving the
record of creation to Israel as they come out of Egypt? God
wanted each individual of Israel to know the creative power
of God abiding in his life day and night, so that the creative
power of God should be his life. But that has been delayed,
delayed, delayed, and it has now come to you and me; and we
are the people now to whom God has written the 1st chapter of Genesis.
In our time the 1st chapter of Genesis is being set aside, and
everything is explained to be made by evolution instead of
creation. But it is precisely in this time that God is revealing
to us the true philosophy of the 1st chapter of Genesis. In His
people, God wants to hold up before the world His light and
the power of His creation against the insidious deceptions of
Satan, that are leading away the world into the everlasting
abyss.
That is what is in this; and God wants every one of us to become thus connected with that creative power, to find that
creative power living in us, as the only means of our progress,
of our Christian growth, in order that we can stand in the
light of God, and upon that firm foundation of the word of
God, and certify to the world in such a way that the world cannot doubt it.
They may reject it by not choosing to surrender to it; but
they cannot doubt it; the power will be in it.
• He wants us to certify that the evolutionary explanation
for the 1st chapter of Genesis is a false philosophy, and
merely so-called science.
• He wants the true science of Genesis to stand out.
• He wants the true philosophy of Genesis to be a light to
the world.
The true science and philosophy of Genesis is creation. And
no man can teach it, no man can set it forth, unless He knows
it in his own life.
Now, these successive steps in creation were not by growth
from the original. Each step was taken by a direct creation by
God speaking the word.
Genesis 1
6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters…
7 …and it was so.
9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night…
15 …and it was so.
But when we have to grow by trying to do better, and
swearing off this, that, and the other, it is a wearisome, tiresome, and fruitless process.
Finding the Spoken Word
Oh when we know that the true progress, the true growth
of Christian life, the true development of the Christian heart,
is by the successive creations of God through His spoken
word in the Spirit, then all that is needed is to find the word;
and it is done. Here is the true remedy.
Have you found yourself barren? Have you found things in
your life, while trying to establish righteousness, that utterly
failed? What is the remedy?
When I find a lack in my life—that which is not of God, that
which is not a reflection of the word of God—I must search
the Scriptures till I find the word of God speaking to me on
that question, and then that word creates me new in that
thing, and the old is passed away, and all has become new.
That is the philosophy of searching the Scriptures. To search
the Scriptures for doctrine, to search the Scriptures for ser￾mons, to search the Scriptures for arguments, is all vanity,
vexation of spirit, and idolatry.
But to search the Scriptures to find the creative word of
God, to choose creation, the righteousness of God in the place
of my sin—that will put the power of God, the strength of God, in the place of my weakness; that will make God appear
in the place of myself,—that is the searching of the Scriptures,
that is the salvation of the soul. And is there not room
enough? Is there not sufficient ground for us to begin that
kind of searching of the Scriptures?
It is a blessed prospect, a message of good cheer, to every
soul who finds himself destitute, who finds himself cast down,
who finds himself the victim of the power of the enemy—it is
a blessed message that God sends, that:
Psalm 33
9
He spoke, and it was done.
Only find the spoken word of God, and your infirmity is
gone before His creative power, spoken through the Spirit.
“He spoke, and it was.” This word of God is just as much the
spoken word of God as was that word which He spoke in the
beginning; the word that created the heaven and earth.

To be continued

 

God bless

 

[GeneBalthrop]

Berean,   will you stop posting  these books and articles from other sources over and over all the time?, First of all no body is reading them,  and they take to much time to respond to here,  stop pushing you church or organizations.   Just give us what you personally understand OK. IN A FEW WORDS.

Peace and love to you and yours Berean………..gene

 

[Berean]

Gene

It’s sad for you that you don’t read these publications. Moreover, are you sure that nobody reads them?
So stop being so pessimistic.

Concerning this last little document, I have just recently discovered it and that is why I have seen fit to publish it, because I believe that the Spirit of Truth has manifested in it. So Read it and we will talk about it AFTER .OK?

[Proclaimer]

I don’t read denominational propaganda. Yes, some will contain truth. But I listen to people’s own testimonies, experiences  and understanding.

There are 10,000 + denominations and no one has the time to check them all out. And they are all a waste of time. You need a personal relationship with God rather than belonging to a system that does this for you.

The true church is not a denomination. Denominations to me are divisions in the body that should not exist.

When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?

This divisional structure leads to people not believing the message. So I refuse to participate in it.

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

The true church is one body. For practical reasons you can talk about this church in specific locations. Never are they denominations in scripture. Come out of her my people as it is written.

[Berean]

I don’t read denominational propaganda 

Proclaimer

Where do you see propaganda in what I say or publish? I see more of a proclamation of good news than anything else.

 

[GeneBalthrop]

Berean,  please don’the take this the wrong way ok,  I believe you are a novice when it comes to understanding scriptures, you are contained within the understandings of the TEACHING OF YOUR CHURCH,  AND YOU HAVE POSTED MANY OF THERE TEACHINGS HERE. Much like the JW’S and other Cults do,  they can only relate to others what their own organizations says.

Remember, when you cut and paste what others say you are not truly telling us your personal opinions but the opinions of others, when you post these endless long posts.  Not saying all these posts are always  wrong but,  it not coming from your mind but someone elses.

When I ask or address what you say, I would like to know what you yourself believe not your church or another organization is saying.  Please don’t  take this the wrong way brother ok, but I had rather hear what “you” think, not what someone else in the  organizations you belong to thinks.  I agree with what Proclaimer said also.  To let any of the Ten thousand or so world Christian Churches do your thinking for you is a big, big mistake, IMO.

Peace and love to you and yours Berean……….gene

[Berean]

Gene

What you say about me and my church is false and totally false. You always have an excuse to not answer When I Ask you To answer a question.You often divert the conversation so as not to address what is bothering you, which is the biblical truth.

[Berean]

FOLLOWING AND END

OF : WHY GENESIS ?

The Sabbath a Seal of Perfection 

Again to Genesis. This process of successive creations went
on until God’s ideal appeared: the perfect man. There he
stood, the perfect man, created by the power of God; and he
stood as the son of God:
Luke 3
38 …which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Genesis 2
1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them.
And then God rested. The Sabbath was the seal—the delight￾ful, refreshing rest which God took, beholding the finished
creation from the beginning unto perfection.
Ephesians 2
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.

The Spirit of God broods upon this new creation, causing
the spoken creative word to bring to perfection this new cre￾ation…
Ephesians 4
13 …unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ.
Then the seal of God will be affixed. Then the Lord will rest
again, and will joy over us with singing. He will rest,
Zephaniah 3
17 He will rest in His love.
God is to rest again. When Jesus came here, He said,
John 5
17 My Father works hitherto, and I work.
But the time is coming when He will rest again. In the origi￾nal creation, the Father worked and Jesus worked through the
Holy Spirit that accompanied the work and perfected the cre￾ation, in which God rejoiced, and from which He rested and
was refreshed.
But that creation was ruined, and God began again to cre￾ate, and He has kept it up till now, and soon it is to be fin￾ished, and then when it is finished—let us read it in the word
of God:
Zephaniah 3
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity…
Here is the same remnant mentioned in:
Revelation 12
17 …the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments
of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Zephaniah 3
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies;
neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and re￾joice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The Lord has taken away your judgments, He has cast out
your enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst
of you: you shall not see evil any more.
Bless the Lord!
16 In that day…
Here is what is just before us. “That day” is now! Hear the
word:
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear not: and to
Zion, Let not your hands be slack.
17 The Lord your God in the midst of you is mighty; He will
save, He will rejoice over you with joy; He will rest in His
love, He will joy over you with singing.
God is going to rest again and be refreshed, when this cre￾ation which He has brought to us is finished under the blessed
brooding of the Spirit of God. That is so. You know it is written that in the last times God’s people are to be covered with
the covering of His Spirit (Isaiah 30:1, Joel 2); and now is the
time.
The thing for us to do is to recognize that fact, recognize
this creative power of God, find it for ourselves, creating usnew, and ever walk, ever dwell, in the presence of that brood￾ing Spirit. Then what was spoken to Mary will also apply tous:
Luke 1
35 The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the
Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.
For that brooding Spirit is a fructifying Spirit. Then we shall
exclaim, and sing with joy:

1 John 3
1
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon
us, that we should be called the sons of God.
Then it will be true also that
1 John 3
1
The world knows us not, because it knew Him not.
The world has known us too well. It has had cause to know
us. We have been so much like the world, that the world recognized us: but the Lord will deliver us from all that, and the
world shall know us no more, because it shall not be able to
recognize us as of the world.
It will know that we are not of the world; that our interest
are not centered in earthly things; and that brooding Spirit
will put upon us such a character and will cause us to speak
such words, and will give to us such an appearance in the
world, that nothing but heaven can recognize us; and that
recognition is enough.
This is the beginning of Genesis. It is not all the book. Remember, all the book was written while Moses was there
keeping the sheep, and all the book belongs to us now. But
none of the rest of the book will count for us, unless we find
the science and the philosophy of the 1st chapter of the book:
for that is the beginning of God’s creation and God’s pro￾cesses and of everything, and nothing is found as it truly is
until we find that. In the light of that 1st chapter, all the rest
will be plain, and all the rest is ours, thank the Lord.
Let us search the Scriptures. Let us read the 1st chapter of
Genesis. A good plan to follow is to read over and over, over
and over, the 1st chapter of Genesis, until we shall see in it,
with our eyes shut, Christian experience in every verse, and
in our own lives day by day.
Then the Spirit of God will brood upon that creation which
God is carrying on to bring us unto perfection in Christ Jesus,
so that the work of God shall be done, the triumph of the
saints shall come, and we shall rejoice before the Lord now
and forevermore.
Then the church shall indeed grow into a holy temple in the
Lord:
Ephesians 5
27 That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not
having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should
be holy and without blemish.

 

God bless

 

[Berean]

Hi Mike,

 

It is the book of Genesis (the Bible) that interests me, not the THEORY OF THE FLAT EARTH.
FURTHERMORE I ANSWERED YOU THAT THE WORD “EARTH” ALSO MEANS “ITS INHABITANTS” AND NOT JUST “DRY EARTH” AS YOU STATE.

FURTHERMORE, I BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED (V.1-5) THE EARTH (TOHU BOHU) WRAPPED IN WATERS, ON THE FIRST DAY AND HE CREATED LIGHT.

THE EARTH EMERGED FROM THE WATERS ON THE THIRD DAY:
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and LET THE DRY LAND APPEAR l
: and it was so.

As for the plants, they grew on the SAME DAY. (third)
This is absolutely POSSIBLE FOR GOD.
HE GROWED A PLANT FOR SHADE FOR JONAH IN ONE NIGHT (Jonah 4:6-10)
But I think you agree with that.

To be continued

God bless

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