Present at the Birth (Part 3): Creation Reveals His Purpose

Brothers and sisters, I’m going to list everything that I have ever been able to find in Genesis 1 and 2, central to His purpose. And I’ve got them written down right here. You might think that this is really easy to do; it’s not easy to do. What’s in those chapters that indicate to us His eternal plan? And what’s there that’s also found when you emerge out of the darkness and break through again in Revelation 21 and 22?

Okay, you’re all so familiar with Genesis 1 and 2. Let me just quickly go through these. But here’s where I need your help and your indulgence. I am not going to point any of this toward you, but toward God. And what I’m about to do, I have never attempted in my life, and I don’t know anybody else who’s ever attempted.

Now, these are the things that fall outside sin: darkness, death, principalities, and powers. And I have to ask myself, and I ask you, go with me into the Godhead and see these things as they emanate from God. For what I am listing here, you will find in Genesis 1 and 2, and you will find in Revelation 21 and 22, and they are arrows, indicators. They are portions of, they are part of, a great golden rope, if you please, the twine of a great glorious thread that runs from one end of Scripture to the other. They are all part of, and that thread is His eternal purpose. So, each of these is a thread that reaches from one end of Scripture to the other, from creation to creation, but I want them to begin in God. I will fail at what I’m about to do.

This is something that hundreds of men ought to concentrate on for the next one or two centuries and fathom these things. You can spend the rest of your life, brother, just looking at these from the view of their origin in God.

Alright, the first thing you find in Genesis 1 and 2, previous to the fall—previous to “And the serpent was”: you find God. Now, this is the eternal God, but even in the eternal God, you immediately are met with His nature, because when you get here, you meet not only God, but you meet the Godhead. Listen to this passage of Scripture:

“Let us.” Let us. Now, what’s that got to do with? Does anybody know? It’s very fascinating. This is God speaking to Himself. This is Elohim saying, ‘Let us.’ And you and I are immediately issued into the presence of, and I’ve never used this term before in my life, a corporate God. A many-faceted God. “Let us make.” God is fellowshipping with Himself and says, Let’s have an eternal purpose. Let us. So, before we go anywhere else, let us see that it was in the council of the Godhead that this took place, and we have already met corporateness. And we have already met an interchange of fellowship.

Are you following me? The arrows point toward him. Let us. Let us. We have a God, and there is something going on within Him, and He is giving birth to His eternal purpose.

Secondly, there is man. So, if you’re making notes, you want to write down man. There’s a man in Genesis 1 and 2. Why did he create that man? Why have I created you, man? Whatever it is, it is unto Me.

Now I want you to go back and see in God, and in the fellowship of the Godhead, God making a man; somebody visible who is likened to God. Now, if you think that he is in His image and that doesn’t mean a whole lot, then I want you to listen to this. There’s so much to learn here. “Let us”; what an open window into God.  Make man and let man. Right? No. And “let them.” Let us, plural, let them, plural. Praise the Lord, don’t sit there like a bunch of Baptists, do you realize that in the purity…remember no fall…don’t look at man as something low here. No fall that you see reflected in the creation of man, the Godhead himself, the corporate element, the fellowship of the Father with the Son and the Spirit, is now reflected in let us make man, let them. “Let them.” You are not an “it”, but you’re also not a “him”. And you’re not a “her”. You’re a “them”.

And I don’t know what the purpose of God is, but whatever it is, it’s plural. It’s not for you, you lonely, Charles Limburg Christian, who are going to fly the Atlantic all by yourself? You’re going to fly the Christian life all by yourself? There is in the Godhead corporateness. There is in the Godhead fellowship. There is in the Godhead plurality of purpose. It is reflected in the creation of man. Let us make man and let them. In the eyes and thought of the heartbeat of God, God. He did not make an individual. He made “them”. He did not make you or you. He made you an “us”.

And furthermore, I’m going to get ahead of myself. When you get down there to Ephesians and you read about that soldier who’s going to do all those wonderful things with… That soldier is a them. That soldier is not a “you”; that soldier’s a them. Now that’s way ahead of our story. Alright, are you with me? How are we doing? We’re not going to finish tonight, are we? This list, I can feel it. We’re not going to finish the list.

The third thing that was there was life. Life. What life? The tree of life. A tree with life in the tree. Now, let’s just come back and say, and you know, you’ve all heard me speak on this. There is herb life and animal life, fish life, bird life, angel life, and there’s human life. But boy, there’s Life. And now this Life has come out of the eternals, and out of God the All. We’re coming way back here to when God; there was nothing but God. That Life has now passed into eternity. And incredibly, that Life, which is the Godhead, now enters into the visible realm, and has actually been allowed on this planet.