The Highest Life Form Part 1

As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eats me, he shall live by me. (John 6:57)

 Life. It is essentially a topic of the book of John. It is the very heart of the Scripture. I’d like to start off by talking about the creation account as revealed in Genesis. Truly, here in Genesis is an understanding of life. You know the first verse in scripture says, “In the beginning God…” Therefore, the first thing that we know in scripture is the Lord. From there, the Genesis story goes on to give us an account of all of God’s creation. He first created the heavenlies in the blink of an eye, the creation of the heavenlies took place, and then with incredible swiftness, the subject suddenly changes, and we’re hearing about earth. The whole enormous task of creating all of the heavenly places is recorded in a few verses…or a few syllables…and then changes immediately to earth. Now, why is this? With all of our religious heritage, it’s hard to grasp this point. You know, we talk about dying, going to heaven, streets of gold. It’s hard for us to realize that God is a lot more interested in earth than he is in the heavenlies. So, God created the earth in five and a half days, whereas he took care of all of the heavenly expanses, both seen and unseen, in only half a day.

After the creation of the Earth, we go on from there to the story of all the life forms that take place here on this planet., or to put it another way, Genesis is a chronicle of, first the story of the creation of the heavenlies and the planet earth, but most of it has to do with the creation of visible life forms on this planet.

Let’s go back. The scripture opens by introducing us to the highest life form in the universe, and that is God. He is who you meet first, and He is the highest of all life forms. Then, as you continue reading, you see that God begins to create other life forms, and they’re introduced to us, first those that are in the heavenlies, and then the life forms, the visible ones that He put on the earth, from the lowest form of life, and then the Lord gradually introduces a higher life, and then a higher, and a higher, and a higher. So, we see a principle here: invisible forms of life. He moves from the lowest to the highest.

Now, if we were to ask science, “How do you classify life forms?”, I think you’d all know that there’s a parallel here. Science says, well, we start off by classifying bacteria, but bacteria is a kind of plant life, and it’s on the very bottom scale of life forms. Then comes the larger plant life, and then after that the herbs and the algae. Then you go to the sea, and the fish in the sea, and then the fowl life, the birds. Then you move to the surface of the earth, the animal life, such as dogs and cows. And then you come to man. Man, so far, is the highest form of life that science has discovered in this visible realm. Now that’s what the scientists would say, and we turn back and look at Genesis, and the two classify life almost the same way. The scripture begins with plant life, then sea life, then the fowls of the air, then animal life, and finally, we’re introduced to the highest form of life which God created on the earth: man. The creation account closes there.

God’s greatest creation came at the close of the sixth day, and from that point, at the creation of the masterpiece of God, there is nothing else created. Now, if we’re going to believe the scripture, then we have to know that man was the last thing ever created by God, and nothing has been created since then. Absolutely nothing. Alright, so what do we see? After the account of all of these forms of life, well, we see that God rested on the seventh day. All life forms have been introduced into the universe. There will be no new classifications.

Alright, now, if this is true, we’ve got a really large problem on our hands. History, of course, did not end with the seventh day and with God resting. There is an eighth day, or sometimes we call it the first day of the second week. Now, does God create on the eighth day? Not at all. Creation is over. So, nothing new will be introduced on the eighth day.

Now, wait a minute. Don’t be too sure, because there is a problem. There are several new things that appear on the eighth day. Woman, for one. Well, then God did create on the eighth day. No. Woman was not exactly created. Now, one verse says that God created man and woman, but when you read the more detailed account in Genesis, you see that she was not created. Instead, she was formed out of man. She came from out of the man. Man was created on the sixth day, and woman, it appears, was formed, not created, out of the rib of man on the eighth day.

Alright, there’s still a problem; in fact, there are two problems, because two other things are introduced to this earth, to this planet, on the eighth day. Both of them came after creation had ended, so it still looks like creation is ongoing. What are these things? The tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Both make their appearance on the eighth day. So, God created on the eighth day? No, and yet these are forms of life, and they are not forms of life that were found on this earth. So how should we explain these two trees?

Let’s take the tree of the knowledge of good and evil first. You can say that this is a form of life not native to planet Earth. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is an intruder. In fact, it’s a mutation that represents a form of life once found only in heavenly places and never found on this earth. Now, that form of life rebelled against God, and that life form was cast out of the heavenlies and was forced out into the skies above the earth, and that became its new place of habitation. Now, this is not a life that is native to the life forms on our planet; furthermore, it is a fallen type of life, a fallen life that precedes the fall of man. Not exactly in the same form that it was when it was created, it has changed, and it has fallen, and it has mutated as a result of its fall. So in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you find represented a life made only for the heavenlies, cast out, and it chose to come, in all of the visible creation, it chose to come to the skies above the earth, and there, from that spot, this alien life form comes to encroach upon our planet.

Remember that man is the highest form of life native to our planet, but now another form of life, a form of life not created on the sixth day, nor the second, nor the third, nor the fourth, nor the fifth, but a form of life that was created on the first day, has come and intruded on our area. He has come to earth, to the domain of man; to the place of the visible life forms, there has come another life from the heavenlies, and it has made its appearance in the form of a tree that is in itself abundant in a kind of fruit; you might call it knowledge fruit. Now, that’s the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, first day life belonging to the heavenlies, fallen, that has invaded the earthen realm in the form of the tree.