Debrecen Messages #6 – Genesis 1 and the Eternal Purpose of God: Light, Creation, and Revelation

Now here’s your assignment. See if you can find in Revelation 21 and 22 everything that we listed that came out of Genesis 1 and 2. Now, if you should find them all, or even all but one or two, would you be amazed? Here is a command. Be amazed. There are 2,000 years, a little over 2,000 years, from the writing of Genesis 1 and 2 to the writing of John’s revelation of Christ. And there are more thousands of years than that of the difference between the two events. Yeah. We have no idea how far there is between Genesis 1 …what’s in Genesis 1 and 2 and what’s recorded in Revelation 21 and 22. Now, if you find these same matters in Revelation 21 and 22, what will be the point? Remember, there’s no fall in 1 and 2, and there’s no fall in the last two chapters of Scripture. Those are the only four chapters we have to get a look at what it’s like not having a fall.

No Americans. Anybody here who’s not an American, that includes one Albanian, if you were to find all these things repeated in the other two chapters that have nothing to do with, the fall is not in them, what would be your conclusion? I’m sorry? Absolutely, Pilo. We would step back and say these must be hints, glimpses of God’s eternal purpose. And you will be awed. Oh, they’re more than shadows. They are realities. And you put all the threads together and you…You have his eternal purpose. But when you put all the threads together, you still have no word for it.

All right. Would anybody like to guess what your assignment is? What do you figure your assignment is, sister? To find the words repeated from Genesis 1 and 2 in Revelation 21 and 22. That is correct. Now, I don’t know who you are out there in video land. I realize that some of you don’t know who I am sitting in that little box in front of you, don’t watch this video without doing this. And I will ask you, please, please. Don’t turn this into a dead teaching to impress somebody with something you found. We’ve got enough dead teachings floating around this world as it is. If these things have not become life to you, you have no right to them. These are the kind of things Paul of Tarsus died for. For I was given a stewardship of the mysteries, and it was given unto me to declare to you non-Jewish heathen pagan infidels the depths of the riches of Jesus Christ. Which is according to, it kind of matches his desire and his completion of his eternal purpose.

Now lastly, brothers, we have to touch these things in reality. We have to know them. And may they become the absolute passion of your being. And please remember, they are for the church today.

What meeting is this? Of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, what is it? Is this number 10? Now, can you believe that we have spent nine sessions, and we haven’t gotten to “Let” yet? Let there be light. We haven’t gotten to beginning. Everything that’s been going on so far has been before beginning. The last thing we talked about was that God put his print himself into the universe. And that you’ll find all sorts of things that are reflections and pictures and types of himself in creation. And now, finally, we come to the Bible. Wow. We’re going to have a Bible lesson. We’re going to study the Bible. Just barely can say that. For those out there in videotape, I don’t think very highly of present-day Bible study. In fact, I think it stinks.

Cameraman, are we having any problems? We’re doing fine. Okay, good enough. Okay. We just read the first three days of creation. Y’all, I want you to remember this, that a great deal has gone on. I’m not going to review, but I want you to just stop for a minute to remember a great deal of preparation has gone into this moment. And there is purpose. And I’m going to review briefly, probably this morning and tomorrow, the creation account, just so you can begin seeing some of these lines. And maybe I won’t even talk about the lines. Just so you can see some of the things present.

All right. The Lord announces that there will actually be a beginning. Until now, that would be a unique thought. There is no place where God has ever begun. The definition of God someone gave is he is someone who has always been. There never was when God was not. So there was no beginning to God. And now he announces a beginning. And Mr. Einstein would stand up and say, oh, He’s introducing mass. And therefore, space will be born. And time will be born. And Mr. Einstein would be correct. Except for one thing. He also created the heavens. Which have no mass.

So there’s also the beginning of eternity. Now that is very difficult for us to grasp. But there is a verse. If you have the New American, there’s a verse in the book of Titus that says, In the times before the Eternals. In the time before the Eternals, or in the age before there were ages. That’s beautiful. In the age before there were ages. In the eon before there ever were any eons. Well, we have just come out of the age before the eternals. And now even eternity begins to grind inside of God. I don’t understand that. Don’t ask me to explain that. But even eternity is created.

Now, there is a beginning. Our Lord is present. It is Jesus Christ. And now there is creation. And creation is in Christ. It is for Christ. It is through Christ. It is by Christ. And it is to Christ. So, everything that is about to take place is created belongs to him. If you look up who owns, who has the title deed, you may not have this word in your language, but if you own a house somewhere, there’s a record of the ownership. We call it a title deed. Look it up in the records who owns creation, and it’ll say right down at the bottom. Title deed of creation owned by Jesus Christ. For him to do with what he pleases. In any way that he pleases. And he did it in order to have his eternal purpose worked out.

Alright. By the way we lost the message on the eternal purpose. At least on video. Maybe we’ll get it back someday. Maybe the Lord will give it back to us. This is amazing. Genesis 1 just makes…do a little better. That much time with heaven, and just shoot straight to earth. We don’t know anything about the heavens. God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was.

I’m going to tell you the story. He created the heavens. He created the angels. He created the heavens. Then he created all of the earth, the visible heavens. That’s what we see at night. And the sun we see, of course, in the daytime. And then there was a little space between Mars and Venus. Are we in between Mars and Venus? And then he created earth. And he didn’t do much when he created earth. It just kind of sat there. And the Lord said, let there be light. Now, I’m not going to tell you anything new, but I’m going to cover this very slowly. The earth was very special to him. It was the last thing he created. And he placed it in the heavens. Of his great, sweeping creation, it was his last creation. That’s not the last thing he’s going to create. There’ll be many things he creates on the earth, but there’s no other creation anywhere else.

Now, if this is true, the Lord has spent one half of a day creating heaven and the heavens and the other heavens, and he hasn’t yet formed the first heaven. He’s formed the third heaven and the second heaven. He hasn’t formed the first heaven yet. It’s formed out of the work he does on earth. We have five and a half, we have one half of the day for everything but earth, and five and a half days of creation on earth. That’s kind of amazing.