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

Now I’m coming to a very simple point I hope your brothers don’t forget this. Yes, brother.

What was written in psalms 139 verse 12. Okay, amen, it is an instrument in his hand as much as light is, and this is what I want to tell you, brothers, you’re going to have some dark days. Pilu there will be days you’re going to be so discouraged you’re going to you’re going to get on a bridge y’all got a river in Timișoara, no you’re not in Timișoara, you got a bridge in your town you got a river, Moorish river, you’re going to want to do the Moorish thing and jump off the bridge into the river. Daniel, there will be times that things will be so dark for you that you will hardly be able to breathe. You will not sleep, you will not eat, you will be pressed beyond your measure. Jonathan, there will be times when you will want to stop, everybody is against you, and maybe all revelation has ended and the light has gone out. Abel, everything is going to go the wrong way. The first thing that Abel will discover is Violetta is not as easy to get along with as he thought she would be and Violetta will find out that Abel is really a mess, and then the Christians are going to get on your case and then the missionaries and the pastors. You’re going to pick up a Christian newspaper and there you are. Your name’s not mentioned but it’s you. And then the electricity is going to burn up your apartment, your car is going to break down, you’re going to lose your job, you and Daniel will have a fight and become enemies. Let me see how black I can get this, and the doctor is going to tell you that you have some mysterious disease that he does not understand, and does not know what it is, but it may be terrible. I think that’s as far as I can take it. Worst of all, it seems that God is no longer with you. Yes, just exactly like John Mark, who thought he was dying.

Now hear me very carefully. Those will be the days of your greatest spiritual growth. That will be the time of your greatest advance in Christ. It may last for a day a week a month or a year two years or three years or five years, but it is the darkness that causes us to grow, the darkness makes the light so bright. You can get some great big, huge insight into Christ, doesn’t mean a whole lot, because you didn’t pay for it with suffering. Boy, the night goes so long and it gets so deep and then one day the light breaks and oh how great is the light, and then there’s progress, and you always remember the light, wow, but you forget that the darkness was the mother of light. You have to have dark times or you cannot grow. They’re the same to him. Darkness is light to him, darkness is light to him.

Now I’m going to tell you something else I’m just going to tell you about corn. Strangest thing in the world that corn grows at night just like it grows in the daytime. Corn grows very, very fast in our country. You plant it, you watch it come up, you go to bed looking at it, the next morning you look and it’s almost twice that high. It’s still growing even in the night, I just didn’t see it, and maybe even the corn did not know.

Now, let me tell you something, you’ve got to be hit with a lot of darkness so that darkness cannot hurt you. You survive a little darkness and you’ll get some light you still survive a little darkness will prepare you to get hit by a little more darkness, that’ll help you survive the next round of darkness, but one day you get hit by something so dark it’s darker than dark and you know you cannot survive. And in some way in God’s mercy you survive, and when you come out of that grave, you come out of that darkness, you turn around and say something, you say this, until they hit me with something darker than that, they can’t touch me. You’ve got to get hit by something really, really dark – dark dark –  when you’ve been hit by the dark and you’ll see others falling all around you and you’re still standing and someone will wonder how are you still on your feet and you’ll say because this is not as hard as some other things I’ve been through. All right, darkness and light are the same with thee, O Lord.

Now we come to the second day, and brother Tim would you give me some idea of how long I at some point let me know where I am in my time. And that was the end of the first day then God said let the expanse in the midst of the water be separated from the waters above and it happened and it was evening and morning the second day. This is the creation of the first heaven, it’s the third one to be created, but we call it the first because it’s the first one we see when you look up into the sky, you see the sky and then you can’t see any more beyond the clouds if it’s a cloudy day. That’s heaven number one. On a clear day, you can see much further and at night you can see even further, you can see the second heaven. That’s the one where all the stars and the moon and the comets are. Okay, now I’m going to inquire does that mean I have 30 left or I’ve gone 30? Okay thank you.

Now, my brothers and my sisters, it is really my task, but yours too, it’s my task to show you the third heaven, in fact it’s my task to get you to the third heaven. I hope before we leave here, before I leave here, you will have touched the third heaven, the one that cannot be seen. I hope so, maybe not, but I hope so, at least I’ll point you in the general direction of the third heaven, that heaven which is unseen.

Day two is the record of the separating of waters below and waters above. By the way at this point the waters above are fresh water and the waters below are probably salt water. Now I heard something one time that if all the salt of all the planet were piled on the land mass, not on the ocean, but taken out of the ocean plus what’s under the ocean, all the salt on this planet would, if you covered all the land mass, I hope you can understand this, not important if you can’t, the salt would be 500 miles high on the land, that’s a lot of salt and salt does two things, it kills and it preserves, and usually in scripture when you have salt water it speaks of death or darkness, and fresh water speaks of life and light. I’m just telling you that so you’ll know.

Now we’re going to come to the third day, and on the third day God said let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and so the Lord made the Pacific and the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean and lo and behold something appeared that had not existed that no one knew about before. The angels, by the way, do exist by now, so they all go wow, there was something under all that death and the land appears and then God did some more. God called the land earth and he gathered the waters into one place so it was good, and then God said let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding after their kind, and we have all the trees and everything else, and he saw it was good.

I’m just going to talk about two little things here, two things, not little. I left this out of your list. I did it deliberately, but I want to add it now. Would you put on your list item number sixty one. The first day and the third day. Now you already have rest and the Sabbath, but I want to give you the first day and the third day. You’ll have so much fun going through the Old Testament looking at the third day. So many things happen on the third day, it’s amazing. And the third day is also in the New Testament. The first day is a day of beginning, always, first day is day of new things, new beginnings, trace it through the scripture, you will really enjoy it. I hope you all create your own chain, and I’ll say again to you when you get to the New Testament, I hope you can read Matthew Mark Luke and John all together as one, so you won’t get tired and you’ll write out in the margin the things that you see that began In Genesis 1,2, and 3, you’ll trace it all the way through, and then when you get to the book of Acts, keep going, but when you get to Acts, what’s the very first one, we need to know that reference, a certain place in Acts, 15:35, you’ll stop and read Galatians, read Galatians and continue making your little marks in the margin. By the way, dear Romanians and Albanians, can you get a Bible or even a New Testament in your language that has some space on the sides? Is there such a Bible? No, you do not have it, it all goes right out to the edge. Not much. If ever there is printed in your language one with a wide margin, get it. Do any of you read from the English Bible, or do you stay with your own mother tongue? You read in English. Well perhaps you read English, there are two of us here, perhaps you should try to find a Bible with a wide margin or at least a New Testament and the rest of you I can tell you how you do it. This is a secret that was taught to me long ago. Don’t write it this way, I’ll show you. Those of you who have your Bibles out there, you’ll learn something here. I.t is my tendency and yours to write like that. Well, I’ll show you another way to do it, it gives you more space. Take you a pen, draw you a line like that and then you have room to write, but this is where you’re making your point, right there you have room this way, it helps a little let it angle, if you don’t have a wide margin. For that you don’t owe me a thousand dollars, you me fifty dollars.

All right, the first day is a day of beginning, and the third day is always a day of resurrection. Now, what rose on the third day? Something rose on the third day. This is the first third day ever to exist. Tell me what rose on the third day. Something rose before there could be plant life. The land rose up out of the waters. Those of you who are going to trace the land, this is where it begins, right here. You make your little margin, and you say land, and Satan and the Lord will vie, have a conflict, over the land from the beginning to the end. By the way, Jesus wins, but it goes back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth, there’s always a battle for the land. There is a time when Satan has it all, God calls forth Abraham and says take a little of it, and take that little piece of land just to show Satan he doesn’t have it all. And that principle still exists today. Satan has the world. Jonathan, go plant a church on Christ and show the devil he doesn’t have it all. Christ is the land, the real land, and the church is planted on Christ and in Christ and she’s here to show the devil he doesn’t have it all.

There’s something very terrifying to me. I hope you’ll be impressed with this. I read, or perhaps someone else read it and told me about it, I’m just going to say I read it that some anthropologist made the observation that by the end of the 20th century, tribal life would have ceased to exist. Do you know what tribal life is? Life of a tribe? Now, tribal life is the one thing on this planet that is not organized. It really is organic to our nature to be tribal. It is,. and civilization prevents tribal life. I have seen tribal life. I led a tribe of Christians out of the jungles of Laos, 4,500, actually I got 29, they got the rest. There was a legend that there was a Christian tribe in the jungles, that had been led to Christ 50 or 100 years before, and word was that they were trying to get to across the river into Thailand, because they were being pursued by the Viet Kong and the Lao Kong and even the Thai Kong, and I went into the jungle to find them. I found them just as they came over the border, they came over the border before I found them. I met with them and they had a tribal meeting. Now they all had, the men mostly wore ordinary clothes, the women wore clothes like nothing you’ve ever seen, and they met in a circle just like the American Indian used to meet, you know, and they all sat down and they discussed a proposal I made to them, and the little children were there, and I have to tell you a little of the story. The children would make a little noise and the parents would not speak to them and they would not touch them, they would go, and the child would get quiet. You try that with your kids.