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

I watched them playing in the jungles, I watched their lives, they all live together, when they came in they just camped in one spot, there were thousands of refugees but there was a Christian gathering right there, and they talked for hours while they sat there on the ground, each person gave their opinion, many asked questions, and I looked at that and said church life, I looked at that and said body life, I looked at that and said that’s a brother’s meeting, and after a long time Juyi, that was his name, stood up and told me what the tribe had decided. Now Juyi would have broken any, if there was some that said yes and some said no, it was up to Juyi to make the final decision, but there was in this case unity, unanimity, unity, and they said yes to me, and the yes by the way was for PaoSong to go with me to Bangkok, Thailand, and try to get him a visa to the United States, which could not be done. We did it anyway by the power of god with a church praying against the world and Satan’s rule. I saw a tribe, it’s the only time I’ve ever seen one, and there was very little difference between tribal life and church life except Christ is present, but in their case they had them both, they had the tribe, and they had the church. Today they live in America, they only have the church, they don’t have the tribe anymore, but that’s okay they’ve got the church, they run it the same way.

Do you realize that the anthropologists are correct, and if by the end of this century there are no tribes left on the earth and everybody has been pressed into civilization, there is no witness to the way man originally lived unless there is the witness of the church. That’s tribal life, and I’m going to tell you something else, church life is at one of the lowest points in history. There is about as little church life on this earth as there has ever been. I’m telling you the truth I speak now as one who knows history, I’m not talking to you as one who likes to talk about negative things. You have heard the story right here of the church outside the organized church and it was huge and there were princes and kings who went and fought battles with them and there were thousands of them, today most people don’t even know there is a Christian faith outside the organized church. It concerns me. I’ve always taken great relief and joy in knowing that Nepal had church life, hundreds and hundreds of Christians in tribes in the church, ecclesia tribes in Nepal, but an organization the name of which I will not give, an organization went to Nepal and bought the Christian workers, and everybody is sitting in pews facing a pulpit, being preached to because of the power of money, and as I said, I will not tell you the name of that organization, but they swept the church almost off the face of the earth in that country. An organization replacing the body of Christ, and as I said, I will not tell you the name of that organization, but at least one of you have been a member of that organization at some time or other. I don’t like that. That’s one of those few things that can really make me angry and I’m upset about what happened in Nepal and I’m upset about what’s happening in some other country, I can’t remember the name of it right now, what’s the name of that country I can’t remember.

Anyway, what is my point. We need church life, but how did I get off on this, huh? it wasn’t the third day it was the land we need to show the powers and principalities that he doesn’t have it all. It may be close, but he doesn’t have it all and maybe what’s happening in this room is a little more important than we realize. I have no fear that it will be, the church will be snuffed out and the tribal life will end, but sometimes I get just a little scared, not afraid, but just a little nervous. Lord, are you looking are you taking note that church life has almost vanished from the earth, and perhaps the Lord is saying, Gene it almost vanished two or three times. Be at peace, to which I say okay Lord, but just before I die or before I die would you give me just a little reassurance, please. We need to return to community, to tribal life, when everybody gets together, they don’t even know what’s going on, it’s so natural. Tribal life is innate to us. Civilization is not innate to us civilization, is not a happy thing civilization is not a happy thing. You watched your own nation get so organized that it destroyed it. When I walk in and I have to get a receipt for this and I take it to this window and another receipt and fill out another sheet of paper and take it over here and I get out another sheet of paper and I go over there and finally they let me buy what I want or they give me what I need in the way of a passport, and I’ve spent half a day a victim of civilization, you have to come across the border and pay for gasoline you did not buy and did not use? That’s a good look at civilization.

The land. Now we’re going to close by taking just a moment’s look at light. Life. What kind of life is there, and you want to you want to you want to put a little line out there and say the first life ever to be known on the planet earth and what on earth is? It’s grass. Why so small, and the answer is there’s not enough light to get bigger life than that. We’ll watch for the fourth day. I’ll come back and talk with you later about the vegetables, but I need some more life before I can explain to you the vegetables. Just want you to look at the vegetable waving back and forth like this he’s blowing in the wind, what does he know? And a tree grows up beside him, what does he know? He doesn’t know anything, he has no consciousness whatsoever. Now they tell me a tree may have a little bit of consciousness, I don’t know if that’s true or not, but we got grass and we got trees. They have seed in them and they grow after their kind, but they’re just blowing in the wind they have no consciousness whatsoever.

Now just a word or two. I understand that astronomy and studying the big bang, the theory of the creation of creation, the big bang was an explosion and it’s one greatest feature was light. Light went out before heat did, light spewed out before energy, it was light a great burst of general light and I think we’re seeing here a record of that. This is not the light of the sun, this is a great general light that is spread everywhere, and it is able to produce grass that is unconscious and trees that are unconscious. Now the grass is a picture of Christ, so you could start off with another line right there and put wheat or grain. That’s the beginning of another picture of your Lord and his purpose. And light and third day and now even life and those little grasses are pictures of Christ. They have a, they preach the gospel when they come up out of the earth. First the earth rose, and after that the earth was able to produce life and seed, and Jesus Christ rose out of the earth and out of death and he was able to bring forth seed and life.

The story is here. I want to, just before I fade, please remember the universe has its story hidden in it, and please remember that Genesis 1 and 2 are filled with a mystery that no one knew. Genesis 1 and 2 gives us a trail of the mystery, gives us a hint of the mystery, a fingerprint of the mystery, but Genesis does not know what you know. You’ve had nine messages on what happened before creation, and when the Lord said “Let”, Christ and the father’s work before creation and what they did disappear. They’re forgotten, because they were never known. It is a secret to the trial in God.

As you open Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, you do not see Jesus Christ. He’s not there. There’s an account, but you and I are looking at the fingerprint. Yesterday I read in the paper that they have found more evidence of the big bang they have found its echo, a rippling echo, still the sound of the boom. Well, this is what Genesis 1 and 2 is, it’s got an echo of the mystery. There is a great secret hidden, hidden before “Let” and will not be revealed until Paul comes forth and declares the mystery. And he is a steward of that mystery, and he declares that mystery to you heathen, uncircumcised heathen, and it is hidden until then. We are looking at the echo. We are looking at the shadow. We’re looking at, like a detective, something happened here. What was it? Before we got here, something happened. What was it? Remember that we are stewards of this mystery, so that’s why we’re looking at Genesis 1 and 2, it is the one place you can go where there is no sin and the echoes of the mystery are echoing, so stay with me as we look at the echoes of the mystery, but always remember that the father and the son knew what was going on when this was all taking place, and they left the fingerprints of light and water and land, and vegetables, that are a shadow of Him who will be revealed.

So, we are looking at a revealing of our Lord this morning in Genesis 1, the first verses.

Brothers, sisters, Let there be light.