| Evolution 4/24/06 George Poulo Verse 1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth Verse 2: And the earth was without form and void and darkness Was upon the face of the deep. Gen1:1-2 ...God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 1John1:5b Before the beginning was, light was. God is light. He can not cause darkness or evil. No darkness or evil can come out of him. Since this is eternally true, between verse one and verse two something had to have happened. Something had to cause the darkness upon the deep. Before the darkness, light must have been all over the heaven and the earth because God is light. The seven days of creation, however, took place with God working with the "darkness upon the deep." Where did the darkness come from? Certainly, God did not cause it. He can not do it. Darkness is the consequence of sin. It is the absence of light. As new creatures in Christ, we speak to the darkness, we speak to sin, we speak to sickness and poverty and evil to create light, and health and wholeness and holiness. God spoke to the darkness and the formlessness and the void and the first thing that was manifest was light, light similar to Him. In the beginning of time the angels were in the heaven and dinosaurs and all prehistoric things were in the earth. We know that angels must have been in the heavens because God does not record creating them in the seven days of creation. The heaven and the earth could have lasted billions of years given what modern science says about the evolutionary clock. At some point between GEN1:1 and GEN1:2, Lucifer, the angel of light rebelled against God (Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28) and due to that sin; darkness and the void came upon the deep. Then at some point possibly six thousand years ago, God spoke to the darkness and the void and in the seven days recorded in the book of Genesis, re-"created" the earth and God called it "good." Good is known in contrast to evil. We know that God is "good" in contrast to the evil that surrounds us. Jesus said, "Only God is good." (Math19:17) Good implies separation. When God created the heaven and the earth GEN1:1, "good" was not, only God, light and communion and oneness. Before sin, there was no separation, no division and therefore no good and evil. When Lucifer fell, evil was born. When God called everything He made good, he called it good in contrast to evil. Though Adam and Eve were in complete communion with God and full of light, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in opposition to the communion all around them. Because God cannot create evil, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil could not have been planted by God. It must have been the remnant of the first fall and planted by Lucifer because only this tree of the garden could make one die. It had to exist because Jesus had not redeemed all creation as yet. It had to be evil because it was separate from the rest of the Garden of Eden. When Adam sinned, the forces of evil once again began to bring darkness and evil to God�s creation. The cross of Christ began the process of redemption whereby there will be a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth will be completely destroyed, and Satan and all evil spirits and the unsaved will enter the lake of fire. "God is a consuming fire" (Heb12:29) In the new heaven and the new earth Jesus and all the good angels and saints will live for all eternity and his eternal priesthood and blood will keep us there, holy, pure, and blissful and once again, full of light. Amen. |
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