I can’t believe another year has come and gone. Every year, I ask God for a word for the year. Last year’s word was “clarity”. I think God did give us clarity in so many areas. He will continue to give us more and more clarity this year but I have felt like 2019 is going to be a year of “magnificent manifestations”. God’s plan has always been to fellowship with us and have a relationship with man so it doesn’t surprise me that manifestations would be something God would want to do. He is trying to communicate with us and show us his power. He wants us to be a people that he can trust with his power and his glory. The way to be that person is to keep the cross very close. It is only through humility and death that we can truly be exalted and live. God wants us to come where he is and is inviting us to his home to visit with him. He comes to ours all the time. The door is open in heaven and we have an open invitation to come and dine.
Read: Genesis 1:1-2:25; Matthew 1:1-2:12; Psalm 1:1-6; Proverbs 1:1-6
Yesterday we read in Revelation that in the end there would be no need for a sun and moon because the light of God would be the light. In Genesis, that was the first thing that God did. He shone his glory over the earth and light flooded the earth. Every day, God taught a different principle.
On the first day he separated light from darkness and gave them names. Light is called day and darkness is called night. On the second day he separated the waters. Some waters went above the expanse and some to the earth. The expanse in between heaven and earth was called Heaven which is the second heaven. In the Strongs it means “the sky, the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve.” There are three heavens: the first is our sky, the second is the place where angels and demons clash and the third is where the throne of God is. One the third day, God gathered the waters under the sky to one place. Waters stand for spirits. He called the waters on the earth “seas”. We call spirits on the earth the sea of humanity. The dry ground was called “Earth” which means common ground. Then God brought life in the form of a seed. Here is the Word of God coming to earth. Whatever seed was planted, it bore a plant that conformed to that seed. How true in our life. Whatever seed we are planting into our lives, we are bearing the fruit of it.
On the forth day, God called for lights in the heavens to separate the day from the night. These lights were to mark seasons, days and years. They were called the sun, the moon and the stars. The sun would stand for God, the moon would be the church and the stars would be the constellations that would stand for the individual people.
On the fifth day, God created living creature to fly above the earth and creatures to swim under the earth in the sea. These look like angelic and demonic leaders or princes.
On the sixth day, God created creatures to walk the earth both animals and man. These would be the objects of sacrifice for both kingdoms. Man was to rule the earth and he was blessed. He was to eat the seed-bearing plants so that he could be fruitful.
God rested the seventh day and blessed it. It was to be a holy day.
There is no way I can give justice to Genesis One so I’m going to highlight some and leave the rest. Notice that God saw that it was not good for man to be alone and he wanted man to realize it, so he told Adam to name the animals. In doing that, Adam noticed that he didn’t have a helpmeet. That is when God put him to sleep and formed Eve out of his chest. He took one of his ribs. Our ribs coincide with the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles. We have 24 ribs. I’m betting that God took the rib marked Judah and formed the Bride. God chose a tribe out of the twelve to birth the Messiah that all the world would be blessed and be able to come to the Marriage Feast of the Lamb.
We see this in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew. He was born of Judah. Then we have the written account of Jesus birth - a miracle conception showing that Jesus had a heavenly father and an earthly mother…just as we do. When we become saved, our we get a new father and are born again into a new family. Joseph had to be shown the ways of this new kingdom through dreams which he submitted to. Mary and Joseph were hand-picked by God because he knew they would obey just as we were hand-picked by God to live in these last days.
God reveals what he is doing in the sky and the Magi knew this. They were waiting for birth of the king of the Jews and when they saw his star appear, they knew it was different from all the other stars. When they came to Jerusalem and told King Herod, he and all of Jerusalem was disturbed because they knew the prophesy. This information got many babies killed, but God preserved Jesus. Satan did everything he knew to keep Jesus from living and it is his plan to kill, steal and destroy us also but God’s plan is to give us life and it is more powerful.
Lord, thank you for another year to read your awesome story of redemption.
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