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"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
In the fifth century BC, an ancient historian named Thucydides confidently noted that nothing of importance had happened before his time.
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
Job 38:4
Thucydides was a narcissistic myopic, but our planet has suffered somewhat from the same affliction. Somewhere back in time, we came to the conclusion that we, on this tiny planet, are all alone in this fantastically, overwhelmingly large universe, and, therefore, we must be very special. God made only us. We are an only child.
Maybe it's time we shed our egos and broadened our horizons. We call our galaxy The Milky Way, and we have named the planets in our solar system after ancient gods; even their moons have names, but what do we call our planet? Earth. That's it—Earth. We have earth all to ourselves. Perhaps we should have our planet, and our moon, legalized within the nations of the universe by giving them each a name because you see...
We are not alone—and we are not on earth. We are only a microscopic speck of dust of the earth.
Jesus said to his disciples:
"...if you go to where the invisibles are...and look back at the world of men...it will have the condition of a speck of dust because of the distance...."
G.R.S. Mead, Pistis Sophia (New Jersey: University Books Inc., 1974), p. 156.
We would not have to leave the universe for that observation. Just wandering around in the cosmos would have the same effect.
In the beginning when God created the earth, he extended his Energy down into what would become heaven and then further down into what the Bible refers to as the deep or the depth and what we call the universe.
(The biblical "deep" or "depth" was also used to describe the oceans and the internal planetary waters on occasion, but the verses pertaining to either subject are easy to distinguish by their content).
In this depth, God created a form and force of energy that the Bible refers to as earth and what we call matter.
Today we have named all matter that is within the universe the cosmos, and this matter, or earth, is energy in the form of solids, liquids and gases. Earth is actually only dust, and our planet is only a tiny speck of dust of the earth that in the beginning God created.
Words like cosmos and universe were not in the biblical translator's vocabulary and this is one of the reasons for the many misinterpretations throughout the Bible—especially the creation story.
Genesis 1:1 says that God created the earth. To readers of the Bible it has always been assumed that this meant our tiny planet because we have always called it earth. Think for a moment, how—and why—would our planet have been created before the rest of the cosmos?
In Proverbs 8:22-27, Wisdom personified as female said:
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. While as yet he had not made the earth...nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth....
"...he set a compass upon the face of the depth...." The dictionary meaning of the word deep or depth is that which is the most central part; low in pitch; dark in color; intense; extreme. That describes the universe, or space, perfectly.
The black, cold vacuum that the stars, the planets, the galaxies and all other matter in the universe orbit, spin, spiral, or tumble around
in was NOT created.
Actually, the word vacuum may not be the correct description of space. Some scientists have discovered that space may not be as empty as previously thought, and they are theorizing that a form of energy they call anti-gravity appears to be pulling the cosmos apart.
Steven Hawking once said, "The universe is neither created nor destroyed. It just is." He is right. The depth always was, and a "compass" was used to measure out the size of the cosmos to be and to set a limit as to how far it would expand within the universe. The universe has a boundary. It is a SPHERE in the center of the Light, and the heaven of heavens surrounds it.
...and he walks in the circuit of heaven....
Job 22:14
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 1:8
"I am Alpha and Omega...." Something that is both a beginning and an ending is a CIRCLE that goes around and around—forever.
The universe has a boundary and the third heaven has a boundary, but with God there are no limits. Can anyone imagine that? Can anyone imagine a space or an area that has no borders, which goes on in every direction—forever? With God there is no time and no distance. Alpha and Omega.
The edge of the universe may never be attainable by humankind. It is a sphere that has a barrier of light called a firmament that separates it from the heaven of the invisibles, and we can only leave our universe when we shed our earthly bodies and become one with the Light of lights.
He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:7
Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if you know it all.
Job 38:18
And, you, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
Hebrews 1:10
I am the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone: that spreads abroad the earth by myself;
Isaiah 44:24
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handywork.
Psalms 19:1
Bless the LORD...Who covers yourself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain....
Psalms 104:2
Science has come to accept that the creation of matter within the universe started out with a "Big Bang" and we also know that the matter that was created with this big bang has been expanding for eons.
The universe does not expand. It’s the matter (the cosmos) within the universe that has been expanding. We tend to use the two words interchangeably, but there is a distinction between the two in the Bible.
At a certain point in time—when this matter has reached the boundary of the universe—it will begin to contract, and it will do so for many more eons, until it is back to zero—and nothingness.
The expansion and contraction of the cosmos is just one breath of God, and only one brief history of time. Then, in another beginning, God will create the heaven and earth AGAIN!
Alpha and Omega—FOREVER
Lauretta Lueck is the author of The Many Waters, “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
She has studied world religion for more than thirty years. Her first discovery of the symbolic meanings in the Bible and other ancient writings came in the 1970's; she waited for someone else to make the same discovery; no one has to date - thus her book, The Many Waters, was published in the year 2000.
Her book can be purchased either through Amazon.com or by the publisher at rosettastonepress.com.
(c) 2005 Lauretta Lueck
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