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How God made ALL
things by Jesus Christ.
Now the Word of
John 1:1
was with God {1} and He was
also God. I mean, He was with
God, and He became Christ.
But originally when He was
just called the Logos in Greek
(or in the English language it's
translated into the word
"Word") which means Spokes-
man, revelatory thought. He
was God, and He was with
God. It's just like John can be
with Smith, but John is also
Smith because he's the son of
Smith.
Now at the time of John 1:1 the
Word was not yet the Son of
God. I wonder if you realized
that. He did not become the
Son of God until He was born
of the virgin Mary; and that's
only a little over 1900 and, oh,
about 1980 some years ago.
Then He became Christ; but
originally He was The Word,
but He also was God.
Back in Genesis 1 verse 1 you
find "in the beginning Elohim,"
and that was written in the
Hebrew language. The word
for "God" translated into the
English word God is there
Elohim, which is a uniplural
noun like the word family or
church, or team or group: more
than one person forming one
group, or more than one
person forming one church or
one family.
God is only one God, but
there's more than one Person
in God. And you find that if
you go to John 1:1 that explains
a lot about Genesis {2}1:1 "In
the beginning God," Elohim, a
uniplural. That's why when you
come to verse
26
God said
"Let
(not)
Me make man in
My image."
God said --
Elohim, the uniplural, more
than one Person, said --
"Let
Us make man in Our
image."
Now, as you go on through, you
can explain a great many other
things from other parts in the
Bible.
"In the beginning
God created the heavens
and the earth"
-- and it
should be plural heavens, not
heaven as it is in the King
James. You'll find that other
translations, as far as I know I
think about all of them, give it
'heavens,' plural. In the
Hebrew Moses wrote it plural
'heavens,' not one, just heaven.
There are three heavens men-
tioned in the Bible: the heaven
where the birds fly, where we
find air planes today; then the
heaven which is above that,
which we call outer space
today, where our astronauts
have gone and where the other
planets exist; and then the
heaven of God's throne, and I
think that is sometimes called
the 3rd heaven. That's not
necessarily still further away. It
is the 3rd heaven, and we don't
know where that is.
There is only one place in the
Bible that gives us an idea, and
that's in the (let me see) the
14th chapter of Isaiah where it
speaks of it as being in the far
north. I think it is referring to
the throne of God and God's
heaven at that place.
TOHU AND BOHU
Now as you go a little further
you find that that throws a
great deal of light on what is in
Genesis 1:1. The very next verse
begins to lead to a lot of other
things.
"And the earth was with-
out form and void."
Now
you go back to the Hebrew
word,
"and the earth was,"
and in this case it means
'became'
because the same
Hebrew word is used "became"
in other places in Genesis.
Philadelphia Remnant Jul/ Aug/ Sept 2013
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”