1. The book of Genesis begins with the statement: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” In Hebrew, the first word is “bereshit”, which means beginning. In Greek, the word “genesis” means origin. The book of Genesis, therefore, is about the beginning, the origin. But the beginning and origin of what? Of time, and not just of creation (Gen. 1:1).
2. In Revelation 21: 6 we read: “It has all come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” The beginning mentioned in Genesis has an end. However, creation itself will have no end. Thus, Genesis does not refer to the beginning of creation, but of time, which is marked by a beginning and an end. That is, at the beginning of time, and within it, God brought all creation into being (Gen. 1:1; Rev. 21:6; 22:13).
3. Before time, there was God in eternity. He exists from eternity to eternity. Yet He placed creation, represented by man, within the confines of time so that Christ would be the Head over all things in the fullness of time. Today, God has placed His children in the church to fulfill this purpose. When Christ heads all things, the end of the age will come (Ps. 90:2; Isa. 57:15; Heb. 13:8; Jas. 1:17; Eph. 1:9-10, 22-23).
4. “Everything we do, we do in the name of Jesus. And when we do this, things happen—not because of anything in ourselves, but because we use the authority of the Head, who is far above all principality, power, and dominion in the heavenly places (Eph. 1:20-21)” (Daily Food, Book 5, Week 4, Tuesday, p. 59).
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