“Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? Exodus 15:11.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Since I raised you who believe in My Son with Him and in Him when I raised Him from the dead and seated you with Him at My right hand, you must realize that you are living in the eternal while you are in the temporal. Though still physically upon the earth as ambassadors of My Kingdom given the ministry of reconciliation, you have access in your spirit to the heavenly realm. And eternal life, as Jesus My Word defined it for you, is to know Me, the one and only true God, and the One I sent to you as your Salvation, Jesus your Lord. And since you are seated in Him with Me you should be growing in your knowledge of Me and of My Will so that you can be working with Me in partnership with My Son bringing the Kingdom to earth.
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:1-3.
To walk in your purpose and plan, for the obtaining of your full reward and the power to achieve that, you must know Me, for in knowing Me you will know everything. For everything is conceived in Me and comes from Me.
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Psalm 90:1-2.
I am God but those who know Me are My special treasures though all the earth is Mine.
O continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart. Let not the foot of pride come upon me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. Psalm 36:10-11.
Unless you know Me in spirit and in truth, pride or the wicked can easily drive you away from the path of life, from the way, the truth and the life, and can separate you from Me.
“So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:3.
But if you know and believe in who I am and the love I have for you, then nothing will be able to separate you from Me.
In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39.
As you grow in the knowledge and in relationship with Me and Jesus, grace and peace are multiplied in your life. Also it will become clear to you, through the true knowledge of who I am and that I have called you into My own glory and excellence, that I have already supplied you with and granted to you everything pertaining to life and godliness. In Christ, all of My precious and magnificent promises are “yes” to you so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
So let us begin the journey in My Word and start at the beginning so you can know who I am and when you know that you will also know who you are and how everything else fits in as well.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:1-4.
I am the creator of everything. I create the works of My hands in much the same way you do for I created you out of Myself and made you in My image and according to My likeness.
I first envision what I wish to create deep within Me, from My innermost being. I form the plan in seed form, it is all there in the vision with every part in place and every detail arranged, and as I generate it to birth it becomes real in My heart. And in the fullness of time, I bring it forth to birth by speaking the Word that frames it, which contains the structure and plan, combined with My faith, which is the substance that My Holy Spirit works with to manifest it in the earth realm. I create by My Word spoken with faith. And that is the way you create, it begins as a vision, a picture, a plan, in the realm of your spirit and then through speaking the vision is painted in others hearts by your words and your written diagrams and plans so that it can be created and becomes manifest in the physical world too.
And you will see as the years went on, I would partner with My people in constructing a dwelling for Myself among them to travel with them. I gave them the riches with which to build it, then I gave Moses the heavenly pattern in plans to bring the vision to the earth realm, and I then gave the people the skills and desire to follow the plans to build it exactly according to the heavenly pattern. The tabernacle was the first joint building project of man and God.
Now I will let My Holy Spirit, the Spirit of wisdom personified, tell you of what took place as I created the heavens and the earth and set things in place in the second heaven as they are now. But if you will note, if you look back at Genesis 1, I created the earth before anything else in the universe.
“Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth; while He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world. When He established (kun (כּוּן): to set up, establish, prepare, make firm, fix, to erect (stand perpendicular)) the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed (chaqaq (חָקַק): to inscribe, decree, carve, engrave, set, hack) a circle (chug (חוּג): circle, compass) on the face of the deep, when He made firm the skies above, when the springs of the deep became fixed, when He set for the sea its boundary, so that the water would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth; then I was beside Him, as a master workman; and I was daily delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in the world, His earth, and having my delight in the sons of men.” Proverbs 8:27-30.
I created the earth round with a compass in it, magnetic poles that keep it tilted at the correct angle as it rotates on its axis.
And I separated darkness from light at the very beginning of creation when I formed the earth.
“He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness.” Job 26:10.
Many people say science and religion differ and are at odds. You will hear people reject the Bible saying they believe “science.” But long before any scientist “discovered” that the world is round and rotates around the sun, I had revealed this to you by My Spirit in the Bible. And My first words, “Light be” released the force of light traveling at what “science” has finally calculated at 186,282 miles per second, which is the speed at which angels travel, laying out the height and breadth, width and length of the second heaven or what you term the “universe” or “outer space,” which no scientist has been able to reach the end of yet. But for Me, I fill it all and know every star by name, though your machines cannot calculate their number. Wonders beyond your numbers.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Great is our LORD and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite. Psalm 147:3-5.
“To whom then will you liken Me that I would be his equal?” says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars, the One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, not one of them is missing. Isaiah 40:25-27.
I made the sun, the moon, the stars and all the planets and galaxies on the fourth day of creation and I set them all in order by very specific laws. I do everything in perfect order by weights, measures, balance, and laws.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavens by the span, and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the hills in a pair of scales? Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as His counselor has informed Him? Isaiah 40:12-13.
All matter, space and time I have set the boundaries and the movement of. The same with the ocean waves and the tides.
He established the earth upon its foundations, so that it will not totter forever and ever. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters were standing above the mountains. At Your rebuke they fled, at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass over, so that they will not return to cover the earth. Psalm 104:5-9.
As I created all things over the course of the week of days, I went exactly according to the plan in My heart so that all I created worked together like a perfect symphony, each part supporting and supplying the whole, working together to bring life and the provision for it on the earth. All creatures with a specific niche and work, all water cycling and recycling, rivers through the dry land going to the sea so that all the earth was to be watered so man could spread Eden everywhere.
O LORD, how many are Your works! With wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures. There is the sea, great and broad, in which are swarms without number, animals both small and great. There the ships move along, and Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it. They all wait for You to give them their food in due season. You give to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good. You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their breath, they expire and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. Psalm 104:24-30.
Moses, in Psalm 90, told you how in that realm of light one thousand years are as a day and a day as a thousand years, way before you discovered “relativity.”
But you will note in creation, I began with the earth. I formed it and by My Words and the work of My hands, the Holy Spirit, I made the sphere and surrounded it with the protective atmosphere, as I spoke into being the first heaven, the raquia, the atmosphere that surrounds your earth and makes it just right for each of you to live and move and breath. And after that began the artistry of sea, the land, the plants, the sun, moon, starts and all the galaxies of the second heaven, just for appointed times, signs, seasons, and to shed light on the earth.
I made everything for you. I made everything with you in mind. I prepared everything before I formed you and planted a garden for you to dwell in to learn how to rule and reign with Me. I blessed you from the start and have never stopped. We will talk more in our next Life Lesson.