Let the glory of the LORD endure forever; let the LORD be glad in His works. Psalm 104:31.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
You really do not know Me if you do not know how carefully and purposefully I look after all in My creation. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without My consent, I have every hair on your head counted. But if you do not know that you are the most important to Me in all I made, you do not know Me. Everything I have made and so carefully orchestrate and watch over is for you, for the children of men. I made everything for you and I richly supply you with all things to enjoy. 1 Timothy 6:17.
When are you the happiest? I will tell you when, it is when you are in perfect fellowship with Me and are conversing and receiving revelation from Me in My Word. That is how you began and that is who you are and I am. You came forth from Me, conceived by Me on the sixth day and spoken into being by My Word of faith at the time and place for which I have planned you to be in the earth and then forever in My Kingdom with Me.
One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the delightfulness of the LORD and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4.
And now in Jesus you have the desire expressed by David, I dwell in you and you dwell in My by My Spirit in you and you are My sanctuary where I have put My Name. Beautiful indeed is your inheritance.
You, like Abraham, are heir of the world. You are joint heirs with Christ and all I have is His. He is the firstborn of many brethren and you are all in the place of the firstborn in Him, the church of the firstborn.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in festal gathering, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. Hebrews 12:22-24.
But let us talk a little more about the creation of the earth and all that surrounds it in the three heavens. It is good for you to know these things so you may be able to address those who would say that science is above the Bible. No, the Bible is science at its best, no theories, no conjectures, for it is the exposition of the creation by the one who was there and created it. No man was present as I made the world and the first and second heavens and all they contain. No man or woman was present until I formed them in the Garden of Eden. Unless you have experienced something firsthand, by physical presence or by spiritual revelation, you cannot really explain it to another.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5.
And how did I do that? By My Word of faith. And the first thing I released was the light of life.
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. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Genesis 1:3-5.
Day and night. I made time where there had been no time but only the endless day of eternity. And it was then I set the divine timeline ticking off the years, days and hours of the time of redemption. The great romance of the crown of My creation, My people, My family, My treasure, had begun. And the rest of creation, and the sustaining of it by the Word of My power, continues day by day until now. And you know that:
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22.
What does the fact that I have put time in the earth, days and nights, and a finite amount of it mean? Your time on the earth was never meant to be your permanent home. I put eternity and the desire for My companionship in each person’s heart. It was a time for the test of whether I can trust you with eternity, ruling and reigning with Me in My Kingdom of perfect righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. A place filled with only one mind and heart, yes, the place where love is King and supreme in all, over all, and through all, pervading every bit of Heaven which is beyond limits and boundaries of space, time or matter, it is the continuum that encompasses all. What I have prepared for those who love Me, that is, those who pass the test, is beyond all you can ask or think, it surpasses human understanding and grasp, it must be shared with you by revelation of My Spirit. But it is a place where those faithful in the little things of this life find themselves master of amazing things beyond all they ever dared dream for.
There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever. Revelation 22:3-5.
There will come a Last Day, when I will raise you up to your eternal glorified body in the clouds to meet Jesus as you are changed from mortal flesh to immortal glory in the twinkling of an eye. All who have passed the one test by making the choice for life and not death, blessing (I blessed you from the start) and not cursing, faith and not fear, good and not evil. In other words, what shepherd did you choose to follow as your master and lord?
“The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.” 1 Peter 4:7.
There will be new heavens and a new earth, freed from the curse, where righteousness dwells and love is King.
And all the host of heaven will wear away, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; all their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree. Isaiah 34:4.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. 2 Peter 3:10-13.
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 19:11-15.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelation 20:1-4.
I speak the end from the beginning, but going back to the beginning you begin to see the progression of days. But remember to Me a thousand years are as a day and a day as a thousand years, 2 Peter 3:8, but they are finite and have a beginning and end. I do not. And you have a beginning in Me but no end.
Day one was the light, which set life in place and the realm of space. Day two was the forming of the atmosphere, the first heaven, the inner space, as I separated it from the second heaven, which houses the planets and stars of the universe, the outer space.
Then began the formation of the beauty and defining of boundaries, the rising of mountains, and the carving of rivers upon the sphere of the earth which My Spirit drew up as I inscribed it from the deep.
And so day three came and closed: Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. Genesis 1:9. Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. Genesis 1:11. . . And then day four: Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Genesis 1:14-15. . . And then day five: Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” Genesis 1:20. . . God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:21. . . And then day six: Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. Genesis 1:24.
But day six was about to close when I conceived every person in My heart, for the place of your earthly dominion had been prepared and was good. All was ready for the conception of the Masterpiece which would stretch out to every person made from the beginning to the end of time, but it was all set in place to move through the days of time unto eternity on the evening of the sixth day. And though little in your own eyes you are great in My eyes. You have a part to play, a gift to share, a song to give that is your life.
And we will look at you in the next Life Lesson.
I love you. Everything is for you, and in being for you it is also for Me. You are not complete without Me and I am not complete without you. That is why I will never leave you or forsake you.