As it was from the beginning…. Part One

As it was from the beginning, revealing what had been hidden from before the foundation of the world, it wasn’t so from the beginning…. are all passages that we’ve often quoted, read or heard and yet have we missed some of the most profound lessons/teachings that are shared in the opening pages of the book of Genesis??  Those that set the stage for so much of what is recorded in the rest of the bible?  Let’s have a look…..

The first thing that we can see from the opening pages of the book of Genesis is that it records that God created everything, blessed it and spoke to it Himself giving each element of it His instruction/commandment on what they were to do, what the purpose was for each, and what had been provided for them.

This was not coming to them, according to the opening chapter of Genesis from any other source other than God.  The provisions for each were created before they were… the waters before the living creatures that the waters would bring forth, the trees and the herbs that would be for food…. all that God knew that each would have need of, the book of Genesis records that God created before creating those that would have need of those things.

In the opening chapter of Genesis we see that after all living creatures were created, God then said “let us make man in our image and after our likeness”.  Then we see from this very same chapter, that this “male and female” created was given instruction as to what they were to do as well… what was given to them to be their food…. all from God directly.  No writings to read, or study… no preachers, teachers, pastors, or prophets… no man at all or works of man involved in any of this.  In fact, “man” in the creation was the last on the list of “created” … right before God is shown to have said “it is good”!

Genesis 1:28:  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

So it was God that not only blessed them, but spoke to them, giving them His commandments/instructions Himself as well as what it was that they were to do …

Genesis 1:29: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

As it was from the beginning….. God Himself blessed all things that He created, and gave them instruction Himself as to what it was that they were to do, what had been given to them to be their food, and all that had been provided for them God told them He has provided for them Himself.

So before we move on to Part Two of what the bible tells us “as it was from the beginning”… let’s do a quick summary there of the key points to keep in mind…

1.  God is the one that created all things.

2.  It is God that blessed them Himself.

3.  It is God that spoke to each Himself giving them instruction as to what they were to do.

4.  It is God that told them what He has provided for them as well.

5.  The source for all things and what each would have need of was created by God, blessed by God, instructed by God, and provided by God Himself.

Matthew 6:8b: (Jesus to His disciples)…” for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”

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