FRAGMENTATION OF "SPIRIT THOUGHTS" INTO DUST
Eph. 1:1-4
We were chosen in Christ before the foundation (casting down or disruption) of the world. This took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth". From the Ferrar Fenton translation. There is more than one beginning. The heavens were created first. This is the invisible spiritual realm - the ruling realm. There is a natural realm and there is also a spiritual realm, implying we cannot have one without the other. 1 Cor. 15:44 and Heb. 11:3.
The spiritual realm rules over the natural realm. But the natural realm is manifested or seen first. This is seen in the birth of a baby, it is seen first. But there would be no baby without the inner-spirit body. We need both to manifest life. 1 Cor. 15:46. Life is invisible. It existed long before it was made visible to the human eye. When God created the first heaven and earth, He simply spoke a Word, and it was done, complete and whole. Psa. 33:6-9. The Word is Christ, Anointed Spirit which is God. Christ is the Image and Form of God, yet invisible to human eyes. Col. 1:15 and Phil. 2:5. He is also the Angel of God's presence. Ex. 32:34. This is Christ in angelic form in order to be made visible to Moses - this was not Jesus! Jesus' body had not been formed in the womb of Mary yet. This Word-Christ was made flesh and dwelt among us. God manifested in flesh, AND FLESH IS DUST!
Thus we find there was a race of angelic (celestial) men long before our present heaven and Earth was created which lived between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. And God said: Let there be light, and there was light."
I cannot conceive or imagine God speaking to inanimate things like land and water. I believe "face" of the "deep" and "face" of the "waters" speaks of the conscious or sub-conscious minds of intelligent beings able to hear and obey the Word of God. The Bible is allegorical, like the parables of Jesus, and cannot be taken only literally. We can only compare spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor. 2:13-14, Gal. 4:24.
THREE HEAVENS AND EARTH
2 Peter 3:5-7 and 13
In these verses, Peter speaks of three heavens and earth. "That by the word of God the heavens were of old"....the world that then was overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth that are now, by the same word are kept in store.....nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and earth. 2 Pet. 5:13
Peter is not referring to the flood, but to the chaos between the first two verses in Genesis. He tells us the first heavens and earth perished. Comparing this with Jeremiah 4:23-25, who also is speaking of this disaster, claims in verse 25, "I beheld, and Lo, there was no man. In Noah's flood there were eight souls saved in the ark. All had not perished. See Isa. 24:1. The world we have today is actually the second heavens and earth. But we are looking for New Heavens and Earth in which dwelleth righteousness - the Third Heaven and Earth.
Now going back to Genesis 1:2, God did not leave this heaven and earth in this chaotic condition. We read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep. "Face" speaks of intelligence and "deep" speaks of the unconscious realm. God is speaking to beings able to respond. In Revelation "water" speaks of a multitude. God is always the first "Mover" in the restoration of His creation. "And God said, Let there be light - and there was light." Spirit speaking to spirit and Christ speaking to Christ.
I see this is an allegory describing our own awakening. Christ within is the first mover. He moves upon our unconscious mind, awakening our memory to who we once were in God. Christ awakens our inherent or pre-birth wisdom, lying dormant within us. Causing us to "come to ourself", as the prodigal son "came to himself". For he said, "I will arise and go to my Father." So we remember our Father. "By faith are ye saved, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." freely given to all men. This takes us back to the very beginning, before there was any thing - No-Thing - just the Spirit-thought or God's Idea.
Before time began we were just a thought in the mind of God. We were chosen in Christ or before the foundation (disruption or casting down-Gk) of the world. Eph. 1:4; when Christ was forordained to be the Lamb of God, (1 Pet. 1:20). BEFORE TIME BEGAN, in the mind of God, Christ was chosen, though He was SLAIN FROM THE DISRUPTION. Rev. 13:8 I see a difference between the word, BEFORE ANDFROM . He was chosen BEFORE the disruption when time began, and he was slain FROM the disruption or when TIME BEGAN, long before the literal cross on Golgotha's hill and our names were written in the book of life long before we knelt at a mourners bench. Rev. 17:8
[my comment: when spirit manifested into form, the slaying began....death began.....this is when the Word became flesh...this is when the Word became Dust.....and remains as the desert of dust until watered by the spirit to bloom and blossom. Remember how Genesis chapter one tells how "dry" land appeared and then in chapter two, man is formed from this dry land. This 'dry land' condition was the lowering of man. In the OT the spirit or the water came 'upon' man to empower him but in the NT the spirit or water comes up from the deep or from within returning us to the original order and making us a well watered land.]
FATHER AND SON or THE LAMB COMPANY
Rev. 3:14
"These things saith the Amen, the faithful witness, the beginning of the creation of God." KJV
"The Prime Source of all God's creation." NEB
"The Primeval Source of God's creation." TLB
"GOD'S CREATIVE ORGINAL." LCNT
These four translations are all speaking of the Word-Christ, the Anointing, spoken out of God as the first creative act. The Word-Christ or The True and Faithful Witness, is the beginning of the creation of God. Not only is the Word-Christ, the beginning of all things created, but He is also The Vital Primeval Life Source and Force through which all things were created and sustained. The Word-Christ is the original creative power God used to speak forth His own SON out of His bosom, conceived in thought, and now expressed and manifested in Image and Form. "Christ the image of the invisible God." Col. 1:15 "Who being in the form of God." Phil. 2:5, John 1:18.
"In a beginning was the Word, and Word was WITH God, and a God was the Word. This was in a beginning WITH the God. All through IT was done, and without IT was done not even one, that has been done." John 1:1-3 This is the word by word translation out of the Greek, Diaglott.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was TOWARD God; and the God was the word. This was in the beginning toward God. All came into being through IT, and apart from It not even one thing came into being which has come into being. In IT was life, and the life was the light of men." Literal Concordant New Testament.
"Before anything else existed, there was Christ with God. He has always been alive and is Himself God. He created everthing there is - nothing exists that He did not make. Eternal life is in Him, and this life gives light to all men." John 1:1-3 TLB
There is an explanation in the Living Bible concering Christ: "The Word, meaning Christ, is the wisdom and power of God and the first cause of all things; God's personal expression of Himself to men." This is in harmony with the translation given of Rev. 3: 14, Christ is the primeval Source or Power through with God created all things.
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