Here’s another outtake from Alex Kurz’ study on Bible
science and creation:
You know the age-old question: “Why am I here?” “Oh, you’re
just a big accident. You know, a bunch of energy hit a pool of slime and here
we are.”
You think Adam walked around assuming there was a lightning
bolt that hit some slime and there he was?
Can you imagine Adam—he’s talking to God! “Why am I here?
Who am I? Who are you? What’s going on?”
So, what’s the Lord seeking to do with Adam during those first days
there in the Garden of Eden? He informs Adam about this rebel (the Adversary),
which is why God created Adam.
God says, “Adam, I created you because I want YOU to exercise
universal reign and rule on this planet.” He didn’t say, “I need somebody to
take care of ants.”
God told Adam, “You’re going to have dominion over the seas
and every creeping thing.”
God says, “You see those birds flying in the air? They are
a representation and a foreshadow of some other creatures flying out there in
the universe. You see, that eagle has two wings but there are creatures with six
wings and then there are creatures that fly around with no wings.” Superman,
where did that concept come from?
Genesis 1:21: [21] And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
God says, “You see that big fish out there, Adam? You’re
king of the whale.” What was Adam supposed to do with that creature? Was he to
go out there every morning with minnows to try and feed it?
Ezekiel 32: [1] And it came to pass in the twelfth
year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say
unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in
the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with
thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
This isn't the Pharoah where Israel was delivered, but this is later on when they engaged in combat in Babylon. God’s not just speaking to
that guy; he’s speaking to the real spiritual entity and power behind that
rebel.
In Scripture, who is described as a sea creature? Satan is
a whale. Satan’s called the Leviathan. He’s called the behemoth. He’s also
called the serpent and he’s occupying the seas out there.
So, when God created the physical, material whale, it is a
shadow of a creature also called a whale in the INVISIBLE realm.
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Remember when God wiped out all of the human race except
for the eight people on the ark? Then God says, “Here’s my prophecy. I won’t
destroy humanity with a flood anymore.”
How did God seal the covenant? Ezekiel 1: [27] And I
saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it,
from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his
loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had
brightness round about.
[28] As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of
rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell
upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel literally sees the throne room of Almighty God and
he describes a rainbow like in the day of rain. What did Noah see in Genesis 9?
That rainbow is a replica of the rainbow that surrounds the throne. There are
waters in the third heaven.
How did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? Where did the
brimstone come from? God opened up the windows of heaven and guess what fell
down? Brimstone.
Remember when God fed Israel with manna from heaven? It’s
called “angels’ food.” Angels have to
eat? According to Psalm 78 they do:
[21] Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth:
so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
[22] Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
[23] Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors
of heaven,
[24] And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of
the corn of heaven.
[25] Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
We could go on and on. When Moses was instructed to build
the tabernacle, which is the example and pattern of “the true tabernacle which
the Lord pitched,” the Lord actually gives him the recipe to make the incense.
He says, “You’re going to use special spices for perfume.” Apothecary and all
that.
In Revelation 8, John sees the throne room in the third
heaven:
[3] And another angel came and stood at the altar,
having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he
should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was
before the throne.
[4] And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the
saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
The material universe is patterned after its counterpart in the invisible realm and that’s a fascinating aspect when studying the creation.
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A related post:
God's mandate to man is in Genesis 1: [26] And
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
"If you're made in the image of God, you're going to be His
representative, and if you're made in His likeness, you're going to be
God-like, which is what godliness is. It's god-likeness, says Richard Jordan.
"When you're like God, you understand why God created you, what creation
is for, what's going on, and you're going to be able to labor WITH God in like
manner. You're going to work like God would work.
"Godliness is not just knowing what God's doing, and
it's not even just laboring with Him in it, it's having the delight in it that
He has.
"That verse in Jeremiah says, [24] But let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which
exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
these things I delight, saith the LORD.
"God is saying, 'Don't glory in your wisdom, your money, your pomp and all
the other stuff. Glory in this, that you know what I delight in!'
"In Hebrews 10, quoting Psalm 40, Jesus said, '[7] Then said I, Lo,
I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.'
"The psalmist says, 'I delight to do thy will.' When the Lord Jesus Christ
came, He came delighting in what the Father's will was. The verse says, 'For
the joy that was set before him he endured the cross, despising the shame.'
"You understand His will and then it consumes your heart and becomes the
joy of your own heart. That was God's plan for Adam and for Eve.
"God designed for them to be the ruler of creation and He equipped man to
do that. He gave him a world. I love Genesis 2:1: '[1] Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.'
"God took Adam and Eve and placed them in a finished work. Do you know of
another finished work? Calvary? He took you and me and put us in the finished
work of His Son. That's a fascinating thing. It starts right there in chapter 2
of Genesis; God thinking about FINISHING a work."