Walkin' on wind's wings

In Bible commentary notes below Genesis 1:2 (‘And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters’), there’s commonly a reference given to Deuteronomy 32:11 (‘As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings’), because that’s where the other occurrence for the Hebrew word that is translated “move,” lies.

“When it says that thing about her fluttering over her young, the Hebrew word translated ‘flutter’ is the same word for ‘moved’ in Genesis 1:2,” explains Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org). “So all the commentaries say, ‘See, the Spirit of God fluttered over the face of the deep.’ Now, did that help you understand something? Well, it never did me.

“I look that word up in the dictionary and I say, ‘Flutter? The Spirit of God fluttered? What’s He doing?! What does that mean?!’

“The commentaries never made any sense to me until one day I met up with a fellow, a farmer down in Alabama, who had chickens. You learn a lot from people who just know about life.

“I was asking him, ‘Doug, what in the world is a chicken doing when it’s fluttering?!’ He says, ‘Oh, that’s no problem; she’s roosting on her nest.’

“It’s not a bird off flying all around or soaring up; its when a bird tries to sit down on its nest and get settled in on it and kind of flutters around and gets its feathers all up and you don’t know what they’re doing and she’s trying to get her brood together and sit down on it.

“I went back and looked at that verse: ‘As an eagle stirreth up her nest.’ You know what she’s doing? She’s getting her family together; she’s putting her house in order and she’s going to settle down on her nest.

“I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what the Spirit of God was doing!’ When God began to move on the face of that water, He began to give some attention to this place. He was doing the same thing a bird does, not just flying willy-nilly around, but fluttering over the nest. The nest is your home.

“So immediately in Genesis, God’s doing something that’s going to relate to some place He’s going to call home. Now, here’s His home up (in the third heaven) but He’s doing something down here that is going to have something to do with His nest.

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“Psalm 104 is a Millennial psalm—a psalm about the Second Coming of Christ—when Christ comes, looks back and is able to praise God for what He’s done. He’s come down and is living—Emmanuel God living with us on the EARTH.

“Psalm 104: [1] Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
[2] Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

“He’s got His curtain up there and He blocks out His light. This thing in here is all dark because the curtain keeps the light out.

“Verse 3 says, [3] Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind.

“Tell me something--what are God’s chambers? That’s a building; that’s where He lives! There’s a particular place on the earth that He created to dwell in. That place is known all through your Bible.

“Understand, when God created this stuff, the reason He created the earth was He was creating a place to put His house and to live on.

“He created it for the purpose of bringing His chambers down here to dwell on. So God, in six days, creates an environment on the earth suitable for His chambers--His palace, the mini-mansions--to exist.”