In the Beginning

God Had a Plan

Richard Coon

• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781098080624
• eBook ISBN: 9781098080631
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

In the Beginning is the result of a semi-annual study of Genesis in which God revealed interesting concepts that were organized into a series of Bible studies.

As the book of beginnings, it introduces us to GodaEUR"both the deity and the character, His reason for creation, and His plan to restore His creation after its demise. It reveals principles that become the legal precedence that form the foundation for GodaEUR(tm)s plan of salvation.

In this book, we unveil some of these principles established in the beginning and answer some questions along the way.

How the existence of God is the only possible explanation of creation.

What happened between Genesis 1: 1 and 1: 2?

How the natural and spiritual restoration occurred in six days.

How Eve was a part and apart of Adam.

How the new birth was designed and foreordained.

How Adam and Eve failed God.

How death was actually merciful.

Six Days of Restoration

In the previous chapters, we discovered that God created the universe perfect, and inhabited, and ruled by Lucifer—both before and after Lucifer’s rebellion, which God put down and destroyed the earth.

Next we see God coming to the earth to reverse the curse and restore the earth to its first state of perfection. God could not allow His creation to remain cursed because it is not in His nature. He IS the God of restoration! So even before the creation, God had a plan to restore the earth.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:18–20)

The restoration process took six days.

Day One—Light

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And 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, the first day. (Genesis 1:3–5)

This was the first appearance of sunlight since God commanded the heavens to withhold light, causing the judgment of Genesis 1:2.

The Hebrew word “haya” for “be” means to “become” or “come forth” or “appear” indicating that light was in existence but hidden behind the darkness.

“Let” is used fourteen times in this chapter, and in no case is a creative act implied. The sense is to allow and give permission to something already existing and to set boundaries within which the thing operates.

Both light and darkness had been created with the universe in the beginning. Here they aren’t created but separated, as before the chaos of Genesis 1:2 with the limitations that light could only occupy the day and darkness the night. Thus the boundaries were set for these competing forces.

The first thing God brought forth was light.

Light allows us to see what is hiding in the dark. Let us get God’s light on the situation then we can see clearly. Also, on the first day God said, “Let there be light.” Notice that God spoke and still speaks today. But are we listening?

Darkness is the condition of sin.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:19–20)

Man fears the light because it exposes the evil done in the darkness. God divided the day into equal hours of light and darkness so we can choose to work during the day or at night. If we choose the darkness, it will be exposed in the light of day or we can choose the light and avoid the darkness.

We can choose God’s Light (Jesus) who enters our hearts to deliver us from sin thus separating us from darkness. Jesus is the Light of the world.

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)

Without God’s light, we cannot see the need for a savior.

Day Two—Waters Separated

And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. (Genesis 1:6–8)

Psalm 104:5–6 speaks of God sending a flood on the earth after its creation, at which time the waters stood above the mountains. This is referred to as Lucifer’s flood, which resulted from Lucifer’s rebellion.

He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. (Psalm 104:5–6)

In the judgment of the original earth, darkness covered the earth and the water vapors condensed and fell upon the dry earth. The waters couldn’t be vaporized again until the restoration of sunlight of day one.

Waters and firmament were both created in the beginning, and now the water that covered the earth was merely being separated as before the chaos of Genesis 1:2.

Water is often used in scripture as a type of spirit. Before the judgment of the original earth, the spirit realm and the natural realm co-existed and angels (Lucifer and his angels) visibly roamed the earth among its inhabitants. God made a separation in which the spirit realm would be invisible to the inhabitants of earth and the fallen angels were to rule above the earth and not on the earth.

For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)

The water (spirit) above and the water (spirit)...

Table of contents

• In the Beginning
• What Happened?
• Six Days of Restoration
• God Creates Family
• The New Birth
• The Fall
• Judgment