"But a man of the soul does not welcome the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him and he cannot get to know them, because spiritually are they examined;but the man of the spirit on the one hand examines (understands) all things, but on the other, he himself by no one is examined (understood)" - 1Cor 2:14-15 - (Rotherham)
The age we are presently in is the age of revelation; the age of "Elijah"who restores all things. Not meaning here specifically the book called Revelation, although that is included, rather the revelation of those things which formerly God has hidden. In this age they are to be "shouted from the housetops".
Heaven and earth as seen in creation are many things. First, they are two words used to describe the two-in-one God. Yes, you read that correctly-it wasn't a case of my striking the wrong keys. And yes, I know that many believe and are taught that God is three persons-a trinity or three-in-one God. They are mistaken. The proof is in Genesis 1:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"
The two words "heavens" and "earth" are scripture words which are describing the two "realms" or "properties" or "qualities" or "aspects" of which God consists. These two are the great opposites from which all opposites in creation have their being. The following are some words to expand on the meanings of the two. Heavens=Will; earth=desire; expansion/contraction;male/female; heat/cold; spirit/soul, etc.Each realm/property/quality/aspect has, or becomes manifested as multitudinous representations or forms or embodiments throughout creation.
"Prior"to creation the two operated in perfect harmony-oneness ("the Lord our God is one"). At the creation the two became divided and the possibility for disorder came into existance. The reason for this is because the outgoingness/Will/expansion aspect is "knowing", whereas the inwarddrawingness/desire/contraction aspect is "non-knowing" or "darkness"
Yes, I know John says in his letter that "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all". To God, darkness and light are the same. If there is no darkness in Him then where did it come from? Everything-all the created order that we humans live in and touch with our senses came out of Him. If there is some other power responsible for darkness, then God is not Who He says He is. But He is the ONLY power in the universe, OF WHOM all other so-called "powers" derive their power.
"There is NONE BESIDES ME (no other power). I am Yahweh and there is none else; forming light and CREATING DARKNESS; making prosperity and CREATING MISFORTUNE (some translations say evil). I Yahweh do all these things". - Isaiah 44:6-7 -
So when John wrote in one of his letters that God had no darkness in Him, he does not mean what the theologians/teachers think he means. Where is the "abyss", the deep dark pit that John described in Revelation where the adversary is "chained and cast into"? Outside of God? If something can be outside of God or outside of His authority, then He's not the God I worship, but is some figment of man's imagination. Nothing is outside of God. Even hell is in God, otherwise where does hell get it's "power"?
So to sum up. God, as to His essence is two; an outgoingness and inwarddrawingness, which are the two words in Gen1-heaven and earth. The characteristics of each are "played out" or replicated, multitudinous ways throughout creation as "opposites". Prior to creation the two "played and danced" together in harmony as one. At creation the two were divided.
This is just a taste for those who are hungry and come across these writings.
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