GOD IS BOTH ETERNAL AND OMNISCIENT
If we were reading the first chapter of the Bible for the first time, we might get the impression that God created human beings as an afterthought. There is no mention of us until the twenty-sixth verse, and by that time, He had finished the creation of the entire Universe! It is as though He said, "Oh, here's a thought: why don't We include little replicas of Ourselves for laughs?" Based upon what His "little replicas" have done to His beautiful creation, to each other, and to His Only Begotten Son, I seriously doubt that anyone in heaven is laughing! In actuality, the exact opposite is true; God made all that He created with humanity in mind! We know this because of the following verses:
John 17:24 - Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me: for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:4 - According as (The Father) hath chosen us in (Jesus) before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love....
1 Peter 1:18-21 - Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain (manner of life) 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, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, Who raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Revelation 13:8 - And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship (the Beast; Antichrist), whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
There are other clues to God's intended focus was on humanity, in the first twenty-five verses as well. The land was created for our habitat; the plants producing fruits, vegetables, and grains were provided for us (Gen. 1:11, 29-20). And, notice what God created on Day Four:
Genesis 1:14-16 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
God is an eternal Being; for Him, time was not a factor. While some animals migrate and navigate by them, only we use them to record days, weeks, and years. And, it is difficult to ignore the fact that God saw those things created each of the first five days, as "were good," it is only after He created humans that He made this statement:
Genesis 1:31 - And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
BEFORE GOD CREATED US, HE KNEW WE WOULD NEED A SAVIOR!
JESUS VOLUNTEERED TO BECOME HUMAN TO DIE FOR OUR SINS!
HE ROSE AGAIN, AND IS NOW KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS!
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