INTRODUCTION

Colossians 1:15-18 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.” (Bold added by me for emphasis and applies to the rest of this book unless otherwise noted.)

The concept of “the firstborn” when applied to Jesus can be kind of troublesome in the minds of some believers, especially as we consider the fact that Jesus is God Eternal who has always been, for He is without beginning and without end, and shall forever be!

Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not.” KJV

“The firstborn over all creation” Just what do the Scriptures mean when they refer to Jesus as being the firstborn over all creation? We can make the argument as I do in my book “Man’s Final Destiny” that “The Word of God” is the second person of the Godhead:

1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: The Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.”

And that through Him: “The Word of God” all things were created, since God Spoke everything into existence by saying “Let there be…!

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:3 “All things were made through Him (the Word), and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (Anything in parenthesis and italicized is added by me unless otherwise noted.)

The Eternal Word of God did not become flesh until He entered into the body that was prepared for Him some two thousand years ago, namely the body Jesus; who was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. The Word entered the physical body of Jesus and at that precise moment The Word of God became flesh.

John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Paul continues and tells us that Jesus, the Word of God is He is before all things. However, Paul appears to be making this statement directly about Jesus, the Word incarnate. For in verse 13 of the same chapter he writes: Conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

And in other Scriptures as well, some quoted in the letter to the Hebrews; it seems to be making the same point of a beginning or a starting point for the Son at a very specific point in time.

Hebrews 1:5-6 “For to which of the angels did He ever say: ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You’? And again: ‘I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son’? But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: ‘Let all the angels of God worship Him.’”

“The beginning, the firstborn from the dead” Meanwhile this phrase seems to imply that its beginning should be applied only to the time immediately after the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Obviously, there is more to these Scriptures than meets the eye.

Was there a transformative event that took place with the works of creation that God somehow used to represent Himself into a form or manner into the likes of which He had never revealed Himself? In other words, did the God that does not change, transform Himself into something new, something that had never existed before?

In this writing I intend to shed light on the mysteries hidden within the history of creation as presented in the Bible. Hopefully to expound on the premises on which God has founded His works: like… Did the God that never change really transform Himself into something new? Did He create us into His new image and why? What is the mystery of light and darkness? What about the time before time began? What is the future of the physical elements that forms everything that is tangible? And are we able to comprehend the vastness and complexities espoused to the creation?

Matthew 13:11 “…Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven…”
It will be folly for me, or for anyone else for that matter, to think that we would be able to understand all mysteries concerning such complex matters as to the why, where, when and the how’s of God’s creative works, but clearly we have been given an agent that is just as much God as the Father is and as the Son is, He is the Holy Spirit, and His ministry is to teach us all truth as it concerns the kingdom of the Son of His love: The Firstborn of the Father.
 
IN THE BEGINNING GOD STARTS A NEW TIMELINE

Genesis 1:2 “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.”

As God begins the work of creation the first question that we need to ask is this: What does the
Scripture mean by “the earth”? The Hebrew word “Strong’s concordance # {776} År,a, — 'erets” means “to be firm”, which seems to imply in the text that says that it had no form or substance that the earth was not earth (physical) yet, for as yet light had not entered into it. Which brings us into the very simple yet powerful concept of the time before time began. If we can grasp this concept it will be so much easier for us to understand the Bible, because it is a foundational concept upon which so much Scripture is invested.

Our present time did not begin until light—energy—was introduced, even science confirms that our present time started with a flash of light, what they commonly refer to as the big bang, which set in motion (according to them) our present time and space traveling outwards from a fixed starting point. What that means is that before our present time began, all physical, and by physical, I mean tangible matter did not exist, for it did not have form, and was void of substance. If it existed, it did so in some kind of invisible substance called “nothing” and if it existed it did so within a different time frame called: The Deep.

Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”

Why is the understanding of time before the creation and time after the creation so important?

2 Corinthians 4:18 “While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

We cannot fully understand the mysteries of the creation until we understand the principle of the time before time began. Let me give you an example, everything in our present day “time and space” has a beginning and has an ending, everything within it is decaying and dying.

Hebrews 1:10-12 “…You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment; like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail.”

Here we see clearly that time exists in two very different planes: our physical creation which includes its interactions with the heavens and they are deteriorating and passing away; but God remains the same, years (time) have no effect upon Him for He is not a product or part of the creation, nor is He bound by the entropic laws that govern our present day “time and space”.

If God is not bound by our present time and space, then what time does He live in and what space does He occupy?

Psalm 147:5 “Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.”

Let me introduce these two words: Infinity and Eternity. I will use these words to separate time as we know it now, from the time that existed before our present time began.

I will define my biblical understanding of infinity as time without beginning or ending, as time that cannot be measure, for it has neither substance nor variations of any shape or form. It has always existed and will always continue to exist for infinity. Liken it to a never ending flowing river of flooding lights that emanates from an inexhaustible deep.

James 1:17-18 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.”

Infinity Time as I call it is the dwelling place of the Eternal Godhead. God is infinite so He dwells in infinity. Within Him there are no variations or shadow of turning. He lives in a time frame that has neither variations nor turnings. Nothing within that realm can ever be measured, as a matter of fact, most humans can’t even get a handle on the premise of something that has no beginning or ending, or of a place where past, present and future coexist in perfect harmony.

Revelation 22:13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

The best way for me to get a hold of the Biblical concept of Infinity Time is by contrasting it to the creation which is our present time. Let’s compare our present creation to the alphabet. If you take the alphabet from A to Z, just think how many things have been written just by combining the few letters contained within the alphabet, its potential is so vast that it can never be exhausted. Yet, the alphabet itself can be contained within one single sheet of paper that keeps deteriorating the longer time passes. So it is with creation that there are an endless world of possibilities and potentials, but nevertheless contained within a fixed order of time and space that is destined to decay and to destruction. All creation is headed for a magnanimously unavoidable end that will transform it into something totally new.