The Sixth Day

For those that are interested in end-time prophecy, the 7-day creation week has particular significance. As most of us know, God created the 'universe' and all that is in it within a single week, with a spoken word (uni-verse). John 1 tells us that Jesus is the Word (uni-verse), and the Word was God and the Word was 'with' God - in the beginning.

On the sixth day, God created man in His image.
Gen 1:26 KJV
(26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

If the 7-day creation week is our pattern for God's redemption plan, which I truly believe it is, then why did God wait until day 6 to create man? After all, in the grand scheme, was Adam not there in the beginning? There were 6 days and the the 7th day was the Sabbath, to which we look forward to the 7th millennium as our 'Sabbath' millennium, ruled by our Savior, the "Lord of the Sabbath" (Luke 6:5). In the same fashion, how can we apply man being 'created' on the 6th day?

In order to gain an understanding, we take a look at the Hebrew word 'create'. It's "Ahsah". It means the following:

• To accomplish
• To advance
• To appoint
• To become
• To bestow
• To bring forth
• To be busy
• To have the charge of
• To finish
• To follow
• To govern
• To grant
• To keep
• To labor
• To maintain
• To be occupied
• To prepare
• To sacrifice
• To serve
• To use

Wow! Now, understanding that before Jesus returns, He returns for His Bride that has prepared herself for Him. I contend to you that this is a 6th day event! The Bride is to look just like Him when He arrives - after all, they are to be one flesh! She is to be a laborer, a governor, one who serves, occupies, and maintains! She is accomplished, and appointed, and in charge! This could truly be an accurate description of the 'fullness' that God waits for. Yes, man has been here for nearly 6,000 years, but only in the last days when the Bride truly understands who she is to be - is she 'created'.

Peeling a Growing Onion

The following is a segment from the Antarctic Journal back in January of 2003. The comments by this scientist are very interesting.

Dr. Barth Netterfield, a cosmologist with the Long Duration Balloon Boomerang project gave last nights lecture on the universe, the beginning of time, where we’re headed, and things everyone wishes they knew but don't. Our universe, he said, went from a singularity (which we don’t understand) to a beginning (which our physics won’t explain) to plasma, hot and dense. It is composed now of normal matter (about 5%), dark matter/particles (about 35%), and something they are calling dark energy because they don’t know what it is (65%). The dark energy is forcing it to expand, and it is cooling as it expands. That expansion is accelerating and will continue to do so forever until it approaches a state empty of matter. It is a Euclidian universe, not curved or bent or closed, and now some 14 billion years old. It was cosmology for the novice, told with such graphic examples that I didn’t glaze over in frustration at the abstract mathematics of it all. When someone asked him to give us perspective on how much we know about the universe in comparison to Galileo, he said it was like an onion. You keep peeling layers off but the onion keeps growing larger. "The more we learn the more there is to know." Which is why we are here in Antarctica.

"The more we learn the more there is to know." Who does this remind you of? Isn't it amazing that what He designs is also a direct reflection of His nature?