| Creation, while the antithesis of evolution and distinct from
generation, was not the single act which we have been taught to believe. God's creatures
move forward by steps; and this is His method in creation. Evolution is Satan's
method: he glides along like the accursed serpent. The book misnamed Genesis is the book
of beginnings: indeed this is its Divine title. Genesis or generation is not a
beginning but a repetition of what has already been. In the beginning the heavens and earth were created. The earth probably included vegetation, as we have no after record of its creation. The "earth" really means the dry land (Gen.1:10). It does not include the sea. The waters which engulfed the earth were not there originally (Gen.1:2; Job 38:8-11). Jehovah formed it to be inhabited (Isa.45:18). So it will be in the new creation (Rev. 21:1). During the restoration of the wreck of the first earth there are two more creative acts. Living souls are created on the fifth day. Man is created on the sixth day. In creation, as in the eons, God has anticipated His counsels for the earth. If any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed by: behold! they have become new! (2 Cor.5:17). And not only all things are new, but Christ has become the Head of a New humanity, suited to the heavenly spheres as Adam and his posterity are suited to life on earth (Eph.2:15). Such is the grace that our God has granted us! He could neither evolve nor generate creatures suited to His highest ideals, so, like the God He is, He creates us anew for our high estate! This is anticipative: but the time shall come when this sin-stained heaven and earth will flee from the awful presence of Him Who sits upon the great white throne (Rev. 20:11). Its heart-rending scenes shall no longer be remembered, and God Himself bids us rejoice and be glad in His new creation, which neither Satan nor man shall ever mar! |
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