Mind could not extend itself to enter into it. The second great creation of God was this material universe, and the Book opens in Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning,” in the beginning of God’s material creative ability, producing this world that we see, “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” When that was, nobody could know. God likes these planets and these rocks and seas and stars, and He likes people, and He likes eating. And when I hear ministers and preachers try so to spiritualize religion as to take the material and the physical out of it, they’re getting more religious than God. The second thing that God Jehovah did was this: He created the physical universe. And in that host of God’s created angelic beings, living in the heaven of heavens where God lives, there was the great covering cherub, the ruling archangel that God named Lucifer, or the “Son of the Morning.” That was the first great creation of Almighty God in the timeless ages before time was. But in the celestial, spiritual, heavenly world, God created a great and heavenly host. Some of them are called angels some of them are called seraphim some of them are called cherubim some of them are called archangels. Some time, before time was created, God – the Spirit, God, the Almighty Jehovah God – created His infinite heavenly hosts. And we are looking over the entire story of human history from its beginning in the eternity of the eternities, in the unknown distant ages of the ageless past, and as it reaches forward to the great incomparable consummation of the ages of the ages that are yet to come. We are standing as it were on a great and lofty eminence.
As Moses stood on the top of Mount Pisgah and saw from afar the Promised Land, so this message tonight. The sermon is as if a man stood on the top of a great height and looked over the whole creation of God.
This sermon tonight is not like a message that is prepared in which the minister, within twenty or twenty-five minutes, will have presented his appeal and come to the climax of the sermon delivered.
THE SCARLET THREAD THROUGH THE BIBLE (PART 1)