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    Page 1: God's Timetable Part 3
    Page 1: God's Timetable Part 3
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    What if God wanted to reveal His heart for mankind, and His son, even before time began? The entities described in the creation account have meanings and associations developed through out scripture. These reveal a new story about God the Father and Jesus during creation.

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    PublisherNicholas Jones
    Release dateMar 18, 2018
    ISBN9781370718795
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    Nicholas Jones

    The author has Bachelor degrees with distinctions in Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering; a Master’s degree in Communication Systems. He has worked at Adelaide University as a Research Officer and as a Limited Term Lecturer in Engineering. However, the majority of his professional life has been in software engineering of radar and communication systems. He is currently retired.

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      Page 1 - Nicholas Jones

      Page 1: God’s Timetable Part 3

      By Nicholas Jones

      Version: 1.42

      ISBN: 9781370718795

      Copyright 2018 Nicholas Jones.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. This author allows excerpts of up to 10 pages to be printed for personal use or in discussion groups and teaching classes, as long as it is provided without cost. Quotes may be reprinted for purposes of review and critique.

      Previews of this eBook can be found at the author’s website GeckoFocus.com, along with copyright conditions and supplements.

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      Scripture quotations not otherwise specified have been taken from:

      The New American Standard Bible®,

      Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973

      1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

      Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

      Scripture quotations annotated by (NIV) have been taken from:

      THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®

      Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™

      Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from:

      The Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation.

      Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      I wish to express my appreciation to these organisations for making these translations available.

      ~~~~oooOOOooo~~~~

      God has revealed His heart for mankind,

      and His son, even before time began.

      It’s Genesis — God’s way!

      Table of Contents

      Link with Parts 1&2

      23. The starting point

      24. It’s just an introduction

      25. Important background

      26. From concept to creation

      27. It gets better – every day through Jesus

      28. The veil is lifted

      29. A big what if – millennium days

      30. Time to wrap this up

      Appendices:

      C1. So, where were the heavens created?

      C2. Further insights

      C3. What the angels saw

      C4. The COI Universe: Created from the Outside In

      Follow-up

      Version history

      Links with Parts 1 & 2

      In the Preface and Foreword in Part 1, I gave a broad introduction to all parts. Part 1 explored how the images and text of Genesis 1 pointed forward to events in the subsequent millennia. They were prophetic insights. Part 2 on the other hand was seeing how Genesis 2, was really just about taking the text as written, with Adam being created in the Garden after God rested. These were insights into the plain text understanding. So what is left?

      Part 3 explores insights that reveal God Himself. These insights are about God’s ways and attributes. The page 1 creation account is then viewed through these eternal attributes. The roles of the Father and the Son in creation are revealed, along with God’s time-scale. We even get a peek at how the material universe appeared. You will see beautiful glimpses of God and His ways, but it will probably challenge many of your current presumptions.

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      23. The starting point

      Genesis 1 begins, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This is just an introduction, not the actual creation. Verse 2 declares that the earth was formless and void, and covered by water and darkness. This is a description of the starting point, not the first step. So why does God’s creation account start here? Well, you will discover something awesome about God and something about the physics of creation that simplifies everything.

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      A friend’s request

      I have a friend who keeps asking me to show it to him on one page. I can’t, but here is an attempt.

      Genesis 1, verses 1&2 are just an introduction. All creation was by the word of God and His first word was in verse 3, Then God said, Let there be light. But we now know that Jesus is the light of the world and that all things were created through Jesus. Further, Jesus describes himself as the the Beginning of the creation of God in Revelation 3:14. So it was in this first step of creation, the light; that the entire universe came into being. At the end of day 1, God held this water-covered planet in His hand. It was formless and void in verse 2, because it was then without substance, but now it was fully formed. As He watched it turn on its axis I imagined Him saying, Wow, have I got plans for you!

      The key is that we now see Jesus in creation. But it leads to so much more. However, first I have to lead you through a few chapters that methodically review scripture because I want to take you somewhere that others don’t want you to go. You have to know that it has the full support of scripture even if some will choose to disagree. Then, all of a sudden, you will start to see the role of the Father and the Son in creation and you will appreciate the way God saw it.

      But what else could it be?

      I could see that verses 1&2 were just an introduction; not a declaration of creation. Before I had worked it all out, I had a chance at a meeting to briefly discuss this with an expert in the Creation field. He could not see the declarations in verses 1&2 as anything else but an act of creation and the discussion finished with his statement, But what else could it be? I understood his reasoning. You see, a water-covered planet must have existed at the start of day 2. And as long as you picture the day 1 declaration of light as mere physical light, then there is no other place to picture where this water-covered planet was created except in verse 1.

      Frankly, this question should be a by-line for this section. I wrestled with this problem. I respect this man yet I have offered something different. I suggest there are two ways to view the first three verses:

      1. The water-covered planet view:

      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

      This is taken as a declaration of the creation of the heavens and the earth.

      The earth was formless and void and darkness covered the face of the deep.

      This is picturing a water-covered planet created in the previous verse.

      The Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

      The Holy Spirit is literally right there over this newly created planet.

      Then God said, Let there be light.

      Light appears as we would understand the light of a lamp or light globe illuminating something.

      2. The Father’s heart view:

      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

      This is taken as an introduction to what is about to happen. It is before the beginning of time.

      The earth was formless and void and darkness covered the face of the deep.

      This is the Father’s heart picturing the earth as a home for His children.

      This is the eternal purposes and will of God.

      The Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

      The Holy Spirit is poised, ready to implement the Father’s will.

      Then God said, Let there be light.

      Jesus is the light of the world. All things, the entire universe, came into existence through Jesus. So the entire universe is created here. At the end of this step there is a water-covered planet.

      Have I gone too far?

      Do you think that The Father’s heart view is spiritualising Genesis 1 a bit too much? Well, I will present compelling evidence and amazing benefits of this view. During my early investigations I thought that the water-covered planet in verse 2 was real and the insight was that it pictured the Father’s heart. But now I see it the other way around. It is the Father’s heart that is picturing this earth or planet as a home for His children.

      This

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