To take a example from The Ed Sullivan Show, Ed himself.
Tonight we have a really, really big show. Or in this case a Really, Really, BIG WHY?
Straight out: Why did the Creator Of The Heavens and The Earth DO IT?
NO! The answer is not 42.
Seriously though, . . . . Do what?
Create: Light; Gravity; Strong nuclear force; Weak Nuclear Force; Speed of Light; Amino acids; Proteins; heavy elements; . . . . Animals; man; . . . .?
Why create all of this stuff, knowing man was bad, that HE(The LORD) will destroy the Heavens and the Earth to make A New Heavens and a New Earth? So why bother? For those that do not want to think about such a GOD, just assume that HE IS and then read on.
The GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not learning anything. HE does not need to. HE already knew/knows exactly what every event, every decision made and the outcome of them, before saying:
Genesis 1: “3 And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.”.
How do we know that HE KNOWS all of this? Or more precisely, how do I know that HE KNOWS all of this? HE even uses this Telling the End at the Beginning as proof that HE is GOD and challenges all of those thinking they know a god to do exactly the same. “Tell the END at the Beginning.” And then bring witnesses that this is so; As HE HAS DONE.
That is a fair question: HE knew the End at the Beginning?
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying: ‘My counsel shall stand, and all My pleasure will I do’;
Please let me start with this one verse. Let us see how difficult it is to do what was just declared as if it was a minor task.
“Declaring the end from the beginning,” We can only take a guess about say, the weather for tomorrow. To often even that small item is beyond our comprehension. Have you ever noticed that the weather report for San Francisco is often “Cool in the morning with Fog, possible chance of drizzle and cloudy, clearing to become sunny near the shoreline, starting about noon, and then clouds moving back in tonight with cool temperatures, foggy with drizzle by morning.”
We can get a pattern of weather and it is just repeated over and over, then one day it is either too hot in the day and very warm at night, with little cooling in the evening. One day the weather report was: possible rain which had only a, “slight chance of sprinkles north of the Golden Gate Bridge and partly cloudy to sunny elsewhere,”. It became 9 days of “drought breaking” down pours with flooding and no end in sight over all of California. This is one little climate area, on a million climate zone world. We play the odds, but do not really know what will be tomorrow.
Now here is THE LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL, telling us many times what is going to happen a day, a month, a year, a thousand years or more in advance and then it happens. And HE is CORRECT 100% if the time. Why do so few want to even hear about this?
Okay, two examples of telling in advance.
1) Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My first-born. 23 And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.’–
This happens before Moses meets Aaron, on his way back to Egypt, GOD tells Moses about the Last Plague, death of the first born, because Pharaoh does not let the people go. Very few people I have ever met realize what they just read or heard. The End at the Beginning.
Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
2) Isaiah 44:28 That saith of Cyrus: ‘He is My shepherd, and shall perform all My pleasure’; even saying of Jerusalem: ‘She shall be built’; and to the temple: ‘My foundation shall be laid.’ —
Cyrus will do this 130+ years after this is written. But not only does Cyrus need to say these words, but he will also need to defeat Babylon, to send the Jews back to Israel and Jerusalem. I happens just as Isaiah in the NAME OF GOD, declares.
It Happened: Ezra 6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid;. . . .
Actually THE LORD ALWAYS SAYS BEFORE IT HAPPENS – – Always. Even when it is going to happen in 5 minutes, it is told.
Numbers 16: Moses says it for the LORD:
28 And Moses said: ‘Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent Me.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.’
Then IT HAPPENS as Stated:
31 And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground did cleave asunder that was under them.
32 And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
WITNESSES:
34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: ‘Lest the earth swallow us up.’
So even if this has never been heard of before, THE LORD STILL DECLARES FIRST and THEN PERFORMS IT. (Why tell? Because it is evidence that THE LORD did it and that something else made it happen. Like a accident happened.)
In order to answer the Big Question, I can not look directly at the answer, I must look at the evidence, for the LORD HIMSELF would need to give HIS OWN ANSWER, but we can understand gravity by seeking the evidence which provides a observable answer. At least in the direction of the truth if not all of the truth is seen. We are after all only Flesh with the Spirit of GOD within US.
First big piece of evidence is: Made in HIS image, but is it just outward appearance? Could it be much more?
Genesis 1: 26 And God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;. . . .
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.[Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said: ‘My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.’]
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.’
Gensis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And the man said: ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’
So, why did I pick these verses and what are we learning here?
We start with three things in common with the CREATOR:
1) We are Alone, 2) A piece of one is used to make another, 3) We want to be LOVED for who we are.
Man was made as a single(Alone) like our Creator.
First:
Isaiah 43:10 Ye are My witnesses, saith the LORD, and My servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He; before Me there was no God formed, neither shall any be after Me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside Me there is no saviour. 12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have announced, and there was no strange god among you; therefore ye are My witnesses, saith the LORD, and I am God.
Second:
Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, beside Me there is no God; I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me; 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me; I am the LORD; and there is none else; 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.
Man and Our GOD in one image are alone: Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.’
Our GOD, our Father is ALONE. HE made us a single like HIMSELF, alone. Here is a really bad question which I have heard a lot when I speak about this: Why doesn’t HE just make company for HIMSELF? Or Why does he not just make people good?
A part of one is used to create the other.
Okay, A realization, Genesis 2:22, GOD takes a piece of the man and creates woman. GOD Places part of HIMSELF(SPIRIT) in the dirt to create man, the SPIRIT OF GOD in the Flesh to make man(Genesis 6:3 above)
Is this boring you? I am not bored in the least, I just made another connection(realization). Between GOD creating Woman with a piece of Man, and GOD creating Man with a Piece of HIMSELF. For those that choose HIM, HE is FATHER. With all of the responsibility to teach HIS children right from wrong, how to be GOOD for FATHER. To be Companions to our GOD because I choose HIM and HE WANTS ME.
Loved for who I AM.
We were not created as robots. Animals without purpose, merely something to pet distractedly. We were created thinking, reasoning, able to discover and learn and choose whether to go left or right. GOD or no god. Father or no father.
As a father I can tell you, there is nothing more heart warming that to have your child run up to you and what you to hold them, so they can be close to you. Being chosen for no other reason than I am your father has tremendous power in it. While on the idea of Father, no good father or mother wants their child/children to remain infants, doing only the simplest life functions. We want our children to grow and be stronger, wiser and more like US. Do you think it would be any different with the FATHER OR YOUR SOUL? A Father is to teaches, tests, encourages, challenges to that the child gets stronger, smarter and more like HIM, so better than what we are now. We are only a tiny speck of our FATHER, with no way of becoming HIM, but we should strive to grow, to learn , to understand, and to TRUST HIM, that HE KNOWS BEST and loves HIS children.
This is what I see, that HE wants us to choose HIM out of LOVE for HIM and not because of some reward, payment, but because of what you already have received. So there is no definition presented of what comes after this, Heaven or Hell, told by HIM. Those are all man made concepts. You are either FOR HIM or not. You either DO what HE says or YOU do not. The results are defined by your actions. HE already loves you and wants to take care of you, what are you doing for HIM?
Isaiah 51:15 For I am the LORD thy God, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is His name. 16 And I have put My words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion: ‘Thou art My people.’
Isaiah 52:13 Behold, My servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
The LORD GOD takes care of HIS OWN. Where do you stand? For HIM or against HIM? Turn back from evil and be righteous, take HIS hand and learn from YOUR FATHER.
The Really BIG REALLY BIG Answer:
{ From beginning unto the End of this EARTH, HE is Awaiting HIS children, to teach them and love them and care for them. The Perfect FATHER with Perfect LOVE for HIS CHILDREN. What is not HIS, they lived, they could choose, and they did choose: just Not HIM . . . . Oh well. }
Yaakov
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