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Many books begin part way through the story or even at the end to give dramatic flair. The Bible is the same way. Do you know which scriptures chronologically precede Genesis?
Whether your a Christ follower or strictly devoted to science like Professor Richard Dawkins, (See article: Bible Supports Richard Dawkins) this book will give fresh insights that will answer questions on creation and pre-creation, provoking you to look at these topics from a fresh biblically supported perspective.
In The Beginning; Chronologically Speaking
Many books and stories don’t start at the beginning. They will start part way through the story or sometimes at the end of it to help give some dramatic flair. Movies may use the same technique in order to create intrigue or to give a new perspective to a caricature. The Star Wars movie franchise comes to mind. The first movie started further along in the story, not until later in the series are we given the true beginning revealing a soft side to the dreaded Darth Vader and filling in lingering questions we may have had about the first movies in the series. It seams to me God has used this technique in the bible. He tells us that we need to study his word and take a little from here and a precept from there. Here a little and there a little, to help reveal all of the wisdom’s he has for us.
When we look at the bible and want to start at the very beginning chronologically speaking, we shouldn’t start in the book of Genesis. We should rather look for references that happened at the earliest times recorded in the bible. This would be in John were we are told the word was with God, and that the word was God.
John 1:1-3 (KJV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
These verses put us in a time when we are only told of the existence of God. Before any creating had started, a time before the angelic beings, a time God was planning the end of things before the beginning had started. For God knows the end to the beginning he tells us.
Isaiah 46:10 (KJV)
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: He has it planned out. God was the first reverse engineer.
The next glimpse we get into the distant past is when the angels sang for joy over the beauty of the new world God had just created.
Job 38:4-7 (KJV)
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
In our imagination we can perhaps see the splendour of the earth as seen from space. A shining blue orb on a backdrop of black with tiny sparkles of light. Or maybe you imagine one of the many vistas of grandeur that our planet has to offer. Perhaps you are awed buy one of the mysteries the word has hidden in it’s secret places, glimpsed at by only a select few. What ever our imaginations conjure up, it is clear the angels thought it was very spectacular as they sang with joy from it’s beauty.