{"id":1096,"date":"2011-12-26T05:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T10:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.churchofthebeyond.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2012-01-26T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:32:46","slug":"the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ChurchOfTheBeyond.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/26\/the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.\u00a0Now the earth was\u00a0formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.<\/p>\n

Genesis 1:1-2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God spoke, and there was light. \u00a0His Word entered creation, and light was over the vast expanse of the deep. \u00a0God approved of this light, and as He separated light from dark, there was day and night. \u00a0The first day.<\/p>\n

God created the skies, and the lands beneath. \u00a0His Word set the boundaries for the sea, so that it might only come so far. \u00a0His Word called forth, and it came into being.<\/p>\n

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The LORD<\/span>\u00a0God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;\u00a0but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”<\/p>\n

Genesis 2:16-17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Word came to the man that He had created. \u00a0It commanded him, and told him how he should live. \u00a0Thou may eat freely of all this, but not this. \u00a0For this, to you, is to die.<\/p>\n

There is no other truth. \u00a0He is the Word, He is the Truth. \u00a0He is the Tree of Life.<\/p>\n

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But another word came, saying, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 2:1). \u00a0God’s Word had said nothing of the sort. \u00a0Confusion, trickery, reversal, all to throw the mind off the true, to divulge the real. \u00a0The serpent was crafty. \u00a0God had said “you may eat freely”, and the serpent asked “Ye shall not eat?” \u00a0The woman’s response was wrong from the get go.<\/p>\n

This new source of a word knew nothing, other than to attack the very core of truth, which the woman offered. \u00a0It didn’t even know the answer to give, but rather was fishing. \u00a0Fishing for ways to snag the woman. \u00a0Finding some way to offend the woman, \u00a0and the man, before God.<\/p>\n

The woman did not need to answer anything, but instead of that, she \u00a0offered the whole command of the Lord to the one who apparently knew nothing. \u00a0But not only that, but added to it. \u00a0And, so the other word spoke the opposite. \u00a0The True Word spoke, and created light. \u00a0The other word spoke confusion, darkness, and contradiction. \u00a0It had no light of its own. \u00a0It had no glory except that which it was given.<\/p>\n

It contradicted the true Word, and turned the simple heart against the one that gave it life through accusation. \u00a0The eye was turned to that which was not proper, the desires for extra knowledge was engaged through the speaking of the false, fallen word (Isaiah 14:12).<\/p>\n

And then, this new seed multiplied. \u00a0She gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it also. \u00a0What she did deceived, he did because he listened unto her voice and ate. \u00a0The same false word that the serpent spoke, and became planted within her by her own deception and disobedience entered the man. \u00a0This was not a familiar voice. \u00a0It was the voice of the serpent speaking through a person, just as it would to others, including centuries later (Matthew 16:23).<\/p>\n

The the false word had entered, been received, and spread forth its seed. \u00a0It filled mankind, and as man was now separated from the true Word, the Tree of Life, by the flaming sword, he now had to bring a sacrifice of blood to cover over his trespasses.<\/p>\n

The true Word had created what was good, approved, and right. \u00a0 The serpent created that which was crafty, fallen, and broken. \u00a0No crossing of the two would ever be possible. \u00a0As light does not dwell with darkness, and land does not co-occupy with water, so these two plants would never co-exist. \u00a0Though, centuries later, they would prove to be in the same field at the same time, the one would always be what It was, and the other true to its own nature.<\/p>\n

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.<\/p>\n

Genesis 3:15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the first man existed as the “first” Adam, as none had been before, Jesus came as the last Adam, with none to be as He had been ever again. \u00a0As the first Adam was created in perfection, so was the last. \u00a0There was no bent-ness in Eden before the\u00a0serpent’s\u00a0words came. \u00a0There was no corruption in that Adam before he partook of that fruit with his wife. \u00a0That original compromise, that entry into the first, brought such a profound change upon him, that he could never be the same. \u00a0It would take the blood of the last, which speaks a better Word, to reverse the curse, and turn back the clock on the enemies work.<\/p>\n

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;\u00a0Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;\u00a0In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.<\/p>\n

Genesis 3:17-19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Jesus was the original Word. \u00a0He was in the beginning, and He was with God, and He was God. \u00a0He was in the beginning with God. \u00a0Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. \u00a0In Him was life, and that life was the life of men (John 1:1-3). \u00a0The life that the first Adam had lost, the very Tree of Life, came now in the flesh, dwelt as in a tent among men (meaning His body), and spoke again the words that bring life, eternal life (John 6:68).<\/p>\n

The flesh wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit wars against the flesh. \u00a0They are at enmity, one with another, so that you cannot do what you want (Galatians 5:17). \u00a0The carnal man cannot even comprehend the spiritual, for it is spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14). \u00a0For, as Jesus said, no one can see nor enter the Kingdom unless they are born again, born of water and of the Spirit (John 3:3-5).<\/p>\n

These two words continue to this day. \u00a0The seed is the Word. \u00a0By one word, light, division, life, and all existence came forth. \u00a0By another, confusion, disorder, mixture, death, and all decay came. \u00a0They are in enmity with one another.<\/p>\n

The true word speaks, and bids to come and die, for by dying is the only way to be free from the old and be released into the new. \u00a0The other covers over, disguises once again, deceives, and lies about the end.<\/p>\n

But, though it may bruise temporarily the heel of the true, the false’s head is set to be crushed…<\/p>\n

The same message that was true in a garden is the same message heard today. \u00a0Let God be true, and every man a liar<\/strong> (Romans 3:4, portion). \u00a0The other voice is always standing beside, and it is always that same snake, whispering, “You shall not die!”. \u00a0It doesn’t know the Word of God’s commands, for if it did, it would not fallen, but it stands, hissing and whispering, “That’s not really true.”<\/p>\n

But, the woman’s seed, even Christ, has appeared to destroy the work of the devil. \u00a0The woman’s seed, even Jesus Christ within, speaks, with His Eternal voice, and says, Get thee behind me satan, for it is written, Worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. \u00a0Get thee behind me satan, for you have in mind the things of man, and not of God. \u00a0Get thee behind me satan, for it is written….<\/p>\n

He is the Word, the same yesterday, today, and forever. \u00a0And He still speaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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