Limited Scope to Full Scope

 ..🎼 Psalms, to me, seems to suggest Israel is the ‘microcosm’ fulfillment and example. And the world is the macrocosm. First a covenant to birth the Son, God’s blueprint, then the one to birth all the sins and daughters. Isn’t it necessary, if there’s to be thinking and reasoning ability, to let choices other than his, manifest and run their course - first. What I mean is, just how do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact?

     If there had been no option to stray in Eden, no power of choice in creation, we would have to be an ant farm? God opted instead for total ‘herd’ immunity? The disease is the cure? The crucible, laver, sieve, slow gehenna.. Creation and humanity will be sealed A to Z..?

The Power Of Choice

So God included the option to stray in Eden. Now if there had been no power of choice, wouldn’t creation then be just an ant farm? So you let things run their course.. which since God is Life (surely?) and he “is perfect” what might the consequences be of straying from Life, and of being imperfect? (Translated sin, but actually misses the mark of its meaning, the word is hamartia - “missing the mark” not perfect, prone to decomposing.)

     So the remedy - the Good News for All - was built in from the beginning/foundation. We could say life as we presently know it is a ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’. Once a speck of imperfection/decomposing begins, just set it on the table or counter and leave it there. What better convincing than letting things run their natural course? To the very end - greek word tel/telos, the “end-aim”. But how long might that take? I posit that the Adversary & Co., the rebel/strayed angels work as accelerant.

     Yet, ironically.. The Flood. God sees everything, all of time in front of him, all at once. It’s a garden, it’s a harvest. Death is his taking out and transplanting elsewhere. There’s the two sections of the garden. The wild and wooley.. And the just turned over soil section. Once or twice the noxious weeds get too overgrown, a choked to death garden.. Start over, pull out the noxious bramble weeds.. make them to be seed, and plant them in the soil of the other section of newly turned soil.. All the seeds.. Waiting.

     So here we are more or less speeding toward the culmination of history. How frustrating however that Satan, with all his rage - the result of being strayed from Life - cannot use great powers to destroy God’s garden/creation. He has to work through misguided humans. So another accelerant so to speak - a target. Or let’s say needed - swaddling cloths for the promised “savior of the world” somewhere for “the branch” to be born and to proclaim the message from. And sort of just naturally will become a target.. For all that rage, that ever seeks world domination, spiritually that is.

     And Jesus returns at the penultimate “fiery” end-aim/natural course of imperfect, beginning his long second advent, which in the middle of, the Adversary & Co. who’s been stewing in his own rage, is let loose - a ‘quick’ mini review occurs, descendants of mortal survivors of the apocalypse are gathered — once again armies surround, this time the millennium Jerusalem. But there’s consuming fire again, this time actually God sent? Unless man again had been messing with splitting, etc. the atom/God’s building block? ..And at that time, all humans not saved by understanding the Good News for All ..are dead. What’s next? It’s all in the Book. The Scripture. The sWord of Truth. But a lot of it’s veiled by riddles. Father hiding things in plain sight. There’s 360 degrees to a circle, we have to focus our lens lined up to the perfect degree. For some time we have a Picasso type understanding ..or a Salvador Dali..

     But we are at Rev.7:9,4 while 1,3 is still holding.. But it’s a point of veiling. By the just previous descriptions of “the seals” on the scroll/vision. They are described as their full effects, from very first to very last upon the planet (13:13 points to an office, not yet a person). Here’s another key of mystery, in the vision, Jesus went straight from ascension to Rev. chapter 5. And seal 2 is Ps.2. (Imho:)

Why It's Easy For Us To Think In Terms Of Billions Of Years

(As to origins, that is.) It's because we are in what is called a very long process. And the father of lies weaves strands of truth into all of his tapestries. (Which is doubly clever, for then we weave them into our psyche and life.)

When God endowed thinking ability a whole new realm (tree?) of possibilities came about, and He is being, and has been, infinitely patient awaiting the outcome. You see thinking ability includes being able to make choices, and hence we have life as it is and also death. Because God is Life itself, and is also Perfection. That makes imperfection, the opposite of life. And sooner or later, some one (some rational creature) is bound to think, "say.. do we really have to do all things, and think all things, God's way?"

He first made angels to be rational creatures. He waited and created the universe and man and woman, not only after the first rebel thought occurred, but waited until after it had matured into outright revolt and sedition. (Why? So all "in heaven and earth" would take this unavoidable journey and lesson, all together, at once.)

"Waited a very long time".. surely!? ..Here's where the "billions of years" actually comes from(!?) For when there was 'only' the Presence of the Father and the Son and the angels, surely there wasn't all that much to go astray about(?) And just think, God, being life itself, lives through all sufferings and disasters which ever occur (while He is for the most part, letting choice run its course).

And when God created the universe, in that majestic explosion of life / Himself, he placed all things where He wanted them to be, and began the motion from there. And! From the "foundation of the world" / from the beginning, He built the rescue of all into it - Jesus on the cross - an image, and love, strong enough to ultimately pierce every psyche. He is perfect, the only 'end' result imaginable, is the best one possible.
1 Timothy 4:10, among many, many verses, says "God is the savior of all.."

A thank you to Pixabay.com for the image.

As We Undergo Training

The proverb says "train up a child". And we are all God's children. As a parent myself, the goal in the training of my own children was for them to be able to stand on their feet and make good choices and decisions in their life. There was a place for punishment - no t.v., no games, or whatnot, but the end goal was to produce a person who could rationalize concerning good, and not so good choices.

The ability to know where things lead. What will be the results and consequences from this choice, this action, or that action? As a parent, it was not ever my intention to produce a child who would forever be dependant upon me to make the right choices for them. To forever have to punish and reward was not the end I ever had in sight. I wanted to raise up children who would know and understand for themselves, right from wrong (good from evil).

As a child of God, I believe experience is the best teacher, for all of us. The looking back upon the burnt out ashes of life lived apart from God is a forever lesson. The smoke of our crashing and burning will rise up for ever and ever..