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Genesis: In The Beginning, God
Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Author: Martha Kilpatrick
God is the beginning of all. What He does not begin, ends at its beginnings. From the fountain of His boundless imagination flow the inventings of our finest ideas. We are merely cups of varying levels of receptivity. Some narrow, some wide. What we begin, drawing out of the cauldron of human depravity and calling it God's plan, will find no support from Him . . . and no Brilliance of His Glorious Mind. He must begin whatever is begun. He initiates. We respond. He proclaims. We hear. He gives. We receive. He imagines . . . we are simply the clay of His inventive molding.
Eden Closed
Author: Martha Kilpatrick 2 August 2001
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So the Lord God banished him from the
Garden of Eden to work the ground
from which he had been taken.
After he drove the man out,
he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden,
cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth
to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:23, 24 NIV
With violent unquestionable force,
Adam and Eve,
though clothed with sacrificial skins,
were "thrust out" of their Only Home
of God's visibility.
God will let you have your choice,
your way, your independence.
His love remains unchanged . . .
but there is a loss. An incalculable loss.
You cannot have Him as well.
His Blissful Presence is barred.
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1
The Beginning God
In the beginning . . . God . . .
Genesis 1:1
God is the beginning of all.
What He does not...continue reading
2
The Brooding Spirit
"The earth was without form and
an empty waste,
and darkness was upon the face of the
very great deep.
The Spirit...continue reading
3
Heaven and Earth
In the Beginning, God
(prepared, formed, fashioned, and)
created the heavens and the earth.
GENESIS 1:1
God created the heavens . . .
heaven first.
Heaven...continue reading
4
The Word Created
In the beginning was The Word
and the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
JOHN 1:1
God propelled creation through
His Word...continue reading
5
First, the LIGHT
God said, "Let there be light and there was light.
Gen. 1:3
God is Light.
I John 1:5
He is Light. All that is...continue reading
6
Light Divides
And God saw that the light was good;
and God separated the Light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:4
God gazed at the Light...continue reading
7
Beginning Names
God called the light Day
and the darkness He called night . . .
God called the expanse heaven
God called the dry...continue reading
8
Names and Meanings
Naming names - this is God's way to convey His
infinite knowledge.
The angels of God, have each a specific name.
Even the...continue reading
9
Ending Names
The beginning of time was set in order by names . . .
The end of all time will also be...continue reading
10
Blessed of God
As each part of the universe became visible elements
born of God's Imagination, He declared it "good,"
and it gave Him pleasure.
Yet...continue reading
11
Five Epochs of Preparation
By careful placement of richest provision,
God prepared the earth for His masterpiece:
man and woman.
They were created last, the sixth day.
By...continue reading
12
Potter and Architect
Adam was "formed" not spoken into being.
The rest of creation was spoken,
from the heavens to the ant,
all created by God's...continue reading
13
Tree of Choice
Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow
every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for...continue reading
14
A Garden
8. The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden.
and there he placed the man whom He had...continue reading
15
The Creation of Rest
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed
in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work
he...continue reading
16
Endless Day
The last day of Creation is the Only Blessed Day
out of the seven days of God
and its increase will be...continue reading
17
Lies of the God-Hater
Hanging on the Tree of Knowledge, his domain of death,
the God-hater spied on the God-loved woman and
waited patiently for a...continue reading
18
Falling into Self
Though ages have passed and time has washed by in eons,
we have yet to understand what an enormous loss
happened in...continue reading
19
Lost Souls
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was a delight to the eyes, and...continue reading
20
Probing Questions
Then the eyes of both of them were opened and
they realized they were naked, so they sewed
fig leaves together...continue reading
21
The Father's Loss
What Adam and Eve lost we know in part, and mourn.
What God lost, we've never cared.
God lost His lovely world,
the...continue reading
22
Cursed and Banished
The Lord God listened to the answers,
heard the innocence declared and turned
without arguing, to declare Himself.
And speak His answer!
But...continue reading
23
First Sin, First Blood
The Lord God made garments of skin for
Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Genesis 3:21 NIV
Adam and Eve, the first...continue reading
25
The Garden Enclosed
Eden is hidden, now a dimension rather than a location.
Yet it can be found in the heavenlies
by the violent search...continue reading
