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whether they be thrones, or dominions,
or principalities, or powers: all things
were created by him, and for him: and
be
is before all things, and by him
all things consist. And
he
is the head
of the body, the church ...."
And again, in Hebrews
1:2,
God
"hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son, whom he hath ap–
pointed heir of all things (the uní–
verse], by whom also
he
made the
worlds ...."
Christ is the Spokesman. God
created everything by and through
Him. In Psalm
33:9:
"He spake,
and it was done." The POWER uti lized
by Christ in creating was the power
of the Holy Spirit.
I
witnessed a dose parallel in an
incident that occurred in January
1914. I was then on the editorial staff
of a national magazine. I was sent to
the Ford Motor plant in Detroit to
get the detailed story of the
then
famous
$5
per day wage scaJe inaugu–
rated at the Ford plant. There
1
saw
H enry Ford, the MAKER of the Ford
car. But Mr. Ford and
I
were standing
just outside the giant door of the main
plant - in a breezeway between the
plant and the company office building.
He was not dad in overalls, but in
a business suit. Inside the factory,
I
saw hundreds of workmen in overalls.
Ford MADE tbe Ford cars
by
these
em–
ployees, and they used the power of
machines and electricity. God, the
Father of tbe divine Family, is Cre–
ator, but
He
created all things by Jesus
Christ, who SPAKE (precisely as His
Father had directed) and the POWER
of the Holy Spirit brought it about.
Back, now, to Genesis
1:2.
The
Spirit of God was moving on the
waters. In verse
3,
H e SPOKE -
"And God said, Let there be Iight:
and there was light." The Father
ordered it, Christ spoke, the Spirit
brought it forth!
Satan is the very symbol of
DARK–
NESS, evi l, sin, and ugliness. This
darkness was caused by his sin and
that of his angels. But Goo is the very
symboJ of LICHT- of TRUTH- of
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BEAUTY. So on the very first day of
this "creation week" God changed
earth's surface from darkness, ugliness,
confusion to LICHT and BEAUTY! And
God saw that it was GOOD (verse
4).
On the second day (verses
6-8),
God created the present earth's atmo–
sphere-
AIR
for plants, animals, and
MAN to breathe. Had therc existed
such an atmosphere previously? We
are not told. But angel li fe would not
require it. This atmosphere created
douds- vaporous water, thus "divicl–
ing the waters from the waters" -
above and below the "fi rmament"
oc
atmosphere. These clouds provide a
"filtered sunshine," as we used to call
it in Oregon. Otherwise there would
be no RAIN - so necessary for plant,
animal and human life.
God now was producing what was
needed for this new kind of PHYSICAL
LIFE He was about to create.
Now, verse
8:
"And Gocl called the
firmament Heaven. And the evening
( dark part] and the morning [ light
part] were the second day."
It is important to mention, here,
that the Bible speaks of three heavens:
this earth's atmosphere in which birds
and airplanes fly; then the heaven we
call outer space, in which are our
planets, the sun, and, much farther
away, the stars; and, third, the heaven
where God's Throne is Jocated, from
which the entire vast universe is ruled.
The Bible does not reveal the location
of this third heaven. There is one
possible hint, in Isaiah
14:13,
indi–
cating that it
may be
in the far, far
NORTH from our earth. In
Il
Corin–
thians
12:2
is the mention of "the
third heaven."
On the third day, God separated
the seas from the dry land. Dry land
appeared, along with tbe BEAUTY of
trees, plants, shrubs, grass, and beauti–
ful FLOWERS of all coJors and hues.
Darkness and ugliness was being re–
placed with light and glorious BEAUTY,
with vegetation and fruit and grain
for FOOD. Man and animals must eat
food, and breathe air. Angels need
not.
God Is Creator of Beauty
I cannot emphasize too strongly the
fact tbat God is the author of BEAUTY
- of QUALITY - of PERFECTION.
Satan is the author of ugliness, inferi–
ority, imperfection, cheapness, de–
struction.
The Bible shows, as we shall see,
that this has become Satan's world.
Satan became perverted in all his ways.
Under his sway, he has led a deceived
mankind into polluting, contaminating,
perverting, ruining, and destroying just
about everything man has gotten his
hands on. Today we have polluted the
air God gave us to breathe- the seas,
lakes and rivers which God originally
made so gloriously BEAUTIFUL, the soil
from which
mu
food must grow, even
the food after it is grown through
food factories. We have built cities
that are ugly, drab, ill-planned, de–
pressing, overcrowded.
But in this six days of RENEWINC
the face of the earth, God made it
BEAUTIFUL - gloriously BEAUTIFUL!
In the words of the oratorio,
The
Creation,
by Joseph Haydn,
1
.6nd
sorne beautiful descriptive language
giving us a glimpse of that original
God-created BEAUTY. Following God's
renewal creat ion of that third day, we
find these words in tbe oratorio:
With verdure dad the fields
appear,
.
. ..
The eye with new dehght re¡otcmg;
And lovelier still they grow
Adorned with flowers fair and gay,
Here herbs breathe forth their
f ragrance sweet,
Here shoots the healing balm,
With golden f ruit the boughs laden
bend.
The vaulted g roves give Ieafy
shelter cool;
The lofty hiiJs are crowned with
forests grand.
And the heavenly hosts proclaimed
the third day, praising Gocl and
saying:
Ye harps awake, awake ye lyres,
Let your joyful songs resound.
Rejoice in the Lord, the mighty
God;
Heaven and earth He hath
clothed in splendour, in
g lorious array.
PlAIN
TRUTH May 1972