(#5 Session 1) What the Creation Account Tells Us - Rhema & Kairos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCVuetABb4

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to my bi-monthly blog!

The Creation Account gives us a framework with which to recognise when God will act in His Kairos. It thus gives us a unique Biblical perspective of world history. History is not just a series of accidents and coincidences or intentional or unintentional human causes and effects. It is His-story - God’s story in action, revealing His sovereign will and hand at work over everything that happens in the world.

But God doesn’t just want us to see Him at work. He wants to tell us what to do in light of what He is doing in the world. For this reason, the Creation Account also reveals God’s Rhema for us in view of the times that we live in. The Bible is God’s story in revelation. Through the Creation Account, each Kairos generation receives a fresh understanding of the Bible and knowledge of what to do according to His eternal will here on earth.

Let us listen as we join together with God to bring about the outworking of His eternal plan and will until everything is perfect and at rest.

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(#4 Session 1) God's Concept of Time - Sabbath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZ2RUheETw

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to my bi-monthly blog!

Continuing from my previous podcast, God gave us Time when He created the Heavens and the Earth. Unlike eternity, time is always moving forwards and never stops. It is never in a state of rest or Shalom.

Since we live in time, how are we to visualise what eternity and God’s eternal will is like? The answer is that we must view eternity not like an endless straight line but as a cycle, reflecting the nature of eternity. This was why God gave us the 7 Days of Creation, this weekly cycle that ends on the Seventh - or Sabbath - Day when He rested. The Creation Account is God’s means for us to see His eternal will at work on this side of time and history. It tells us that, just as in the original Creation Account, there is a future Sabbath or Shabbat when this world will enter into God’s eternal Shalom.

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(#3 Session 1) God's Concept of Time - Shalom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTLrprCYVmQ

Shalom Aleichem and welcome to my bi-monthly blog!

In this and my next podcast, we will consider how what God wants to say to us can be discerned from the Bible when we approach it through the perspective of the 7 Days of Creation, by first understanding how God sees Time.

In the spiritual realm, there is no time. What we see happening on earth have all reached completion and are finished. There is no beginning and no end - all is one and done. Moreover, everything is perfect and at rest.

Only God can bring about this perfect unity, because it is an expression of His perfect, complete and finished will. This is the full meaning of the Hebrew word Shalom, summing up for us what it means to be in heaven in God's eternal presence.

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