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Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 By: David M. Curtis DOWNLOAD THIS PAGE AS A PDF FILE (Email it to your friends) (right click then select SAVE TARGET AS)   YESTERDAY: Jesus Christ is the One who spoke the world in to existence out of nothing. He made all things in Heaven and Earth. During creation week Jesus rested on the 7th day with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. There are solid grounds, which Jesus has in His person that endears all men to be loyal and obedient to Him. One such claim of Christ is that He is our Creator. In speaking of God’s “dear Son” (verse 13) it is written, “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible… all things were created by him, and for him” Colossians 1:16. According to this verse Christ is the One who in the beginning created the heavens and earth in Genesis 1:1.  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” John 1:1-3.  The Bible makes this claim absolute, and unequivocal. “All things were made by him.” “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth” “Without him was not any thing made that was made.” With this in mind let’s return to the first chapter of the Bible. I sat across the table from a minister of the Assemblies of God and Pentecostal church of God of 45 years. After looking at the above verses I asked Pastor Ron who is a dear friend of mine to read the entire first chapter of Genesis and asked that he say the name of Jesus every time he saw the word “God” or “Lord.” Pastor Ron agreed like many other ministers’ when asked to do the same that this was true to scripture because “All things were made by Him.” Home The Four Angels Loose the Four Winds The 7 Trumpets are Still Yet to Sound Examining the Historic View of the 1335 Day Prophecy Examining the Historic View of the 1335 Day Prophecy Part II Examining End Time Theories of the 1335 Day Prophecy My End Time Scenario of the 1335 Day Prophecy When the Pope takes over Jerusalem The Destruction of Jerusalem "Melchizedek's" Identity Healing the Deadly Wound The Sleeping Virgins - Saved or Lost? Marijuana - The Forbidden Herb Do Pets Go to Heaven? Michael the Archangel Overcoming Cherished Sin What Nature Did Christ Take? Is the Bible Full of Mistakes? "Day for a Year" Principal Is Calvinism's View of Predestination Scriptural? Answering the Difficult Questions about Predestination The REAL Reason Judas Betrayed Jesus Falling in Love with Jesus Jesus Christ the same Yesterday Today and Forever The Pharisee's Accuse Jesus of Breaking the Sabbath Was Jesus Black or White? Baptism for the Dead? How to have a Living Faith It was  “by Him (Jesus) all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,” According this this verse Genesis 1:1 is talking about Jesus.   By replacing the name “God” with the name of Jesus it makes this verse in the Bible very special and meaningful.   “In the beginning Jesus created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 JESUS IS THE ONE WHO CREATED THE HEAVEN AND EARTH IN GENESIS Let’s take a look at a beautiful lesson I learned from this verse while taking a Hebrew language class a few years ago. My Hebrew teacher pointed out that the word “created” comes from the Hebrew word “bara,” and that the root word of “bara” is “bar.” The Hebrew word ‘bar’ means “son, and heir to the throne.” Using the entire beauty of the Hebrew language the first verse in the Bible would read, “In the beginning God the Son, heir to the throne created the heavens and the earth.” We only have time to investigate one more scripture in Genesis chapter one. So let us continue in verse 3 replacing the name “God” with the name of Jesus. “And Jesus said, Let there be light: and there was light. And Jesus saw the light, that it was good: and Jesus divided the light from the darkness. And Jesus called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Genesis 1:3-5. As we begin to study this section of scripture let’s begin with the question, what was the source of this light? The sun, moon, and stars were made on the fourth day (see Genesis 1:14-19). Since the sun was not made until a few days later, when Jesus said “Let there be light” that light could not be the sun. So again let’s ask the question, what was the source of this light on the first day of the week? “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5 “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29. Christ prayed, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” John 17:5. Peter, James, and John had a glimpse of the magnificent glory of Jesus. “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.” Matthew 17:1,2. At the Second Coming the wicked are described as saying, “to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the FACE of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” Jesus Christ will return “with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” Is the language that “His face did shine as the sun” merely symbolic? When Jesus said, “I am the light of the world,” was that merely a metaphor? We are about to read a prophecy regarding what Isaiah was shown about Heaven. “The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.” Isaiah 60:19,20. Turn with me to the final book of the Bible to the closing scenes of what inspiration shares with us about our eternal future home. “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” Revelation 21:23. Jesus is the light of the world revealing the truth of Heaven to our dark sin filled planet. More than this Jesus the Lamb is the literal light of the New Heavens and the New Earth replacing all need for a sun. On the first day of creation light was given to this world. Not the light of the sun, rather the light of the Son. Before God gave us air to breath, or land to grow food on, or plants, trees, or animals or even a marriage partner, God gave to this world His only begotten Son. Jesus the light of the world was the very first gift ever given to this world. This reveals to us that Jesus is more important to our very existence than the air we breathe or the water we drink or the food we eat. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16.