Examine Summary Diagram
This exercise is designed to help you visualize that which you have examined to this point. Be sure to pray persistently, asking God for wisdom as you examine the scriptures and text in this exercise.
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The numbered paragraphs below relate to the numbered areas on the Picture Diagram.
We will add to this diagram as we “Examine” the remaining “S”, “R”, “T”, “K”, “J”, and “H” icons.
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1. Eternity
- Consider Eternity as a place, not a time. Eternity has always existed, and it is “timeless.” (Revelation 21: 23,25).
- God inhabits Eternity. (Isaiah 57:15) Scripture gives the dimensions (Revelation 21:15-17) and many other important details of His timeless dwelling place. (all of Rev 21 and Rev 22).
- Scripture refers to this dwelling place as “the 3rd Heaven” (2 Corinthians 12:2), “Paradise” (Luke 23:43, Corinthians 12:4), and the “Father’s House” (John 14:2).
2. Creation
- Carefully examine the creation of the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1. Often overlooked is it that God created time, or “seasons, days, years”. (Genesis 1:14). Scripture also indicates that time goes away after the 1,000 year Kingdom, as the earth and the heaven flee away from the face of the one seated on the great white throne (Revelation 20:11), and that there is no need for time in Eternity (Revelation 21:23-25).
- The scriptures refer to three “heavens”, and we have already seen that “the Third Heaven” is part of Eternity. The first heaven indicates the atmosphere of the earth. The second heaven is outer space, which includes the sun, moon, planets, stars, and galaxies. Scientists combine the first and second heavens and call it our “universe”. Often missed is that everything from the tiniest particles to the biggest galaxies, and all the forces and laws that hold them together require the element of “time”. This is why God included “time” in His creation. Ask your AI app, “does an atom require time to exist?" and expect a response similar to, “The tiniest atom requires time to exist, because time is part of the fabric of the universe in which atoms exist.”
- In summary, time starts with the creation of the heavens and the earth, and time ends after the 1,000 year Kingdom.
3. Seeds and Weeds
- God’s Seed (His): This is a good time to remember that we have shown that God is sovereign over His creation, and that he knows the plans He has for us. (Jeremiah 29:11). We are His seed, and we were known (created) before the foundation of the earth, and He knew the days He formed for us even before those days existed. (Psalm 139:16). The Son of man sows His good seed, the children of the kingdom. (Matthew 13:37-38)
- Satan’s Seed (Not His): The devil sows his weeds, or tares, the children of the wicked one (Matthew 13:37-38) with the intent to slow or eliminate healthy growth of the children of the kingdom. Satan works constantly to deceive His (the children of the kingdom), that he may steal, kill, and destroy. (John 10:10).
- The Seeds and Weeds are scattered across time. (Matthew 13:24) The good seeds of the great multitude will likely land prior to the resurrection “R” and of course come to faith in Christ Jesus during Tribulation.
4. Soul (coming soon)
Question to ponder (coming soon)