Week 1 Genesis 1
Was anything going on before Genesis 1:1?
Here’s list of a few things I found last year:
Lord…before you gave birth to the world…you are God
Your throne, O Lord, has stood from time immemorial. You yourself are from the everlasting past
Jesus’ prayer: Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began
Jesus’ prayer: Father…you loved me even before the world began
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ
God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see – such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world
God’s plan: from before the beginning of time was to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.
This truth gives (believers) confidence that they have eternal life, which God promised them before the world began
God chose (Christ) as your ransom long before the world began
The Lamb who was killed before the world was made.
Verses like these are a good reminder that Genesis accounts for the beginning of the material world. But it doesn’t account for very much about Pre-Material happenings – about events that were going on before our space and before our time.
Note: quotes from Psalm 90:1-2 Psalm 93:2 John 17:5 John 17:24 Ephesians 1:4 Colossians 1:16-17 2 Timothy 1:9 Titus 1:2 1 Peter 1:20 Revelation 13:8 (NLT). Credit & thx to (I think) Francis Schaeffer for some of these refs.