LISTEN
NASB:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
NIV:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Observations:
There was a beginning.
God was always there, before the beginning, and in the beginning.
God created the heavens, in the beginning.
God created the earth, in the beginning.
Takeaways:
The beginning is the starting point of all being – space, time, matter (that we know as our created world) and the heavens.
As difficult as it may be to comprehend, God has always existed, before the beginning, during and after the beginning.
The heavens, which we on earth are yet to realize, were created by God in the beginning.
The earth, in which we currently dwell, was created by God in the beginning.
What a marvelously perfect creation plan!