July 31, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
CREATOR OF THE WORLD AND THE WORLDS
“By whom also He made the worlds.”
Heb. 1: 2, A.V.
“It was through Christ that God ‘made the worlds.’ The One who took Adam’s place and was ‘appointed heir,’ is the Creator of all things. In making the world God used the Son as His Intermediary, not as one uses a tool, but as fellow worker.”
“That Christ is Creator indicates a division of activity among the members of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit has His work to do; so has the Son, and so has the Father. In the plan of God He who was to be man’s Redeemer [if and when he falls] was also the Creator.”
“Christ made not only this world but ALL the worlds. ‘Without Him was not any thing made that was made.’ John 1:3. ‘Worlds’ has a larger signification than that of physical creation. It embraces also the SPIRITUAL and INTELLECTUAL forces in the universe, such as are suggested by apostle Paul’s statement that ‘by Him all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and FOR Him.’ Col. 1:16.”
“Christ, the Creator of the PHYSICAL worlds, is also the Author of GOVERNMENT, ORDER, and LAW in heaven and on earth. ‘By Him all things consist,’ or, as Meyer and Alford suggest, ‘In Him the universe has its continuance and order.’ -Quoted In Variorum Bible, Note on Col. 1:17. Lightfoot says that ‘all the laws and purposes which guide the creation and government of the universe reside in Him, the Eternal Word, as their meeting point.’ Quoted in M.R. Vincent, Word Studies, vol. 4, p. 381.”
“As we think of the MAGNITUDE of God’s creation, of the millions and billions of worlds [as confirmed in the latest space explorations and sciences] circling the throne of Deity, we get an enlarged conception of the greatness of God! Wonderful in wisdom, knowledge, and power must our God be!”
“But if we apply to the universe what is said of this Earth, and what evidently is a general principle—‘that He created it not in vain. He formed it to be inhabited’(Isa. 45:18)—our conception takes on still GREATER proportions. If we conceive as many of these worlds as being INHABITED, that in them are ‘thrones and dominions and principalities and powers’(Col.1:16), that is, ordered government, and that these were created not only by Him but FOR Him,’ an expression that challenges our imagination, and then consider that this is the SAME GOD who so loved us that He came to this world to seek and to save that which was lost [to sin and Satan], we exclaim in amazement with the psalmist, ‘What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest Him?’ Ps. 8:4.” M. L. Andreasen, The Book of Hebrews, The Deity of Christ, pp. 47-49.
To be continued tomorrow, God willing. NMF