Timeline scriptural perspectives of “The Beginning”

Abraham’s perspective

|Creation        Antediluvian history and Noah’s flood     Ham, Cush, Nimrod apostasy        2350 to 2000 BC

Moses’ perspective

|Creation      Adamic pre-history   post-Noahic history    Abraham to Joseph to captivity    2000 to 1500 BC

The Judges’ and David’s perspectives

|Creation    Adam to Noah   Pre-history to Abraham  the patriarchs   the exodus    the judges   Saul and David

The prophets’ growing perspective

|“From everlasting”   Lucifer,  Creation, Adam to Noah to the patriarchs, the judges, the kingdom to 425 BC

Christ’s perspective

“With Thine own self”   Lucifer’s defection, Eden, His life, death, His Holy/Most Holy heavenly ministries

The apostolic perspective

Mystery plan of redemption Creation     history to John   Messiah the Prince   Jesus’ glorious reign in Spirit

The Revelator’s perspective

Him that liveth forever and ever, and the Seven Spirits      27 to 34 AD     the hour of God’s judgment comes

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.…  And God called the firmament Heaven.… And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas.” (Gen. 1:1,2,8,10).

“Now to Him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Rom. 16:25).

 “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.” (Eph. 3:9).

“Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints.” (Col. 1:26).

“Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself.” (Eph. 1:9).

“…the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.” (Col. 2:2).

“…until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which in His [set time] He shall shew, [God] is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1Tim. 6:15,16). At His coming Jesus will show that His Father alone reigns and alone has the original immortality.

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” (Heb. 1:1-3).

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” (Rev. 3:14). The Son (Michael) was not created

“I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.” (Rev. 1:11). Jesus (Michael) was the first, by whom God made the worlds.

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Rev. 1:8).

“Behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.…

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to Him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

The four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sat on the throne, and worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.” (Rev. 4:2,3,8-11). At the beginning the Father was on His throne. He alone, “One sat on the throne”. And His only-begotten Son, the Seven Spirits of God, burning brighter than anything else, stood between God and Their angelic hosts. Later, in Revelation 5:6, from Christ's glorified incarnated human body came those seven Spirits of God.

“And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” (Rev 4:5).

“Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that liveth for ever and ever.” (Rev. 5:12-14). Only the Father and Son are worshiped and praised by the hosts of heaven.

“[A] mighty Angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon His head, and His face was as it were the sun, and His feet as pillars of fire: and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when He had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.” (Rev. 10:2,3, cf John 12:28,29). The numeral seven, with the Father's voice, as with the Lamb's Spirit, is a number that symbolizes infinite magnitude.

“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets.” (Rev. 10:7). The mystery is the plan of salvation that ultimately ends the great controversy with God restored to full trust, a perfect trust which Lucifer has sought to usurp and destroy.

“And the Angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up His hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein.” (Rev. 10:6, cf Dan. 7:9,13). Although God created all things through Christ, as Ephesians 3:9 says, Christ gives ultimate power and authority to His Father for creation, and swears that He alone lives forever and ever.

“And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

Saying, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned.

And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” (Rev. 11:16-18). This wrath of God comes from the Father taking back His place as center of authority and worship in creation. His wrath is also seen in the 3rd angel's message. The mark of the Beast goes to everyone who worships the Beast and the Dragon instead of Christ and His Father. They are lost because they chose to avoid the claims of God's Law and preferred the lawless provisions of Satan. Jesus calls Himself by the same attributes of His Father. He has that perfect right; and He alone. He has proven Himself, more than any creature, to be loyal to His greater God, when He laid down His life for fallen man at the risk of being forever lost if He had lost His hold on His Father under the tremendous pressure of Satan's temptations.

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” (Rev. 22:13). Jesus can lay claim to His Father's sole attribute of self-existent One.

“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). Jesus was at the beginning before creation, but His greatest loveliness comes from being the begotten Son of the Father. Nothing is more precious than children, especially a first-born son.