PERFECTION
In the beginning, God created.
He began with the imperfect and created the Masterpiece, first in the heavens and then on the earth. His work completed in just seven days; He would allow His Masterpiece to mature for a millennium until it became His Perfection.
This is a journey of discovery and revelation of God’s Grand Plan and Design, from creation through the End of the Age, then into a New Heaven and a New Earth.
Reasons for WHAT God is doing in these Last Days, and 
He is doing it this way. My prayer is that, after reading this, everything you may have wondered regarding the reasoning behind God’s Plan for the world and your life, will fall into place.
By: Michael J. Young, Sr., evangelist, teacher.
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2
The Purpose of God’s Eternal Plan is “Perfection”. He is maturing and perfecting His people into His image, ultimately to live in Perfect harmony with Him and with one another, in a New and Perfect heaven and earth.
“Because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.” – Hebrews 10:14
Each and every chapter, verse and word in the Bible, when viewed within this context of God’s Eternal Plan of Perfection, begins to make perfect sense.
IT ALL BEGAN – THE SCIENCE OF IT ALL
A strictly scientific study of the beginning of all things may reveal theories of WHAT, HOW and WHEN things might have begun, but science has never attempted to explain WHY. It is just not in the realm of scientific interest or possibility.
IT ALL BEGAN – THE SPIRIT OF IT ALL
The Bible also tells the ‘WHAT’ and the ‘HOW’ all things began, but from a spiritual perspective. It is from this paradigm that we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible; it is by the spoken Word of God that the heavens (the cosmos) and the earth, and all that exists, came into being – became visible.
Most importantly, we can learn God created all things. But this perspective gives not only the beginning, but forecasts the journey, giving insights of HOW, WHEN and all things are going as they are going, but gives the HOW, WHEN and it will end.
This perspective also explains , despite the fact that there is so much suffering in our world from sin which results in wars, disease, famines, earthquakes, persecutions and deaths,
“We know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose. For those whom He foreknew [and loved and chose beforehand], He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son [and ultimately share in His complete sanctification], so that He would be the firstborn [the most beloved and honored] among many believers.” (See Romans 8:28-29)
If you will endeavor to gain insight and understanding from this journey, you can obtain the strength of endurance through the hope that God indeed has a design and a plan for your life. A plan for you like the one God promised His chosen people before their captivity into Babylon; ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11).
Join me as we go to where it all began: “IN THE BEGINNING”…
Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. Verse 2. The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.”
There are varying estimates as to when the Book of Genesis was written, from sometime around 1400 B.C. to 1800 B.C. There is also some debate on who actually wrote the book, but most agree that it was written by Moses under the inspiration of God.
Modern day scientists will say that the earth is much older than the estimated 3,700 years and 4,100 since the writing of Genesis. In fact, many theologians and Bible scholars will estimate the age of the earth at 6,000 years, while scientist insist the earth is over 4 billion years old.
There is a reason that dating the age of the earth is important. According to Ken Ham, founder and CDO of “Answers in Genesis”, “The age of the earth is s at the heart of evolutionary naturalism (really, the religion of atheism). If the idea of millions and billions of years isn’t true, then the evolutionary religion falls apart. Sadly, many Christians have accepted part of the religion of atheism (naturalism)—the millions of years and/or evolution—and added it into the Bible. So how should we think about this issue?”
Conversely, if the billions of years theory is correct, then the very foundations of the Bible are called into question, which is why the anti-creation crowd is working so hard to prove an unprovable theory. But that is not the purpose of this book.
The purpose of this book is to discover the truth of God, through His written Word, the Bible is telling us. Although thousands of dedicated and honorable men and women have lived and died to bring us the written Word of God, I believe we only partially understand what God has been telling us because our focus has been on the infinite details rather than God’s narrative – what I will call the “Long View”.
Let me start by putting it this way, “In the beginning, God created.”
He began with the imperfect and created the Masterpiece, first in the heavens and then on the earth. His work completed in just seven days; He would allow His Masterpiece to mature for millennia until it becomes His Perfection.
This is a journey of discovery and revelation of God’s Grand Plan and Design, from creation through the End of the Age, then into a New Heaven and a New Earth.
This is a non-academic, yet a serious, thesis on the reasons for WHAT God is doing in these Last Days and WHY He is doing it this way. My prayer is that, after reading this, everything you may have wondered regarding the reasoning behind God’s Plan for the world and your life, will fall into place.
Patiently walk with me, and I will take you on an amazing journey. A journey from the beginning of time through recorded world and Biblical histories. We will identify important past Bible prophecies and correlate them to the actual past world events; then we will compare both prophecies and histories to one specific prophecy known as ‘Daniel’s Seventy Weeks’, which will bring us to current events and the final epoch of time known by various names, such as, “The Last Days”, “The End The Age” the “Latter Days” and “The Tribulation”, which are now unfolding with frightening accuracy.
I will not stop there, however. I will conclude by laying out a successful response to these events, a plan of action by which you can both survive and thrive in these final days.
We will take a journey coordinating Bible Prophecy with Biblical and World Histories, culminating with what the Bible calls “The End of Days”.
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Your Brother and Friend,
Mike Young
Whitestone Fellowship 