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.
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.
(Please note that I use page links in place of citations, footnotes and references. They are important for background information and a more complete understanding of these teachings.)
PREFACE
There are no random words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters or books in the Bible. None. No, not one – from the beginning to the end – from Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21. Every word matters. Each word is built upon another until the Bible forms the perfect written Word and Thoughts of God.
I will go further to point out that the Word of God, in spiritual reality, is the breath, the Breathed Word of God (see 2 Timothy 3:16). It should be presented as the longest and continuous word ever spoken and written (although we – men and women – needed to divide it into verses, sentences, chapters and books for our convenience).
Furthermore, we should realize that the Bible is instructive, creative, causative and prophetic by its nature. It is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (see Hebrews 4:12).
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The Bible contains 782,815 words (the New American Standard Bible). It begins with “In the beginning God” and every word, sentence, paragraph, chapter and book that follows is synchronized and in context with those opening words. (He and His Message is the same yesterday, today and forever.)
The remaining 782,805 words of the Bible continue to be in the context of the first words found in Genesis; and if you read the rest of the Bible out of that context, you will not – you cannot – get the correct understanding of the Message from God.
So, it should come as no surprise that reading all sixty-six books of the Bible in context, becomes especially challenging since you are dealing with 782,815 words, composing 31,103 verses and 1,189 chapters and 66 books written by 40 authors over a span of 1,500 years. (Further complicating this matter, there are about fifty mainline versions of the Bible, not counting revisions). However, doing the hard work of keeping your reading and comprehension in context will make understanding God’s purpose and plan for this world, the cosmos and for your life much easier to understand.
Another helpful hint when trying to read the Bible, and understanding the importance of context, is knowing the beginning and the end, before you dig into the entire narrative of the Bible – it is immeasurably helpful to know how it starts and how it ends before reading such extensive content.
Coincidentally, as a prelude to his sermon on Sunday, January 21st of this year, Pastor Trent Casto of Naples Covenant Church made this observation:
“Researchers from U.C. San Diego, California, have hypothesized that it could be that once a person knows how a story turns out, it is cognitively easier – you are more comfortable processing the information – and can focus on a deeper understanding of the story.” In other words, knowing the end of a story before you read it, may actually enhance our enjoyment and understanding of that story.” (Click here for the video version).
I consider this hypothesis to be especially applicable when it comes to reading the entire Bible, especially since the Bible is the longest continuous instructional (love) letter ever composed.
The Bible begins with the creation of heaven and earth, and completes the journey with God’s judgements on the earth and culminates with the destruction and the re-creation of the heavens and the earth as the eternal home for faithful believers. Everything between these two points is the active will of God being completed in and through His creation – it is His perfecting of what He has created! It is the perfecting of His children (you, me and His Church) in preparation for our great inheritance.
Just to cite three (out of numerous) examples of perfection, God tells us in Romans 12:2, ”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.”
Again, in Matthew 5:48, God says, “Therefore you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
And, in Hebrews 10:14, He tells us, “Because by a single offering (Jesus) He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.”
In the beginning, God created. God began with the imperfect and created His 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.
God’s Word 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.
The world seems to be in an irreversible spiral of chaos, careening out of control. But that is only the appearance. There is order behind the apparent chaos. Satan creates chaos, disease, poverty and death to discourage and distract you from God’s Great Design and Plan. Satan will try to convince you that he has a plan for your salvation. It is a lie.
Everything, past, present and future is going according to God’s Plan. Knowing and following God’s Will from beginning to end will help you see and know what God is doing in these Last Days and why He is doing it this way.
My prayer is that you would read the Bible (from the beginning to the end in the proper context), and that everything you may have wondered regarding the reasoning behind God’s plan for the world and for your life – all your successes, all your failures, all the good times and the hard times – will begin to make sense and fall into place. That God will give you an increased and a renewed enthusiasm for His Word so that you may be able to perform His Word and His Works in these Last Days.
Please, be aware that this will not be an easy journey. Jesus has already told us that we will have tribulation in this world. In fact, it is through these trials that we are made ready – perfected into the image and likeness of Christ Jesus – in order to inherit this world and the next as joint heirs with Jesus. (see Matthew 5).
Again, the apostle Peter told us, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,
so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which perishes though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (see 1 Peter).
INTRODUCTION
Our world seems to be in an irreversible spiral of chaos, careening out of control. Everything we have known as good in recorded history is being called evil; and all things evil are being called good; The world substitutes darkness for light and light for darkness, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
There is a large and growing worldwide faction, however, will tell you that all is well and that we have entered a New World Order, a Great World Reset is at hand.
This short video will give you a glimpse of what is being sold as this New World, but in reality, it is the same tired old saga of the failed Marxists Utopia. The claims are the outrageous imagination of the world’s Globalists-Socialists and Marxists.
Having and promoting unrealistic promises as reality is nothing new, except every single previous promise of a Socialist, Communist, Leninist, Marxist government or social structure, or any variant of the same, has always ended in tyranny, despotism, wars, loss of personal freedom, lack of basic needs, poverty and the death of millions.
If you will patiently walk with me, 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.
Finally, there is an event coming which is so fantastic as to be unbelievable. But I will show the evidence leading to this event, known as the ‘Rapture’ and I will even help you calculate the odds of its occurrence. You will then be faced with the most monumental decision you have ever faced. You don’t want to miss this.
We will take a journey followed by a book aptly titled ‘The Journey to Perfection’. Our travels will coordinate Bible Prophecy, Biblical and World Histories culminating with The End of Days’. You will be able to read this book either as a digital ONLINE book or in a PDF format.
Your Brother and Friend,
Mike Young
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(PS: The main idea here is that in the beginning God had already determined the end. And with God, all things have already been fulfilled. (This is the mystery of God’s view of time.) We, who are living within His creation, have to walk through a linear timeline. It is not so we can change anything God has created or ordained to happen, but it is so we can benefit from the experience of life. This is the time we experience our joys, suffer our trials and we are to make our decison relating to God and to our eternity as spoken of in Daniel 12:1-2, “And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Verse 10. Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
It is through this process we, who are believers, will experience God’s perfecting of our soul and will experience His process of sanctification.)
