Mystery of the Ages.PDF - Blow the Trumpet

So in six days God RENEWED THE FACE OF THE EARTH (this renewing wasnot its original creation, but restoring it to the condition of its original creation) preparingit for the creation of MAN!God separated the dry land from the oceans. He created then the plant life on theland, then the sea life in the water, the animal life. In the Hebrew in which Moses wrote,the vertebrates are called nephesh in verses 20, 21, 24. The translators correctly renderednephesh in these three verses into the English words "living creatures." Yet in Genesis2:7, speaking of man, the same word nephesh was translated "soul" because thetranslators falsely thought that only humans are souls. The word nephesh literally means"life of animals," referring to physical life and not spirit.Once again the earth was a perfect, but as yet unfinished, creation--lacking thefinishing touches.As was written earlier, God creates in dual stages. This might be compared tobaking a cake. First the basic cake comes from the oven. But it is not complete until thesecond stage is added--the icing on the cake. This beautifies, enriches and completes thecake.God placed Lucifer and his angels on the earth. But he intended them to completethe creation by putting on, as it were, the finishing touches to beautify, improve andenrich the earth. But the angels sinned, resulting in bringing chaos, confusion anddarkness to this planet.Now God renewed the face of the earth for MAN, made to become in thecharacter image of God and also in the likeness or form and shape of God. And Godintended man to complete the finishing touches by improving and beautifying the earth--putting, as it were, the icing on the cake, to have man's part in the final creation of theearth. Instead, man has ruined, polluted, defiled, deteriorated almost every portion of theearth his hands have touched or acted upon.The Purpose of Man on EarthWHY did the Creator God put MAN on the earth? For God's ultimate supreme purpose ofreproducing himself--of recreating himself, as it were, by the supreme objective ofcreating the righteous divine character ultimately in millions unnumbered begotten andborn children who shall become God beings, members of the God family.Man was to improve the physical earth as God gave it to him, finishing itscreation (which sinning angels had deliberately refused to do) and, in so doing, toRESTORE the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, with God's WAY of life; and further, in thisvery process FINISHING THE CREATION OF MAN by the development of God's holy,righteous CHARACTER, with man's own assent.Once this perfect and righteous character is instilled in man, and man convertedfrom mortal flesh to immortal spirit, then is to come the INCREDIBLE HUMANPOTENTIAL--man being BORN INTO the divine FAMILY of God, restoring thegovernment of God to the earth, and then participating in the completion of theCREATION over the entire endless expanse of the UNIVERSE! That incredible potentialof man will be fully explained in the pages that follow in this volume. God shall havereproduced HIMSELF untold millions of times over!