The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

32 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALcreation of glorious beauty. Facts regarding that will appear inchapter 4.We shall see that angels inhabited the earth prior to the creationof man. Angels, who were perfect from the creation until iniquityor lawlessness was found in them, caused the whole surfaceof the earth to turn into a state of decay, confusion and emptiness.as we shall see.Could the whole universe have been created capable of sustaininglife? We are not told specifically by revelation in God'sWord whether it was or not, but what we are told throws additionallight on why God decided to create man!Continue this passage in Romans l :22: "We know that thewhole creation [universe] has been groaning in travail togetheruntil now." Consider that the creation is compared to a motherabout to be delivered of her child. The creation is pictured asgroaning in travail in hope (verse 20), awaiting the birth by resurrectionto immortality, of the children of God. lt is as if the creationis the mother and God is the father. Anyway the wholethrust ofthe passage is that when we (converted humans) are bornof God - then having the power and glory of God - we are goingto do as God did when this earth had been laid "waste andempty" - Hebrew tohu and bohu (Gen. l :2). Christ, who renewed"the face of the earth" (Psalm 104:30), was renewing what hadbeen destroyed by the rebellion of the sinning angels.What these wonderful passages imply and indicate goes farbeyond the amount specifically revealed.To grasp the whole ofthe message ofthe Kingdom ofGod requiresmany chapters like this one. lt is an all-encompassing subject.This passage indicates precisely what all astronomers and scientificevidence indicates - the suns are as balls of fire, giving outlight and heat; but the planets, except for this earth, are in a stateof death, decay and futility - but not forever - waiting until convertedhumans are BORN the children of God; born into the veryDivine Family of God, forming the Kingdom of God.Jesus' gospel was the Kingdom of God. What 1 am showingyou here is that Christ's gospel of the Kingdom actually includesall this knowledge here revealed - even the whole universe is to