p. 8 | Creation and Redemption

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 21, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 24.

Creation and Redemption

"IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Gen. 1:1.

"In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is." Ex. 20:11.

Here are two expressions, quite similar, and yet different. The first refers to the whole vast creation of God, consisting of suns, and systems of suns, and clusters of systems, and universes of clusters, the whole imponderable mass created and held ponderable and under control of Him whom men would dethrone by the empty names of Law and Nature. It expresses to mortals the great fact of creation, which they may apprehend tho they can not comprehend the power and the wisdom involved. "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." John 1:1, 2. "For by Him were all things created; . . . all things were created by Him, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist [hold together]." Col. 1:16, 17.