HOW GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE

Psa 33:6,9

Morning Meditation 11/10/2012

This Psalm is not identified with a human author. It is not necessary. The Holy Spirit is the Author of all the Scripture. Sometimes it adds flavor to know who the human author is but it is never necessary.

Psalm 33:6, 9 says: “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”

In Genesis 1:1 God simply lets us know that he did it. The Bible begins: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” God does not tell us how he did it in Genesis 1. He does tell us in Isaiah 45:18 that he did not create it in the condition that it is found in verse 2. Isaiah says: “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.”

The word “created” (bara) is the same word that is found in Genesis 1:1. The word “vain” (tohuw) meaning “formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness” is the same word that is translated “without form” in Genesis 1:2. So Isaiah says that God did not create the world in Genesis 1:1 as it is found in Genesis 1:2. A perfect God does not create imperfect things. If you find it imperfect, something has happened after he created it. I am going to leave the advancement of that thought to some other time.

We are told in Psalm 33:6,9 how God made the heavens. “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made.” The “word” (dabar) means “speech, a word, an utterance.” God just spoke. That was enough. The words “were the heavens made” is a passive voice (niphal) which means they did not just happen of themselves (evolution) but they were made to happen. God is the cause. I can speak and sometimes things happen especially if I speak to the right people! But everything that happens has a normal explanation. But when God speaks, things happen that cannot be explained. That something could happen is completely contrary to what modern science says. They laugh at things like this. God made the heavens with a spoken word and that is what happened for those of us who believe the Bible.

Verse 9 says “For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.” The word “spake” (‘amar) means in the Qal stem “to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend.” The word “commanded” (tsavah) means “to command, charge, give orders.” God thought it and then made the command. To whom did he give the command? To the heavens and all the host of them. He speaks to things that do not exist as though they did exist and they appear. This concept is totally foreign to us. I can understand why any man in his natural state would think this is foolish. He has no faith. He has a wicked heart that rejects God. His reason is limited to creation. The only way one can know God is by faith in his revelation (his Word). And revelation is the only reasonable explanation to creation. A big bang is certainly not scientifically feasible or reasonable.

Jesus cursed the fig tree with his word (Mark 11:14). Then he said, “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). The verse literally says “Have faith of God.” God is in the genitive case in the Textus Receptus and this is the same as our possessive case. Then by way of explanation in verse 23 he said: “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” He says God’s kind of faith can talk to mountains and that is all that is necessary to get the job done. Jesus exercised the kind of faith God has and his spoken word changed things that was impossible for man and revealed that nothing is impossible with God.

The words “stood fast” means that it was created without the need of adjustment. It stood fast in the place and according to the laws he created with it. Anything that has gotten out of adjustment since the day of creation came with Satan’s rebellion. The universe is under a curse and has been since the fall of Lucifer (Ezk. 28:13-19; Isa. 14:12-17). Paul said in Rom. 8:19-22: “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” The creation is groaning with the pain that sin has brought to it. It waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

References to God as Creator are repeated over and over again throughout the Scripture. Eccl 12:1 “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;” This is a word to our young people and yet we send them to schools that teach them that we came from monkeys. Not every teacher teaches that. But this is what the text books are telling our children. God’s wrath is building against those who refuse to recognize him as Creator.

Jesus said in Mark 10:6 “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.” Jesus believed the Genesis account of creation.

Listen to what God said to Job in chapter 38:5-7: “Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” What God says here tells us that the angels were created before the world. They were there to hear his spoken word and shout for joy when they saw it all appear out of nowhere suddenly and completely. David said “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

What an awesome God we have. A God who can do this will have no problem answering any prayer you pray no matter how difficult the situation. He will have no problem bringing this world to attention and judgment at the second coming. He will have no trouble giving us a new body at the rapture/resurrection. Let’s worship him in the beauty of holiness and please him with unwavering faith in what he has said in his word (Heb. 11:6).

In Christ

Bro. White