Musing – Can You Believe in Both Evolution and Biblical Heaven?

Hebraic Musing – Can You Believe in Both Evolution and Biblical Heaven?

Who created the Heaven that we look forward to?  The Bible describes what God created in Genesis at the beginning of time, and God wraps up His Creation in Revelation at the end of time. “Genesis and Revelation” are the book-ends of God’s creative handiwork!  Our Creation and Heaven both came from God.  Consider these:

Gen.1:1 “In the beginning God created…”   
    Rev.22:13  “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the Beginning and the end.”

Gen.1:3   God said “Let there be light”…                 
    Rev.21:23  “The city does not need the sun…glory of God gives it light…”

Gen.1:6   And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water."
    Rev.8:10   “The third angel sounded his trumpet, and … A third of the waters turned bitter, …”

Gen.1:8 God called the expanse "sky."
    Rev.20:11-12  “Then … Earth and sky fled from his presence, … no place for them.”

Gen.1:11  Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees…”
    Rev.8:7   “The first angel … earth was burned up, a third of the trees … all the green grass…”

Gen.1:14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night…
    Rev.8:12  “… fourth angel … a third of the sun … of the moon, …of the stars…turned dark.”

Gen.1:20   God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures…let birds fly above the earth…”
    Rev.8:8-9  “The second angel sounded… and… a third of the living creatures in the sea died…”

Gen.1:24 God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,…”
    Rev.9:15   “…four angels … ready … were released to kill a third of mankind.”

Gen.1:27    “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;”
    Rev.21:3   "… dwelling of God is with men, ... and God himself will be with them and be their God.”

Gen.2:2 2  “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed …God had finished … he rested …”

    Rev.21:5   He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" … "It is done”.

See the pattern?   Everything God started in Genesis He tied off or finished in the book of Revelation:

a)      Sin is introduced in Gen.3,   Sin is done away with in Rev.20 “He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations …”

b)      Curse is pronounced in Gen.3;   Curse is destroyed in Rev.21.

c)      Death entered in Gen.3;   No more death after Rev.21.

d)     Man is banished from Eden in Gen.3;   Man’s presence in Eden is welcomed in Rev.22.

e)      The Tree of Life is guarded in Gen.3;   the right to the Tree of Life is available in Rev.22.

f)       Sorrow and suffering introduced in Gen.3;   No more sorrow or suffering after Rev.22.

g)      Nimrod founds Babylon in Gen.10;   in Revelation Babylon finally falls in Rev.18:21  "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.”

h)      God uses a flood to destroy sinful men in Gen.6-9;   Satan tries to destroy the elect in Rev.12.

i)        God signed His covenant with a rainbow Gen.9;   then seals it in Rev.10:1 “Then I saw another mighty angel … robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun…”

j)        Sodom and Egypt are introduced as signs of evil and corruption in Gen.13; and they became the two witnesses in Jerusalem:   in Rev.11:18 “Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.”

k)      A bride is chosen for Abraham’s son in Gen.24;   in Rev.19&21 Abraham’s seed becomes the bride.

l)        A marriage of the first Adam in Gen.2;   in Rev.19 the marriage of the last Adam.

m)    In Genesis Satan’s dominion was established;   in Revelation Christ’s dominion is established.

Points to ponder   or   RSVP

If you believe Creation by Evolution rather than the God’s Biblical Account of Creation,
how can you then believe or trust in the Biblical promises of Heaven?

♫ When we all get to Heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be….♫

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                                      April 28, 2020

Author: “Hebraic Insights – Messages exploring the Hebrew roots of our faith” 
“Biblical Marriage (by Yosef)”   Weekly “Hebraic Musings”   

Note - This musing is from that book, “Hebraic Insight #83 – In the Beginning and in The End” published 2010.