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Deep Magic – Song of the Supernatural – Chapter 6
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One thing is for sure – the earth is the focus of God’s Supernatural attention. Genesis 1:1 ends with the words “the earth,” and the first words of Genesis 1:2 are “The earth.” God is making it clear to His audience that the “earth” is what they should watch as the Creative process unfolds. Remember, God wants us to look at Him as He explains how He accomplished, what is to us, the greatest act of Deep Magic in all of history (His Story).
Creation — Day One
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” Genesis 1:3
“Then God said.” The Hebrew word is amar and means “to say, to say in one’ s heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend.” This is speech that comes from the heart and mind; speech that reveals the individual’s purpose and intent.
The scientific support for what many call Intelligent Design is enormous and growing by the day. More and more scientists are writing papers and books about “The Mind” behind the Design of the universe. Some of the scientific fields represented by those who are concluding that a Great Intelligence is behind the design of the universe are physics, astrophysics, astronomy, biology, and biochemistry.
I was a television journalist in Huntsville, Alabama for almost 13 years. Huntsville is home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and where Werner von Braun and his team of German scientists settled after they were “captured” by Allied forces at the end of World War II. Von Braun died a few years before I moved to Huntsville, but I had the opportunity to know and interview many members of his German team. I spent time in their homes and saw many of von Braun’s pictures, letters, papers, and drawings. One of my favorite quotes from von Braun is this one about the Creator:
“The vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the certainty of its Creator. I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.” Werner von Braun
I have no fear about what scientists may discover in my lifetime or after I’m gone. If their methods are pure and aimed at finding the truth about the beginning of the universe, they will find God there. Most of the so-called “scientific discoveries” of the 19th and early 20th centuries that supported evolution and other ungodly views of the origin of life have been found to be untrue and wanting in the areas of scientific exploration. Even modern evolutionists and atheists are hard pressed to hold to such archaic and disproven beliefs. Norman Geisler and Frank Turek wrote a book that expresses the problem well – “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.” Neither do I – and I used to be an atheist. In fact, recent scientific discoveries are having a big impact on the belief systems of many well-known and respected scientists who are moving from atheism to theism. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can find it in the Holy Scriptures and real science.
The Magic of Creation
Something as large and complex as the universe must have necessitated enormous and complicated machinery to move matter around so that everything could come into existence. That might be our view as humans, since everything we do in building things takes great planning and physical movement. We’re used to giant cranes and bulldozers to get the result of giant buildings – but not so with God.
“By the word of the LORD the heavens were made.” Psalm 33:6
God is giving us a great insight – we might even call it a clue – to His Deep Magic. The Magic is in His Word. The Word of God is a revelation of His Mind, Heart, Will and Intent. It is through the Word of God that we learn His inner Thoughts, Desires and Intents. If God did not speak, we could not know. Whenever you read in the Bible that God “spoke,” you are witnessing the Supernatural. Those of us who are of the natural must pay close attention to that which is of the Supernatural, because in it we will see great and mighty things that exist outside our sphere of understanding and control. It is through the Word of God that we receive Knowledge and Wisdom from His Mind to our eyes and ears – if we are willing to see and hear. All other words we hear in life pale in comparison with the Word of God.
What is the first written language of God’s Word? Hebrew. Take special note of that because the language a magician uses is key to his or her knowledge and power. Many magicians believe there is magic in language – the spoken word. Ancient magicians believed that supernatural powers listened for magical words to be spoken and would grant their power to the one who spoke the words in the right order. The fact that God chose Hebrew for the language He would use to communicate with humans is a key to understanding the Power of His Deep Magic.
The Hebrew language had its beginning when God called an elderly man from Ur to become the father of God’s chosen people. While Sumerian may have been his mother tongue, Abram was a wealthy and intelligent man and most likely spoke multiple languages because of the importance of Ur as an ancient trading center in lower Mesopotamia. God led Abram (later changing his name to Abraham) to move his family hundreds of miles to the land of Canaan for many years and introduced him to many new words and ideas about the language of the Divine Creator of the universe. God continued to instruct Abraham’s son Isaac, Isaac’s son Jacob, and Jacob’s 12 sons in His Ways. The Hebrew language was well developed by the time the family of Israel moved from Canaan to Egypt because of a great famine in the land. Hundreds of years later, God spoke at great length with Moses and taught him how to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt and toward the land of promise. God also dictated His Law for Israel to Moses and told him what to write in the first five Books of the Old Testament. Hebrew is the language God chose to reveal Himself to Israel and to the world – so keep your eye on it for clues to the Deep Magic of God.
God Is Light
God said, “Let there be light’; and there was light.” We know from many other Scriptures that God is Light and Dwells in Unapproachable Light.
“This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5
“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness …” 2 Corinthians 4:6
When God said, “let there be light” (yehiy ‘or), He brought His Eternal Light into that which He was creating on Day One. God’s Light is His Presence. The beauty of what happened on Day One of Creation is that God was there in all His Glory.
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.” Genesis 1:3-5
God began the Creative process with the earth being without form, and void. Darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. God let His Light shine out of darkness and saw that it was good. It’s important to note here that God is pleased with each step of the Creative process – “and God saw that it was good.” That phrase is used six times in Genesis 1. There is a seventh usage of the word, but it is a strengthened form of the word good – the number seven being an important key to understanding the Deep Magic of God.
God “divided” (Hebrew badal – separate, divide into parts) the “light” (‘or) from the “darkness” (hoshekh) – the same darkness that was on the surface of the “deep” (tehom – abyss). Now that the light and darkness were separated into parts, God gave names to each. He called the light “Day” and called the darkness “Night.” God defined their purpose further by calling one “evening” and the other “morning.” Together, they were the first day.
A quick word about the term “day” in Genesis 1. Many speculate about whether a Creation day was 24 hours or descriptive of a much longer period of time. One key is God using the terms “morning” and “evening,” which we would understand to combine to make up a 24-hour cycle. Another key is found in the Law God gave to Moses for Israel where He compared the six days of Creation to the six days of the week people would labor, and the seventh day of Creation where God rested from His Work, to the Sabbath Day where the people would rest from their work and worship their God.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8-11
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