Genesis 2:4 “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,"
Here, the inspired narrative echos itself from the first verses of chapter one, the beginning when God made the heavens and the earth. Next, it turns that phrase around to “the earth and the heavens,” as if inviting a look backward from the point we’ve reached in the Creation story, to the first day. Genesis 2:4 is a snapshot of the whole Creation account thus far, and it highlights the ongoing, dynamic, intertwining relationship between heaven and earth (1:1-8, 1:9-13, 1:14-19, 1:20, 1:25-27, 2:1). The earth begins formless and empty, and then God inserts heaven into the earth (1:1-8). Later, God forms man from the earth, but in His own, heavenly image (1:27).
God made the heavens and the earth together, and he made them to go together. God is still in the business of connecting earth and heaven. He wants to reconnect with you. Ultimately He will put heaven back on earth, and He wants you to be there (Revelation 21:1-8). But first He must recreate the character of your earthly vessel with, by and for His Heavenly One. Will you say yes to Jesus Christ? He came from heaven to earth, to be heaven in earth so that you can have heaven on earth.
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