Genesis 2:4. From Heaven to Earth and Back

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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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Ezra James
The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).