Issue 1792 – The Play – August 19, 2025
The cast is ready. The stage is set. The curtains draw back.
Opening set … total darkness. No sound. The primary character appears in a blinding light.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Genesis 1:1-5
A flashing panorama of worlds being created. The earth being formed. Trees and plants being added. Birds, fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians and mammals of every size and permutation. Enter a man and a woman.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26-27
The love story is not between the man and the woman, although there is a subplot between them, and it tells of their love. It is between the God of all creation and His people. The man and the woman disobey and betray the Lord. They are evicted from the Garden of Eden, but he promises a redeemer.
Enter and exit a series of characters and settings. Betrayal, honor, murder, love, sin. The creator’s heart breaks over the fallen nature of the one He loves.
Scene … darkness … flashing lightning, pouring rain, screams. Breaks into bright sunshine on a mountaintop.
In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Genesis 8:13-20
The Lord remains faithful to His promise. He is not finished with His love. Not all people were destroyed.
Enter and exit a wide range of people. Deserts, Pyramids, plagues, parting seas. Faithfulness and apostasy. Exile and redemption. Miracles. Heroes and villains.
Intermission. Four hundred years of silence. No new books added to the Bible. Is God gone? Has He abandoned His love? No … He is setting the stage for His promised Messiah to burst upon the scene.
Curtain opens. A scene in a stable in a tiny village in the Middle East. A young mother and father.
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” Matthew 1:22-23
The child grows to manhood. A short ministry. Miracles. Love. Hate. Murder. Crucifixion. Death. Resurrection. Ascension. The word spreads. A strange prophetic book.
Intermission. 2000 years of silence. Is God gone? Has He abandoned His love? No … He is setting the stage for His promised Messiah to burst upon the scene.
Let us rejoice and exultand give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; Revelation 19:7
The intermission is nearly over. Are you ready for the grand finale, the rejoicing of the Son and the bride for all of eternity in heaven?
The love that will never end will write itself forever in joy.
Until next time, prepare your heart.
Hallelu Yah (Praise God)
Be blessed,
Kevin
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