AND GOD SAID, (NOW)

Philip Ney Pioneer Publishing 28/8/09

"Ready, set, go" The excited tots have been marshaled into place by over-anxious parents. The starter has given them instructions, which they quickly forget. Then watching to make sure they toe the line, he shouts. "Get ready, Get set. Go." With shouts, ouches, and cries of joy or tears of disappointment the race proceeds.
After many years of training, grueling hours of practice and intense last minute instruction by the coach, the referee blows his whistle and the game unfolds. The launching of a building project, ship on the ways, rocket on the launch pad all begin with a word or signal indicating that word. That word is "now".
"And God said let there be light", (now) (1). God had everything ready to go. All the forces and factors were lined up precisely. At the exact moment when it would work, God said "now" Let there be light, now. "Then God said Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed bearing plants" (2)
Although God is awfully fast, no energy known to man can be instantaneous. So no creation process that is conceivable to humans can be instantaneous. Even the photon is limited to 300 million meters per second. It is very quick but not instantaneous.
Jesus said. "Let not your heart be troubled.…."I go to prepare a place for you" (the most amazing, exquisitely designed, marvelously constructed place we will ever see)…"When everything is ready, I will come…"(3) Although Jesus is extraordinarily quick, "and immediately he could"…. see, walk, etc) it took more time than we can imagine to " work" those miracles and it took effort, ("for I felt healing power go out from me" (4). God took 6 days (epochs of time) to create the universe out of apparent nothingness. I'm suspect he could have done it faster but he was enjoying the process and He wanted to share it with His son (project manager) and His angels.
I believe God created our energy and matter by making careful calculations that with an incomprehensibly powerful spark of energy we have yet to discover, ignited the whole process of turning a small portion of "dark matter" into something that would sustain the creature human. They are remarkable beings who He had designed many millennia before. When everything was worked out and all His servants were properly trained and in their precise places, God said "Now". That big bang began the creation process we are still seeing unfold.
The first full scale invasion by God into His enemy's domain brought the "armies of heaven"(5). They were not there just to sing, but to protect God's infant son Jesus and His family.
Who knows when the next and final invasion is to take place? Although we are given many warning indicators, "no man knows the day or the hour… not even the Son", (6). Not even Jesus" knew God's top military secret. In any war "when" is always the best kept secret. The enemy of God can read scripture so he knows where and how he will be attacked but he can't know "when" and that keeps him constantly off balance.
This glorious full-scale invasion of earth by God will be sudden and unexpected. (7). "When" is what God's enemy would like to know most. Because no human can know, Satan knows there is no point in tempting or coercing humans to divulge that secret. The fact that God did not entrust "when" to His beloved son Jesus is the best evidence that Jesus was also human and that He did have to struggle to choose to obey God.
In heaven God will again shout "Now" and the final invasion will happen almost instantaneously. This time God' stated intention is a final victory.
Satan has been recruiting furiously. He now has many more enslaved evil spirits, but he cannot match the power and wisdom of God. In fact Jesus has already defeated and judged Satan. He is under a suspended sentence. But that won't stop him from one last desperate attempt to overthrow God and destroy his creation.
Some Christians become very upset with any attempt to explain the mysteries of God, but God wants to be known, ( 8). Jesus came to demonstrate and explain God (9) and Paul spent his life explaining God's purposes (10). To explain anything in science or scripture does not reduce God but magnifies Him, showing more exactly how infinitely amazing and loving our God really is. Science cannot answer all the questions. It invariably finds more questions than answers. Praise God!

References:

1. Gen 1:3 7. Matt chapter 24
2. Gen 1:11 8. Eze. 38:16, John 14:8, Heb. 8:11
3. John 14:2,3 9. Matt. 13:14, John 4:25, & 12:46
4. Luke 8:48 10. I Cor. 15:51, Hebrews 5:11
5. Luke 2:13
6. Matt 24:36