Devotion 806

“The Origin Of Life"

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 46

I was reading a book yesterday called "The Signature in the Cell." A wonderful book answering the question about the origin of life. This subject of the origin of life has been debated over decades between the atheists and the theists. The atheist preaches man evolved from animals and the ultimate animal being the ape. The theist preaches that man originated from a creator.
This debate about the origin of life is ongoing.

Today, with the revelation of blood, I want to contribute to the debate by saying this: life does not have an origin. To ask the question, "What is the origin of life?" means you do not know what life is. Life has always been. The right question to ask is not what is the origin of life, but what is the origin of death.
Life doesn't have an origin. It's death that has an origin. Life is God, and God is life, and life has always been, and life will always be. Life is infinite, and life is eternal. That's who God is. It is death that began in the Garden of Eden when blood fell. God told the first blood, "The day that you eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you shall surely die." The day that the first Adam or first blood did not believe the word of God, and ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, death originated.

God is life. He has no beginning. He has no end.

Isaiah writes,

Let's read.

Isaiah 46:1-4 "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. [2] They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. [3] Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: [4] And even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you."

Man was originally an extension of God. Man was all life, and life is eternal until man stepped away from life by going the way of death. The word of God is life, and it's life eternal. Heaven and earth shall pass away. But his word, shall never pass away. Death is simply stepping away from the word of God, not believing the word of God, or going contrary to the word of God. That's what the first Adam did. The first Adam originated death, and because everybody was a seed inside the original seed of the first Adam, when he caught the disease of death, everyone dies like him.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 46:5 "To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?"

God is life. He has no beginning, He has no end. He has no comparison. He lives outside of time. He always is and shall always be. He is the I Am It is death that has a beginning, and death also has an end. For the believer, death ended the day that you exited out of the blood of the first Adam into the blood of Christ. The unbeliever remains in death by their  choice.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 46:6-10 "They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: They fall down, yea, they worship. [7] They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. [8] Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. [9] Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, [10] Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"

Life declares the end from the beginning. There is none like Him.


We conclude our reading.

Isaiah 46:11-13 "Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. [12] Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: [13] I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory."

Life called Cyrus about 150 years before he was born. Life knew his beginning from his end. If Jesus Christ was ordained before the foundation of the world, then where did Life originate? Life has no beginning, and Has no end. It is death that has a beginning and an end. The end of death is faith, for unbelief is the beginning of death, and faith is the beginning of resurrection.

Step out of death into life. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the blood of God, as we revealed Him from the first Adam. Unbelief is the beginning of death, and faith is the beginning of eternal life, in Christ!