IT IS VERY GOOD.
When God started creating, actually, when God started speaking, (Psalm 33: 9 simply states: “God spoke and it came to be), when God started doing the human impossible, started acting beyond our ken, started stopping, yet never stopped stopping, he, HE, who lives in inapproachable light, who nobody can see or has seen, he, HE, surveyed the potential of what was to become, and which, in reality already was, HE simply said: “It is very good.”
In that ‘very good’ creation, he placed ‘Adam and Eve’. And placed us, you and me.
That same creation is God’s Kingdom.
And we, you and I, we live in that divine Kingdom,
which has a cosmic character, because it embraces the entire world, from the ocean’s depths to the highest planets.
Not only we humans are part of that Kingdom: it also includes the array of all animals and all the planet’s plants. Even the angels are part of this wider world: they too have a place in the harmonious totality of God’s Kingdom.
Perfection is the word
Perfection is the word: perfection is the Divine -WORD, where all parts are attuned to each other, where there nowhere is a false note, nowhere a dissonant disturbing the unity: everything fits harmoniously into the greater scheme of its totality;
each particular specimen perfectly parks its place in the various circles or spheres found in creation.
The celestial bodies too have their orderly trajectories and do so according to God’s royal will, obeying his voice, and so, in their courses they sound a melodious note in the great concert in which all creatures participate. The mountains rise up high above the water?saturated earth, their summits piercing the clouds; they stand there in proud loftiness but even these mountains are nothing but servants of Him who has planted and secured them by his power.
All this is so totally harmonious because every instance in that great edifice of creation is, in its deepest sense, focused on the one common goal: devout obedience to the will of the Almighty, in which men and women, angels and animals, plants and stars, sun and moon, are united.
God’s world: our world.
That same world in which we live is a well?ordered world. We read in Scripture that God was very pleased when he saw what he had made, “and behold, it was very good.” (Gen. 1:31.)
An ever-changing Kingdom.
The nature of the Kingdom of God was not intended to be static but dynamic. It was not destined to continue for ever and ever in the same shape and form. On the contrary, from its very inception the Kingdom contained an incentive to develop, perfecting and unfolding all its potentials and powers contained in it. This means that from its very beginning the concept of history was entailed in the idea of the Kingdom.
Kingdom is history.
When we say Kingdom, we say history. The total reality of the Kingdom could only become manifest in history. From the very first day of creation the Kingdom had the full range of powerful options. It contained possibilities that would require a slow process to come to full fruition. The entire process, however, was subject to God’s will.
A radical change.
All this implies as well that whoever mentions history, mentions humanity. We, the human race, were predestined to fulfill a distinctive calling in that history. We, as humanity, were from the very first assigned an exceptional place in the greater context of the Kingdom. We were at one and the same time subjects but to some extent also co?rulers, viceroys over certain regions. Not everything was subjected to us: we were not given authority over the course of the stars and the planets or the tides of the never resting seas. But assigned to us were the earth and its plants and animals, to rule over them and to utilize them for God’s service, to fathom and understand creation’s hidden powers, and so bring to full deployment the innate possibilities of creation. That is the meaning of the cultural calling allotted to us immediately after creation. (Gen. 1: 28–29.)
Two Humans.
Imagine these two humans, feeble man and woman, creatures among creatures, two tiny bits of the universe endowed with self?knowledge, two tiny bits of a world that has become self-conscious: there they were, not even controlling their own heart?beat. There they stood, fragile, weak: members of that overwhelming massive context of the Kingdom. But also, there they stood as rulers, as prince and princess among all creatures.
And they failed.
The sin against the Kingdom
They – we – we have made ourselves God’s equals; we have proclaimed ourselves Gods, and, by that act, have abandoned our fellowship with him.
We have withdrawn from his influence and have turned our backs on God. That is why we were banned from paradise, because where God dwells there is no place for a second god, and neither is there room for those who regard themselves as gods.
Now we face judgement, we face Climate Change, wars, earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, heat, drought, floods, because we believed we could do better than God.
Pray, Pray, Pray for Parousia. Pray, Pray, Pray for the Healer to come.