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The first living souls

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The first animals that came out of the water belong to amphibians, but does the Scripture speak of them? Does God take care for birds?

Scripture calls a person “a living soul” if his name is written in the book of life of the Lamb. A person receives the beginning of a new birth at a time when his spirit is born from the Word of God. A born spirit is a small piece of God’s nature within a man. It is like a grain to mustard seed, which is sown in the earth (Mark 4:31). Jesus said:

“the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke.17:21).

People born from the word of truth are like the precious living stones that make up a building. It

“fitly framed together groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord” (Eph.2:21).

People whose spirit is not born of the word of truth are not mentioned at all in the first chapter of the first book of Moses called Genesis. In eternity they are not. The natural man, living “according to the course of this world” (Eph.2:2), “fulfilling the desires of the flesh” (Eph.2:3), is “dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph.2:1). He is given to “abomination” and “a lie” (Rev.21:27).

“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” (Gen.1:20).

Thus, figuratively in the artistic style, Scripture speaks of the rapture of the Church of the firstborn. Words: “fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven” (Gen.1:20), sound like words from the song:

“And the blue sky is above me,

Cranes fly like the joy flock

There is a lot joy in their bird’s holler

They are returning to their eternal homeland.”

This is the refrain of the song “Where are you beautiful?”


“And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flie aboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen” (Gen.1:20).

Scripture tells us of the first “the moving creature that hath life” born of “water” in verse 20. At first, they will be few in number. Jesus, sending two disciples to the city, told them: “Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.” (Mark.14:13). This is a type of the rapture of the Church of the firstborn. A man carrying a pitcher of water, whom the disciples must follow for, is a type of Christ, Who has “living water” (John. 4:10).

The birth of a “the moving creature that hath life” became possible due to the death of the Man, the Son of God. Jesus said:

“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (John.2:19)."
 
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