Dimensions (9) Creation

In the first two chapters of Genesis the universe seems quite small. The sky looks like a great bowl over the earth. The sun and stars and moon seem to be close.

The reason is that after the creation, the physical world was still open to some dimensions of spiritual reality. Adam Eve could speak with God. God could walk in a garden on earth. This spiritual openness allowed Adam and Eve to see into some of the spiritual realms of existence. Compared with the glory of the spiritual world, the physical world seemed quite small and insignificant.

The fall changed everything. Sin almost totally blocked the spiritual realms off from Adam and Eve. Once mankind could no longer see into the spiritual dimensions of existence, the physical world began to dominate their reality. (This is the opposite of the effect that will take place at the parousia and the physical world seems to disappear). The heavens seemed to roll out like a scroll, when the far greater glory of the spiritual dimension disappeared from human sight.

When evening comes, the stars seem to appear out of nowhere and roll out across the sky. Of course, they were there all the time, but were hidden from our view by the greater brightness of the sun. We can only see the stars, when the sun disappears. Likewise, when the spiritual dimensions of reality were hidden from mankind, the physical world seemed to take on a new splendour.

Losing contact with all the time dimensions in the spiritual realm, drew out the time dimension on earth, making it seem much longer. Since then mankind has never fully understood the concept of time.

We must remember when we look at the earth and sky that we are only seein g a small part of the reality of God.