1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
-Genesis 1:1
This is where the story began for our universe, but the real story began before this.
It all started with God and His Love. His Love drove Him to create. Yes, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – the Trinity – the Godhead – existing for all eternity as 3 Persons in 1 Being. A mystery that we still cannot fully comprehend with our finite minds.
THE STORY
The first creation was Heaven and the Heavenly beings – entities and angels of celestial might. Order was created and established, but outside of Heaven Chaos ruled and reigned. With this creation came the Laws of Balance, and with the Laws of Balance came Evil. Yes, Evil was the inevitable byproduct of God’s new creation. Because for Good to exist there had to be Evil. This Evil manifested as the Darkness – the absence of Light, a great void filled with despair. This Darkness was thick and heavy, and could be felt, and God cast it from Heaven into the Chaos. The Darkness mingled with the Chaos and gained sentience. It became a living being. A being that was bent on the destruction of all things, including its own creator – God Almighty. It hungered to feed on the light, the life force of creation. The ultimate goal – to be alone as a vast void filling all existence.
And so, the Darkness corrupted one of God’s elite angels, the first of His creation – Heylel the original Archangel. Heylel, which means Shining One, also called Lucifer, was the most beautiful of all God’s creation. His light was brightest of all the host of Heaven. Only the Light of God was brighter. Yes, Light, for all of creation was Light, for God is Light. And His Light shone through all He created.
With his fall, Heylel took a third of the heavenly host with him, and waged war against his Creator. But even with the full power of the Darkness and Chaos combined, Heylel could not defeat the Almighty. A new Archangel that took, Heylel’s place – Michael – who rose up from the ranks and through the power of the Lord of hosts, he cast the traitor down into the depths of a new plane of existence, a world of fire and brimstone, that God created as a prison for Helylel and the angels who followed him. The Shining One was now the Prince of Darkness, his form marred and corrupted. Demonic flesh was given to him that was both pitiful and fearful all at once.
But that was not the end of the Story. No that was only the beginning.
And this is where the story begins.
God created again. This time inside the vast plane of Chaos outside of Heaven. God created the heavens and the Earth – the Universe as we know it. And then He said Let there be Light! The Light cast the Darkness into a sub-dimensional plane. Keeping it trapped and imprisoned away from this new creation. And on this Earth God placed a new being – Mankind. Man and woman – the first beings created in the image and likeness of God. But they were also unique at the same time, for they had both spirit and flesh – making them a living soul. Like God who was triune – Father, Son and Spirit – man was also triune in nature – mind, body, and spirit.
And this is where the story begins.
So let the Story be Told…