June 12, 2024 Show with David Reece on “The History of the World from Creation Until Now” (Part 1)

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But today I'm excited to have back a returning guest, someone who is obviously growing in popularity in the Iron Trip and Zion Radio audience, judging from comments and feedback and praise reports I hear from listeners.

His name is David Reese, pastor of Puritan Reformed Church in Phoenix, Arizona, and the CEO of ArmoredRepublic .com, and we are addressing part one of a multi-part series. We're not even sure how many parts this will cover.

When Pastor Reese originally said that he wanted to address this subject in two parts, I said, how on earth is that even possible? Because our theme is the history of the world from creation until now.

So it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Trip and Zion Radio, Pastor David Reese. Brother, thank you for having me on. It's an honor to be.

Here, and I'll try to figure out how to make sure to cover at least a.

Millennium and a half, you know, this time. Well, as always, I want you to either remind our listeners who have heard you before or inform people hearing you for the first time in our audience about Puritan Reformed Church in Phoenix,.

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PuritanPHX .com. Well, let's begin where you would like to begin in the history of the world from.

Creation until now. Absolutely. So my intention is to acknowledge the fact that God has emphasized things that He wants us to know in history, and so He begins the Scriptures with telling us about creation.

And so I think that one of the things I really like to emphasize with people when they're growing in the faith early on is that the first nine chapters of Genesis provide for people an outline of the origin of all of the covenant institutions that God has made.

So the individual, the household, the church, and the state. And then you see, getting through Abraham's life, you see basically some really huge plot points. You see the covenant of works with Adam. You see the covenant of grace with Adam.

You see with Noah the covenant of grace with additional powers given to man, and a change of how the administration of the covenant works. And then when you get to Abraham, you have the same thing occurring there.

And so those are three big plot points in the Scripture that are all captured in a small space, and by the time you get to Genesis 25, Abraham has died and is buried. And so that space of what happens there with creation in 404 BC, Abraham dies in about the year 1800 BC.

So the Usher's number is 1821 BC. So anybody who doesn't have Pastor Usher's, James Usher's Annals of World History, you are missing out. It is a magnificent book. I would strongly encourage people to get that.

Also, Floyd Nolan Jones has a magnificent book on the chronology of the Old Testament that has all such great stuff, and Pastor Philip Kaiser has done a number of enormous things, wonderful things there.

So I just want to point those things out before I go into the more details. But when we think about the beginning of Genesis, in Genesis chapter 1, you have creation from nothing. So we're introduced to this God who is eternal.

He's outside of time, and He creates the heavens and the earth, and He begins time. And one of the things that's interesting about the beginning of time is when you start to think about time, there's this question of what is time?

And see, I tricked you, everybody. This is, we thought we were going to talk about history, and now I'm going into abstruse points of philosophy. But, you know, the question of what time is, Augustine has some really wonderful things that he wrote where he talks about the idea that it's necessary that in the beginning, when God first created time, He created the heavens and the earth, and we need to remember that the heavens would include the three heavens, right?

There's the heaven with the throne of God, there is what we think of as kind of space or outer space, and then there's the atmosphere. And those are the three heavens. When Paul talks about the third heaven, he's talking about where the throne of God is.

And so when we engage with the reality that God created the heavens and the earth, that there's this question of when did the angels get created? And Augustine puts forward the idea that it's necessary that the angels were created at the first moment because there needed to be, in order for time to properly exist, there needs to be a created mind that is thinking in succession.

And so the question of what is time, you know, a lot of people, we live in an age where we think of time principally in terms of the movement of physical material. And that's because, to a large extent, we are coming out of the modern era where there was a sort of domination of empiricism, where people thought about how you know things using experience as kind of the principal way of knowing.

Well, the Christian way of dealing with knowledge is to say that the Word of God is infallible, and that we have certainty because of the revelation of the thoughts of God given to us, the propositional content of the Scriptures.

And so when we think about time, we should think about, yes, there's certainly a change that occurs in the physical world that occurs one thing after another, but there are also the changes of minds. And so at the beginning, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

And what happens there is he's creating the angels in terms of there being spirits that are thinking, that are observing what God is doing. And so there are thinkers that are observing from the first moment, at the first moment they're made, and they're observing the work of God.

And so God's glory is on display to creatures, rational creatures, from that beginning time. And so we have the contrast there with God, who is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, versus we have now angels that are finite and temporal, so they change.

And so that idea of being temporal and being changeable and being finite, that's the difference between a creature and God. God alone is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable. And so we're introduced to the difference between God and creation by implication right there.

And we have this introduction to God in terms of his essence as the infinite, eternal, and unchangeable one. And we have the angels as observers, as a part of what's made with the heavens. And so there's the earth without form, it's without, and it's void, and there's darkness.

And so we have this idea that there's formlessness, so God's created, but it hasn't taken on the proper order, and it's void, it hasn't been filled. And the darkness makes it so there's no differentiation between things, you can't really see the difference.

And what God is going to do in the rest of the creation process, is he's going to form more to give more order, he's going to fill more to replace the void, and he's going to cause the difference between darkness and light.

And so we can see the difference. And this is the magnificence of the glory of God on display, as he has by his mere word, by his own power, he has made from nothing. And now he's going to take, and order, and fill, and differentiate.

And so we're introduced to the Spirit of God hovering over the waters, and then in Genesis 3 we're introduced to the voice of God that he spoke. And so this is often asserted by Christians as the first introduction of the Trinity, that we have the Father, the Spirit, and the Son all being introduced there.

And I think that that idea that we have God, and the triunity of God introduced here, and the distinction between the Creator and the creature, all of that there, magnificently. And then because we're so dumb that we wouldn't pick that up, God reveals all those things far more plainly, and far more clearly, and explains all of those things.

But there's sort of this seed of those doctrines all right there. And we begin to get into, we realize we're already in the first day at the time of creation. And we have light and darkness being differentiated, and the heavens and the earth being differentiated.

And where we have a definition that's given to us of what the first day even means, when we get to chapter 1 verse 5. And it says, God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

Now that right there, when you read the Scriptures, your goal has to be to look for what the meaning of the literature is, using the rules of grammar and context, and trying to read in a logically coherent way.

And when we do that, what we find is this text has plainly taught us that there's a day that's defined as having evening and morning. And we know that the evening is the night, the darkness. And we know that the morning is the light, the day.

And so those things are given to us in definition right there. And as we read about the other days, we need to realize this is not talking about some enormous, you know, eon. This is not talking about millennia.

This is not talking about billions of years or millions of years. This is the God who created from nothing, ordering the world in six days. So he creates and orders, and then he ends that work of creation and just carries on the work of providence, we're gonna see when we get to the seventh day.

But so that idea right there, we need to recognize that there's definition that occurs right there. And people that want to take the book of Genesis and say it's not history, they want to make it a myth or a legend, what they're doing is they're making it so the whole Bible has to be that.

Because there's no way to read the book of Genesis from the beginning and find a place where it goes from history to, from myth to history. It's giving us from the beginning definitions and clarity about timeframes.

And so what happens is you end up throwing away the book of Genesis. You have to throw away, therefore, Jesus Christ. Because if you don't accept that the book of Genesis is history, then Paul's analysis and Jesus's analysis is something that just becomes them misunderstanding, and there they become primitive men who didn't understand that Genesis was a myth.

So we have to start with Genesis, recognizing that God's Word is true, that it's giving to us in Genesis a history. And what we're getting is this history here first with creation that was observed by the angels and that they will bear testimony about that on the day of judgment, that they have seen it.

But also then we're gonna, we're gonna see as this creation coming, we get to man at the sixth day. So that first day has all sorts of powerful things packed in there, including the definition for us of thinking about these days as literal times of darkness versus light.

Now one of the big objections that comes up is people will say, well, you know, there's not even the Sun yet. How can you have day and night? Well, the Sun becomes a tool. God creates the Sun as a tool for the light and the darkness.

But the idea that the light and the darkness are what differentiate day and night is already given to us. And so then the Sun becomes a tool to differentiate. So we need to recognize that the definition of a day does not depend upon the Sun, but rather the Sun was made as the tool by God for the purpose of having the days be ordered.

So if we move to day two, day two has the ordering of the heavens and the water cycle. And there's this preparing of the heavens and the sea to supply the land. And so the, the water cycle is something that, you know, people there, you see the word firmament and people have all sorts of weird thoughts about it.

You know, whether you read Augustine or Calvin, all sorts of older fathers of the faith, not just modern people, understood the firmament being talked about to be the atmosphere, the first heaven. And so the idea is there's a separation of water from water.

And this is so important in this chunk of text here. You have this idea of the dividing of waters and the dividing of the waters is the water below the sea. And then you have the water above which becomes, is the clouds, which provides the rain cycle.

And real quickly, just if anybody doubts that that is what is being dealt with, by the time you get to Genesis chapter 2, Genesis chapter 2 starts a sort of recapitulation of some of the information that's already been given earlier.

It tells us things we've already heard, then it gives us also additional information. And it starts out by talking about, in chapter 2 verses 4 through 7, we have the two big things that God talks about being important are the establishment of the system of rain, where mist rises up and waters the face of the ground, and then also the making of man.

Now these things are both going to be talked about in the original portion of Genesis, the earlier portion of Genesis in chapter 1 and the first part of chapter 2, where we're laying out some of these two really big things that matter are the rain cycle, how water comes to the earth so that the land can be nourished, and also the formation of man.

And so those things get highlighted in chapter 2, but that helps you to understand that this is a really important thing. So the emphasis of God on the second day of making the water cycle, that is so key.

And you find this emphasized in other places of Scripture, where there's this idea that God causes the water cycle, like in Ecclesiastes it gets talked about, for example, and how important that is for the continuation of life and how things continue to work.

So that's a huge deal, this ordering of the atmosphere and of the sea, so that then the water can be taken to the earth so the lands are watered for man's habitation. And we get into the third day, and the third day is in Genesis 1 verses 9 to 13, and it talks about the ordering of the land of the sea, the separation.

So we had on the first day the division of light and darkness, then we get into this idea of the atmosphere and the waters for rain, of the clouds, and the waters of the sea being divided, and then we have this differentiation of land and sea.

So all these dividings, this is showing the logical nature of God, how He is ordering things in a logical way, and He is ordering things so as to show the difference of things. And so we see God's logical beauty, His wisdom, His logos on display as He's making and differentiating these things.

And so He prepares the land, He differentiates it, and He fills the land with all sorts of plants, and these plants are going to be useful for the beasts of the field and for man. And the beasts of the field are also going to be useful for man, but they're not made yet on that third day.

And so we get to the fourth day, and what happens is you end up with the things that populate sort of the second heaven, and they are seen through the firmament, through the atmosphere, and these things are the sun and the moon and the stars, the things that are lights.

And we have this, the sun is a great light for day, and we have the moon as a lesser light to govern the night, and it's given to us for the purpose of signs. We have, for example, the sign of the star that was given to the wise men that were seeking Jesus.

There's the seasons, the idea of knowing when you're supposed to deal with things with crops and things like that, for days, you're differentiating day and night, and also days as they fit into the year, we differentiate years.

And so this is given to us, this elaborate clock, this grand calendar of the cosmos. And so God gives to us all of these things for time ordering, and he allows us to have a physical external way of dealing with the measurement of time, as well as the internal experience of the passage of time, the succession of thoughts.

And so there's this grand visual change that occurs. And so you think things like Psalm 19, it talked about the sun running like a strong man to run a race, and the idea that so many people have worshipped the sun in history, but the sun is changeable and it's finite.

And so in thinking about any of these things, the heavens, as we think about them, where any voice exists in the world, you cannot escape the thought that these things are not infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.

And so we are foolish if we suppress the truth in unrighteousness and worship the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Well, we have to go to our first.

Break right now, so we'll pick up right where you left off there. And I probably should have asked you this before we went on the air, but I'm going to leave it up to you, because we have so much information to cover.

Do you want me to open up for listener questions, or would you rather we postpone the listener questions to one of the other parts in the series we're doing?

Why don't we see where we are after the second segment, and maybe we can do.

Questions at the end in the fourth segment. Okay, sounds good to me, but don't go.

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Right, thank you brother. So we had just.

Talked about the idea that there is a on the fourth day God gave the he filled the heavens for signs seasons days and years that we have greater light and lesser light to govern the night. So on day five we have is we had previously been dealing with God was was was forming that which was formless.

He's differentiating things and now we're going to have the filling work where he's taking the void and filling it. And so there is this darkness he enlightens he differentiates. And so we have that all of that work of God.

So what we get to in what we get to in day five is this filling of the first heaven with with flying beasts and we get to the sea also being filled with fish. So the sort of the swimming beasts and so now what's happening is the air and the sea are both being made more useful for man as these creatures are there but also there's a way in which God is displaying his creative powers and beauty in all that.

So this filling work and that's all symbolic pointing to the ultimately the commission is going to give to man. And so we get to six day six and there's the filling of the land. We have beasts but we also have man being created.

So the beasts are prepared and the beasts are useful to man even before the fall because some of them can perform different tasks. You think about a horse and let you travel quickly. You think about a camel and its ability to to travel through some sort of a desert.

You think about an ox and its capacity to tread out the grain. It can deal with a a heavy amount of labor. So there's different utility for different animals as well as just the the sheer display of God's order and beauty and creating things.

But he creates the kinds. And this is in contrast to to evolution. We think about evolution and evolution is is presented as sort of this this process where you have the animals that are killing each other the red and tooth and claw from the beginning.

You've got the the vast you know billions of years to try to justify the the gradual changes and formations of things the changes of things. You have this you know all these problems that are coming up the the christian story the christian meta narrative the the grand story of christianity it is something that doesn't have logical problems that's things people attack and make fun of but it have with the the logical problems of for example of atheism or anything that has a changeable god is you can't have everything having been around forever because time itself if time has been going on for an infinite amount of time you have a logical contradiction.

You have the idea that a infinite series has been completed and so you have to have a god that's outside of time to to deal with the problem that infinite time doesn't work. So god is outside of time.

And this is we're getting the initial portion of the timeline and so time itself is created. It begins with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the angels. And so as we proceed down the timeline we're seeing there's also not only you know how do we deal with the issue of time but we're dealing with how how does life come about.

Well you know evolution is going to ultimately have what's called a biogenesis that they a non-biological creation of life and and you're going to have essentially you know sort of rock slime that is that is the stuff from which microorganisms come and then from which more complex organisms and then eventually you get man.

And the other problem that you have is if there's no such thing as objective truth and there's no mind that thinks truth you go from non-thinking to thinking and all of a sudden now truth is created by matter and truth is is therefore changeable and has a beginning.

And so you've got these three big issues where you go where does time come from and start where does where does the the world that is changeable come from. And you've got this issue of where does life come from.

And you've got this issue of where does thought and truth come from. And when we start to have thinkers as we have man being created on day six you also have the issue of is there any meaning to choice.

Do we have a basis for choosing one thing versus another. Is there a definition of good and without God you don't have that. And so R .C. Sproul famously likes to ask atheists you know what do you do with your guilt.

And and he doesn't say do you have guilt. He says what do you do with your guilt. And that was one of these things that he would use as a as a thing to show you're not dealing seriously with the psychological difficulties of atheism or of or of all the false religions that don't have a way of dealing with guilt.

So all of these things these problems we see Christianity it has answers as we get to the issue of guilt and the fall there's also an answer for that that gets presented in Genesis 3. So we'll wait and we'll get to the answer of guilt as we get to Genesis 3.

But in day 6 at the end of Genesis chapter 1 day 6 you have the filling of the land with beasts. You have man being made. You have man being given a covenant of works. And you have man being given dominion.

And you have this explanation that he is the image of God. Now the covenant of works is going to be explained more in Genesis 2. But the fact that man is the image of God is laid out that he's male and female.

Then we have an answer to the all of these uh all the nonsense that's going on with transgenderism and everything now and and and the reality that there's a difference between man and woman. And we know that there's only two genders because God made man and he made him male and female.

And so we have man. And man is also he has dominion over the creation. He's not under it he's not a servant of it. He he rules it to use it to glorify God. And he's made as the image of God and as the image of God.