THE END IS IN THE BEGINNING

"And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground" (Mark 4:26).

Luke 8:11 tells us that “The seed is the word of God.” We know that Jesus is the Word of God who is the beginning and the end all in one. Therefore this proves that the end is always in the beginning as in a seed. In God one is just as sure as the other: “I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” (Isaiah 46:9-10).

This principle is clearly seen in a seed of corn. Now every country boy knows that corn consists of a stalk, blades, silk, tassels, and the fruit which is a cob, seed, shucks and silk. All of this, including the end which is the full corn in the ear, is in the beginning of the seed. Where else could it possibly be? One seed will produce two ears which will average at least 1400 more kernels which again is the end of that original seed. All 1400 were most assuredly in the one from the beginning!

The word clearly teaches that if you can understand the principles of a seed you can understand the Kingdom of God. This means that if we will look to the beginning we can clearly see the end. The word Genesis means beginning. Therefore, the end can be discerned from the book of Genesis as it is the foundation of all that followed.

I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth in seven 24 hour days. We read in Gen 2:2-3 that “on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” This is both literal and prophetic of that which was to come. Prophetically it has a double reference. First of all, it speaks of the day that Jesus who was God in the flesh, rested as it were in the “sleep” of death on the seventh day after He was crucified on the sixth day.

It also speaks of a seventh day of rest which is to come: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” (Hebrews 4:9). This ultimately speaks of the millennial or the thousand year reign of Christ: “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6). This again will be the ultimate fulfillment of Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.” How can we know this? Because the end is always in the beginning: It is all there in the book of Genesis which means beginning. Isaiah 46:8 could read like this, “I am God… declaring the end from the genesis.”

David said in Psalms 90:4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Peter affirmed this in 2 Peter 3:8: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Therefore, it is not a stretch to look at the seven days in Genesis as prophetic of that which was to come—to see the end from the beginning. It breaks down like this: it was four thousand years from Adam to Christ which is four days. From the time of Christ till now has been two thousand years which is six days. This means that the seventh day—the thousand year millennial—is all but here: “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:11-12). Jesus is coming!!!!