We start this course where the Ethiopian started. Though a foreigner to God’s chosen people, he was focused on worshipping the Creator. He was seeking to understand His word. What better place to begin than the beginning itself, as recorded in Genesis 1:1?
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” How? By words—speaking into existence each and every feature of the universe. For example, God spoke “light” into appearing, then He named the new realities “Day” and Night” (Genesis 1:3-5). What language did God use to command and to name? We don’t know, but we do know that God speaks. His words have meaning and accomplish their intended effect.
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (Hebrews 11:3)
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10-11)