What was God doing all that time before He created the world? This lesson looks at the answer to that question.

1. BEFORE CREATION
Genesis 1:1

2. Introduction
• What was God doing all that time
before He created the universe?
• God is eternal.
• He has always existed.
• In eternity, time is meaningless.
• Revelation 10:6c that there should
be time no longer:
• Song : Time shall be no more

3. Introduction
• We measure time by “change”
• Seasons, years, sun movement
• Our growth and development
• Whatever you believe about the
age of the earth (6 – 8,000 or
millions of years) – The question is
the same.

4. Time was Created
• There was no time before
creation.
• Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth.
• Time, space and matter were
created

5. God is separate from
Time and Universe
• There is no “before” with God
• There was not even “nothing”
• To the blind there is not black,
there is nothing
• God is always in the present tense
• Not – God was, Not – God will be
• But – God IS

6. God is separate from
Time and Universe
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is
impossible to please Him, for he who
comes to God must believe that He
is, and that He is a rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him.
Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains
were brought forth, Or ever You had
formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting,
You are God.

7. God is separate from
Time and Universe
John 1:1-3 1 In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through Him,
and without Him nothing was made
that was made.

8. God is separate from
Time and Universe
Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses,
"I AM WHO I AM." And He said,
"Thus you shall say to the children of
Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and
the Omega, the Beginning and the
End," says the Lord, "who is and who
was and who is to come, the
Almighty."

9. God is separate from
Time and Universe
Isaiah 43:10 "You are My witnesses,"
says the Lord, "And My servant
whom I have chosen, That you may
know and believe Me, And
understand that I am He. Before Me
there was no God formed, Nor shall
there be after Me.
God is outside of time.

10. God wants us to know
His Plan
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God's existence is separate from
history.
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There is no such thing as
“prehistoric.”
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History = recorded events
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History begins with Genesis 1:1

11. God wants us to know
His Plan
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Creation took 6 days
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These are the first 6 days of history
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Genesis 2:1-2 1 Thus the heavens
and the earth, and all the host of
them, were finished. 2 And on the
seventh day God ended His work
which He had done, and He rested
on the seventh day from all His
work which He had done.

12. God wants us to know
His Plan
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Exodus 20:11 For in six days the
Lord made the heavens and the
earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, and rested the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it.

13. God wants us to know
His Plan
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These are regular 24 hour days
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Light period / dark period
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Earth revolves – there is light on
one half and darkness on the other
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Some try to make the earth
millions (or billions) of years old

14. God wants us to know
His Plan
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Ephesians 1:3-4 3 Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as
He chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we
should be holy and without blame
before Him in love,

15. God wants us to know
His Plan
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The Bible reveals God
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The Bible gives us the plan
of God
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Do you believe God?
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Do you want to live in
eternity with God?