The Father builds the structure and the Son decorates it

“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.... [He] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” (John 1:4,9).

“For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth. 

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will....

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 

For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself;...

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, 

And shall come forth.” (John 5:20,21,24-29). 

At birth the Father quickens, and on resurrection day the Father will quicken, our bodies. At new birth, and during the Christian life, the Son quickens our spirits. The Father handles the hardware; and He gives the Son to handle the software. This was revealed on creation week.

Our planetary orb for eons had already been prepared by the Father when He made all the stars and non-plasma bodies. The globe that would become Earth was there awaiting the Son’s organizing, covering, and polishing. It was a rogue, Neptune-like world. The jumbo planet had been forever in the dark. Its stormy atmosphere was pure H₂O that ravaged its surface. Eons before the Father had called the gas giant into existence, along with billions of others like it. But, now was the time to beautify it. In the beginning, Father and Son developed and beautified the rogue planet, and this is how They did it.

The Father moved upon the waters of the atmosphere, as the Son brought light to its darkness. Then the Son and His angelic retinue withdrew. The next day He commanded and His angelic hosts divided its dense atmosphere, leaving its densest waters below a vast atmospheric gap and condensing much of it above the gap to form a shell that would surround the outermost ionosphere. The Son called the gap Heaven, and Heaven was completed. The Son was pleased. Time to give His angels rest.

The next day, the Son commanded and the angels moved the tectonic plates to raise some and to sink some. A landmass that gradually sloped toward its coasts rose up from the lower atmospheric waters. The waters drained off all day, slowly so that minimal erosion would occur. And the harsh winds dried the land, which He called the Earth. The planet looked better than before. Time to rest the angels that excel in strength.

Next day, the Son commanded and vegetation quickly grew up from the drained, but still damp, landmass. Before the day was over seeds were topping the plants and fruits were emerging from the trees. Colors of every hue now decorated the planet like ornaments. It looked even better than the previous day.

Once again the Son commanded and the angels brought together a planetary system to support the special planet under construction. It and other rogue planets with moons of every variety were placed with a star. They were spaced apart just so and all given their revolutionary and rotational velocities. The gaseous atmospheres of the rogues closest to the star were most affected by its heat. But the special planet’s atmosphere was already prepared, and its perfect placement among the other planets gave it a most advantageous distance from the star to give it comfort and habitability for its flora and future fauna. The planet looked better still than the third day.

At Sun up the Son commanded, and the fish kingdom came out of the dense waters and the bird kingdom came out of thin air. An infinitude of species filled the sea and sky. Beautiful beyond words this special planet was. What more could the Son do to it!! So the angelic hosts retired from their part in assisting their beloved Prince.

The sixth day found the energetic divine Prince commanding once again. But, what else could He do to make an already most fantastic world? At His strong voice, as the plant kingdom had come out of the land on the third day, now an animal kingdom came up out of the soil, and began to roam and graze upon the hills and plains. Wow! That tops it all off. What beauty! What perfection!

But, what do we hear? The King and His Prince were in conference! Now the Prince bowed down. In great humility born from love He scraped the clay together. Not even Gabriel was called to do this for Him. He was getting His own hands dirty? No, rather than the clay soiling His hands, His hands gave life to the soil! His touch received no damage. Out of the ground that He has molded stood up another +++creature—not on all four legs like the other creatures, but on two legs just like the Prince! And, but for a few inches shorter, he looks just like the Prince.

Now what? After a long decorating with plumage and populating his garden home with more animals, the Prince has laid the creature on the ground. Is the new creature broken? He looks sad. Was there flaws in His creation? We can’t make it out what He is doing, but He is behind some bushes, humbling Himself on the ground again, and obviously loving what He is doing. He awakens the creature again and makes a call to the bushes. Out from behind them comes another creature, amazingly graceful and filled with love for the first creature. He is much happier now, and they walk together with the Prince singing and talking. The whole planet seems happy now. The work must be complete. The wonderful surprises are over.

But, the Prince doesn’t leave them. The day is ending and they remain together. All night they point at the stars and talk of them. All the next day they point to the sky, land, and sea and talk of them. Sometimes the Prince speaks without pointing, as though His conversation is on things that are somewhere else.

To fallen humanity the Son was love and life and light, even after disaster came to the beloved family. The Son’s love was the life of the world, and the life was the light of the world. Love brought life to the conscience. And then the living conscience could awaken and see out of its dense ignorance and hopelessness.