Mankind's history starts at the end -- really only the beginning: Rev 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all).
1.In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth...26 God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image...'27 '...male and female He created them. 28 And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it...'
2:8 8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. 9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
But there was a serpent in the garden. Oh, so beautiful he was, the Father of lies,
chief of charlatans, con artists and fallen angels -- Lucifer sat coiled with death in his eyes. he slithered a temptation, wrapping hooded eyes around the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Poison tendrils of pride, desire and confusion were hissed into rebellion -- weaving themselves into the ages of man, the tangled snarls broke the circled hearts and Humanity fell into Time--into beginning and ending, life and death. How the angels must have cried! The snake had claimed creation's penitence for time and a time -- dust to dust, ashes to ashes.
But: Rev 12:7 7 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, 8 but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan,the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come... 11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb... 12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Rev 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall gaze upon Him and beat their breasts and mourn and lament over Him. Even so [must it be]. Amen (so be it).
Matthew 24:35 Sky and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
36 But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man...40 At that time two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.'
...21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband...
3 ...“Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people... 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!...” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. 7 All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.'
