The Gathering of His People

By Millie Quinton

On reading Millie's book, "The Gatering of His people", I found it to be a lovely coverage of the Bible written through her own personality and in her own style. Having read the Bible many times, I found this exercise really helpful to me. It's a bit like Millie takes you on a journey through the Bible but stops regularly on this journey to explain in more detail. Overall an interesting read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Feb 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456874162

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Copyright © 2011 by Millie Quinton.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2011902904

ISBN: Hardcover    978-1-4568-7415-5

ISBN: Softcover      978-1-4568-7414-8

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CONTENTS

Part 1

In the Beginning

Part 2

The Jews

Part 3

The Gentiles

Part 4

The Church

Part 5

The New Jerusalem

FOREWORD

I would urge every reader not to take my word for it but to please look up the scripture references, then you will see that these are God’s Words and not mine. All scripture references are taken from the New King James version unless otherwise stated. My prayer is that many people, through reading this book, will come to own Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, and start turning to the Bible to ‘see that these things are so’.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. (Rom. 10: 17)

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4: 12)

The views expressed in this book are my interpretation of scripture after studying the Bible for many years.

Millie Quinton

PART 1

IN THE BEGINNING

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth—such a short sentence but with a vast outcome. Let me first of all tell you something about the Creator. God has many attributes, one of them being His omnipotence. Omnipotent means having all power and, it is identical in meaning with the more familiar almighty. Our almighty God is also infinite, or limitless, so whatever He has must be without limit; therefore, God has limitless power. God has at His command all the power in the universe, and He can do anything as easily as anything else. He can move a mountain as easily and effortlessly as moving a leaf. He can cure a cancer as easily as He can cure a headache. He does not even have to lift a finger to do this; He merely has to speak the word and it is done. So it is with this almighty and limitless power that God created the heaven and the earth. God spoke and it came into being. We are told in the New Testament that the world was made by Him and nothing was made without Him. In John 1: 3, we read, ‘All things were made through Him; and without Him nothing was made that was made.’ And in Colossians 1: 16, we are told, ‘For by Him all things were created, that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: All things were created through Him and for Him.’

Now let’s look at just what the almighty God had created, and really, when we see all that creation entailed, we realise it goes beyond our comprehension. ‘The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep’ (Gen. 1: 2). God’s creation was brought about out of nothing; there was nothing there with which God could work on. By His almighty power, God made something out of nothing. ‘Then God said, Let there be light’ (Gen. 1: 3). It is appropriate that the first thing God made was light, for without it we would not see anything that God made. ‘And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness’ (Gen. 1: 4). God spoke and it came into being—light, and He set His approval upon it—it was good. And He separated the light from the darkness. Didn’t God have you and I in mind when He separated light from dark, and called them day and night? Our heavenly Father knew beforehand of man’s fall and that in his fallen state man would, ‘In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread’ (Gen. 3: 19), and that man would need the nighttime to rest his tired body. Then we come to the second day of creation. ‘Then God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters’ (Gen. 1: 6). In this work God distinguished between the waters in the clouds and those of the sea. He called the firmament heaven. The waters above, in the clouds, would be needed to water and refresh the earth below which God had not, at this point, made to appear. ‘Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good’ (Gen. 1: 9-12). At God’s command, the seas were gathered together; they are under His command and cannot exceed the boundaries God has set for them. The earth also, at God’s command, brought forth the grass for cattle and the herbs for man. God thus provided sustenance for man and beast before they came into being. He ordained that the fruit tree yielded its fruit and thus provision was made for the future so that neither man nor beast would be without food. Thus the earth that was without form, and void, became full of God’s riches. ‘Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also’ (Gen. 1: 14-16). On the fourth day, God created the sun, moon and stars; they were to shine from heaven and be a blessing to those on earth and to distinguish the times of day and night, seasons, and years. God gave us the greater light, the sun, to rule by day to provide us with light and warmth. Deuteronomy 33: 14 speaks of the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon. Without the moon there would be no tides, and the oceans would become vast polluted lakes. Beaches wouldn’t be washed twice daily by the salty sea and the golden sands would vanish forever. If, however, the moon were only 10 per cent bigger or 10 per cent nearer, the tides would drown us all! Can you begin to understand all the thought that went into such a great and beautiful creation? And there is more to come! On the fifth day, God began to bring forth the living creatures. ‘Then God said, Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens. So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth’ (Gen. 1: 20-22). Here we have the making of fish and fowl. God created the fish of the sea, from the great whale down to the tiniest tiddler. Every living creature that moves in the waters did almighty God create. And of the fowls of the air I know not how many varieties there are, but God made and feeds them all. Now we come to the sixth day of creation. ‘Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good’ (Gen. 1: 24-25). God created them all, cattle, beast, and creeping things.

Let’s have a look at some of the things from the animal world, which God created.

Ants are probably the most highly developed social insects. Each colony contains at least one queen. The workers, who are all sterile females, care for the queen, enlarge, repair and defend the nest, care for the young and gather food. Some workers perform only one job throughout their lives while others may change their tasks. The soldier ants are specialized workers whose function is to guard the nest. The nests are usually underground and are made of numerous passages and chambers. There are nurseries where the larvae develop, a queen’s chamber, storerooms and restrooms. Some species of ant have special chambers for growing fungi. Workers are continually making new chambers. In cold weather, the developing larvae are moved further down in the nest to give them more warmth. In Europe, an ant’s nest may consist of twelve or more mounds of earth, each about 0.9 m high, connected by underground tunnels. A nest of this size would contain millions of ants. The ant colony is kept together by chemicals produced by the queen. These chemicals are passed between the workers in their saliva. The workers leave trails for others to follow by placing secretions from their mouths on the ground. The workers can also produce alarm chemicals. Foreign ants are identified by their odour. When two ants meet each other, they smell each other with their antennae. If both are from the same colony, one may regurgitate a drop of liquid for the other. During a few