Love Me, Thank Me!

By Mia Stubbs

The origin of love made creation. Disobedience led to deception, yet love was redeemed through redemption. This is an epic and powerful love story of a sovereign Creator that emulates His infinite love and stops at nothing to redeem His earthly children from the hands of His enemy even at the cost of Himself through His only heavenly Son.

This book, based on the Bible, is not just another story about creation versus evolution. It really goes far beyond that to tell us more about the first earthly created couple and how they lived in connection to their Father.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524551803

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Copyright © 2017 by Mia Stubbs.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 LOVE

God, Creator, Heavenly Father

Chapter 2 CREATION

God’s Creation

Man

Woman

Angels

Disruption

Disappointment

Chapter 3 DECEPTION

Sin

Punishment

Results

Adam Tells

Eve Tells

Satan

Chapter 4 REDEMPTION

God’s Plan

Redeemer

Salvation

Jesus’s Love Letter

God’s Love Letter

Come to the Father

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version), first published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, copyright © 1983 by the Zondervan Corporation.

Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used with permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Whenever the word man is used in this text, if it is not referring to Adam, it is referring to all mankind down through the ages regardless of gender. Where the term the man is used, it is specifically referring to the first man, Adam.

INTRODUCTION

The book is not only about God’s unique creation of all the earth but actually learning more about our powerful Creator God and coming into a deep one-on-one relationship with Him. There are not many scriptures regarding the creation of the earth and mankind as well as about their fall, so we must use our imagination. There are only a few chapters in Genesis and a few scattered elsewhere along with many contradictions in time line.

Therefore, what is not said or may have only been hinted at, we must use a vivid imagination to capture the essence of what may have happened. Thus, in this book, I have used both creative and artistic license to show the power and majesty of God’s hand at work not only for His creation but to also show forth His plan to redeem creation.

I pray this book enlightens you about not only creation but also who God is and His great love for His mankind that He created. I pray it also edifies you and your spirit. You are able to see yourselves as not flesh only but a powerful spiritual being connected to the Master Creator, God.

Chapter 1

LOVE

God, Creator, Heavenly Father

Our minds cannot begin to fathom His greatness or His unconditional deep love. He was not created, coming from something or someone, but has always existed. God is the beginning and the end and was in existence before existence was known, not born as humans with a mother and father. God is self-fulfilled. He does not require anything to fulfill Him, so nothing can add to increase the wealth of His being. There is nothing higher or lower than Him that gives Him complete fullness as He is the fullness that everything He created needs to live. God is rich in all things and is the originator and Creator of power, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

Everything above and in the heavens, on the earth, and in between depends on His powerful wisdom to have their existence or function. He owns everything. Nothing exists that He did not create or does not own, not one creation. He created all for His purpose. He is not overwhelmed by such powerful responsibilities. He is infinitely full of wisdom. He does not require or is there a higher consultant, teacher, or counselor to teach Him anything, for he knows everything. He alone is the ultimate Teacher, and only through Him can we have wisdom. His wisdom does not lack or come to a halt. It is unlimited, never-ending.

God has several powerful innate attributes beyond our comprehension. He is transcendent: existing above, independent from, rising above; being unknown, unknowable; unsearchable; and beyond the realm of our small human comprehension. God is also immanent, being near yet the same as He is very far away; He lives in us. God is omnipresent; from the highest to the lowest, there be no place that He is not. He is present everywhere. God is omnipotent as He is the power Source of all things. All powerful, no higher power exists to connect with His power, for He is the sovereign powerful One only. God is omniscient; He knows everything.

He is time, for time was created by Him. The human term seasons was created by Him for the benefit of mankind. He is wisdom. He is knowledge. He is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

The true definition of God is that He is the light of love, although no words in the human language can truly describe Him. God is light, meaning He is the Source for the sun, stars, and everything that is light. He is the light surrounding the heavenly Trinity within Himself, the light for heaven, the light of the heavenly angels, the light of earth, the light for the other planets and universes, the light within mankind, and the light that gives life to all of nature. His light keeps everything alive and out of darkness through making things visible. God is a Spirit; He is the power surge Source, positive force, and Holy Spirit that lives within mankind today. He is the spiritual soul; we cannot see Him unless He allows us to, but we can feel His presence.

God is also love, and love originated from His infinite nature. His love is shown in all creation that has life. His infinite love is unconditional for mankind, without expectations, not to be perceived as mankind standards of love. Mankind cannot conceive our Creator’s love toward us individually due to our limited thinking when He created us. His love is too powerful to understand and deeper than every sea and river in width and length combined. We conceive love by human standards; this is why it is difficult to imagine how we are truly loved and the great lengths that have been taken to show us this through our Creator God’s Son, Jesus.

God is sovereign, and His kingdom and the heaven and earthly dominion were created with His sovereign power. He is all-powerful in everything. He is holy and pure, and everything He created is without blemish in His divine Holiness and purity. He is powerful, all power belongs to Him, and within His power, everything He created functions. One cannot place Him at any level or rank as He and His nature cannot be limited. He does not have to answer to anyone; He is the Head, the Boss, the Leader, and the First. He has the power to change whatever He wants, whenever He wants.

God is gracious, very generous. His generosity is evident when we look at all of earth, what He created, and the great lengths He went through to complete it. Some say He created all things as He was lonely and bored. However, God is self-fulfilled. His desire of a heavenly and earthly family was only to share His wealth and kindness. He is very charming, a perfect Gentleman, always desiring to impress His creation with His works, strategically getting the glory behind every experience. He enjoys exercising His power so all His creation can be wowed. He loves to spoil, pamper, and show His great taste in everything He creates from scratch.

God is wisdom, spiritual discernment derived from His nature. He has the ability to know one’s hearts and thoughts; nothing can be hidden from Him. One receives divine enlightenment through Him. God always remains the same; He is the same as He was in the beginning of time to now. His divine nature does not change. He does not grow older and forgetful; His nature of who He is remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is order and created all with His divine order. He is great, and He created greatness. He is awesome, and He created awesomeness. He is understanding, and His understanding is unsearchable.

God is merciful, meaning He is sympathetic, shows great empathy, and is very concerned, understanding, bighearted, and tolerant toward His creation. God is good, favorable of everything good, approving, enthusiastic, supportive, and encouraging. God is true; He is truly sincere, honest, and trustworthy with everything. God is faithful; He can be counted on, a Creator of integrity. He is truehearted and extremely devoted. He keeps His word and all His promises.

God being the essence of power was able to accomplish alone such a powerful divine manifestation. God is Triune, for He is the Head of the Trinity, which is the Divine Holy Heavenly Family He created within Himself. God, in His infinite wisdom and power, created His own Divine Family. God, as Head, with powerful divine love, sent forth His own Son, who is an exact Divine Expressed Image of Him in physical and spiritual form as well as sent His Holy Spirit, which is God’s ineffable and divine power expressed in Spirit form. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all have sustaining power through the Father. All Their thoughts come from the Father, each thought parallel, perfect, and harmonious with each other through the divine true Spirit of God. These are aligned thoughts connected and in one accord.

Each part of the Divine Deity was created with a divine purpose and a supportive role for God’s creation. Many people often wonder how there can be a Trinity, Three in One and One in Three, but if one looks at water, it is actually a symbolic form of God. An example, water can be liquid for a set purpose, ice for a totally other purpose, as well as mist or fog or steam. Each one has its own unique purpose, and all come from the same liquid form.

God has the divine ability to create anything, anyone through manifestation of His thought, word, and imagination. Before the beginning began, He imagined a Divine Heavenly Family for Himself. Who could this Divine Family be? God thought long concerning this. Who could be His divine equal? Whom could He trust sharing Himself one hundred percent with? The God that creates questions for Himself strategically has the power to create an answer for Himself as well.

The decision had been made. God would create a Holy Family for Himself within Himself. God with powerful mental strategy created a solution. Only He Himself could be His own divine equal. He could only trust Himself with the huge plans that He was putting together. In His infinite wisdom and power, He took Himself and divided Himself into three Natures called the Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each Deity, having powerful distinguished roles, was to be united harmoniously together. It is hard to conceive from our human understanding how He was able to divide Himself into three equal Natures delegated for different purposes yet serving only His purpose and remaining one Entity. As we read further, we will see why He created this Family within Himself. God had big plans that required His Divine Family, the Trinity.

Everything started and was created out of God’s infinite love. As our Creator, that is His essence and foundation. The key is that he wants to fill us with His love as each and every one of us can be used to reveal and pass on His love to one another. Once we are able to understand and show His own agape love that He desires us to have for one another, we will truly develop fully in the image and likeness of our heavenly Father. We are just spiritual beings, His chess pieces on a board, God’s vessels.

Chapter 2

CREATION

God’s Creation

Our Creator, God, is not a surface God but a God with powerful depths. His wisdom, knowledge, and understanding surpass the deepest and widest sea that He Himself has also created. As the Spirit of God hovered over the waters (Genesis 1:2), perhaps that was when, as He created the light and dark and the land and seas and through the power of His thought, the reflection of His Spirit multiplied Himself into three Deities: Himself as one, His Son as two, and His Holy Spirit as three, which became the Holy Trinity. Each Holy Deity operates within Him with different functions that harmonize together as One and God said that it was good (Genesis 2:18).

Let us begin this love story by looking first at John 1:1–5. This tells the true essence of all God’s mighty work, which we really cannot fully comprehend as the plan was so majestic:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

This states and shows evidence that the Word was actually God and His Son. So Jesus was always there with the Father in heaven from the beginning but did not appear in flesh until much later to serve His divine purpose on earth. Thus, God and His Divine Son made all things together, and they were both light and life. Thus, when They together created man, They gave him light and life.

God, from His vivid imagination and the power of His Word representing Jesus, created not only the heavens that serve as His heavenly home but also the perfect planets and universes. These planets and universes are not above His heavenly home but were created in areas surrounding the heavens to watch and experience the power of the Almighty Creator. In all these planets and universes, God is reverenced for the powerful Creator that He truly is. He is considered of the highest regard, praised, worshipped, and recognized as their Creator and the God of love. Just as there is perfection in heaven, the created beings of the various planets and universes all worship in awe of Him.

God is honored and highly respected as the Creator God. Even the prophet Jeremiah declared the amazing works of God: The Lord made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. With his own understanding he stretched out the heavens (Jeremiah 51:15). The dominion of the earth and everything on earth would belong to the earthly sons and daughters that He would create. Before God created them, He unselfishly first created a perfect earthly home where they would live and have communion with Him. Thus, it began.

Let us go back a little. Imagine that there was absolutely nothing created on earth, just darkness and water. How amazing is our Creator God! The earth was without form or void. There was darkness everywhere. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). God, our Creator, the origin of power, spoke things into being, and they just appeared. He made light by merely speaking four words: ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light (Genesis 1:3). Imagine the power! This is so profound. Just think of the earth at night, in complete darkness, with no streetlights, house lights, or traffic lights. Then suddenly, the head electric power company flicked all the power on, and voila! There was light!

God created the sun to serve as light. It was created from only a small portion of the radiant light or glory that embellishes and surrounds His presence. 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’ (Genesis 1:14). A super bright light in the shape of a huge fireball then appeared. Can you imagine that no man can stare at the sun from even the farthest distance without feeling blinded by it? You can close your eyes and behold the sun, but staring at it with open eyes for any length of time is difficult because it is too powerful. No one can stare at its brightness.

Therefore, if the sun created by God is only a small portion of the light that surrounds Him, we can understand why mankind cannot behold the presence of God: Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live (Exodus 33:20).

The sun also is a natural source for all the required nutrients and vitamins needed for the plants, animals, and mankind that God would create. All creation would later have to depend on the sun’s light to survive from the cold. The creation of the sun and moon would serve their purpose for the seasons, days, months, years, and centuries. God, in His infinite and orderly wisdom, used that light to separate the darkness. So the light of the sun was used for day, and the darkness was for night with a moon for light. When you think deeply about this, today, it is natural for us to always see and know light is for day, and dark is for night. This is great luxury God created just for mankind. Due to our finite thinking, it is difficult to imagine life without the separation of light for day and darkness for night.

Each creation is important and has purpose. God created an entirely new life existence just for the sake of His earthly family which He was about to create. It is only by the infinite wisdom of the Creator that things coexist and work together, each one having its individual role while working for the greater good of all. Therefore, we give thanks to the Creator for His vivid imagination in creating all things just for the benefit and luxury of mankind. What came next?

The expanse of sky between the separated waters would separate His heavens above and the earth below. Then God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters’ (Genesis 1:6). This is amazing as the firmament would be considered the atmosphere or sky. Therefore, God separated the waters from the waters. The masterful and strategic God had a number of reasons why the expansive sky was to be created. It was not just so His heavenly home would be separated from the earth beneath but for air, which was essential for all His creation coming forth. What an orderly and wise God. He knew that when all of nature was created such as plants, flowers, animals, and man, air would be essential for them to survive.

Our Creator, being the strategic Master Mathematician and Chemist, knew and created the perfect mathematical proportions of nitrogen in the air combined with oxygen and gas, infinitely knowing how everything within earth would survive. If God had added too much nitrogen, oxygen, or gas, this combination would create a huge explosion, and everything He created would be in serious risk of survival. However now, plants, animals, birds, and mankind all survive because of this perfect mix.

How marvelous that when God sends rain from heaven to water the land, the sky prevents the rain from falling to earth as huge rain bombs. Instead, the rain falls in the form of small proportionate drops, a gift from our all-wise God. Again, this is a luxury created for earth. God does not require air to breathe like we do and neither does His Divine Family nor angelic host.

After such power coming from God’s speaking things into being, one can almost envision a mighty shake as the small streams of beautiful spring water were formed into huge rivers of water. 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 (Genesis 1:9). These streams and rivers, while taking form, were carefully guided by the words of God. We are not talking of just small little ponds but huge rivers thousands of miles long that divided and formed into various islands and continents. They were all guided in complete and perfect formation through the instant manifestation of the powerful words of the Creator.

Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it parted and became four riverheads. The name of the first is Pishon; it is one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land was good. Bedellium and the onyx stone are there. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is, it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (Genesis 2:10–14)

The rivers were large and perfect and flowed forever with the richest quality of water. The whole land of Havilah was full of the highest quality of gold, bdellium, and onyx, all designed by God Himself. There was no need to have banks or security safes or cameras to protect God’s wealthy possessions as all this earthly wealth was made just for His upcoming earthly treasure, mankind, to look after it.

Where waters once were, they changed shape, so land now appeared, flat land and fields, valleys, hills, and powerfully strong monumental mountains, all with the most vivid colors. Alongside this, with His powerful words, God began beautifying earth’s landscape with rare colorful, high-quality precious stones such as bdellium, onyx, rubies, diamonds, and other precious metals such as gold and silver. God placed on earth some of the most precious stones and metals that may be found in His heavenly home on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). All of these were created just for the first of God’s earthly son and daughter in mind, who would live there, as well as for their seeds to come. Our Creator called it the Garden of Eden. It was not just a couple of acres of land. It was tremendously huge, hundreds upon hundreds of miles in length.

Although there were glistening, pure, beautiful, rich blue waters, and the land was in perfect form, there were no plants, trees, seeds, or any vivid green vegetation. Therefore, God created beautiful green grass, which was tapered in perfect design, in the most extraordinary vibrant green. 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 (Genesis 1:11). He had mankind in the forefront of His mind, so He created everything good, pleasing to their eyes, and enjoyable to their appetite. The earth needed seeds to be fruitful and multiply in all varieties of vegetation. Thus, there was every flower, plant, fruit tree, and vegetable that could be imagined.

The trees were full of every good and fresh fruit with the most tantalizing taste that can only be imagined. The vegetables in full bloom and color were just asking to be picked. The great variety of nuts and grains were of the purest and freshest taste. The variety of fruit trees was unfathomable, from lemons to