His Story: God's Dream for a Family

By Christopher Garcia

Why?

Starting in Eden with Perfection and Ending in the World with Corruption

Jesus, being in a human body, can feel pain. He is in the garden, getting ready to pray about doing the Father's will. He starts to reflect on the decision that is laid before Him. Jesus is at the crossroads of eternity where He ca

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Aug 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685564612

Christopher Garcia

Reverend Christopher Garcia, a chaplain, has learned from experiences of life. He worked in construction and as a firefighter, coached football for over twenty years, grasped the concepts of football, and used them to learn the Bible. He went to Victory Bible School of Ministry and worked as a chaplain to minister to the dying, learning a lot of wisdom from the people who had it in abundance and watching and putting things together like a puzzle.

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His Story

God’s Dream of a Family

by Christopher Garcia

His Story: God’s Dream of a Family

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my friends David and Roger, who led me to the Lord, which started this destiny. I would also like to thank all the teachers who taught me the Word of God, starting from home Bible studies where I learned the Word of God and then attending church and listening to TV ministers. All things work for the good of God’s children, especially those called according to His purpose.

I would also like to thank my family: my wife, Dolores, my daughters Delilah, Savannah, Khristah, and Mikalah, who helped me put these teachings into real life. They’ve helped me practice what I preach, and they know that I try my hardest to do my best.

I would like to thank my friend in heaven, Maynard, who challenged me to finish this project.

To God, who entrusted me with this assignment, be all the glory.

—Christopher Garcia

Prologue

God is love, and

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (ESV)

The Godhead has the Father (Speaker), the Son (Word), and the Holy Spirit (Power). This makes up the Trinity, which is three persons, one God. Think of it as a family: many parts but one unit, or think of the Trinity as an egg—three parts (shell, yolk, and white) yet one egg. The Godhead, Trinity, equals almighty God, creator of the universe.

God is a spirit and soul from which all the essence of God flows: His love, emotions, and decision-making emanate from His large heart. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:24, KJV). God is the Word. The Word is a product of the Father speaking. The Word is spiritual. God’s Holy Spirit is the power and acts on the Word of God to create in the spiritual and manifest it into the physical.

We all have questions and wonder why things in the world are the way they are. We believe that there is a God, but is this the way a loving God would run the world, with death and destruction and all sorts of evil? If God is a loving God, why isn’t everything perfect? There are whys in life, like, how did all this get started? Why are we born, and why do we die? With all this chaos going on, how did something so perfect go so wrong?

God has a dream for a family, and this is His story.

First words

Jesus is in the garden of Gethsemane, ready to pray about doing the Father’s will. Jesus knows He is going to die a violent death and be tortured by a ferocious scourging to the point of dying. Jesus knows He is going to get crucified on a cross and be nailed to it to the point where no one can recognize Him. Jesus knows He will be stripped naked and they will try to strip Him of His dignity. Jesus starts to reflect on the decision laid before Him that He will be the Lamb of God and the sacrifice for all humanity to pay the price for man’s sin. Jesus can see Himself being separated from God. Jesus can see Satan mobilize his demon army to enforce their will on Him. Jesus can see He will be going to hell and be tortured spiritually. Jesus experiences a plethora of feelings—more than any man has ever felt. Jesus is getting ready to pray not only for strength but also for the commitment to doing the Father’s will. This prayer will be intense to the point that He bleeds great drops of blood from His forehead.

Jesus thinks all the way in the past about how it came to this. Jesus is going to embark on doing the Father’s will. Jesus is not turning back, but He remembers, reflects, and goes back in His godly mind to how it all got started, Why Satan and all of this evil? Jesus thinks of Adam, And who is Adam? Why did God create him? Jesus is at the crossroad of eternity where He can redeem man or save Himself from this hideous torture and punishment. Jesus thinks about being God Almighty in the bliss of heaven, enjoying His existence as God, and starting all over. Jesus, being in a human body, is able to feel every possible feeling and terrible pain for redeeming man. Jesus is going back to the beginning, to the beginning, to the beginning—before there was a beginning, reflecting on how it came to this. Jesus is flashing back in His mind through His story.

Chapter 1

God’s Plan

God is all alone. God is alone in the nothingness of nothing, all by Himself, without anyone to talk to. God is hungry and longs for companionship. God is talking to Himself. The Godhead begins to share ideas of a creation they can fellowship with. God begins to brainstorm. God uses His imagination and starts to dream a very, very big dream. God thinks about what it would be like to have other beings like Him to fellowship with. God grows excited about the dream as it unfolds in His mind. God’s dream starts to develop hope and a plan for a family. God has a yearning passion for a family that He can be a Father to. God hopes. God has been alone, and He doesn’t want to be alone anymore.

Before God creates His universe, He is alone in timelessness for, what we now call, eons. With no time in existence, it doesn’t seem long that God has been alone. God, possessing all of His ability and power to create, is thinking and planning how and what to do. God knows He wants a family but not just any family, a large family. God is envisioning what having an extremely large family will be like. God does not want just anything. God wants a god who will be His son, just like Himself, to spend time and fellowship with. God wants someone to talk to and interact with. God wants some children so that He can really enjoy their company in their youth and also when they become adults. God wants someone who will want to love, talk, and spend time with Him and to who He can be a Father and show His power and strength, a son who will form His family that will satisfy His hunger and longing for companionship.

In God’s vision for a family, He starts small and thinks about how it will grow. God envisions a great universe with many galaxies and planets that can hold and house His entire family. A universe growing so fast that it will take an eternity to fill it. God sees His family starting from a couple and growing into a humongous family. God envisions a vast universe that His family will have an eternity to explore, seeing His greatness and all His glory. God thinks big, far beyond what His family could ask or think of. God is thinking on an ultragrand scale. God is smiling and is filled with excitement. Love develops the plan and hopes.

God starts to devise the perfect plan on how this will all play out. God has the ability to see the end from the beginning. God is thinking about creating a god and how that will work out. God begins to focus on creating a god and how they can spend time together. God is hoping and planning something spectacular. God really wants a god to fellowship with. Love is driving God to the creation of a god who will be like Him. God’s mind is on the god. God wants to make a godlike Himself to have dominion over His creation and possess the ability to create new worlds. God decides to create a spirit like Himself who will possess a soul. God thinks of creating angels, how that will work out, and how they can be ministers for Him. God is planning to start small and have everything grow. God plans to build everything step-by-step; simple things will become complex over time. God wants everything to be perfect. God knows that everything He will create will be perfect. God is excited.

God wants a god to be made like Him, full of love, so they could love each other. God wants genuine love from His god, not love just by instinct. God knows that whatever He creates, He can program the god what to think like. The god will be like his Father and will love God. God thinks, I don’t want robots or machines that will love me just because I am God or because they were obligated to or by instinct or because they have no choice whom to love. God has a lot of things to think about. Godhead is working together on how to bring this all about. God is thinking about a family. God wants a family into who He can pour His love, to who He can show His greatness and be a Father. God can see how everything is going to be, but He wants the god and his feelings for Him to be real and genuine.

God considers if He creates everything to be perfect, then everything should work out. God thinks about all this but knows it will all be fake and not real if the god He creates has no choice whom to love. The god would be a robot or a machine or just maybe a puppet and not a god or a person He could fellowship with. God decides to give this god the power of choice and let him determine his own actions. God is going to give this god free will. God wants to be the object of the god’s affection. God thinks deeper about the god and how this free will makes His god an overcomer like Himself so that He can fellowship with a person, not a puppet or a robot.

God decides that if He is going to create a god just like Himself, the god will have a love for God from the start. The god is going to be His top creation. God wants genuine love from the god. God wants something real and heartfelt, not just a response to an instinct, but as a result of deep love and his own choice and free will. In order for the love to be real, God decides He will have to give the god a choice. God will give His god a free will to choose. God thinks about what to give His god a choice. Since God is creating, He thinks of how something that could be the opposite of Him could come into being. God thinks that He will have to have a lesser creation than the god, but with a great ability within itself to corrupt and pervert itself to become a choice apart from God. God considers, in order to allow that choice, He will have someone in His next order of creation to be an alternate choice for the god to choose from. The next creation level after the god will be an angel. One of His top angelic creations will need to corrupt and change its nature. This creature has to be different from God, opposed to God, with something different to offer the god; this will give His god a choice.

God has to plan how to contrast Himself with something different from Himself so that His god has a choice on whom to love. The contrast would have to be significant enough for the god to choose whom he would follow. This angel must not just be different from God but be the direct opposite and a reciprocal of God. God has to be fair in how He is going to do this. This angel cannot be created evil or created to fall; that would be unfair to the angel. It is through its beauty and arrogance this angel will fall of its own accord. God knows that, despite all His planning, this perfect angel, falling, will create a tragedy that will taint all His creation in so many ways: the reciprocal, the opposite of Him, will introduce wickedness, evil, and destruction. God weighs out the pros and cons of the possibility of wickedness and evil coming into existence. God calculates the whole situation. If God is willingly going to allow evil to come about, He knows that He will encounter tremendous heartache. This tremendous heartache will affect not only Him but also all of His creation. God decides to go forward with His plan. God wishes to create. God hopes for a god. God desires a family. Love drives Him to create.

In creating a contrasting entity, He knows an angel will have to evolve from being good to being evil through iniquity. Evil is anything that opposes or thinks differently from God; evil is the opposite of good and is perverted holiness. This evil angel, after evolving, will try to demand its own way and, in demanding its own way, will give birth to wickedness and selfishness and become self-centered. Evil is the result of iniquity and develops wickedness that manifests selfishness. Selfishness is the opposite of God, who is giving. This being will become an anti-God. This angel will be the opposite of what God is. God is love, and this angel will become selfish and self-centered. God is very patient and kind. This angel will be very rude and impatient. God does not envy, and this angel will envy God and everything He has and be very jealous. God is never boastful, proud, or haughty. This evil being will be haughty and will want to glorify itself and be boastful. This fallen angel will develop a lot of pride that will give strength to its sin and the arrogance and the veracity to challenge God. God does not behave unseemly or demand His own way. God is not easily provoked. Evil will behave badly, always be demanding its own way, and walk about, ready to provoke and ready to incite an evil response. God is not irritable or touchy. Selfishness will always be irritable and touchy. God is never glad about injustices. Evil rejoices in iniquity (its root) and is glad when injustice happens. God is forgiving and willing to help us despite our shortcomings and to move on. Selfishness will always be keeping track of faults and holding grudges when offended and will never forget the offense and use it to accuse. God thinks of no evil. God is truth. Evil constantly dwells on doing evil. God bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things; God is loyal no matter what happens or the cost. God always believes and expects the best of everyone. Selfishness caves in all things, doubts all things, gives up on all things, and quits. Selfishness is never loyal and doubts and expects the worst of everyone. God is the truth, and selfishness hates the truth and always lies. God never fails. Evil always eventually fails even though it feels or looks like it is winning or won.

God can see His holy attributes being perverted and spawning opposing and contrasting attributes: love perverted becomes selfishness, which produces hatred, joy perverted becomes sorrow, faith perverted becomes sin, belief perverted becomes doubt. All that is good and beautiful comes from and emanates from God, who produces life, which is union with God. All that is bad and ugly comes from and emanates from this fallen being that produces death, which is separation from God. All this contrast will be a clear choice for the god to choose from. The god will have a choice between God and the adversary and between good and evil.

God has to play out His plan in His mind in many different ways. God is all-knowing and seeing that one of His first creations can and will self-destruct through iniquity. It will try to exalt itself and then create