The 7 Eternal Days

By Rick Behrens

If you’ve ever wondered if there’s more to being a Christian than stumbling through life without purpose, this book is definitely for you. In The 7 Eternal Days, you will learn that your purpose was determined before the creation of the world and that God has provided the means to join Him in the mission of the ages to defeat the perpetrator of sin and his reign of fear and destruction in the earth. The 7 Eternal Days will take you on a journey through the six days of creation and teach you how they reveal biblical principles that empower the reader to become colaborers with Jesus Christ in destroying the works of the devil and ultimately bring restoration of heaven and earth in harmonious fellowship as in the beginning in Eden. You will end this journey learning how to come to Sabbath rest in God’s power to bring this all to pass. You will see that Genesis and Revelation reveal the mystery of the kingdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885401685

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Chapter 1

Darkness, a Hostile Environment

Day 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void (empty); and darkness (misery, destruction, death, ignorance) was upon the face of the deep (abyss). And the Spirit of God moved (hovered) upon the face of the waters.

—Genesis 1:1–2 (KJV)

Has it ever occurred to you what God started with when He spoke this dimension into existence? The above verse with parenthetical definitions of the original words according to Strong’s Concordance reveal that God placed His new dimension into a hostile environment called darkness. Darkness is eternal. It is the realm outside of God’s kingdom to which Lucifer was cast and where he is confined. Darkness is what Satan perpetuates in those who are unsaved. The result of his very influence is the condition referred to as being without form and void.

The above verse so clearly defines the state of anything that is under the influence and control of this renegade spirit. Darkness became the kingdom where his throne is and from where he operates. As faith is the operative power of God’s kingdom, so fear, intimidation, and deception are the operative power of darkness.

A simple Google search of the term fear not reveals that it is used, in some form or another, 365 times in the Bible—one for each day of the year. It is God’s warning and admonition to refrain from embracing the operative power of darkness and bring upon oneself the manifestation of the misery, destruction, death, and ignorance as defined above.

The dichotomy of Job

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect (complete, morally pious) and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Job 1:1 (KJV)

Have you wondered why bad things happen to good people? Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve said things like, I don’t understand, I try so hard, I’m not a bad person, I go to church, I pay my tithes, I read the Bible?

Job was a religious man. Job feared God. Job went to great lengths to make sure his life and the lives of his children were constantly atoned for by prayer and sacrifice. The Bible states that he offered sacrifice in case his children sinned in their times of celebration and fellowship. Job was so religious that he lived in fear.

The devil had his eye on Job. The door into Job’s life that fear opened was a door for the devil to gain access.

For my sigh cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet, yet trouble came. Job 3:24–26 (KJV)

Job endured a very dark season in his life due to the opening fear created for the devil to do his thing: to steal, kill, and destroy. The thing Job had going for him was his tenacity.

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. (Job 1:22