God created heaven and earth, the sea and fountains of water…

Is there a song that never ceases, though we cannot always hear it?

If you had a Bible, would you turn with me to the Throne Room of the Universe?

Where is the Fountain Source of all Life, Light, and Love?

Moses and John are two authors whose writings I often meditate on. Both John and Moses write of their experiences in the Throne Room of the Universe, in the Temple and Sanctuary of God. There they wrote of wondrous things which eternity alone can reveal.

Genesis and Revelation, the writings of Moses and John, are in particular of supreme interest to me because of this statement made by Jesus, as recorded in the Gospel of John—

“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” - John 5:46-47

According to this statement of Jesus, Moses wrote of things which were not seen and therefore required belief, faith, and/or trust in order to access.

What were those things?


Before we answer this question, let’s look carefully again at this statement of Jesus.

Notice with me that Moses’ writings were not the sole object of belief, but that Jesus Himself was to be believed through the writings of Moses. Moses’ writings are the medium through which believing Moses, and by extension Jesus, is made possible. This is profound because it implies that Moses, his writings, and Jesus are all considered to be one, to be unified.


Looking at the first statement of Genesis, I find interest in the use of the word “and”. The Hebrew term here implies a mark or signal. Heaven and earth are apparenlty linked by that very word “and”. Though heaven and earth are distinct, there is a unity that is implied. The same Creator made them both.

I believe that through the word “and” we are being invited into the very heart and meaning of God’s love, which was God’s original plan for us. It is the “and” which links us with one another, while still remaining distinct.

Father and Mother.
Heaven and earth.
Mind and heart.
Food and water.
Work and rest.
Faith and works.
Left and right.

The list could go on indefinitely.

Yet, the question remains,
what is this mysterious link, really?
What is this uniting “love” that maintains distinction and yet holds together?

Meditations upon this subject in my experience have been where we can find Moses’ first writing about one of the mysteries of Christ.

“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1

On a side note, this introductory statement is pregnant with meaning and practical utility. This statement is conclusive and wholistic, completely framing the entirety of life as we know or can know it. The principles implied, the fields of study and thought—whether of times, persons, activities, spaces, materials, mental organization, it is like the silver lining that unites all of Scripture, everything we experience can ultimately find its place in this statement. That’s how huge it is.

When we look around outside and spend time reflecting on the inside, we can, if listening carefully, hear these words re-echoed.

Innumerable books have been, and can be written on the depths of this first statement of Scripture.

But where is Jesus in it?
And what might it mean for our lives?
What is this “Universal Link”?

It appears that from this first statement, knowing our origins is vital in order to make sense of the world we live in, to understand the writings of Scripture, and to understand the idea of a “Universal Link”.

If we read carefully, we will find that all of Scripture is constantly seeking to draw us back to this first subject. When our minds and hearts are ordered aright, we will begin to live differently. Knowing that we and all things around us were created, it gives us a pattern to follow for our works as well.

In John’s Gospel account of the life of Jesus, He introduces us to Him in these words, “In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Looking at Genesis 1:1, the first word in the English translation, “in”, is not actually in the original Hebrew Scriptures at all, but the term “Beginning”, is. In other words, “Beginning” is the very first or beginning word of Scripture. It can also be translated as “First, Chief, or Choice Part.”

Now looking into the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Who is also revealed as the “the Alpha and the Omega (Α&Ω)”, which is to be the very building blocks of words and language itself, when He first tells John to write in a book, He identifies Himself as “The First and the Last”. See Revelation 1:11.

So looking back at the author Moses, we might ask this question— what is the first word, of the first statement, of the first book, written by the first author of the Scriptures?
It is the word—
“Beginning”

Jesus says in Revelation 1:8 “I am…the beginning and the end.” This is a gigantic claim. Can it hold?

If we stay consistent with these words, we can understand that Jesus, Who says He is the beginning is also the end. The beginning and end of what we might ask? I believe and understand the answer to be the beginning and end of life as we know it.

This can seem a little difficult to understand, but if Jesus is the ultimate destiny of Scripture, and He, as Revelation reads, “Holds the keys of death and the grave”, then, how we relate to Jesus determines our beginnings and ends.

This statement of Scripture then becomes very authoritative. What is God trying to say to us through this? From the text, God appears to be making clear that there is only One of Him and that it is He who created everything that we are made of. Namely, awareness of time, space, and matter. The firmament, called heaven, is the air we breathe. The land, called earth, is the ground we walk on and get our food from. And God created it all. Our very life is dependent upon the resources which God created and sustains, according to this Scripture.

This leads me to Jesus. I find that the gift of life itself is bound up with accepting this Scripture. What do I mean?

Rejection of this statement moves us into unfounded territory. Territory which all of Scripture has nothing to say. In other words, all of Scripture is founded upon this first statement. All the directions for life, the commands for right doing and living, the promises of love and grace, hope and forgiveness, the visions of eternity and of the world to come, all the history that helps us make sense of our present day, lives, and moments—all of it is premised on God being the Creator. Jesus, the Word, being linked with this statement, and yet being a man like us, links us inseparably to it. This is the idea behind what I call “The Universal Link”.

Regarding the humanity of Jesus, Who is also the Divine Word, where is humanity in this first statement of Genesis?

Looking at the last word in that first statement written by Moses, it is the word “Earth”. Yet earth is a name given by God, according to Genesis 1:10, to the dry land.

What is this saying? Jesus, being a man, is earthen. Yet, He is also the Word, or the Lord of Heaven. Jesus, as the Word, is a man who is uniquely from heaven and from earth simultaneously. What!? Yes. This is the claim of Scripture.

So how can the Lord of Heaven and Son of Earth(Adam/Man) be named Jesus, which quite literally means, “God saves”, when He was nailed to a cross, treated with contempt, spit upon and mocked, abused and stripped of clothing, tortured, and left to die?

This is what I seek to explore and understand from various angles and different Scriptures, all through the lens of the promise that the Gospel is Everlasting.

Have you heard these lyrics from the song “There is a fountain”?

“There is a fountain filled with blood
  Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
  Lose all their guilty stains:
  Lose all their guilty stains,
  Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
  Lose all their guilty stains.”

One author beautifully states these words in a little book called Steps to Christ—

“God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son.” He gave Him not only to live among men, to bear their sins, and die their sacrifice. He gave Him to the fallen race. Christ was to identify Himself with the interests and needs of humanity. He who was one with God has linked Himself with the children of men by ties that are never to be broken. Jesus is “not ashamed to call them brethren.” He is our Sacrifice, our Advocate, our Brother, bearing our human form before the Father’s throne, and through eternal ages one with the race He has redeemed—the Son of man. And all this that man might be uplifted from the ruin and degradation of sin that he might reflect the love of God and share the joy of holiness.” (Emphasis supplied are mine).

Yes, Jesus is the son of man. (Man/Adam/Dust of the ground). And this we all share, and thus are linked by ties of common humanity.

It is this link which inspires, impels, and encourages us to continue moving forward in our efforts to help our fellow human beings. It is this link which has brought us so near to one another in the modern world. And, it is this link which gives us the capacity to communicate—to communicate the Creator’s essential goodness. This is the ultimate goal of those of us who have chosen to accept the challenge, the responsibility, and the hope of eternal fellowship with our common humanity, both of those here below and one day with those above, and ultimately, with Our Good Heavenly Father.

Jesus is alive today and seeks to help us live the life we were made for. His Word, the Story He has left us, is the plan for our lives today. Through this story He invites us to be writers as well. Not merely with pen and ink, or typings on a keyboard, but to be writers of the living story. A story which He wants us to voluntarily let Him guide the writing of.

Come and see some of the Good Communications that flow from the One Source.