It seems appropriate, in introducing Part 2 of this book, to consolidate what the reader has learned about God so far. As Part I opened God seemed distant and unapproachable. Jesus told us that God is a spirit. But a spirit is invisible, while we are in bodies of flesh. God is everywhere in heaven and earth while we are anchored to one place. He is the living God, while we are born to die. He is the Ancient of Days an eternal being which is simply beyond our understanding. Although there are three persons in the Godhead, they are one in purpose in the administration of God's throne. God is a king then? Yes, and that is the primary meaning of the word GOD. He is the Supreme King a ruler answerable to no one. His laws sustain the universe He created, although we call them the laws of physics. He rules over the realm of life, for His Son Jesus Christ our Lord is the author of life. Finally He rules over the moral universe, which is just as real as the physical. Men and angels who transgress His moral laws will eventually discover that God is the judge of all.
These first impressions of God overawe us, until we recall the ways in which He emphasized the eternity of His being in different forms of a circle. What is common to every circle is a center and a circumference. In this simple way God tells us that He must be the center, but He wants people to surround Him. We begin to understand this a bit more when we learn that God's nature is light and love. He must have a holy people around Him then, for God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. He must also be surrounded by a people who love Him for God is love He has a father's heart and His people should respond to His love.
The touchstone of the Christian revelation is the will of God to make His nature of light and love known to us. His will was expressed in His counsels. Because the foundation of the world is the water-shed of those counsels, the importance of the earth in God's sight cannot be overemphasized. It is at that time we see His foreknowledge. He understood that many would be indifferent to His revelation of Himself. So He chose a heavenly and an earthly people. We get some idea of the meaning of this in the history of creation when God saw the light that it was good, and divided between the light and the darkness. The darkness always has a moral implication in Scripture.
We are now ready to go on to Part 2 of this book. The subject of Part 2 is how God created the universe scripturally termed the heavens and the earth, how He filled the earth with life, and created man. So there are three spheres of creation. These correspond to the three ways God rules over everything the physical sphere i.e. matter the life sphere and the moral sphere, for man was created in the image of God.