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STORY OF THE WORLD Copyright © 2020 by Ian Kiptoo Rotich (Author/Publisher) Bible verses quoted from NIV (New International Version) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author. (www.storyoftheworld.info) 2 Dedication To everyone, in the whole world. 3 Genesis 1:26-30 (NIV) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 4 Then God said, “I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food.”And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning--the sixth day. 5 Genesis 11: 1-9 (NIV) Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As the men moved eastwards, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar. Then they said, “come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 6 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel- because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered 7 them over the face of the whole earth. NOW WE START, What a person knows as an individual (personal knowledge) up to what we know together as a group (whole world) affects all aspects of our lives. From the time we were born we begin by learning from the basic up to the ultimate i.e. God’s knowledge (1st Corinthians 1:25 “For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength”). Times have changed and currently we are in another dispensation which I would like to share extensively on and break 8 down into stagesshown below as they have been and as they will follow; Stage 1 is creation, Stage 2- Babel, Stage 3-today till new heaven and new earth (transition) Stage 4-new heaven and new earth We are in the last days per se as there is an afterwards following what people spiritually perceive as the last days or end of the world. What I will do is share from the beginning, key points to note then the 2nd stage, then the 3rd stage which is from today (present day) and even after these last days. 9 As stated above, information (what we know) is key and we will see how from the beginning it is always important to have knowledge, in fact in the new heaven and new earth time will not be measured by how old one is but by how one has grown physically/spiritually closer to the image of God. Funny enough this standard also holds true to physical and also spiritual growth and development today in the world through what one can describe as; level of experience/skill level of anointing level of communication with God Knowledge both in the world and of God have similar 10 characteristics. In whichever of the two, we all learn and growboth physically and spiritually (Luke 2:52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men,) True to the terms new heaven and new earth we all have a spiritual and physical identity. As a matter of fact, we need eternity to reach the level of the image of God as per ones physical and spiritual identity then also learn from each other as the breadth of Gods knowledge is wide encompassing all that was ever created. This is the 4th stage that will come after the fulfillment which will happen today (the present). 11 Like the days of Noah there will be an ‘ark’ to transition the world. The ‘ark’ is by definition, design knowledge from God to man. At the time of Noah, God shared His knowledge to him (Genesis6:14-16 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: the ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks), it also happened when God shared design of the temple in heaven for man to build (Exodus 12 25-31), and also in the end we see the new heaven and the new earth coming down from heaven with its designs. (Revelation 21:2,11-21) After the flood, after people had multiplied, there was something God wanted to fulfill which is why He went to see what was going on. What is this? Similarly, this same thing is what God wants to fulfill today. We can learn what it is from God’s language. We can trace this back from creation. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 13 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” God’s end pattern in all that He created is always the words, it was good or it was very good. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. (Genesis 1:31 NIV) Always that is the final statement that crowns all creation. For man, we were commanded to increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. This means that after completing this specific task, (in 14 God’s pattern) there will be what would be thereafter as being very good that God would also see and that would complete the creation process. We are using God’s language as a basis as this is from a point of knowledge that through time, it remains the same, be it from creation till whatever future one can fathom. What does man have on earth? What is manifested when man has increased in number and fills the earth? What we see today is man’s systems and creations i.e. THE WORLD. THE WORLD is God’s current focus; in this time He intends to use individuals to bring about His perfect designs for Him to take 15 pride in His creation of man as His image. STAGE 2 Babel This is the beginning of the world. Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then 16 nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Today we have filled the earth, but is there confusion? Are we united? Do we have one purpose as man? NO we don’t. However, that can change if we embrace what God‘s purpose for the World today, we will be back to one language and we will witness the fulfillment of His purpose for the world. The dispensation during Babel is the same dispensation today, at that time whatever happened 17 had a worldwide impact on man both physically and spiritually and this confusion happened because of ignorance and wanting to stay in one place against God’s word that we fill the earth. Man saying and pursuing one thing that is different from the command of God which was to fill the earth led him astray from the fulfillment of God’s purpose for the world.