Mike,

I couldn’t articulate in my last message. Here is what I mean…

So there was a time, before everything was out of God, when there was just God. That is a hard concept… take away people, take away the earth, the stars, the planets, the solar system, the galaxies, and the whole universe, take it all away and what do you have? If you take away the creation, what is left? Would it be dark or light?

I____

Hi I____,
Thank you for your question.
You ask:

… before everything was out of God, when there was just God. That is a hard concept… take away people, take away the earth, the stars, the planets, the solar system, the galaxies, and the whole universe, take it all away and what do you have? If you take away the creation, what is left?”

I am constantly getting this question, along with its sister question ‘What happens after all men are saved and God is all in all?’
I hope our Lord gives you the grace to receive His own inspired answer to all such questions and that you do not feel that I am being dismissive of your questions. Believe me, that is not my intention. It is in the flesh of us all to ask these questions. Nevertheless I must fear what God thinks of me more than what any man thinks.
So with that being said, I will simply cut and paste God’s own answer to both of these questions:

1Co 4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. (ASV)

So when I find “the things which are written” about what it was like before “the beginning”, and when I find “the things which are written” about what is will be like after God is all in all, I will post them on iswasandwillbe. com. But I have yet to find any such verses, so as the King James Version puts it, I will refrain from “thinking above that which is written”.

1Co 4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think [ of men] above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

As the ASV and many other translations, including the King James Version itself reveals, the words “of men” are in brackets because those words are not in the Greek which simply states that we are not to “think above that which is written”. There is plenty that has been revealed and written to occupy our minds without such vain speculations of men.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike