Past

What is GODSTORY in the Past?

We don't know it all!

God has revealed what He has decided to have us know in the Holy Scriptures.

It did NOT "begin" with God, because God has no beginning!

IN THE BEGINNING?

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

Just know that this "in the beginning" was the beginning only for what God has done in His creation related strictly on the heaven and the earth.

God is the CREATOR of all things.  His heaven and earth creation is recorded for us in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible.

Have you ever heard, "God is the God of beginning again."?  This is typically understood as God offering the opportunity for renewal, forgiveness, and a fresh start, allowing people to move past past mistakes and start anew in their lives; essentially, God is considered the source of new beginnings. 

This is most certainly true, but it is also true that God Himself "begins again."  There is more than one beginning, there are multiple "starting overs" with God.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:2

I believe that a formless and void earth reveals to us that there was a creation on this earth BEFORE the Genesis 1:1 creation.  I won't fight over this, but there are MORE destructions and new creations to come AFTER the Genesis 1:1 creation, so why not before?

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
~ Proverbs 25:2

God is God and He has not chosen to reveal tell us everything.  Some things are written down.  They are apparent.  Some things are OPENED.  Some things are CONCEALED.

God in His glory sometimes conceals.  Those that are wise will read, re-read and meditate and study God's written WORD and will observe and study God's created WORLD as well.

It is GOOD for us to search out matters that God has concealed.

WHAT HAS GOD CREATED? 

The Almighty God has create visible things and invisible things.  He has created things that we can see and things that we cannot see.  He has created physical things and spiritual things.  He has created physical beings and spiritual beings.

He has created a Family.

He created a heavenly family.  We are not told exactly WHEN He did this, but since it was before He created the earth that we now inhabit, it was in "eternity past."  TIME is a construct of this dimension in which we live.  God dwells in the eternal present.  Time, as we know it, matters not to Him. 

There is a FAMILY in heaven AND on earth.

The Heavenly Family of God

God created spirit beings BEFORE He created the earth that we are walking upon now.  The earth that we are walking upon NOW is a "new creation" (restart or reset) of earth after the world-wide destruction of the flood of Noah.

We generically refer to these spirit beings as angels.  However, the word "angel" is actually the description of an occupation rather than the identification of a group.

God has called some of the spirit beings his SONS.  This is, of course, an identification of offspring in a family.