Next Phase In God’s Master Plan… From the Beginning

The Renewing of the face of the earth (Photo: geralt, Pixabay)

Here we are, where the glorious government of God ── the kingdom of God ── was rejected from the Earth. The next phase in God’s Master Plan… From the Beginning begins: The creation of physical man.

The LORD God wants millions or billions of righteous and perfect spiritual beings, all governed by the glorious government of God, to complete the beautification, the majesty, the glory of not only the estimated 22 sextillion planets, but also the estimated 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies throughout the Milky Way ── as well as throughout the known universe! “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” – Romans 8:19.

So, here is the next phase of the LORD God’s grand purpose: the REPRODUCING OF THEMSELVES into trillions upon trillions of God-beings! 

“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; …’” – Genesis 1:26.

When you look up in the night sky, at the countless 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way ── the whole center of the galaxy displaying and bursting forth colors as if made by fireworks which we call stars, that dot the night sky more plentiful than individual grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth ── have you ever wondered why you are here?

Now, being aware that many of these stars are much larger than our own sun. Like Betelgeuse, the tenth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star found in the constellation Orion. The radius of Betelgeuse is thought to be around a thousand times greater than the sun and would reach beyond the orbit of Jupiter if it were placed at the center of our solar system. 1

Surely you have wondered about the origin of this awesome and breathtaking universe we find ourselves in. Of how it came to be ── did it just, as the likes of what the famous Stephen Hawking, who self-righteously hawked, “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing”? Or was the known universe created by intelligent beings? Is there a purpose?

What about those estimated 16 “confirmed Goldilocks planets” that astronomers claim are located in their star’s habitable zone? Do they sustain life? Are there people like us on those planets? Are there sea creatures in their oceans? Do any of those planets that have so far been found sustain any life ── or are they like our Moon, devoid of life, pockmarked with asteroid strikes? And if they are uninhabited, devoid of life, and pockmarked by asteroid strikes ── why? Why would intelligent Creators create an uncountable number of planets only to have them uninhabited and void of life? Is that logical?

Astronomers and astrophysicists can ponder and hazard guesses. The truth they do not have. Two great unmanned spacecraft that were sent out into the universe on September 7th, 1977, and August 20th of the same year have now reached what scientists call the interstellar medium. And, as of August 25th, 2025, Voyager 1 has traveled 15,603,361,540 miles from Earth! 2 

We now have breathtaking photos from the planet Mars ── from rovers that are active still today, Curiosity, and Perseverance ── showing us a sandy desert littered with rocks. Dry, barren, and sterile. A wasteland that looks like the movie Mad Max. We now have stunning photos from Pluto! A beautiful small, icy world with a diverse surface featuring mountains, plains, and a reddish-brown hue. We even have a few photos from the planet Venus! A planet with an incredibly hot and inhospitable atmosphere with massive acrid clouds that reminds us of Dante’s description of his fictional fiery inferno, he called “hellfire”!

Yet, mankind persists in probing the far reaches of the known universe for any sign of organic life. My wife is telling me, “It’s too astronomical that life only exists on Earth.” Myself reminding her, “’ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,’ says the LORD.” – Isaiah 55:8. All presently existing physical evidence indicates that this Earth is the sole planet with living matter throughout this endless universe. The only known planet to sustain life – life as we know it.

The Angels That Sinned 

So, the angels were not created with perfect righteous character ── their creation was not yet complete.

It’s hard to imagine the LORD God’s holy angels sinning. Yet this is exactly what happened. Again, archangels, seraphim, and angels were created with awesome power, with a mind to think, reason, and plan, and of decision and choice ── or else they would simply be a robot, without individuality and character, unable to have any free moral choice. And so, God’s living word teaches us that sin is the transgression of God’s Law (1 John 3:4). These angels (and apparently only the ones that were placed on Earth) rebelled against the LORD God’s Law ── which is the very basis of God’s government. 

Well… sin carries penalties. When these angels rebelled against the government of God, the beautification of the earth in its preparation for the creation of physical mankind abruptly stopped ── and instead, darkness and physical destruction to the surface of the earth occurred.

The far-reaching implications of this earth-wide cataclysm and destruction were not just confined to the planet Earth and its Moon. The penalty of sin by these angels was not eternal death ── because the LORD God created them immortal spirits unable to die. Instead, the LORD God threw Helel and his demons back down to Sheol, to the earth, “to the lowest depths of the Pit.” (Isaiah 14:15; Luke 10:18). As I’ve said before, I personally do not believe that the LORD God ever had any intention of putting the kingdom of God under the subjection of angels. GOD truly had – and has – a Master Plan from the very beginning! “For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, …” – meaning the soon-coming kingdom of God “in subjection to angels.” – Hebrews 2:5. 

Their immediate penalty was being confined to earth ── “ … ‘ Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.’” – Ezekiel 28:16. At the helm of this angelic coup was Helel (Lucifer in Latin Vulgate) ── the super archangel who had led the other angels into sin ── into complete rebellion against the government of God. He was originally created as a bringer of light and truth, but now he has become the author of darkness, confusion, chaos, evil, destruction ── and even murder.

So now, “The earth [became] without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. …” – Genesis 1:2. 

However, whatever the LORD God creates, “God saw that it was good.” (cf. Genesis 1:10, 12, 18, 21, 25, and especially 31). As I’ve been saying ── just because the multiple billions of planets throughout the Milky Way galaxy are in a state of what we would think to be waste and empty, and uninhabitable for human life, doesn’t mean that they are not “good.” And it doesn’t mean that they are “dead” planets. Some planets and moons in our solar system are active with volcanoes, like Io (Jupiter’s moon), Venus, Mars, Enceladus (Saturn’s moon), and Europa (Jupiter’s moon). Also, death and decay are indeed natural laws created by the LORD God that govern the universe. The second law of thermodynamics. Logically, just because something made out of matter decays and dies doesn’t mean that it’s not “good.”

Many improperly add to 1st Corinthians 14:33. God’s living word says that God is not the author of confusion. Nowhere does it say that God is not the author of decay. In fact, the LORD God directly states, "I bring death and I give life" - Deuteronomy 32:39, BSB. As we journey through life, we come face-to-face with the reality of decay. Understanding properly this aspect of life will help us to better understand the LORD God and their greatest and most marvelous plan and purpose in every season. God’s living word reassures us that decay and death are all part of God’s Master Plan… From the Beginning.

Now, let us notice what the LORD God did next.

The Renewing the Face of the Earth

The LORD God did not leave the Earth in a state of darkness, without form, and void ── “ … And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” – Genesis 1:2. As a result of the angelic rebellion, destruction was wreaked upon the Earth, and the earth became the condition we read in Genesis 1:2. 

In Psalm 104:30, we read, “You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.”

Notice verse 3 – “Then God [Elohim] said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” Now, Satan the Devil is the very embodiment of darkness, sin, and emptiness. Darkness was surely caused by his rebellion and sin. The LORD God is the very personification of light, truth, love, and beauty. So, on the very first day of what is called “creation week,” the LORD God changed the Earth from darkness to light – from without form (because only water at this moment covered the earth; see Genesis 1:9) to the lifting of earth’s surface for dry land, from being void to full of life (such as grasses and herbs, trees, birds, sea creatures, land animals and creepy things).

The LORD God had now completed the renewing of the face of the Earth, preparing for the creation of man. 

Now, le plus grand accomplissement ── the greatest achievement ── Man! 

“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; … 27) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” – Genesis 1:26, 27. 

Why did the LORD God create man? 

What part could mankind possibly have in God’s divine purpose? King David was inspired to write, “O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! … 4) What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? 5) For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.” – Psalm 8:1, 4-5. 

King David, looking up into the night sky with all its shimmering stars, asks the LORD, our Lord, how could God take into account the son of man?

Continuing, “You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things [all that is on this earth] under his feet, 7) All sheep and oxen ── Even the beasts of the field, 8) The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. 

9) O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!” – Psalm 8:6-9. 

King David limited mankind’s dominion over the present ── that which the LORD God placed under mankind at its creation ── the earth, its atmosphere, and its seas.

But, notice in the Book of Hebrews, we read, “For He has not put THE WORLD TO COME, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.” – Hebrews 2:5. What our Lord Jesus Christ calls, “’ the age to come’” – cf. Matthew 12:32. Then, beginning in verse 6, the Apostle Paul quotes the Psalms. Again, King David was specifically talking about the fact that the LORD God has now placed in subjection under mankind the earth, its atmosphere, and its seas. But, the Apostle Paul was inspired to show us that something infinitely greater in the age to come, and beyond, is coming for all mankind!

The LORD God’s revealed knowledge to all mankind ── the very purpose for the creation of man. 

“For in that He [the LORD God] put all in subjection under him [mankind], He [the LORD God] left nothing that is not put under him [mankind].” – Hebrews 2:8. 

Eventually ── all things. “But now we do not yet see all things put under him.”    

For those who are willing to believe the LORD our God, He says that He has decreed that the entire known universe ── with all its galaxies, planets, and suns ── will eventually be placed under the subjection of mankind. And remember, this is speaking about the “age to come” and beyond ── not this present evil age. 

What we see today ── “ … we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, …” – vs. 9.

Mankind, other than our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is not yet crowned with glory and honor. But, mankind will be in the age to come, and beyond. □ 

1) Jones T., The Star Betelgeuse, Astro Backyard, Retrieved 25 Aug. 2025.

2) Science.nasa.gov, Where are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 Now? Mission Status, Retrieved 25 Aug. 2025.  

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