The Creation Project E-Book

Sunshine Rodgers

• Herausgeber: RWG Publishing
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Like a therapist, I invite God to sit on the couch in front of me. I flip open my notepad, pen in hand. Now tell me, in your own words, what happened that night. It was a friendship, wasn't it? I hate to open old wounds, but invite me in to all those years ago, before the world was created and all you had were angels who lived in Heaven, and one angel who captured your heart. Describe that moment when everything changed. When was it when Lucifer turned into Satan? And why? Wasn't Heaven good enough? And what did you do when Heaven faced its biggest challenge? Did you trust the wrong source? Were you merely too vulnerable? Maybe if you could turn back time, you wouldn't have given your angels a choice to rebel. Of course, true love has its risks, one that broke your heart for the very first time.
 

Leseprobe

The Creation Project

From the plan book of God

Written from the imagination of

Sunshine Rodgers

Illustrations by:

Travis Rodgers and Max Steele

Copyright © 2019. All rights reserved.

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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

The opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of Publisher.

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Published in the United States of America

Paperback: 9781795588003

Hardcover: 978-0-359-39854-6

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

The Creation Project

A note to my readers:

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

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About the Publisher

to my best friend, Travis

A note to my readers:

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This is just a personal rendition of this Divine friendship and not to be taken as the Truth and the Word. Honestly, I wasn’t there. I don’t know all that happened. I am no expert on the beginning of literal time. All I know is that there was a world before this current world began a long long long time ago. I was able to pick up, the one you also keep somewhere close I’m sure, a copy of God’s plan book. And as I read it, I get a sense that there was more to the story, more to the words and more to the action. Let’s follow along together as we figure out piece by piece what could have happened up in Heaven all before Day 1 officially began. 

- Sunshine

“Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.”

– Ezekiel 28:17

Introduction

When I was asked to write the Forward to Sunshine’s latest book, The Creation Project, I was so honored. First, because I have known her for at least a decade, and I know the quality of person that she continues to be. Second, because I know the depth of commitment that she has for her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Last, I know the amount of heart that she pours into every composition. Though I was honored, I still could not put my name on a book that I had not read - especially one that touched upon theological issues. As I read her book I found myself at odds with several deeply important theological concepts that were at that time between its pages. I knew I needed to have a conversation with Sunshine to see what was on her heart about what she wrote. I found her as brilliant as usual and highly sensitive to the things of God. It blessed the teacher side of my temperament to find her so teachable. As I voiced my concerns she took copious notes and asked poignant questions concerning the person of God and His attributes.

To be fair and honest, I had never really thought about the idea that God and Lucifer must have had a relationship before Lucifer was cast out of heaven. My mind was secure in the knowledge that the devil is bad, and God is good. I, like most Christians, know that Lucifer/Satan is a defeated foe and that he is “under our feet” because of Calvary’s cross and Jesus’s sacrifice for us. However, what happened before the fall of man? What happened before Lucifer and his angels’ rebellion? As an evangelist with a Master of Divinity, my window of experience is narrowed to winning the lost with a focus on the cross and not necessarily about what it took to get humanity to this point (with the obvious exception of the Genesis account of the fall of man and the serpent’s/Satan’s roll in that event). So, when I read Sunshine’s book, it was a scary recalibration of my thought process and a refreshing re-pondering of lifelong ideas.

In consideration of this manuscript, I had to come to some “givens.” First, Sunshine is NOT a theologian. She is, however, a lover of God. Second, her aim was not to write a theological treatise on the person of God. If someone wants that, one will not find it in a one hundred page manuscript. One will find that in several volumes in a seminary library, and still, the sections will fall VERY short of who God really is. Third, this work’s whole desire is to cause one to “feel” a little of what God felt on the day His creation fell and He found Himself at the place of casting Lucifer out of heaven. Fourth, Sunshine wants people to see God as good—to make Him approachable. It must have worked because when I shared Sunshine’s manuscript with my daughter, she said, “Dad, it made me want to come to God. I saw Him as kind and approachable.” Mission accomplished, Sunshine!

Are there things in this book that will bother some people? Of course, there are. That is true of just about any book these days. But stop and think about how anyone would communicate some of the deepest aspects of God’s nature and person. The Trinity (God as three in one) is one of the most impossible things to discuss in theology. No matter how one tries to describe it, one falls short. Across denominational lines, people just see it all differently.

So with all this in mind let us see this work for what it is. It is a parable from the heart of a loving and courageous young woman who blends a little fiction into a real happening so that some may see the loving heart of her Mighty God. In this fiction, one will find how she portrays the relationships between the various persons of God framed in the real historical happening of the rebellion in heaven and the subsequent fall. This fiction is also found in how she depicts the angels in their building program and their outfits. However, who’s to say that it was not that way? There is no one to bear witness to it.

So let us, therefore, enjoy Sunshine’s vision, and do what one does with a parable—glean from it what spiritual truths one can. See the heart of God in it. Know that He adores you and I; and because He does, He came to us with a plan of salvation. Maybe Sunshine will come to that in her next book. I cannot wait to find out. Until then I invite you to open your heart, reject being critical, and enjoy The Creation Project!

Blessings,

Evangelist Carl B. Harris, MDiv

http://www.harrisministries.org

Chapter 1

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I don't even know what to say. I have been in my office for hours. Days. The door is closed. Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been trying to encourage me and cheer me up.

Fortunately, they have been handling my affairs for me while I take this time off.

They keep saying we’re prepared for this. That it’s going to be okay.

They keep telling me we can rebuild and make all things new again.

The plan book lies face down on the hard, black desk, pages with the Spirit’s handwriting inching out of it. He needs me to sign off on Heaven’s Handbook for the Creation Project before we can go on to the next Project. I see the line where I need to sign my name.

If I sign that, it means it’s over. It really is over.

Why didn’t my friend just stay with me? I had prepared a different ending for him. It was supposed to lead to his promotion.

I am desperately holding on to Luce’s Promotion Project. Why didn’t he just take it? I had so much prepared for him. I had such high hopes. I had such great plans if he had just waited. If he had just trusted me...

The next Project is the Humanity Restoration Project. The papers are staring at me, unopened. I didn’t want to reach this point. Not yet.

I look over at my panoramic display of the first blueprints of the Creation plan I created.

My keys are nestled safely in the solid gold lock. I used to have two sets of keys. Now I only have one.

I tried. I tried so hard to keep him.

And now my kids...my kids are going to be - - -

This was never my plan, but it’s the risk I took. We made a project just for this occasion...it doesn’t change the fact that my loved ones are gone...those who have been with me since the beginning. Gone. Gone in an instant. Just like that.

I pace back and forth, shaking my head.

I never wanted this. It didn’t have to be this way!

I violently throw away Luce’s Promotion Project.

Please leave me alone with my thoughts.

Maybe if I just go back to the beginning...I can process what just happened.

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"Hey, Barachiel! Keep setting up the wide arches! I need this to be a magnificent place!" I scream at the workers building my Kingdom. “You’re doing a great job, Daniel!” I wave at a couple pulling together a load of crystals and diamonds. Another worker carrying light fixtures walks by me. There was a lot of activity going on in the center of the Plaza.

"Is this size for the front bridge okay?" Vehuel, one of the managers of this Heaven Expansion Project holds out a sheet for me to review. I flip through the notes and procedures. She stares at me, probably hoping I don’t make any more changes.

This group has been so patient with me during this entire ordeal! Their work is incredible and much appreciated!

Though I made this land from scratch, I still wanted my angels to have assignments given by me personally, and those selected for construction help beautify my Kingdom. Each angel has a purpose and a reason for being created.  I had to make them useful to keep the Kingdom going.

My angels in charge of construction were all wearing their white hard hats, but dressed in the finest, most comfortable white pants and shirt with a red embroidered ‘GK’ on the front with a pair of wings in the logo. It's easier for these particular workers to wear pants, but some in other departments wear robes, others suits, some white skirts; whatever fits their role and design. Every unique ensemble my angels wear is custom made by our finest tailor on staff. Every so often a new, clean outfit is delivered to each angel at the angel bay, a place designed specifically for my angels to stay.

It was indeed My Kingdom, God's Kingdom and I have the GK logo everywhere to state my domain over this paradise. This is a place of pure joy, order, and productive work. There is no illness, doubt or fear, a world free from sickness, war, crime and anything harmful. Of course, absolutely no rebellion is tolerated!

The whole city is lighted by my glory, so it is lit all the time here in the Heavenly hub where one can worship and serve, fellowship and learn all with joy, contentment, and purpose.

"Good. Ruby walkways. Perfect. Gold streets. Good. Good. Where will the pearl gates go?" I ask Vehuel, her face radiating in goodness just as I made her.

"We were thinking over by the entrance of Heaven. We thought it would look nice as the first thing you see,” she said, adjusting her hard hat.

"Yes. I approve! Only let’s make 12 pearl gates; three on the north, three on the east, south, and west.” I move as I point in the directions. “Thank you!" I sign at the bottom of the procedure sheet and let her get back to work. I have to sign off on everything that happens here. Normal protocol.

I am going to be so excited when all of this gets done! Of course, I have unlimited space so we can expand forever if we wanted. I laugh at this and enter into my office, walking through a wall of plastic covering.

I would invite you into the main Palace but it's currently being renovated.

I go into my makeshift office with plywood and plaster hanging down. Sawdust, papers, and notes are strewn all over my black desk. Boxes of notebooks are shoved in the corner.

I know it seems messy now, but once everything's done, it'll be beautiful!

The best laid out plans always take time.

I sit down and evaluate my agenda:

Preparing with Menu Meals with the Chef ✓

Precious Gem placement in Plaza ✓

Check in with Construction Crew ✓

What’s next on the list? Ah, yes:

Meet with the worshippers.

I actually have plans to create a minute by minute time system so that my agenda can be more on a fixed time frame.

What is a minute you ask? I know. Everything is eternal here. I'll have to explain it later. It's hard to conceive the supernatural process translating into the natural. But stay with me. I'll show you just that for so many of my projects are in the works!

All these angels in Heaven meet with me regularly. They see my face and hear my voice. I need them to know that I am here for them, with them and that I support and love them. That’s my job: to handle all the needs of Heaven and all the angels. It’s a job I love and I take my role as friend, advisor and mentor very seriously!

I put my list of events away.