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ALL THREE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE ARE INTRODUCED BY THE THIRD CHAPTER OF GENESIS, THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE: THE TRIUNE GOD(FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT), THE BRIDE AND SATAN. THE WHOLE STORY OF THE BIBLE  AND THE FUTURE PROPHECY OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE END ARE SET IN THESE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS.

GOD SAYS THROUGH THE PROPHET ISAIAH:

"I AM GOD AND THERE IS NO OTHER, I AM GOD AND THERE IS NO ONE LIKE ME, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DONE, SAYING MY PURPOSE WILL BE ESTABLISHED, AND I WILL ACCOMPLISH ALL MY GOOD PLEASURE.  ISA 46:9-10

GOD IS MAKING AN AMAZING PROCLAMATION THAT HE HAS DECLARED THE END FROM THE BEGINNING.  TO UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN FOR THE END, WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE AND THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE,  BOTH GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON YESHUA ARE DESCRIBED AS "...HIM WHO IS, AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME." YESHUA SAYS THAT HE IS THE "ALPHA AND OMEGA", THE "FIRST AND THE LAST." REV 1. "ALPHA AND OMEGA" IN HEBREW IS THE "ALEF - TAV", THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET IS THE LETTER "SAMEKH". IT IS WRITTEN AS A CIRCLE, WHICH SYMBOLIZES THE UNITY BETWEEN THE BEGINNING AND THE END. THE EVIDENCE OF CYCLES ARE SEEN IN NATURE. SOME OF THEM ARE: THE SEASONS; PLANT LIFE; CYCLES OF THE MOON AND THE RISING AND THE SETTING OF THE SUN.

SCRIPTURE STATES THAT GOD TEACHES US DIVINE PRINCIPLES THROUGH HIS  WORD AND THROUGH WHAT WE OBSERVE IN NATURE:

"THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD; THE SKIES PROCLAIM THE WORK OF HIS HANDS." PSALM 19

"AND GOD SAID: LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE EXPANSE OF THE SKY TO SEPARATE THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT, AND LET THEM SERVE AS SIGNS TO MARK SEASONS AND DAYS AND YEARS." GEN 1:14

"FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD GOD'S INVISIBLE QUALITIES-HIS ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATURE-HAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD FROM WHAT HAS BEEN MADE, SO THAT MEN ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE." ROM 1:20

THE PRINCIPLE OF CYCLES PERTAIN TO ALL HISTORY, WHICH GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF IN DIFFERENT FORMS. THE BIBLE VALIDATES THIS PRINCIPLE IN ECCLESIASTES 3:15:

"WHATEVER IS HAS ALREADY BEEN, AND WHAT WILL BE HAS BEEN BEFORE."

HISTORY APPEARS AS AN EVER EXPANDING CIRCLE WITHIN OTHER CIRCLES. IT IS LIKE A PEBBLE THROWN INTO A POND, CREATING EVER EXPANDING CIRCLES. THIS IS WHY GOD'S WORD IS TRUE FOR EVERY GENERATION THAT READS IT:

"FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND ALIVE."

PROPHECIES THAT ARE MADE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE ARE LIKE THESE EXPANDING CIRCLES: THEY HAVE A FULFILLMENT NEAR THE TIME THAT THE PROPHECY IS MADE, A MORE FUTURE FULFILLMENT THAT IS USUALLY AROUND THE TIME OF YESHUA'S FIRST COMING AND THEN AN ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT IN THE END TIMES WITH THE SECOND COMING OF YESHUA. THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS FULFILLED IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY BUT ARE USUALLY FULFILLED IN THE NEAR TERM AND THEN FARTHER OFF IN THE FUTURE.

GOD MAKES HIS FIRST DECLARATION OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE END, INTRODUCES US TO THE THREE MAIN CHARACTERS AND TO HIS STORY WITHIN IN THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF GENESIS.