"Who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
God to Job, Job 38:6-7, NKJV
In the beginning was God. He Who has no beginning was there at the beginning. Indeed, He was the beginning of all things. He is and was and always will be, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit existing in perfect unity throughout all eternity.
He brought forth wisdom as His perfect will, knowing all things that would ever be before He created anything at all. His creation would have form and function and authority and beauty, created to reflect His image and nature in every conceivable way. He wove Himself into the very fabric of existence, so that everything that came afterward would know Him and worship.
He designed the vast expanse of the heavens and planned the layers of the earth, but before He set them in place He wanted a witness. At the dawn of time, before the foundation of the earth was laid, God brought forth the host of heaven, beings of light and majesty. Stars of God before there were stars in the heavens, sons of God before there were sons on the earth, servants of the Most High before there was anything to do except to worship the Creator and carry out His will.
Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands brilliant points of light shone upon the beginning of all things, witnessing the work of God as He made the heavens and the earth, and every one of them sang together and shouted for joy! Warriors, messengers, and worshipers filled the beginning with anthems of adoration, a single, unified, universal ovation of praise. It was perfection, glorious and awesome, but even in perfection, there was peril.
As long as there was only God, all was well. But once God brought into being creatures with free will, with minds and emotions and the ability to choose for themselves to do His will, there was always the possibility that one would choose differently. Without the power of choice, freedom is an illusion, a phantom, a fantasy. But God did not want mindless automatons who merely did what He said. He wanted a creation that would love Him and worship Him and serve Him, not because it had to, but because it wanted to.
But what if? one might ask. What if one perfect being chooses imperfection in pride? What if one creature defies the Creator and denies His authority? What if somebody messes it all up? But remember, there are no what ifs with God. God already knew. And because God already knew, God had already acted. His creation might fall, but God had already formulated forgiveness. His creation might rebel, but God had already prepared redemption. His creation might sin, but God had already become the all sufficient sacrifice and sovereign Savior.
The work of salvation was finished from the foundation of the world, but history had to unfold first to see it fulfilled.
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