The Bible’s first verse says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). God needed angels and mankind to carry out His plans in both realms. However, when Lucifer/Satan polluted the heavens and Adam corrupted the earth with sin, God devised a two-fold plan to restore both.
While much of the Bible focuses on God's creation of the nation Israel as His earthly people, His plan for the heavenly places remained a secret until the ministry of the Apostle Paul. Through Paul's teachings, we learn that God is forming the Church, known as the Body of Christ, to fulfill His will in heaven, Eph 3:1-11.
God already had the nation Israel’s believing remnant as His people, but that was just part of His will. Why is God forming the Church the Body of Christ? In Paul’s epistles alone, Romans to Philemon, we learn that God is currently creating a body that will fulfill His will in heaven (as Israel will fulfill His will in earth; Matt 6:10).
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