Unearthing Genesis 1:1 | Preface
The Sapphire Review Vol. 2 | No. 13 • March 28, 2025
Preliminary Note to the Reader
Beloved brethren, an understanding of Genesis 1:1-2 and the creation has been opened before us—one that is different than the popular, traditional interpretation which we also have formerly held. In this series, we desire to present to you our understanding with great respect for the work and writings of those who hold to a different view of these verses. Our understanding is that Genesis 1:1 is a summary of what God made “in the beginning” (the whole six days), and not the first event on the first day of creation.
This understanding has become a subject of fervent interest, study, and prayer, and one that is now held dearly to our hearts. For over the past few months we have searched the scriptures daily as to whether these things are so.1 We believe, in sincerity and truth, that the understanding which we have received is light from Heaven, and with love have we prepared the present series to share this understanding with you.
Our desire, brethren, is not that you would believe and follow us. Neither would we have you incline yourselves to think with respect to persons. But our hope is that you would believe and follow the word of God, for in our own search we have sought only, and diligently, to do likewise. We are confident, therefore, that if the understanding which we have received is indeed light from the throne of God, then we trust that you, too, will also be given of this light, and rejoice in it.
For we, brothers and sisters, have been wholly blessed by all that we have received, and desire that the same blessing would also be bestowed upon you to the glory of God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. For in this series of short articles, we bring before you that which has more firmly established our faith in the creative power of the word of God.
This view which we have been drawn to is a simple reading of Scripture that even a plow boy could understand. It is a reading which relies solely upon the Bible’s own definitions of its words and phrases in context, using the self-interpretive principle of Line Upon Line (as given in Isaiah 28:9-10). This view magnifies the meaning of the Sabbath, emphasizes light overcoming darkness, and pertains not only to the first angel’s message2 of the everlasting gospel, but to righteousness by faith.
Finally, brethren, we implore each of you individually to take this matter to God in personal prayer, in order that understanding may come of His Spirit, and not of us. We entreat you to ask that light from JEHOVAH would be given unto you, in order that a fuller knowledge of the matter at hand may be granted us. We hope that you will join us in the present series wherein we will explore together what we have come to believe is the unearthing of the true meaning of Genesis 1:1 and the restoration of truly biblical – Biblical Cosmology.
God bless,
Brandon
