The Blueprint Approach
God is the great designer! As such, he uses the "Blueprint Approach" just like any architech and builder uses. He invented the concept of creation, formation, and construction. The Holy Bible reveals this methodology from Genesis to the Revelation.
Perspective is one of the most important factors both in presenting and in observing a complex scene. There is properly, only one correct specification of the design; that of the grand designer. Both the architect and the builder must have the same point of view towards the work at hand for there to be the successful transmission of instructions. This is the cause of most misunderstanding of the Bible, and of God’s Plan. People just do not look at things in the way, from the same point-of-view as the Creator and Planner of this world. He has done it his way on purpose: he reserves true wisdom to those with a true heart. But when his children get the wrong idea about what he is doing, he reminds them to get their perspective from above, and not from natural man. God's ways and thoughts are higher. His kingdom cannot be seen unless a person is born from above. Thus, they must learn to think on that level. It doesn’t mean to be “high-minded” or philosophical; it means to see things as the designer see them. To accept by faith, the skills and competence of the engineer, and not substitute human “seat-of-the-pants” innovations.
God Designed His Work Before He Brought it into Existance.
God’s own counsel “figured” everything out before he began; he doesn’t require some board to decide on what those plans are, or what will work. He is looking for workers who will build it his way. That requires them to learn how to read his drawings, and to understand his specifications, and to trust his expertise. Since it is all contained in his Word, then his Word is the authority, and the full measure of input. Why add to it? Since it must be done, not by might or by power, but by God’s Spirit, how can institutions of men supplant the moving of the Spirit? These rhetorical questions demand a concrete response. Only as the LORD has said–by scripture alone–can we successfully build upon the foundation that has been laid, Jesus Christ, himself being the chief cornerstone. And he is the chief builder of the House. As Solomon built a wonderful stone, cedar, and gold building for the Children of Israel, even so Jesus Christ is building a a building “not made with hands, for the Children of God from every nation. More.
Like Moses, David, and Solomon before him, Jesus Christ is building according to the revealed pattern of the Father. That means some form of what we today call blueprints. There is a way to read them that requires training and skill. There are codes and standards communicated through them, and they must be understood, and only then made into reality. What is not according to the specifications will not, indeed, cannot endure, for the house is not just for man, but for God to meet with man. More so, for God to complete his work, and to fulfill his eternal purpose, we must build according to the same pattern: not with a substitute plan, or the introduction of private revisions, or the application of substandard processes, and to build with sub par materials. It also means that we must and look at the plans in a certain way: God's way.
Augue euismod feugiat tempus
This is only reasonable, since when the Plans are finished, the work hasn’t even begun. God is not a foolish builder; his work is perfect. The goal must be therefore to have the work be exactly and explicitly congruent to what the Plan specifies. That is why there is such a thing as as blueprints, and as a Plan. God has a Plan, and blueprints for that match.
