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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Subject: Two Creation Stories? |
Bible Note: Part3 GEN.2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. The garden of Eden is a place of training or proving ground for man. We can see this in verses 16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The garden of Eden is much like the garden Jesus was proved in , to see if he would drink of the cup or not. MT26:39..... O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. Therefore we can see that the garden is a place of choices , our own will or that of Gods. Joshua says 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve..... Now then choose to obey God and live or disobey him and die , which is the punishment for disobedience. Now the garden is not without those that deceive , the world , flesh and the devil. These three work as one to intice man to disobedience to God. Therefore only though obedience can we be made into the image of God. Though obedience we have a river of life flowing from the throne of God , REV.22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. This can also be seen in the four rivers in Eden , Pison , Gihon , Hiddekel and Euphrates. GEN.2:11-14. Now to find the true meaning of these four heads we must look to the meaning of there names in the Hebrew. The first is Pison-increase. The second is Gihon - bursting forth. The third is Hiddekel-rapid. The forth is Euphrates- fruitfulness. So in the river of the water of life we have increase bursting forth rapidly to fruitfulness. What else is this river but the Spirit of God , who enters our life to give increase unto fruitfulness. Obedience is the way to be made into the image of God. Therefore in Christ are we made in the image of God. Christ is the tree of life and the fulfillment of the law. GEN.2:18,21-24 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. This is not the story of how a woman was made , for she was made a living creature in the same day that man was made a living creature , for God made them male and female or they would not be able to bring forth after their own kind. But this is a mystery of Christ and the church EP.5:29-32 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. This is a prophesy of how the church was to be created. Christ was alone in the world with no one of the same nature and God said this was not good , he would give him a help meet to spread the gospel. So God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him , even the death of the cross. Though his death we are now members of his body , of his flesh , and of his bone. We to must die a spiritual or even a natural death that the church of God may be established here on earth. Therefore we can say the church is in fact taken out of Christ. |