Monday, January 6, 2014

Genesis Section 2 - The Generations of the Heaven and Earth - Section a - Introduction



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In Genesis 1, God was at work creating.  He took chaos, made it orderly, and placed HIS blessing on it.  This is how God works in everything HE does: in our world, in our nation, in our lives, in our hearts.

This section details how man took the perfection God created and tainted it.  No longer perfect, the Laws of Entropy begin and the world of order turns down the path of Chaos once again.

In the first chapter, God is called God.  In this creation account, God was called Lord God.



Word Study -   Lord  - # 3068    -     יהוה -    yehôvâh

Jehovah = "the existing One"
Yahweh
  1. the proper name of the one true God
    • unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of 0136
Word Study -   God  - # 430    -     אֱלֹהִים -    'ĕlôhı̂ym

  1. (plural)
    1. rulers, judges
    2. divine ones
    3. angels
    4. gods
  2. (plural intensive - singular meaning)
    1. god, goddess
    2. godlike one
    3. works or special possessions of God
    4. the (true) God
    5. God



The first several verses speak of how there was no tree or shrub or plant... whatever word was chosen.  And the reason for this is that there had not been any rain on the earth yet, and no man to work the ground.    It goes on to explain that instead a mist came up from the ground or a stream (depending on the translation)  and this is what watered the ground.  The Septuagint says it was a fountain.  Both the Masoretic Text (MT) and the Samaritan Pentateuch (ST) call it a steam.




Word Study -   Mist  - # 108    -      אֵד -    'êd

  1. mist
In Job 36:27, this was translated as a Vapour


This section speaks of how God made man from dust and breathed the breathe of life into him.

It says HE "formed" us.. or fashioned us.  It is so awesome that this word also means to pre-ordain, to have a plan for.


Word Study -   formed  - # 3335    -      יָצַר -    yâtsar

  1. to form, fashion, frame
    1. (Qal) to form, fashion
    2. (Pual) to be predetermined, be pre-ordained


Isaiah speaks so eloquently of this in Isaiah 64:8:

Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

The dust that he formed us with is also called "ashes".  This same dust is:

  • We were made from the dust
  • HE existed before the dust (Prov 8:26)
  • The serpent eats dust:  what the serpent is to eat all the days of his life when it was punished at the fall of man.  (Ge 3:14, Isaiah 65:25
  • We work the dust and return to the dust:  When man sinned, God said he must work the ground and he will return to the dust from which he came. (Ge 3:19, Job 17:16, Job 34:15, Ps 22:15, Ps 104:29, Eccl 3:27, Eccl 12:7, 
  • We all will return from the dust:  Dan 12:2, 
  • Dust symbolizes a great multitude:  used when God speaks how HE will make Abraham and his descendants into a large nation (Ge 13:16, 28:14, Nu 23:10, 2 Chron 1:9, 
  • Dust symbolizes humility: an image of Abram's humility as he speaks before God.  He says of himself "I am but dust and ashes"  (Ge 18:27, Job 30:19, Ps 103:14
  • Dust versus Water:  When the Philistines stopped up Abram's wells, they filled them with dust of the earth.   (Ge 26:15).  Water is a symbol of life, earth here stopped up the Water.  This is quite a contrast.
    • In the same vein, a priest was to put dust from the floor into a vessel of holy water.  (Numbers 5:17)
    • For unclean people, the ashes of a burnt heifer was to be placed in water in a vessel (Nu 19:17)
    • The Lord made the rain as powder and dust, therefore taking the blessing and making it a curse.  (Duet 28:24)
  • Dust as a Plaque:  In the 10 plagues on Egypt, God made the dust of the earth into Lice.   (Ex 8:16-17)
  • In shame, the Israelites would put dust on their head (Josh 7:6, Job 2:12, Job 42:6, Lamentation 2:10, 3:29, Eze 27:30 
  • He lifts the poor from the dust and sets them on thrones (1 Sam 2:8, 1 Ki 16:2, Ps 113:7, 
  • False Idols buried into dust:  When idols were made, they were burned and ground into dust and either taken out of the camp or dumped in a brook (Lev 14:45, Deut 9:21, 2 Sam 22:43, 2 Ki 13:7, 2 Ki 23:4, 6, 12, 15, Ps 18:42)
  • Dust to cover Blood:  The blood of fowl or beasts was to be dumped and covered with dust.   (Lev 17:13, Eze 24:7
  • Trash:  This word is also translated Rubbish (Neh 4:2,10)
  • Dust is the foundation for clay (Job 4:19, 10:9
  • Job says that his Redeemer Lives and shall upon the earth, or the dust, in the latter day. (Job 19:25)

Word Study -   dust  - # 3335    -      יָצַר -    yâtsar

  1. dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish


After the discussion about creating man from the dust, there begins a discussion about a Garden that god planted.
  • In the East - East of where the person writing the story lives at the time they are writing the story
  • In Eden - which means it is only a part of Eden
  • God caused every tree that is good to the sight and good for food to grow there
  • in the midst of the garden, HE placed the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  
  • River flow OUT OF EDEN  to WATER THE GARDEN, then SPLIT INTO 4 RIVERS

    • Riverlocationmaterials
    Pishon
    (Pison)    		Flows around the whole land of Havilahgold
    bdellium (aromatic resin)
    onyx
    Gihonflows around the whole land of Cush-
    Tigrisflows east of Assyria-
    Euphrates--




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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Genesis Section 1 - The Generations of the Cosmos (Ge 1:1-2:3)



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God created the heavens and earth.  It became empty and void.  God Called into to being in these 6 days:


Word Study -   became  - # 1961    -     הָיָה  -    hâyâh 
  1. to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
  2. to come about, come to pass
  3. to come into being, become

DAY ONE:  (Ge 1:3-5) Light (Day) verses Darkness (Night)

DAY TWO:  (Ge 1:6-8) Heaven versus Earth:  Atmosphere ( Firmament, Expanse, Heaven ) which separates waters above it from the waters below it

DAY THREE: (Ge 1:9-13)  Filling the earth:
  • Waters under heaven gathered to one place (Seas) and dry land appear (Earth)
  • land bear herb of grass, fruit tree,  both with seeds
DAY FOUR: (Ge 1:14-19) Filling the Atmosphere:
  • Lights in the sky
DAY FIVE: (Ge 1:20-23) Filling the Atmosphere (more) and Seas:
  • Sea creatures
  • Fowl in the heavens
DAY SIX:  (Ge 1:24-31) Filling the Earth:
  • Land creatures 
  • Man

The Days were Evening and Morning. The Jewish people, based on this, have their day begin at sunset and end at sunset the next day, instead of midnight to midnight.

Word Study -   Evening  - #6153    -     עֶרֶב  -    ‛ereb 
  1. evening, night, sunset
    1. evening, sunset
    2. night
Word Study -   Morning  - #1242    -     בֹּקֶר  -    bôqer 
  1. morning, break of day
    1. morning
      1. of end of night
      2. of coming of daylight
      3. of coming of sunrise
      4. of beginning of day
      5. of bright joy after night of distress (fig.)
    2. morrow, next day, next morning
Word Study -   Day  - #3117    -     יוֹם  -    yôm 
  1. day, time, year
    1. day (as opposed to night)
    2. day (24 hour period)
      1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
      2. as a division of time 1b
    3. a working day, a day's journey
    4. days, lifetime (pl.)
    5. time, period (general)
    6. year
    7. temporal references
      1. today
      2. yesterday
      3. tomorrow

KHouse article:  http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/492/


"Evening" and "Morning"?

The Hebrew terms, Erev,and Boker, now refer to "evening" and "morning" but their origins remain obscure. Erev designates obscuration, mixture (increasing entropy). The time when encroaching darkness begins to deny the ability to discern forms, shapes, and identities; thus, it becomes a term for twilight or evening.20 This also marks the duration of impurity, when a ceremonially unclean person became clean again,21 and thus, the beginning of the Hebrew day.

Boker is a designation for becoming discernible, distinguishable, visible; perception of order; relief of obscurity (decreasing entropy). It thus is associated with being able to begin to discern forms, shapes, and distinct identities; breaking forth of light; revealing; hence, denotatively, dawn, morning. (As traditional designations for the Hebrew day, technically it would seem to only designate the nighttime hours, but it is used connotatively for the entire calendar day.)

It is noteworthy that neither of these are recorded on the seventh day, and thus their original significance may have been to designate the increments of creation.



God Separates His Creation To Achieve Order and Fullness
Order (form)Fullness
  1. Light (g) from darkness
  2. Waters from sky
    • Land from waters (g)
    • Life from land (g)
  1. Day from night (signs) (g)
  2. Animals out of waters, sky (g/b)
    • Animals from land (g)
    • Man from land (His image) (vg/b)
  1. Rest from work (time) (b)



For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. - Exodus 20:11

2 Peter 3:5-6

New American Standard Bible (NASB)
5 For [a]when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.


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Friday, December 27, 2013

Genesis



Berean Study of Book of Genesis

Grammatical Analysis - original documents do not exist.  Exact meaning of words is unknown.

Historical Analysis - context often in question

Literary Analysis - the big picture - the ancient stories handed down survived many retellings. Genesis is a collection of 11 genealogies. Taken together, we understand these to be the historical narrative accounts of the origins of God's People and how God created, nurtured and taught them in order to enter into a growing and everlasting relationship with them.

Date of Writing:  According to CARM, ? - 1445 B.C.

Author: Moses

KHouse: http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/492/

Jesus himself said it was Moses:   Jesus quotes from each of the books of the Torah and attributes them each to Moses.  

See table at the bottom of this page of verses in both the OT and NT that attest to Moses as the author of the Pentateuch.
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? -  John 5:45-47


Outline:

  1. Section 1: Historical Background to the Abrahamic Covenant Chapters 1-11
    1. The generations of the cosmos (Genesis 1:1-2:3)
    2. The generations of heaven and earth (Genesis 2:4 - 4:26)
      1. Introduction - (Genesis 2:4 - 2:24)
      2. The Fall of Man - (Genesis 3:1 - 3:24)
      3. Cain and Abel - (Genesis 4:1 - 4:26)
    3. The generations of Adam 5:1—6:8
    4. The generations of Noah 6:9—9:29
    5. The generations of the sons of Noah 10:1—11:9
    6. The generations of Shem 11:10-26
    7. The generations of Terah 11:27—25:11
    8. The generations of Ishmael 25:12-18
    9. The generations of Isaac 25:19—35:29
    10. The generations of Esau 36:1-43
    11. The generations of Jacob 37:1—50:26
  2. Section 2: The Abrahamic Covenant and its initial outworking



http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2011/06/28/did-moses-write-genesis

 Table 1. Selected passages confirming Mosaic authorship
Old Testament
Exodus 17:14Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."
Numbers 33:2Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
Joshua 1:7–8Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 8:31as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. (see Exodus 20:24–25)
Joshua 23:6Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left.
1 Kings 2:3And keep the charge of the Lord your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.
2 Kings 14:6But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the Lord commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin." (see Deuteronomy 24:16)
1 Chronicles 22:13Then you will prosper, if you take care to fulfill the statutes and judgments with which the Lord charged Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and of good courage; do not fear nor be dismayed.
Ezra 6:18They assigned the priests to their divisions and the Levites to their divisions, over the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.(This is taught in the books of Exodus and Leviticus.)
Nehemiah 13:1On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God. (see Deuteronomy 23:3–5)
Daniel 9:11Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.
Malachi 4:4Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
New Testament
Matthew 8:4And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." (see Leviticus 14:1–32)
Mark 12:26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? (see Exodus 3:6)
Luke 16:29Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them."
Luke 24:27And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Luke 24:44Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."
John 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
John 7:22Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
Acts 3:22For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. (see Deuteronomy 18:15)
Acts 15:1And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
Acts 28:23So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and solemnly testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.
Romans 10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them." (see Leviticus 18:1–5)
Romans 10:19But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation." (see Deuteronomy 32:21)
1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about? (see Deuteronomy 25:4)
2 Corinthians 3:15But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.




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