This is going to be a kind of long post. As we now turn back to Gen. 1. I think it may be best to make 2 post out of this, I will see when I get to a point I think I should stop.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Jhn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
As we can see from the 2 verses, everything started with HaShem. He created with His Word, His Word was Him, and was with Him. So what does John 1 say the Word is, or should I ask who?
We are going to fist take a fast look at this, as it helps us to better se just what is really being told to us in Gen.1.
Jhn 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
Jhn 1:3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Jhn 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light of man? What this really means may be debated for many years to come. What we do know is that Yeshua is the Light, and that His light shines in all that truly follow His teachings. More often than not you will find that people see this light of man as Yeshua. This is one point that is backed as we move on.
Jhn 1:9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.
Jhn 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
Jhn 1:14 ¶And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
If the Word was with, and was God, then one can conclude that Thw word did not need to be created. Also if everything that was created was created through the Word, then it stands clear that the Word, by HaShem, is not a creation. There are some other points I will be making as we turn back to Gen.1.
Gen 1:2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was[fn] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
It is at this point that one must ask, how much time has passed? We really have no way of knowing, other than to sayone day, as some do. Also we find the the earth was without form. This in my mind brings up water. You see water has no form of it's own, it simply takes on the form of what ever we put it in.
Gen 1:3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
There is an interesting teaching about this. It is said that when HaShem first brought light into the world it was like looking down a hallway, that had lights spaced out, so that their was darkness in between the spots of light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that
it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
That is why we now find He had to divide the light from the dark. As we see here. Where light goes it gets better.
Gen 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
As we see here, HaShem didn't say it was good. Why is that? Was there something wrong with the light he made, or was it that the darkness was somehow wrong? I will let you think on that for a bit, as we move on.
Gen 1:6 ¶Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Gen 1:7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament; and it was so.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
Once more He didn't say it was good. I am going to give 2 reasons that are though to be right.
1 HaShem knowing that the 2 waters would come back together, and kill everything on the earth, seen nothing good about it.
2 Though the waters did as HaShem told them, they tried to come back together, and had to be forced to stay where HaSHem had put them.
I like the first one best, After all, water is going to do nothing more than what it is told to. It doesn't know good or evil, right or wrong.
Gen 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry
land appear”; and it was so.
Into one place. This gives a clear idea that the dry land was one continent, with one ocean.
Gen 1:10 And God called the dry
land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that
it was good.
Here we find that it was good. The most common teaching is that it was good, due to land being formed. As HaShem was building a place for man kid. He started with the earth, then gave it light, and now dry land. This order was not by chance. As we will see, everything was created in the order it would be needed, to support life.
Sorry I really need to cal it a day. I am hurting so badly that I am losing my train of thought. Please forgive me, I will get this finished tomorrow.
