YOU WERE CREATED
BY GOD TO RULE IN THE UNIVERSE
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The brightness of our
revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building
blocks. God
is Thought, God is Love, God is the eternal Spirit from which
all things were created. You are a part of His Spirit (Eccl 12:7); you are either an eternal Spirit, or an
eternal spirit.
THE FIRST DAY
(Gen 1:1-5) (Gen 1:1) In the
beginning God [1] created the heaven and the
earth. (Gen
1:2a) And the earth was without form [2],
and void [3]; and darkness [4] was
upon the face of the deep [5] [altogether
symbolic of our evil condition]. (Gen
1:2b) And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:3) And God
said, Let there be light [6]: and
there was light.
(Gen 1:4) And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God divided
[Heb: separated] the light [the good Spirit, Jesus Christ]
from the darkness [the evil spirit,
Satan]. (Gen 1:5) And God called the
light Day, and
the darkness he called Night [7]. And
the evening and the morning were the
first day.
1.
anthropomorphism
= Dict: the
attributing of human shape or
characteristics to a god, animal, or inanimate
thing.
2.
without
form = Heb: to lie
waste; a desolation (of surface), desert; fig. a worthless thing:
confusion,
empty place, vain, vanity, wilderness.
3.
void
= Heb: (meaning to be
empty); a vacuity, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: emptiness.
4.
darkness
= Heb: (literally)
darkness; fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow,
wickedness.
5.
deep
= Heb: an abyss (as a
surging mass of water): deep (place), depth.
6.
light
= Heb: illumination
(in every sense including lightning, happiness,
etc.): bright, clear, morning, sun.
7.
night
= Heb: properly a
twist (away of the light); fig. adversity.
8.
Commentary: verses 1 and 2a are a symbolic description
of the composite mass of Satan and his fallen angels who are spiritually a unified one, as
diminutively exemplified in “Legion” (Mark 5:9,15; Luke 8:30). What
follows in
verses 2b thru 5 is the archetype (first mention) of our being born-again when the “Light” of
Jesus Christ comes forth out of our evil darkness.
a.
(John 8:12) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the
light of the world: he that
followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
b.
(1
Peter 2:9) But
ye are
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people;
that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
THE SECOND DAY
(Gen
1:6-8)
And God said, Let there be a firmament [i.e.,
something firm] in
the midst of the waters, and let it divide [i.e., be
between] the
waters [below] from the waters [above]. And 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. And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the
second
day. [some confusion in these
verses, and God did not say: “it was good’]
THE THIRD DAY
(Gen
1:9-13)
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto
one place, and let the dry land
appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas: and God saw that it was
good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it
was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and
herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was
in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good. And the evening and the morning were the
third day.
THE FOURTH DAY
(Gen
1:14-19)
And God said, Let there be lights [1] in the firmament of the
heaven to divide [Heb:
separate] the day from the night;
and let them be for signs [2],
and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to
give
light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great
lights [i.e., Spirits]; the
greater light
[Spirit] to rule the day [i.e.,
Jesus Christ], and the lesser light [Spirit] to rule the night
[Lucifer]: he made the stars
also [Spirits, specifically the Angels] [3] [i.e., God made us to
serve Him]. And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to
rule
over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
the
darkness: and God saw that it was
good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1.
lights
= Heb: luminous
bodies or luminary; fig. brightness, cheerfulness,
specifically a chandelier: bright.
2.
signs
= Heb: signals, as a flag, beacon, omen,
evidence: miracles.
3.
star
= Heb: (in the sense of
blazing); a star (as shining), fig. a
prince.
a.
prince
= Dict: 1. orig., any
male monarch; esp. a king. 2. a ruler whose rank is below that of king;
head of
a principality. 3. a non-reigning male member of a royal family.
THE FIFTH DAY
(Gen
1:20-23)
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that
may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which
the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every
winged
fowl after his kind: and God saw that it
was good. And God blessed them [the
first blessing], saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl
multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the
fifth
day.
THE SIXTH DAY
(Gen
1:24-28)
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the
earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the
earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth
upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that it was
good. And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion [Heb:
rule] over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So
God
created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And
God blessed them [the second
blessing], and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish [1] the earth, and
subdue it [2]: and have dominion [Heb: rule] over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1.
replenish
= Dict: 1. to make full or complete again,
as by furnishing a new supply. 2. to supply again with fuel or the like.
a.
plenish
= Dict: to fill up;
furnish; stock.
2.
subdue
= Heb: to tread down,
conquer, subjugate: bring into bondage, keep under, subdue.
(Gen
1:29-31)
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat [Heb: food]. And to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is life, I
have given every green herb for meat [Heb:
food]: and it was so.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day.
Amen