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IN THE BEGINNING:
BOTH AN HISTORICAL EVENT AND AN ALLEGORY ABOUT YOU BEING BORN-AGAIN
07-18-10
1. allegory = Dictionary: 1. figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another: a presentation of an abstract or spiritual meaning under concrete or material forms. 2. symbolic narrative.
2. anthropomorphic = Dictionary: ascribing human form or attributes to beings or things not human.
3. chaos = Dictionary = 1. utter confusion or disorder wholly without organization or order; a confused mixture. 2. the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered universe. 3. a chasm or abyss.
THIS EXPERIENCE WAS THE FIRST DAY OF YOUR ETERNAL LIFE
(Gen 1:1-5) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void [i.e., chaos]; and darkness was upon the face of [anthropomorphism] the deep [we are not told for how long this circumstance existed]. And [then] the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness [i.e., darkness has known the light; light and darkness are mingled in the Lucifer-Satan entity. Division: Jesus-Christ and Lucifer-Satan are the two trees in the Garden representing Spirit and soul, light and darkness]. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
1. without form = Heb: vain, waste, wilderness.
2. void = Heb: empty; a vacuity, i.e. superficially an undistinguishable ruin.
3. darkness = Heb: the dark; hence (lit.) darkness; fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness:--dark (-ness), night, obscurity /// to be dark (as withholding light):--be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
4. deep = Heb: an abyss (as a surging mass of water).
5. Spirit = Heb: ruwach, roo'-akh; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; fig. life, anger; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being:--air, anger, blast, breath, mind, spirit, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).
6. light = Heb: illumination or luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.):--bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun /// to be (caus. make) luminous:--X break of day, glorious, kindle, (be, en-, give, show) light (-en, -ened), set on fire, shine.
a. (John 9:5) As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world [Gk: kosmos; cosmos, universe].
b. (John 8:12) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world [Gk: kosmos]: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
7. good = Heb: good (a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women):--beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ([-favoured]).
8. divided = Heb: to divide (in var. senses lit. or fig., separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.):--(make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), X utterly.
a. (Mat 5:14) Ye are the light [divided out of the darkness] of the world [Gk: kosmos]. A city [composed of enlightened people] that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
9. Day = Heb: to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether lit. (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or fig. (a space of time defined by an associated term):--age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.
10. Night = Heb: a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; fig. adversity:--([mid-]) night (season).
a. Satan = Heb: an opponent: espec. Satan, the arch-enemy of good:--adversary, withstand.
Amen