Genesis Chapter 1: 1
We can spend weeks or even years going over just the first chapter in Genesis for this study we are going start with a foundational concept when you have a clear understanding of God’s names it will help to unlock how God works in the other 4 books of the torah representing the 5 books of Moses, the Nevi'im meaning the prophets, Ketuvim the writings, as well as the Kitvei HaKodesh also known as the New Testament. Dealing with God in regards to his name and his character:
Let’s take a look at this by means of the four dimensions that makes up our physical universe length, width, heights, and depth. We live in a space where we are locked in time or in the space / time this is our reality, this is the reason why it is hard for us to understand God because we live in space and time. God does not live in space or time He created space and time and is not limited to His own creation. So we are only able to understand God by His names and his character. We can also know God in another way and that is by His Holy Spirit and this is a way of knowing God in another dimension, His desire to dwell in us.
As we rap our minds around this let’s look at how the rest of the universal religious world understands God. For one it said that when we speak of Allah, Brahma, or any other god for that matter it is said that we are talking about the same god and that is not true, not only are the names completely different but also the attributes and the characteristic are not the same.
The name that we are first introduced to in Genesis 1:1 is the Hebrew noun ELoHIM we need to understand that this is not Gods name it refers to His title and when you see EloH(IM) IM it is a masculine plural noun in Hebrew for more than one it also refers to majesty denoting greatness, the name also refers to the paradigm that GOD IS ONE Ehad in Hebrew with many manifestations and characters we don’t even hear his name till much later on in His Word this concept is foundational to understanding God and how he will reveal Himself through the study of His Word. This understanding that GOD IS ONE is the most basic foundational concept of learning to know Him.
ELoHIM denotes God as creator and Judge it's the plural of EL meaning God and used as a construct as we learn His attributes and character.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
God said let there be light:
Genesis 1:1 -3
Let us first establish that when this first day of creation was set into motion is not the same as when we understand time. When Elohim created the heaven and the earth, the first day is not the way you and I understand time because time as we understand time was created on the fourth day.
This creation was created outside of time in fact, in the Hebrew Bible in Gen 1:5 it says “Echad Yom” meaning “One Day”. In other words, it was not the first day, it was ONE DAY. Time as we understand it is a process of decay. It denotes a beginning and an end. Remember God Elohim, is not bound by time. This is a concept that we cannot understand because we are finite beings and we only have the ability to perceive that which is in time & space as we spoke about in the last article. This being said, we can TRY to IMAGINE what it would be like and this is an important concept that we will go over at a later date.
Gen 1:2, the scriptures describe what is the foundation for the building blocks of the earth, which was “without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep”. It is very much like how a thought is developed in our own mind. For example, “darkness was upon the face of the deep” empty thought, the lack of conscious thought, or a total neutral state of nothingness. Then the Spirit of God the (Ruach Elohim in Hebrew) moves across the face of the waters. Water is symbolic of consciousness, Ready to receive the light, which is Gods thought in action, a thought is conceived.
Gen 1:3, God said, “let there be light”. The Hebrew word used here is “owr”. This is not the same word used in Gen 1:14 when he said “let there be lights”. In Hebrew, the word is “maowr”. This is where we get our Modern Greek word for meteor: which means shining object that emits light as in the sun and the moon. When we look up the word “owr”, it means to be “to be illuminated to receive instruction”.
John 1:4, “In Him was life and the life was the Light of men,” this can be interpreted by seeing that the Hebrew word used “owr” meaning to be illuminated to receive instruction. When we understand this Light is torah, torah is the instructions of God the Word of God.
Let us first establish that when this first day of creation was set into motion is not the same as when we understand time. When Elohim created the heaven and the earth, the first day is not the way you and I understand time because time as we understand time was created on the fourth day.
This creation was created outside of time in fact, in the Hebrew Bible in Gen 1:5 it says “Echad Yom” meaning “One Day”. In other words, it was not the first day, it was ONE DAY. Time as we understand it is a process of decay. It denotes a beginning and an end. Remember God Elohim, is not bound by time. This is a concept that we cannot understand because we are finite beings and we only have the ability to perceive that which is in time & space as we spoke about in the last article. This being said, we can TRY to IMAGINE what it would be like and this is an important concept that we will go over at a later date.
Gen 1:2, the scriptures describe what is the foundation for the building blocks of the earth, which was “without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep”. It is very much like how a thought is developed in our own mind. For example, “darkness was upon the face of the deep” empty thought, the lack of conscious thought, or a total neutral state of nothingness. Then the Spirit of God the (Ruach Elohim in Hebrew) moves across the face of the waters. Water is symbolic of consciousness, Ready to receive the light, which is Gods thought in action, a thought is conceived.
Gen 1:3, God said, “let there be light”. The Hebrew word used here is “owr”. This is not the same word used in Gen 1:14 when he said “let there be lights”. In Hebrew, the word is “maowr”. This is where we get our Modern Greek word for meteor: which means shining object that emits light as in the sun and the moon. When we look up the word “owr”, it means to be “to be illuminated to receive instruction”.
John 1:4, “In Him was life and the life was the Light of men,” this can be interpreted by seeing that the Hebrew word used “owr” meaning to be illuminated to receive instruction. When we understand this Light is torah, torah is the instructions of God the Word of God.
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning
Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Could it be that the Lord is always recreating: and his counsel shall stand and he will always do his pleasure.
I think that we need to learn to see as God see’s and not see as man sees. He see’s all things outside of time He is the beginning and the end it’s not a time line as much as it’s a PERSON, He also says in JOHN 17:3 ”And this is life eternal {ETERNAL TIME LINE}, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” In other words when we read “In the beginning God” it’s not time as we know time it is the PERSON of GOD that establishes all things so if we can break free of our liner narrow thinking we can BE new creations in Christ Jesus As it says in 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
In the Beginning God His essences is in all things.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Could it be that the Lord is always recreating: and his counsel shall stand and he will always do his pleasure.
I think that we need to learn to see as God see’s and not see as man sees. He see’s all things outside of time He is the beginning and the end it’s not a time line as much as it’s a PERSON, He also says in JOHN 17:3 ”And this is life eternal {ETERNAL TIME LINE}, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” In other words when we read “In the beginning God” it’s not time as we know time it is the PERSON of GOD that establishes all things so if we can break free of our liner narrow thinking we can BE new creations in Christ Jesus As it says in 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
In the Beginning God His essences is in all things.
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