Wednesday 02/08/17
Message – God formed Adam
Series: Thru the Bible – Genesis 2
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In the Beginning…Genesis 2
Genesis 2
Genesis 2:1-6,
This is a wrap-up for chapter one as well as a type of recap… the word THUS shows a completion of the creation week.
“Thus was the history of the 7 days of creation during the week God created the earth and the universe.”
Interesting to note that verse 5 it says,
“Before any plant was in the field or any herb had sprouted FOR God had not yet made it rain…” I find this interesting, because this makes it sound as though rain was necessary to make things sprout and grow, but I have always been taught that it never rained on the earth before the flood. However, clearly they had plants growing and herbs sprouting LONG before the flood, so….
On the 7th day God rested and He sanctified that day (set it apart and consecrated it) as holy to be observed as a day of rest. This ALL happened BEFORE the fall of man, so observance of the Sabbath is NOT an issue of Old Testament Law, but one of creation!
This completes the account of the History of God creating and making the universe.
2:7-8 (Adam is center stage)
- God Created the earth….He made the plants and animals – but He cut and fashioned (yasar) His man. Yatsar is a term one would use for an artist’s work in fact it is used in reference to a potter with clay which is how God made man…the idea of squeezing the clay is part of this thought.
- Men are God’s glory, but Women are man’s glory – I Cor. 11:7
- God started a garden IN Eden. Eden was a larger land mass which had the Garden IN IT.
- God placed Adam there in the garden. (Eve was not here yet)
2:9-14 – God plants the garden for man in the land of Eden and names the rivers that ran through it.
- Pishon= increase
- Havilah = circle
- Gihon = gushing forth
- Cush = black
- Hiddekel = rapid (possibly the Tigris river)
- Assyria = a step
- Euphrates = fruitful
2:15-25 – Adam is the only one God speaks to throughout this chapter. Adam is center stage!
- God speaks to Adam throughout the chapter
- God essentially “planted” Adam in the garden TO tend the garden and told him so and to work it and protect it.
- God commanded concerning the trees
- It is possible that God pointed out to Adam the rivers and the places were Gold and Onyx were hidden.
At this time everything was man focused…and when everything fell apart through Adam and Eve’s sin God didn’t call for Eve… He said, “Adam where are YOU?” in Genesis 3:9
This does NOT speak to woman’s value or importance, but it does speak to and clarify her role versus his role from the moment of Creation. It is also VERY important to note that all of this was BEFORE the fall and was therefore NOT a result OF IT. This was God’s design FROM THE BEGINNING. Which is WHY Paul always goes back to Chapters 1-3 in addressing issues of gender in the church.
- God (presumably the Godhead amongst themselves) said that is was not pleasant, morally correct or fruitful for man to dwell alone.
- Woman was to be one who helps (Ezer) and corresponds to man. (They do not complete each other, but they compliment each other by her acclimating herself to him.
- Vs. 19 the word ‘GROUND’ can mean the planet as a whole (Amos 3:2 – example)
- Animals brought to Adam for naming (The importants of naming a thing – overseer)
- In God Adam had met his Superior
- In the animals he had met his inferiors
- In woman he was going to meet his equal.
- vs. 21 God causes Adam to fall asleep – takes his rib and crafts a woman.
- God is owner and needs NO permission – nor does he seek it
- ‘One of his ribs’ is Minnay sela out of side
- “One of” reveals he had more than one of whatever God took so that at least one if not more of the same object remained IN Adam
- Vs. 22 God Created the earth, He MADE the plants and animals, He cut and fashioned man but God constructed or built (banah) the woman. Perhaps that is where we got the old phrase “She’d built!”
- She is unique in that she was made out of already quickened flesh. God did not breath into her – He breathed into Adam and made her from that quickened flesh.
- It is also an implication that God took the crafted flesh of Adam and refined it for the construction of woman – by refined we mean make less coarse, to reduce in vigor or intensity. Like comparing whole grain flour with white flour.
- She was presented TO Adam.
- Women are Man’s glory – She is made For & FROM him – Gen. 2:18 & I Cor. 11:8-10
- Vs. 23 Adam recognized and declared the relationship God intended between man and woman.
- Bone of my bone – a phrase that came to represent close intimate relationship.
- Flesh of my flesh – That is ‘one flesh’
- Intimate union and unified purpose
- Sexual union – 1Cor. 6:16
- Intimate companionship – Mal. 2:13,14
- Intimate union and unified purpose
- Called woman – Gender is named by man – woman (Ishshaw) this one was taken out.
- Because she was taken out of man’s side, man will uproot from his parents and cling to her and they will become echawd basar unified flesh
- Both naked and without shame – the man and HIS wife (not disappointed or not ashamed)
- 3:1 interesting because the word often translated as cunning has a secondary meaning of naked. Being reptilian, snakes and other reptiles are less clothed than land dwelling animals with fur coats.
How far back does MAN go?
Paleontologist George G. Simpson, graduate of Yale University and well awarded in the evolutionary community possessing medals from the National Academy of Sciences the Linnean Society of London & the Royal Society in recognition of his distinguished contributions to general evolutionary theory, based on a profound study of palaeontology, particularly of vertebrates.
Had this to say in this published work entitled, The Major Features of Evolution, by Columbia Press,
“In spite of these examples, it remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera and families and that nearly all new categories above the level of families, appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.”
There is direct proof of the existence of man in every strata of the geologic column. This makes mankind VERY old with no evolutionary precursors or the bible correct that man was made in God’s image from the beginning.
Silver, brass and iron artifacts embedded in veins of coal supposedly laid down over 354 million years ago in the carboniferous period of the Palaeozoic era.
Concerning Evolutionary World views on Population:
As recently as 2007 the estimated world population of 6 billion, 575 million, 972 thousand, 342 people – if given a 1 foot square piece of ground to stand on could all fit within the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida!
Now, ten years later in 2017, the estimated world population is 7,484,325,476, so we have finally outgrown Jacksonville, FL and would have to branch a little. Now it is clearly silly to imagine people LIVING in a single square foot, but that was not the point. Today, each person on this planet could be given 4 acres EACH to live on and there would still be nearly 100 million acres of land completely empty! We do NOT have a population problem, we have an intelligence problem!
One man I heard talking about this once said…“If it is crowded where you live…MOVE!!!”
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