Christian
02-09-2008, 04:46 PM
The following is a parallel showing the mirror image of creation in Genesis to recreation within the New Testament. It would help if those who read are reasonably literate within the Bible. However I have tried to give more explanatory detail, which may of course prove a distraction to the development to the parallel, so excuse my repeating and emphasizing points.
This is not about doctrine so much as it is about appreciating the symmetry of God's word, I hope it may increase your faith and desire to understand more.
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"In the beginning" God created the world in six days and on the seventh he rested
What is interesting is that when you look at the Genesis account one can see a pattern arise in the actions of God. In the first three days God creates the physical space.
Day One : Night and Day
Day Two: The Sea and The Sky
Day Three: Earth and Vegetation
Following onwards we can see that God proceeds to fill this space that he has now created
Day Four: He fills the night and day with the two great lights and the stars
Day Five: He fills the seas and skies with fish and fowl
Day Six: He fills the earth with animals and Man
Man is the last creation in this account and in reading of it we see the same pattern coming to light
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" Genesis 2:7
So first God creates the physical form and then he fills this space. *Important Note : God breathed upon him*
But we know that Adam sinned and fell from grace. But God in is mercy, even though he passed judgment upon the sinners and earth, did nevertheless in the same strain declare a plan of redemption. "it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
A redeemer was to come and a plan of redemption to be enacted. Jesus was to sacrifice his life as an atonement for our sins and then give to us his spirit so that his promise, given in Ezekial, may be fulfilled.
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them" Ezekial 36:26-7
When Jesus came upon the earth his ministry was to direct the peoples attention from the physical to the spiritual, they had been given a sanctuary, festivals, laws and prophets all witnessing of him as the Messiah and it was his desire that they should understand the spiritual lessons given by these means. He wanted them to understand that it was he that had life and he would give it to them if they would but believe, he was to give them this precise spirit spoken of in Ezekial, in many other places also but for the sake of your patience one text is given.
We witness in the interview, between Nicodemus and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane in John chapter 3, this teaching being delivered to a leading Pharisee, and the importance of it.
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" John 3:5
Now something remarkable is here related
The water here spoken of is baptism and the Spirit the second baptism. We see this baptism of the Spirit with the disciples on Pentecost where the Holy Spirit is represented by Fire.
This baptism was made possible by Jesus' sacrifice, for when we read in John 7:39
It states: (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
It would also appear as though this same cleansing process prescribed for man is also applied to the earth at large.
For the world has already been baptized by water(1 Peter 3:20-21) and will one day, as we read in Revelation, be baptized by fire.
But it becomes even more interesting in that when Jesus was resurrected he returned to his disciples, the church so far formed, and *breathed* on them the Holy Ghost.
"And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost" John 20:22
Here we see the parallel with Adam, and I'll develop this further.
This was the church so far formed just as God first formed Adam and we find within the New Testament that the church is referred to as a body.
"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling" Ephesians 4:4
This body will continue to mature until the final day when Jesus returns and changes our corruptible bodies into incorruptible.
So first he shall recreate his church(his people) spiritually then he shall recreate them physically at his second coming. They return to heaven with him, and reigning with Christ for a thousand years, returning thereafter to the earth for the final judgment.
Then God shall fill the earth with his fire and consume all sin away, ready for the recreation of the earth.
And so here I can give a synopsis of the overall parallel
A.The Lord in the first three days of creation created the physical space and then he filled it with life and light in the next six.
B. He forms Adam of the ground then he breathes his spirit upon him, filling him and giving him life
So he creates the physical then fills the physical and then with Adam he creates the physical and fills the physical
After the Cross
B. Jesus breathes the Holy Ghost upon his currently formed church, which develops and is transformed spiritually until the end and then each follower is recreated physically
A. Then in returning to the earth for the final judgment he fills the earth with fire(spirit) and then recreates it physically
So here we see the creation reversed and paralleled:
For he fills the physical body and then recreates it, and the same with the earth when he fills it and then recreates it.
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All I want is for you, reader, to see the beauty of this inspired book. I hope I may by some means inspire you to search within God's word for there is much much more of this that it simply is not possible for man to have written this alone.
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me" John 5:39
This is not about doctrine so much as it is about appreciating the symmetry of God's word, I hope it may increase your faith and desire to understand more.
---------------------------------------------------------
"In the beginning" God created the world in six days and on the seventh he rested
What is interesting is that when you look at the Genesis account one can see a pattern arise in the actions of God. In the first three days God creates the physical space.
Day One : Night and Day
Day Two: The Sea and The Sky
Day Three: Earth and Vegetation
Following onwards we can see that God proceeds to fill this space that he has now created
Day Four: He fills the night and day with the two great lights and the stars
Day Five: He fills the seas and skies with fish and fowl
Day Six: He fills the earth with animals and Man
Man is the last creation in this account and in reading of it we see the same pattern coming to light
"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" Genesis 2:7
So first God creates the physical form and then he fills this space. *Important Note : God breathed upon him*
But we know that Adam sinned and fell from grace. But God in is mercy, even though he passed judgment upon the sinners and earth, did nevertheless in the same strain declare a plan of redemption. "it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
A redeemer was to come and a plan of redemption to be enacted. Jesus was to sacrifice his life as an atonement for our sins and then give to us his spirit so that his promise, given in Ezekial, may be fulfilled.
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them" Ezekial 36:26-7
When Jesus came upon the earth his ministry was to direct the peoples attention from the physical to the spiritual, they had been given a sanctuary, festivals, laws and prophets all witnessing of him as the Messiah and it was his desire that they should understand the spiritual lessons given by these means. He wanted them to understand that it was he that had life and he would give it to them if they would but believe, he was to give them this precise spirit spoken of in Ezekial, in many other places also but for the sake of your patience one text is given.
We witness in the interview, between Nicodemus and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane in John chapter 3, this teaching being delivered to a leading Pharisee, and the importance of it.
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" John 3:5
Now something remarkable is here related
The water here spoken of is baptism and the Spirit the second baptism. We see this baptism of the Spirit with the disciples on Pentecost where the Holy Spirit is represented by Fire.
This baptism was made possible by Jesus' sacrifice, for when we read in John 7:39
It states: (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
It would also appear as though this same cleansing process prescribed for man is also applied to the earth at large.
For the world has already been baptized by water(1 Peter 3:20-21) and will one day, as we read in Revelation, be baptized by fire.
But it becomes even more interesting in that when Jesus was resurrected he returned to his disciples, the church so far formed, and *breathed* on them the Holy Ghost.
"And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost" John 20:22
Here we see the parallel with Adam, and I'll develop this further.
This was the church so far formed just as God first formed Adam and we find within the New Testament that the church is referred to as a body.
"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling" Ephesians 4:4
This body will continue to mature until the final day when Jesus returns and changes our corruptible bodies into incorruptible.
So first he shall recreate his church(his people) spiritually then he shall recreate them physically at his second coming. They return to heaven with him, and reigning with Christ for a thousand years, returning thereafter to the earth for the final judgment.
Then God shall fill the earth with his fire and consume all sin away, ready for the recreation of the earth.
And so here I can give a synopsis of the overall parallel
A.The Lord in the first three days of creation created the physical space and then he filled it with life and light in the next six.
B. He forms Adam of the ground then he breathes his spirit upon him, filling him and giving him life
So he creates the physical then fills the physical and then with Adam he creates the physical and fills the physical
After the Cross
B. Jesus breathes the Holy Ghost upon his currently formed church, which develops and is transformed spiritually until the end and then each follower is recreated physically
A. Then in returning to the earth for the final judgment he fills the earth with fire(spirit) and then recreates it physically
So here we see the creation reversed and paralleled:
For he fills the physical body and then recreates it, and the same with the earth when he fills it and then recreates it.
-------------------------------------------------
All I want is for you, reader, to see the beauty of this inspired book. I hope I may by some means inspire you to search within God's word for there is much much more of this that it simply is not possible for man to have written this alone.
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me" John 5:39