Friday, December 25, 2009

Genesis, Lecture 3 by Pastor Arnold Murray

Genesis - Lecture 3

Video:

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Say, good day to you, God bless you, welcome to the Shepherd's Chapel, welcome to this family bible study hour. Hey, we're ready to get back into our Fathers Word, the Book of Genesis.

Be rê'shîyth - be-ray-sheeth' in the Hebrew tongue meaning “In the Beginning”. We have covered that 1st chapter, and isn’t it strange? We found out that there was an earth age before this one. That explains why that many things will carbon date into the millions of years and it’s explained right in God’s Word if we just take the time to cover it.

We had passed the sixth day and we’re going to open in chapter two; we’ll be on the 7th day. God has already created male and female in the image of God and the 'ĕlôhîym - el-o-heem' which is to say, God and his children, the angels. What He’s saying is, let’s make them look just like we look, here [in the spiritual dimension]. Okay, and then naturally, everyone had to pass through this earth-age one time - one time only.

So with that having been said, chapter two, verse one, and let’s go with it:

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Now I want you to think on that a moment. Meditate on it. Let it sink in. The heaven was finished, and the earth was finished, and the host of them. What does “host” mean? Let’s pull it up from the manuscripts; and it’s:

H6635

צבאה צבא - tsâbâ' tsebâ'âh - tsaw-baw', tseb-aw-aw'

From H6633; a mass of persons (or figurative things), especially regularly organized for war (an army); by implication a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically hardship, worship): - appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war (-fare).

It’s actually feminine, believe it or not. That should make you ladies real happy there. And it’s “tsawba”… it comes from H6633

H6633

צבא - tsâbâ - tsaw-baw'

A primitive root; to mass (an army or servants): - assemble, fight, perform, muster, wait upon, war.

And what it is, it’s a family. It’s the family of God. And that will do it. We can pass with that. What does that mean? Well stop and think. The heaven was finished, the earth was finished, and the people were finished. That is to say the souls ready for this earth-age.

Now God had created the animals, fish, birds, and then He created man. Then He would rest. He looked and it was good; it was really good. So with that thought in mind let’s go on with verse two… Why did I cover that first verse [In depth]? Many people ask me, “Why do you say all souls were created at one time?” They were all finished and all the host of them. That’s all the people in either one of them. Verse two:

Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Now I leave it to you (the 7th day). What is a day with God? We covered it in the first lecture of this book, Peter would say in second Peter, chapter 3; I would not have you ignorant of the fact that one day with God is a thousand years with man. So actually, He [God] would have rested one of God’s days, a millennium. Alright, verse three:

Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

He set it aside…

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

He was pleased with it. Now I want for the sake only of the higher critic, to say I know we’re going from P-to-J here. You don’t have to remind me, I’m well aware of it, I’m very familiar with the manuscripts, and the less said about it the better. Verse four:

Gen 2:4 These [are] the generations 8435 of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

This word “generations” would better be translated “history” because we’re talking about heaven and earth and not entities.

H8435

תּלדה תּולדה - tôledâh tôledâh - to-led-aw', to-led-aw'

From H3205; (plural only) descent, that is, family; (figuratively) history: - birth, generations.

So this is the history of the earth. Meaning, back to Genesis verse one and two “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (period). The earth became void and without form. So He’s saying this is the history not only of this earth-age [the flesh-age] but the age from before [the first earth-age], beginning back with chapter one. I just prefer that you do not overlook that. Verse five:

Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,

What would that be then? Seed, that which reproduces itself from seeds; that would be a sprout of course.

and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

That means to farm it.

Now here’s where we want to be very careful. We have men and women that God created on the same day (on the sixth day). That is to say, He created both male and female at the same time. He let them have liberties to harvest the wild game, the crops and so-forth, that are wild. But never did He give one of those, that is to say one of the races [6th day man] the duties of farming (tilling the ground; to be a husbandman of the soil). Alright, I want to make that real clear. Now stay with me on this, verse six:

Gen 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Consider this the dew, but bear in mind, until the flood of Noah we will still have a firmament overhead. Just bear that in mind. You may wonder, “Where did all that water come from?” Verse seven is very important. I want your full attention. We’re going to take a little lesson in Hebrew grammar here, alright:

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed

Not created… formed

man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Now there’s something quite different about this man, from the man mentioned in the twenty-seventh verse of the previous chapter. It would probably serve you well if you wrote these down. You with Companion Bibles, you don’t have to. Your appendix 14

http://levendwater.org/companion/append14.html

will already have it recorded there for you. Adam, without the article, as it is utilized in verse twenty-seven of chapter one means man or mankind. There’s not even any gender involved in it. As a matter of fact, many times from the manuscripts “adam” is translated “man”, when the word in the Hebrew is 'âdâm, without the article :

H120

אדם - 'âdâm - aw-dawm'

From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

Now here, in this particular verse, verse seven, this “man” has the article, “ha” Adam. And with the article it denotes “the man Adam” to till the soil.

Now I think you should make a note of that. I’m going to repeat it one more time. “adam” without the article, “ha”, which in English is translated “the” okay, “ha”. Without the article it denotes a human or mankind. It [adam or mankind] doesn’t mean the adam [a specific man named Adam] which Christ would say that He [Christ] was the “Son of Adam”, or be called the “Son of Adam”. Because it would be this Adam, ha-'âdâm, [this specific man named “Adam”] through which Christ would come, not the man [adam or mankind] created without the article in verse twenty-seven of chapter one.

I really know of no one else that teaches this publicly. I’m going to say publicly because it is taught, but not publicly, at least not to my knowledge by anyone else. I make no apologies for teaching it even though I have had a particular rabbi call me and said, “You’re correct but you’re going to be criticized for even throwing racial overtones into this.” Hey, I teach God’s Word, I make no apology for teaching it as it is written. For that is the way God wanted it taught and if I suffer fallout from it, hey, it doesn’t bother me. At least I will have known that I taught the truth. Now there is more.

I will even go further to say that even the Companion Bible between chapter one and two will disagree with what I’m saying in part. That’s okay. I tell you it’s still the best study bible you will ever touch with your hands, alright, for you, a layperson today –or most pastors if you can understand it. I speak of the Companion Bible.

Now I want to take this one step further. Again, I hope you’ve written down Adam without the article denotes man or mankind in general. Number two, (with the article) Adam with the article denotes the man Adam. Now we have something here more specific that that. We have “Adam” not only with the article, but with the particle, “eth”. When we have the addition of the word “eth”, the particle, it’s very emphatic.

Bullinger notes: With the particle ha ('eth) in addition to the article it is very emphatic, and means self, very, this same, this very. See Gen. 2:7 (first occurrence), 8, 15.

I can not express that enough. With the particle, the article, and “Adam”, it is, I could say, super-emphatic that we’re talking about THE MAN Adam – this one. The same one that is set aside here because of the particle and the article… what do we have? Let’s simplify it in case I am confusing some with particle/article and the “Adam”.

The particle is E-T-H, “eth”. The article is H-A, “ha”, which is word “the”. “Eth” is always emphatic whether it is talking about Israel, The Church, the family, or whatever. That’s grammar from the Hebrew tongue. So many of you have difficulty separating the “man” from verse twenty-seven of chapter one from the “man” in verse seven of chapter two. I hope you won’t have that difficulty again.

For you that have not caught all of it I’m going one more time. In verse seven we have “eth ha Adam” which is emphatically “the tiller of the ground”, “the man”, which Christ would be called “The Son of Adam (adam translated means Man)”. Christ would even be called “The Second Adam”. That comes to mind from I Corinthians, chapter fifteen.

One more time through it: Adam. First, what does the word “adam” mean in the Hebrew tongue? It means ruddy complected (ruddy complected, see H120 above), alright. The other races were created on the sixth day, and there was a ruddy complected man formed on that day (6th day) as well. I’m not going past that detail, but back to the particle and the article. Adam without the article denotes man or mankind, a human being. When you’re reading along and it says, “And God saw man on the earth” it means it was mankind. But as it is used in seven, Adam with the article denotes “the man Adam”. Now God even goes further than that so that you get the distinction in verse seven that He places the particle “eth” before the article “eth ha Adam” which makes it very emphatic so that you would not go wrong. So never let it be said that at least it has not been taught to you what makes the difference between the man to till the soil and the man that would hunt, fish… even though I know a few of those that like to till the soil that also like to hunt and fish, but he [tiller of the ground] has other work to do as well.

He [God] chose this specific man, because through this genealogy of Adam, would come Christ. That’s important, because that would bring forth the Savior and round-out God’s overall plan. Okay I hope you’ve got that. Verse eight, let’s continue on:

Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Not created, formed. Nine:

Gen 2:9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Now I’m going to save a good education for you on trees, from the Hebrew tongue, until the next lecture; but let me just say this in passing. The good trees that are for food are the trees you still partake of. Nothing is new under the sun; we still have them with us today, fruit trees. But the tree of life is a different subject. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a different “type”, let’s put it that way. The tree of life, the tree that gives life, is Jesus Christ. The tree of the knowledge of both good, I mean Satan knows how to be good, he was created good but he is evil. That tree happens to be Satan. Now in the next lecture we’ll document all that from the Word of God but I want the point made of the emphatic design of God and that He wants you to recognize this “man”, alright.

So he gives him… when God makes a statement like this it is law. Understand that. Verse ten:

Gen 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Verse eleven, I’ll read over these rather rapidly:

Gen 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth

Circles…

the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Gen 2:12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Gen 2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

Now if we were to go by the geographical locations that we know Ethiopia is today, then you can pretty well begin to fix some of these rivers that could have been, I repeat could have been a part of the area, the next verse will nail it. Verse fourteen:

Gen 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

This is why that many people feel that Tigres where the Tigres and Euphrates and the others run together there, that that was the geographical location of the Garden of Eden. Well, was it? Well God has a way after the flood of Noah of changing things, so… It would certainly indicate so, okay. Fifteen:

Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Now I want you to note that… many of you that have the Green’s Interlinear, you will have one of the best sets of Hebrew manuscripts that are available today. I’ll even go further than that, the best. You will be able to follow whether… In English it’s rather difficult, but it [the King James Bible] even brings it through; “the man”, that’s “ha Adam”. Okay, check it out. It will make you feel real good. It has the article. That’s the one he put in the garden in other words. The word “man” being “Adam (a very particular man – named Adam)”. Verse sixteen:

Gen 2:16And the LORD God commanded the man,

That’s to say, “ha Adam”…

saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Feed yourself. We still do to this day. Seventeen:

Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

This is twice for emphasis…

thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Now, did Adam die in the day that he ate of the tree? No he didn’t. Did Eve die in the day that she ate of the tree? Well, not instantly. But don’t forget how long a day is with God, that’s why no one ever lived over a thousand years, that’s one day. And after the fall, no one passed that mark. Verse eighteen:

Gen 2:18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Now wait a minute, whoa - whoa… Here we’ve got Adam in the garden and God created male and female back in this other place [sixth day creation], so let that [fact] again let you know we’re talking about two different peoples here. And God does not differentiate between them. He’s not talking classes here. That’s one reason I don’t want you to ever tag “racist” onto this. It rather, protects the races, whereby they can understand our loving Father and that He created us as we are. And, as at the closing chapter, He looked and it was good. But we have one man here that doesn’t have a female, alright. It’s “ha Adam”. God created them [6 day creation] male and female in verse twenty-seven of the prior chapter simultaneously. They were both [male & female] created at the same time. I’ll read it for you:

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image,

In the image to look like them [to make us in the flesh to look like we did in our spiritual bodies]

in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Alright, well here we have old “ha Adam”, “eth ha Adam” without a wife. Alright, let’s see what we can do for him. Next verse please. Nineteen:

Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

Whoa! Now does that NOT kind of square with you? I mean we know from chapter one that God created the birds and the fowls and the animals before he ever created man. And then it says he created man, “ha Adam”, and here He’s creating some more animals and bringing them to Adam to name them. So we have something that doesn’t square, except for one thing. Supposition, my opinion; for Adam, God had then created the animals he would utilize to till the soil. That is to say domestic animals [as opposed to the wild animals he created for the sixth day man]. That’s to say horses … He certainly did not create a mule, and I’m not going into animal husbandry [said with humor] here to explain the about the mule and the horse… he did create the donkey! And he created the chickens, here chick, chick, and so forth –the farm animals, alright, after He created the man [“ha Adam”].

I think it important that you note these things because it’s clearly written in the Word of God and it helps you make the division whereby we see that God does not play favoritism with His people. He’s simply setting aside one through which would come the Savior whereby all races upon following that Savior can have eternal life (period). There was no curse placed on any people. It’s a sin for anyone to teach that certain actions of these Adamic people brought about certain races. God doesn’t deal in unnatural acts. He doesn’t curse innocent people, and don’t believe some preacher that would tell you that. He created every race the way He wanted on the sixth day and it was good.

So okay, here we go. He created Adam; I don’t know why He gave him the animals before He gave him the woman. Now why was that? I have no idea, but He’ll get around to the woman here in a minute. Twenty:

Gen 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;

Beast of the field means living beings of the world.

H2416

חיchay - khah'ee

From H2421; alive; hence raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively: - + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life (-time), live (-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.

but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Still all by his lonesome… Twenty-one:

Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

He had surgery, okay. Twenty-two:

Gen 2:22 And the rib,

“rib”… I want you to make a note…

which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Now, I’ll let you check it out for yourself in the Hebrew, but prime on this word “rib” simply means “the curve”.

H6763

צלעה צלע - tsêlâ‛ tsal‛âh - tsay-law', tsal-aw'

From H6760; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, that is, leaf); hence a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, that is, quarter); architecturally a timber (especially floor or ceiling) or plank (single or collectively, that is, a flooring): - beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).

H6760

צלע - tsâla‛ - tsaw-lah'

A primitive root; probably to curve; used only as denominative from H6763, to limp (as if one sided): - halt.

I do not believe that He literally, I mean man translated it “rib”, it’s “curve”. Now a rib does curve, given. But man has something else that is more in the line of genetics that decides male and female which we have learned through medical technology in the past several years and it’s called DNA. Do you know that DNA has a curve? Have you ever heard of the Helix Curve?

Sometimes you just take a few chromosomes and what-have you here, and away-there and well, presto! We’ve got male and we’ve got female. Basically they’re both the same. But certainly through the curve it is very possible and I’m only saying it is very possible, that this is the correction that God made whereby He created a helpmate for this one, Adam, as the female on the eighth day, bringing forth a womb in this being, this soul, that would enable each of the host [you and I] to be born of woman, innocent, not remembering anything from before, to decide whether we would love God or Satan. Hey, you make your own bed and you make your own life, if it’s Hell then you made it that way.

“Well I didn’t make it that way; it’s my husband’s fault!” Well you chose him honey. You know, he was your choice. You should have left him maybe before he made life Hell for you. You know, I’m not giving anyone any advice, I’m just saying we make our own bed, we make our own hot coals, and we’re the ones that walk in it. So, that’s just the way it is. Now, you can love God and find out hey, we’ve got a pretty good path here… It seems like when we love Him as I’m saying being born innocent through this womb, it made man flesh. And yes, we’re going to find out before we get to chapter six that it kind of grieved God a little bit that He had gone through with this plan. But He already had and the stage was set; and so it continues even unto this day. I truly believe that in my own heart and mind and I wouldn’t want to shake you.

Some yo-yo sent me a letter here in the past week saying, “Revelation 22 where it says any man that changes the word of God…” So you know he said, “This settles it.” Well the poor man is probably a little bit biblically illiterate as far as the Hebrew language is concerned and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But it’s not that critical a thing and it doesn’t make that much difference but I like to understand things. I like to understand how God does things. Therefore we can better grasp what it is God would have us do. Knowledge and wisdom are beautiful things.

But, I truly believe this is what God took from Adam and formed the beautiful female body. After all, I could say that, as often I do, that the word curve… Well, He certainly put more curves in the woman’s body, thank God, then He did man’s. Alright, and thank God for it, they’re a lot prettier than we are. The greatest gift God ever gave man. Okay enough said. Verse twenty-three:

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

And so it is. But it’s good for you to remember who took her out of man, and do we have an article here with this [word man]? Yes. Twenty-four:

Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

That’s very important. That’s why marriage is a union. And God is giving you, even in the book of Genesis chapter two, some of the best marital advice you could ever have in your life. Mommy and daddy really don’t have that much to do with it, alright. You leave them, you become one unit, and you please each other with wisdom. You figure all things out to your satisfaction because in as much as you are one flesh, one flesh should not do anything unto that flesh that offends the other. I’ll say that the right side of the flesh should nothing that offends the left and visa versa. It’s got to get along. You are a “oneness” within each other. Enough said, you understand what I’m saying, they become one flesh. Verse twenty-five to complete the chapter:

Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

They had done nothing to be ashamed of [up to this point]. Sin brings forth shame. Unfortunately in the next lecture we get into where sin does enter. We will be talking about trees. I’m going to give you quite an education in trees, symbolism, and what actually happened in the garden. Up to this point we have completed chapter two and you have not heard the words apple or orange yet. And I got some news for you; you’re not going to hear the word apple in the next lecture, scripturally speaking. That’s not the kind of tree God wants you to be aware of.

So in recapping real quickly; anytime that “adam” is utilized in the Hebrew language with the article it is “the man Adam”. If it is without the article, it is “human” or “mankind”. With both the particle and the article, “eth ha Adam”, it’s emphatically the Adam that God created to till the soil. And to bring forth through Mother Eve (who will be called “the mother of all living” for one reason only; because through Eve’s womb, umbilical chord to umbilical chord) would come Christ, The Messiah, Jeshua. You are either in Him or you’re not living, because you’re not going to be with us long. Eve then becomes the mother of all eternal living because the Savior would come through her. It’s important. That’s why Satan always hassles Eve [and her offspring] and gives her much trouble when the opportunity presents itself.

So without the article, mankind; with the article, specifically Adam; with the particle and article, emphatically the specific Adam and don’t’ let anyone ever take that away from you. All right bless your hearts, you listen a moment won’t you please.

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