Debrecen Messages #6 – Genesis 1 and the Eternal Purpose of God: Light, Creation, and Revelation

Now, get your Bibles open to Genesis 1 and 2. And you want a fresh sheet of paper for this. And I’ll tell you what we’re going to do for the dear brothers and sisters on video to keep you from being bored to death. We’re going to turn off the video. And we’re going to read without stopping Genesis 1 and 2. And you can do the same thing. Of course, you’re not going to know we had a pause here because I’m going to come right back on it will appear. But there’ll be a break in here and we’re going to read Genesis 1 and 2 and then we’ll catch up with you. If you’d like to turn the video off and read Genesis 1 and 2, fine. If you’d like to just come on back and not get in on all the goodies quite as much as we will, that’s okay too. But when you come back, those of you watching video, I hope you’ll all have a pen and paper.

We decided to just take Genesis 1 at first. For those of you who have just read Genesis 2, we’re going to go through Genesis 1, and I’m going to give you all the major themes found in Genesis 1, except… I’m always finding more. So this isn’t all. But I’m not cheating. This is not my imagination. All right, the first one is God. The first thing throughout Scripture is God. The second one is beginning. The heavens are number… Now these are not in order of importance. They’re just in the order of the way they appear. The heavens, and they are important, and more than just going to heaven, and the earth, and that is very, very important. Okay, there is the sea, and there is the Spirit of God. And there are waters. And I would separate those two. Then there is light. Light. Then there is good and there is darkness and there is separation and there is a reference to evening and morning and those kind of fall in a little different category. You have to be careful with those. By the way, the Jewish day always began in the evening.

There’s the first heaven. By the way, there are seven days. You might want to write that down, but I don’t think it has any great bearing here. Just put that there are days. Okay, we have the sea again in verse 9. The waters now gather. Dry land appears. So we not only have earth, we have the land. The earth until now was covered with water. Now we have the earth coming up out of the water. Now we have plant life. We have fruit. We have a seed. This one goes on a line all by itself. We have seed that bears after its kind. That word seed, as you know, becomes terribly important throughout Scripture. And we have after its kind. I just want you to stop and think that God has a seed.

So you have plants. Then you have trees. And you have a tree with its seed in it. There is a tree with a seed in it. That’s a different one from the trees. Did I say there’s day and night? Did I mention that? No. All right, there’s more. Okay, that’s, Okay, go back up there with morning and evening and put a day and a night, would you? Put a day and a night with it. Now watch this one.

There’s a sun and a moon. By the way, I will be skipping some because I know not to put them in there. But you will be impressed. Have you used the word fruit before? Yeah. Okay, now I want you to put the word multiplication. Multiplication. To multiply. And you might even put in there sex.

Okay, there are no cattle. But if there are cattle, there has to be among them what? Melting. Hmm? A lamb, okay. So there is implied in the cattle a lamb. Creeping things are on the earth. And in Genesis 19, see what happens to the creeping things. That’s not in Genesis. I think it’s 19. Could be 20. I don’t know. We’ll find out later when we look it up. I’m not trying to impress you with the fact that I know a lot of numbers that go with words and sentences. I just want to point out to you that after its kind is really standing around here a lot.

We have man. We have image. We have corporate man. Corporate. What shall we do? Let them. That’s more than one man. That’s mankind. That’s a corporate body of mankind. A more than one man.  No, I’m going to make it a corporate man. I mean, okay, I could use… I have to use the word that was taught to me. I’m going to use the word corporate man. A bunch of man. A whole bunch of bunch of bunch of man. All right.

There is rulership. And you might want to just look at some of the things man is to rule over. And one of the things he’s to rule over is creeping things. I don’t know. The Lord repeats this one three times. It must be terribly important to him. He created man in his image. Okay, we have a…We have a male man and we’ve got a female man. We’ve got a gender here. We’ve got a man and a woman. Pilu? Thank you, Brother Pilu. Along with rulership, you have the word subdue. Put the word subdue alongside the word rulership. Okay, from this point on, I’m going to ask Daniel to tell Pilu, who had to go answer the phone, of what goes on from here. We’re reading along here, and what else do we see?

We see that man was told to eat fruit and plants, and that it is your food. Eat a tree. Eat the fruit that comes from trees. So, we got the tree again here, don’t we?

Brother Joe, we’ve come to the end of our list. Folks, we’ll be back with you in just a moment with Genesis 2. Don’t go away. There are no commercials.

Genesis 2, I hope you have two, and that you will come now with us to Genesis 2, and we will find some topics, themes, lines, okay? Okay.

In verse 1, you have completion. Everything is finished. It’s completed. Not the word finished so much as completed. Well, I’m going to put down the word rest, but I want you to make a note that you may not find this. It’s there, but you may not find it. In your assignment, you’re about to get an assignment. Also, you will not find the seventh day, so don’t look for it. We find God making something holy.