 I want to cover a couple of things first of all this We are going to this study is going to be a combination of hermeneutics Bible survey and systematic theology hermeneutics Bible study and systematic theology What in the world is hermeneutics? What in the world is Bible study? I mean Bible survey and what is systematic theology and you've probably heard of these terms Hermeneutics, and we'll just give you a basic definition hermeneutics is the method that you would employ in Understanding or reading the scriptures are you with me herm? That's all it is matter of fact the combination of hermeneutics, which is a theory and practice of Interpretation the method that you use Bible surveys like a bird's-eye view of the outline of the Bible in order And I say in order because there is a chronology to the Bible There is a format that is a there's a setup to the way that God has this that being stated. Let me go back to this systematic theology. What is that that is? Arranging and summarizing Theological doctrines are with me arranging and summarizing theological doctrines meaning if we're talking about Salvation that's a particular doctrine so to reality if we're talking about the Holy Spirit pneumatology That is a doctrine a systematic. That's a theology and we're trying to make these harmonize in a systematized way So all of that is going to come into play here not all at once and We'll see examples of this as we go as we read the Bible We need to understand that the Bible is written in such a way to what we have what's called progressive revelation In other words the Bible does not tell us everything that God wants us to know at the very beginning And we don't do that either just for the sake of communication when someone asks what happens Oftentimes we may give them the background story or what happened. Well, she punched him Well, why did she punch him? Well, let's go back a little bit the reason why because this and that remember this Remember that and then you kind of flesh the story out that way the Bible does the same thing as well Okay Also, so let's go back to those those things again. So we will talk about hermeneutics Bible survey and systematic theology Okay, these are the things that we are going to cover. So what really is hermeneutics? There are two types of hermeneutics guys. There is a normal hermeneutics That is a consistent literal grammatical historical reading now there are different types of Normal hermeneutics. I want whatever your hermeneutics to be to be consistent. Whatever your hermeneutics is Make sure it's consistent. The other hermeneutics is this that is an allegorized Spiritualized hermeneutics, which is a literal interpretation is secondary to a deeper or hidden meaning It is inconsistent. It is subject to the reader. What does that mean? Meaning this if I read a passage and I come across as saying To me, this is what this is saying or I'm looking for a hidden Understanding a deeper understanding that might not that might be deeper than the surface Other folks see this passage as saying this But if we look down if we as we flesh this out We see more but if the average person can't get it then you might have gone a little too deep Again, God does not think that we are that intelligent He does not think that we are so sophisticated that he can give it give us Puzzles for us to figure out on the go. Remember, he makes a statement to Nicodemus He says I've told you earthly things and you still don't understand how then will I be able to tell you? Heavenly things and that is a problem. So sometimes when reading it does require a Measure of humility as we're reading this are you with me? Okay, so now I want to also remind you of three Three rules to keep in mind as you're reading as we're going through it And then we're gonna we're gonna jump into the scriptures in just a second though one disregard any previous opinions or preconceived notions about the Bible or Doctors, how do you do that Corey? Well, the way you're gonna do that as we said earlier is You cannot bring in what you already know Unless what you already know is covered in what we're talking about at that moment So as we go through Genesis one All you can use to talk about or to discuss any matters of Genesis one is Genesis one You can't bring up Genesis two three four or five just yet. We'll get to those things And we're not gonna actually ask you to bet your life on What Genesis one says we understand that there were unfolding some things But just just what you can see at that moment very with me And so whatever you were taught my church believes this my church believes that one of the first things we talk about is Angels when were they created one of the other first things we talk about is what does God mean by it is good One of the other things we talk about were there people before Adam and Eve this gap theory We'll look at that because it's in the very beginning what we cannot do to solve this problem though At the very beginning is go to any other passages And so it's possible that we might leave the Bible study with some questions lingering That's fine. We'll still have enough to satisfy us for the time being are you with me and then going back to it Also after disregarding any preconceived notions to don't make the scripture say what it does not say We see that all the time where someone might say we look at the passage the other night where someone said in Revelation 3 When God said I will not blot your name out then someone comes back and says well that means it's possible to have your name Bought it out when it doesn't even say that at all We do not want to read in to the scriptures. Let's let it say exactly what it says and let that be enough lastly Scripture to interpret scripture use scripture to interpret Scripture use scripture to interpret scripture only when the current scripture doesn't make sense the last part Only when the current scripture doesn't make sense because what happens is sometimes we get ourselves in trouble We can read a passage and I know I'm since we haven't started the Bible study I can go ahead and use passages that we haven't got to yet. So for example if we say if we were to say Reading Jeremiah or reading Ezekiel as you all know in my belief in terms of internal internal security These passages say that the person will have the spirit of the Lord in them and they will never walk away They were never to part. They would never turn away But then what will happen is somebody because for the sake of trying to make their argument their point will go to other Passages to try to interpret that will it looks like from these warning passages that a person can lose or walk away Or fall away or stop believing Well, does the does the plain understanding of the passage in Jeremiah or Ezekiel or any of the passes does it make sense? Does it does it make sense and if so well then now we'll start interpreting later passages in light of this passage They're with me and I'll make this make more sense as we as we go forward So remember these three rules as we look at things Okay, disregard any previous opinions or preconceived notions about the Bible or doctors Make the scripture say what it don't make the scripture say what it does not say use scripture to interpret scripture only When current scripture doesn't make sense and then this right here. These are the five W's. I'm sorry now I'm sorry if I get to five of them. Sorry Mark what's important mark what you know Mark what what you know is a true mark make a note and commit to memory what you know as fact Separate what you aren't 100% sure of what is known takes priority over what is questionable That is so important ladies and gentlemen if we know this is a fact and As we go, I'll say guys I want you guys to write this down mark this somewhere Commit this to memory hold this safeguard if this is a bedrock Upon this other things might be built off of if you know something is an honest to goodness fact Then let that take precedence over something. That's not quite sure something that might be debated about Something that's unquestionable. Maybe maybe you think it settled but a lot of other people don't well Put that issue to the side and look at the thing that you do know because I promise if we do that We'll see the things that we're questioning in a better light Are you with me now here are the five W's you've seen this before Who what when where and why as we're reading as we're reading? Who is the writer and who is the audience? That is so important. I don't This stuff it you would say what court this is basic Until we actually start reading the Bible this stuff is basic until we actually begin reading the Bible And then we start reading into it. I suggest in the text We just to read into a text until we start doing that this we forget some of these basic rules over and over again So who is the writer and who is the audience? Next what is the subject and the circumstances? What is the subject and the circumstances? What's he writing about If what he's writing about is this then we shouldn't bring that into it. Let me give you a perfect example in John 3 Jesus makes a statement That unless you're born of water and spirit you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven But people are going to bring in where you must be baptized That's not that that's little enough about the topic that he's talking about that is as a matter of fact It didn't come up again throughout the rest of John 3 so that could not be the point We understand the point because God will go through great links to make sure we understand the point Oftentimes though we misunderstand or act what we do is we'll go to a passage and not even pay attention to the surrounding passages or the surrounding chapters What's actually going on? So that is very important. So the who the what the when when is this Taking place extremely important guys. When is this taking place? You've heard me talk about this I'll come back to this more in a second But you've heard me talk about this particular timeline and we'll we'll look at this even more so in just a second But we see the how these books were laid out the chronological orders of the book by now you guys should probably have a A copy of this on your phone or on your computer somewhere If not take a take a screenshot of this the bible is laid out in such a way And so we should see when the writer is speaking So when we get to Jeremiah or we get to hosea or michael, we'll see who he's talking to When he's talking to them what he's talking which will also help us to understand what he's talking about for Where is the setting? Where's this happening? And so if the person is writing to someone who's in exile that matters that means a whole lot If the writer is speaking to someone who is in captivity in Babylon or if they are in Galatia Or if they are in Ephesus or it those things win the actual physical location Where actually matters are you with me lastly? five Why is this written? What's the purpose of this? What what is he trying to get accomplished? Okay, now that being stated I want to make sure and there's there's a reason for that the reason why we want to keep this in mind Is because of this one thing that we tend to fail on Matter of fact, this is one of the more violated standards in reading That christians do often and that is abusing the difference between primary and secondary application Is this applicable to you or the name characters of the story? Who is this for in other words if i'm reading this is this for quarry Or is it for them that's hearing it and it's simply for court to understand and learn from it Maybe learn how god does things maybe learn the consequences of doing such things for example Second chronicles to seven. I mean second chronicles seven fourteen. Let's put this on the screen and let's read this You've all seen this past before and my people who are called by my name If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways Then I will hear from heaven Will forgive their sin and will heal their land and a lot of times we make this passage out to be about us This is not about us. This is not now. It sounds good Sounds good. I wish we were about us and that's the problem sometimes selfishly. We wish that this was us Like we watch a movie and we see this the guy the hero. I wish that was me or the girl She wishes I wish I was her We wish that a lot. We see someone with a bunch of money and nice house nice car. I wish that were me Don't do that with the bible. Don't I wish that were me God has not forgotten you. He's just giving us examples in some case now sometimes he is talking about us But here's how we know that this is not about us He says if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face That seemed like it should be able to apply to us But then he says then I will hear from heaven I will forgive their sin and will heal their land Well, first of all, the sins have been forgiven if we're in christ or can't be us But even more so he says and will heal their land. Well, you mean america Maybe well, let's see If we drop down a little bit further in this passage, we will see verse Eight I mean verse 19 But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have said before you And go and serve other gods and worship them Then I will up root you up root you from my land which I have given you And this house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all people set us What land will he take us and up root us out of this is israel Okay, now can we learn something from this? Sure We we absolutely can but do we apply this to us specifically? No, no, we don't and so that's the point So let's make sure that we keep everything In in proper context in proper perspective. What's primarily applied to us. We know as a matter of fact We'll see it oftentimes in in the gospel. We'll see it oftentimes in the epistles. We'll see if james telling us We'll see john telling us so we'll know Okay, now do we also get to learn from the old testament? We absolutely because that is our foundation, which is why we're starting off in the old testament today Next I'm gonna move this over I want you all to remember one thing Because again, it's easy to see ourselves in it make us as The key the most important thing but god is The one that's in control and I always start with this rule And you you will hear me say this over and over and over again in this bible study You will hear me constantly say this and when I say it I want you guys in your mind to think this In the actual physical classes that I've done I would make this statement and they would answer I would say remember guys rule number one above all else God is sovereign. That is what you need to remember Above all else god is sovereign god what he wants what he does takes precedence over you No matter what it is you're going through no matter how bad the situation is no matter what it is you're thinking whatever it is Above all else god is sovereign Get that in your mind key that now have we earned that yet? No, we have not you're going to But I just want to give you a jump start I want to give you a cheat code a cheat code for reading the bible and understanding it and a cheat code for living your life Above all else god is sovereign If you keep that in mind as you walk through your daily life and as you read the scriptures You will do well are you with me? So now but one of the other things I want to cover is And you heard me say this have we earned that this is going to be how we keep ourselves kind of together on the same page Have we been told that yet in other words avoid going to a future text to understand this text if possible It's not a hundred percent possible To always stay in this text. There will be some time we might jump a little further ahead I'll say guys we can go ahead just to make sure But most cases We're going to stay here in this text. So if we're reading genesis one, that's all we are if we're in genesis 16 You have the benefit of genesis one two three four five up to 15 and 16 We may even because remember there are Books that were written at the same time we have chronological books But then we also have complimentary books. I'll get to that in just a second But have we earned that yet? So try to stay Where we've been told and where we are so if I make a statement my question is going to be back Have you been told that yet too? Did you earn that? Can you prove what you say or believe? From the text can you prove what you say or what you believe from the text? Does the text say that? Well, I think okay. Well, let's put this over way way back in the corner in the I think category Put that on the I think shelf leave it over there for now and let's deal with what the text is if the text says this Let's not go any further now. There are there some times where we can okay This is this has to be what it is because there's no there's no other choice I'm going to give you an example of that And then see if you guys can figure out Another alternative other than what the bible is saying now this right here. I'm going to give you I want to give you The next one later this week This is one of the more important things that you could have When reading the bible, so I want you guys if you haven't been taking screenshots Take a screenshot of this if you haven't done so already and that's just I've covered this before This the chronology of the old testament this timeline This chronology states or shows if you look at it guys We see that the chronological books are genesis to exodus to numbers to josh with the judges First and second samuel first and second king ezra ne'emiah. By the way, that was actually one old book itself But then underneath it guys if you notice we see what are called these complementary books The complementary book to genesis is joe The complementary book to exodus Is leviticus and deuteronomy matter of fact you see here you see the five books that moses wrote plus joe Okay, well, why are they why are they complementary? Well, because one for example joe We're not sure when it was written. It may have been written slightly before genesis was written or it might have been written They're about maybe a little bit after jesus was written or at the time that jesus was being we don't know Which is why we put it in the complementary book We can if we want to if if we want to gain something some understanding of genesis and you say wait a minute, kory We can you said that we can use the complementary books for Genesis, I mean for whatever we're at Then i should be able to go to joe and learn from joe since we're in genesis In most cases i'll say okay. You're absolutely right, but go back to it. We're looking to see in this timeline We see Exodus and numbers well the complementary book to exodus As well as numbers is leviticus and deuteronomy Why is leviticus and deuteronomy a complementary book? Well, because one it's not a corralogy Is giving more information about what the children of israel has to do you'll see a lot of the law And commands inside there and so when was the law given in exodus? And so while exodus didn't tell us that looked at and tell us all that we may want to know about the law Deuteronomy and and leviticus does be with me. You'll see we'll go further when we get into um the 1300 1300 years before Before the cross i'm not i'm before the cross uh before BC i'm sorry i'm saying this backwards We'll see judges and the complementary books of judges will be ruth and first and second samuel first and second kings You'll see first and second chronicles now. Why is that important first and second chronicles being a complementary book because The writer is which just went through second chronicles is going to cover a lot of what was taking place in first and second kings and first and second uh samuel And we'll talk about some copyist errors that we'll see numerically In in first and second kings first and second chronicles first and second samuel We'll cover that when we get there later going back to the timeline looking at the uh the prophetic books We do not break books down. We do not break profits down into major profits or minor profits. We don't do that Are you with me? We don't we don't break down. Um, we don't distinguish between major profits and minor profits Why don't we do so because the bible doesn't The bible doesn't say that this profit is a minor profit. No As a matter of fact, some of the ones that we might consider to be minor profits Actually offer some very important details and we overlook them because hey, that's a minor profit Which tells you what if you think that because the word minor is a bad thing Well, first of all, you're in sin if you think that the word minor is bad. No minor is actually A wonderful term a wonderful name. I I think the name minor is actually wonderful So if you if you missed out on that, well, then I pray for you But the point is though minor profits major profits. No distinction. No distinction whatsoever What's more important is happens to be where they are when they are prophesying That's a more important point amos and hoséa. They're prophesying to the northern kingdom Joel mike. I said the they're prophesying to the southern king. We've got profits that are prophesying While in exile, we've got profits that are prophesying during or after the restoration Then we've got profits such as over die Jonah and Nehu or not prophesying to the southern kingdom or the northern kingdom Jews at all. They are prophesying to Gentiles to other nations. Are you with me? And so those are going to come more important as we get there but now So what I want to do now is I want to go into Obviously Genesis now the question the first question is going to be is who wrote the book? This is one of these cases when we talk about the setting of a book or we're talking about who wrote a book When we're covering the outline There are times we'll go and look at another book to give us some understanding because what might come up is This belief that moses did not write the book that he didn't write Genesis there this There are all these different Theories there is the j e d What's that theory j e d? I forgot the other uh acronym for in other words that Because he covers certain things and says things in a slightly different way that he could not be the the author But that that's not true as a matter of fact It's well known established not just by a jewish custom in history But also if we want to find out who wrote it, how about we ask jesus jesus says in luke 2444 He says he said to them these are my words which i've spoken to you while i was still with you That all things which are written about me in the law of moses So he sentenced the law of moses and then if we were to go to luke 24 27 It also backs up that moses is the writer so from moses and then at some point time he'll give the different writers So jesus himself verifies that moses is the author Won't spend a lot of time on that because i think it's a silly argument for someone who's looking for A way to discredit the bible so now that being stated What we're going to do now is we are going to go into genesis You'll be surprised how much time we can actually spend in genesis There is a lot to cover in genesis even in the very beginning So what i want to do is i want to remember i said Of all else god has sovereign and how do we know god has sovereign? Well, we see that immediately in genesis when it says that in the beginning god created the heaven and earth So he's the one that created not us Now we're going to find out some things about god and i want to go ahead and throw these out there And we'll see these we'll learn about these as we go Okay One about god's attributes. He's got what's called communicable attributes And he's got in communicable attributes communicable attributes are attributes that he shares with mankind such as love Anger justice jealousy And what i mean by sharing meaning that we that he has those attributes we do too He loves we can love He's jealous. We can be jealous. We shouldn't be he has anger. We do too Now obviously ours is not as great nor is it as righteous as he is But we have those same sorts of feelings as well just like god does also Also his in communicable attributes. These are attributes that he does not share with us Such as omnipresent omnipotent omniscient That's not us We are not omnipotent. We're not everywhere at the same time. We're not omnipotent Although sometimes we think we are we are not omniscient all knowing although sometimes we think we are we just are not so Keep that in mind. But now as we go into genesis These are some things that are important for us to look at one We're going to cover the days of creation This is kind of a little outline how day one day two day three day four day five day six And these are the things that are happening. I will we'll come to that as we go into a second, but also What genesis shows us a couple of things these are kind of how the the chapter breakdowns are One and two chapters one and two. Let me say it again loudly chapters one and two cover creation chapters uh Four deals with and you can say three as well Three is the fall obviously four is reconciliation and then five through ten knowing the floods tower I'm at chapter 11 the tower of babel 12 through 25. We see how god relates to abraham Chapter 25 27 how god relates to isaac 28 through 36 how god relates to jacob 37 through 50 how god relates to joseph And israel writ large are you with me now? The last two things aren't the more important things I just kind of give you a little overview of what we're going to go through in the book of genesis So that being the case, how about we go to genesis? So in the very beginning and this is where we already start off And so i'm going to ask you guys some questions. You guys feel free to type it in I may put it on the screen I may not but in the beginning God Created the heavens and the earth Here is the first issue that we deal with before we go any further We haven't even made it out of the first verse There is when I say a lot here in genesis one one There is a lot here first thing in the beginning If you look to the left, I'm sorry to the right you'll see berashi Which is in the beginning the question is How far in the beginning? In the beginning, is it the very beginning of time or the very very very beginning the beginning of what? well If you look on this screen, I don't know if you guys let me let me highlight make this a little bit bigger Because I want you all to see this The the letter that's highlighted is a bay where we get our b sound from in english The little two dots underneath it This is what's called a a schwa Now let me look at this passage of this word right here. This word is hashamain If you look under the the hay The the letter that's underlined or or highlighted You see this little line. You see that line going across That line in hebrew Which is a masoretic marking the masorids put this together so that the jews who were taking captivity would Understand and know their language because many of them just stop speaking hebrew That line lets us know that this is a definite article the You don't have to always use the word the They have we have what's called Pernominal suffixes That go before What do I mean by a pronomial suffix thinking about the word that's used in english pronoun I he she they us weep those are pronouns Very popular nowadays to have this discussion about pronouns But in this case in hebrew you can talk about pronouns without actually using the entire pronoun So in this one Uh, I can say he she it they what have you But I can also determine if it is a definite article also there. There's all these different suffixes that can go before An actual word Well in this case if I want to if I want to go back to this word I'm just throwing out some I don't I hope not to confuse you too much But the very bottom of this saying uh, ha shamaim is the word for heaven Ha It could be If I get rid of this this uh marking underneath it And make it into what's called a shawa it can be in a heavens But it's not in a heavens or in heavens. We want to know it is the heavens Why is that important? What if I go back up to this word better sheet? We don't have that marking underneath the base. Are you see are you with me? Instead, this is not to be taken at the definite very beginning of time This is not to be taken as the very Definite beginning of time, but at a certain point in the beginning of time At a beginning in time. Are you with me? We get to thinking that in the beginning the very beginning God created the heavens and the earth that does not mean that Once God had a thought about earth. He decided to do something. No We don't know how long God existed Or how I'm sorry We don't know how long God took to decide to create the heavens and the earth We do not know secondly What do we mean by created the heavens and the earth? Now he's giving an outline here in the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth when we're talking about the heavens We're going to see what he means by the heavens. We're going to also see what he means by the earth We're going to find out in just a second that the earth the actual rock The globe with the water on it the mountains and so forth all the rocks that that was there Prior to him saying in prior to him saying let there be light We're going to see that in a second now. How long I don't know It could have been a half a second It could have been a millisecond. It could have been an hour One there was no time to mark anything. So we don't know all we know is that before He says let there be Something already was there that was the earth And then we're going to see what the heavens actually is in just a second as well. Okay So in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth now We have another problem as a matter of fact. We have a huge problem Or not a problem. We just have something that we need to just take a note of On this take a note of this do not make a definitive statement on this. Are you with me guys? Do not make a definitive statement on this point just yet You will and I have too We have passages as as we go forward We have passages that will give us a definitive Solution to this question that might pop up He says in the beginning. Let's put it back on the screen. Let me make this a little bit smaller He says in the beginning Uh better sheath by the el heen well We got a problem with the third word of the bible already We had an issue And by the way, this issue of better sheath That can be a long discussion as well. We won't make it one But this one might be better sheath bottle, which is he created Elohim That's god Here, what's the problem? Well, the problem is How he spelled his name That's the problem. Moses. What do you mean by giving this plural ending to the name? Why Elohim in Hebrew? In Hebrew, there are three ways to mark or indicate number There's the singular That's self-explanatory. That's just one I have one cup There's the dual That's also self-explanatory Where I in Hebrew I might have the I you hear this I that is I have Two cups are you with me? Then we have the three or more the plural the plurality in Hebrew will indicate three Four 20 a thousand a billion. It just simply means a plurality So it's at least three or more This is where you get the yad mean the eam sound in Hebrew. Are you with me? Well, when we go back to this, what do we have here? We have Elohim Elohim Now this Elohim Indicates a plurality now I'll leave that right there because I do not want to get into a doctoral or theological Fight with anyone right now just It's worth noting that, huh His name is given as Elohim He could have easily have given the name or said l That would have been fine or Some derivation of ya could have done that Could have given us the tetragrammaton Could have given us that as well, but for some reason he gives us Elohim Let's just put that over to the side for now. I have some reasons as to why I think he's done so We'll come to that as we go, but let's just put that to the side for now There's no need to start a fight before someone wants to fight. Are you with me? Oftentimes we do that. What'd you say? Come on, put up your dukes. So let's let's hold that off. Could could verse one possibly be summarizing be a summary statement It is it actually is when we say in the beginning God created them. It's kind of like the introduction It's and you see this often time. That's a good question Do you know you see this often in Hebrew writings where he might make a statement matter of fact You see it also in greek as well where he might make a statement the writer or someone may make a statement And then this is it's almost like in writing You have a title and the title gives you an understanding as to what the body of the writing is going to be That's that or you might have at the very beginning of your of your of your writing an introduction This happened like this and then you proceed to explain it in the body Okay And that's kind of what's happening here in the beginning and he's going to also bring this up again In chapter two. I don't want to get there just yet, but that's a good point though. Dino. Thank you. So We've got this issue that's there. We've got a couple issues But really the main issue this issue of this plurality in his name. Does that mean anything? It may or may not there are jews. There are some people who will say that meaning thing It's a what's called a plurality of majesty, which really never existed at that It's kind of a made-up term But fine. We'll leave that to the side for now now. Let's get to it Chapter I mean verse two He says The earth I'm sorry. Let me put on screen the earth was formless and void Yeah, but but hold on wait a second. Wait a second. We are you're right. You are right. You you are right But you're not right now. Now this matter of fact, thank you so much. I think you're right. I agree with you But here's my question Y'all remember the question I asked the statement that I said Did you earn that yet? Are you with me? Did you did you earn that yet? disciple of christ, I think you're right But what if you're wrong so far all we've got guys and this this is how this is why this bible study I think is the best bible study ever This is why Did you earn that yet? What passage so far in verses now we're only in verse two now But even if we go with just verse one Did you earn that just yet? I agree I agree and see see here's my here's my good friend seifers rock. I listen I agree also I agree also But are we at second peter chapter three verse? No as a matter of fact at this point in time We don't have a second peter We don't even have a guy named peter We don't have any writings all we've got right now is chapter one verse one. Are you guys with me? And so the reason why I'm highlighting that is I want you all to now if you're this is why it's important If what you're saying is correct Then the bible will spell that out as we go The bible will spell that out as we go So we don't have to worry about it. We don't have because what you don't want to do is you don't want to be We don't want to be hypocrites. I've done that you've done. We've all done We don't want to be hypocrites in how we read the scripture We want to say what it says because we'll ask someone else who makes up something who reads into the text Why are you reading into it? Well, if I go to another passage that's not there yet. We haven't got it there What am I doing? I'm actually reading into the text as well So while I agree with you and I will agree with you with the future passages Right now I can't because we haven't earned that yet That's the point even if you're wrong or if you're right the question is going to always be Have you earned that yet? By the way, you all that have given the uh, the super chats and stickers. I thank you so much I'm there's a reason why I'm not really bringing them up right now but The question is going to be have you earned that Right now as jeff says we're only on verse one now. We're on verse two Let's see if the statement that you made which again, I agree is the correct statement But let's see if you can earn that from I'll wait a second dog on it Future future says wait till genesis 126 problem is though future What if there is no genesis 126? We hadn't gotten to you all we know so far is because moses might let's say Let's act as though moses reading this to us We don't know that genesis goes to verse 26 in chapter one You're right. You're right But and and and guys, I want you all to see where I'm getting at why I'm doing this I want you all to see how we should read If you are right Then guess what's going to happen. It's going to lead us there Okay, and everybody wants to do it Everybody I want to do it. I want to read this and then because I got a point that I think I need to make I'm going to run to the next passage and the next passage and the neck. Well, I haven't gotten there yet All right, chest chance is I'm being distracted. No. No, this is this is what I want This is what I want you to do because we're going to do this over we're going to do this more and more We're going to see this no, you're fine future more and more people are going to do this And we're going because I want you guys Eventually what's going to happen is you guys when someone brings that pass a passage up You're going to say did you earn it yet? Have you earned that yet? Tell me where you got that from That used to frustrate me When uh, dr. Bolden would do that to me. Well, where'd you get that from? Have you earned that yet? Uh, I've had dr. Conan before in in his classes. He would say the same thing. Did you did you earn that yet prove it? Jesus died on the cross. Okay, prove it Well, isn't it obvious? I don't know make it obvious prove it But if we hadn't gotten there yet, well then we hadn't gotten there yet. Are you guys with me? So when you see your classmates your brothers or sisters bringing up a passage we hadn't gotten there yet Ask them. Have we earned that yet? Have we no we hadn't earned it yet. We are still in the beginning Now we're making some progress though Making some progress now. We're in where first two verse two the earth was formless and void and darkness Was over the surface of the deep and the spirit of god was moving over the surface of the deep Huh? Who is this guy? Where did he come from? Or where or or or i'm sorry. I'm sorry. Where did right now? I might have to I may have to say Where did it come from you called in the holy spirit and it kory? I sure am right now. I am I don't know that I don't know that the holy spirit isn't is a he or a it or what I have no idea What pronoun should I ascribe to the spirit? Well, I don't know Don't know much about the holy. I don't even know what to call it the holy spirit. I just know it is the spirit That's all I know That's all I know so far because we're only in verse two So I can't go any further than what I see it is the spirit However, can I All I've got is what chapter chapter one verse one chapter one verse two That's all I've got chapter one verse one chapter one verse two Can I can I glean anything about the holy spirit or I keep saying out of habit? Can I glean anything off of the spirit? From verse one Well, possibly Let's go back over to the shelf where I told you all to put that plurality of god this Elohim Let's go back over there Could that be what he meant Could could it be I don't know could it be that when he said Elohim This plurality could that be referencing spirit? Now I've been told in my churches that it is but again, I haven't gotten that poor. I haven't I haven't earned that yet So right now right now That that's good way Oh, but right now I'm not totally sure I'm not a trinitarian I'm not a unitarian. I'm not a motorless. I'm not a one in this penal castle. I'm just somebody some some poor slept rock just Reading or hearing hearing. I'm just hearing moses. Tell this to me first time I've ever heard it Moses moses. This is fascinating Hmm Tell me more moses. So we keep reading. He says the earth was formless and void Question guys What was formless and void? Very important question. What was formless and void? Well, it says since I can read and they did me the courtesy of putting this thing in english It says that the earth Was formless and void Okay, correct. The earth is formless and void. So meaning Seems to indicate that it was already there, huh? And darkness was over the surface. It was dark and formless and void And the spirit whoever this whoever it or he is don't know don't don't know much about him Don't know much about history. Don't know much biology I don't even know who the spirit is or what the spirit is But whatever it was whatever he was he was moving it was moving over the surface of the water That's all we've gotten to thus far now. We've covered a lot by the way in this There have been so many discussions so many arguments to deal with this whole issue of Of The trinity that we brought up later um If was there some sort of judgment that took place on the earth prior All of these things were brought up guys. Give me one second One one quick second. Let me let me fix something with the connection. Okay. I'm sorry about that. So There's a lot of debate That theologians theologians and scholars have had off of the first two verses Let's go to the third verse. See if we can get something that can maybe clear up some things so far Then god said Let there be light and there was light now. We're just in verse three We're just in verse three Let there be light let there be light on what Let there be light on what? Well, okay, let's back up We've got we've got an analysis on the floor Shiny meadow says na kori god is mentioned in genesis one one So we know the spirit of god. Yes. We know the spirit of god, but shiny meadows question What do we know about the spirit of god? What based on the first two passages And this is the good stuff y'all. This is where we this is how we build this What do we know about the spirit of god based on verses one and two? nothing We don't know anything about the spirit of god. We don't know if the spirit of god is some inanimate object We don't know if the spirit of god is a person of god We don't know anything about the spirit of god Just that it is the spirit of god. That's all we know now. Are we going to find out more about the spirit of god? We know it's god spirit, but what does that mean? What i'm trying to get you to not do is to draw inferences off of there where the passages didn't give us the opportunity to do so Can we do so later? Absolutely, are we going to find out more about the spirit of god later? Sure, we absolutely will but remember what we're doing guys And if you fight this you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna have a hard time going to other passages And getting rid of your own preconceived notions Because if what you say or believe is true the bible is going to say so more and more so as we go So we know it all we know it is the spirit of god We know it is the spirit. Is it an inanimate object? Or does the spirit have personhood? Is is it a he a person? So far we just don't know off of only the first two verses. That's the only part I'm not saying you're wrong. Obviously you're not wrong But we haven't earned that all we're going to do guys And this and and the reason why i'm doing this guys Is because this is the more the more difficult part in this study Raining people in and to getting them to see okay. All we all we are is just on these passages So you have to make your conclusion your argument only off of the first Right now three verses. Yeah, that that's it Now when you leave this bible say to guys You're not going to forget everything we've ever covered If that were the case I would delete every video we've already had on the channel. No What i'm trying to get us to do is to see how to read We have had people guys We have had people that came to the bible study originally Felt a certain way We held them to this standard And you they were fighting they were fighting to say something else But when you tell them you got to hold yourself to this standard Okay, I see what you're saying There have been people who did not believe in internal security who now do there are people who did not believe in the trinity who now do Because the truth is the truth Whether I read it in genesis Whether I read in malachi whether I read it in lamentations whether I read it in matthew or what have you And so we'll just go off of the truth that we know Now there are some questions That are out there we're going to cover those questions I believe if the question is important We'll get to that. I believe the god will make it clear okay, so Let's go back to it All we are guys so far Is on verse three Where he says then the god then god said let there be light and there was light Let there be light where well on the earth. How do we know so because what did he say in verse two? The earth was formless and void and darkness was over Uh the earth over the surface of the deep And the spirit was moving over the surface of the water. So the spirit was moving over that. So all we know so far then God said God said that guy there's that elohim guy again. There he is again. This plural term is used again Elohim Then god said let there be light and there was light Let me ask you guys a question and I'll even tell you ahead of time This is a trick question But I'm asking this question right now think think to yourself When he said let there be light Where did the light come from? So the question on the floor would be let there be light. Where did the light come from? now I can hypothesize I can Use a fancy word pontificate I can give an example of something in my mind But when I ask you this question Or when I'm gonna make a statement There's only one correct answer to the question There's only one correct answer to this statement to the question John A has it Jeff has it We don't know Do we really know though? Honestly guys, do we do we ultimately know where the light come from? Yeah, we do know But for the sake of studying this bible today, we don't know Why don't we know where uh this light came from? I mean before I've read it before Yeah, I know you read it before but have you earned that statement today? No, you haven't earned that statement day. Why because we have all all we've gotten to is verse four Are you with me? So you can say from god you can say from jesus you can say from a ball you can say whatever No answer is correct other than I don't know Because he that's it. Joshua. He doesn't tell us from here yet. He doesn't tell us now Is he going to tell us he absolutely is going to tell us it's just it right now Are you all are you are you following me? Are you seeing the point that I'm getting to? I promise you guys when you as you get this way of reading down and studying it You'll start saying how the bible just unfolds Every last one of us can can understand this analogy You're watching a movie It's a good movie. I mean you've got popcorn You've got your drinking hand. You are enjoying it And one of your relatives comes in your kid comes in your parents come. I don't know somebody comes in And asks you a question What are they doing? What's happening here? What's going on? And what do you say? I don't know yet They're asking questions That we hadn't gotten to yet Well, what's he gonna do? And what do you say? Well, well, not what you say not what you say what you think will you sit down and shut up I'm trying to watch this movie. It am I the only we've all had that happen, right? We've all had that happen Let's just wait and see the movie is good. Why don't you sit down and watch the movie with me? Same thing. How about we let's just sit and read what he's saying because what happens is Have y'all been one of a matter of fact perfect example? Have you all watched a murder mystery? Then you all have ever watched a murder mystery watch a tv show read a book um I don't like to read a lot of novels, but when they put me in the shoe I what I read this uh was a ack of the christie old book a mystery and as i'm reading the mystery I'm trying to figure out. Well, who killed this guy? And in my mind, I am coming up with all sort of guesses Hypothesis I thought this guy did it but that guy gets killed. I thought this no this person And what ends up happening is if I put my mind on who I think it is What happens I end up missing the other clues Because what what is something that Sherlock Holmes said I think it ought to be in the bible I wish it were in the bible. I should it ought not be but I wish it were or something like this There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious clue. That's what he says There's nothing more deceptive than obvious. It's literally right there in front of your face But you don't see it. Why because you're looking over there And the reason why you're looking over there because you've been you've trained yourself to look over there before you even get to the crumbs So when we're watching this movie, let's just see how this thing plays out. Are you with me? So, uh last letter someone someone correct last letter last letter we haven't gotten or yet We have to earn it so far all we have are the first Four verses of genesis That's it the first four verses The butler did it. Amen The first four verses So if I say when god says let there be light and I ask you where did the light come from? The only because remember we also want to be humble Humble people learn how to say I don't know I'm not sure I don't know the answer That's good Verses I think it's this well if you think it's that and you're wrong Well, then how will you it'd be that much harder for you to accept whatever the truth is So verse four he says then verse three then god said let there be light and there was light That's it Now Verse four, let's see if we can find out what the light is News slash we won't not out of the not out of verse four verse four says God saw the light was good Saw that the light was good And god separated the light from darkness Let's keep reading though God called the light day and the darkness he called night and there was evening and there was morning one day Now the reason why I read those two together was for a couple reasons Remember when we read the bible The verses the chapters and verses is for our sake although they were not originally put there But it does help us though to kind of keep things kind of you know nice and neatly tidied and so forth So he says god saw that the light was good And god separated the light from the darkness Now we see god again the same term let's use Elohim Elohim this plurality I'm looking over here on the shelf or we have this plurality of god Wondering when are we going to be able to deal with this plurality god? Well, not yet. We don't as a matter of fact. We don't need to We don't need to count to count to your truth Count to your gospel truth If god let's let's put a pause on the bible say for a second We think that our doctrine Is what matters the most Meaning this What if we found out That there was no trinity What would that do for us? Well in the grand scheme of things nothing It would do absolutely nothing except it would ruin our understanding like man I gotta go back to the drawing where I gotta figure this out. I was right mean it now I think there is don't misunderstand what i'm saying Or what if we found out that There is a pre-tribulation Uh rapture What if we find that's a post-tribulation right? What would that do in the grand nothing? The most important thing is that we are in sin need our sin to be paid and jesus pays a debt Now The reason why I pull that up is because I want you to resist the urge from thinking that whatever your doctrine is No matter how correct it is is the most important thing No matter what your theological stance is is the most it's not it is not Now if it's correct we'll find out If it's true we'll find out This is where the humility part comes in are you with me? So this is why let's put it back on the screen again. I think this is very very very very important We want to make sure that when we read something Uh-oh Have we earned it yet? I'm sorry wrong wrong one. There it is Make sure that whatever we say Whatever we speak about we've got to make sure that we have earned it And that's how it's gonna we're gonna keep ourselves in context now So far he says in verse four God saw the light and that it was good and God now watch this point right here and God Call i'm sorry God separated the light from darkness God called the light day And the darkness he called night and there was evening and there was morning one day First thing God saw the light and it was good What was good was he saying the light the source of the light or the light itself well All we can go off of is the light How or which is the light? He saw the light And it was good I want to pause for a second and talk about something ask you guys a question Question Because we're going to see I haven't earned this yet, but We're going to see him saying after these days It was good this statement. It was good. It's good. It's good Which is going to bring up a question When was satan we're going to find out that satan was cast to the earth Questions are going to be when Another question is when were angels created? These are questions that people are going to have in their minds and the reason why i'm bringing up the satan part of because We're going to find that satan was cast to the ground and by the time that we get to this point That he was cast The wind part is going to come up and we're going to think well, is this before adam eave? Before mankind before the fall We're putting a pause on the on the bible study Correct answer uh craig and lisa don't know don't know we don't know You know what else we don't know definitively speaking I know I know that's why I said I that's why I said shiny metals I'm putting a pause on it because I want because I want to this question this question always It always seems to come up. It always seems to come up and I but I want to keep your mind into the I don't know category Because the question is going to come up. Well, when was satan this one was satan that when were angels created? We don't know There are pathways that we'll get to later a passage seem to say that they were created or they were rejoiced at the foundation When we look at that could have been because like we also as human beings rejoice at the foundation Clearly we weren't there in the beginning So we'll come to these passes, but I want to get you in a habit Of I don't know because when he keeps saying it is good. What does he mean? It is good now Put a pause back on the pause and let's go back into it So he says that at that he said that he saw the light and the light was good We know he was going to think the light was good because it came from him obviously just in our own thought pattern, but Let there be light and there was light He saw the light and it was good and god now. Here's the important thing. I want to ask you guys to think about this Here's a point that you might be able to make an assertion Though the passage doesn't say so specifically or explicitly God separated the light from the darkness God called the light day And the darkness he called night And there was evening and there was morning one day now I've covered some things and I'm not I want to make sure that you all Paid attention to some of the things I asked you this question. What happened on day one? When how did how did God separate the light from darkness? That's a question. How how did God separate the light from darkness? Because that question comes up from time to time too. As a matter of fact How does he separate the light from darkness? Remember, we need let's go back to our five W's We want to know who is the writer and who is the audience? Who is the writer and who's so in this case? Who's the writer? Well, and people are saying, uh, I don't know You possibly couldn't know though. Melly Mell, Sheila, spider. You possibly could you possibly could know Why is it possible that you could know? Again, who's writing this? Moses is writing this. Who's he writing it to? Who is Moses writing it to? Think about that. Who who is Moses? He's writing to some people Now Not one of the people that Moses is writing this to Now we don't know where they are. We don't know what's happening. All we know is that Moses writing this to someone to Whoever these people are they weren't there day one though, right? What's the logical conclusion about these people that we can make they know what a day is don't they? Would you would you agree at least agree? Even though the text hasn't allowed us to earn that But understanding who wrote and who wrote the text and who he's writing it to Does give us understanding of this. Are you with me? Moses is writing this now. Obviously God is telling him. Moses is writing this For who for the people's benefit what people since there are no people Whoever these people are Don't they know what a day is Don't don't they know what a day is Sure, so when a day comes What do we have with light because as we called the first day light and darkness being separated morning and evening? That's a day So in order for there to be a day the same term that's used of day here The same Hebrew term that's used for day here Uh-oh, let me move the Hebrew up Is the word yon same word that's used all throughout the Hebrew term Bible From exodus leviticus numbers due to around me. Joshua judges Ruth so forth. We know what a day is We know what a day is So because we know what a day is when he says that was the first day What happens? What does a day consist of? And see if this makes sense see if we've got enough information To go off of what is saying He says there's light and darkness the light is separate from the darkness. There's day and night. There's morning and evening When the earth spins Whatever the source of light is If this is the source of light and the earth is spinning like everyone No, or they might they may not know we know when the earth is spinning This side is light the other side over here is what dark Then it turns And then the side that was dark is now light we call that morning An evening day and night the first day So it seems to be it seems to be Can we say definitively maybe not for some people we can for some folks? Maybe not But it seems to be that that was the first time the earth began to spin Because he says let there be light And then when he said let there be light he The light was on one side and darkness on the other side. He said what what separates light from darkness An object in between it An object in between it would would seem to be like now we don't know for sure But there is an object there though are you with me now? I could be wrong But we know that there's an object there, which is the world the earth And then he says let and there was darkness light shines on this dark earth But does light engulf then it could It very well could but it seems to be some sort of separation now We still don't know to this point What the source of light is But it has to be this light and darkness that's showing up is the rotation of the earth Which is the beginning of time craig says what is the light source so far so far craig? We don't know We're going to know in just a second We're going to know or we're going to have an idea We're going to have an idea But so far We so far we see him bringing up some things and okay So let's think about this people who are hearing this word from moses at the first time We're sitting here hearing this from moses And as we're sitting in here in this well, we know what a day is We know exactly we can't imagine the earth being formless and void And just dark we can't imagine that but we can stay I mean we can Imagine what a day is because we've seen a day if you're five years old if you're three years old You know what a day is Now let's go back to it verse verse six Then God said let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters This word for waters is maine That's important Because we've already seen this word maine before I'll go to that word in just a second where we've seen it before but Then God said let there be An expanse in the midst of the waters And let it separate the waters from the waters that seems a little bit confusing Let it separate the water from the waters God made the expanse And separated the waters which were below the expanse From the waters which were above the expanse and it was so God called the expanse heaven And there was evening and there was morning the second day And this word for heaven is the word shamaim Now briefly this word shamaim This is also if you notice it's got the yadmeem the last two letters. Remember Hebrew reads from right to left And so the last two letters is that yadmeem the eem sound We also see from the waters which is the maim so the waters and the shamaim Is the heavens well that makes sense the heavens Is composed of water How much water now this is scientific This is about as a sign as scientific as I get after this I've reached my apex in scientific understanding But each each level of the heavens Has a certain amount of water each level of the ha shamaim The heavens has a certain amount of shamaim Are you with me? I'm sorry has a certain amount of maim which is water Shamaim ha shamaim is heavens Maim is water the word water is is contained in the word heaven. So he's separating it Obviously the seas that part of water this that that's as much water as you can get But the atmosphere the heavens underneath the lower part of it that we're in Because what he just created was the atmosphere and then out of space the level that we breathe Has water in it This canopy they put up how we separated it that level of atmosphere outer space also has water in it How much not a lot not a lot but Matter of fact the further you go up the less that you get But all he did was he separated the two and he called the expanse. What did he call it? He called them He called it heavens He called the expanse verse eight Heavens and there was evening and the morning and that was the second day are you with me? So that's what he's done so far. So so far all we got is light An atmosphere and outer space. That's it We got all this water on the ground We got the atmosphere and then we got outer space now By the way, by the way, do we think that because we're talking about the heavens someone someone may bring this up as well I want you all to be thinking about does Is this does god create the heavens where he stays at because there are three heavens There are three heavens um Do we take or believe that god also created where he dwells at on this day? Put a pin in that Maybe we'll get to that sometime uh today sometime this week sometime this year Maybe sometime this decade this is a question now verse nine Then god said oh, we're gonna see some activity here Then god said let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place So so far all we've got is just water all over the earth Let the waters below and the word for water is the word Mayim and it's the ha mayim And the reason why that's important the ha mayim because again the water is still one body of water at this point time It's one body of water. How do I know because the ha mayim the water is just one water so far Let the waters below the heavens Be gathered into one place And let the dry land appear and it was good and it was so so god called the dry land earth And gathering of the waters he called seas So we called the seas and god saw that it was good Then god said let the earth sprout vegetation Plants yielding seed and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their own kind With seed in them. I think that's important to know after their own kind with seed bearing with With bearing, uh, I'm sorry seed Plants yielding seed and fruit trees on the earth bearing the fruit after their own kind in other words So the seed inside it could also bear more of the same thing the tree couldn't have seed that bore a different kind of a tree Whatever the seed was in the in the vegetation. It would bear that same vegetation later on I think that's important. I think that's important matter of fact We've seen that happen even to 2023 Even though people do deny the science behind it or the biblical accuracy behind it. It's true It is true No, you're missing a point. We're not okay And I'll and I'm gonna I'm gonna have to keep doing this. I want you to understand I'm not sure if you were here at the very beginning But this is so important. Which is why I'll keep addressing this We're not saying you are dismissing what you know about the bible Again, I'm not doing that. If that was the case, I would delete every video on this on this channel about every other teaching No For the sake of this we are learning how to read the bible And so what we're doing is we're trying to get you cherry cherry to divorce any thoughts that you have any Preconceived notions even if the preconceived notions that you have about the bible Even if they are correct why because what if they are incorrect What we're going to do is look at the scriptures and answer each question Or what we know based on that scripture or every previous scripture Because what can happen is you can read into a passage Well, I think the bible said this and because I believe it said this and this reminds me of that Let me bring that into this passage. It may be it may not be But how you can avoid that is just by simply dealing with that text And the previous or subsequent text that we had before that. I'm sorry previous text Not the subsequent text We'll get there if what you believe is true, then we'll cover it If what you believe is true, then we'll cover it. Are you with me? So So now we are on verse 11 He says let the then guys that let the earth sprout vegetation Plants yielding seed and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them again with seed in them and it was so The earth brought forth vegetation Plants yielding seed after their kind and trees bearing fruit with seed in them after their kind and god saw that it was good There was evening and there was morning the third day So far We're at the third day So far we are at the third day question On the third day god said that it was good I got a question Does god always say that it is good? When he creates something on these days does he's all does he always say it is good? Well, no Because on the second day He didn't say that He did not say on the second day that it was good Why is it? Why did god not say on the second day? That it is good. Well, can I give you the answer to that? Because it comes up Hey god said that it is good. It is good. It is good But on the second day that we look at wait a second god didn't say it is good What's going on god? What? What was it about the second day that you just didn't like? So what's the answer of why god did not say it is good? What's the answer class? We don't know We don't know We're going to stick with the tech with the text and go off what it says and not add to what it doesn't say There's something that's going to come up and we see this throughout the scripture That we should not add we should not add to what it doesn't say I hear what you're saying. Sheila you might you you might be correct. Sheila if you but now here's a Guys move it too quickly If what you said is correct That satan was cast out On day two, but then what about day three? He comes back and says it is good as a matter of fact when he looks at the whole after he's finished He's going to say the same thing. It is good We just don't know we just don't know because Eric the guapo says the reason why god didn't say it is good because no one like monday got to go to work That's a good one. I like that We just don't know we honestly don't know And so let's put this over here in the I don't know category Maybe it'll come up again. Maybe we'll not I would I would suspect though that if god wanted us to know why he'll tell us why if he doesn't want us to know then fine but We've got three days so far To where he says it is good the second don't know but on the second one Um, what does he do he creates that happens in the earth or he creates a he separates the atmosphere So so all we got so far so far we've covered a lot Though we may not know a lot We did cover a lot or we may not know all the things but can I can I tell you something? What's happening already? Right now we're only on verse 14 chapter 1 verse 14 But no shield is not just you Everybody and I mean everybody is wanting To read some more in here. You can't have gone to the first 13 verses and have not thought about other verses It is it I'm not gonna say it's impossible, but I'm pretty sure everybody else in the chats. You're hearing this And you hear a passage you hear a question and bam immediately you're thinking about some other passage You're thinking about something else that you know in the bible And we don't know what you're thinking about is true or correct Because what happens if what you're thinking about on this particular text You're thinking about this passage and someone is thinking about the exact same passage or they're thinking about something else Or which one of you guys are right It's hard. It is so hard not to want to as you said jump the gun It's not it's it's hard to not to to to discipline yourself and do so to just stick with that Are you with me? It is really hard But it's going to help you. I promise you it will again I believe without question that this is the best the best bible study The best way of studying the bible having this divorce yourself of any freak now When you're having a conversation out in the crowd or whatever You're not divorce yourself anything. You know what you know But as you're studying for your own application for your own growth and to get a solid understanding This is what you want to do Okay, and you're gonna by the way, what's interesting is not why we're doing this in genesis But when we get to Exodus Or when we get to joshua or judges Wow, you talk about some serious discipline because we will have covered a lot And you're gonna naturally want to bring in a whole lot more But I promise you if you discipline yourself this way then later on wow, okay This is this is helping me to see things and what's funny is you're gonna see how How does this guy not see where he's off? How in the world does he not see this he should see well because he has not learned how to actually read that We read it was funny. We read everything else the same way You read the instructions the same way you You let me just talk to the man for a second. Just this is this is a man thing You get a desk you get a chair You get something that you got to put together. There's pieces to it You didn't invent it. You didn't make it. You didn't build it. You didn't ship it. You didn't box it None of that stuff. You didn't design it But you bought it you bought it You what do you do you get the book you open the book up You look at all the pieces and you set the book to the side because you have in your mind how this thing goes together and you start Microphone you start putting this thing together and you're building pieces out and you're doing this and doing that and like wait a second Hold up. Wait a second this book And what I'm doing there's something wrong And sometimes you might look at you open the first page of the instructions Then okay, let me go to the third page the fourth page of the instructions But because you're at the fourth page of the instructions and you didn't read the second page You missed out on something If you would have just went page by page step by step We would have a wonderful looking shelf Now we've got a sliding board for the grandkids because this thing is leaning all kind of where this is messed up I don't know how I did this something Let me call let me call the manufacturer because they what they shipped me was defective No, you just didn't follow the writings. You didn't read correctly You didn't even not even not not did you not read correctly? You just didn't read happens all the time especially for us. I mean I do it all the time I want to see I can put this together with I want to see how much of this I can get together without reading this book So, yeah, we We read an excellent battle ready. We read in arrogance We read in arrogance No, no, it's not general theology. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We are not talking about general theology We're not talking about theology Nope Now what we are talking about is bibliology how to study this thing We are divorcing ourselves from any preconceived notions and how we do so is stay only with the text that we're at Only the text that's previous to the text that we're in or the current text We can't go we're in Genesis 114 now. We can't go to Genesis 115. We can't go to exodus We can't go to malachite. We can't go anywhere else, but where we are so far and where we have been Because it helps us to take away from preconceived notions coming in any ice of cheating the text So now let's go back to it verse 14 Look what he says Then God said let there be lights Wait a minute Wait a minute Let there be lights And he used the plural of lights um A roth Let there be lights or wait a second Let there be lights I thought there was already light But what he says is let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens To separate the day from the night And let them be for signs and seasons and for days and years and let them be for Lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth and it was so God made here it is God made two great lights The greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night He made the stars also this word going come I mean coca bean will come to this in just a second And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth and to govern the day and the night And to separate the light from the darkness and God so that it was good There was evening and there was morning the fourth day now we're at verse 19 What did God just make The question earlier was The question earlier was when he said let there be light Well, okay. I used to think that that was the sun Seems to me like he just made the sun starting in verse 14 through 19 he did Let there be lights. Here's the plural form for lights In the expanse of the heavens so let there be lights in the heavens up there Let there be some lights up there to separate the day from night and to let them be what For signs and for seasons and for days now We don't do this anymore because we've got Google and we've got all kind of other apps and we've got satellites And we've got people that'll tell us that what season this is it's daylight savings time It it's the fall it's the wind But it used to be That people would look in the sky and see that the stars He's cocaine that they would see That they are placed a certain way that this is now the fall. This is the summer. Are you with me? And we would see these different constellations that are set up these constellations. This isn't just astrology This is actually God putting something up to so this is where this is he'll he comes up with these these terms later He told my pleides and the bear or Ryan will see this later on in scriptures. This is God doing this It's not mankind doing this now Worshiping those is something totally different But God put them up these stars or these objects for seasons Notice what he says And we're getting ready to come come to an end. I'm gonna offer a little time for some question and answer Because I think here is a good place to stop And I'm gonna do something. I'm getting ready to violate my point in just a second I'm getting ready to violate my point in just a second, but I want you to see this is this is this is absolutely wonderful guys This is absolutely wonderful. It's amazing how good God is. It's amazing how smart God, you know what? Do you know who the ultimate smart person is? It's God he is God is so awesome Dog on it. God. You are so awesome. I should I should make that into a shirt dog on it God, you are awesome and smart. Let me tell you what God did. Let me tell you what I'm getting Hold on. Let me drink some water calm yourself down because I'm getting a little excited about this No, not cocoa beans coca bean coca bean um He said look at this. He said let there be light In the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from night and literally says let them be for signs um Otof which is signs and for seasons Do not Miss this point now you can't get the fullness of this point right here But because it's time to end this study I want you to see what he's getting ready to say now I'm gonna make the the bible study point and then make the greater theological point the awesome point for us In just a second he says and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens and to give life Some of you guys haven't seen this because you you was born in 2000 or you're born in 1990s And you don't remember that there used to be times where you could literally look up in the skies You didn't have to be in the country You can be in the city Look up and see that the stars and the moon Actually gave us does anybody remember that when you could actually look up in a neighborhood And see the light from the stars and the moon it would give you light or just go out to the country now Go out into the country now when the moon is up and the stars are out It's like well, I can actually see this thing It used to be that way now we got lights everywhere You can't you can't even go to the corner of your street because there's a mcdonald's right there with a big old flashing m Or something right there But that's the way it used to be but back then He made a way for us to one see but also to navigate our cells to know where we are Where we're going not just physically But also in terms of where we are in the in the day in the weeks the months the years So what does he say let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years? So we can know remember the earth is now spinning Now we've got these Kokabin out there and then he's going to create this greater light and a lesser light and it was so verse Verse 16 god made two great lights It's the sun and the moon the greater lights that govern the day and the lesser light That's obviously the moon to govern the night. He made the stars also God placed him now the stars the same word for kokabin and so he makes these Verse 17 god placed him in the expansion having to give light on the earth and to govern the day and the night and to Separate the light from the darkness and god saw that it was good There was evening and there was morning So now what god does is that whatever that source of light was we still hadn't got to the point to whatever that source of light is Let me let me give you a help We won't get to that point until later It's going to be a while before we find out exactly where this source of light came from We won't get to it. So Put that to the side as well. We'll get to it eventually It the bible does tell us who all I jumped the gun The bible does tell us what that source or who that source of light is but now The children of israel are hearing this Oh, okay. That's the sun. We know the sun. That's where that came from on that day and the moon We know about the moon. We know about the the stars. We know about the seasons and so forth. We get that we get that Now moses throw something in there. Let me just put pause guys a time out The rules that we had for using the bible study The bible study is now concluded How we read this bible Now I want to get to something biblical I want to get to something there's a word that's used here Because we haven't earned this point. We will though, but there's a word that's used here The coca-vinge Those are and it's not just stars It is not just stars like the stars twinkle twinkle not those just those stars It's for every celestial body. It can be a star. It can be a meteorite. It can be a comet Where'd they come from? Well, they came from god god placed those and guess what some of those Did you know that some of those? coca-vinge Did you know Some of those actually have the audacity to move Well, yeah, they actually have the odd there are comments that move in a pattern and they are like clockwork They also help us to know certain things There are certain stars one in particular that moved a certain way that was foretold and guided some men To forth that were that were was foretold the birth of this coming messiah this savior This this this signs for time and for seasons Guess where that comes from that is initiated here is first taught we read about it in the gospels particularly matthew But it's first spoken of here What was the star that they saw was it a Stationary star. No, it was not we find out especially if we use if we I know you did cherry cherry We find out especially if we use this software called star night that we see that if you go back to and just They have done this and and actually figured out what was moving What was the placement of the stars at that time because how in the world does a star Move well the word star isn't the star that we think of the word star in the heat room Is a coca bean which is any of the celestial bodies it can be a star It can be a comet it can be a mirror any of these things that are Moving or standing steel are you with me? And so what do we find out when we go to like the little starry night deal We find out that there was actually a comet that moved from where they were it moved And then kind of did like a little dip and when it did a little dip It looked from their vantage point that it was standing steel And it came to like it was standing still arrested at a spot to where Jesus was born from their viewpoint because it tells us where these men were traveling from from the east So guess where they can look to they look in the opposite direction and they see this the amazing part is God doesn't do something just because you know what it's a thursday. I ain't got nothing else to do Let me go ahead and do the know these things were taught and brought about earlier Remember the number one thing that I said that you have to Remember the most important thing Above all else god is sovereign He knows what he's doing. He's not just making up as he goes God decrees. He does not guess. He does not predict. He causes things to happen now to what degree I won't go into that yet to what degree does god cause or move We'll deal with that later, but ultimately god is the one who initiated. He is sovereign How do we know so because genesis one one tells us In the beginning not me Not you not your pastor not grandma grandpa not your doctor not your confession None of us created the heavens error God did now we still haven't figured out how god exists in this bible study We haven't figured it out yet. We don't know. We don't know anything about jesus We don't know anything about the holy spirit All we know is there is the spirit We don't know if the spirit is a he yet if he's a person or some inanimate object is God blowing that it what does this mean god? Why is it the spirit and why isn't just why isn't you since there is nobody there for you to be around That they can't be before your your glory. Why is that the case? Oh, by the way, there are these folks that believe that there were some people before God said let's let's create man before we get there. There's some folks that believe that there was creation before then Is that possibly what what was happening where he was hovering over the deep in judgment? The answer to that is no, but we haven't earned that we haven't earned that statement yet One we haven't even earned the question to ask that were there people before adam and eve Why because we haven't covered adam and eve yet, but when we get there do we know enough to show that there were people there before then? We haven't gotten there yet. We will so Buckle up. This was the first Guys, we are going to what are we on verse 20? Yeah, we're on the fourth day. We're on the fourth day We won't make it out of genesis one until not next week the week after is when we get to genesis two Because there's a bunch that we're going to cover. There's some controversy that we're getting ready to cover We're going to earn some statements some statements that some people jump the gun to we're going to earn that It's not there absolute truth the The trinity is not in genesis one one, which is why we haven't we haven't used the trinity. We haven't used the trinity yet What's going to happen is this There are going to be some folks that are for the trinity here They're going to be some people that are against the trinity And so my statement to both sides One's right. One's wrong. My statement to to both sides is Let's look at the text and see what the text says so far We we don't have a trinity all we know is that there's that god created the heavens and the earth That's all that's all we are. That's the only place we are so far God now we do see that the name god is the plural does that mean something possibly Maybe not No christian life. We haven't we hadn't gotten you yet. We we we have not gotten it yet So we haven't earned that statement. So so for now We don't know because we're sitting here listening to Moses tell us a story We don't know there's a verse 26 yet. We don't know there's a verse 20 yet We don't even know if there's a verse. Where do we stop off at? We left on verse 19 we don't know if that's the end Might be a verse 20 We know there is because moses is getting ready to tell us But that's all we're doing is divorcing ourselves of any preconceived notion anything we've heard before as we're doing this study That way we can be loyal to the text. Amen