 Well, welcome back to the world and I do mean the world's greatest Bible study ever Well, and I say the world's greatest Bible study ever not because of me and I would like to say because of you but not even so much because of you although you do make it better But why this is I think the best Bible study not me But the way we do it which is to do our very best to as we come to the study That we will not have any preconceived notions now. That's difficult. How do you? Talk about the Bible with a bunch of people with all these different people with all these different backgrounds and thoughts and feelings And so forth and not bringing any preconceived notions. Well, simple We don't allow for anything other than what we are actually looking at for text How could that be since everyone likes to ice a Jeep? Well, the only way to do so is to simply stay with what we are reading and what we have read thus far So when we last left off when we last spoke we were in Genesis We made it all the way up to Genesis chapter 1 and I think we were entering in verse 20 So we'll go there in just a second, but I want to cover a few things just kind of in recap and That is remember and I'll just run through the slides again really really briefly remember This whole study is going to be kind of a combination of hermeneutics Bible survey and systematic theology I've covered what that is. I'll say it again briefly hermeneutics that is the art and science really I take it back not the art but the science of Biblical interpretation we want to apply a certain standard a method to how we read the second thing to that is Bible Survey Bible Survey is taking a kind of a bird's-eye look at all of the different books and so forth how things fit together and Then systematic theology which is taking the different doctrines so Terry so Teriology new metallurgy and so forth And then how they fit all together nice and neatly secondly I'm sorry. We are we just covered this I don't need that slide But as we look at hermeneutics it is there's two types that you can employ now There are more but they all kind of fit into one of these two but They really don't I Take a normal a consistent literal grammatical historical reading Meaning this that when I read the scriptures, I take a literal grammatical historical hermeneutic meaning that look at the words literally I take them for what they say what they mean grammatically That means rules of grammar apply rules of grammar even the English also applies But if it's in the Hebrew, let's look at the grammar the grammatical impact of the Hebrew verb or word saying for the Greek and then Historical which is kind of what we're doing today. We're looking at things in its historic historical context And so that way to me that is the most consistent. I'm going to try to push that honestly. I'll be honest with you I'm going to push that on you now If you if we're moving along and you say, you know, I don't I don't like I don't like your hermeneutics I think your hermeneutics the way we are going through this is interfering. I don't think you're gonna come back conclusion I really don't because what I'm trying to do is to get you to read the Bible like you read everything else The way God intended you to read it because guess what the first thing ever read by mankind was well, it wasn't the Bible Shocker it wasn't the Bible the first writings that we have that we know of were not of the Bible When Moses wrote the Torah that wasn't the first thing he's ever written. Are you with me? So that being said, I want you guys to read the Bible and let's have a consistent way of doing I don't want to read it one way in Genesis and then get to Jeremiah and read it differently I don't want to read it one way in the Gospels and then get to Revelation and read it differently The God understands that we're just human and so I want to keep that before you now. There's three rules to reading one Disregard any previous opinions or preconceived notions, which we're gonna do in this Bible study to don't make the scriptures say what it does Not say and then three use the scriptures to interpret scripture only when the current scripture doesn't make sense Now why I have to say that use the scriptures to interpret scriptures only when Because what happens sometimes is the scripture makes perfectly good sense But because I've got this doctrine in the back of my mind screaming this This confession would have you screaming and I remember this other passage Let me take that passage and apply this passage there. Well, if the passage that I'm reading makes perfectly good sense Just the plain reading makes sense Then I shouldn't try to distort it because that's what happens sometimes this is how we try to check our own preconceived notions to keep us from Isaac cheating a text and so we want to remember that also remember remember the What's important when we come across something and we know something is an absolute fact. It's important mark it down Remember it. Okay, we're gonna do that today. We're gonna see some points that are Absolute bedrock facts that do not change and if you know that they don't change Remember those and apply apply these facts apply these truths to the scriptures going forward Remember the five W's who what when where and why who the right who is the writer and who is a writer writing to? What it's the subject and circumstances when when is this taking place? Where is this? Where's the setting? Why is the why is this written the purpose of the writings and then remember this also? primary application This is applicable Is it applicable to you or is it applicable to the people that speaking and being spoken to and then can we then gain some sort of secondary Application off of that and the most important thing as we read this thing this above all else God is sovereign. Oh, what does that mean? That means that when I read the scriptures when I look at it? I Ideally I'd like to see as best as I can things from God's perspective Let me give you an example Someone said to me core you mean to tell me that your religion is the only Religion out of all of these hundreds or thousands of religions that are out there You mean to tell me that you are so arrogant as to think that your religion is the only way and I said No, you're looking at that the wrong way. Here's the proper way out of all the religions that are out there God and him alone created you and he's given you one easy way to come to him You mean to tell me you have the audacity and the arrogance to go somewhere else to find him That's the perspective. We want to have God is center and Above all else, he's sovereign and so what he desires to do what he wants to do Even if he doesn't explain it to us he above all else is sovereign. He does not he does not predict He's not Las Vegas. He decrees things and does that mean that he decrees everything he decrees the color of the shirt that I wear He decrees if I'm going right or left. No now in some cases, I do believe that he does now I haven't earned that I have not earned that point yet, which brings me to the next statement, which is Have we been told that yet avoid going to a future text to understand the text if possible That's in this Bible study. That's only in this Bible study. So obviously when we leave this Bible study We'll read another passage. We might read something else today or tomorrow. Hopefully you will read your Bibles again today Also tomorrow in church and so forth and so this is not to say never ever ever go ahead of where we are today and read that That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying for the purpose of this Bible study so we can get an understanding of what God is doing Have we earned that yet? Have we been told that yet? So we're not gonna look to the next passage and we're gonna hold ourselves to this rule Have you earned that yet number two? Can you prove what you say or believe from the text on the last session? People were just chomping at the bit to try to prove the Trinity We don't know of a such thing as a Trinity so far. All we know are the first 19 verses of Genesis 1 that's all we know Trinity, what is that? What do you mean? God is triune all we know so far We see we see two things or we see two people or one person and a thing We don't know we see God who in the beginning created the heavens and the earth and then we also see the Holy Spirit the spirit of God We don't know though if the Holy Spirit is a he yet We don't know if the Holy Spirit is a the it we do not know that just yet So remember that as we read this so we want to earn some things while we're doing this, okay? So whatever you have not earned we don't get to say so all we have is what the text says Now I also brought this up for for you guys to look at keep this in mind Especially if you haven't taken a screenshot take a screenshot of this if you haven't done so already This is this chronology of the Old Testament Later this week you'll have a chronology of the New Testament as well This is how the Bible is put together. We'll talk about the chronological books as well as we'll talk about the Complimentary books as well. So let's put that back on the screen. I'll give you guys a chance to screenshot that as well Okay, so now hope you all got a chance for that now. We are going through Genesis I'll put this back on the screen in just a second, but I want you to notice Kind of the outline of Genesis The who the what the when the where the why Well, we'll start applying that as as we go through Genesis I want you to kind of remember that also as we're going through it and we'll talk about Some of God's attributes. We're gonna come in contact with his attributes We talked about before his communicable as well as his in communicable attributes also So that being the case, let's go ahead and jump into it. We are starting off in Genesis 1 We left off on verse matter of fact Let's go to verse 19 since that's where we left off bad He says there was evening and there was morning the fourth day We put this back on the screen because I want you guys to see what has happened so far So far we've got day one Which was light was created or he said let there be shouldn't say light was created As matter of fact, it would be wrong to say that light was created. All he said was left there be light And we were talking about the source of it. We we found well, we don't know what the source of it is yet We can hypothesize But we know that the source of the light was not the Sun Nor the moon or anything else because the Sun had not been created yet now our thoughts might was God This the light did the light emanate from him Where else could have been emanated from could the light have emanated from the the Holy Spirit Could have is there somebody else or something else that the light could have emanated from so far We don't know of anyone else or anybody else now We do know so far that there's this plurality in the word for for God this use Elohim, but that's it We don't know what it means We can draw conclusions, but we have not earned those conclusions yet But now guess what guys you don't want to be in a rush to draw a conclusion because if what you're thinking is the truth I can promise you this the Bible will clearly spell out that truth as we go. Are you with me? So now going back to that We look at this about Genesis. Wait a second. I'm sorry We see on day two The atmosphere was created I worry separated the waters in the heavens day three Dry land and seas and vegetation day four the sun moon stars and planets Day five. Oh, wait a minute. I don't think we've gotten there yet So so I won't go ahead and take a snapshot if you want to see that if you want to put that So now that takes us to verse 19 and that was the fourth day So the fourth day we saw that was so now go to Genesis 120 Then God said let the waters team with swarms of living creatures And let the birds fly above the earth in the open expanses of the heavens. What are the heavens? We said that there's the atmosphere We've got three heavens that we know of To we know of one we don't know but we know there's a third heaven at least a third heaven Why because it's using the plural form for heavens Let's go back to it in the expanses of the heavens and if we go over here to the right to look at the Hebrew The word that's there is the word Hashem I remember the the in portion Indicates a plurality a plurality in Hebrew is either three Or more it can be four it could be five and so when we use this term Hashem I mean That's the term for heavens. We know of two to we see that is the atmosphere There were in that we breathe that we get our option from and then the one just above it that separated from this other Where there's this expanses will separate it this canopy above it that leads us into this the next heaven Which is outer space which is where those other things were created the the coca bean Which is the the celestial bodies the stars the planets Comments and so forth so we know that he is decided to create these birds He's living creatures in the expanse of the heavens the two we know the third one. We don't know just yet first 21 God created the great sea monsters Huh, I wonder if that means anything the great sea monsters We might see something about the great sea monsters a matter of fact probably in a week. We'll talk about Is it no in a week or two the third or fourth lesson? We'll talk about in the great sea monsters Then tell us much about them other than these great sea monsters and every living living creature that moves With which the water swarmed after their kind We keep seeing this other thing here also this After their kind he said the same thing about these the vegetation that was produced and these things these trees and so Forth that bear fruit and the fruit has seed after their own kind so it seems to be that Everything is going to be able to bear only after its own kind which makes sense because we know today that monkeys don't don't Bugat eagles and sharks don't have puppies right kittens don't have snakes After their own kind and so that's what we see here and Every winged bird after its kind and God saw that it was good So here we have again on this day he says he looks at it and says that it was good What was the only day so far that we see that God did not use that term that it was good the second day? Can we draw any conclusion from that? No, we can't we there's no way that we can draw conclusion From that maybe we can later but so far we cannot which means it's probably not that important at least at the moment verse 22 God blessed them saying obviously to the animals Saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let the birds multiply on the earth There was evening and there was morning a fifth day So we've made it to the fifth day pretty good so far the 21st 24th verse then God said let there bring forth living creatures after their kind Cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind and it was so God made the beasts of the earth after their kind and the cattle after their kind and everything that creeps on the ground after it's kind And God so that was good. So again, he's repeating this thing after it's kind The only reason why I'm bringing this up after it's kind is because we need to remember that in today's society after some kind does not mean and and there were people who have who were Historically would say after their own kind to to refer to different races or different colors that is not what that means Okay, as a matter of fact if we look at the Greek portion of it It's the game that so it's speaking of the same species not the color of the species I wouldn't I just want to throw that out there because it was used in the past God never intended that way and the people that are hearing it Remember who's telling us this story? God's not telling us this story Moses is telling us this story. Well, how did Moses get the story since Moses wasn't there? God is telling Moses the story, which is important to know God is telling Moses Moses is not only telling others, but he's writing it down Who is Moses telling and writing this down to well, there are people there Why is that important? Well, because the words that Moses is using to say to give to write to tell the story to convey He's using the very words that the people that are hearing and that are reading the very words that they can understand Why is that also important? Because Moses is not trying to give a deep hidden meaning when Moses says That God made the beasts of the earth after their kind Do you think that in verse 25 that Moses is offering? Something whereby there's a hidden meaning where they should you know what children of Israel? Jews dig deep and find out what I really mean. That's not what Moses is doing. Moses just speak to them plainly and There's a reason why Moses speak because in in language The goal of the communicator is to convey the point that he wants them to know There are different types of literature different types of genres When it comes to reading and writing There is poetry. There are idioms. There are figures of speech. We get that There has never been nor probably there ever be in the history of mankind a Society that speaks only in idioms or figures of speech or poetry. You would employ that to make a point Okay, and we'll see that later We'll see how some of these idioms are employed, but you know who doesn't use very many idioms You know who doesn't use very You know, it doesn't use very many idioms. It's gonna be Moses. Let's go back to it Now we are on verse 26 Before I get to verse 26, let's pause. Let's take a break Because we're getting ready to step into something and there's going to be a natural tendency To jump the gun not what you may interpret out of these next few verses may be absolutely correct But whatever you're going to say and whatever questions I'm going to ask and you give an answer You can only give an answer based off of what? Only off of what we've read so far the first 25 verses are all we have Okay, so do not make any other conclusions except for what has been earned remember this statement. I'll put up again Did you earn that statement? Can you prove what you say or believe from the text and we are saying from what we have read from the text That we're reading and from the text that we have read So as we're in Genesis 1 through 25 now going into 26 27 so forth You cannot go to Exodus. Can I go to John? Can I go to 1st Timothy or 1st Peter? You can't go anywhere, but where we've gone Are you with me? Now the things that might start churning in your head the children of Israel have these thoughts also and He is going to address the very same things that we might think might be complicated and so forth So and there's a reason why because someone put earlier He said maybe by 2026 will be through will be out of the Old Testament. We are going slow deliberately We are going slow to try to make a point for example For example, if I ask you right now and We cover this on the last session, but if I ask you right now When was Let's put a pause on everything we know so far because so far we don't know of what I'm getting asked you So we're putting a time out on the Bible study Let's step back into our life the devil When was he cast down to earth? When do you all think that the devil was cast down to earth? And by the way by the way, there is a correct answer Actually There's two correct answers. There's a correct answer and then there's a more correct the better answer There we go. I don't know. I Don't know. That's the only answer that you can give Now can you make an assumption you say I don't know but I think well you can do that You can do that. I like how you said it Sheila. I don't know yet now In reality, do we have an idea? Do we think some folks believe what he was cast down before now? There are some people who think that he was cast down before prior to man being created Let me go to the passage That people point to Let's go to the passage that people point to to tell us that they think what is actually more than one passage but thus far that people will point to to start their Guestimation as to whether The devil was cast down to earth prior at the very beginning when we go to chapter 1 verse 2 The earth was formless and void and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the spirit was Moving over the surface of the waters this word right here this Hebrew word is Bohu and this word for Formless is tofu To who so now the problem is though people are going to make emphasis that there was some sort of judgment Prior to verse 2 Which is why the spirit is hovering over because the word that's used has also been used to to signify Judgment but no that's not know that that he's hovering over him in judgment. That's not the case First of all, you can't you can't use that anyway But then it also seems to fly in the face of reason when you think about the fact that he looks at everything and says that it is good That part that that that part is gonna take some strained thinking if God looks at looks at mankind looks at creation See Satan Which also means his demons with him and says it's good We can't see them like like he can see them, but he can see them that that would be the stretch So now they can't earn that with this passage and Truth be told because we're still in time out If they go to other passages, they still can't earn it Now that's the first question When was when do you think that Satan was cast out of earth to when were angels created? Does anybody know when angels were created? Well, it's like the first answer the first question. Don't know. I don't know, but I think I have an idea I have a hypothesis and there's there's a passage that we'll go to not today But later on that speaks about how they rejoice at the foundation of the earth It there's a couple ways you can take that passage though. It could be taken that they rejoice by looking at the creation of the earth They could have been created after Now I don't know. I'm not making a point, but they could have been created after mankind Then rejoiced at what was created the reason why because Hebrew tells us that they are ministering spirits. Well, who are they ministering to? Who in the world will they be ministering to there's nobody to minister to and so That's me also giving my own interpretation. I don't know matter of fact. I can never earn that Let me just give you a tip We can never earn any of the positions whether you think that he the angels were created before or after you all you can do is I think because of this passage and even still they're they're vague So because God God had doesn't seem to show any interest in telling us when they were created or Here's a crazy one. Here's a crazy one matter of fact two crazy ones Why when they rebelled? We're gonna get back. We're gonna get back to the Bible said in second Why when he rebelled? Why did God kick him out of heaven and send him to earth? What's that all about God, but we don't know We simply don't know if it were me. I Would have simply gotten rid of I would have annihilated Satan right then and there does that necessarily mean that we would have That we would have avoided all of these years of seeing it. No, I don't I don't know that to be the case either So, but we'll get that in a second. So now we are on verse 24 24 no, I'm sorry verse 26 verse 26 now We'll push the timeout button. We're back in and let's go back to the study then God said Oh, oh I See a problem coming Then God said let us make man in our image According to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and Over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. First of all God, why does this man that you're creating? Why does he get dominion? Well, it's in what he says. Let us make man in our image according to our likeness before we get to that issue image and likeness Let's deal with let's deal with this other issue. He said let us make man in our Huh What? By the way, thank you for super chat. I appreciate that. He would but why would you wait a minute? Wait a minute Wait a minute. See wait a second. Wait a second. Wait. We got a flag on the field. We have a problem Sister Becky says no problem. God is talking to his son. Where do you get that from sister Becky? Where in the first 25 verses do you get that he's talking to his son? You don't there is no mention anywhere in the first 25 verses or in the 26th verse or the 27th verse that God has a son so far All we're talking about is What we see here. I'm going to make you if it's the last thing I do which I can't there's some folks that had There I I've had the class where people have been just just intent on Bringing any and everything into the passages that we're looking at but for the sake and I promise you This does help you with your understanding of the scriptures. I Can when I tell you that there are people who just changed their mouth, you know what? Okay, I see that now All the people that have been in the chats before and so forth and come on list of videos and and I've said You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong this that and so forth I've always asked me challenging come to the class and see and apply what I'm saying And then you'll see in what you're saying is true of what I'm saying is true I don't know but at least we can hold each other to the same standard. So here when he says let us make man in our image a Couple of things we have to say Sister Becky I need you to pay attention to sweetheart And I'm gonna need you to pay attention And and I'll keep stopping to do this because I need you all to be on the same page as much as possible We do have the whole Bible as a whole We're not doing we're not doing that type of Bible study today The Bible study that we're doing is to get you to have a consistent way of interpreting The only way to do that because others are gonna show up later I have to and I don't mind explain this to this because this is necessary. It's just it's just part of it It's like it's like giving CPR constantly giving breasts constantly giving pumps and so forth. We'll have to keep doing this We do have the whole Bible as a whole but the problem is it is this Oftentimes though, I don't see the whole Bible as a whole the way you do and Vice versa, how can we fix that? Well, let's try to divorce ourselves of any preconceived notions of the Ability of ice achieving a text anybody can as a matter of fact all of us have ice achieving a text at one point in time In our lives, so the only way to do it is to stick with this because What we also need to understand guys is the people that are hearing this for the first time these Jews The people that Moses is speaking to Do they know about God's son? Have they heard the the term son of God yet? No, they have not So now how do they take this? We know how you take it is 2023 we know how she takes it. We know how he takes it. It's 2023. How did they take it? And however, they take it if they got the truth it was still the truth the truth in 4000 BC is the same truth in 2023 Are you with me? So now if I ask you how do you earn that who the son there is no son just yet? Now can we be building? Can we be like real investigators and start building a case because a true investigator a Detective Does not start with a conclusion because what happened and it happens a lot You end up thinking that that guy is the guilty person So you put all your eggs in that basket and you make him to be guilty when the killer is over here The perpetrator is over there because you set your sights on that person. So all the clues are going to point to him Even if they don't But now what you do is you let the clues you let the evidence lead you somewhere and That's what we're doing now so far. We have this this term Elohim and And and the I said before guys, there are three ways of numbering in Hebrew the singular The dual you hear when you hear this term I Like for the for example the term Seuss in Hebrew is the term for a horse one single horse suicide is for two horses suicide So seeing is for Three or more horses what he used this term Elohim the in the admin In saying the name God and there's a question. Why would you use this term Elohim when you could have simply used? L You could have used of a form a derivative of y'all You could have said Detective grime time. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah Well, how have you pronounce it and the reason why I said that way and I rarely if you ever knows I don't usually say that the word because we don't know exactly how to say the word how we get the word Jehovah it's interesting I'll cover that one day how we even why we didn't say it like we say it it comes from taking the tetragrammaton and Adding out on I to that and it ends up sounding like Jehovah That's how that's literally how we got the term or the way of saying Jehovah or Yahweh as well It's how we got the word Yahweh because we're taking out on I and putting it with tetragrammaton and how it sounds to them I don't know that that's the way we should do it, but that's the way we did do it Are you with me? Thank you all again for the super chest as well. I appreciate that so Let's deal with this. Let us This is weird. God. God. This is weird let us make man in our image Hmm and God said and he said Elohim and this Now us now I say which actually is this is the plural form of let us to make us make it's us make may we make man Let's let us make man. Why are you using this plural form? There are some and it's it's it's only fair to use the other arguments that other folks are going to make that is Maybe this is this Majesty of plurality but us Problem is the only problem with that is though that that really wasn't something that was used for them at that date But fine fine fine The great mystery on the floor is the us and the hour because he didn't just say it once He said let us make man in our image according. Wait a second. No, he said it a third time. Wait a minute wait a minute He said us here plural let us make man in our image according to our likeness So three times we see the us our hour. Here's a question guys Based on that, I'm sorry. I'm having a screen. We see the us the hour and the hour. Here's the question guys Here's a question Do we have any way to determine who the us and the hour is? So my question you guys is who is the us and the hour that is that Moses is talking about Now Moses writing this is it possible to take it that God is saying let us God and Moses No, no because Moses wasn't there. We know Moses wasn't around then So who's the us and the hour? right now We don't get dark. Well, you know what you know what fine I can I can we can we can entertain that We can entertain that God and creation because there's creation and then there's God the only two characters so far However, wait a second though. Wait a second. There is another possibility Is is there another possibility because we know I don't I think it'd be a stretch and obviously we know It's not it's not Creation, but who else is there now again all we've got guys so far Are the first 26 verses Who else could it possibly be well, okay fine God and the and the spirit of God We can take that We can take that so so far so far. We have two Possibilities that are implied in the us and the hour Possibly now Mellie Mel could be wrong Mellie Mel could be dead wrong He could be dead right. Is that a way is that a way I said dead, right? He can be right. He can be wrong We have God and we do have the spirit of God Problem is though. We still haven't determined if the spirit of God is an it a thing or a person a he Certainly not a her Which is kind of a What some folks would say We still don't know so let's let's just keep finishing. We'll come back to this in just a second Because there's another problem that we have on the stage. There's another issue that we need to deal with Because God has this this plural terminology use of his name. Let's just let that hover a little bit Let's come back to it. We might be able to address it But then something else is also just as important to cover. He says let us make man in our image according to our likeness Salim is the word for image and likeness is the mood so What does that mean? So I ask you guys What does it mean? When he says according to our image according in I'm sorry in our image according to our likeness In our image, let's put the plurality the hour and us to the side for a second. I promise you we'll come back to it later But what does the in our image in the image of and our likeness? What is image and likeness referred to? now We know the words that the Jews would understand the words that are used the word Salim and The word excuse me the word to move. What does that mean? What does that well How they understand it is Form and function this word Salim That would equate or refer to their form likeness the mood will reform to their function Okay That's how the Jews will now they may not totally understand. They know that's how these words are used Form and function. Let's make man in our form According to our likeness. We got a problem though We got a prop. Well, we may not have a problem. I take that back We may not have a problem We may not have a problem, but if we say if this word Salim is is dealing with image or the form of Problem Problem does God have the same form or image that we have So far in the first 26 verses We don't see that So far is the in the in the wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. This is gonna be fun by the way guys Just a bet he said God is spirit. How do you know that? How do you know that God is spirit? How do you let me ask you a question? Because it's not just as a Becky that says that do you all believe that God is spirit? Do you all believe that God is a spirit? I'm how many of you all would agree With her the thing on the floor now is that God is a spirit. How many you all would agree with that? Absolutely, I like okay Saturn says yes, but we cannot say that now absolutely correct. We don't know that God is a spirit We we simply don't know that right now Obviously we'll go forward and find out that the Bible says that but we're not there yet That's why I'm trying I promise you guys I promise listen I promise you like I promise you the Cowboys won't win it's more next year I can promise you that you will find that this method of reading Brings you smack dab in front of the truth You don't have to second guess it it says what it says again God does not think you are smart. He does not think you're intelligent He does not think that you're all knowing those are attributes that are really reserved for him And so he gives it to us in a way that we can understand plain and basic so Back to the question then because Becky you are right God is spirit We just haven't earned that yet. So we can't use that So how is how are we made in his image? How are we made in his image now? I want you guys because we're not really going to be able to get an answer just yet just yet But we are Remember this matter of fact moderators Diana or Carol Guys remind me What are the moderators here? I need to say I'm sorry. I didn't check to see my moderators at Lisa Remind me in just a little bit to come back to verse 26 Now because when we get to a verse We don't have the answer to the questions that that verse may produce doesn't mean we cannot come back to the verse Especially if later verses tell us oh what we were talking about there. It's also answered here Are you with me? So and by the way guys, I think I think This way Keeps a little bit more cluster out of your mind Little tick 922 says consciously or morally possibly maybe maybe maybe I Think we're gonna get a little bit of the answer in just a little bit. I think so. I think I think maybe Well, I'm coming back to it sister Becky. I will I will and again For those of you who are just now hearing the Bible study and Didn't catch one of the rules what I said last week. It applies this week a couple things one. There's no arguing While we're having the Bible study But more importantly Let me tell you who's not allowed in the Bible study No Baptist no Methodist no Episcopal no church of God in Christ no church of Christ No assembly's a God no Calvinist no Arminians no provision is no dispensationalist None of those no no not allowed Nope Take that denomination take that confession take that ideology just put it on the on the cult rack for now And then come on in the reason is because I don't want you to take that because you know how easy it is You know how easy is take your doctrine your denomination your ideology and put it into these passages There are no Trinitarians here. There are no Unitarians There are no motorists or oneness none of us here none of us here Just listen no no Kojic Lisa no Kojic No church of Christ no Methodist no Baptist no reform Baptist no primitive Baptist No missionary Baptist no Southern Baptist on National Baptist USA. Aren't there a billion Baptist? Isn't that something? So all we have is just a text. So let's go back to it. Let's see what else he says and let them Let's wait wait. Okay. Go on it We have another problem ladies and gentlemen We have another problem another problem Another problem now he says and let them who's the them Who is the them that he's speaking of and we know he's speaking plural because this word this use here is Radu and the other that what you can't see it The oo sound at the end that's the plural so let them rule wait a second Who is the them? He said let us make man and the word for man is what I don't that is singular Or does it mean something else? Well, I don't That's just how the people would have taken it. It can mean a singular man or can mean mankind Same way that we understand today if I say I want to do right for man Do I do I mean a specific man? I could or do I mean for all of mankind? I Mean for in this case for all of mankind. So it says let us make man In our image according to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and Over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all of the earth and over everything that creeps on the earth God created man in his own image same word Adam in his own image in the image of God He created him male and female. He created them. Wait a second. Now. He brings in this issue of female male and Female he made male Zakaar and he made female Nakaba, which is female. Hmm. Let me go back and explain something Often in Hebrew literature, you're gonna see a summer of a summarization a Summary and then detailed offered you'll get a summary and then detail Let me put a time out on this for a second When we get to him dealing with Abraham and him making a covenant with Abraham What we're gonna see is when God says that he's gonna make a covenant with Abraham and he says this in Genesis 12 He doesn't make the covenant with Abraham until Genesis 15 He brings up in 12, but he actually makes it in 15 This is what's happening here in Genesis 126. He's saying what he's going to do So he has the idea So to speak let us make man and he gives a summary that he made man in his image And he made them male and female He gives a summary and now he's going to go into the into detail I haven't earned that yet, but I'm getting ready to okay Go to verse 27 God created man in his own image in the image of God. He created him male and female. He created them God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it Excuse me and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth Then God said behold I'm a real little bit then we get back to it to the passages that we left kind of hanging He says behold I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth and every tree which has fruit yielding seed that shall be food for you Someone asked all answers questions Is Genesis one-in-one poetry? No, it's not Genesis one-in-one is not is not poetry By the way guys if you do have a question that's really really pertinent to this go ahead and ask it Because you might not I'm trying to make it as much like a classroom We're actually in a room you may have a question on the floor as long as this pertaining to this Do not ask question about explain John one one go over that no So No, this is not this is not poetry. This is this is actual. This is an actual historical account Okay, he's given an actual historical account Let's go back to it. He says And it should be for food for you verse 30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and Everything that moves on the earth which has life. I have given every green plant for food and it was so So at the point in time, what does mankind have to eat off of? Vegetation Does not have he did not give them animals to eat off of yet Now look what he says for 31 God saw all that he made that he had made and Behold it was very good and there was evening and there was morning the sixth day So everything at that point from verse 31 prior God saw that all that he had made and the word for all is the Hebrew word call Which means all everything at this point that he has made What does he say it is good now the reason why I'm emphasizing that? Because it may help to answer a question that was asked earlier Time out on the play May I ask you guys a question? This is outside of the Bible city now What you have already read does God call man good? Going forward you now have the ability to look at the rest of your Bible Does God call man good? Well, this is a obvious answer. We know the answer the answer is no God does not call us good anymore. As a matter of fact, he says there's none good. No, not one None of us are good. Nobody might say no. We're not good now. Then he calls us good But I'm saying going forward Does God call us good? He didn't call us good now does he He doesn't call us good now But he said everything that he made then including man was good He doesn't call us good now, but then good Well, the implication is that then we were good now not so much Are you with me? There's a reason why I'm bringing this up guys Because I I want you to remember. I said I I am employing a literal grammatical historical hermeneutic Historically speaking at this moment versus one through 31 Everything is good man is good When he bring when he when he actually creates man when he fashions man and breeds into man Man is good Woman's good Tiger's good Uh, the lion's good the everything is good No blemishes whatsoever everything that he has created is good Do I have a little bit more of an arsenal? At my disposal now to say that do I think that satan was cast to earth at this point in time? I it might be even good to speculate because because of the tech. I've got some texts now. I've got some extra texts Where I can say that all that God looked at was good Is it possible? I'm not saying definitively now. We're back to the bible study. Is it possible? But at this point in time Even all the angels that everything was good. We are staying in we are staying in order Is everything that he's made thus far good according to the text He said God saw that all he had made and behold it was very good Is it possible for someone to say just so far? We can possibly say that there was nothing bad at the time Not the possibility of bad, but at the time there it's possible. It's possible I've heard people literally argue that the question I asked earlier When were the angels created or when were they cast down? It's possible. It's possible They weren't ever even created at this point in time. It's possible that at this time there had not been any rebellion It's possible Can't say for sure, but at least there are some texts now we're cooking At least there's some texts a basis whereby we can say that because in verse 31 He saw all the word all called means everything It means everything that he had made What are some things that he has made well everything whatever you see is what he made Well, what about those demons did he make that he made them too? So could someone say They could There you go, sister Becky everything that he has made was good Is it possible that he wasn't speaking about the angelic hosts? That's possible also, but at least we got a text whereby we can Come up with something See the thing is we can't go too far off one way or the other because all we've got so far are 31 verses Okay, now let's go back to it remember I said we have a summary Then we actually have the actual details Thus the heavens and the earth were completed and all their hosts huh The heavens and the earth were created in all their hosts What does what is the word for hosts survive? Or save I in this case Um What is the word for hosts that word means all that is entailed In the heavens and the earth all that is entailed That might be extra ammunition to state that at this point in time there had not been a rebellion Maybe maybe not But it's just still at least if I'm going to say so at least I've got a scripture I'm not saying one or the other I I've never stated that I think now I do think that that uh, the rebellion took place after this I believe personally that the rebellion took place after the six days How long after the six days don't know have have no idea But I've got these passages whereby I'm basing this on If someone says no no no no I don't know I can't I can't argue because I don't I have enough to make my point I don't have enough to argue against someone else's point Does that make sense now? By the seventh day got completed Or a call which is to to cease to stop Some versions might say he rested he did not rest like he was tired took a break No, it just means he ceased completed his work which he had done and he rested On the seventh day Now if you notice something I want you all to look over to the right I want you to look over to the right and I want you to see these two words Here we've got the word for resting The word for rest is shabbat The word for seven is shabia Or shabee The words are when I say close close The words are close. So where we get this word Sabbath and when we get the word seven They are part of the same makeup Okay, now the Jews are hearing this they know this Because again, he's writing that to somebody there's a literal audience that Moses is writing to Okay um Shadow 96 for nine nine six four three three which verses that Matter of fact, let's let's pull this up. Let's pull this up. Let's pull the king james I mean the new the king james version up Uh Let's see. Let's move this over just a little bit. You all can't see it, but let me just uh, which verse is that? Because I I brought this up before Uh and god, so oh here it is Yeah What he's bringing up guys is verse 28, which is fine. He can bring that up in verse 28 The king james version does use this word replenish Where it says be fruitful um The esv the nesb all the other versions will say be fruitful and feel The king james version used this term replenish Well, which one is it? Well, that's where we go to the actual word that she used here for the word replenish or feel This word here is the word mala, which is to fill up Why the king james version uses the word replenish I have no idea I have no idea By the way, by the way, the word replenish and replenish are I think if I recall that the same words Uh, but it means to fill up this word is used here in the Hebrew text means to fill up It's not mean to refill mean that it used to be something It's gone and now let's fill it up again. That's not what this word means. Okay, so That's a good point that you bring up because somebody might might bring it up They might bring it up to say that there must have been other people or other things there, you know There was nothing else there prior to that But what he's saying is to fill up the earth as though I want you to have some babies Makes make some little babies now We don't know who the people are that he's speaking of yet because we hadn't gotten there yet but Doesn't mean that to go back and to refill replace whoever was no longer there There are people who will read the king james version and would take that they're in verse two Or what they call these pre atomites verse two can't be used I mean that passage verse we may cannot be used there because the word that's used Does not mean to replenish or to refill are you with me? But that's a good point that you brought a matter of fact. I'm glad you brought that point I I did not think about that point at the time Although I did cover that recently one of my more favored pastors that I like to listen to Preachers I like to listen to he brought that up and it's like no, that's not what that word means So so now let's go back to chapter two verse one Then he says Thus the heavens and the earth were completed and all their hosts by the seventh day guy completed his work Which he had done and he rested or ceased On the seventh day from all his work Which he had done Then god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his work Which god had created and made now interestingly enough He uses the I don't I don't know that you necessarily could could Make A big inference on this I don't know that you can but I want you to notice something on here The word that's used for work This is the Hebrew word for Malacca, which is or in this case malaco, which is The old part that you in that you see is the singular possessive for him. It's a pronomial suffix Meaning it's added to the end of the it's a pronoun added to the end as a suffix to state that it is his work Here's what's interesting He rested or ceased or stopped from all of His work which god plural had made That's interesting That's interesting when you think about it. He god rested from his work The work of his and you could have just as easily made it a plural From malaco to malaco, which would have been their work He could have easily said that But he said his work which god the plural made Is there something we can draw from that? Probably not yet But maybe not sure But I just wanted to make you aware of that because when we see the word god because someone asks Before is this Elohim is it still Elohim all the way through thus far? Yes, it is. It's still the plural Elohim Now this is what I want you to see Verse four It says this is the account Of the heavens and the earth when they were made Remember I made the statement that we have a summary Then we're going to get details Okay, so what we saw that god made man Male and female that was the summary Now look what verse four says This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the lord god made the earth and the heaven So now he is going to give detail If you think this is going to be a second a second statement Especially when we talk about mankind Then we're going to have a problem The reason why when he starts speaking about man It's not somebody else. It's not that he made mankind all these people And now he's talking about specifically adam And that adam is separate from mankind as some somebody different The problem that you'll have is if you apply that same logic that's saying To to even how the rest of the world was done, then we would have two worlds We would have Multiple creations of trees and so forth. So he's all he's doing right now is he is going to give Like that's that's correct bishop details on the same account Okay So he says this is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were made So what is he going to give us a deep? He's going to give us an account of the heavens and the earth when they were made in the day that the lord god made the earth And heavens now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth What field what shrub? What are the ones that he created? Are you with me? so Hold on you said. Well, I don't know that it. Let's see I don't think that it is going in the I haven't checked to see Dutch asks this question. He says why is it going? Why is it going from the plural to the singular with heavens and heaven? I don't know that it is going from um Oh, you're asking. Well, okay. Okay In in in the english, let's put it back on the screen. Let's move this off the screen in the english it is going from from a singular to plural verse four The heavens And then at the end of verse four, it's just heaven But if you notice it is look at verse five the right hand side. This highlighted is the word shaman And then over here shaman So to say it's the same plurality So Why they said that in english? I don't know but in hebris exact same word Okay, but good question Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth And no plant of the field had yet sprouted. Well, we know he's speaking of how he's putting together because We've already covered when he said that there's going to be shrub. It's going to be vegetation So now he's giving a detailed account Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted For the lord god had not sent rain upon the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground So we know he's about to give a detail because he just said in verse chapter one verse 26 Let us make man in our image male and female may well now there is no man to till it There has not been a man made yet He's giving an account now. He's he's building up to uh or giving more detail that we have from chapter one But a misuse derives from the earth toward of the whole surface of the ground then god then the lord god Huh interesting interesting introduction of a word here now then the lord god Which is where we get the tetragrammaton from here, which is the yahuwah And I say yahuwah because if you look at it if you look at the word On the right hand side guys, you see the yacht the hay the wah or wah And hey underneath it you have a schwa And then underneath the why you have a uh a sound Originally initially those vow markings weren't there That comes about because of how we look at the word. I don't know And they just put it there the miserites put it there. We don't know how to say that We can guess and maybe someone's guess is going to be accurate There's only so many ways you can say it the problem is the problem is though that We're not sure but anyway, what we have now though is the introduction the lord god Let's pause for a second Let's pause for a second. Are my moderators are y'all make sure y'all remind me to cover chapter one verses 26 Make sure you guys remind me the bible says then the lord god Forman Wait a second Why now the introduction of the lord god Don't know All we do know is we do have this new introduction the lord god He could have easily said in the beginning the lord god created the heavens and the earth And the lord god did this or he could have just said in verse seven here He could have just simply said then god form man But here he says the lord god and we know the word lord is there It is yahuwah. Elohim is there Why Why Moses did you write that this time? Well, Moses said I had no choice. That's how god told me to write. Well, why god? Did you do it this time? Why could it have been lord got all the way through from Genesis 1 1 all the way down to verse 2 7 chapter 2 verse 7 Or why could it have been Elohim like it is and then you kept Elohim by itself in chapter 2 Why Now we've got some nuggets so far This is why I don't go and I like I like dutch. I just like dutch I don't know if dutch is asking the question or if dutch is implying the answer in asking the question Which by the way the bible does at certain times like jesus did on the cross my god my god Why are you forsaking me? Is that what you're doing dutch? I think probably probably what you're doing because you're a genius dutch Is it distinguishing? Who's who in the us could be could be Because nobody notice what he says he says then the lord god did the forming Okay, so now let's back up guys. Let's back up guys We seem to have I'm not sure But we seem to have three people or three things Three two people in a thing Two people in a thing we have Elohim stated God That's a person we know because it uses the pronoun he If in the lord god It uses that is a possessive term so so that that conveys personhood Then we've got the spirit of god So far we don't have anything That determines that it's a he or a thing so far So far But could be Could could be but no you can't okay real chris bailey Almost yes, but no there's a flag on the play You introduced a term that is not there do not do that just yet. We haven't earned that Have we earned that chris bailey? Have we have we have we earned that no no we haven't See Time out on the play again time on the play When I talk about the trinity I tell people you don't have to use the term trinity Because I need to use the term trinity if you don't want to use the term trinity if the term trinity was necessary god would have used it That does that mean that there is no Trinity i'm not saying that either I'm saying if someone wants you to stick with what the bible says then say amen If you only want to use the terms that the bible uses then say amen The truth is the truth whether we say exactly how it says in the bible verbatim or if we Give a word that tells the truth Same thing No, don't be don't be sorry. Listen. I'm just I'm just messing with you. I am I am messing with you The point is though I don't want to get ahead. There was a guy who who was before we interrupted the bible study Who did not believe in well a couple people did not believe in the trinity and did not believe in eternal security We didn't even make it out. What how far did we make it to judges? Before we left there both of those people and some more have Agreed with the concept of the trinity and the other one Who did not believe in eternal security before we got to jesus and salvation on the cross left believing in eternal security Why because all we're doing is going with the word One guy said I don't I believe everything that the trinity teaches. I just won't use the word trinity. I say amen fine That's fine fine the truth of the truth Whether it goes against what I'm saying or it goes for what I'm saying so But there's a I don't think god is just throwing out words just to be throwing out words The then the lord god formed man out. Why the lord god? Amen hit the like button. It is free I want you guys to cast out any demons on the like button. I want you to Um I want you to just gently just rub it just caress it just you know Show some love to the like button. How about that? Anyway, then the lord god for there's a reason for the lord god There's a re I just don't know. I do I think I'm getting somewhere with this I think I'm getting somewhere with this. I just don't I'm just not where I want to be Are you with me? I got something Jesus geek says I am or I'm gonna send you answering your question When did the serpent get cast down in the genesis one? chapter one between chapter one and two because the fall of man was in chapter three So it had to be somewhere before that. Well, well, yes or no. Yes, but we hadn't gotten her yet We hadn't we hadn't gotten there yet. We hadn't gotten to that Obviously before chapter three satan's there Before then But we don't know we don't you know, we don't know though We don't know that there is a by the way the word satan is the accuser Okay, in a generic sense satan Is can be applied to anybody or anything But the hasatan Is now we're going to the greek new testament. We hadn't gotten her yet. Apologize. Blame jesus geek. I'm a kid But that is of the devil Problem is we don't know of the devil yet. We hadn't gotten her yet, but I like what you're thinking. No, I like what you're thinking I like what you're thinking. I like what you're thinking. So you're thunking good But you're thunking ahead of me. You're getting too far ahead of me. We hadn't gotten there yet. All right We're still stuck on this the lord god Because i'm scratching my head I'm scratching my head wondering why would you why would you introduce this term? Oh, why oh, why there is an answer for this There is an answer in this let's continue and He breathed who breathed the lord god breathed into his nostrils the breath of breath of life And man became a living being And man became so the lord god Now I don't know if god Or the lord god are the same. I have no idea Or do I Is the lord describing who god is Like the president Biden Like president is describing biden. So the same person or is it a distinct person a distinct but don't know Don't know We will we'll get there. I promise you guys we'll get there. I promise you we'll get there Because Today's not the end of the world We'll have time to get to it if it is the end of the world won't matter Won't matter so All we know is this person this name that we have now been introduced to The lord god he formed man out of dust From the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being now The lord god planted a garden toward the east In edin and there he placed the man now seems to be that that was that's a chronology to it that he planted the garden first Then planted the man there before the man was created Might not be Oh, we're going back there cg. We're going back to verse 26 of clarification in just a little bit out of the ground The lord god caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the site and good for food The tree of life Also in the midst of a garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil Hmm Yeah, and put some new decorative trees in there I'm horticulture at his finest flat bush 21st. Thank you so much for super chat flat horticulture at his best Heavenly landscaping He puts in there Every tree Every tree that is pleasing to the site and good for food meaning There's more than one or two types of trees Because it's going to explain two other trees The tree of life also in the midst so Apart from the other trees and he so every tree plural every tree And then we have the tree of life in the midst of garden and the tree of good and knowledge of good and evil So and at least If we got plurality of trees so at at least four types of trees. I don't know Maybe five maybe 35. Who knows? So they got all these different trees to eat off of and to just you know to digest They're they're good to look at pleasing to the eye and so forth good for food And then you also have the tree of life And then the tree of knowledge of good and evil What do we know about the tree of life? Guys, does anyone have any idea what this tree of life is? Does anyone have any idea what the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is? Does anybody have a clue? They're there It's got all these trees they can eat from and you got this this other tree the tree of of life and the You guys are wonderful. You guys are wonderful. Nope. Nope. Don't know what that is. Nope. Don't know That's right because we just don't know we hadn't been told that yet. There you go sapphire not yet Don't know yet. I I do but I don't know I plead the fifth because I'm supposed to plead the fifth because I haven't been told that yet Continuing verse 10. I'm just checking to see if you guys are are tracking Now a river flowed out of Eden To water the garden and from there it divided and became four rivers the name of the first Pishon it flows around the whole land of Havela Where there is gold there was gold in the there was gold in them our hills at that time 12 The gold of the land is good the bedlam And the onyx stone are there The name of the second river is Gihan and it flows around the whole land of kush The name of the third river is a tigress and it flows east of assyria and the fourth river is the euphrates Now some of these rivers we know aren't very good today, but then they were good Now Look at this Then the lord god took the man And put him in the garden of Eden which means that the garden was ever for him Put him in the garden Of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it the lord god commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden You may eat freely But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for in the day that you eat from it You will surely die so He's giving a recap. I'm going back to verse 26 of chapter one just a little bit So he's giving a recap so far We know that he created this now. Let's talk about how he created and what was the process that was going on as he's creating And the lord said it's not well. I'm sorry before I get to verse 18 I don't want to go to verse 18 just yet And so he's in the garden. He tells him do not eat from wherever you want to But do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil And he says In the day That you eat of it Move this up a little bit further In the day That you eat of it You shall surely die I want to Stay on this For just a second Because I want you all to kind of get I'm going to I'm going to go over a little bit of Hebrew really briefly so I'm a violate partially the rule because I don't want to get to this point and then forget it Now, you know what? No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. I apologize. I don't have to violate this rule We will get to this point. We're going to have to come back to this point So in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die So what is going to happen when he eats it? We don't know We don't we don't know just some fruit Just some fruit. We don't we don't really know What in in the gospels when jesus goes to Eat of the fig tree the bible says that he wants to see if he can go and get some of it some of its fruit Um Unless you see a fig tree the fig tree also bears not just figs But also these little fruits that you can eat off of as well Which is the problem with the fig tree that jesus went to because it wasn't the time for figs But jesus went there anyway because it had fruit We don't know what the fruit was for that It wasn't an apple though. It could have been an apple, but it doesn't say that it was an apple Could it be that knowledge outside of god is death? Is that what the text is trying to say? Well, I'll say this um dt It's possible But it doesn't say so it's possible that's completely right or it's possible that's completely wrong Well, we do know this though that once that happened Knowing what we know now that mankind sure does know a lot of how to do evil Sure does know how to do evil and so Where is that point in time? It's kind of like maybe maybe it's like little kids Maybe it's like little kids if you if you expose them to profanity and to debauchery and so forth Now they'll know it too Little kids come to school and they emulate the stuff that's happening at the house Well, they got it from someone now they know and so is that possibly what he's saying? I probably so actually But notice he says in the day that you eat of it. You shall surely die in the day that you eat of it You shall surely die Now haven't forgotten about chapter 1 verse 26. We'll get there then the lord god said It is not good for the man Ha Adam The man to be alone I will make him a helper suitable for him Out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky again We know he's not speaking about A separate creation account. We know he's not speaking about making separate mint because the question comes up Where did we get to we don't know if it came when we get to came where did he get his wife from? Well, obviously from here because there's no one else created He made the man first put him there. There was no man there to till it If there were god would have made the same there was no man So he's giving this account and he said it's not good for man to be alone If there were other women, he would have gone and got one of them But he makes this woman out of this man. I will make him a helper suitable For him out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky And brought them to the man to see what he would call them call who call the animals and whatever the man called a living creature That's that was his name and there was somebody who came out And said that if anyone tells you that adam named all the animals He's alive that person should never preach again because this is basic by the way this other is why he should preach but It's clear the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds Of the sky and to every beast of the field but adam There was not found a helper suitable for him So the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man And he slept then he took one of his ribs And closed up the flesh at that place the lord god fashioned into a woman The rib which he had taken from the man And brought her to the man Man What do you think adam was speechless? He's just typing emojis now It's like wow Anyway the man said this is now bone of my bone And flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother And be joined to his wait a second be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh And the man and his wife were both naked and they were not ashamed and we've got a problem Why again we're just reading this adam didn't have a mother or a father So for this reason a man shall leave his Father and his mother and be joined to his wife Why can moses make that statement? Why how is that moses able to make that statement? Well again remember who moses is Who is moses writing this to he's writing it to people who already have mothers and fathers So he's so he's making a statement So for this reason says god brought this woman to this man He says for this reason a man shall leave his mother and father and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh Are you with me? And they and now here's a here's what some folks said this was a good part until We messed it up and they and the man and wife were both naked and were not ashamed. We wasn't tripping They were built like they were supposed to be built and act like they were supposed to act They were not ashamed Now we're getting ready to end This session of the bible study However There's a question on the floor That I asked my moderators to remind me I'm gonna need my moderators to remind me. What was what was the question? What was the point that I said we'll get back to Very important I knew somebody was going with Adam and Eve have have a belly button Have no idea now that they needed to have one. Who knows who knows? I don't I would Let's just let's just play around. Let's humor this I would probably say no, they had no need for just like now we got moles They didn't mean that your parents had a mole. So Um spider monkey asked a great question Why did he say that you cannot eat of the tree of life as well? We don't know we don't know why you can eat of the tree of life But could not eat of the tree of knowledge and good good and evil We're gonna find out the answer though. I can promise you that on the tree of life Actually, we're gonna find out the answer for both of those There is no pronouncement of death or anything so you could freely eat of the tree of life And we are gonna see the tree of life pop up again Joan, I want you to answer that question sweetheart What was god's purpose of putting the tree of knowledge of good and evil if he said In genesis he saw that it was that everything that he saw was that he created was was very good It didn't mean the tree was was was a bad tree. That's not what it meant That means there was anything wrong with the tree. Just I don't want you to do this For example Having the he didn't want to chop the tree down either there you can do bad things with a good thing I don't want you to know why he did that. We have no idea. Ultimately. That's the answer The answer is don't know don't know why in the world god would you why would you do that? Why would you do that? Becky said why would they we don't even know why they would Well, there's we're gonna find out something about mankind We because you know, we have this tendency to to blame everything on the devil Adam and Eve when they end up sinning when they when they eat they weren't filled with the devil and he was there He just talked to him. What's all this? So did god We'll say that for another time though But the question is the question is the question is that I need to go back to is Genesis 1 26 Can I ask you guys a question? Do you think we have covered the answer to Genesis 1 26? Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Have we covered that? Do we have An example Do we have texts to answer questions? So before I before I venture to to answer it Let me ask you guys a question. So far we have the first two chapters of genesis So far we have by the way chapter three is a doozy chapter three is a super duper doozy Nathan, thank you so much Do we have enough? Did you know why? When let's go let's go back to it. Let's go back to genesis one You know, let's put over here. Let's put it over here. I want to put it over here I want to go back to both of the genesis One 26 So I can be able to go back back and forth to both of them genesis one 26 He says Let us make man in our image according to our likeness We'll still have we'll still be a little bit fuzzy on the us and the hour We can still be fuzzy on that. But what about the let us make man in our image according to our likeness Can we what does he mean by that? Do we have texts to tell us that so far? What does this mean? First of all, do we have the text to answer it? Secondly, can we answer it? So what what what What does he mean by our image and our likeness now? We know already because these are jews They speak the language that moses is telling them moses is giving a recount of what happened. He wasn't there god does I mean god wasn't god is telling him and so the words that moses is using are words that they already know Moses is not making up words on the spot Every single word that we see in the old testament texts are words that the jews use so they would know these words So the word for image is where we get the word salim or in this case salaminu slob minu And then the other one likeness is damuth Or damuth nu which is our likeness. What does that mean? Image refers to form likeness refers to function now Here is the issue here Can we answer what does it mean according to our image according to our likeness? Were there any clues dropped and oh by the way oh by the way Does any of this also could it also help to answer this issue of Let us make man in our image according to our likeness So we've got two big doozy questions on the floor Question one that we were still wrestling with this us an hour because jenis is one one Better see the body Elohim the third word Elohim is a plural That doesn't mean anything that doesn't mean anything just because it's plural the form is plural doesn't mean anything And then we've got image and likeness All right now I need I need to address this And I'm not picking on you, but I've seen this coming before and so a rena I want to I want to put yours on the screen create and rule The reason why I want to use it now I'm not to pick on you That's that's incorrect But the reason why I want to highlight that because some people do that You'll see that a lot of times in like the word of faith movement And so it's actually prevalent There are so many things that are out that that's prevalent and it's hard to tell where it came from if it's sound Or if it's unsound No, it's not to create. Well, first of all, we don't create We don't The rule part is there, but that's not what's what's contained here Have we had passages to cover that? Well, yes, we have. Yes. We have quarry. Will you go ahead and get to it? Um Let's go back and do this. Let's go back to Chapter 2 verse 24 for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother And be joined to his wife and they shall be one flesh Wait a second. Wait a second. You I think you might be on to something. I think you might be on to something. Mr. Meli male I think you might be on to something Our likeness I said form and function the word for for likeness refers to function If the two are going to become one in this Echoed in unity unified Why would he say like our likeness? We'll get to the in our Image, but let's do with the likeness part in our likeness. Well We know the who who made the man And who made the woman Need y'all to track with me Who made the man according to the scripture so far who made I need to see you all in the chat Who made the man Who made the woman? John a there you go And I'm pretty sure the rest of you guys are gonna come are gonna follow soon after that the lord god He made the man the woman who according to the scripture though. What does it say who created the heavens and the earth? Elohim And this one though. Yeah, oh, I Elohim made the man and the woman But Elohim now is there is there a need or necessity to differentiate right now? Not really maybe possibly don't know but according to our likeness What we will find out what we it seems to be saying is that The union the unity of this man and woman Is exactly how he made us to be just like god Elohim and the lord god is Are you with me? That is Where that comes from Time out I have to do this It's not talking about and I want I don't want you anyone that that disagrees with the term trinity to to pop in because I'm not even talking about the trinity When jesus In john and in the gospel when he's praying Father make them one Like you and I are This is an old theme that's been been brought about That we should be together We should be and so for this cause a man shall leave his mother and father and the two shall be one How does Elohim how does the lord god how does god and the lord god seem to be one? Hadn't even addressed the the spirit of god, which I believe obviously we know who the spirit of god is or what the spirit of god is Or who the spirit of god is hadn't addressed addressed it yet, but in function likeness, that's how we're together On the same page Time out again This is why later on when we get introduced to this person by the name of jesus he'll make the statement That he does what the father does and so forth, but then he also makes him like that. I do what I want to do I'm doing it on my own accord, but then I'm doing what the father did what he sent me, which is why God can say that he is god that jesus got or why god could end up saying that he that jesus is the only begotten He calls jesus later on the only begotten god. We'll get to that time back time in let's go back to this though So in our function, that's who they are in their form What do you mean the form just like we are where does that come from? Oh, I know I know let's go back to chapter two Let's go to verse Here it is verse verse five now the Yeah, now the lord In the middle of it. No, let's go to verse six. Let's go to verse six But a mist used to rise from the earth and to water the whole surface of the ground then the lord god Formed man the lord god formed man But that's not the issue And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and then man man became a living being This is referring back to the form The same spiritual makeup not just like god But how he breathed into us we've got a spirit our own spirit God has what he breathed into he's breathing us and now we we take life In that same form Could not be the physical that he's got the same sort of arms and hands and eyes and ears No, not that he just simply created us, but he did the same thing with these other animals But with us He breathed into us the only creature that will ever be told of that we have the breath of god and that he breathed into Is mankind And so let us make man Fashioned man according to our form. Well, the only form that that can possibly be Is in a spiritual sense. That's the only form that it could possibly be not in a physical form God does not look like me Does not look like you does not have hair is not bald hair. Although I would say god probably does not have hair I'm just I'm just guessing I'm guessing I'm probably making it up, but I'm probably accurate. I don't think god has hair I don't think the holy spirit has hair I think when jesus came and he had hair he just only because he had to come down in a lower form like Like you sinful people I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But The form is like us spiritually the function is how we're supposed to be let us make man like that And it's what god has been after for us for the longest Are you with me? so I think what it also shows is it goes back to the Verse 26 portion about the us and the hour There seems to be some sort of continuity and some sort of unity between Elohim And the lord god and then also the spirit of god Are you with me now have I have I given enough to make the point about this? um unity between Elohim and and the lord god and the spirit the holy spirit I can't I can't even say the holy spirit because it wasn't called the holy spirit. He wasn't called the holy spirit But have I given enough to make that that connection yet not yet Not yet obviously Moses talking now. Let's just be clear the people that moses writing this too. They do have some familiarity But he said adamant cornrows There is some familiarity with god While moses is writing this is not like that that that that moses is just now at this point in time Introducing the concept of god to these people. He's just giving them an understanding He's giving them an education in god and in creation thus far. Are you with me? So thus far I don't think we've said anything that takes us out of what was said in the scriptures So far We have just only and we've only dealt with the scriptures Okay, we haven't spoken about anything in genesis three We haven't spoken about anything genesis four Now I want to put something on the screen. I want you all to see this I want you all to see this. Where's the timeline at look remember the timeline Notice we've got the chronological books and we've got the complementary books Genesis To exes genesis exodus numbers joshua judges first second sam first second kings Those are the chronological books Then we have the Complementary books and I want you to notice and look and see below the chronological books look below genesis What's the chronological book of genesis? What is that the chronological book of genesis is the book of joe? So that necessarily means Because it's a chronological book of joe that necessarily means guys That we have to at some point in time even while we're in genesis deal with joe Because we don't know which one was written first We don't know if joe was written first or if genesis written first. We don't know We don't remember the very first writing that mankind ever gave was not the bible So they were writing before and so we don't know if joe was written slightly before Roughly the same time slightly after we we just we don't know laurence asked that I earned that yet. Did I earn what yet? I think so far that I've that I've said that I said that either definitively or close to it. I think I have Um Wait a minute sarah, wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute now I don't know if you're right or wrong I have no idea But you're going to have to tell me in which one of the first two chapters do we see that at You might be a hundred percent right or you could be wrong But so far so we don't get too far off track. We have to stick with what it says here What what the first passages say? Let me see something Let's recall these questions Is that a correlation to your point in that woman and man were one flesh to begin with As one was made out of man plural No, I don't I don't think they were one flesh to begin with. No, no, I think they were separate God made something totally separate out of out of the man, which he can do how he did that Don't know don't know the science behind it But and it's not like some of these people in some of these aberrant teachers teachings that What did the guy say that adam was pregnant with eve? When I heard that I literally wanted to get on the plane Well, first of all find out where he is get on the plane and go find him and just shake him Just holy ghost shake him by the neck To say that adam was pregnant with eve that you're trying to use language To make a point about something else about god wants to do these great things with you and adam Just didn't know it. No adam was not pregnant with eve eve was never inside of adam God just took something from adam and then made something that had never been from him Okay, it's like if I take um, I don't know if I've got some wood And I cut the wood and make a I don't know A rocking chair something not to say that the rocking chair was inside that wood all along No, it was not I took a portion of that I took some nails and some glue and some hammers and so forth and that's what I did So Now that being the case as you read Eventually I want you guys to start applying this way of reading to everything you read Because how hard is it going to be to go to I don't know Ezekiel And read Ezekiel not realizing not not knowing or remembering that there's other parts of the bible that you read That's impossible. That's hard to do You can do for the sake of his bible said but in your regular reading for edification You're gonna remember all this other stuff But what I want you to do that when you're reading it think about the who's who's it writing to who's he writing to Who's hearing it? Where are they hearing one of the circumstances? What's the situation? What have they heard thus far? What do they know and so because We have what's called this progressive revelation If you notice when we read the bible, we're gonna notice going from Genesis And we're gonna notice that God doesn't dump on to us everything we need to know God doesn't tell we don't have as much information in Genesis as we will in john So we get this progressive revelation where he just gives us a little bit by a little bit by a little bit And so we remember that as we're reading What did the people on the ground know? How would they have taken this what would be the true way for them to take it at that time? We couldn't expect for someone to read something in Oh, I don't know Joshua And then think Jesus Or think cross crucifixion No, we couldn't do that yet Now even though in the future in the Old Testament, we're going to hear some some alluding to some prophecies We can do that then Are you with me? Is it possible that our form is physically resemblance to him some it? No, the reason why Okay, I'll tell you what I'll tell you what for the sake of this but for the sake of this bible study I'm sorry. John, you're right for the sake of this bible study. Yes, but as we read further No, because we'll find out that he didn't have what we have he didn't he has no bone no flesh Isaiah will tell us that there is no he has no bone no flesh But right now for the sake of this bible study, we haven't gotten past chapter 2 It's possible. So for the sake of this it's possible Matter of fact, even for the sake of the Jews that are hearing it I've got them. I've got to make sure but I think for the sake of the Jews who are hearing it Because isaac speaks about this and I think someone else does They may not they may have never been told They may have never been told that god has no no flesh However However Next week, we're going to talk about something that may that may seem to indicate That may seem to indicate guys That god does have some physical form. So johnny you might be on to something, huh? Hmm, why don't you people do that though? You take all the different questions and say maybe you're right. You might be right right and and and Muddies it up even more Because we're gonna see the lord god Doing something that human beings do that human beings do We're gonna see on next the next session the lord god doing some stuff That humans do and they know it is the lord god or god We're gonna see some stuff and then we're gonna genus when I tell you guys that genesis three is a doozy after genesis three After genesis three there have been times I don't think it'll be the same next week, but there have been times where we've taken two sessions to cover genesis three We won't we'll get it all done next week But um, no no no genesis was not written after exodus It was written after the exodus if that's what you mean, uh, becky It was written after the exodus was not written before. I mean after the book of exodus um but Genesis three There's so much And when I tell you everything that relates to you and the importance that it has for you I don't care if you're jew or gentile Genesis three starts the ball rolling In every way good and bad Okay, and then we we begin to see one of the things I did I did not cover was God's attributes And we're going to start seeing I brought this up also how god relates to us Um, how he relates in creation how you're uh the reconciliation and then kane and abel We're going to see that on next week Okay Some of the others we're gonna we're gonna it's going to pick up after next week Or next session And we'll talk also Even more so about god's attributes His communicable and his incommunicable attribute the attributes that he shares with mankind and the attributes that he does not such as I'm the president. I mentioned we're not everywhere. We're not all knowing but loving angry Uh, those sort of attributes that we also not to the same degree and obviously not as perfect as he is But we have the same we love Our love isn't like he is we can get angry or anger is not like he is his is right His is what a good cause are typically isn't You said something to offend me. So now I'm angry, but I just said you I just said you got something in your hair I don't care if any of me Okay We do that But we're gonna see how he is and on next week One specific portion of his I'm sorry two parts of his attributes We're gonna talk about And you'll see how from that point on you'll see those two dominant attributes Being the focal point in how god relates to mankind going forward Because what I want us to begin to see starting on next week Is to look at things from god's Viewpoint Yeah, yeah, okay. That's what you said. Yeah. Yes. Yes, correct. Becky. Yes. He begins writing after the exodus Uh before the exodus he was he was in uh in in the desert hanging out Then he happened to find a woman Whose daddy had some money And he kind of you know he moses married up Because his his wife's daddy had had a little bit had a little bit of coin had a little bit uh pocket change So he is going but we want to look at from things from god's viewpoint, which is the way you have to do it We're gonna look at things from god's viewpoint How he sees man how he sees man in its fallen state how he sees man how man can be delivered and we'll see the first We're going to also see the first example of man Having some sort of deliverance some sort of reconciliation with a god that's been separated from them