Topic: In Beginning/ Original Intent Part 1b | |
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"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities (inability to produce); but was ia all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
The second exception to spoken creation is that of woman. Woman was gloriously and wonderfully made from material taken out of man. This follows the pattern by which man was made. Man was formed or made from material taken out of creation, then woman was made or formed from material taken out of man. We can see a chain of creation being formed. Woman came out from man, man came from creation and creation came out from God. Each was out of and a part of and a product of divine purpose. God had an "Original Intent" in creation, in how it was formed; in why it was made, and for what purpose it was set in motion. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Genesi 1:26,28 Genesis 1:26 and :28 bring alive the understanding that it was God's intent that man rule over all creation. Man was to subdue it, rule over it, and to be fruitful in multiplying what God has begun. God did not make an earth full of people; rather He put the seed of all people to come in the first fruits (Adam & Eve) He planted. The same is true for the plants and vegetation that God placed into the process. Genesis 2:8 informs that God planted a garden east of Eden and there God placed the man He created so that just as all mankind was in the one man He created, all plants that were to fill the earth were in the seed of the plants God planted in the garden. "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." Genesis 1:11 God planted all the seed bearing plants, trees and crops in the gatden, which he planted in Eden (Genesis 2:8). He did not fill the earth with vegetation any more than He filled it with people. Every- thing started with a "first fruits" which was out of God and was God's. The seed or beginning of all things belongs to God. With every crop and every harvest the first fruits would be returned to God. The tithe of all increase belongs to the Lord. God is however, very specific in what and how it is to be returned to Him. Cain had a svere wake up call when he tried to decide what and how it would be offered to the Lord. Returning the first fruits (the tithe) to the Lord is not a New Testament invention, it was not of the Law only, it was proclaimed in the Covenant between Abram and God over 400 years before the Law, but it had its roots in the Garden of Eden. "Returning the first fruits" to God is a pricipal of seed- ownership and is as old as man and creation. Man, God's man, was to subdue the earth and rule over what God had started as God would Himself. Adam was afirst planting of God with the seed of all mankind in him. The garden was a first planting of God with the seed of all the plant life needed to make the whole earth a garden. All the animals, birds, fish and creatures were a first planting, and in them was the seed capable of filling all the earth under Adam's dominion and direction. Though God had created the plants, trees and vegetation before He made man, nothing proceeded or progressed until the man who would rule over it and multiply it was placed in the garden. "Now no shrub of the filed was yet in the earth, and no plant of the filed had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to serve the ground." "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there God put the man whom He had formed." Genesis 2:5,8 God had an "Original Intent" for His creation. His man would rule over the works of His hands. Every part of His creation would have elements in common with other parts of creation, an inner connection that would run through all He had made. The very breath of God was in the lungs of man, so that when man spoke to creation, not only was the authority given by God in play, but so was the very breath and life that had birthed all of creation. God formed the first Adam from the basic building blocks (elements) that made up creation. Ten, God breathed into created man the very life giving breath of God. The life of God was in Adam's lungs, flowing into his blood stream, making alive every organ and tissue with the divine life of God. One could accurately say Adam had the DNA of God. The man God created was now capable of communion with the God of all creation and with the creation God made. Creation's representative/ambassador to God was also God's representative/ambassador to creation. |
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