Post by isaiah on Nov 25, 2008 0:39:45 GMT -5
~~ A Study in Genesis One ~~ By: Jo Smith **** Feb. 3, 2007Day One
So you think you understand creation, eh? You think you understand Genesis One? OK, let’s just look at this for a bit. Let’s see how much is truly understood about creation. I am not teaching in this message. I am showing you and myself things which have not been understood or studied properly or taught by anyone that I have ever heard or know of. We will take this a day at a time.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Verse one: God created the heaven and the earth, in the beginning. But what beginning is He speaking about? Notice that this ‘heaven’ is spelled with a small h. Now I know that many people who do not think that the KJV is a pure Word of God, will not make anything of this, but I do. I know it means something. As I have stated many times, you must find another place in Scripture which explains, or interprets each and every verse you are studying. If not, then you do not have the truth. No one, not one soul, can just decide in their own minds what the Word of God means.
Most people fail to realize that the Scripture is not an earthly language, even though it uses English-looking words. The Words all have a spiritual meaning. So only Scripture can rightly interpret any of it.
So to start our study, what does the Scripture reveal the ‘beginning’ to be? It clearly reveals that Jesus is the beginning. (I am not going to list many references in this message, because I have already taught all of this fully in other messages.) So here we find that God created, in Jesus Christ, a heaven and an earth. This heaven and this earth is inside Jesus. It is part of him, or he is this heaven and earth. So this heaven and earth must be rightly interpreted from other Scripture. The ‘earth’ is the body. Our body came from the dust of the earth, so it is ‘one’ with the earth. Heaven is the spiritual part or the inner man.
Verse two: the earth part of this creation in Jesus, was without form and void. So one must find the true interpretation of this somewhere in other Scripture. It is revealed in Isa. 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Isa 52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
There are other places, but for now use this reference. I will give a few for the sake of showing you how to study this Book of Genesis. It is also the only way to study any Scripture. Darkness upon the face of the deep? You must find out what ‘darkness’ signifies in Scripture and you must find the meaning of ‘deep’. Until you find these two spiritual meanings, you have no idea what this is speaking about.
Deep signifies the deep things of God. Isa 33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
This is showing that the people of God, especially Jesus, will understand the deepest things of God. They will not encounter people who know things we do not know. So this ‘deep’ is about the deep mysteries of God. Darkness was hiding these truths. Darkness is error, or lies, or Satan’s kingdom. 1Cor 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Eze 26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; Eze 26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
The above Scripture is speaking of Adam, his kingdom. His kingdom was the old law, and the rich nations he had set up on the other side of the flood. Jesus is telling him that he will destroy his kingdom, at the flood, and at Calvary, and then bring up the deep truths of God to cover him. This was the ministry of the Apostles as they brought the truth which Jesus had taught them. Jesus brought that old sinful kingdom of Adam to the pit and set up his Holy Kingdom of deep truth. Adam had the deep truths before he rebelled against God. But he took up sin and went into darkness. This ‘deep’ set Adam up on high, but his pride brought him down. The land of the living is the Holy Ghost. This is the life He gave us.
Let’s look at this for explanation of what this darkness and light is: 1John 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 1jo 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Now this makes it very clear that love is the light and hate is the darkness. So he said if we have come to love, then we are in the light and the darkness is past. This proves then that this darkness and light is not speaking of the light and darkness which we call day and night. It is not concerning this at all. These ‘days’ in Genesis one, is not our natural days at all. This love, or light, can only come from Jesus Christ. He is the LIGHT, so he is the love. He is the day star, which is the sun. But it does not mean that sun up in the sky. If you cannot see this, please pray for a spiritual mind. Else you will always walk in the darkness, which has blinded your eyes.
Mt 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
This shows that Jesus and his children will be as the sun in his kingdom. He is our Father. So the light in day one is Jesus’ love, or grace. It is the tree of life. Since ‘hate’ is the darkness, then it is showing that Satan, or Adam, had taken the world, (the deep) into the death of law. So his HATRED for God, truth, and God’s creation, was this darkness which had blinded the eyes, or minds of those in his day. So then I see that hate is the same as death or law. See, under the law there is no love. All transgressions must be punished, even with death. There is no forgiveness or grace. So in this first day, or Jesus’ natural life, there was both life and death, for Satan was there, attempting to tear Jesus down. Both the tree of life and the tree of death, law, were there in Jesus’ life.
Then you must find out what the face of the waters is. What is ‘waters’ in Scripture. Rev. 17:15 will give you this answer. So after you find that waters means peoples of the world, then you must find out what it means that the Spirit of God moved on the ‘face’ of these peoples. Do any of you know? Have you searched to find out? If not, then you really have not cared what this passage of Scripture really means, and you will have swallowed down lies of man.
Then God said let there be light. So what is this light? Now I want you to take note of the fact that God spoke for this light on day one. Remember this.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not
You will need the above verses with this. V4, God saw this light and said it was good. He then divided this light from the darkness. He called this light Day. The Capital D means this is a personification. So who is the Day? 2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Now we know this is speaking of the same light John spoke of in John one. See here it again states that this light shined in the darkness, or a dark place. Then he spoke of the day star arising in your hearts. So this day star is the same as the Light which was Called Day by God. So then we see that God spoke for a light on day one, which is the Day. He is the Day Star. He is the light shining into the darkness, which the darkness cannot understand or comprehend.
Notice also that God called the darkness Night. This capital N means this is also a personification. So you must find from Scripture who this Night is. And the EVENING and the Morning were the first day. We know that night is the opposite of light. But take a look at the similarity: N ight is the lack of L ight. Change the L to N or the N to L and you have the same thing. So law is opposite of grace. One is death, the other is life. One is night, the other is Day. So Night means Satan or Adam or law. Jesus said:
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
See this could not be speaking of the natural night and day, for we can work in either of these. He is saying we cannot work the true works of God in the darkness of law or the flesh. We must be in the light. Jesus said I am the light. So we must be in Jesus or the Day.
Another proof of this is: John 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
See, he said if a man walk in the night, there is no light in him. So this has to be speaking of spiritual things. Walking in a natural night does not mean there is no light or truth is us. It is saying if you walk in the carnal mind, you do not have the truth of the deep things of God. That darkness or carnality, has blinded your eyes.
Now it is not speaking here of our time. I know everyone took it that way. But that is because they have not taken these verses and analyzed them in light of other Scriptures. I find it very interesting that the only other place in Scripture where this term, evening and morning, are used together in such a way, is in Daniel: Dan 8:26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. Dan 8:27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Now that is the only other place where ‘the evening and the morning’ are used together. Notice that Daniel said the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true. So the vision he had been given was of the evening and the morning. This vision was shut up, for it was yet for many days. Notice also that no one understood this vision. I say they still do not. I say they have not even understood enough to know that they do not understand. Men have made up stuff to interpret all these things with. God did not give them the true understanding. They are trying to place all of these things on some man in human history, such as certain kings, rulers, and nations. It is not about them. It is all about JESUS CHRIST. And until you study these things with the knowledge that it is all about Jesus Christ, you will never understand the vision. You will never understand Genesis one or two. I can assure any who read this, the truth of all of this has not been taught by anyone. They still do not understand these things, for they seek the answers from other men, and try to place it on other men. It is all about JESUS CHRIST. Jesus is the light. Jesus is the Day. Jesus is the beginning. Jesus is that heaven and earth. The evening is his earthly life. The morning is after the resurrection. Evening is about our earthly life. It is darkness. Morning is about glorification. It is about Light or LIFE.
This ‘vision’ was ‘prophecy’ in Daniel’s day. It was prophecy in Genesis. It was for many days at the time of Daniel. It was for a time yet to come = when Jesus lived on earth. So until you understand Genesis truthfully, you will never understand Daniel truthfully, or for that matter, any other Scripture. When you come to understand Genesis truthfully, then you will also understand Daniel and Revelation truthfully. Until then, it is total darkness to you. Your mind has been blinded by the Night. Genesis one is God telling us the process by which He made man in his likeness and his image. He is taking in the entire time of life here in carnal flesh and leading up to the resurrection of Jesus and the glorification of all the true Saints of God. That is what Genesis is all about. It is not about God’s creating a universe, as everyone thinks. Proof: Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isa 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Jesus is the one who went into a ‘far country’, there to execute all of God’s counsel as he sits to rule at God’s right hand.
Now the above solidly proves that God was declaring the end from the beginning and verse 11 proves it is speaking about Jesus Christ. So the prophecy in Genesis one is all about Jesus Christ. See that he said he was speaking in ancient times of the things which were not yet done. So Genesis one was not yet done at the time he first spoke it. It was PROPHECY. Note also that he called this ‘bird’ from the east a MAN. This man was Jesus Christ.
It is not about a creation of a universe. God was showing the end from the beginning. Jesus said I am the beginning and the ending. So in day one, we are told about Jesus’ life. On day six we are told about His resurrection. He was the beginning of a NEW CREATION of God. This is what Genesis is about. Jesus was the foundation of the new world. He laid this foundation. So God spoke about Jesus on day one. Then He goes back and picks up on events which lead up to this time. Last he ends up with the resurrection of Jesus. So Jesus is in day one and day six.
Here is solid PROOF that Jesus is the one in Genesis one: Re 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Now that clearly shows that Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God. So Genesis one is about Jesus.
Another place which has been totally misunderstood is Zech 14. People all tend to place this chapter at the second coming of Jesus. But it is about his first coming. His feet stood on the mount of Olives in that day. I would really love to take in this entire chapter. Really need to. But, read this: 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: Zec 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. (The living waters was the teaching of Jesus and His Spirit…out of your belly shall flow rivers of living waters.)
I just have to add this: Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. (The day of the LORD is the crucifixion of Jesus.) His spoil means the ones he has brought into the light of truth. These are the ones he has rescued from the darkness of the OT Law.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
They are divided right there in the midst of them. He is dividing the light from the darkness. The Day of Pentecost set this division into progress. There those who had come to the LIGHT were brought into the Church of God and out of the law. Those who clung to law, refusing grace or truth, were left in the darkness of the now dead law covenant. They are now blinded to never see light or life. ‘Spoil’ is the treasures one gathers after they have won a battle. Jesus battled the law or Satan and the disciples were his ‘spoil’.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
That gathering of all nations against Jerusalem was when they all gathered together against the Lord and His Christ, when they crucified Jesus. Jerusalem here means Jesus, not an earthly city. Jerusalem is the name of the Lord. This city was only called by the name of the Lord, which is Jerusalem. (As long as you think Scripture is about a natural people, called Jews, you will miss all the truth. It is not about them. It is about Jesus Christ.)
So all these nations were gathered together against Jesus. Now I know most of you will dispute this, but it is the true revelation. The night of the taking of Jesus, did not Jesus’ feet stand on the mount of Olives? Lu 22:39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
Jesus went to the mount of Olives many times. This is what Zech is speaking of. The Mountain is spiritual here. Romans 11 shows that the Olive Tree is the true people of God. So this Mount of Olives is the true Holy Jerusalem, or the true City or People of God. It cleaved in two at that time, as the OT was abolished and the NT was brought in. (We have people so carnal in understanding that they are looking for a natural hill to have a ‘fault’ in it and actually split into. This is again dividing the light from the darkness. It is dividing the waters from the waters. It is not a natural mountain splitting into. It is the mount of the people of God, the Olive Tree of Romans 11.)
The disciples and early Christians were the ones who fled into that valley of safety. Paul explained in Romans 11, that the mount of Olives is the true Church of God. So here it was the dividing of the light from the darkness, as the Christians were separated from the OT group which clung to law. This is where the mount cleaved into. Part went to the North and part to the south. The Valley in between is the place of safety for the woman. This is also the dividing of time. (You will need to learn this, in order to understand the other days in Genesis.)
The two witnesses or the two candlesticks or the two Olive Trees, are those two pure Churches. One was before the Seven Churches in Revelation, and the other was after those seven. So this is the cleaving into of the Mount of Olives from the East to the West. (Jesus’ coming is as lighting from the East to the West.)
East was the original Garden of Eden, or the glorious truth of God. So this East shows the first witness, or the Church in Peter’s day. The West shows the other witness, or the Church in the end of time, with the Baptism of Fire. East shows the rising of the Sun, or that first Church. West shows the going down of the Sun, or the last witness Church. See it shows that this DAY has been completed. It is that FIRST DAY. Realize that this not COUNTING as in 1 2 3. It is showing things in progression. It is all about the life of Jesus. It is about his kingdom from the start to the end as he finally gets rid of the darkness forever. Jesus said they will come from the East and from the West and sit down in his kingdom. So it speaks about these two witness churches, one in the East, and one in the West.
The light was not clear nor dark? What can that mean? It means a mixture. If you take hot water and add cold water, you come up with a mixture, or lukewarm. If you take light and add some darkness, you come up with a mixture, or something like twilight, or when dark clouds blot out the sun and causes it to be darkly in the day time. Thus if you take grace and mix law, you come up with a mixture or the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thus you have neither light nor darkness, but rather a cloudy condition. A teaching which is mixed up with both grace and law would bring forth this condition. Almost everyone today is in this condition of lukewarm, or mixing grace and law, or light and darkness, or life and death. When people say I am in grace, but must keep Sabbath or tithe, they are in this cloudy condition.
Jesus was made under law. Jesus had to fulfill the law. Jesus had to bring grace. Jesus had to live grace. Jesus had to live law. Jesus had to teach law. Jesus had to teach grace. How could this be? Both were in him. Night and Day was in him. Evening and morning were in him. Heaven and earth were in him. Life and death was in him. In him was life. But also in him was mortality, or death at work in his members. It was neither clear nor dark. In him was life, or grace and love. But also in him was death or law. He had to bring both. So this day of his life was neither clear nor dark. This is why or how DARKNESS was upon the FACE OF THE DEEP.
The DEEP, the dark secrets of God, were inside Jesus. But darkness, or humanity, and law, was upon this, blocking out the light. So it could not come clear to anyone. Jesus had life and grace, but he had to fulfill the law. So this darkness kept this light from being clear. It was so confusing to everyone who heard him speak. It was so confusing to all who watched his life, as he went about fulfilling the law and yet at the same time, giving grace. (How can you set an adulteress free without breaking the law?…How can you break the Sabbath and yet still be perfect? How can you forgive sin, when you are just a man?… How can you eat with sinners, and be holy?…How can you drive out the money changers with a whip and be kind?… How can you say “come unto me and I will give you rest, when you are just a man?…How can you heal on the Sabbath day and be free?…How can you say I and my Father are ONE, making yourself equal with God? …etc.) This confusion or darkness, is still a veil over the face of most people. They keep hearing law and mix it with grace. It is nothing but confusion and death. (Jesus is God; no, Jesus is a man; no, Jesus is both, Jesus is the only one, Jesus is the second one; oh wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from this body of death or confusion? Da 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.)
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So you think you understand creation, eh? You think you understand Genesis One? OK, let’s just look at this for a bit. Let’s see how much is truly understood about creation. I am not teaching in this message. I am showing you and myself things which have not been understood or studied properly or taught by anyone that I have ever heard or know of. We will take this a day at a time.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Verse one: God created the heaven and the earth, in the beginning. But what beginning is He speaking about? Notice that this ‘heaven’ is spelled with a small h. Now I know that many people who do not think that the KJV is a pure Word of God, will not make anything of this, but I do. I know it means something. As I have stated many times, you must find another place in Scripture which explains, or interprets each and every verse you are studying. If not, then you do not have the truth. No one, not one soul, can just decide in their own minds what the Word of God means.
Most people fail to realize that the Scripture is not an earthly language, even though it uses English-looking words. The Words all have a spiritual meaning. So only Scripture can rightly interpret any of it.
So to start our study, what does the Scripture reveal the ‘beginning’ to be? It clearly reveals that Jesus is the beginning. (I am not going to list many references in this message, because I have already taught all of this fully in other messages.) So here we find that God created, in Jesus Christ, a heaven and an earth. This heaven and this earth is inside Jesus. It is part of him, or he is this heaven and earth. So this heaven and earth must be rightly interpreted from other Scripture. The ‘earth’ is the body. Our body came from the dust of the earth, so it is ‘one’ with the earth. Heaven is the spiritual part or the inner man.
Verse two: the earth part of this creation in Jesus, was without form and void. So one must find the true interpretation of this somewhere in other Scripture. It is revealed in Isa. 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Isa 52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
There are other places, but for now use this reference. I will give a few for the sake of showing you how to study this Book of Genesis. It is also the only way to study any Scripture. Darkness upon the face of the deep? You must find out what ‘darkness’ signifies in Scripture and you must find the meaning of ‘deep’. Until you find these two spiritual meanings, you have no idea what this is speaking about.
Deep signifies the deep things of God. Isa 33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
This is showing that the people of God, especially Jesus, will understand the deepest things of God. They will not encounter people who know things we do not know. So this ‘deep’ is about the deep mysteries of God. Darkness was hiding these truths. Darkness is error, or lies, or Satan’s kingdom. 1Cor 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Eze 26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; Eze 26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
The above Scripture is speaking of Adam, his kingdom. His kingdom was the old law, and the rich nations he had set up on the other side of the flood. Jesus is telling him that he will destroy his kingdom, at the flood, and at Calvary, and then bring up the deep truths of God to cover him. This was the ministry of the Apostles as they brought the truth which Jesus had taught them. Jesus brought that old sinful kingdom of Adam to the pit and set up his Holy Kingdom of deep truth. Adam had the deep truths before he rebelled against God. But he took up sin and went into darkness. This ‘deep’ set Adam up on high, but his pride brought him down. The land of the living is the Holy Ghost. This is the life He gave us.
Let’s look at this for explanation of what this darkness and light is: 1John 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 1jo 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Now this makes it very clear that love is the light and hate is the darkness. So he said if we have come to love, then we are in the light and the darkness is past. This proves then that this darkness and light is not speaking of the light and darkness which we call day and night. It is not concerning this at all. These ‘days’ in Genesis one, is not our natural days at all. This love, or light, can only come from Jesus Christ. He is the LIGHT, so he is the love. He is the day star, which is the sun. But it does not mean that sun up in the sky. If you cannot see this, please pray for a spiritual mind. Else you will always walk in the darkness, which has blinded your eyes.
Mt 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
This shows that Jesus and his children will be as the sun in his kingdom. He is our Father. So the light in day one is Jesus’ love, or grace. It is the tree of life. Since ‘hate’ is the darkness, then it is showing that Satan, or Adam, had taken the world, (the deep) into the death of law. So his HATRED for God, truth, and God’s creation, was this darkness which had blinded the eyes, or minds of those in his day. So then I see that hate is the same as death or law. See, under the law there is no love. All transgressions must be punished, even with death. There is no forgiveness or grace. So in this first day, or Jesus’ natural life, there was both life and death, for Satan was there, attempting to tear Jesus down. Both the tree of life and the tree of death, law, were there in Jesus’ life.
Then you must find out what the face of the waters is. What is ‘waters’ in Scripture. Rev. 17:15 will give you this answer. So after you find that waters means peoples of the world, then you must find out what it means that the Spirit of God moved on the ‘face’ of these peoples. Do any of you know? Have you searched to find out? If not, then you really have not cared what this passage of Scripture really means, and you will have swallowed down lies of man.
Then God said let there be light. So what is this light? Now I want you to take note of the fact that God spoke for this light on day one. Remember this.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not
You will need the above verses with this. V4, God saw this light and said it was good. He then divided this light from the darkness. He called this light Day. The Capital D means this is a personification. So who is the Day? 2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Now we know this is speaking of the same light John spoke of in John one. See here it again states that this light shined in the darkness, or a dark place. Then he spoke of the day star arising in your hearts. So this day star is the same as the Light which was Called Day by God. So then we see that God spoke for a light on day one, which is the Day. He is the Day Star. He is the light shining into the darkness, which the darkness cannot understand or comprehend.
Notice also that God called the darkness Night. This capital N means this is also a personification. So you must find from Scripture who this Night is. And the EVENING and the Morning were the first day. We know that night is the opposite of light. But take a look at the similarity: N ight is the lack of L ight. Change the L to N or the N to L and you have the same thing. So law is opposite of grace. One is death, the other is life. One is night, the other is Day. So Night means Satan or Adam or law. Jesus said:
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
See this could not be speaking of the natural night and day, for we can work in either of these. He is saying we cannot work the true works of God in the darkness of law or the flesh. We must be in the light. Jesus said I am the light. So we must be in Jesus or the Day.
Another proof of this is: John 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
See, he said if a man walk in the night, there is no light in him. So this has to be speaking of spiritual things. Walking in a natural night does not mean there is no light or truth is us. It is saying if you walk in the carnal mind, you do not have the truth of the deep things of God. That darkness or carnality, has blinded your eyes.
Now it is not speaking here of our time. I know everyone took it that way. But that is because they have not taken these verses and analyzed them in light of other Scriptures. I find it very interesting that the only other place in Scripture where this term, evening and morning, are used together in such a way, is in Daniel: Dan 8:26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. Dan 8:27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
Now that is the only other place where ‘the evening and the morning’ are used together. Notice that Daniel said the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true. So the vision he had been given was of the evening and the morning. This vision was shut up, for it was yet for many days. Notice also that no one understood this vision. I say they still do not. I say they have not even understood enough to know that they do not understand. Men have made up stuff to interpret all these things with. God did not give them the true understanding. They are trying to place all of these things on some man in human history, such as certain kings, rulers, and nations. It is not about them. It is all about JESUS CHRIST. And until you study these things with the knowledge that it is all about Jesus Christ, you will never understand the vision. You will never understand Genesis one or two. I can assure any who read this, the truth of all of this has not been taught by anyone. They still do not understand these things, for they seek the answers from other men, and try to place it on other men. It is all about JESUS CHRIST. Jesus is the light. Jesus is the Day. Jesus is the beginning. Jesus is that heaven and earth. The evening is his earthly life. The morning is after the resurrection. Evening is about our earthly life. It is darkness. Morning is about glorification. It is about Light or LIFE.
This ‘vision’ was ‘prophecy’ in Daniel’s day. It was prophecy in Genesis. It was for many days at the time of Daniel. It was for a time yet to come = when Jesus lived on earth. So until you understand Genesis truthfully, you will never understand Daniel truthfully, or for that matter, any other Scripture. When you come to understand Genesis truthfully, then you will also understand Daniel and Revelation truthfully. Until then, it is total darkness to you. Your mind has been blinded by the Night. Genesis one is God telling us the process by which He made man in his likeness and his image. He is taking in the entire time of life here in carnal flesh and leading up to the resurrection of Jesus and the glorification of all the true Saints of God. That is what Genesis is all about. It is not about God’s creating a universe, as everyone thinks. Proof: Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isa 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Jesus is the one who went into a ‘far country’, there to execute all of God’s counsel as he sits to rule at God’s right hand.
Now the above solidly proves that God was declaring the end from the beginning and verse 11 proves it is speaking about Jesus Christ. So the prophecy in Genesis one is all about Jesus Christ. See that he said he was speaking in ancient times of the things which were not yet done. So Genesis one was not yet done at the time he first spoke it. It was PROPHECY. Note also that he called this ‘bird’ from the east a MAN. This man was Jesus Christ.
It is not about a creation of a universe. God was showing the end from the beginning. Jesus said I am the beginning and the ending. So in day one, we are told about Jesus’ life. On day six we are told about His resurrection. He was the beginning of a NEW CREATION of God. This is what Genesis is about. Jesus was the foundation of the new world. He laid this foundation. So God spoke about Jesus on day one. Then He goes back and picks up on events which lead up to this time. Last he ends up with the resurrection of Jesus. So Jesus is in day one and day six.
Here is solid PROOF that Jesus is the one in Genesis one: Re 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Now that clearly shows that Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God. So Genesis one is about Jesus.
Another place which has been totally misunderstood is Zech 14. People all tend to place this chapter at the second coming of Jesus. But it is about his first coming. His feet stood on the mount of Olives in that day. I would really love to take in this entire chapter. Really need to. But, read this: 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: Zec 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. (The living waters was the teaching of Jesus and His Spirit…out of your belly shall flow rivers of living waters.)
I just have to add this: Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. (The day of the LORD is the crucifixion of Jesus.) His spoil means the ones he has brought into the light of truth. These are the ones he has rescued from the darkness of the OT Law.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
They are divided right there in the midst of them. He is dividing the light from the darkness. The Day of Pentecost set this division into progress. There those who had come to the LIGHT were brought into the Church of God and out of the law. Those who clung to law, refusing grace or truth, were left in the darkness of the now dead law covenant. They are now blinded to never see light or life. ‘Spoil’ is the treasures one gathers after they have won a battle. Jesus battled the law or Satan and the disciples were his ‘spoil’.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
That gathering of all nations against Jerusalem was when they all gathered together against the Lord and His Christ, when they crucified Jesus. Jerusalem here means Jesus, not an earthly city. Jerusalem is the name of the Lord. This city was only called by the name of the Lord, which is Jerusalem. (As long as you think Scripture is about a natural people, called Jews, you will miss all the truth. It is not about them. It is about Jesus Christ.)
So all these nations were gathered together against Jesus. Now I know most of you will dispute this, but it is the true revelation. The night of the taking of Jesus, did not Jesus’ feet stand on the mount of Olives? Lu 22:39 And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
Jesus went to the mount of Olives many times. This is what Zech is speaking of. The Mountain is spiritual here. Romans 11 shows that the Olive Tree is the true people of God. So this Mount of Olives is the true Holy Jerusalem, or the true City or People of God. It cleaved in two at that time, as the OT was abolished and the NT was brought in. (We have people so carnal in understanding that they are looking for a natural hill to have a ‘fault’ in it and actually split into. This is again dividing the light from the darkness. It is dividing the waters from the waters. It is not a natural mountain splitting into. It is the mount of the people of God, the Olive Tree of Romans 11.)
The disciples and early Christians were the ones who fled into that valley of safety. Paul explained in Romans 11, that the mount of Olives is the true Church of God. So here it was the dividing of the light from the darkness, as the Christians were separated from the OT group which clung to law. This is where the mount cleaved into. Part went to the North and part to the south. The Valley in between is the place of safety for the woman. This is also the dividing of time. (You will need to learn this, in order to understand the other days in Genesis.)
The two witnesses or the two candlesticks or the two Olive Trees, are those two pure Churches. One was before the Seven Churches in Revelation, and the other was after those seven. So this is the cleaving into of the Mount of Olives from the East to the West. (Jesus’ coming is as lighting from the East to the West.)
East was the original Garden of Eden, or the glorious truth of God. So this East shows the first witness, or the Church in Peter’s day. The West shows the other witness, or the Church in the end of time, with the Baptism of Fire. East shows the rising of the Sun, or that first Church. West shows the going down of the Sun, or the last witness Church. See it shows that this DAY has been completed. It is that FIRST DAY. Realize that this not COUNTING as in 1 2 3. It is showing things in progression. It is all about the life of Jesus. It is about his kingdom from the start to the end as he finally gets rid of the darkness forever. Jesus said they will come from the East and from the West and sit down in his kingdom. So it speaks about these two witness churches, one in the East, and one in the West.
The light was not clear nor dark? What can that mean? It means a mixture. If you take hot water and add cold water, you come up with a mixture, or lukewarm. If you take light and add some darkness, you come up with a mixture, or something like twilight, or when dark clouds blot out the sun and causes it to be darkly in the day time. Thus if you take grace and mix law, you come up with a mixture or the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thus you have neither light nor darkness, but rather a cloudy condition. A teaching which is mixed up with both grace and law would bring forth this condition. Almost everyone today is in this condition of lukewarm, or mixing grace and law, or light and darkness, or life and death. When people say I am in grace, but must keep Sabbath or tithe, they are in this cloudy condition.
Jesus was made under law. Jesus had to fulfill the law. Jesus had to bring grace. Jesus had to live grace. Jesus had to live law. Jesus had to teach law. Jesus had to teach grace. How could this be? Both were in him. Night and Day was in him. Evening and morning were in him. Heaven and earth were in him. Life and death was in him. In him was life. But also in him was mortality, or death at work in his members. It was neither clear nor dark. In him was life, or grace and love. But also in him was death or law. He had to bring both. So this day of his life was neither clear nor dark. This is why or how DARKNESS was upon the FACE OF THE DEEP.
The DEEP, the dark secrets of God, were inside Jesus. But darkness, or humanity, and law, was upon this, blocking out the light. So it could not come clear to anyone. Jesus had life and grace, but he had to fulfill the law. So this darkness kept this light from being clear. It was so confusing to everyone who heard him speak. It was so confusing to all who watched his life, as he went about fulfilling the law and yet at the same time, giving grace. (How can you set an adulteress free without breaking the law?…How can you break the Sabbath and yet still be perfect? How can you forgive sin, when you are just a man?… How can you eat with sinners, and be holy?…How can you drive out the money changers with a whip and be kind?… How can you say “come unto me and I will give you rest, when you are just a man?…How can you heal on the Sabbath day and be free?…How can you say I and my Father are ONE, making yourself equal with God? …etc.) This confusion or darkness, is still a veil over the face of most people. They keep hearing law and mix it with grace. It is nothing but confusion and death. (Jesus is God; no, Jesus is a man; no, Jesus is both, Jesus is the only one, Jesus is the second one; oh wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from this body of death or confusion? Da 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.)
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