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A Literal Idiomatic Translation of the New Testament
"No temple roofs, none whatsoever!"
God's Desired True "Tent", His "Domed-roof House"!
2 Pet. 1:20-21 - Private Interpretation?
We are Commanded to Think for Ourselves!
How "Pure" Is Modern Christianity?
Agency and Jesus Christ, The Father's Agent
Hebrews 1:2 - Through whom were made the ages...
The "Cross" That Jesus Christ Lifted and Carried
"Eat my flesh... drink my blood"
Titus 2:13 - Does it really say that Jesus Christ is God?
How to Receive Answers to Prayer
How To Be A Disciple of Jesus Christ
The "I AM ..." Christian Fable
The Passion of the Christ - Were the Jewish Religious Leaders Responsible? Absolutely! But more than they, the devil.
We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood!
The Symbiotic Union to Speak the Word of Reconciliation
Parable of the Lost Things - Luke 15
Jesus Christ and his oxygen bottle?
Jesus' Figurative Usage Axiom!
The Father's Wonderful Names and Titles
Genesis 1 & 2, The Original Creation, or the Recreation of It?
Prophecy:
Southlawn Lessons
The Birth of Americanism & Thanksgiving
The "Federal Reserve" is NOT a part of the US Federal government!
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GENESIS 1, THE ORIGINAL CREATION, OR THE RECREATION OF IT? - Page 2
In Genesis 1:2a the planet earth transitioned into a wasteland that was uninhabitable, it became (hayah) that way. For other examples of the Hebrew verb hayah, we find it in Gen. 2:7, "and breathed into his nostrils breath life, and man became a living soul"; Gen. 4:14, "it shall come to pass"; Gen. 9:15, "the waters shall no more become a flood"; Gen. 19:26, Lot's wife "became a pillar of salt". In most occurrences it is translated correctly, as a form of to become, preserving the transitional quality in the meaning of the word.
With this clear evidence in God's Word concerning the use of the verb hayah in Genesis 1:2 telling us that what Elohiym did in Genesis 1:1 became a wasteland and uninhabitable, plus the verse in Isaiah 45:18 substantiating that the verb hayah in Genesis 1:2 is correct, plus further substantiation of the correct meaning of the word by what Jesus Christ said in Matt. 21:42 quoting Psalm 118:22, we now know by scriptural evidence and common logic that something must have happened between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 to make the heavens and earth become tohuw va bohu. Now the record in John 10:10 that Jesus gave us, about how the thief (Satan) comes only to steal from us, to sacrifice our lives, and to destroy us, and that Jesus came that we may hold life in us beyond whatever evil the devil, the "thief" may do to us!
How
could anyone think that Elohiym, who is perfect, would purposely create the
heavens and earth in utter ruin in Genesis 1:1-2, just to make more work for Himself
to fix it, starting in Genesis 1:3? I just don't get that logic. The
Word says in Isaiah 45:18, that when Elohiym created the earth in Genesis 1:1
that while He was creating it, He was NOT creating a wasteland; and that when He
was forming it, He was forming it to be inhabited! Then, Genesis 1:2 tells
us what happened to the earth, that it "became (hayah)" a
"wasteland (tohuw) and (va) void of habitation (bohu)" after
Elohiym established (kuwn) the earth in perfect detail.
God's
Word is still intact, Satan can't get rid of God's Word, just like Satan
couldn't get rid of Jesus Christ! Satan tries to twist and change what God
has said, as he tries to destroy what God has said and done, because Satan's
mission is simple, he comes only to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:9). God's Word blows
Satan's cover, and so Satan has to attack the written Word of God to change it,
make it appear to be full of contradictions, errors, and confusion, to the end
of hiding his own treachery, and discrediting God's integrity. We've only scratched the surface concerning the amount of details which are in the Father's Word concerning what happened to the earth in Genesis 1:2a, who was responsible, and why it occurred. What about what happened to the heavens? Genesis 1:2b says:
Gen. 1:2b (KJV) and darkness (choshek) [was] upon the face (paniym) of the deep (t@howm).
The was in this phrase is in brackets, indicating the absence of the Hebrew word hayah in the text, and that the translators added the word on their own initiative. If the translators wanted to indicate the figure of speech Ellipsis, the conspicuous omission of a word in a sentence, here the Ellipsis of hayah, then they should have added became, so that the reader could pick up on the idea that as the earth became a wasteland, so likewise the heavens became dark. I believe the figure of speech Ellipsis is used here, and the conspicuous word omitted is hayah, to emphasize the extent of the damage done.
"the deep" - refers to the heavens, the vast expanse of the universe, of which we can see the face of it with our naked eyes, by observing the Sun, Moon, and stars and other heavenly objects.
The darkness that became upon the face of the deep, means that all the lights in the heavens went out! How convenient for Satan, for all the celestial lights to go out? This means the heat of the Sun discontinued also (Genesis 1:14-19), which must have caused the entire earth to freeze over, destroying and killing all life!
A being standing upon the earth at the time of the cataclysmic convulsion (if still alive!), would have looked up into the sky and saw nothing, no Sun, no Moon, no stars, nothing, total darkness. On day four, recorded in Genesis 1:14-19, Elohiym had to set the Sun, Moon, and stars back in order, which indicates that whatever it was that happened in the time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, it must have racked and ruined at least all the visible universe which can be seen from planet earth. This must have been a truly cataclysmic event.
Who knows how much time passed between what Elohiym did in Genesis 1:1 and what God's Word says happened in Genesis 1:2? It could have been thousands and thousands of years. It must have been a long time, for fossils to form from the inhabitants of the original earth, and for pools of oil to develop in the crust of the earth from the biological life that then existed on the face of the earth. The Word says that whatever the cataclysmic convulsion was that occurred between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, was enough to turn the earth into a "wasteland (tohuw)", and cause it to become "empty (bohu)" of any inhabitants.
Starting in Genesis 1:3, God begins giving His Word instructions to put back together the heavens and earth, in preparation for His mortal to whom Western Christian traditional religion refers to as Adam, but the Hebrew text refers to as the red man.
Gen. 1:3 And Elohiym said, "Let there become (hayah) light": and became (hayah) light.
Light had to become into existence from non-existence so that the stars could shine again, and tell the story in their celestial storybook of the coming redeemer, Jesus Christ, who would conquer the destroyer of the heavens and earth and restore all things to perfection again.
The generations and life span of Adam and his descendants can be traced back through the Word, and the mathematical calculations can be done concerning who were contemporaries of each other, all their approximate birth dates, and how long they lived. The results indicate the posterity of mankind which began with Adam, began a little more than 4,000 BC.
This means that the fossil remains of any life forms which through carbon dating and other techniques indicate an age much earlier than about 6,000 years ago, must belong to the life forms which inhabited the original earth of Genesis 1:1. Depending on the accuracy of the best dating techniques, we may be able to guesstimate the approximate length of time between the ruin of the first heavens and earth of Genesis 1:1, and the appearance of mortalkind on the second recreated earth, recorded on "day 6" in Genesis 1:24-31.
No one knows how long ago Elohiym created the heavens and the earth. The important point is that no matter how long ago it occurred, it didn't happen by accident, but Elohiym established (kuwn) the earth in perfect detail!
The argument which now exists between evolutionists and so-called believers, over when and how the earth and all things therein came into being, I believe is a contrivance of Satan himself. All those believers who do not have the knowledge of the mistranslation of hayah in Genesis 1:2, or who have the knowledge but refuse to believe it, turn out to inadvertently assist Satan greatly in his continuing effort to obliterate parts of God's Word, hide his own destructive history, and continue to cause division among mortalkind over the history of our own origination.
PART 2
Next we will show that during the fall of Lucifer and 1/3 of the heavenly host which rebelled with him against the Father, that some of that rebellious heavenly host caused the destruction of the original heavens and earth in Genesis 1:1, and are now held in chains until the time of their final disposition.
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