Showing posts with label Genesis 2:1-25. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genesis 2:1-25. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Genesis Chapter 2 Notes

By the time, 6 days is over God finishes his very good work. The seventh day he rested. I personally do not believe that He rested because He was tired. I personally believe that God rested because He had completed his work. When you are on the job, usually you take breaks in between the job. However, I personally do not believe that God took a break while He was creating the whole work. He decided to take His break when he finished creating everything. The 7th day, God blessed it and sanctified (set it apart for his use) because he completed his work.

 It is my understanding that after the 7th day was over, God decided that he wanted someone to till the ground and take control over the earth. So that's when He decided to create Adam and he breathed the breath of life into his nostrils and Adam became an living soul. I often wondered why didn't God give Adam mouth to mouth? Why did God breathe into God's nostrils? When God breathed breath into man's nose it put spiritual oxygen into man's body which caused man to become a living soul (spirit). I also notice that when I had asthma, I used to try to breathe out of my mouth and had lot's of trouble breathing because I was breathing wrong. Technically we are supposed to breathe or inhale in through our nose and exhale out of our mouth. I personally believe that concept came from the Word of God because God breathed the breath of life in our nose and not our mouths. I noticed when I was attending martial arts that the instructor always wanted us to breathe in through our nose and breathe out through out mouth through every blow to give us power and energy through our body to fight. I also notice that when I was in the choir that choir directors would yell at us about our breathing. I didn't learn how to breathe correctly until I started taking martial arts. For a long time I thought that I was supposed to breathe in through my mouth and out my mouth. But thank God for correcting me. 

The Lord created a garden in Eden, planted several different trees and plants. The trees that God planted was beautiful (looked good) and was good for food. There were two trees in the center of the garden which were the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. God also created bodies of water which were called Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates.

God gave Adam two jobs which is to keep and to dress the garden. I personally believe that God wanted Adam to keep and dress the garden is because he knew that satan would be trespassing in the garden. When lucifer was kicked out of Heaven, he ended up on earth.

God told Adam you can eat off of any of these trees but do not eat from the knowledge of good and evil tree or you will die. In that scripture God didn't specify that it was a natural or spiritual death. It could have been both. Then the Lord said it's not good for man to be alone; I will make him a helpmeet according to verse 18. Of course none of the other animals were compatible with Adam but God allowed Adam to give the animals names which is one of the ways he exercised his authority. Later that evening, God performed the first surgery ever. He put Adam to sleep, and then took one of his ribs and closed up his side. It's amazing how God uses the hand of doctors to conduct surgery on people now-a-days. Those medical doctors better realize that the first surgeon was God and not them. God was the first one to cut open someone, take parts of the body out and close up the wound. I'm sure God was so gentle and strategic that Adam probably didn't even feel a thing. At least that is what goes on in my imagination. Next, Adam woke up and saw the beautiful woman standing there and he yelled WO-MAN! Naw, I'm kidding, lol. He recognize that God created her specifically for him. He said this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and he called her woman because she was taken out of man (verse 23). I also believe that the reason God wanted us to be called Woman is because we are simply a a human form with a womb. Whereas the man, does not have a womb and can't bring forth children.  Because God created the woman for Adam, they were already husband and wife and didn't necessarily have a wedding ceremony. Adam also said that man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh (verse 24). While I am reading this scripture something puzzles me. If Adam and Eve were the only two individuals on earth then why would he say that the man shall leave his father and mother? Clearly Adam and Eve did not have a mother and father. So my only thoughts is, that in Genesis Ch 1 the male and females that were created then might not have been Adam and Eve. It could have been other human beings. Then again, Adam could have been prospecting that a woman and man will have a baby, the baby will grow up, get married and become one with his wife or her husband.

 Another thing I wanted to say on marriage. God made woman for man which means that they are supposed to be together. Hint! Not woman and woman or man and man! Not Adam and Steve, or Eve and Angela! When the man and woman gets married, the wife and husband should be put top priority over all other people including the parents. When the parent's grown children gets married, the grown children are supposed to leave their parents household and become joined together forever and never separated from their spouse.

Last but not least, Adam and Eve (husband and wife) were both naked and they were not ashamed (Verse 25). Let's get something straight here! This scripture does not give people the right to walk around in public butt naked. I think what is being conveyed in this scripture is that Adam and Eve were both naked in front of  each other. Husbands and wives should be comfortable, open and exposed to each other and they should not have any fear or be afraid.

Genesis 2:1-25

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 

2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.