GENESIS CHAPTER TWO
THE 7TH DAY IS SANCTIFIED, SET APART - BLESSED RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION WEEK, TO END THE WEEK OF WORK, THE SABBATH IS THE DAY OF REST--- THE 7TH DAY, NOT THE 5TH, NOT THE 1ST, BUT ONLY THE 7TH DAY IS SANCTIFIED AND SET APART TO REST, TO ENJOY THE GOD OF CREATION.
AS A CHILD OF 7, HEARING THESE WORDS BEING READ BY OUR LADY TEACHER, IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL MY DAD HAD SENT ME FOR EDUCATION, AS HE HIMSELF HAD BEEN EDUCATED AND BROUGHT UP IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLING SYSTEM. HEARING THESE WORDS IT WAS SIMPLE TO BELIEVE THEM, THEY SAID WHAT THEY MEANT AND MEANT WHAT THEY SAID. NO FANCY THEOLOGY DEGREE NEEDED. FROM AGE 7 I KNEW GOD HAD DONE WHAT HE SAID, HE SANCTIFIED THE 7TH DAY.
IT WAS ONLY A FEW WEEKS LATER THAT A YOUNG LITTLE GIRL AROUND MY AGE, INVITED ME TO ATTEND SUNDAY SCHOLL AT THE CHURCH IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD; IT WAS NOT A CHURCH OF ENGLAND; IT WAS CALLED "CONGREGATIONALIST" WHICH MEANT NOTHING TO ME, ONLY THE MINISTER WORE THE SAME "DOG COLLAR" AS WE KIDS NAMED IT, JUST LIKE THE ANGLICAN [CHURCH OF ENGLAND] PRIESTS ALSO WORE.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS LOCAL CHURCH WAS I STARTED TO LEARN IMMEDIATELY ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, AS WELL AS OTHER FAMOUS STORIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT LIKE DAVID AND GOLIATH; AND THE MIGHTY STRONG MAN SAMSON.
THOSE WERE THE TWO CHURCHES I ATTENDED GROWING UP TO AGE 18 AND MOVING TO CANADA.
I HARDLEY EVER MISSED A SUNDAY SCHOOL IN ALL THOSE YEAR, JUST A FEW WHEN GOING ON HOLIDAYS, OR VISITS TO SOUTH WALES TO SEE RELATIVES.
I TOOK ALL THIS BIBLE READING VERY SERIOUSLY; BETWEEN THE TWO CHURCHES I WAS TO MEMORIZE CERTAIN PARTS OF THE BIBLE--- PSALM ONE WAS EARLY ON AS WAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN NOT THE SHORT FORM, BUT EVERY SINGLE WORD AS IN THE KJV TRANSLATION--- EXODUS 20.
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
ALL THAT READING IN THE GOSPELS I NEVER THOUGHT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS A THIRD BODILY PERSON IN THE THRONE ROOM OF HEAVEN. IT JUST NEVER CROSSED MY MIND THAT SOME BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS ANOTHER ETERNAL SPIRIT BEING IN HEAVEN. THAT SUCH A TEACHING WAS NEVER SPELLED OUT TO ME BY ANYONE. O YES THERE WAS A HOLY SPIRIT FOR SURE BUT NEVER DID I TAKE IT AS SOME THIRD LITERAL SPIRIT BODIED PERSON IN THE THRONE ROOM WITH THE FATHER.
I HAVE DIGREST SOME FROM GENESIS TWO AND ITS MAIN TEACHING.
BACK TO IT!
THE BLESSING OF THE 7TH DAY AND THE WORDS OF THE FOUTH COMMANDMENT TIED IN TOGETHER. THAT WAS ALSO VERY OBVIOUS TO ME, AS I WAS INSTRUCTED IN CLASS, TO MEMORIZE EVERY WORD OF THE GREAT TEN AS FOUND IN THE KJV OF 1611. IT WAS ALL VERY SIMPLE TO ME. AND AS ALL CHRISTIANITY AROUND ME THAT I KNEW WAS OBSERVING THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT; SUNDAY THEN FOR ME A 7 YEAR OLD IT HAD TO BE SUNDAY, THAT WAS THE 7TH DAY. THAT I ALSO FOUND SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND, AND NOT ONE PERSON EVER TOLD ME DIFFERENTLY TILL I WAS 19 YEARS OLD AND IN CANADA. FOR THOSE YEARS I FULLY BELIEVED SUNDAY WAS THE 7TH DAY. CALENDARS WERE NOT AS POPULAR THEN, CERTAINLY NO FANCY ONES; BESIDES I KNEW WHEN I WAS DOING WHAT, IN SCHOOL OUT OF SCHOOL, SO WHAT USE DID I HAVE FOR A CALENDAR, NEVER HAD ONE, AND A CALENDAR DID NOT EXIST IN MY PARENTS HOUSE. THEY ALSO KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND WHEN THEY WERE DOING IT.
THE PLANTS AND RAIN
THE PLANT WORLD WAS CREATED IN THE EARTH AS A FULLY DEVELOPED PLANT, AND AS IT IS SAID IT HAD NOT RAINED, THERE WAS A MIST THAT GAVE MOISTURE TO ALL THE PLANTS [VERSE 5-6].
CREATION OF MAN
WE ARE GIVEN MORE INSTRUCTION OF GOD CREATING MAN--- FROM THE VERY GROUND, PHYSICAL, THEN THE AIR OF BREATH BLOWN INTO HIM, EXPANDING HIS LUNGS--- LIFE IN THE PHYSICAL FOLLOWED, MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING [VERSEN 7].
GOD MADE A GARDEN IN EDEN, OUT OF WHICH GREW ALL KINDS OF PLANTS AND TREES. THERE WAS THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. A RIVER WENT OUT OF EDEN AND IT PARTED AND BECAME FOUR IN ITS HEADS. THE FIRST RIVER WAS CALLED PISON AND MUCH GOLD WAS THERE, AND BDELLIUM AND ONYX STONE. THE OTHER RIVERS WENT FAR AWAY INDEED. THE FOURTH RIVER WAS THE ONE STILL TODAY--- THE EUPHRATES. MAN WAS PUT IN THIS GARDEN TO DRESS AND KEEP IT BEAUTIFUL. SO HERE SOME GARDENING INSTRUCTIONS GOD GAVE TO ADAM. MAN COULD EAT OF ALL THE TREES BUT ONE--- THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. UP TO THE HOURS OF CREATION MAN WAS SINLESS. HE HAD DONE NO EVIL. GOD BROUGHT THE ANIMALS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN TO ADAM SO HE COULD NAME THEM.
BUT FOR ADAM THERE WAS NO HELP OF HIS KIND FOR HIM [GENESIS 2: 1-20].
GOD CAUSED ADAM TO SLEEP AND THE ETERNAL TOOK A RIB FROM ADAM AND WITH IT MADE A WOMAN, AND BROUGHT HER TO ADAM.
ADAM SAID SHE WAS FLESH OF HIS FLESH AND BONE OF HIS BONE. ADAM SAID SHE WAS TO BE CALLED WOMAN, FOR OUT OF MAN WAS SHE FORMED. WOMAN THEN MEANS "OUT OF MAN."
HERE WAS THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE, THE ORDER OF MAN AND WOMAN. MAN WAS TO LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE AND BE ONE FLESH. AS I SAID GOD WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM INSTRUCTIONS ON SEXUAL UNION, PREGNANCY, AND BIRTH.
THEY WERE BOTH NAKED AND WERE NOT ASHAMED; GOD WAS THE CREATOR OF MALE AND FEMALE AND SEXUALITY. GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE. IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS HERE THAT SAME SEX MARRIAGE IS WRONG AND IS SIN, AS OTHER CLEAR SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TELL US, AND ALSO THE NEW TESTAMENT [VERSES 21 - 25].
IT IS INTERESTING THAT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND DEBATED AND VOTED ON THIS SUBJECT OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE--- THEY VOTED IN THE MAJORITY, THAT MARRIAGE IS A UNION BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE, AS GOD FULLY INTENDED FROM THE BEGINNING.
TIME NOW TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS---- THE STUDIES I WILL UPLOAD AT THIS POINT.
Keith Hunt
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