Category: Genesis
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Adam Sabaoth
Man is made in the image of God and is given dominion over the five-fold host, or armies (tsabaoth) of creation: And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps…
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Three falls
Saul’s three falls in 1 Samuel 13-15 are a replay of the falls of man in Genesis 3, 4, and 6. Saul offers forbidden sacrifice – Adam eats forbidden fruit Saul makes a rash vow against his kin and threatens death – Cain murders Abel Saul fails to destroy the Amalekites – Sons of God…
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The end will come
Matthew 24 begins with a proclamation by Jesus against the temple in Jerusalem, that not one stone would be left upon another. The rest of the chapter expounds on this judgment. Jesus says that these wars and famines and earthquakes are the beginning of birth pains, but then goes on to say that tribulation and apostasy and…
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The thunder echoes back
Man has been given the charge, “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,” or to put it another way, “go disciple the nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey.” Until we can bring back the report, “we have filled and subdued,” or, “we have discipled and baptized,” there is a great sense…
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Christus Victor
Joshua’s conquest of Canaan is a foreshadowing of the great commission, the call to the church to go out into the world and bring it into submission to the King. God gave Joshua the authority of Moses and told him – go in, take the land that I have promised to give you, be careful…
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Trinity at creation
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. The Father and the Holy Spirit are clearly present at creation in Genesis 1. The Son…
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In the beginning, God
Moses starts with God. Rather than setting out to prove the existence of God by looking at the world and reasoning up, God is simply presupposed. He begins with God and unfolds the whole creation on this foundation. Everything else (in scripture and in creation) proceeds from this.
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The end
And I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctify them. Ezekiel 20:12 This Sabbath shall appear still more clearly if we count the ages as days, in accordance with the periods of time defined in Scripture, for that period will be found to be the seventh. The first…
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All in all
Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 There shall be the great Sabbath which has no evening, which God celebrated among His first works, as it is written, “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work…
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God will provide himself
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: -Genesis 22:8 Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For…