“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.”  Period.  We are not told when, but science and archaeology, even through dinosaur bones,  tell us it was millions of years ago.  “And the earth was without form, and void.” (Genesis 1:2) Whoa!  Something happened between verse one and verse two, for God did NOT create the heaven and the earth void and without form.  He created it to be inhabited!  Read Isaiah 45: 18.  The word “was” in the second verse is actually “became” in the Hebrew manuscripts.  Perhaps there was a rebellion of one of the sons of God named Lucifer/Satan? Does this mean that there were three earth and heaven ages?  The Apostle Peter tells us, “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water; Whereby the earth that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:  But the heavens and the earth , which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thouand years, and a thousand years as one day.”  (II Peter 3: 5-8).  That third age, or eon, is yet to come…at the return of the Messiah Yahshua/Jesus.  Does this mean that God took eight days for Creation…which would actually have been eight thousand years?  The answer to this would explain some age-old Bible questions.

Most people believe that Creation took place in six days, and God rested on the seventh, and that completed Creation.  The Apostle Peter just told us that one day to God is a thousand years to us.  We must also understand that those “created”, bara in the Hebrew, and spoken into being, happened on the sixth day as male and female…not named Adam.  However, as Genesis 2 confirms. there was an eighth day creation, or formation, of the Adam, from whom God took a rib, tsala (as curved) to make his wife Eve.  The first DNA (Helix curve?)had been accomplished.  That formation, yatsar, of the Adam and Eve occured in the Garden of Eden, and was for the purpose of a perfect ancestral generation through which Messiah would come.  “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1: 8).  “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (I Corinthians 15: 45).  The word or name Adam in the Hebrew means “To show blood in the face, to flush or turn rosy, red and ruddy”.   The eighth day creation of the Adam and Eve answers the nagging question of:  How did Cain go to the land of Nod, and take a wife?  The answer is that there were people, from the sixth day creation, already on the earth!  And…all races could NOT have come from one couple…Adam and Eve!

So, what really happened in the Garden of Eden?  According to Genesis 3, the serpent, or the “tree of knowledge of good and evil“, both of which represent Satan, beguiled Eve.  Was it a fruit, or an “apple” that caused the original sin in the garden, and that caused Adam and Eve to suddenly feel shame at their nakedness?  The Apostle Paul tells us that it was not.  “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (II Corinthians 11: 3).  If we take that word “beguiled” back to the ancient Greek, we find that the word is “exapatao” which means to seduce wholly!  Simply, we need only look at what the LORD God said to the serpent in Genesis 3: 15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”  The Hebrew word for seed is zera or zara, which means to disseminate or to conceive seed.  In John 8: 37-38, Jesus, in addressing the Pharisees, makes it very clear by declaring, “I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.  I speak that which I have seen with my Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.”  He goes on to really lay the truth on them in verse 44 with, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”  Did He say they were Jews, or of the House of Judah?  No, yet they sought to kill Him!  Jesus makes it most clear in Revelation 3: 9, when He explains, “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”  Those are the ones who crucified Him, not the House of Judah!  The seed of the devil, and of Cain, the firstborn twin of Abel, was the seed that was anti-Christ from the beginning.  Incidentally, Cain is NOT listed in Adam’s genealogy!  This should help to explain the error of anti-Semitism throughout the centuries and, after all, Jesus/Yahshua was a Jew (Hebrew)…of the king-line House of Judah, and of the priest-line of Levi.  There are twelve tribes of the House of Israel, not just the House of Judah!  Of the wicked which Jesus addressed, who are also considered false prophets, how shall we recognize them?  “Ye shall know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7: 16).  They may look just like we do, as do the tares, but by their deeds, good or evil, we shall know them.

After the original sin in the Garden of Eden, the Lord said, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.” (Genesis 3: 22). Just as the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the devil, the tree of life was Jesus Christ.  Note how we can eat of the tree of life and live forever.  Today, symbolically, we eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ, which is known as Communion…or the Eucharist.  Well, that was foretold way back in Genesis…in the beginning!  “So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims , and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” (Genesis 3: 24).  The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.  I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”  (Deuteronomy 18 : 15 and 18).  “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.  And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: Whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak,“ said Jesus in (John 12: 49-50).

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.”  (John 1: 1-2).  Jesus was and is the Living Word of God…and IS God…from the beginning!  “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,”  (Isaiah 7: 14).  “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.“  (Matthew 1: 23).  Jesus said,”…he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?  I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.“  (John 14: 9 and 6).  “He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.  And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.  (John 12 ;44-45).  “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6 ; 40).  That promise would apply to all who have been born since Jesus walked the earth.  So, how could we, after two thousand years, seeth the Son, Jesus?  We will find out in our journey of truth.