Genesis Decoded

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Genesis Decoded!
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It is for me the single hardest book in the whole of the Scripture to fully understand. Compared to Genesis, Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation are a cakewalk. I know this because I spent far more time on Genesis than I did these others and honestly I have never been so profoundly shaken as I was when the Genesis Code was revealed to me.
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Also more than any other book, Genesis inflames our passions and excites controversy. Battle lines are drawn between believers and humanist skeptics as each side lays claim to a truth from their fields that, as it turns out, is overly simplistic and inaccurate. Its not that Genesis was wrong--it was misinterpreted by those who dont know Hebrew.
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But it is also the case that, even among the most learned of Rabbis, they have a vested interest in not discussing it clearly, either amongst themselves or among others. According to The Stone Tanakh, an Orthodox Jewish translation, Rambam (Maimonides) said the following about just one mystery of Genesis
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Do not expect me to write anything about [creation of the second day] since Scripture itself does not elaborate on itThe verses in their literal sense do not require such an explanation. For those of us who do understand the explanation are forbidden to reveal it. And for those who do not understand, it is forbidden to speculate.
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Rambams implication is clear: The firmament and the upper and lower waters are among the mysteries of Creation that are either unknowable to Man or must be limited to those qualified to know them.-Stone Tanakh (Chumash), p. 4 But is this true about mysteries being kept from us, never to be understood or taught? 6 Well the Scripture says
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'For this Torah which I am laying down for you today is neither unclear for you nor beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, "Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we can hear and perform it? Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, "Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we can hear and perform it? No, the word is very near to 7
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it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to hear it and perform it. (Deuteronomy 30:11-14 Matara) Now I am going to reveal new things to you, secrets that you do not know; they have just been created, not long ago, and until today you have heard nothing about them, so that you cannot say, 'Yes, I knew about this.' (Isaiah 48:6-7 NJB)
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"Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. "But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase." (Daniel 12:3-4 NAU)
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All these things Y'shua spoke in parables to the crowd, and he would not speak to them without a parable. So might be fulfilled the thing which was spoken through the prophet who said, "I will open my mouth with parables and will bring out secrets that were from before the foundation of the world. (Matthew 13:34-35-AENT)
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But what about the other assertion Stone makesthat other mysteries are the sole province of the sages who are forbidden to teach them or that for the common man he is forbidden to speculate? Is that really true? Is it actually the case that the foundational place that reveals our origins is off limits for all but the sages to understand? Heres what 11 Scripture says about that issue
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It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to rely on human beings; better to take refuge in Yahweh than to rely on princes. (Psalm 118:8-9 NJB) For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will dissipate the intelligence of the sagacious." Where is the wise sage? Behold, has not Elohim showed that the wisdom of this world is folly? (1 Corinthians 1:19-20-AENT) 12
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Trust wholeheartedly in Yahweh, put no faith in your own perception; acknowledge him in every course you take, and he will see that your paths are smooth. Do not congratulate yourself on your own wisdom, fear Yahweh and turn your back on evil: health-giving, this, to your body, relief to your bones. (Proverbs 3:5-8 NJB)
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So what we have to do, in essence, is re-examine everything we thought we knew from our studies or assumptions that have come down to us from the prisms of Jewish and Christian traditions. While much of those traditions comfort us, they must be cast aside if they are shown to contradict Scripture, which is our final authority.
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In other cases, sincere and open minded inquiries seem to have been blocked by the text itselfGenesis itself seems to be working against us! First, when dealing just with translations, the most common Creationist text is King James, a version fraught with many errors and bad readings that arise from using an archaic form of Shakespearean 15 English.
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And the fact is also that many Creationist and Intelligent Design advocates place a high emphasis on their scientific credentials. but a low emphasis on their Biblical scholarship in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. The time has come to deal with both sides of the equation and get to the truth!
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But before we can do that, a necessary caveat is in order. We are faced with two very uncomfortable alternatives. We can either take refuge in shortcuts and traditions that leave a nagging desire to know more which seems forever out of reach, or we can get real answers that totally blow away our conventional understanding. In pop culture terms it 17 comes down to this
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You can take the blue pill and just wake up in your home and believe whatever you want. Or, you can take the red pill, and see how far the rabbit hole goes. Remember, I am offering the truth, nothing more. Paraphrase of Morpheus (or change) from The Matrix-1999 Pop culture aside its a good metaphor. Blue is comforting ignorance and red is 18 painful truth. Which will it be?
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For those of you who are still with me, I assume you have taken the red pill, so for you let me tell you about the questions I hope to completely clarify and answer for you today. Questions like How old is the Universe and the earth? When did time really begin? Were there people on earth before Adam?
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Does Genesis 1 really intend that each of the 6 days are only 24 hours long? How is there life on earth by day 3 without the sun to warm it until day 4? Is there a difference between change Abba YHWH ordains and Darwinian Evolution? Who is Cain afraid of and where did he get his wife?
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Were the Children/sons of Elohim really angels and who were the Nephilim that they gave birth to by procreating with the daughters of Adam or man? Is it possible there were more than one species of humans on the earth at the same time? What about dinosaurs and other primitive life? What does Torah have to say about the 21 Big Bang, Dark Matter and so on?
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These questions, and others, I will try to answer completely, going strictly from what the Hebrew says. However, I need to also make a small request to those of you who may be hearing this in lecture form from me right now The nature of a study like this is I have to lay one foundation at a time and cant skip 22 ahead.
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Therefore, for the questions I just said I would answer, please hold your queries on these matters until the end of the talk. Furthermore, I believe what the Hebrew really says is the shocking mystery that the Rabbis and others do not want to get out to the masses, because if it does and what I have seen is right, this will change everything! Are you ready? If so, 23 our first step begins in part 2
Next in Part 2 Lessons on the Mysteries
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Part 2: Lessons on the Mysteries
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code It is a well known maxim in Scripture study to use the Bible to interpret itself. But because there are certain realities in Genesis that are not present in any other Biblical book the rule is refined further to: Use parts of Genesis itself to interpret other parts of Genesis! And so, to begin to unravel the mysteries of Genesis 1-6, we must first look at the 27 language in Genesis 10
Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code Now these are the records of the )of Shem, generations (toldot-- Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood. (Genesis 10:1 NAU) The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. (Genesis 10:2 NAU)
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code Now these are the records of the )of Shem, generations (toldot-- Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood. (Genesis 10:1 NAU) These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations. (Genesis 10:20 NAU)
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations. These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies (toldot- )by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:31-32 NAU)
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code We need to focus on three areas. First, notice that we begin with a fixed point in time, after the Flood, when all of Noahs sons are still alive. Second, we go through a linear progression of generations (linear time) for each son and then, when we get to the last generation, we cycle back up to the start point (cyclical time), just after the 31 flood.
Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code Third, before each cycle starts we are told These are the toldot, or records of generations, for each son. The word toldot even repeats at the end of the account to confirm our understanding. Nearly every place the word toldot appears, both Jewish and Christian translators render it as records of generations---except for here, which we 32 will correct now
Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code These are the records of the generations )of the heavens and of the (toldot-- earth when they were created in the day (or time) that YHWH Elohim made earth and heaven. (Genesis 2:4 Matara) How can the heavens and the earth have generations? The answer is secret #1: There was more than one creation in Genesis 1!
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code Another key to seeing the plural in the beginnings comes from two separate Hebrew words: bara and asah. While both words share a meaning of to shape, form, the difference between them is that bara speaks to creating something out of nothing (ex-nihilo) whereas asah is about taking certain basic building blocks and rearranging them into a final creation.
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code In Genesis 1:26, Elohim says, Let us make (asah) in our Image, because the Image already exists. Then in Genesis 1:27, when it happens for the first time, male and female are created (bara) out of nothing, but are conformed to that Image. These differences are subtle but very important to advance our understanding.
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code One more example: Light. In Isaiah 45:7, Abba YHWH says I form the light and I create (bara) the darkness. This is because Abba YHWH separated the light from the darkness! The word yatzar for form is a synonym for asah, so the darkness was not the absence of light, but a separate creation from which light was pulled out from! Kind 36 of like Eve from Adam
Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code In any case, we will look at these separate generations for the heavens and the earth in a later topic heading called Day Zero. For now though, the take away is this: The book of Genesis is filled with what we can only call cyclical time, meaning events that start, develop, end and then recycle back to starting point.
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code This is why we began our discussion with those sons of Noah in Genesis 10. Each one began his line from a fixed point in time, had that line develop, end and then cycle back to the next son all over again. The same is true for telling the stories of Ishmael and Isaac, Jacob and Esau and in fact the 12 tribes of Israel.
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code In addition, the only time we have linear time or human based sequential time is when we are talking about the generations or times within a specific cycle! In other cases, prophets and seers who normally live in linear time will enter into cyclical time when they portray or see future events as if they have already happened.
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Lesson #1: Linear vs. Cyclical Time The Toldot Code As a result, without a firm understanding of the difference between cyclical (YHWH based) and linear (human based) timing, any attempt to understand Genesis will by necessity fall short and lead to bad assumptions. We also must apply this understanding then to the times when only YHWH, His Son Yshua or the angels are present and the times when Man is there. 40 Now on to Lesson #2
Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1
What if I told you that there is terminology in Genesis 1 that is never, ever repeated again in the rest of the Scripture, would that get your attention? What if I further told you that this unique terminology is actually a completely alien way of counting time? For me, this is one of the most astounding discoveries of them all
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Gen. 1:6-8 Day 2 Ord. #, no HA a second day Manipulate water Gen. 1:9-13 Day 3 Ord. #, no HA a third day Life on land (plants)
Gen. 1:1-5 Day 1 Introduction Card. #, no HA a one day Light created Gen 2:1-4 Day 7 Proper Grammar: the seventh day Abba YHWH ceases His work
Gen. 1:20-23 Day 5 Ord. #, no HA a fifth day Manipulate water

Gen. 1:24-31 Day 6 Proper grammar: the sixth day Life on land (animals and man)
Genesis 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created
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Gen. 1:1-5 Day 1 Card. #, no HA a one day Light created

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Gen. 1:6-8 Day 2 Ord. #, no HA a second day Manipulate water
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Gen. 1:9-13 Day 3 Ord. #, no HA a third day Life on land (plants)

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Gen. 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created
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Day 5 Gen. 1:2023 Day 5 Ord. #, no HA a fifth day Manipulate water

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Day 6 Gen. 1:2431 Day 6 Proper grammar: the sixth day Life on land (animals and man)
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Gen 2:1-4 Day 7 Proper Grammar: the seventh day Abba YHWH ceases His work
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The Accounting Code

It was evening and it was morning, a day one (yom echad/) .-Genesis 1:5
On the first day (beyom ha rishown/ )you will have a Set-Apart assembly.-Exodus 12:16
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The phrase a day one (yom echad) in Genesis 1:5 sounds awkward even in English though it is a perfectly accurate translation. Nevertheless, it is on the surface bad Hebrew grammar. By contrast the phrase in Exodus 12:16 the first day or yom ha rishown is perfect Hebrew grammar. In order to understand why, we need to understand 51 cardinal and ordinal numbers.
A cardinal number (one, two, three, etc.) indicates the possession or value of something, such as saying, I only have one car to get to work. An ordinal number (first, second, third, etc.) on the other hand indicates the sequential order of something, such as saying, And that car I use to get to work is the first new car I ever bought.
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In Genesis 1:5, the proper Hebrew grammar in all such sentences should be an ordinal number (first day/rishown) and never a cardinal number (a one day/echad) which is how it is rendered. In addition, all such sentences require a HA or the, hence yom HA rishown rather than yom echad (no HA). This is totally unique in all the Scripture and therefore, a clue!
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These rules are true whenever we are grouping days together as either the first day of a week or of an occasion, i.e. the first of 8 days of Tabernacles. The only exception is when dealing with days of the month, because then a different grammar rule applies. For example, the first month will always be rishown, but the first day that belongs to that month is echad, such as here 54
The water decreased steadily until the tenth month. On the first day of the month (beechad lchodesh) the tops of the mountains became visible.-Genesis 8:5 In these cases, the month itself has days that it owns, and this is the first among those days or echad (cardinal), but the rest of the days the month has follow it (ordinal). I know this sounds hard, but 55 we must get these terms straight.
Lets put it another way: The first time for anything (first date, first movie, first car) is sequential and will be rishown. But the moment you own one of anything its echad. However, the next series of numbers is even more bizarre, and it has to do with how days 2 through 5 are characterized in the text
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It was evening and it was morning A second day (yom sheni) in Genesis 1:8 should be the second day (yom HA sheni). A third day (yom shelishi) in Genesis 1:13 should be the third day (yom HA shelishi). A fourth day (yom revii) in Genesis 1:19 should be the fourth day (yom HA revii). A fifth day (yom chamishi) in Genesis 1:23 should be the fifth day (yom HA chamishi57 )
What all this means is simple: The lack of a definite article (HA or the) in the Hebrew here, again totally unique to Genesis 1, has the net effect of turning these ordinal references (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th days) into cardinal references, because the HA will provide the sequence. For example: This is the second book I bought this year gives the sequence, but 58 this is a second book does NOT.
In other words, if I tell you I bought four books this year and I put them on a table in front of you But I dont tell you which of the four THE first book I bought was, you wont know the sequence. But if I say, THE first book I bought was War and Peace and THE second book was Moby Dick and so on, now you know the sequence.
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Heres the bottom line: We dont have the REAL sequence of a second day and a third day in Genesis 1 either. These 4 days are NOT in chronological order However, getting back to a day one we still do know that is also the FIRST day because it says, in the beginning and beginning comes first! But in terms of what comes after day one and how four 60 others are ordered, it is not given!
But for the last 2 days in the 7 day sequence, oddly enough, everything is fine. Day 6 is properly rendered yom HA shishi and Day 7 is yom HA shevii. Finally we have the proper ordinal numbers married to the HA to give us the sequence that day 6 is most definitely followed by Day 7.
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If all this sounds then a bit oddeven kind of painfulits understandable. This count never, ever happens again, either in Scripture or in life. Day 1 is the first day, but we dont know what follows it. Days 2-5 have no sequence at all. And days 6-7, other than being the last two adjacent ones, have no other info on 62 what is before day 6.
At the end of the day though, none of this should really be surprising. We know that Genesis 1 is on YHWH Standard Time. We also know that Abba YHWH says plainly that He doesnt think like us, judge like us and, most importantly, He doesnt count like usas these Scriptures clearly prove.
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I foretell the end from the beginning, and from the start, things that had not occurred. I say: My plan shall be fulfilled. (Isaiah 46:10 JPS 1985) For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says YHWH. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 64 (Isaiah 55:8-9 Matara)
But if the days in Genesis 1 are not given in chronological order, how can we find out with certainty what that original order was? The answer has to do with understanding that Genesis 1 is in thematic order, not actual order. How and why does thematic order work? That will be the topic, along with other lessons, as we get into Part 3
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Thematic Order
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Thematic Order: Days 1 & 4
Day 1- Let there be light Day 4- Let there be lights

Gen. 1:1-5 Day 1 Card. #, no HA a one day Light created Gen. 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created
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Day 2-Separate water from water. Day 5-Let life teem in the waters.
Gen. 1:6-8 Day 2 Ord. #, no HA a second day Manipulate water
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Day 3-Let there be life on land. Day 6-Let there be life on land.
Gen. 1:9-13 Day 3 Ord. #, no HA a third day Life on land (plants)
Gen. 1:24-31 Day 6 Proper grammar: the sixth day Life on land 71 (animals & man)
So thematic order basically tells the same story (Light, Water, Land) in separate yet complimentary ways, with different details and emphases in each version that still go with the whole. The purpose of thematic order then is in delivering profound truths in simple, repetitive language which will aid in memorizing the entire structure of His 72 creation.
So the way the days are given now in Genesis 1 is meant to tell the story of First there was light in the sky, then there was water and then there was land. When the land part is done on Day 3, we cycle back up to the top (like with Noahs sons) and tell the story of the next generation of lights, water and land.
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Again also our Heavenly Father counts differently than we do and is in cyclical time as He lays this count down. That means while we humans in linear fashion would order the days as 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, the actual chronological order of creationproven to be correct by the unique accounting languageis really 1,4,2,5,3 and 6.
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Finally, what was interesting to me was that after years of searching and trying to figure this out on my own, I found that some of the Rabbis did in fact see the same thing I was seeing. Once more lets turn to the Stone Tanakh Chumash and their commentary on Genesis
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The Vilna Gaon notes that the creations of the first three days and those of the next three days paralleled and completed one another. Light was created on the 1st day and the luminaries were set in place on the 4th . The seas and the atmosphere were created on the 2nd day and aquatic and bird life were created on the 5th . The dry land and vegetation were created on the 3rd and populated on the 6th. p. 5. 76
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What this all means is that there is no conflict really between life on land by day 3 and no sun and moon before day 4, as days 1 and day 4 are now linked in sequence, but were separated into different cycles of the same theme. Similarly, the waters separated on day 2 are followed by life in the waters on day 5, and the vegetation on land on day 3 is 77 followed by animals on land on day 6.
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And all of this, not surprisingly, is in perfect agreement with the order of life given to us by science However, that does not mean the goal is to have Scripture bow to science, but to show that science was in the Scriptures and is perfected by the Scriptures. Where science is right, Scripture proves it and where it is wrong (us coming from 78 apes) Scripture rebukes it. Next
Lesson #4: Day Zero
We saw earlier how the Hebrew said there were generations of the creation of the heavens and the earth. If so, we should also find further proof of this fact throughout the rest of the Scriptures. Not only is this the case, what we are about to see is that, without these separate creations, the Scripture itself 79 is broken! For example
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And the earth was a waste land and empty (tohu vabohu/ ) -Genesis 1:2 For thus says YHWH Who created the heavensHe is the Elohim Who formed the earth and made itHe established it and did not create it a waste land (tohu/) , but formed it to be inhabited.-Isaiah 45:18 Are we really going to have to choose Moses testimony against Isaiahs or vice 80 versa? And thats not all
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In Genesis 1:10, the earth which was created in 1:1 is defined as dry land in its original form. But, in Genesis 1:6 there are waters all over the place. Furthermore, these waters are not said to be created or formed at allthey are simply therewhere did they come from? Where is the command, Let there be waters? Where is, And the waters 81 were good?
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In fact, the Rabbis have long puzzled over the fact that the second day is the only day in the series where the phrase and it was good does not appear. But they also pointed out that when the waters reach final form and are gathered into seas, thats when they are called good. However, if thats true, then these first waters were somehow bad!
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The only explanation is a shocking one: There is a gap between Genesis 1:1 when the earth is dry and not a waste and Genesis 1:2, where there are waters and the earth is laid waste. This also tells us there had be a flood that, unlike the one with Noah, wicked man did not provoke our Heavenly Father to wrath! Here is the proof
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Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations? Tell me, since you are so wellinformed! Who decided its dimensions, do you know? Or who stretched the measuring line across it? What supports its pillars at their bases? Who laid its cornerstone to the joyful concert of the morning stars and unanimous acclaim of the sons of Elohim? Who pent up the sea behind closed doors when I leapt 84
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tumultuous from the womb, when I wrapped it in a robe of mist and made black clouds its swaddling bands; when I cut out the place I had decreed for it and imposed gates and a bolt? 'Come so far,' I said, 'and no further; here your proud waves must break! Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post, to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it? She turns as red as a 85
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clay seal, she tints it as though it were a dress. (Job 38:4-14 NJB) (But) I (Satan) will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High. (But YHWH said) Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of 86 the Pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15 NKJ)
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He (YHWH then) stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the water in His thick clouds, yet the clouds are not broken under it. He covers the face of His throne, and spreads His cloud over it. He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His rebuke. 87
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He stirs up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He breaks up the storm. By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?" (Job 26:7-14 NKJ)
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So now, the flood waters receding, we resume the account in 1:3, and in 1:6, Abba YHWH must separate the waters in order to restore what was damaged! Then the fleeing serpent that was pierced by His hand is cast to the earth, the threat in Isaiah 14 now fulfilled, and so that serpent has only one place to goto Eden to tempt Adam and Eve! But next we need to go deep into Part 4 to see89
Next in Part 4 Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2
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Part 4: Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2
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Genesis 4 Adam, Eve & Cains Line
Genesis 1:27-31: Male & Female Zakhar & Niqveh Introduction Children of Elohim Made in His Image at same time; not breathed into
Genesis 5 Righteous line of Adam through Seth to Noah
And on the Shabbat Abba YHWH rested from all He had made (Genesis 2:1-3)
Genesis 2:4-25: Man and Woman Ish and Ishah Adam & Eve Made in His image separately and breathed into
Genesis 5 Un-named (wicked) sons & daughters of Adam, Seth, Enosh

Genesis 6 Children of Elohim (ch.1) mate with daughters of Adam; Nephilim born
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Genesis 1:27-31: Male & Female Zakhar & Niqveh Introduction Children of Elohim Made in His Image at same time; not breathed into
Genesis 2:4-25: Man and Woman Ish and Ishah Adam & Eve Made in His image separately and breathed into
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Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2
Its at this point that our studies take the most shocking turn thus far. Ill just come right out and say it: Genesis 1 clearly tells us that the first humans were not named Adam and Eve! As we will soon see, the facts point to nearly a dozen differences between the people in Genesis 1 and Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 and onwards.
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These differences also are far from superficial and they defy all attempts to harmonize into a unified whole. The two groups are even referred to by different classifications, with different methods of creation, as if they were two species of humans from the same genus. Lets begin by showcasing these differences up close
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Elohim said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground. Elohim created man in the image of himself, in the image of Himself He created him, male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
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So the male and female in Genesis 1 are created at the same time in the Image of Elohim. However, in Genesis 2 Adam was created first, and then Eve came out of his rib later. Later, in Genesis 5:1, we are told Adam was also made in the Image of Elohim, but there is also an extra creation detail that applies to him and not the male 98
Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1
Yahweh Elohim shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7 NJB) So this man in Genesis 2 was shaped from the dust and breathed into by Abba YHWH whereas the man in Genesis 1 was not. Furthermore the words for how these men came to be also differ.
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Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him. (Genesis 1:27) (bara/ ) And YHWH Elohim formed (yatzar/ man from the dust of the ground. (Genesis 2:7) In 1:27 Adam is used as a general classification (humanity) with male and female being adjectives of that typebut I 100 also believe these are proper names.
Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him. (Genesis 1:27) (bara/ ) And YHWH Elohim formed (yatzar/ man from the dust of the ground. (Genesis 2:7) Bara, as we saw earlier, means to shape out of nothing. But yatzar, like the word asah, means to make with existing materialsyatzar also means potter. 101
Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him. (Genesis 1:27) (bara/ ) And YHWH Elohim formed (yatzar/ man from the dust of the ground. (Genesis 2:7) So the descriptions here clearly point to different processes about the creation of each man. And now, they are even 102 called by different names
Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him, male and female (zakhar (bara/ ) He created them. veniqevah/ (Genesis 1:27) Zakhar is a very odd Hebrew word which actually means to remember. Except for a generic reference in Genesis 5:2 as male human, the word elsewhere seems 103 confined to describing animals
Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him, male and female (zakhar (bara/ ) He created them. veniqevah/ (Genesis 1:27) However, the next time zakhar appears about humans is in Genesis 17:2 regarding circumcising your males ironically as a way to remember (also 104 zakhar) the covenant!
Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him, male and female (zakhar (bara/ ) He created them. veniqevah/ (Genesis 1:27) So the first human man was not called Adam because Adam was only reference to him as a human. Instead he is called Remembrance!
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Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him, male and female (zakhar (bara/ ) He created them. veniqevah/ (Genesis 1:27) The same is true of the name or title we call female or niqevah. Shockingly enough, Eve is never called female and Adam is never called zakhar!
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Elohim created humanity (Adam) in His Image. In the Image of Elohim He created ) him, male and female (zakhar (bara/ ) He created them. veniqevah/ (Genesis 1:27) Also like zakhar, niqevah becomes more restricted to animals, not people, most of the time. Its as if the Torah is saying these first people are more animal like than the generations of Adam and Eve that follow.107
But when it comes to Adam and Eve, they are called something else. Not male and femaleinstead the terms given are man and woman (ish, ). ishah/ This is because, unlike Zakhar and Niqevah, Eve is made from out of Adams rib at a later time. She was called woman, because she was taken out of 108 man.-Genesis 2:23
Another key difference is the fact that Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 people have radically different purposes for existing Genesis 1 commands their humans be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. But Genesis 2 isolates these other humans in a garden so the man can guard and keep it.
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More than that, the man is Genesis 1 is created much earlier than the man in Genesis 2. The Genesis 1 man was created on day 6 and the language there indicates many generations from this man propagated before that day ended. (More on this later.) But the Genesis 2 man was formed and placed in the garden after Abba YHWH 110 rested on the 7th day (Genesis 2:1-3).
Then Genesis 2:4 says, as we saw before: These are the records of the generations )of the heavens and of the (toldot-- earth when they were created in the day (or time) that YHWH Elohim made earth and heaven. (Genesis 2:4 Matara) So when the history of Adam and Eve begins, this is the second generation of humans to come on the earth.
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That is also why Genesis 2:5-6 reads There was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for Yahweh Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil. Instead, water flowed out of the ground and watered all the surface of the soil. The word for earth in Hebrew can also mean region of land such as 112 Eden, where rain had not yet fallen.
That is also why we get the wording there was no Adam to work the land because the man we call Adam had not been created. And yet, as a general term for humanity, the word Adam was used in Genesis 1, thus accounting for much of the confusion between these men. It was the term Adam that led to 113 the proper name Adam later.
And finally, the rest of the details in Genesis 2:5-6 simply relate to the formation of Eden itself, not to the creation of the entire planet. The word Eden is derived from the Hebrew to be pleasant, so this is just the creation of a zone or enclosure of pleasantnessthe same area that will later draw the fleeing serpent to exact his 114 revenge on the Almighty!
So now lets recap The people in Genesis 1 are commanded to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. The people in Genesis 2 are commanded to stay in a garden, keep it and avoid bad fruit. The people in Genesis 1 are made at the same time. The people in Genesis 2 are made 115 separately.
The people in Genesis 1 are made on Day 6. The people in Genesis 2 are made after the ShabbatDay 8! The people in Genesis 1 are only made in the Image of Elohim. The people in Genesis 2 are also made in the Image of Elohim, but Adam is also formed from dust and breathed into by 116 Abba YHWH.
The people in Genesis 1 are called male and femaleZakhar and Niqevah. The people in Genesis 2 are called man and womanIsh and Ishah. Adam in Genesis 1 refers to a general descriptor of the human race or a man. Adam in Genesis 2 refers to a person named Adam after Eve comes out of his rib.
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The people in Genesis 1 are said to be created or bara in Hebrew. The people in Genesis 2 are said to have been formed (yatzar) or made (asah) but not created. The man in Genesis 1 is named Remembrance. The man in Genesis 2 is called Human but at this point our comparisons stop 118 as we move on to Part 5
Lesson #6: The Other Peoples of Genesis
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Genesis 4 Adam, Eve & Cains Line
Genesis 5 Righteous line of Adam through Seth to Noah
Genesis 5 Un-named (wicked) sons & daughters of Adam, Seth, Enosh

Genesis 6 Children of Elohim (ch.1) mate with daughters of Adam; Nephilim born
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Having just completed our analysis of Genesis 1 and 2, the time has come to start classifying the groups we have just seen. The people in Genesis 1 who are descended from Zakhar and Niqevah are made in the Image of Elohim and therefore, they are properly called the sons or children of Elohim.
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When it comes time though to deal with the people in Genesis 2, Adam and Eve actually have several lineages to account for. Of course initially they have two sons, Cain and Abel. But when Abel is murdered by Cain before he can have children, his line is over before it can even begin.
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The surviving brother, Cain, gives birth to a lineage that endures 16 centuries in spite of being in exile and being cursed. This line is given to us in Genesis 4 and we will therefore call them the sons of Cain. Then Adam and Eve have Seth, who will give birth to righteous line which includes Noah and Abraham. They are listed in in Genesis 5, so well call them Sethites. 125
But then we get a very obscure race that almost goes completely unnoticed Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were 800 years, and he (Adam) had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:4 NAU) Then Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:7 NAU)
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Then Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:10 NAU) Then Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:13 NAU)
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Then Mahalalel lived 830 years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:16 NAU) Then Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:19 NAU)
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Then Enoch walked with Elohim 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:22 NAU) Then Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:26 NAU)
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Then Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:30 NAU) So during the first 10 generations from Adam, everyone except for Noah had extra sons and daughters running around, though not a single one them is ever named! Who are these people who have been multiplying all this time? 130
The Rabbis have a good teaching that sheds some light on the matter. They have noticed that every person in Tanakh who is introduced with the phrase, and there was a man/woman named ___ always turns out to be a righteous person. If there is no name or intro, then these people tend to be lumped into a kind of wicked housea place where all the 131 rebels live unnamed and unheralded.
Again, everyone directly from Seths line in Genesis 5 up to Noah is at least mentioned by name, even if they are not outright praised as Noah is. Therefore, these are descendants through Adam and Seth and others that no one wants to remember, so all that we can call them with any certainty is the sons or children of Adam (or man). But two of these groups are about to merge 132
Now it came about when the men (haAdam/ ) began to multiply on the face of the earth(Genesis 6:1) The word HA functions as the of course and the term Adam must be understood as a PLURAL because THEY began multiplying on the face of the earth! In fact, you could translate this as when THE ADAMS began multiplying, implying a specific line. But watch this133
Now it came about when the men (haAdam/ ) began to multiply on the face of the earth (ha-adamah/ () Genesis 6:1) The normal word for earth is eretz in Hebrew. But here Moses is making a distinction with the word ha-adamah, a term only used for the dust that formed Adam but 134 not used to form the earlier people!
Now it came about when the men (haAdam/ ) began to multiply on the face of the earth (ha-adamah/ () Genesis 6:1) Its as if this race of Adams (the men) are linked to the native soil (haadamah) that they originally came from! So the unnamed people of Genesis 5 and the Adams in Genesis 6 are one and the same group! Lets see the next move 135
Now it came about when the men (haAdam/ ) began to multiply on the face of the earth (ha-adamah/ ) and daughters were born to them, that the sons of Elohim (benay ha-Elohim/ ) saw that the daughters of Adam (banot ha-Adam/ ) were beautiful and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. (Genesis 6:1-3 Matara)
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The text could not be clearer. The daughtersunnamed from Genesis 5 still came from the same form of dust (haadamah) that formed their ancestor Adam. These daughters of Adam then become the wives of the sons of Elohimwho can only be the people in Genesis 1 who were made in the Image of Elohim! If they were Sethite or from Cain there would be no reason for the different titles.137
And the result of their union is a hybrid race widely speculated to be giants or aliens or Atlanteans or any number of fantastical beings But the text clearly tells us who these people actually were, and they were not giants or anything else exotic! Genesis 6:4 gives them two titles: Nephilim and men of name, or renown. Lets see what 138 the words mean
Nefilim in Hebrew, literally 'fallen ones. www.bible.ort.org Over many centuries, Jewish and Christian traditions attempted to supply the legendary reason for their fallthat they were the sons of fallen angels. However, the Torah offers a much simpler explanation: The Nephilim are fallen because their parents mated with the daughters of Adam and got his sin! 139
For as it was by Adam that all men die, so also by the Mashiyach they all live. (1 Corinthians 15:22-AENT) So since we know we inherit the sin of Adam and that all men die, why wouldnt the children of Elohimthe people of Genesis 1also inherit that same original sin when they mated with Adams daughters? That is why their offspring 140 are fallen ones (Nephilim)!
However, at this point another key question must be answered, and it has to do with this verse Now the man (or Adam) called his wife Eve, for she was the mother of all living. (Genesis 3:20-Matara) Eves name in Hebrew, or Chavah literally means living, so if she is the mother of all living how can there be these other 141 races running around?
There are two possible answers to this question. First, Genesis 6:4 says the Nephilim were on the earth in those days and after. Since the full generations from Adam were just given in Genesis 5, this means the interbreeding had to happen in the days of Adam himselfthey are his daughters after all.
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Therefore, once this inter-breeding happened, the sons of Elohim became related to Adam and Eve through marriage and therefore Eve was their mother as well as the mother of Cain and Seths line. The other explanation is that it is not Adam who says for she was the mother of all living but Moses, who is making a comment on how things are in his day. 143
In other words, Moses already knows that only the line of Adam through Seth survived the flood Therefore, from where Moses is during his times, every human being on the earth is descendant of Noah and therefore a descendant of Noahs mother, Eve. But then there is the other title for these people, men of renown to deal with 144
It seems that the Nephilim or their parents, a.k.a. the sons of Elohim, were famous for something, but what was it? I believe the answer is simple: They built all the early pre-Adamic civilizations and followed in the footsteps of their ancestor Zakhar. The first man, Zakhar, as we saw was named Remembrance and thats what 145 his sons did for him!
But unlike Adam and Eve, Zakhars children had this charge to fulfill: Elohim created man in His own image, in the image of Elohim He created him; male and female He created them. Elohim blessed them; and Elohim said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and
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over every living thing that moves on the earth. Then Elohim said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. Elohim saw all that He had 147
made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1:27-31) So the children of Elohim and their offspring the Nephilim are given the charge of filling the earth and subduing it. Then, with the phrase and it was so we are told they succeeded in doing just that, establishing civilizations and 148 becoming famous but also fallen!
And finally, these classifications and understandings also help us clear up two other issues Cain then said to Yahweh, 'My punishment is greater than I can bear. Look, today you drive me from the surface of the earth. I must hide from you, and be a restless wanderer on earth. Why, whoever comes across me will kill me!' 'Very well, then,' Yahweh replied, 149
'whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.' So Yahweh put a mark on Cain, so that no one coming across him would kill him. (Genesis 4:13-15 NJB) So who is Cain afraid of that could kill him? Well, Cain says he is about to wander the earth, so who is there to meet him other than the Sons of Elohim in Genesis 1 who have been spreading 150 on the land for some time?
Its a simple process of elimination. Seth is born after this time, so it cant be either him or his unknown sons and daughters. Adams other sons and daughters dont seem likely either, because they are direct kin and they probably have not wandered far from their garden home at this time and Cain is moving away from them. So the Children of Elohim and/or 151 Nephilim are the only ones left!
It is the Children of Elohim who are the clever ones, who have been around the longest and who have already proven themselves to be wicked. No wonder Cain is afraidthey will kill him because, in their eyes, Cain will be a city builder coming into their territory that they already built up. Only the mark from Abba YHWH will warn them to back off. But then we have this classic ?... 152
Cain left Yahweh's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. He became the founder of a city and gave the city the name of his son Enoch. (Genesis 4:16-17 NJB) It is the classic question of the Biblical skeptic: Where did Cains wife come from? But the answer has always been easy 153
Cain is afraid of the Sons of Elohim/Nephilim and so probably wont take from one of their women. Seths line, once again, is not around to contribute a wife. Therefore, the most logical answer is that he married one of his unnamed sisters that we know Adam also had fathered with Eve. This is why Cains line in steeped in sin, in 154 addition to the murder he did.
So now at this point, we are already far enough along in this study to answer some of the hardest questions about Genesis. But of course, far more difficult questions remain such as: How old is the earth and the Universe? What is the truth about evolution and science and Scripture? And, does the Scripture tell us how the Universe will ultimately end? Join me 155 then for Part 6 for
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! So lets recap our lessons thus far 1) Weve seen the differences between linear and cyclical time and that the word toldot pointed to more than one creation of heaven, earth and man. 2) Next we saw the accounting language for the days in Genesis 1 is utterly unique and never repeated anywhere else, pointing to a non-chronological order as it 159 is given.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! 3) We then delved into the reasons for the kind of order the days were in. Called Thematic Order, days 1 through 3 tell a story that is paralleled in days 3 through 6 but in actuality day 1 goes with day 4, day 2 goes with day 5 and day 3 goes with day 6. 4) Next we saw the surprising story of Day Zero, a time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 where Satan fell from heaven.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! 5) Then we began to see that the people mentioned in Genesis 1 could not be the same as Adam and Eves line in Genesis 2. Many differences were mentioned, such as: G-1 people were made at the same time whereas Adam was made first and Eve later; G-1 people were just made in His image, but Adam and Eve were also formed from the dust of the ground and breathed into, and so on. 161
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! 6) After that, we saw more amazing detail with the different lineages of man: The Children of Elohim in Genesis 1 mated with the Daughters of Adam in Genesis 6, making the Nephilim. After Cain and Seths line are explained, we also see a hidden race comprised of unnamed sons and daughters starting with Adam and ending with Noahs father. And now well answer the hardest questions of them all, like 162
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? In order to answer this question, we must deal with another one: Where is time counted from? The answer is a bit shocking: We dont get any historical time counted before Adam has Seth in his 130th year. Therefore, our human time really begins when Adam is 163 created, not when the universe was.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? So everything that happened before Adam, the creation and re-creation of the heavens and the earth, the rebellion of Satan/the fleeing serpent and all the stages of life that happen upon the earth afterthese are not counted in our historical time.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? In other words, Adam may be from 6,000 years ago but the earth and heaven are much older than this. The Children of Elohim in Genesis 1 are also much older than this. As for showing this Scripturally, we begin to see this from the Psalms
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? The Prayer Of Moses, man of Elohim: Lord (Adonai), you have been our refuge from age to age. Before the mountains were born, before the earth and the world came to birth, from eternity to eternity you are Elohim. You bring human beings to the dust, by saying, 'Return, children of Adam.' A thousand years are to you like 166 a
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? yesterday which has passed, like a watch of the night. (Psalm 90:1-4 NJB) So its not just a full day that is like a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8), but actually a watch of the night that takes this long to complete. Matthew 14:25 and Mark 6:48 then clearly tell us there are 167 four watches in the night.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? In Yochanan 11:9 Yshua asked, Are there not 12 hours daylight? rhetorically. Therefore there must be 12 hours of night as well. The ancients divided both periods between sunrise and sunset and between sunset and sunrise, into 12 equal portions, 169 or hours.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? The actual length of those hours varied with the seasons and was most like our modern 60-minute version close to the times of the spring and fall equinoxes. Nevertheless, 60 minutes is still a good average for the time an hour takes throughout the year.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? So for our purposes in interpreting Psalm 90, a watch of the night is equal to 1/4th the time from sunset to sunrise, or 3 hours. If 3 hours then = 1,000 years to Abba YHWH, then each 24 hour day must = at least 8,000 years.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? Multiply 8,000 years by the number of days in Genesis 1 (7) and we come to a minimum number of 54,000 years for the age of the eartha far cry from the usual 6,000 years that are offered in conventional Creationism. This figure doesnt include the time of Satans war, 172 in between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? Likewise, we know that Adam and Eve are made after Abba YHWH rests on that 7th day (Genesis 2:1-7), so the entire time of Adams life is after the minimum age of the earth at 54,000 years ago, meaning from his time until now, the heavens and the earth are at least 173 60,000 years old!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? I believe however that the Torah gives us strong clues that the heavens and the earth are actually far older than this. In order to see why, I need to dispel another common misconception: The 6 days of creation are not each 24 hours long!
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? Elohim created man in His own image, in the image of Elohim He created him; male and female He created them. Elohim blessed them; and Elohim said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves 175
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? on the earth. Then Elohim said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. Elohim saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1:27-31) So there are two parts to this Scripture that we need to clearly understand
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? First, that early men and women were commanded to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. This means that Zakhar and Niqevah could have refused the command...for had Abba YHWH not left it a choice He could have made millions of humans 178 populate the earth at once.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? I believe this also means that the first humans had to fill the earth on their own natural powermeaning through the normal 9 month gestation period. Their forms may have been made out of nothing, but their ability to reproduce still had to happen by natural law that Abba YHWH also created!
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? I havent done the math on this, but it is still a fair question to ask: How long would it take for two people to have their offspring fill every corner of planet earth? How many generations of 40 years each? 50? 100? 1,000? More? The point isprobably more than a single 24 180 hour day!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? And if each day as we saw before is at least 8,000 years long, these hundreds or thousands of generations of early man must exceed that time limit as well. This brings us to our second point: The text says and it was so, meaning all those generations did their thing on Day 6 and 181 before Day 7!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? Now lets apply this same logic to days 1 through 5. In every case, from light, to water to plants and animals, Abba YHWH specifically blesses and commands them to also multiply across the earth or the sea. He speaks to them the same choice, to obey 182 or disobey the command.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? If each of these thingsand yes, I would include the stars in this analysis as well technically had the right to say yes or no to existence, then they too must be brought about through the natural duration of their gestations. So however long it takes Leviathans to fill the seas, it must be 183 done on that natural cycle, for example .
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? And the same must then be true for the stars, galaxies and planets throughout the Cosmos. Abba YHWH controls their lifecycles just as much as He does ours. One of the key phrases that we discuss later as well is after their kinds ) or species, and each (lminahu/ 184 species has a normal lifecycle.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? But if all that is true, why does Genesis 1 use the phrase and it was evening and it was morning? Wouldnt that point to a 24 hour period for each day? Not necessarilyand heres why. The Hebrew reads vayehi erev vayehi boker, or evening came and morning came.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? Erev (evening) refers to a mixing of light turning into darkness. Boker (morning) refers to a shaft of light piercing the darkness. These terms can simply be referring to a final act of having light go out and come back in at the end of every creative periodit is not only about the sun.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? And then there is the word for DAY (yom/) Day as division of time: a. working-day Ex 20:9, 20:10 (E) = Dt 5:18, Ex 16:26, 16:30; 16:30 (J), 23:12 (JE), 31:15 (P), Lv Ez 46:1.-Brown Driver 23:3 (H); Briggs
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? Clearly all of Genesis 1 fits this definition as Abba YHWH rests from all the work He had done. Abba YHWH is obviously working with each thing He creates, so these are His 6 work days just like Shabbat is His rest dayand when He punches out He 188 makes the darkness come and go!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #1: How old are the heavens and the earth? So while I cannot give a specific answer to this question, I can say that, generally speaking, the Scripture is pointing strongly to a period of many millions if not billionsof years for the age of the heavens and the earth. This leads us to our next question
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? Charles Darwin is by far the most controversial scientist who ever lived, and nothing inflames the passionate hearts of Biblical believers more than his Theory of Evolution. But we know it is only a theory, not a fact, and that theory has deep flaws all over 190 the place
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? The first of Darwins flaws was this: Natural Selection is the god of Evolution. It is natural selection that is the mechanism that is supposed to elevate species with the best chance to survive. But what if our Creator was in fact the architect of some form of evolution? 191 What then?
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? In that case we are talking about something completely opposite: Supernatural Selection! All species of man and animals and plants were divinely selected to reproduce after their kinds or species, and programmed within each species was the ability to 192 change over timeor evolve.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? I believe these principles apply to all life in the fossil record, including the dinosaurs and other primitive species which are no longer around today. Dating issues aside, I do not see any reason for Abba YHWH to fake the fossil record as a complete red herringit is 193 man who misunderstood that record.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? Elohim is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man that He should change His mind. (Numbers 23:19) Further, the first command to man, Fill the earth and subdue it is a command to do a kosher form of science. You cannot subdue anything without understanding and observing it first! Paul also said 194
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? Explore everything and hold fast to the good and fly from everything evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22-AENT) This is the heart of the scientific method. You test everything, keep the good results and throw out the bad. The difference is in Kosher Science we accept YHWHs 195 revealed truth from His Word first!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? Explore everything and hold fast to the good and fly from everything evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22-AENT) So if Abba YHWH has commanded us to use our intelligence to discern His divine law, we must trust the senses He gave us, and know He isnt lying about what was on 196 the earth before, or when.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? But Darwin wrongly proposes random chance whereas Abba YHWH chooses a destiny for each species to either thrive and improve or decline and go extinct. As long as each species lives on the earth, their selection is a process of Divine Law, or Physics and Biology as it was 197 always intended to be understood.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? And finally the idea that we humans came from monkeys is preposterous. This is a classic example of shooting the arrow and drawing the target after it lands. Scientists will tell us that our DNA is about 97.5% similar to a chimpanzees and therefore, they think chimps are our 198 ancestors.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? However, its easy for them to forget that Abba YHWH Himself invented DNA. That DNA is a kind of blueprintscientists terms, not minefor all life on the earth. So why not think of DNA as being like an artist signing his paintingsthis is Abba YHWHs signaturethe one thing 199 that points back to Him!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? I also like to think about the 2.5% difference between our DNA and chimps. Its that small amount that is responsible supposedly for all the huge differences between these two species! 2.5% is the difference between building pyramids or wallowing in mud. Never has so little 200 commanded so much!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #2: Was Darwin right about Evolution and Natural Selection? Or, might it just be the case that such a tiny difference proves the opposite. Maybe it proves that without His direct intervention and approval, humanity would never have gotten its start in the first place! So yes, species change over timebut everything else Darwin said 201 was wrong. Next
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? According to what the Torah actually says in the Hebrew, current theories of modern physics fare much better than the myths that comprise modern biology. Both agree that the Cosmos and the earth are billions of years old, and both look at titanic but unseen forces as holding the 202 whole structure together
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? He stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing. (Job 26:7 NAU) This is a perfect descriptionthe nothing that is something but unseenof either Gravity or Dark Matter. Either way it is this same stuff that keeps the Universe from flying apart.
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22 NAU) Isaiah was the first man to say the earth is a sphere or a choog in Hebrew. He also describes space being stretched like a 204 curtain like a Big Bang with curved space.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22 NAU) The spreading out like a tent further describes the warping of space under extreme forces of gravityand curved 205 space was unknown until Einstein.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? 'Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; and He walks on the vault of heaven.' (Job 22:14 NAU) The same word that said earth was a sphere, choog, is used for the vault of heaven, confirming that space is warped and curved like a weaveagain exactly what Einstein proved thousands of years 206 later.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? And all the host of heaven will wear away, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, or as one withers from the fig tree. (Isaiah 34:4 NAU) A perfect description of the Big Bang in reverse. If the heavens are rolled up like a scroll at the end, they had to roll OUT like 207 a scroll at the start
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? And all the host of heaven will wear away, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, or as one withers from the fig tree. (Isaiah 34:4 NAU) If they rolled OUT that way from a central pointa scroll opens from the center, not from the left or right like a modern book 208 doesthen it spread FROM that point out!
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? And the day of Master YHWH will come like a thief; in which the heavens will suddenly pass away; and the elements, being ignited, will be dissolved; and the earth and the works in it will not be found. As therefore all these things are to be dissolved, what persons should you be, in Set Apart conduct and in the Fear of Elohim,
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Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? expecting and desiring the coming of the day of Elohim in which the heavens being tried by fire will be dissolved and the elements being ignited will melt? (2 Peter 3:10-12-AENT) Peter says matter breaks down into energy or fire, the basic meaning behind E = MC2. The effect of this equation is a 210 nuclear explosion, also described above.
Lesson #7: Final Mysteries of Genesis Revealed! #3: Is modern Physics right? So yes, I believe much of modern physics has correctly understood HOW the heavens declare the glory of Abba YHWH but not THAT they declare His glory as their function! And I could do a whole separate presentation on Torah and Physics if I wanted to, showing many more parallels 211 than just these.
Conclusions
And so, as we come to the end of this massive study, I hope I have accomplished a few things First, I hope that I have demonstrated the need to follow the evidence in Scriptures without the prism of traditionsjust look at what the Hebrew saysand see where that evidence leads. Second, I hope I have shown that science 212 and Scripture dont conflict
Conclusions
But if it appears there is a conflict that cannot be resolved, Scripture must always trump science. Science is something that is constantly corrected by flawed men and womenScripture is revealed truth whose core never changes. And yet, our understanding of the Word can also change as our studies into its 213 heart progress.
Conclusions
We must always put the Word above all other considerations, but our respect for the Word requires that we also follow its commands on seeking Abba YHWH out and leaning on Him, not our own human understanding.
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Conclusions
Only then can we finally see the true message that has been hiding in Genesis for thousands of years. It is a message about the love of our Creator and how He labored so greatly to make all of useven if it meant starting the whole Cosmos over from scratchHe loved us enough to keep doing it until WE got it right and WE found His Son Yshua! 215 And with that I will just say this
Conclusions
In wisdom, Yahweh laid the earth's foundations, in understanding He spread out the heavens. Through His knowledge the depths were cleft open, and the clouds distil the dew. My child, hold to sound advice and prudence, never let them out of sight; they will give life to your soul and beauty to your neck. (Proverbs 3:19-22 NJB)
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Part 2: Lessons on the Mysteries

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Gen. 1:20-23 Day 5 Ord. #, no HA a fifth day Manipulate water

Genesis 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created

Gen. 1:1-5 Day 1 Card. #, no HA a one day Light created

Gen. 1:6-8 Day 2 Ord. #, no HA a second day Manipulate water

Gen. 1:9-13 Day 3 Ord. #, no HA a third day Life on land (plants)

Gen. 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created

Day 5 Gen. 1:2023 Day 5 Ord. #, no HA a fifth day Manipulate water

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

The Accounting Code

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Lesson #2: The Unique Count of Genesis 1

Genesis 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created

Genesis 1:14-19 Day 4 Ord. #, no HA a fourth day Lights created

Thematic Order: Days 1 & 4

Day 1- Let there be light Day 4- Let there be lights

Thematic Order: Days 2 & 5

Gen. 1:6-8 Day 2 Ord. #, no HA a second day Manipulate water

Gen. 1:20-23 Day 5 Ord. #, no HA a fifth day Manipulate water

Thematic Order: Days 3 & 6

Thematic Order: Days 3 & 6

Thematic Order: Days 3 & 6

Thematic Order: Days 3 & 6

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Lesson #4: Day Zero

Next in Part 4 Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Part 4: Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Genesis 4 Adam, Eve & Cains Line

Genesis 5 Righteous line of Adam through Seth to Noah

Genesis 5 Un-named (wicked) sons & daughters of Adam, Seth, Enosh

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2

Lesson #5: The People of Genesis 1 & 2