Month: February 2021

OUTLINE OF GENESIS CHAPTER 2 & 3.
1. Moses recounts the handiwork of the creator.
2. The unique creature: man with a living soul
3. They spurn eternal life for supernatural knowledge.
4. The woman is attracted to deceptive phenomena.
5. Eve misled by the god of reason.
6. Eve succumbs to philosophy, doubt & sin.
7. Earth is cursed & human life shortened.

End of Outline for Genesis 2 & 3.

THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
CHAPTER TWO.
MOSES RECOUNTS THE HANDIWORK OF THE CREATOR.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

A UNIQUE CREATURE: MAN HAS A LIVING SOUL
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that which encompasses the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eatest thereof you shall surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

THEY SPURN ETERNAL LIFE FOR SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE.
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

THE WOMAN IS ATTRACTED TO PHENOMENA.
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of te trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die:

EVE MISLED BY THE GOD OF REASON.
5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

EVE SUCCUMBS TO PHILOSOPHY.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where are you?
10 And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you that you should not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life:
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.

EARTH IS CURSED WITH DEGENERACY.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because you have hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.
20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God 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 for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 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.

End of Holy Scripture.

FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTERS 2 & 3.
GENESIS 2: 7. God’s spirit has part in each human birth. As tripartite: (body, soul, & spirit) man was created in the image of a triune God: Father, Word (Son) & Spirit. The Father’s true human image was the Word made flesh in His Son Christ Jesus.
Adam & Eve chose supernatural knowledge instead the God’s offer of everlasting life. (Tree of Life’s fruit.) Thus God’s penalty cursed Adam’s race (Romans 5). The image in which Adam was created was therewith deadened becoming dysfunctional to the godly bias of his conscience, mind, emotions, & will. Man’s volitionary bias was thereby imprisoned by the bondage of his will. Though the light of God’s image is innate at birth, albeit distorted, it is too weak to overcome the bias of the will) though many struggle against it. Only a second birth can release the prisoners.

GENESIS 3:1-5. In the Garden of Eden Satan was temporarily incarnate in a talking serpent. Indeed this phenomenon drew Eve’s attention. The Prince of Darkness plied philosophical questions and subtle reason for her to allay her fears & consequences should she reject the Tree of (eternal) Life. He offered the power of spirits mystical knowledge in lieu of the Holy Spirit. Jesus (the last Adam) was also tempted in this manner. She, the bride of Christ (the invisible church) has been warned to be wary of the same trap set for the first woman, Eve. I.e. beware of hankering for emotional phenomena that others may manifest under the guise of spirituality. Many of Satan’s ministers of light imperatively compel ‘this experience’ or ‘that experience’ to gain spiritual power. Paul said that the believer’s mortal body would be quickened when he received within him the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. This was at conversion and the simultaneous outward baptism of fire & the Holy Ghost.
End of Footnotes

REFERENCES: 1 John 5:7; 2 Corinthians 5:17; John 3:3; 3:36; Luke 3:38; 1 Corinthians 15:22; 15: 45; John.1:4; 1:9; John 3:36. 1 Corinthians 12:13; Colossians 1:11-14; John 20:22; Acts 1:11.

Credits:
Holy Scriptures from King James Version: (Public Domain).
Footnotes; chapter headings & summary outline: John David.

TODAY’S BIBLE READING

THE BOOK OF GENESIS

The first book of Moses’ Pentateuch (five books)
Annotated by John David from the King James Version..

Genesis 1
The beginning; Moses’ six days’ record of God’s creation.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meal.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meal: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
End of Genesis One.

Source: King James Bible. (Public Domain) 1611
Credits: Headings & Footnotes:- John David. 2020

FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER ONE.
GENESIS. 1:28. Image: see footnote to Genesis 3:7.
GENESIS 1:1. The Lord’s progressive revelation of creation given to Moses started with a preamble (vss.1-2) that preceded his six day journal. God had created the heavens & the earth.

GENESIS 1:2. ‘Earth was without form and void’: a dark cooling molten mass covered with water, both above and beneath its surface. Its immediate surrounding aerosphere was densely saturated with hot water & its accompanying steam prevented sunlight’s penetration. (Cp. Job 38)
God moved’: He continued to fashion the molten sphere with cooling winds upon the hot waters, dividing them therewith.

GENESIS 1:3 Probably this was Day One of Moses’ journal after a revelatory preamble in verses 1 & 2. ‘Let there be light’: In the cooling process of the new planet the steam began to dissipate enough for light to penetrate. Sunlight was pre-existent to Day One described in the opening two verses’ creative preamble. A swaddling band of water encircled the planet, hence the dividing process of verse 4.

GENESIS 1:4. ‘God divided the light’: increasingly more light was able to penetrate the atmosphere, and sunlight would eventually reflect from moon and stars in the relevant geographic shadowy period of earth’s rotation.

GENESIS 1:6-7. ‘A firmament’ was the aerospace placed between the oceanic water & the aerospace’s water in orbit.

Source: King James Bible. (Public Domain) 1611
Credits: Headings & Footnotes:- John David. 2020

BIBLE CHAPTER FOR THE DAY