CREATION WEEK INSIGHTS

Continuing with our study of the Sabbath worship: The record of the creation week described in the Bible is incredibly rich in mystery. God describes the creation in sparse language with few details. When our method is to allow the Bible to interpret itself these mysteries are unveiled. Many twist the word to fit what they believe or want to believe. Our approach is to allow the Bible to interpret itself.

The Bible was written by 40 different writers over a 1500 year time span. The amazing thing about this is how consistent the precepts and history of the Bible flow together. The ancient Jewish Torah teachers spent their entire lives praying and meditating over this Word that was given to them to bless the entire world. Some of their insights and understanding are quite amazing.

It becomes even more amazing when we realize that for the present time, the Jewish people have rejected the Messiah they were waiting for. The scriptures describe His appearance and point to Yeshua as the haMashiach (Messiah) of the Bible. Yes, the insights they have confirm that Yeshua is the one. It will be a glorious day when He returns and they accept him as haMashiac (Zechariah 12.9-14) at the end of this age.

In this study we will delve into the “creation week” of six days and rest on the seventh. This theme runs throughout the entire Bible. Six days of work, rest on the seventh. Herein lie many truths and mysteries concerning the second coming of Yeshua at the end of this present age. The creation week and 6/1 concept is central to understanding scripture.

Day One – The first letter of the Hebrew language is the Beit. It looks like this ב. Hebrew is written from right to left. The sages saw the meaning of this opening letter as being bounded on all sides except forward (the opening faces forward). Therefore all events that occur after the beginning (the creation of Adam) are those which are accessible to human investigation (the open end of the beit). Those that precede the beginning, the time of creation, the back of the beit, are not open to investigation--only God has knowledge of these events and how they unfolded.

Hebrew’s count time, as we know it from the creation of man, Adam. Therefore in the year 2018 on the Gregorian calendar it is 5778 on the Hebrew calendar. This is calculated by using the genealogy’s which are written in the Bible. According to that calculation, since Adam was created 5,778 years have passed. What went on prior to Adam is calculated by God, in time only as He knows it.

 

The first day of creation is described as Day One in the Hebrew because there was no day to precede it. It couldn’t be “the first day” because there had never been a day before. Day two is described as “the second day” because it came after day one. This small detail reveals that the Bible is very detailed in its description of events. The ancient sages noticed this.

 

A day in the Bible is described as a thousand years (Psalm 90.4; 2 Peter 3.8). Therefore the first six days of creation are on God’s time clock and could be billions of years. After the Beit, time is as we know it now would be from the sixth day forward as Adam was created on the sixth day. The ancients realized that time as we understand it is the time we live in since Adam’s creation.

 

The ancients believed that unto man was given six days and on the seventh day the Messiah would come. God created everything in 6 days and rested on the Shabbat (seventh day). Therefore man has 6 days (6 thousand years) to work and then Messiah will appear. The entire Bible is written on the six days of work and rest on the seventh day. This information reveals many events yet to come!

This Day one was the day that God created light (Gen 1:1-5). What kind of light was it? The sun, moon, and stars were not created until the 4^th day! The figurative extension of the Hebrew word for light is: “light of the face” a positive, happy attitude, resulting from relief from trouble.

Prior to the creation of light the Bible says the earth was void and without form—in other words empty (desolation) and void (chaos). When God spoke and created light, the light of His face, the chaos was ended. The world began in darkness but when God spoke His Shekinah glory covered the earth: the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence:  a Hebrew noun meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the dwelling or settling of the divine presence of God and his cosmic glory. Light as we understand it would not be created until the 4^th day, but God had established His divine presence upon the earth.

Second Day – On the second day (Gen 1:6-8) God creates a firmament (expanse of the sky or heaven, the space above the earth that holds visible objects) and waters (water; in nature: ocean, lake, river or, flood:) above and below the firmament. The firmament He called “heaven.” He created waters on earth and waters which come down from above.

Water is of extreme importance in the scriptures. The Torah or Law of God comes down from above. Rain is considered to be a blessing. Nothing can grow without rains. Therefore Torah is like the rain—it comes down to us from above and is a blessing that instructs us in God’s ways.

Later, in Noah’s day, God will destroy the wicked world with flood waters. He will wash the earth clean. The flood event took place about 1656 years after the creation of Adam according to Biblical genealogy. In this event we see waters from below and waters from above flooding the earth. This would be the midway point of the second day if a day is as a thousand years unto the Lord! The creation week is matching with world history.

Third Day – On the third day (Gen 1.9-13) God creates dry land. He gathers the waters together in their place and dry land in its place. Dry land is called “earth” and the waters “seas.” During this day God also created grass, herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its own kind, whose seed is in itself.

The Exodus (Ex 12-14) took place about 2448 years from Adam. This would be midway through the third day on the six thousand years of man. The Hebrew’s were delivered from Egypt as they “crossed over” the Red Sea. Crossing over is the very meaning of the word “Hebrew.” The Exodus was a departure—a crossing over.

The Red Sea was parted for the fleeing Hebrews and they crossed over into new life. Pharaoh’s army was destroyed as they followed after the Hebrews and the sea closed in on them. The Hebrews crossed over on dry land. The Exodus was a baptism of water. A transition from one kind of life to another.

We cross over to a new life when we accept Yeshua as our Lord and Savior. That is exactly the symbolism of our water baptism: New life in Jesus. We are symbolically washed clean, our old man being put to death, and a new man rising up out of the waters.

They crossed over on dry land. Nothing can grow on dry land. It must be watered with the rains from above. Their transition on dry land becomes new life on the other side. Our lives are like dry land until we become disciples of Yeshua. Once we receive this “blessing from above” we come alive and begin to understand the Bible (Torah) for the first time.

God also created plants and seeds on this 3^rd day. Look at 1 Corinthians 15 and Paul’s description of our resurrection bodies. Baptism is a symbol of our immortal spiritual bodies which we will inherit on Resurrection Day. We will all be changed in the twinkling of an eye. Death will be swallowed up in victory. Yeshua rose on the third day. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. Unless a grain of seed fall into the ground and die it cannot bring forth new life. Our seed bodies will bring forth new life at the resurrection prior to entering the Millennial Kingdom and ruling and reigning with Yeshua.

All of these shadows are seen in the third day of creation. Transformation from death to life through baptism in the sea, seed bodies that will be resurrected into immortality, and entrance into the Millennial Kingdom—the “Promised Land” of God. You cannot enter the Kingdom of God until you are born again. You can only understand or see these things when you receive new life in Yeshua.

Fourth Day – One the fourth day God created the sun, moon, and stars to divide the day from the night. These celestial bodies would also be for signs and for seasons, days, and years. God was establishing His Calendar. God’s calendar, the calendar of the Bible, is completely different and separate from our “Roman” calendar and time.

Understanding God’s calendar is essential if we are to understand the end times and the Book of Revelation. God is not operating on Roman time and calendar. He is operating on His calendar, which is the calendar and time the entire Bible is written. The vast majority of “Christians” have little understanding or concept of this: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4.6

If you are a seeker of truth you must understand God’s calendar. This will change your life and you will begin to understand the Bible in ways you never imagined. It is essential—do not reject knowledge and truth in order to maintain your “traditions.” Heed the warning in Hosea 4.6 Ref: Search this blog for calendar articles.

God created the sun on the 4^th day. Jesus was born on the 4^th day. The time before this event was identified as B.C. (Before Christ) and every date since is A.D. (Anno Domini – In the Year of Our Lord). Our human secular society has scrubbed this out and now use BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) because they despise the things of God.

All history pivots on the birth of Yeshua (Jesus) four thousand years after the creation of Adam—the 4^th day of man. The ancient Jewish Torah teachers believed the Messiah would come on the 4^th day. They interpreted Malachi 4.2 as referring to Genesis 1.14-19 and the creation of the sun: But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. Malachi 4.2

This, to them, was symbolic to when God’s salvation would come to his people. What an incredible insight. It is amazing the secrets the Bible contains. Here is what the Apostle Peter says of the Messiah:  For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.  For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:  2 Peter 1.16-19

The Messianic Son of God was born on the 4^th day just as the Sun that prophesied of Him was created on the 4^th day of creation week.

As for the times, seasons, days, and years we must study and understand God’ Biblical calendar and the feasts of the Lord as described in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29. Search this blog for more articles on the Feasts of the Lord.

Fifth Day – On the 5^th day (Gen 1.20-23) the Lord created all the living creatures in the waters and the air. Great whales and every living creature in the waters, winged fowl of the air and created them to multiply in the earth, each after their own kind. The Sun created on the 4^th day is now bringing life on the earth just as the Son born on the 4^th day has brought forth new life on the earth.

Everything is blessed and is to bring forth life “after its kind.” God has an established an “order of things.” Each species is to multiply and be fruitful after its “own kind.” This is a spiritual law. God has established borders or boundaries within which we are to abide. He has divided out everything: heaven and earth, land and water, light and darkness…etc. There is a Divine order to life. When we accept the Son born on the fourth day we enter into new life on the fifth day.

Sixth Day – On the sixth day (Gen 1.24-31) God first creates the beasts of the earth, cattle and creeping things (small animals) all after their own kind. God then says to Yeshua (God’s creation before the world: Col 1.15-17), “Let us create man in our own image and after our likeness.” Man is then given dominion over all the earth and the creatures therein. God created them male and female and they are given rule (stewardship) over all the earth to subdue it.

At this time God also tells man that all vegetation is for food for him and all the living creatures on the land. Ancient Jewish teachers believe man was a vegetarian until after the flood. It was only then we see men eating meat.

God’s creation was completed on the sixth day. Man was created on the sixth day. God completed his work and rested on the Sabbath (seventh) day. All was given to man to subdue. Man, therefore, according to the ancient sages, has been given six days in which to live and dominate the earth…on the seventh day man will enter into God’s rest. The Sabbath was made for man….

Seventh Day – God’s week ends on the seventh day. The Bible operates on this time and calendar. If we understand God’s calendar and time, we understand that Jesus was NOT crucified on Good Friday, but actually on what we call Wednesday night (Thursday night on Bible time). That is a teaching for another day, but is one example of many traditions we hold that are NOT true. (Jesus said he would be in the earth for three days and nights).

God will not reveal truth to anyone who holds unto traditions of men. You cannot build a strong foundation on sand—only on the rock of God’s word can you build a firm foundation.

The 7^th day represents the Feast of Tabernacles (When God comes to dwell among His people) and the Feast of Tabernacles represents the Millennial Kingdom (MK). The MK is the thousand year reign of Yeshua and His saints as kings and priests found in Revelation 20.

Revelation 20 describes the resurrection of the dead, the MK, Satan thrown into the abyss, and then later, the Lake of Fire, the final rebellion of the nations after the thousand years, the second resurrection (or better called second death), the opening of the books of life and death, the Great White Throne judgment of all men not found in the first resurrection, and Satan’s final demise.

If you do not understand these events now is a good time to begin seeking the Lord for increased understanding. If you are sincere and willing to let go of the traditions of men, God will shine His light of understanding on you and you will understand the Bible in a much deeper way.