God's Creative Rest (page 2)

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1. God's Creative Rest. Genesis. Ch. 1 to 2:15

Man 's perfect environment

Up to this point in the Creative story (Gen 2:3) the general term "God" has been used "Elohim which is plural in nature. We,see this more clearly in Proverbs 8, where we see the personification of wisdom being revealed. In v22-36 we see a distinct foreshadowing of Christ.

It is also in these titles that we see Christ as Jehovah Elohim, Man's Redeemer not only the Book of beginnings but also throughout the Bible and finally in the closing verses of Revelation.

When man filled the scene and assumed control of the earth created for him. It's in His Jehovah character God, that is introduced. In special revelatory and redemptive relationship to man.

a). Man created in God's image and likeness was placed in sovereignty over the earth.

b). He was crowned with glory and honour (Psalm 8. 5-8)

c) Yet he was subject to God his creator. The Divine was and is that man should have fellowship with God in obedience.

Everything involving the creative story was perfect.

Gen 1:31 reminds us And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

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God rested from His creative work on the seventh day. It was to be become The Sabbath rest of God. And also become the basis of the Mosaic Sabbath.

There was no evening to the Sabbath day, it has no evening, it is eternal. It foretells Christ, the true Sabbath, in whom God rests and in whom believers rest. This is God's own eternal rest.

Heb. Ch.4 v3. For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

God’s Creative rest was broken by sin, and yet Jehovah God took the first steps in His work of redemption. To rescue fearful, ashamed alienated fallen man.

Next in the series >> “God’s Redemptive Rest”

God’s Creative Rest - God’s Work in Creation 2

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God’s Eternal Rest. Bible reading

Genesis

Ch. 2:1-24

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing;

so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done

(Gen 2:2-3)

Notice in verse 26-27 While yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens I was there,