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Genesis 2

About the headline: In Hebrew; blood is “Dam”, man is “Adam”, and earth is “Adamah” which could have been written as “Blood, Man, and Earth” or Blood, Sweat, and Tears, which is the summary of the Gospel from God’s and man’s vantage point.

• For the life (חָיָה) hay life, “to be” “I AM” (H2421) of the flesh is in the blood” Leviticus 17:11

• To man (Adam) God said: In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19
  
• He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8

What should I learn from this chapter?

• YHWH is Yĕhovah Strong’s H3068
• History operates in various kinds of circles (cycles). The end of a circle is the number 7. Sunday is 1 and Saturday is 7 and the circle begins again.

The History of Creation (Continued from Chapter 1)

• The number seven is the number of completion before a cycle begins again. Sunday, the first day of the week follows Saturday, the seventh day of the week.

• God works in cycles. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and in the end He will create a new heaven and a new earth.

• In the book of Revelation, It takes six seals, six trumpets, and six bowls to complete the seven year tribulation which is completed with the seventh seal, the seventh trumpet, and the seventh bowl simultaneously in a 777 completion when Jesus returns with an earthquake, lightning, thunder, noises and the Ark of the Covenant is revealed in heaven.

Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

Subject	Verse	Declaration	Timing	Work	Result	Rest
Creation	Gen 2:1	It is finished	Six Days	Creation	Man and earth created	Sabbath 7th day
Crucifixion	John 19:30	It is finished	Six Hours	Cross	Man recreated	Sleep (Death)
Christ Rules	Rev 10:7	It is finished	Six Thousand Years by 6th Angel	Reverse the Curse	Man and earth reinstated.	Millennium 7th thousandth year

That which man builds rots and decays; that which God builds stays and stays.

Science says mankind needs at least four basic elements to survive	Jesus said:
Water	I am the Living Water
Air	I am the Breath of Life
Food	I am the Bread of Life
Light	I am the Light of the World
Conclusion: Science was right, men need Jesus to live.

Genesis 2:² And on the seventh day God (Elohiym) ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

• Elohiym is plural. The pronoun is singular. The verb is singular.
  Summary: The Godhead is plural, (The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) they are all “One” sharing the same spiritual DNA having separate roles.
  • Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!

Genesis 2:³ Then God (Elohiym) blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God (Elohiym) had created and made.

• God set the pattern for resting: Man can “reboot” one out of every seven days.
• God wasn’t tired, He was a parenting a role model for man.

Genesis 2:⁴ This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (Elohiym) made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 2:⁵ before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (Elohiym) had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

Genesis 2:⁶ but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Genesis 2:⁷ And the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah)  God (Elohiym) formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (The Holy Spirit); and man became a living (יְהֹוָה) being.

• The first thing Adam saw when he opened his eyes was God (not the creation). After man sinned he began to focus on the creation of things instead of God.

• ► About the Breath of Life (the Holy Spirit):

• The Upper Room
  
  • John 20:^19-22 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
  • The only people receiving the Holy Spirit (the Breath of Life) were the people in the upper room. Thomas missed it. It wasn’t until Thomas returned did he receive the Holy Spirit and was able to “see” God: Thomas was able to see who Jesus was; his Lord and his God. The Holy Spirit, the “Breath of Life” enables man to see God.
    
  • John 20:26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” 27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” 28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
    
• Thomas was able to “see” who Jesus was; his Lord and his God! Jesus is God. The Holy Spirit, the “Breath of Life” enables man to
  
  • The Breath of Inspiration: 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God (“breathed out by God”) (The Holy Spirit), and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction (training, discipline) in righteousness.

• At the moment God breathed His breath into Adam, Adam became “made” in God’s image.

Life in God’s Garden

• A rewind and retelling of creation from Gen 1:1 thru Gen 2:7

Genesis 2:⁸ The Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym) planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

• To be grammarily correct, it is the Garden “IN” Eden (not the Garden OF Eden).

• Whatever God creates, He also fills. God created man and filled him with His own breath. God created the garden, and filled it with man.

Genesis 2:⁹ And out of the ground the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym) made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Of the two trees: one brings life and the other death.

• One tree is a total dependence on God for one’s resources, like children who automatically depend on their parents.

• The other tree changes innocence into choices which demands laws. Unfortunately, men are not able to keep the law and therefore the tree is the curse of death for men (Imagine this tree which brings the curse of death, being chopped down, sawed into beams, and made into a cross which Jesus died on to remove the curse of death and sin.)

• The Tree of Life is symbolic of Jesus:
  • Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the Desire (Jesus) comes, it is a Tree of Life.
  • Haggai 2:7 and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations (Jesus), and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts.

• The Tree of “Good and Evil”
  • Justice which demands a law.
  • “Good and Evil”: Remove the “o” in “Good”, add a “d” in “Evil” and what do you have?
    • A tree of choice “God vs the Devil”. ~Barbara Grover

Genesis 2:¹⁰ Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

Genesis 2:¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:¹² And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. ¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴ The name of the third river is Hiddekel (Tigris); it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

The Tigris and Euphrates are recognized today. The other two, Pishon and Gihon are speculative.

• The Hebrew meaning of the name ‘Pishon’ comes from the old Hebrew root ‘P-O-SH’ {פ-ו-ש} which means ‘to jump’ or ‘to bounce’ and refers to the strong stream of the water. ^{https://www.hebrewversity.com/hebrew-meaning-rivers-garden-eden-part/}
• The second river’s name is  ‘Gihon’ which comes from the Hebrew root ‘G-Y-CH’ {ג-י-ח} which means ‘to gush’ – and as in the case of the first river ‘Pishon’ – refers to the state of the water. ^{https://www.hebrewversity.com/hebrew-meaning-rivers-garden-eden-part/}

• There is an argument which says the Promised Land, given to Abraham’s descendants, is the area called The Garden of Eden. The borders of the Garden of Eden would look like this: Two verses confirm this. See Topic: Location of the Garden of Eden

• Accordingly, the four rivers would be The Euphrates, The Tigris, The Nile, and the Blue Nile.

Genesis 2:¹⁵ Then the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah)  God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym) took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

• The “Tree of Life” symbolically, is Jesus.

Genesis 2:¹⁶ And the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym)  commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

• Look! You have a banquet table of selections!

Genesis 2:¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die (be extinquished).”

• God chose a tree to defeat the tree that defeated us.
• ie: It took a tree (the cross) to defeat the tree (of the knowledge of good and evil) that defeated us.
• Spiritual death is worse then physical death. Man dies spiritually and physically.

Genesis 2:¹⁸ And the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah)  God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym) said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable (a help meet) to him.

• A helper is someone to benefit him. A helper is not lower than him but given a different role.

• As flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, a helper promotes and completes a man and gives him a future (children). In turn the man loves, protects, provides, and covers the woman. He will even lay down his life for her.

• It is said that a woman represents the spirit of a man, and the man represents the temporal body of a man.

• It is a woman who provides a future for a man in his children. Jesus was born of a woman, but not of a man.

Genesis 2:¹⁹ Out of the ground the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym)  formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

• The name “Adam” means “Man”. Adam was made from the red clay of the earth. Man is compared to pottery in scripture.
• Because the clay is red, and Esau was red he was called “Edom”.
• “Adam” comes from the Hebrew word “dam” which means “red wine or red blood”.
• “Adam” was made from the earth. The Hebrew word for earth is “Adamah”.
• From “dam” to “Adam” to “Adamah”.
• The life of Adam is in the dam.
  • Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’

Genesis 2:²⁰ So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

Genesis 2:²¹ And the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God (אֱלֹהִים  ‘Elohiym) caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

• The first surgery on a man and man was anesthetized.

Genesis 2:²² Then the rib which the Lord (יְהֹוָה  Yĕhovah) God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

• The meaning of a rib is a density strong enough to act as a support, like any bone in the body. Most male mammals have a bone in their penis. Dogs do, whales do, raccoons do, but humans do not. One theory suggests God used the bone in Adam’s penis to create the woman. It had an arc, like a rib. The word “tzela” appears about 40 times in the Bible, but nowhere does it mean rib except for the translation in Genesis chapter 2. In ancient times, tzela in anatomy referred to organs protruding outward from the body. One can argue that penises relate better to the giving of life.

• God could have taken the DNA from Adam’s “rib” and changed it to make a woman.

• Adam was created. Eve was made. Jesus came from a woman, not a man. Jesus was not created, He was the Creator.

Genesis 2:²³ 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.”

Genesis 2:²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

• In physics, to become “one flesh” is to become “entangled/superimposed/hyperlinked”.
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Genesis 2:²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

• Being naked without shame means they were innocent. Having shame is a sign of sin, and sin needs to be covered. Little ones do not know they are naked because they are innocent.