Exegesis In Genesis
"In the
beginning God created the heaven and earth." Gen. 1:1
Genesis is the GREAT BOOK of GREAT BEGINNINGS! And what a
Great opening statement! "in the beginning God created ..." The
Title, from the opening line, is from the Hebrew word "reshith"
meaning "first or former."
The time is unknown to man. In order that we may have a
better understanding of TIME, we must consider that in as much
as all things were not created at the same time, we may well
know the dates of the beginning of other creations even though
we do not know the exact date of this opening statement. A point
in case: the beginning of time with Adam. Further along, in the
study of the fifth chapter of Genesis, we prove the beginning of
time with Adam. You don't believe it? I didn't think you would,
so stay with us.
"IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED" ...
What a profound statement! Here is the answer, and the
only reasonable explanation of the MYSTERY of the creation of
the UNIVERSE. How did it all begin? When and where did it all
get started? To these questions and all questions pertaining to
Creation, God gives the answer right here in the first statement
of His Word. "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED." When? "in the
beginning"! This is a statement no one can deny. There was no
witness to refute God's account. Some may put a date tag on it
that runs back a million, yes even a trillion years. That's Ok.
Go back as far as you like and the answer is still the same "In
the beginning God created."
This first verse is the Rubicon (that is the place where
an irrevocable decision must be made). The eternal destiny of
every man on earth may well be decided right here. Believe this
and all the rest of God's Word can easily be accepted.
Reject this and infidelity and unbelief are born.
"By faith we understand the Worlds
were framed by the WORD of God." Heb. 11:3
If I can believe that God reached down into nowhere and
picked up a handful of nothing and threw it out into nowhere and
it became something and the worlds took their place in orbits,
and indeterminable space became filled with innumerable bodies,
the size of just one of which dwarfs, to a pigmy, my
imagination, if I can believe that, then the greatest miracle
ever performed in the Word of God is easy to believe, And I
believe it, Praise the Lord!
GOD CREATED!!
He created it all. They say 250,000,000 x 250,000,000
bodies of sheer wonder, are hung, like chandeliers of pure
beauty, out there in space. And every farther reaching telescope
only reveals that the end is not yet.
Oh Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder Consider all the
worlds Thy hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling
thunder, Thy power through all the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee; How great Thou
art. How great Thou art; Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to
Thee, How great Thou art. How great thou art.
How true it is that only "a fool has said in his heart
there is
NO GOD" Psa. 14:1:53:1 In his search for the solution to
the
mystery of the creation of the Universe Man begins just
the
opposite from God's starting place. God begins "In the
beginning God." Man begins with the present and searches
back through the ruins of civilization. Through Geology,
archaeology, Biology, and History he searches for God who
is
ever more than a prayer away.
"Canst thou by SEARCHING find out God?" Job 11:7
How strange, but how true! His foot-steps are seen in
every atom and in the blazing stars a billion light years away.