Impressions from Genesis Tuesday, January 4, 2011
12:03 PM
As
I have read Genesis, I titled it "We Are Blessed!"
# 1 ~ God
created...then blessed - then He said: "Be fruitful and
multiply..." (vs. 1:27; 5:1; 9:1) We are blessed to be
"fruitful and multiply" in God's Image and likeness. (See John 15
& Romans 8:29)
*[Ladies
note who did the fruit bearing! It began with ONE Woman! After
woman was created God said His Creation was "very good!" - woman is
His crowning joy and she is His partner in giving life (birth of
mankind.) We are specially created and dear to God's heart!]
~ The unrighteous die in the Flood. Verse 9:1 Righteous Noah is
blessed and told "to be fruitful and multiply." [Now it begins again
with 4 Women doing the fruit bearing...giving life!]
*Another
note: Being "fruitful and multiplying" was instructed before
sin entered and after the world was cleansed of unrighteous. God intended
the fruit and multiplying to be in His Image. Look at John 15 and the
Vine life and see how we are to bear fruit...more fruit...much fruit. The
Vine is Jesus Christ. The branches are Believers. The Fruit is the
Image of Christ The Vine! ALL is to glorify (reveal the Person, Power and
Presence of God) The Father!
#2 ~ GOD created
in His Image; in His Own Likeness!
Verse
5:3 - Adam had a son in his image (in his own likeness.) This was Seth.
(Abel
had been killed by Cain and Cain had been banished.) This tells us
something about Adam and his relationship to God. Seth began the
redemptive line leading to Christ.
I challenge to watch the redemptive line and who comprises it as you read through The Word!
I challenge to watch the redemptive line and who comprises it as you read through The Word!
The
teacher in me can't help studying instead of just reading. I share to be
"fruitful and multiply" for His glory!
I
WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR IMPRESSIONS AND INSIGHTS AS YOU READ AND STUDY THE
WORD...SHARE WITH US!
"You are My witnesses, declares the Lord,
that I am God." Isaiah 43:12
