Season 4 Podcast 117, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part II, The Ten Commandments, A.”
Season 4 Podcast 117, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part II, The Ten Commandments, A.”
In the creation story it is important to understand the sequence of events for they all center around the Sabbath Day. In the first, or spiritual creation, everything is completed on the Sixth Day of creation as is made plain in Genesis Chapter I. For economy’s sake, I shall only deal with the creation of man.
Genesis 1:26-27, & 31
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them…. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Following the Sixth Day of the Spiritual Creation, we are introduced to the Seventh, or Sabbath, Day.
Genesis 2: 1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
What was that work? It was the spiritual creation of heaven, earth, and man. Everything is now prepared for the physical creation of man. The Seventh or Sabbath Day is the hinge of creation. It represents the last day of the spiritual creation or preparation or organization. It is concluded with the words in Genesis 1:1:
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
How is it possible that “all the host of them,” meaning men and women, were finished? Adam and Eve hadn’t been created. For that matter none of us had been created in the flesh. It means that all the spirit children of God were created, and those spirit children would come to earth to gain a body. In other words, it refers to the spiritual creation of mankind. So what does God do on the Sabbath Day, take a long nap? No! Not Likely. The first thing he does is to bless and sanctify the earth.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Adam and Eve have not been created yet, that is to say their physical bodies had not been created yet. Moses records.
Genesis 2:5
“And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”
Only someone in the flesh could till the ground; however, remember this is the Seventh or Sabbath Day. The next thing God does on the Sabbath is to water the earth.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the Ground.
Before you accuse God of going out like a farmer and watering his garden, remember that during the first day of creation all the laws are in place. God simply sets in motion those laws which work independently. God does not continue to create laws. All laws were created during the first six days, both spiritual laws and temporal laws. All laws are organized in complete sets to act independently once set in motion.
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