Genesis 2
Details of Day Six
1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.
After six literal days, God completed all of creation. There was no evolution from one form to another. The problem with evolution is that no one can explain how it began, no one has ever seen anything evolve, no one has ever found a transitional fossil, and mathematics has proven it to be impossible. Yet, the high priests of evolution have censored the teaching of divine creation in school and replaced it with a faith of their own.
2 By the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day all the work that He had been doing.
The Hebrew word for "ceased" is שָׁבַת (shabat), meaning to rest, cease, or complete. This is the same root word as the Sabbath. God did not rest, because He was tired. He rested, because His work was complete.
This statement of completed creation is known in science circles as the First Law of Thermodynamics. The First Law states that the universe is not currently creating any new matter. It is conserving matter, but not creating matter.
3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it He ceased all the work that He had been doing in creation.
The Hebrew word for "blessed" is קָדַשׁ (kodesh), meaning to set apart as a special day of God. Just as God rested on the seventh day of creation, He desired for man to rest on the Seventh day as well. The Pharisees created so many sabbath laws that it was no longer a day of rest. It became a day of burden. The rabbi taught that man was made for the Sabbath. Jesus taught that the Sabbath was made for man.
The Creation of Man and Woman
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.
The Hebrew word for "account" is תוֹלְד֧וֹת (toldoth), meaning a written history. There are eleven תוֹלְד֧וֹת (toldoth) in Genesis. The other תוֹלְד֧וֹת (toldoth) are found in Genesis 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10; 11:27; 25:19; 36:1,9; 37:2. Each of the תוֹלְד֧וֹת (toldoth) shows “what became of" the generation which follows. For example, what became of the generation of the heavens and the earth was that Adam sinned, the earth was cursed, and Satan took control of the earth.
The Holy Spirit mentioned that man was created on day six. He will now give more details of this six day of creation, since God's relationship with man is central to the Bible.
The Hebrew for "the Lord God" is יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים (Jehovah Elohim), meaning the Covenant-keeping-Triune-Creator God. This is the first time that this compound name was used in Scripture.
5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? This verse explains that the chicken came first. All plants and animals were created with the appearance of age. This is one reason that modern aging instruments cannot properly measure the true age of the earth.
The geography of the pre-flood world was very different from the modern geography of today. At this time, there was no rain upon the earth. The hydraulic cycle of the pre-flood world was subterranean rather than atmospheric.
6 Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
The springs were not rivers, but subterranean mists that sprinkled the earth.
7 The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
The Hebrew word for "formed" is not בָּרָ֣א (bara), which was used in Genesis 1:1 when God created everything out of nothing. Instead, the Hebrew is יָצַר (yatzer), meaning to form out of something that was already created. This Hebrew word יָצַר (yatzer) is used of a potter shaping pottery (Isa. 29:16), of goldsmiths who make idols (Isa. 44:9), and of the shaping of the Messiah’s body in the womb (Isa. 49:5). It is also used of things that God fashions, as in Psalm 33:15 where God fashions the hearts, in Psalm 94:9 where God formed the eye, and in Psalm 119:73 where God formed man.
The Hebrew word for "breath" is נֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה (nephesh hayah), meaning the breath of life. It is used 25 times in the Scriptures, meaning the breath of God. The breath of God turns inanimate objects into life. In Job , the breath of God brings spiritual understanding to man. According to Job 34:14–15, if God took back His spirit and His breath, then all flesh would perish and man would return to dust. The נֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה (naphesh hayah) is found in animals, but it is only given directly to man.
According to the speculation of christ-rejecters, man evolved from a monkey. According to the divine revelation from God, man did not evolve from a monkey. He was created in the image of God. He was created from the dust of the ground, meaning carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and other trace elements.
As for the origin of man, everyone must choose in either the revelation of God or the speculations of sinful men. Those illuminated by the Holy Spirit will choose creation over evolution. Those who are not illuminated are living in the dark, so they will not be able to see this great light of truth. They will instead place their faith in the speculation of men. They will worship the creation rather than the Creator.
8 The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man He had formed.
The Garden of Eden was somewhere in Mesopotamia. God created Adam in the west in the Garden of Eden and placed him in the east of the Garden of Eden. Adam was able to watch God plant the Garden of Eden. He was an eyewitness to this event.
9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
The only kind of trees allowed in the garden were those trees that were beautiful and good for food. The tree of life produced food that would allow one to live for eternity. The tree of knowledge of good and evil would allow one to possess experiential knowledge of evil, but without the capacity to choose the good over the evil. The Hebrew word for "knowledge" is דָּ֫עַת (daat), meaning experiential, pre-meditated knowledge.
10 Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.
The Garden of Eden was in Mesopotamia. One single river entered the Garden of Eden from the east and split into four different rivers. Since there was no rain until after the flood, this river must have possessed a subterranean source.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
No one knows the location of this river today. According to rabbinic tradition, it was the Nile River. The land of Havilah was in central Arabia, which is east of Israel, and mentioned in Genesis 25:8. There was much gold in this area. The flood most likely wiped out the Garden of Eden. The new settlers after the flood most likely named the post-flood geographical areas, lands, and rivers after many of the pre-flood geographical names, which was very similar to what the Europeans did when they gave old-world European names to geographical regions in the new world.
12 (The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).
The gold in this land was pure gold. Gold is valuable, because it is a soft metal that can easily be reshaped into many different forms. Pagan nations valued gold, because they incorrectly believed that they could form this soft metal into an idol which they could worship and receive spiritual and material blessings.
The Greek word for "pearls" is בְּדֹ֫לַח (bedellum), meaning a sweet smelling aromatic gum from the camphor plants.
The lapis lazuli was the onyx stone. The original Garden of Eden possessed an abundance of water, food, and precious minerals. These gems were probably the remains of the pre-satanic fall of Ezekiel 28:13.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.
The second river ran through Cush. Cush was sometimes used as the name for Ethiopia, which is in Africa. However, it also referred to the land of the Cassites, who were in Mesopotamia. Therefore, this river is most likely the latter.
14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers were that of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is a Greek word, meaning between the two rivers. The Tigris River runs through ancient Assyria and modern Iraq. The Euphrates river runs through the modern ruins of Babylon. Babylon will be the future capital city of the Antichrist kingdom during the Great Tribulation.
Noah's flood changed the geographic area of this land, so two of these rivers are unknown today.
15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
Jehovah Elohim took Adam from the east of the Garden where man was originally created, and placed him in the west part of the garden. Adam's job was to care for and maintain the garden. Man was created to work. He was created for physical labor. However, the labor was originally light and enjoyable. When a believer serves God, then he will possess an internal peace and happiness. In fact, no one on this earth will be happy unless they are serving God at their highest capacity. This is why it is important for everyone to study and apply Bible doctrine at the deepest level. Those who do not work for a living are not following God's will and are living in a sinful condition. Those who do not work will not be able to stay out of sin. Retirement is not a Biblical doctrine. Men are to serve God until the day that they die.
The Hebrew word for "placed" is יָנַח (yanach), meaning to rest. The Garden of Eden was to be a place of rest for Adam.
The Hebrew word for "care" is עָבַד (ebed), meaning to serve. Man was not created to be served, but man was created to serve in a spiritual capacity for God. The satanic world system teaches the opposite. Men spend their life attempting to gain power. money, and land so that they can be served, but the divine purpose of man is to serve God.
The Hebrew word for "maintain" is שָׁמַר (shamar), meaning to guard. This is the same Hebrew word used in Genesis 3:24, when the cherubim angels guarded the entrance to the Garden of Eden. In the next chapter, an enemy will appear in the form of a serpent. He will attempt to take control of the Garden of Eden. Adam was to guard the Garden of Eden from this type of enemy.
16 Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,
Man was originally created to be a complete vegetarian. However, this status was changed after the flood.
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”
Man had been created in a perfect and holy state, just as the angels had been created in a perfect and holy state. However, this holiness and perfection had to be tested. Man was given the same choice as Satan and the angels. Man could choose to serve God or serve himself. Man was to make this choice in a perfect environment where everything had been declared "very good" by God.
God is above man. He does not have the capacity to sin. Satan and his fallen angels possessed the one-time choice of following God's will, or following their own volition. They failed this one-time test. They can only do unrighteous acts, although they deceive men into thinking that their acts are righteous. The 2/3 of the angels who chose to follow God rather than Satan passed this one-time test, meaning that they no longer have the capacity to sin. When believers are transferred into their glorified bodies, then they will be like the good angels. They will no longer have the capacity to sin.
Adam was given a simple test in a perfect environment. His holiness was to be tested. There was only one simple law. He was not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, or he would die. The death spoken about here was to be on the very same day that Adam sinned. Therefore, his death was not physical death, but spiritual death. Spiritual death means separation from God. Sin is so terrible, that it spread to to all of the offspring of Adam.
The rabbi did not believe in spiritual death. Therefore, they had to explain this verse in a different way. They taught that Adam became mortal on this day, but God showed him kindness and allowed Adam to live another 1000 years. Rabbi have to misinterpret Psalm 90:4 to misapply this view. However, Adam did not live for 1000 years. He lived for 930 years. Therefore, the rabbi taught that King David was born stillborn, so the 70 years of Adam were given to David. However, this is rabbinic superstition. This false theology is taught nowhere in the Word of God.
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
The Holy Spirit gave more specific details of day six. After God crated the woman on day six, then He called his creation “good".
19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Many skeptics falsely point out that Adam would not have possessed enough time to have named all of the animals in one 24 hour day. It would have been possible for Adam to name about three thousand of the basic kinds of these animals in about five hours, which is about one name every six seconds.
20 So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
Adam named all of the animals. He named all of the birds of the air. The animals of the field were domesticated animals. They did not need to be brought to Adam, because they were already in the Garden of Eden. Since Adam named all of the animals, then he possessed a divinely given language. This first language of mankind was Hebrew, since all of the names in the genealogies of Adam possess meanings only in Hebrew. Naming of an animal, a city, a river, or a person meant that the namer possessed sovereignty over the named.
After all of the animals were named, Adam would discover that he was alone without a partner. He did not have anyone of his intellect to help him or to fellowship.
21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.
Notice that God did not take one of his ribs, but part of his side. This meant that Adam had to shed blood for his bride, just as Christ shed blood for His bride.
The Hebrew word for "deep sleep" is תַּרְדֵּמָה (tardemah), meaning a deep sleep imposed by God. This “deep sleep” was not an anesthetized state to prevent pain, because there was no pain in the world before the Fall. It was most likely a picture of the future death of the Messiah Jesus, who would be the second Adam. This deep sleep foreshadowed a future sacrificial death which would result in the formation of the Bride of Christ (II Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:30-32).
Why did God take woman out of man's side? The rabbi had their own answer:
The rabbis gave many reasons as to why God chose to take from the side of Adam:
God did not want to make the woman out of Adam’s head so that she should not be proud.
Not from his eye lest she should have a roving eye.
Not from his ear lest she would want to hear everything.
Not from his mouth lest she should talk too much.
Not from his heart lest she should become envious.
Not from his hand lest she would want to grasp everything.
Not from his feet lest she would be footloose.
The rabbi also concluded that while God took all of these precautions in making woman, it still did not help! The point is that rabbinic superstition contained humor and women were considered less equal than man. Yet, the rabbi considered this superstitious oral law equal to the written Scriptures.
22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the part He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man.
The Hebrew word for "made" is בָּנָה (banah), meaning to build. God built a woman from Adam's side. God brought Eve to Adam as a gift, just as God the Father brings the Bride of Christ to God the Son as a gift.
23 Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
This is the first recorded statement of man. The Hebrew word for "woman" is אִשָּׁ֔ה (ishah). The Hebrew word for "man" is אּישׁ (ish). Therefore, אִשָּׁ֔ה (ishah) came out of אּישׁ (ish). This play of words shows that the first language in the Garden of Eden was Hebrew. Since Adam named his wife, this meant that he had authority over her.
When Adam and Eve were created, they were created as full grown adults. The rabbi speculated that they were 20 years old, but there is no biblical evidence for this age. When everything in the world was created, it was created with an appearance of age. Therefore, the direct divine creation of all things will throw off any human speculations and instruments which deal with the age of the universe.
Every animal had been created with a mate, except for man. Therefore, the creation was not perfect, not good, and incomplete without women. Together, this relationship between man and woman will teach about many of the attributes of God, such as strength, love, sovereignty, courage, beauty, compassion. loyalty, etc.
As far as fossil evidence is concerned, many fossils of true men have been found (Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, etc.) as well as fossils of true apes. The so-called “hominids” (Australopithecus, Homo erectus, etc.) are fragmentary and controversial, even among evolutionists. They can all be interpreted either as extinct apes or degenerated men. There is no half-man-half-ape fossil. All fossils are either fully-man or fully-ape.
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
A man is to eventually leave the time of subjection to his parents to the honoring of his parents. The Hebrew word for "unites" is דָּבַק (davak), meaning to stick like glue. The marriage destiny is tied to each other and not to their parents.
The Hebrew for "new family" is אֶחָֽד (echod), meaning one (composite) flesh. This is the same Hebrew word used in Deuteronomy 6:4, "The Lord our God is one". יחד (yichhad) means one and only one, but it is not used in this passage nor in Deuteronomy 6:4. אֶחָֽד (echod) means a composite one. The modern rabbi intentionally and deceptively reverse the meaning of these two Hebrew words in order to get around the Trinity arguments of Christian Hebrew scholars.
25 The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
They were both naked. This is the only example in the Old Testament of nakedness being positive. There was no such sin as lust before the Fall. The absence of clothing was only a sin after the Fall.
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1. SAQ--What is the theme of Genesis 2?
2. What happened to the 4 original rivers which flowed out of the Garden of Eden?
3. Explain the two Hebrew words for "create".
4. Explain the two Hebrew words for "one".
5. Explain the creation of man.
6. Explain the creation of woman.
7. What is a "toldoth"?
8. How many toldoths are there in Scripture?
9. Explain the hydraulic cycle of the pre-flood world.
10. Explain the canopy theory of the pre-flood world.
11. Why did God rest of Day 7?