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| {{3c| Before God created anything, there was just God.
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| <ref group="a">Blank page. "Where is everything?"</ref>
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:1 }} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</ref>
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| He looked for a place to put a universe. There was nothing larger than God.
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| <ref>{{bgw| 1Ki 8:27 }} But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? </ref>
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| There was no place outside of him to create. He could only put the new things inside of himself.
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| <ref>{{bgw| Joh 1:4 }} '''In him''' was life; and the life was the light of men. </ref>
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| <ref>{{bgw| Col 1:17 }} And he is before all things, and '''[in] him''' all things consist.</ref>
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ac 17:28 }} For '''in him''' we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.</ref>
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| He opened a pocket within himself and spoke into it.
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:2 }} And the earth was without form, and '''void'''; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</ref>
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| <ref group="a">Blank page with a pocket on it and the breath of God speaking into the pocket.</ref>
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| He made the light
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:3 }} And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. </ref>
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| and the Sun, moon and stars
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:16 }} And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.</ref>
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| <ref group="n">lights מארת - 'from מ light אר (ת makes it an object) (ת - for the purpose of creating new life)</ref>,
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| to teach us of his holiness
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| <ref group="s">{{sy| light }}</ref>
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| <ref group="n">dark ''choshak'' - "spare, hold back, refrain</ref>
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| <ref> group="s">{{sy| dark }} </ref>
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| and that we would someday be examples of his holiness in the dark world.
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| <ref>{{bgw| Mt 5:14 }} Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.</ref>
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| He separated the waters
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:6 }} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</ref>
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| <ref group="n">{{sy|separated waters| }} </ref>
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| and brought the fish and flying things from it
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:20 }} And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</ref>
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| as symbols of those who live in the word
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| <ref group="s">{{sy|fish}} </ref>
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| and the spirit.
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| <ref group="s">{{sy|fowl}} </ref>
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| He made the dry ground
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:9 }} And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.</ref>
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| <ref group="s">{{sy| dry ground }} </ref>
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| and from it made
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:11 }} And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.</ref>
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| the grass
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| <ref group="s">{{sy | grass }} </ref>
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| , herbs
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| , trees
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| <ref group="s">{{sy | trees }} </ref>
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| , and animals,
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:24 }} And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.</ref>
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| and they all became symbols for other things.
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| Finally he made his friend from the ground as well.
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 2:7 }} And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.</ref>
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| "Hi Adam
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| <ref group="n">Adam אדם - 'spirit א and blood ''dam'' דם'</ref>
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| , I am God
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| <ref group="n">Elohim אלהים - 'God ''el'' separated from man ''eem'' ים by ignorance ה.' </ref>
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| . Let me teach you
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| <ref group="n">The 'fix' for ignorance is teaching.</ref>
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| that I am both Holy
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| <ref>{{bgw| Le 11:44 }} For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</ref>
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| and Love.
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| <ref>{{bgw| 1Jo 4:8 }} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</ref>
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| I will give you a tree as a symbol of holiness.
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 2:9 }} And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. </ref>
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| It is separate but no different from other trees only in that I have set it apart.
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| I have given you all the other trees to eat. | | I have given you all the other trees to eat. |
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| <ref>{{bgw| Ge 3:8 }} And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God [in the tree] of the garden. </ref> | | <ref>{{bgw| Ge 3:8 }} And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God [in the tree] of the garden. </ref> |
| <ref group="n">"in the tree" because 'tree' עץ is singular. Later when God cannot find them, it is the teaching that when you are hidden in the tree/cross, he does not see you or your sin, only the work of Christ.</ref> | | <ref group="n">"in the tree" because 'tree' עץ is singular. Later when God cannot find them, it is the teaching that when you are hidden in the tree/cross, he does not see you or your sin, only the work of Christ.</ref> |
| | <ref group="v">tree ''ates'' 𝆑- ' flesh ע exchanging righteousness for sin in death ץ ' </ref> |
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| He learned those things that God didn't want him to know. The tree was called the "Tree of the knowledge of good and evil". It taught Adam how to be evil. There was nothing magic about the tree. All he had to do was disobey God. | | He learned those things that God didn't want him to know. The tree was called the "Tree of the knowledge of good and evil". It taught Adam how to be evil. There was nothing magic about the tree. All he had to do was disobey God. |
