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Acts 12:18-25, 18: Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. 19: And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode. 20: And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country. 21: And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. 22: And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23: And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. 24: But the word of God grew and multiplied. 25: And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. In this essay on the sins of the fathers, we want to look at Herod and some others in the Bible. The Herod in this story is Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod the great. He was a nephew of Herod Antipas and father of Herod Agrippa II. Each of these Herod left his evil mark. Herod Agrippa I murdered Apostle James and imprisoned Peter; Herod the great murdered babies in Bethlehem with the intention of killing the infant Jesus. Herod Antipas was involved in the mock trial of Jesus and ordered the execution of John the Baptist and Herod Agrippa II was one of Paul’s judges ( Acts 26:1-3, 24-34) The Bible says in Exodus 34:5-7, “And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious , long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and to the fourth generation.” We have said (see the essay the father have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge) that everyone is punished for his or her own sins and that God only “visits” the father’s sin on the children. However certain sins and traits seem to pass from fathers rather than mothers in the Bible to the next generations. Jacob deceived his father Isaac using an animal, by preparing him venison, such as he loved. The sons of Jacob deceived him by killing and using the blood of a kid of goat. Tamar the daughter of Judah (Judah being among the chief ones who deceived Jacob or Israel, his father) deceived him also this time with a kid of goat involved. The Bible gives us two accounts of two “races” of people in the Genesis chapters 4 and 5. Those descended from Seth and those descended from Cain. In the account of the line of Seth, always the Bible mentions their lifespan and then ended with this statement, “And he died.” No mention of any inventions whatsoever. However in the account of the line Cain we have accounts of inventions by the descendants of Cain, no mention “And he died", as if in anticipation of a resurrection. We also have another murderer in his line apart from Cain in the account, Lamech. And in this generation we have the first direct mention of polygamy in the Bible, as it were. So as it is, a line of good people, and a line of a bad people, all descended from a particular ancestor, himself being either good or bad. Also in the story of the sin of Adam, though it was the woman that originally committed the sin, but the Human race are said to have sinned through Adam and not through the woman. Sometimes people say, “it runs in the family", “it runs in the blood.” Why we should inherit sin through Adam is very deep, however the name Adam is formed in part from the Hebrew word Dam, which means blood. We seem to inherit our sins from our fathers rather than our mothers in the Bible. Why this concept is so I do not fully know. We seem to have many murderers in the line of Herod the great. Why is it that we usually see the evil traits of fathers in their children, especially if these children have lived with their fathers. Sometimes we seem to be spared somewhat, if we have not fully lived with our fathers. All said, we do not need to continue in the evil traits of our fathers. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creatur old things are passed away; behold all things are become new." But before this, in verse 16 of the same chapter of the Bible, it says “wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Yes every relation we have according to the flesh as been nullified as Christians and sons of God through Jesus Christ, spiritually. We knew him before according to the flesh, but now we are born into the kingdom of God “spiritually” through him. We do not need any longer to follow the evil traits of our parents.

Matthew 27:57–66, - Matthew 28:1-10,

57: When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
58: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
59: And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60: And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
61: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
62: Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63: Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64: Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
65: Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
66: So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

1: In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2: And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3: His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5: And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6: He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7: And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
8: And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9: And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
10: Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

Verse 4 of Mathew 28 says: “And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.”

And verse five goes on to say, “And the angel answered and said unto the woman, fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus, which is crucified.”

So from these two passages one should infer correctly that the Greek word translated “keepers” here in verse 4 evidently referred to the women also, that is Mary and the others. The Greek word translated keepers is Oi terountes, “the (ones) observing.”

Friends there are some people that need us to resurrect as Christians, before they themselves should be saved and delivered. Remember in verse 61 of Matthew 27, the Bible says many Mary Magdelene and the other Mary were sitting over against the sepulcher.

As it were they were watching, awaiting a miracle, perhaps eagerly desiring and expecting that Jesus would resurrect as he had promised, but when he actually did, they became as dead men. Only his resurrection brought them life again.

Death in the Bible is for removed from physical death only. We would talk about that in another essay. And life is also for removed from this physical life in the Bible. In fact the basic promise of the whole of the Bible is Eternal Life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. That is, the major promise of God to Christians in the Bible is eternal life. We are told to lay hold on eternal life in 1 Timothy 6, as Paul talking to Timothy is also talking to us.

So when Jesus died and resurrect he gave life to those who were dead in their lives. That was why when he met his disciples in were 9, he said ‘All hail.” This word is the Greek Word Chairete, “Be you rejoicing.” You do not have to die again, I have died and resurrected for you, Jesus seems to be telling them here.

As I said, there are some people that there own resurrection depends on our own resurrection also, just like in the case of Jesus, Mary and others depended on him being resurrected. Mary was like a counterpart of Jesus, what one would describe as an opposite, a Neged in the Hebrew. Remember she sat opposite the grave. Had Jesus not resurrected, they would have remained dead.

In Mathew 17:1-9, we have the story of the transfiguration of Jesus.

1: And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2: And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
3: And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
4: Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
5: While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
6: And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
7: And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
8: And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
9: And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

In the Luke account, actually his face changed and became different in chapter 9:29.

How many faces does Jesus have? May we only be able to find grace in God through Jesus, that the face of Jesus that shines on us is the one that gives us life. When Jesus was reading from Isaiah 61 in the Synagogue, he stopped at the prophecy declaring the acceptable year of the LORD, and he did not read the other prophecy of the vengeance of God. May we always find mercy and grace, as the Apostle Paul would always pray for his converts, so that we remain in life with him, that is, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I want to see the concept of the world as a neutral place. God so loved the world the Bible says. He sent his only begotten Son to die for the world. God plants His children in the world. Satan also plants his own. Perhaps, this is why there are wicked people in the world apart from good people, something I said I did not fully understand well in one of my essays, together with the concept of the world. For the world to be saved, we have to shine as light and we have to be the salt of the earth. Ultimately, everybody’s resurrection goes back to Christ, but some people are waiting for you to be the light of the world and to resurrect with Christ.

MATTHEW 6 : 19-34,

19: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25: Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26: Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28: And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30: Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31: Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32: (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34: Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

First of all from the passage above, let us look at the reasons why we worry, then we can look at how we can stop the habit of worry, if we have one.

(1) The first reason is that we lay up treasures upon the earth. Not that we can not have treasures on the earth, but when Jesus says where moth and rust doth corrupt, talking about these treasures, it means our hearts and minds are set on them.

(2) The second reason is because thieves would always break through and steal (these treasures) or even if they do not, we worry they would.

(3) The third reason is that we do not lay up treasures in heaven, which is far more secure (where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal).

(4) Our treasure is on the things on earth and not on the things in heaven

(5) The light of the body is not the light of God, that is, we do not follow the leading of God nor have His spirit within us. That is why the Bible says above that “therefore if thine eye be single,” that is, if we must close our eyes to all other things and just follow God blindly. If we follow the devil blindly, we would only have darkness, a consequence of “an evil eye,” greed, jealousy, pride, etc ( Matthew 6 : 23).

(6) We want to serve two masters, God and Mammon. We say we love God but we also love money at the same time, thereby in the process hating God.

(7) We take thought for our lives, what we would eat, what we would wear and so on. That is, we worry about these and we are anxious about them.

(8) We do not behold nature to see the wonderful Creation of God, for example when we look at how God feeds the birds, makes beautiful lilies to grow, etc. How did we grow in the womb for nine months? How did we grow from a single cell to a baby. Have we ever considered these?

(9) We do not consider that we are some of the most wonderful Creation of God ( Matthew 6: 26).

( 10) And as if to represent completeness as one of the most important, if really it is not the most important; We want to do the things for ourselves only what God Himself can do. We want want to do, or think we can do, only what God can do for us. What we usually go about doing is similar to the act of trying to increase our stature or lifespan, or like making a white hair black, for example. Not that we cannot succeed in a very limited way by doing this, but really it would take a long time and we would be stressed , if ever we did.

So what should we do so as not to worry?

(1) Number one, let us know our limitations. Jesus says in the in the account in Luke, if you cannot do that which is least, why do you think you can do greater things.

(2) We should remember all other things God has done in the past (e.g, the life of Solomon).

(3) We should remember the Gentiles. Sometimes, some people because they know a person has hypertension want someone to worry out of envy and undue competition. God does not say those who do not have a job should not worry. You must work like the Gentiles. It is a pity that in this part of the world, there are no safety nets for those who have no means to support themselves or are sick, even though we are swimming in petrodollars.

God wants us to live from one day to the next. A bit of stress is actually good for one’s body, but it is not good to transfer the stress from one day to the next. Scientists have found out that the stress hormone, Cortisol, is actually good for the body in small amounts. Jesus, who is the WORD of God, created everything gives us this advice we should let the day’s evil be sufficient for itself. We had better take heed to the advice.

(5) We should just not worry (Matthew 6:31 ). If you cannot get worry out of your mind at any moment, just try to get and read an interesting book, for example.

(6) we should seek the things of God first in our lives. WE can also look at Luke 16 : 1-13 and Luke 12 : 13 -59.

LUKE 16 : 1 -13,

1: And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
2: And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
3: Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
4: I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
5: So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
6: And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
7: Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
8: And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
9: And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
10: He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
11: If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12: And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
13: No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

LUKE 12 : 13-59,

13: And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
14: And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
15: And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
16: And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
17: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
18: And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
19: And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20: But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21: So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
22: And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
23: The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
24: Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
25: And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26: If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27: Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28: If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29: And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30: For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
31: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
32: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33: Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
34: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
36: And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
37: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38: And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39: And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
40: Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
41: Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
42: And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
43: Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
44: Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45: But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46: The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
47: And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48: But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
49: I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be already kindled?
50: But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
51: Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
52: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
53: The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
54: And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
55: And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
56: Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
57: Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
58: When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
59: I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.
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GENESIS 1,

1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7: And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8: And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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.
10: And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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.
12: And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13: And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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.
17: And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18: And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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.
21: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22: And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23: And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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.
25: And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26: 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.
27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31: 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.

GENESIS 2,

1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2: 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.
3: 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.
4: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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.
6: But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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.
8: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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.
10: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11: The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12: And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14: And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16: And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22: And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23: And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

GENESIS 3,

1: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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 amongst the trees of the garden.
9: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12: And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13: And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18: Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20: And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21: Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22: And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24: So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

GENESIS 4,

1: And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2: And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3: And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4: And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6: And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7: If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
8: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9: And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10: And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11: And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12: When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13: And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14: Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
15: And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
16: And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
18: And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19: And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20: And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21: And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22: And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
23: And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24: If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
25: And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26: And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

We have talked so much about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However we need to talk about it here again as its concerns the early man such as the Neanderthal- Man or the Cromagnom- Man. The Bible says that sin was in the world at the time of 'Adam but sin is not reckoned if there is no law.There was a world in the time of 'Adam. People could commit fornication, kill and so on, and God would not judge them,the people were just like animals in their behaviour. We have seen in Genesis 4, that there were other people living on the earth at the time of 'Adam.

'Adam was not the first person, but he was the first to be in the image of God or should I say, to be in God’s image, maybe first or not. So the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought man’s awareness to sin, and from henceforth man would be judged by God. Man had developed morally and mentally, as to be judged by God for sin. This was the case of 'Adam.

In the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, good always comes first before evil. Man can know good and man can know evil, but man being now a moral agent and a soul, cannot know both good and evil mixed together. One thing that is both good and evil is fornication. God ordained sex, so it is good, but outside of marriage sex is bad. So 'Adam sinned the first time probably by committing fornication with the first 'Ishah inadvently, either by holding on to her doctrine or so (See the essay on the tree of knowledge of good and evil). He later met another 'Ishah, that is Eve, who was a representation of the mother of all living. As I said Eve ,and the mother all all the living are quite distinct people in the Bible.

Another reason for saying the first 'Ishah Adam committed sin with and Eve are different is this passage, apart from it being a personal revelation to me by God Himself. The passage is I Timothy chapter 2.

1 Timothy 2:8-15,

8: I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
9: In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10: But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
11: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12: But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13: For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14: And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
15: Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

We see here that Eve is different from the woman 'Adam comitted sin with. Eve is Hawah in the Hebrew. It basically means life giver. After the death brought by the first 'Ishah, Eve ended up by giving life in a sort of way back to 'Adam. And there is also no recorded account of the serpent ever biting any of Eve's Children.This curse of the serpent hurting the heel of the seed of the woman also related to Jesus Christ our saviour also.

Remember, the Bible says so shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife (this is deep actually, also implying leaving Christ after we have come to him), so 'Adam had a father and a mother. That he was formed from the dust of the earth is just giving us his origin, or the origin of his existence. Scientists actually say Man developed from unicellular organisms over billions of years so it is just the process the Bible was describing when it says man was formed from the dust of the earth. The Bible account in Genesis actually skips many of the details of the creation process.

Genesis 2 -Genesis 3

Genesis 2

1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2: 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.
3: 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.
4: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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.
6: But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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.
8: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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.
10: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11: The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12: And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14: And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16: And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22: And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23: And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3,

1: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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 amongst the trees of the garden.
9: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12: And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13: And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18: Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20: And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21: Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22: And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24: So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil we find in the early part of the book of Genesis. What is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What makes me sure man is a soul is the fact that man can know good and man can know evil, but man can not know both good and evil together at a go. Remember good always comes first in the term knowledge of good and evil. Man can not first know good, and then know evil at a go. Man can not survive this. Man would simply die.

So what is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Let me use this example. Let's say God tells you in a vision you should not take a sort of wine. This sort of wine represents a type in the Bible, the one they used to take in the past, which represents someone whose sin has not been forgiven totally.(There are many words used for wine in the Bible, Yayin and Tirosh being examples of words used for wine and new wine respectively, for example, though the word Yayin is more frequently used than any other word.) This wine is represents both something physical and something spiritual. When God tells you not to take the wine you were living in your house with your friends (a pastor and his wife, and your best friend, making four of you). So the wine was in a fridge, your mother's fridge, but in the dream it was sort of owned by the pastor, and his wife.

So this wine, God in the dream tells you not to take. The wine represents the sort of power the pastor is using which might be demonic(physically), and it also represents spiritually a drink of the cup of demons as we find in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. So if you take of this cup of wine, this sort of demonic doctrine from this pastor, which is that you need deliverance from your sickness, even after Jesus had already died for your sins and redeemed you, this would be like a Tree of the knowledge of good and evil for you, because it is like committing fornication, as it were, with the devil. Their doctrine, represented by the bottle of wine represents a doctrine among the many doctrines, a Christian should never take (See the relationship between the Tree of life and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil in my other essay about the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil) in his "Garden of Eden",(just as 'Adam should not take from one particular tree only, lest he die) lest he or she die, both physically and spiritually.

So the Tree of of the knowledge of good and evil represented something both Adam and Eve should never take. Note that Eve is not the same as 'Ishah, the wife of 'Adam. 'Ishah, the first wife (or 'Ishah, woman) of 'Adam, is like the wife of this pastor, who is also a bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh, for they both belong to the same family of Christ, spiritually, though they are not members of the same family, Physically (They were living in the same house spiritually). By partaking in the doctrine of the pastor and his wife, it is then like taking from the Tree of the knowlegde of good and evil, with this first 'Ishah. Later God brought another 'Ishah to 'Adam who represented his real wife, or should I say his real husband, that is Jesus Christ, but because the glory of God is both male and female, and 'Adam believed God in such a way, that he was born into the kingdom of God by the female part of the glory of God, this woman represented that one "That was the mother of all the living," not the father of all the living. Eve in the Bible and "the mother of all the living," are quite different entities in the account in Genesis. We should believe God in such a way, so we are born by the Son of God, represented by the Sun, rather than by a woman, represented by the moon. This we can do, by believing our sins have been completely washed by the Lord Jesus Christ, and keep from from always confessing our sins that have been washed once and for all, forever in the past by the death of our lord Jesus Christ.

PHILIPPIANS 3,

1: Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2: Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3: For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
4: Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6: Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7: But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8: Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9: And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11: If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12: Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13: Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15: Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16: Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17: Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18: (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20: For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

We can always divide the time of our lives into three, the past, the present, and the future, though we usually move from the present into the future, even as we can only anticipate the future.

In Philippians 3: 13-14, Paul says he forgets the past so he could move forward, and in verse 15, he says those who are perfect should have the same mind. The book of Philippians is quite an epistle that addresses our mind. In verse 5 of chapter of the book of Philippians, Paul says we should have the mind of Christ, as he humbled himself unto death, by being subject to God, we too should have the same mind. In another place in the same book, we are told what ever is good, virtuous, etc, we should think on these things.

No matter how good or bad the past is, and let's face it, we all face the same things in life, though in different ways,and we should always forget the past. The past is gone, and it is only the past. Usually, I have found through experience, that no matter how good or bad or even evil the past is, I really enjoy the present by totally forgetting the past. Even if you win a Nobel prize or something very good, my advice to you is that you forget the past and press forward for more achievement, as this "good" can only hinder you more, if you do not forget the good thing.

When I say forget the past, I am not saying you should not remember the past, what I am saying is that you should forget the past, that is all things that would hinder your present and your future, and also keep you from being perfect in Christ.

The Bible says as many as are perfect (that is, mature in Christ), should forget the past. Even if you are a lady, and you have ever had an abortion, to which you are now feeling guilty, this same principle applies to you: Forget the past! Everybody has one thing or the other in their lives, they would not like others to know about. You are not the only one who feels in such a way.

Therefore in Chapter 3 verse 1, the Bible says we should rejoice in the Lord, only by doing so do we have peace of mind.

LET US GO ON TO A NEW BEGINNING.,

1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7: And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8: And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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.
10: And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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.
12: And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13: And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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.
17: And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18: And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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.
21: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22: And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23: And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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.
25: And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26: 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.
27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31: 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.

It is only recently that we (Humanity in general) are just discovering how scientifically accurate the Bible is. Only recently too, scientists, especially Physicists just discovered the concepts of Dark Energy and Dark Matter. This is matter in the Universe that seems to be there, but is hardly visible. We have said in the last essay (The Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil), that God does not want good to mix with evil in the same “fruit,” or should I say, that we should have the knowledge of good and evil mixed together in the same “fruit.”

So the very first “Day,” in the Creation of God, God separated the light from the darkness. On the fourth day of Creation, God created the two lights (described by the word of God as great), to divide the day from the night (Genesis 1 :14).

The Hebrew word for light in this first verse of Genesis chapter one is slightly different from the word for light for these two great lights. The word for these two great lights, starts rather with the Hebrew letter Mem. I do not know how to explain the way the letter Mem works in practice, but let me use an example. Take for example that you dig for water and that is represented by an Hebrew word. With the addition of the letter Mem to this word that represents the action of digging water, the letter Mem would change the word to the actual place where water is is dug, that is a verb or even a noun, now being represented by its “actual place.”

So the two great lights are such that they are the places where light is, such that they are dividing between the original light and the original darkness. And you can look at the Sun and the stars as concentrations of radiation, actually. That is, they are the doors, If I might call them that, between light and darkness. So to pass from Matter to Dark Matter you better just fly straight through the Sun. I hope you will not be thoroughly burnt however, while doing so. That was just a joke. Actually, the lights in the Universe divide between Matter and Dark Matter. Perhaps when we have the knowledge of Matter and Dark Matter together as it were in the "same soup ("fruit"), the Human race would die, and would only be saved by our Lord Jesus Christ who died four sins and our justification.

GENESIS CHAPTER 2.

1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2: 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.
3: 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.
4: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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.
6: But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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.
8: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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.
10: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11: The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12: And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14: And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16: And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22: And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23: And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

It is instructive to note in this passage that the Bible says the Tree of life was in the midst of the Garden. I want to look at it this way, were we to represent the garden of Eden by a house, the Tree of life would be in the Parlour, for that is where all, or everybody who comes to our house would be entertained, and which is "open to all." Though, I do not think the Bible also says here that the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil was also in the "midst" of the garden, being linked directly with the Tree of life in Genesis 2:9, it surely has something to do with the "midst" of the garden. The Tree of life and the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil are directly linked.

You can see that God said in Genesis 3; 22-23,

22: And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

So you can see having reached forth to the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was easily very simple, if I can put it that way for Adam (the Bible did not say Eve), to have reached and taken from the Tree of life. However, so they would never do this in their sinful state, God had to drive them out of their "Eden."

Now what can we infer from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil from these verses, or what is the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil? From these verses, it is that thing that makes us wise, is pleasant to the eyes, and much desirable for food. It is only wisdom that is in the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil that is not in included in the Tree of life. Wisdom, apart from God,our wisdom. I n the Book of I John, we see perhaps the same things again, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. So the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil could be summarized this way - Pride and Lust. Also, it is taken by departing from God and going our way, after listening to the serpent, here symbolic of the Devil and the Satan. So could we say the Tree of life and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil are one and the same, only the Tree of life is that part in which we follow God, and the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil is that part of it where we follow Satan and our lusts and pride.

Let us look at it this way. Sex is good and God has ordained it for marriage, between two partners, male and Female, the marriage bed being undefiled. So we can term sex here "the Tree of life." I am not saying sex is the "Tree of life," I am just using it as an example here, but actually sex is a tree of life, because it gives birth to life. This same sex is evil outside the context of marriage and could (would) actually lead to one's death spiritually. The Bible says the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, not the Tree of the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil. So, in this thing which we would think is good for us, it also contains much evil along with the good. For example God might say marry this girl, but someone would say, Oh, I prefer that finer girl. You think she is good, but after some time you would find she contains much evil ALSO.This is knowledge ! This is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.God created good and has allowed evil, he allowed evil or perhaps even created evil. So evil might be good also when we look at it from another perspective. But God does not want good ever to be mixed with evil. God created good and has allowed evil, he allowed evil or perhaps even created evil. So evil might be good also when we look at it from another perspective. But God does not want good ever to be mixed with evil or should I say he does not want us to have the knowledge of good mixed with evil at the same, that is good and evil mixed together in a "fruit.". They should be forever separate just as he separated light from darkness the first day, the very first action God did, we are told in Genesis, apart from Him speaking. The word of God separates good from evil. They should be forever separate just as he separated light from darkness the first day, the very first action God did, we are told in Genesis, apart from Him speaking.So though sex is good in itself, perhaps that girl you slept with is the one that has brought you into this problem, or perhaps the guy. You being good and the other being bad. You can see why God also destroyed the Earth in those days when the Sons of God went to the daughters of men in the days of Noah. Children of God with the children of the devil. The two can just not mix.

The word of God separates good from evil. So though good is good in itself and evil is also good in itself, when they are together, mixed, this is very terrible, a very terrible situation that leads to death.

The word of God is the Tree of life. Jesus Christ, the WORD OF GOD, actually came in the flesh, so that we might have life and actually return to God and our Eden again.

ISAIAH 53,

1: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3: He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8: He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9: And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10: Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11: He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12: Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Verse 5 of the passage says ‘But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE WAS UPON HIM; and with HIS STRIPES we were healed.

The word stripes in the Hebrew is the word Habburah or Haburah, stripe, blow, stroke. Habber, another Hebrew word means associate, partner. Hobereth means things that joins or is joined, only of the curtain pieces of the tabernacle, as joined together. Hebron, the name of a city in Isreal In the Bible means association or league. Hebereth in the Hebrew is a word for a wife in the Bible, Malachi 2:14.

Heber, means company, association, society, house of association as the case shared with a contentions woman (house in common) in proverbs 21:9

The Bible says by his stripes, we were healed. The blow of Jesus to the enemy destroys all our sicknesses and diseases, through the blows he, himself, received from the enemy. Friends, our peace or should I say lack of peace is usually because of the enemies in our lives, who have determined that the light of God will not shine forth in our lives.

COLOSSIANS 1: 9-22,

9: For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10: That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11: Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12: Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18: And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19: For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;
20: And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22: In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Through belief in his blood, shed for us, Jesus Christ make us a sort of “mistress” of us, we having been born of God also. Therefore, he restores our health by dealing a deadly blow to the enemy, making an open show of them and leading them in captivity.

COLOSSIANS 2; 2-23, says,

2: That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3: In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4: And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5: For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
6: As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9: For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
10: And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13: And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14: Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15: And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18: Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19: And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20: Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21: (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22: Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23: Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

Jesus Christ is our savior from sin. Belief in the Jesus, that he died, and he rose again, that his body was bruised for my sake, and his blood shed for my sins forever makes me totally whole. By his stripes I am healed! Jesus has delivered a wondrous blow to the enemy. Another word in the Hebrew, Heberburah, stripe, mark, is used for the stripes of a tiger or panther in Jeremiah 13:22. I was not the one that was healed.

It was Jesus that was healed. I only have to crucify myself to him, by dying to sin, to be raised up with him, healed and delivered from the power of the enemy by his blow, his stripe on the enemy.

The Bible in Luke 1:67-80 says,

67: And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
68: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
69: And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
70: As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
71: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
72: To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
73: The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
74: That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75: In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
76: And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
77: To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
78: Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
79: To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
80: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

One reason Christ died is that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us. Even from these, that hate us for no apparent reason.

Proverbs 9:6, Forsake the foolish, and live, and go in the way of understanding.

‘Osheru Bedereke Binah, in the Hebrew.

This word go straight on is derived from the word ‘Ashar in the Hebrew, which means go straight, go on, advance. It also means in Isaiah 1:17, set right, righten. Another meaning is to pronounce happy, call blessed, in Psalm 41:3 and Proverbs 3:18 . It is usually translated in the sense of to be made happy, blessed.

PSALM 41
1: Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
2: The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3: The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
4: I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
5: Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6: And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
7: All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
8: An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
9: Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
10: But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
11: By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
12: And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
13: Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

The Bible in King James of this verse 3 says, “The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou will make all his bed in his sickness.” Actually, this is the literal transliteration of this verse, “Jehovah will protect him and He will preserve has life, and he is blessed.

‘Osher another Hebrew words means happiness. A name in the Bible ‘Asher the son of Jacob and Zilpah (Genesis 30:13), means the happy one.

Another Hebrew word, 'Asher, is part of relation, which means where, as, to which ,where, to which.

Also in Job 31:7, 7-8, Ashur, a very similar word means step, going, “If my step turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Then let me sow, and let another eat. Yea, let my offspring be rooted out. Job 31:78

So you see, your predisposition to things and situations around you will usually determine your happiness in life. There are the righteous in this life, and there are the wicked. There is nothing we can do about that. I do not know why it is that way, or why it has to be that way, but what I do know is that there are the wicked people. ‘Abraham approached and said to the angels as they were going to destroy Sodom,

Wayiqash ‘Avraham Wayyo’mar Ha’aph tispeh tsadiq iim rasha’

Them Abraham approached him and said, will you sweep away the righteous (one) (Tsadiq) with the wicked(one) (Rasha)

There are people you do good to, and they do evil to you in return. There are some people even, you continually do good to them, yet they continually reward and you with evil.

What should be your attitude? Always maintain a path of good and a path of righteousness.It will led you to a life of happiness. Never repay evil with evil, but always repay evil with good, as the Bible advices. My brother, there is great advantage for you in doing so, and also a blessing. That is why also the word ‘Asher’ is part of relation, which means for example, “to which.” If you go in the path of righteousness and good as a Christian who believes in good works after salvation, you will be blessed. Proverbs 3:13-18 says,

13: Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14: For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15: She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16: Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18: She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

In verse 18 the word "happy" here, is, derived from ‘Asher’ to go straight on, advance, to be blessed.