This article is part of a series called “Read The Bible With Larry”. These are excerpts from letters I wrote to brother Larry in Prison, helping him to get through the Bible one part at a time. Visit the WYLH.org Ministries Home Page for more information.
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Shalom brother Larry,
I hope you are well and seeking the Father. We never know when our time will be up and I hope you make the firm decision to repent and be immersed in the Name of Yahushua if you haven’t yet done so.
Let’s explore the Word:
Genesis 2:3 And Elohiym blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohiym in creating had made.
A day blessed by our Creator, sometimes ignored by this world… well… let’s be honest.. many times. This world has its’ “Holidays” which are not really Holidays. They are not Holy – or as the Hebrew says “Qodesh” which means Set-Apart. We see Yahweh set the Sabbath apart – “set it apart” in Genesis 2:3. He made it separate from the other days. He didn’t do this with any other day of the week – just the Sabbath on the 7th Day. Let’s choose to recognize this – to recognize He is the Creator – and part of keeping Sabbath is recognizing He is the Creator and made everything the first 6 days.
Genesis 2:4-2:25
(4) These are the births of the skies and the land when they were created, in the day that Yahweh Elohiym made land and skies.
(5) Now no shrub of the field was yet on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Yahweh Elohiym had not sent rain on the land, and there was no man to till the ground,
(6) but a mist went up from the land and watered the entire surface of the ground.
(7) And Yahweh Elohiym formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of life. And the man became a living being.
(8) And Yahweh Elohiym planted a garden in Eden, to the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
(9) And out of the ground Yahweh Elohiym made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(10) And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four riverheads.
(11) The name of the first is Pishon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Chawilah, where there is gold.
(12) And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium is there, and the shoham stone.
(13) And the name of the second river is Gichon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush.
(14) And the name of the third river is Chiddeqel, it is the one which goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
(15) And Yahweh Elohiym took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to guard it.
(16) And Yahweh Elohiym commanded the man, saying, “Eat of every tree of the garden,
(17) but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall certainly die.”
(18) And Yahweh Elohiym said, “It is not good for the man to be alone, I am going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.”
(19) And from the ground Yahweh Elohiym formed every beast of the field and every bird of the skies, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
(20) So the man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the skies, and to every beast of the field. But for the man there was not found a helper for him, as his counterpart.
(21) So Yahweh Elohiym caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
(22) And the rib which Yahweh Elohiym had taken from the man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
(23) And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one is called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.”
(24) For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
(25) And they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they were not ashamed.
You see when Yahweh made the whole world and all that is in it and man-kind, we were not initially a race with evil, death, disease, hatred, murder, theft, or any of the selfish greedy wrong things we know today. Originally man and woman were innocent like new-born babies. A new-born baby doesn’t know it is even naked. In fact, they don’t even understand what nakedness is really. In this state of being a baby a human is much like they were in the Garden of Eden….
Deuteronomy 1:39 – ‘And your little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and they are to possess it.
Notice here it says “who today have no knowledge of good and evil”…….
That is how they were in the garden before man was corrupted – they had no knowledge of good orgn evil. They were completely 100% innocent and pure. And so are the little ones, the babes.
May Yahweh help us to be as children again in how we approach Him and how we accept His kingdom.
Mark 10:15 “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of Elohiym as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it.”
In the love of our Adon Yahushua HaMashiach,
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This article is part of a series called “Read The Bible With Larry”. These are excerpts from letters I wrote to brother Larry in Prison, helping him to get through the Bible one part at a time. Visit the WYLH.org Ministries Home Page for more information.