(Is anyone surprised that I'm already behind in reading? But...I'm catching up today.)
Three things I noted about these passages: 1. We've all probably read them many times. In fact, several of us have probably read them at the first of January every year or so...aspiring to finish the whole Bible and always starting with Genesis. And falling off somewhere in the Old Testament. So this is familiar...maybe memorized material, but it still has "new" (to us) things in it.
2. The only reason I noticed this next one is due to the discussion some of us were having on Facebook about submission, specifically a wife's submission to her husband. I noticed that God tells Eve "he shall rule over thee" (referring to her husband. As part of her CURSE. Implying that in the perfect, Eden world, both parties were equal. I speculate that this means when both were in perfect submission to God and hadn't rebelled against him, there was no need for one to be submissive to the other and one to have any kind of leadership because they would both be in harmony in their decisions, since their decisions were in harmony with God and He is unchanging. But, if you took it out of the intent and context, you've got a really nice dig at husbands...for being listed right up there with painful childbirth. (I am only joking on this last point, of course.)
3. In the Matthew passage, in "the begats", I notice that vs. 6 "David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife or Urias". That would be Bathsheba. It's interesting to note that the affair with Bahtsheba and later murder of Uriah to cover it up was one of the lowest of the low points of David's life. One of his biggest mistakes. And yet, here a good thing came immediately out of it in the short term (Solomon) and in the long term, that line led to the birth of the Messiah. It's comforting to remember that God can take even our absolute worst errors and mistakes, even the sinful ones done deliberately, and use them to His purpose.
I too got behind! I read 9 Chapters in Genesis Today! And 3 in Matthew! In these passages in Genesis I'm reminded of mans always desiring to be like Elohim! Not in the good way but to be equal or above the Creator! As I read the other 6 Chapters I can't but help to compare our time now Gen 6:11-12 The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.
My Christmas break is over... I ate my last Christmas cookie last night... and now I have caught up with the first 3 readings... God bless you and yours.
In Studying A Long Time Ago I found This Gen 10:25 To 'Ever were born two sons. One was given the name Peleg [division], because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother's name was Yoktan. The Earth was at one Time a one Body of Mass! Sometime there was a great dividing of the Earth! Makes me wonder if this is Speaking of that incident?
I've thought about this same thing. One time, a long time ago, I took a map and looked at the four rivers mentioned that surrounded Eden. They're in the same general part of the world...but not close enough that you woulud think they would enclose one garden (even a large one) logically. However, if you move the continents back to the super-cotinent of Pangea, which is what scientists think the earth looked like a one time, they are much more tightly clustered together and make sense with the Eden story.
I wondered if the continents were at one time only one continent and scientists are off in that they didn't drift apart over centuries or millenia of tectonic migration but they were pulled apart either when Man was expelled from the garden or, more likely, during the flood the waters receded and the world had changed. I didn't think about it being during Peleg's life and the earth being "divided" then.
(Is anyone surprised that I'm already behind in reading? But...I'm catching up today.)
ReplyDeleteThree things I noted about these passages:
1. We've all probably read them many times. In fact, several of us have probably read them at the first of January every year or so...aspiring to finish the whole Bible and always starting with Genesis. And falling off somewhere in the Old Testament. So this is familiar...maybe memorized material, but it still has "new" (to us) things in it.
2. The only reason I noticed this next one is due to the discussion some of us were having on Facebook about submission, specifically a wife's submission to her husband. I noticed that God tells Eve "he shall rule over thee" (referring to her husband. As part of her CURSE. Implying that in the perfect, Eden world, both parties were equal. I speculate that this means when both were in perfect submission to God and hadn't rebelled against him, there was no need for one to be submissive to the other and one to have any kind of leadership because they would both be in harmony in their decisions, since their decisions were in harmony with God and He is unchanging.
But, if you took it out of the intent and context, you've got a really nice dig at husbands...for being listed right up there with painful childbirth. (I am only joking on this last point, of course.)
3. In the Matthew passage, in "the begats", I notice that vs. 6 "David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife or Urias". That would be Bathsheba. It's interesting to note that the affair with Bahtsheba and later murder of Uriah to cover it up was one of the lowest of the low points of David's life. One of his biggest mistakes. And yet, here a good thing came immediately out of it in the short term (Solomon) and in the long term, that line led to the birth of the Messiah. It's comforting to remember that God can take even our absolute worst errors and mistakes, even the sinful ones done deliberately, and use them to His purpose.
I too got behind! I read 9 Chapters in Genesis Today! And 3 in Matthew! In these passages in Genesis I'm reminded of mans always desiring to be like Elohim! Not in the good way but to be equal or above the Creator! As I read the other 6 Chapters I can't but help to compare our time now Gen 6:11-12 The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas break is over... I ate my last Christmas cookie last night... and now I have caught up with the first 3 readings... God bless you and yours.
ReplyDeleteIn Studying A Long Time Ago I found This
ReplyDeleteGen 10:25 To 'Ever were born two sons. One was given the name Peleg [division], because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother's name was Yoktan.
The Earth was at one Time a one Body of Mass! Sometime there was a great dividing of the Earth! Makes me wonder if this is Speaking of that incident?
I've thought about this same thing. One time, a long time ago, I took a map and looked at the four rivers mentioned that surrounded Eden. They're in the same general part of the world...but not close enough that you woulud think they would enclose one garden (even a large one) logically. However, if you move the continents back to the super-cotinent of Pangea, which is what scientists think the earth looked like a one time, they are much more tightly clustered together and make sense with the Eden story.
ReplyDeleteI wondered if the continents were at one time only one continent and scientists are off in that they didn't drift apart over centuries or millenia of tectonic migration but they were pulled apart either when Man was expelled from the garden or, more likely, during the flood the waters receded and the world had changed. I didn't think about it being during Peleg's life and the earth being "divided" then.