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To: roamer_1

It seems to me the passage you quote speaks to order-of-decent, the ordering of the creation.


I believe Gen 1 is the ordering of the creation and Gen two is talking about the fulfilling of it.

Gen 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

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.

Gods work was finished was finished but it had not become fulfilled because the trees had not grown nor was there 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.

Verse one says it was finished verse 7 shows that God did some special work at a later time.

I have read about the Jubilees but have not read it but I can not see that it would add anything because we are looking at it from entirely two different angles.

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

God does things in his time, all of our times are to correspond with Gods time not the other way around so we use 7 literal days to correspond with the seven days of Gods time.

At least that is what I believe, as I know nothing.


48 posted on 08/11/2014 8:48:03 AM PDT by ravenwolf (s)
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To: ravenwolf
I have read about the Jubilees but have not read it but I can not see that it would add anything because we are looking at it from entirely two different angles.

If one converts the history as found in the Bible into days (using the various genealogies) then convert the Grand Jubilees to days, and project them backwards toward creation, you will find an exact 7 day discrepancy... IIRC one week longer in the Jubilee than the genealogy addresses... I think that is precisely by design. The count for the Jubilees starts on the first day, in the first instant.

Gen 2:2 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.
Gen 2:3 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.


Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, [...]
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

My main concern is for the Sabbath - YHWH SPOKE above with great precision, and I will take him at his word. If the reason for the Sabbath is figurative, then the Sabbath itself is figurative, and the hallowing thereof is figurative, and then poof! Sunday worship. So no... YHWH meant what He said, and said what He meant (and YHWH is accurate, 100 percent) :P

God does things in his time, all of our times are to correspond with Gods time not the other way around so we use 7 literal days to correspond with the seven days of Gods time.

But it is YHWH who defined the time. HE defined the 7 literal days. That IS His 'time'. I understand your position, and I use 1/1000 in determining prophecy all the time. I used to be exactly where you are assuming a c.10k earth age. But it cannot pan out without doing damage to time sensitive parts of the prophecy, and without creating a nonsensical gap in the genealogy - which purposes to perform an exact record of time, that being extraordinarily needful in the pursuit of the prophets.

At least that is what I believe, as I know nothing.

May YHWH bless you, brother (sis?)!! An inquiring mind is how one learns! Test everything, and hold on to that which is good. : )

49 posted on 08/11/2014 10:36:07 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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