FORMLESS VOID DARKNESS: Genesis is NOT about the creation of the physical world! Plus, there were people before Adam!
by Tuese Ahkiong
Notice how Jeremiah likens YHWH’s people to being like foolish stupid pagans who do not know YHWH because of their sin and idolatry. Their state of evil was like Genesis 1 when YHWH created the covenant with pagan Adam. The earth or covenant world to be, was FORMLESS, VOID and in pagan DARKNESS. It was in a state of chaos, disorder.
So, too, Jeremiah speaks of YHWH looking upon the covenant world and seeing His people being without FORM, VOID and the heavens (spiritual leadership) having NO LIGHT because they sinned and broke covenant and became like pagans.
Jeremiah 4:22-27
22 “FOR MY PEOPLE ARE FOOLISH; THEY KNOW ME NOT;
THEY ARE STUPID CHILDREN; THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING.
THEY ARE ‘WISE’—IN DOING EVIL! BUT HOW TO DO GOOD THEY KNOW NOT.”
THEY ARE STUPID CHILDREN; THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING.
THEY ARE ‘WISE’—IN DOING EVIL! BUT HOW TO DO GOOD THEY KNOW NOT.”
23 I looked on THE EARTH, and behold, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID; AND TO THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT.
24 I looked on the MOUNTAINS, and behold, they were QUAKING, and all THE HILLS MOVED TO AND FRO.25 I looked, and behold, THERE WAS NO MAN, and ALL THE BIRDS OF THE AIR HAD FLED.26 I looked, and behold, THE FRUITFUL LAND WAS A DESERT, and all its CITIES WERE LAID IN RUINS before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
24 I looked on the MOUNTAINS, and behold, they were QUAKING, and all THE HILLS MOVED TO AND FRO.25 I looked, and behold, THERE WAS NO MAN, and ALL THE BIRDS OF THE AIR HAD FLED.26 I looked, and behold, THE FRUITFUL LAND WAS A DESERT, and all its CITIES WERE LAID IN RUINS before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
27 For thus says the Lord, “THE WHOLE LAND SHALL BE A DESOLATION; YET I WILL NOT MAKE A FULL END.
Genesis 1:1-5
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID, AND DARKNESS WAS OVER THE FACE OF THE DEEP.And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT,”and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God blessed them, saying, “BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLYand fill the waters in the seas, AND LET BIRDS MULTIPLY ON THE EARTH.”
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLYand fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and OVER THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 2:1-6 The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
4 This is the history of the GENERATIONS of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens. 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. THERE WAS NOT A MAN TO TILL THE GROUND, 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
**v4 If Adam was the first man, how can there be generationS?
GENESIS is NOT the creation of the physical world but the creation of the covenant world. This was the Ancient Near Eastern worldview of describing the creation of a nation by YHWH gave function to His creation. There were people on earth before Adam. Without form, being void and in darkness meant that man was without God's Word, Light, Order, Presence...
Notice all these parallels between Jeremiah and Genesis:
GENESIS JEREMIAH
WITHOUT FORM AND VOID WITHOUT FORM AND VOID
NO LIGHT NO LIGHT
BE FRUITFUL FRUITS become desert
BIRDS MULTIPLY BIRDS FLED
NO MAN to do the Lord’s work NO MAN to do the Lord’s work
Jeremiah 4:22 says there were "people," so how can there be no man in v.25?
Genesis was written in 1600 BC and Jeremiah in 500 BC, so how can there be no man?
What is meant by NO MAN???
Genesis 4:12-17
12 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. YOU SHALL BE A FUGITIVE AND A WANDERER ON THE EARTH.” 13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I SHALL BE A FUGITIVE AND A WANDERER ON THE EARTH, AND WHOEVER FINDS ME WILL KILL ME.” 15 Then the Lord said to him, “NOT SO! IF ANYONE KILLS CAIN, VENGEANCE SHALL BE TAKEN ON HIM SEVENFOLD.” AND THE LORD PUT A MARK ON CAIN, LEST ANY WHO FOUND HIM SHOULD ATTACK HIM. 16 Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and SETTLED IN THE LAND OF NOD, EAST OF EDEN.
17 CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE,and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
***In Genesis 4, there are 4 people, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. After Cain kills Abel, there are 3 people. So, why is Cain tripping that someone is going to kill him if Adam and Eve are the only other people on earth? YHWH even says that vengeance shall be taken on the person sevenfold who kills Cain. YHWH also places a mark on Cain so no one should attack him.
And how the heck does Cain find a wife in a land CALLED NOD if only Adam and Eve are the only other humans on earth? How is there a "land called Nod, East of Eden" occupied by people including Cain's wife if there are only 3 people on earth? Again, Genesis is NOT the creation of the first humans and the physical world. It is the creation of the first covenant people. YHWH had people on earth living out their pagan lives. YHWH called Adam out of his pagan darkness and brought him into HIs Light, garden, presence. Adam was the first covenant man and not the first human being.
The Bible is written in the context of the Ancient Near Eastern worldview.
The Bible is written in the context of the Ancient Near Eastern worldview.
Bible folk in the 21st century with no understanding of the ANE worldview, start making up all kinds of incest relations of sisters, nieces, cousins… that occurred for Cain to get a wife. Lololol
THANK YOU PASTOR TWO GOD BLESS
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