'I do not want you to be unaware'

We take an uncommon approach to the Book of Genesis, which is more commonly known as the book of creation. Genesis truly offers great insight to spiritual understanding of things to come. Here are just a few of those insights, may the Spirit open our understanding fully to hear the Lord: In Genesis chapters 1 and 2 we see God creating or calling forth the land, separating the waters, the earth’s atmosphere, plant life, animals, and the birds of the air and finally, He made man on the sixth day. On the seventh day God rested from all His work. Insight 1. By making man last, God was making a defining statement that man should never be in bondage to anything, all things were to be subservient to man working to bring about God's ultimate purpose. Remember, 'all things work together for...His purpose’ Rom l8:28. Do you see this? Let ‘s look at the cycle provided in this picture. God made the heavens to supply the earth with all that is necessary for reproduction, growth and a healthy environment. The earth in turn supplies what is needful for man's life, i.e., eating, producing and reproducing and comfort. Man would supply what God needed, praise, worship and adoration, yet more than this… a place for His rest. Isa. 66:1.2 Insight 2. God rested for He was satisfied that His plan was fully set in motion. Was He aware of man's inevitable failure? Yes, of course. He was fully at rest for He knew that nothing and no one, not even satan on his best day of trickeries and deceptions, could alter His plan once it was in place. Jesus said 'I will build my Church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.’ Mat 16:18 Insight 3. Man's first day was on the seventh day. It follows that God's design for man’s life was complete and he was to enter into God’s rest. The Rest here is not one of a physical nature but the ceasing of labor of the soul life (the will, mind and emotions). For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.