Part 2: Correlating Genesis Chapters 1 & 2: Light and Heaven

Introduction

This is the second of a series of articles that attempt to correlate the first two chapters of Genesis. The first article highlighted how the creation of man relates between the two, at minimum in relation to the first clause of Genesis 1:27 pointing to Genesis 2:7 (highlighted below in bold-italic):

27 And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
Genesis 1:27 YLT98

7 And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
Genesis 2:7 YLT98

This article will attempt to highlight how the first 2 days of creation of Genesis 1 are similarly present in chapter 2 and that they directly correlate to each other.

Chapter 1, First Two Days of Creation

The first day of creation is described in Genesis 1:2-5. In it, God creates light.

The second day of creation sees the creation of heaven in Genesis 1:6-8.

Chapter 2, First Verses

In chapter two, there's no explicit mention of either light or heaven having been created. The chapter opens with verses about Shabbat/Sabbath, day of rest, described in Genesis 2:1-3:

1 And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

2 and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

3 And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

Correlating Days 1 & 2

It is this author's convention that the first six days of creation describe God's work week, a template for how things are created, and ultimately viewed as very good. Further, the second week highlights how chapter 2 maps directly to chapter 1, providing clear guidance from God to man about how man is to be: created in the image of God and likeness, tending to God's creation.

Chapter one opens with the first two days seeing the creation of light and heaven. Chapter two opens with the Sabbath, then immediately jumps to the beginning of a day in which Earth and Seas are present, a clear correlation to Day 3 of chapter one.

For the creation sequence to map one-to-one, Genesis 2 has to therefore open with light and heaven.

Genesis 2: Creating Light and Heaven

The opening of the Sabbath; the lighting of candles, is the weekly act that maps Genesis 2 to the creation of light of Genesis 1. The first day of creation thus maps to the start of Sabbath.

The Sabbath continues as a reflection of heaven on earth, filled with the light of life. While the opening of the Sabbath creates light, the entire day is, like heaven, blessed and sanctified by God when man (male and female) lives in the image and likeness of God. The Sabbath is a day of family, feast, community, and study of God's word without worry of work, because all the work has been done.

For man, there is no other way to create heaven on earth outside of following God's word. By lighting candles and honoring the Sabbath, man weekly creates light and heaven on earth. In this way, the Sabbath of Genesis chapter 2 maps directly to the first two days of creation in Genesis chapter 1.

Bible: If Genesis 1:26-31 Is Contract? Here's One Way To Validate It

Introduction

In a prior article, I attempted to show how Genesis 1:26 is the law to which the rest of the Bible directly relates. In the article, I used a simple example to show how the first clause of Gen 1:26 was supported by the succeeding verse, Gen 1:27, and the first clause of Gen 1:27 was then shown to be supported by Gen 2:7.

In all cases, the language of each verse provided guidance and connective support to show that the verses were all directly related. While more examples will hopefully follow, should the concept find validity and acceptance, further proof will likely be found by others as well.

This article will attempt to highlight how the verses of Genesis 1:26-30 define not only the law (Gen 1:26), but a contract that God has made with man. Not only do the verses represent a contract, they show how we can validate our performance against the contract.

What this article doesn't do is attempt to obviate commandments. The first commandment is viewed as "be fruitful and multiply". I would argue, that while it's the first sequential commandment, this article shows what I feel are the first temporal commandments.

By ignoring the garden, we ignore health. By ignoring health we allow disease to spread, oftentimes undetected.

What we create by ignoring the garden is Genesis chapter 4, but that article is on the list to be written. I will argue that we can't grow the garden of our higher mind without knowing how to tend and eat from the garden on earth.

I've kept this article on the light side to highlight the concept and constructs. Greater detail will hopefully follow in subsequent work.

The Contract

First, all the verses are listed for reference:

26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth."

27 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. "

29 And God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.

30 And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat," and it was so.

31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good, and it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

Sequencing Our Actions

In the natural course of things, we take the list above, read it top to bottom and treat it like a to-do list. In this case, we go all in for fruitful and multiply, get busy with all the details of family, and spend the rest of our lives trying to find time for the rest.

Mostly we skip ahead to other parts of the book and wrestle with logic, look for inspiration or guidance, try to find proof in the real world for catastrophes, and locate sites mentioned in verse.

While reading this contract top to bottom may seem natural, educational, and meaningful, it's simply not enough. If Gen 1:26 provides the law that provides the overarching theme to the book, we have to actively make the right associations to the right parts in the right order.

Unfortunately, and without guidance, we'll likely be lost somewhere along the way. Confusion has been known to be a source of conflict.

Fortunately, the validation of our performance to the contract appears to be quite simple.

Stand Here, Look There

If we stand on Genesis 1:31, look back on creation, and take the contract in reverse order, it appears we can know when we've performed in accordance with all of the terms of the contract. Let's give it a try.

31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good, and it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

If we are made in the image of God, we can stand and look just as God does in Gen 1:31: back at the entirety of His creation. What's the first thing we see?

First, Feed God's Creatures

30 And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat," and it was so.

Man alone is capable of knowing how to feed and heal all life forms listed in Gen 1:30. Man alone is the only creature on earth capable of actively tending all aspects of the the garden of the earth so all life specified in Gen 1:30 have food to eat. The detail required of performing this clause alone is staggering in complexity.

If this is indeed a first step, is there biblical support for this step being a first requirement? My argument is Genesis chapter 2 presents and expands on the sequence with greater detail. From learning how to care for the elements, to understanding how to tend the garden, to naming all the animals, the second chapter of the Bible clearly sequences, expands on, and supports a high-level perspective of Genesis 1:30.

In the interest of brevity, and to keep the proof of concept focused, I'll skip enumerating all the possibilities and responsibilities associated with performing this clause to satisfaction.

If this is a contract, we can advance to the next requirement once we can validate this clause and in such a way that when God stands and looks, He approves of the efforts of man.

Feed Man

29 And God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.

After we've learned to feed all the life forms listed in Gen 1:30, we next have to learn to eat and feed man. Without knowing how to use plants, and eat for all parts of our body, our health will fail in some aspect and our mind may suffer.

Each and every plant we eat has ecosystems, seasons, requirements, enemies, invaders, parts, modes of preparation, and so much more, man could be stuck on this step for a while. Learning how to apply plants as medicines increase the complexity.

We have to know how to tend the garden of earth to know how and when to use plants; for food and as medicine, for the health of man upon the planet. It has to be provable such that when God stands to validate our work, He finds it to be very good.

Blessings of Family and Generations

28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. "

Once we know how to feed life, we reap the benefits of being able to make, care for, and guide healthy and abundant family. We know how to tend all the earth and we pass the knowledge, wisdom, work ethic, and purpose to our children. We also enjoy longer, healthier lives, which enable us to pass and share wisdom through many generations.

With Wisdom Comes Understanding

27 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Once have performed the previous three clauses? We apparently understand what it means to be made in the image of God. We understand all scripture associated with all that has come before, how to be healthy, get along with one another, heal, care for, feed, be compassionate towards, timely, merciful, understanding; honoring God's commandments, and all God teaches us.

Better Understanding of the Law

26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth."

It isn't often one can read a contract in both directions and have it provide better understanding of the law. In this case, doing so may provide greater means for understanding the word of God and the role man plays upon the earth in accordance with the purpose for which God has made man.

If this concept holds true, it represents a staggering level of detail and work to take on. It's hard to see how life can survive without man being involved in the active management of everything directly related to life. In the end, we not only have to know the steps of the contract and how to fulfill them, we have to know all supporting scripture that follows as well as every aspect of God's creation that came before. The entire book is our guide to healthy living, in and for all times and seasons. 

Bible: Genesis 1: Where and How Hebrew Letters, Black Fire, Becomes White Fire

Hypothesis & Introduction

The Hebrew letters of the Bible are known as black fire.  When taken into the mind they create neural connections, which can be described as white fire.

The first day of creation appears to show how the letters we read become light in the mind and how God sees the light as it is created.

This appears to first suggest the neural connections are created in the cerebral hemisphere/frontal lobe (higher mind), beyond the bounds of the yarmulke. The light that is created "covers" or "clothes" the individual in day (light) as opposed to being covered by darkness or night.

Genesis 1:1-5:

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:1‭-‬5 KJV

Support

What is happening? Two things. First, God is sharing details regarding the creation of light in the universe. The second thing that is happening, is the brain is taking in the letters, words, and phrases of the story, processing them, and, at minimum:

• Burning the letters, words, and phrases into the mind sequentially
• Ordering creation temporally
• Attempting to place objects spatially
• Attempting to process God's words aurally
• Attempting to understand constructs, like what a void is.

There's much more going on, but the points listed highlight some of the main activities related to taking the elements of the story into the mind.

Where the Words Live

With regards to how the letters, words, and phrases are processed, the text is here showing that they are not associated with the lower, primal, mind. They can't be, because the primal mind deals with primal things like food, desires/wants, ego and feeling.

By opening the book written by God, the mind similarly opens the region related to higher authority, wisdom, and time, which all pass through lower centers and into the temporal and cerebral lobes of the brain.

Each logical segment is a temporal segment of a logical sequence comprising a complete expression. We logically follow the path and wonder, by asking questions. Like, what does it all mean? What is light? What do the stages leading up to the creation of light mean?

The lower mind wants. It is desire and need driven. It pursues, it hunts, it possesses. It doesn't know time outside of the moment. The higher mind wonders, questions, researches, learns and knows. It organizes and plans according to time.

The opening of Genesis describes the creation of light. Taken as a roadmap of the result of reading, it shows light being created in the mind, and therefore, how the mind eats.

The first time the story is read, there isn't any construct related to the story in the mind: where the constructs will live in the mind is void.

As there are no neural connections burned into the mind related to the story, there is darkness on the face of the deep: way up high in the mind, where the word of God lives, it's dark. This could also mean that the mind is not yet in possession of neural connections that join the mind to the deep of the heart.

The spirit of God hovers over the waters: of the mind, where the neural connections will be formed for each letter of fire. How do they get burned, by what mechanisms, and how do they know where to go?

Let there be light: neurons are burned, white fire, and all the neural pathways are formed by reading the words of the text.

And God seeth the light: beyond the yarmulke, in the higher brain centers. With all the connections formed from the text that is read, ingested, eaten, bright light is created.

Moshiac, God's Anointed

King Cyrus, King Saul, and King David are God's anointed. When they were anointed, they had olive oil poured upon their heads. [Jesus was God's anointed, but he didn't have oil poured on his head. More on this in a separate article, point is about oil on head.] The oil represents the fuel for the light that they are to become to the people they are to lead. The oil is the symbolic fuel feeding the light of the anointed with God's spirit via His word, in their mind and heart.

Isaiah Calls to Eat of the Word of God

Isaiah 55 opens with:

1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 55:1‭-‬2 KJV

It costs nothing to eat of God's word, yet nothing is so fulfilling, healthy, or illuminating.

Jesus Says

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
Matthew 4:4 NIV
http://bible.com/111/mat.4.4.NIV

Jesus/Yeshua appears to refer to the word of God as food. If so, the food we eat with our mind appears to create light in our mind that requires being nourished with the food we eat with our mouth.

That both aspects of eating are entwined in the verses of Genesis 1:26-30 appears to further support what Jesus is teaching. This is the second verse in which Jesus speaks in the book of Matthew.

That Jesus would appear to begin with a teaching parallel to the verses highlighted in this article, from the opening of Torah, seems to validate his being the Messiah prophesied of in Daniel.

Bible: Age of Universe in Genesis 1 = 13.8 Billion Years

Hypothesis

One day of creation, an Evening/Morning in Genesis chapter 1, represents not only Passover, but a variable length period called a Passover Year. The Passover Year has two intervals. Each interval is related to the type of day created, either good, by explicit label, or very good, as labeled by Gen 1:31.

Details

The length of a Passover Year corresponds to the type of day.

A good day, represents a Passover Year which spans from the start of Passover of an initial year, to the end of Passover of the subsequent year.

A very good day represents a Passover Year which spans from the start of Passover of an initial year, to the end of Shavuot of the subsequent year.

Summary

By virtue of these variable-length years, in combination with scripture which shows how to expand the days of creation, this paper will attempt to highlight how the creation of Genesis 1 can be used to calculate the age of the universe to corroborate modern science.

Supporting Scripture

The numeric expansion is described in Psalm 90, a prayer of Moses:

"...For in Your sight a thousand years are like yesterday that has passed..." Psalm 90:4

 The start of time:

"2. This month shall be to you the head of the months; to you it shall be the first of the months of the year." Exodus 12:2, referring to the month of Nissan, containing Passover.

From Darkness to Light

Passover represents the flight from slavery in Egypt to a feast to God in the desert. Like the week of creation, which spans from light to Shabbat, Passover takes place over 7 days.

Each day represents a microcosm of the meaning of the week, a temporal migration from darkness/Night/Evening to light/Day/Morning.

Expanding the Days of Creation

In order to reconcile Passover as consecutive units of time, it is proposed to construct a Passover Year. A Passover Year starts on a preceding Passover, traverses a Judaic year, to end at the termination of either Passover or Shavuot of the subsequent year. The length of a Passover Year is proposed to be based on the type of creation day: either good or very good.

Consecutive Passover Years will be contiguous. They will each start on the first day of Passover.

Consecutive Passover Years will be complete. They will span a complete year plus the number of days to the end of the subsequent Passover or Shavuot.

The Hebrew letter shin appears to be a graphic representation of a Passover Year in that the outer elements of the character represent the start and end of a discreet year, while the inner element represents the end of a previous year.

If the letter shin is perhaps a graphic represention of a Passover Year, the start of the next Passover Year is hidden between the center and rightmost stems.

Calculations

The following descriptions present examples using a mean solar year length for consistency and simplicity:

A "good" day to a Passover Year

Using a solar year of 365.2472 days, it is calculated: 365.2472 + 7 = 372.2472.

A "very good" day to a Passover Year

The very good days in Genesis chapter 1 are here presented as day 2 (heaven) and part of day 6 (man). They are not explicitly labeled until Gen 1:31, when they are declared to be very good.

When considering the relationship between heaven and man, it becomes clear that without Torah, man is lost on the path to heaven.  It was for this reason that Shavuot (celebrating the giving of Torah) was a natural choice to place at the end of the very good Passover Year.

Measured from the start of Passover to the end of Shavuot of the following year: 365.2472 + 50 = 415.2472.

Declarations, rules, constants, setup:

The equations to calculate the age of the universe are as follows:

GPYL - Good Passover Year Length
VGPYL - Very Good Passover Year Length

good years = GPYL  x  #-good-days-in-year  x  1,000

very good years = VGPYL x #-very-good-days-in-year x 1,000

Age = (good years + very good years) *
           (6 * 1,000)

The days of creation are expanded to be a year. The year is expanded into days. The year-days are scaled by 1,000 and summed. The days of creation are summed (to 6) then scaled by a multiple of 1,000, as they are explicitly labeled days. The sum of year days are then multiplied by the sum of creation days. It is the view if the author that there is no double-counting.

Passover Year Calculations: Age of the Universe

The following calculations are completed using approximate lunar months. The number of days calculated in this first step ranges from 2299 to 2318, or within a fractional deviation from the 2300 presented.

1. 353 + 7 = 360
2. 354 + 50 = 404
3. 383 + 7 = 390
4. 353 + 7 = 360
5. 353 + 7 = 360
6. 383 + 50 - 7 = 426*

• Net of days: 2300
• 2300 × 1000 = 2,300,000
• 2,300,000 × 6 = 13,800,000,000
• 13.8 billion years

* day 6 has here been shown to be 50 days less 7 days as the day is a mixture of good and very good. Without this offset, the number of approximate lunar days is 2306.

That the sum of the days of years aggregate near 2300 seems to allude to the 2300 days mentioned in the book of Daniel.

Whether using a lunar or solar year, the expansion and calculations show, if logic holds, that the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years.

Summary and Conclusion

An hypothesis has been presented that the Evening/Morning of Genesis chapter 1 represents the Passover holiday, which has been called the start of the year in scripture.

In order to make Passover contiguous, an interval is proposed called a Passover Year. Like a lunar year, a Passover year varies in length.

A Passover year begins on Passover of in initial year. The end of the Passover Year aligns with the end of either Passover or Shavuot of the subsequent year, beyond the start of the subsequent years Passover.

A Passover Year has been classified to be either Good or Very Good, with each category reflecting different intervals of time anchored by holy days.

In the case of a Good Passover Year, the interval is defined to start at the beginning of Passover of an initial year, to the end of Passover of the subsequent year.

The interval of a Very Good Passover Year is defined to extend from the beginning of an initial Passover, beyond the start of the subsequent Passover to end at the completion of Shavuot the subsequent year.

Shavuot was selected is due to its relation to heaven and man. Shavuot is directly related to that which was not labeled good at the time of creation, heaven and man, and therefore becomes very good by Gen 1:31. Torah is the force that binds heaven and man, and therefore appears to be a logical holiday to associate with creation and time.

The number of days in a year is multiplied by 1,000 to arrive at the duration of the scaled year. The scaled years are summed. The six days of creation are multiplied by 1,000 and this value is multiplied by the summed days of the scaled years. The resulting value is 13.8 billion. This value is presented as the age of the universe, assuming the expansion has merit.

The current estimated and generally accepted value for the age of the universe is 13.799 billion years[1]. The deviation between accepted and this paper's calculated value are statistically insignificant.

Ages: Scientific Estimate & Genesis

1. Currently accepted value:  13.799 billion yrs
2. As calculated by Genesis:   13.800 billion yrs

[1] Wikipedia; Age of the universe, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe