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: 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.