Shincheonji word - Genesis Chapter 1(1)

Let us think about the Genesis Chapter 1.

Moses wrote the book of Genesis after he had heard its content from God. Genesis itself means the era of the beginning, the beginning of the human world with God.

The physical realm was created by the spiritual realm (Gn 1:26-27). In Genesis 1, God makes known the re-creation of the spiritual and physical worlds, by figuratively referring to the creation of the physical world. Concerning the history of the Bible, there has been the work of creation in each biblical generation, and the creation has been occurring in line with the logical order shown in Gn 1. After Adam, the world of Noah was created in this same manner. After Noah, the world of Moses was also created in the same logical order. The creation recorded in Jeremiah chapters 1-4 took place during Jesus’ time, and it was the same content as that of Gn 1.

The new work of creation takes place after the previous world is held captive by the gentiles, due to its betrayal. This is applicable to the times of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the first and second coming of Jesus. This new work of creation has occurred in each generation.

The words of the holy spirit (the Bible) can only be understood through the eyes and the heart of the holy spirit. It can never be perceived by the physical eyes and the experiences that people attain from the physical world.

God spoke in Psalm 78 saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter hidden things, things from of old.” According to this very promise, Jesus came to the world and revealed the secrets of the kingdom of heaven through the parables. At his second coming, however, Jesus promised that these parables would be plainly explained, and everything would be spoken as clear facts, not as parables. Therefore, Jesus’ second coming is the time promised in Amos 3:7, when the plans of God (i.e. his secrets NKJV) will be revealed and testified (1 Cor 13:9-12).

♣ First day (vv. 1-5)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. *Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. *And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. *God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. *God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” *And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Let’s take a look at the figurative meanings of this passage.

There is no passage saying, God created the heaven and the earth on the first day. What, then, is the empty and formless earth? What is the dark sky? When did God create the waters, which He was hovering over?

On the first day, the earth, sky, and waters are already recorded in the scripture without being said that God created them. It also says God creates the light from the face of the waters. What happened to the earth that it became empty and formless? Why did the sky go dark? Why did God create the light from the face of the waters? The earth, sky, and waters already existed, these elements were not said to be created. There was light but there is nothing saying the sun was created.

The literal sun, moon, and stars are not on the surface of the waters, but they are in the physical sky. The scripture states, however, God was hovering over the waters and created light there. This obviously does not make sense if it is understood physically.

When the scripture states that God created the heavens and the earth, it does not

mean that God created them for the first time. The earth is figuratively referring to flesh (those who were formed out of the soil, Gn 2:7), and thus, when a person thoughts are mixed (with other doctrines), it can be described as the earth being mixed or formless. Furthermore, a person’s heart is likened unto a temple of the spirit of God (1 Cor 3:16). If the spirit of God leaves the person’s heart, then the heart of that person becomes empty. This is the status of the earth being empty.

What does it mean that the darkness was over the surface of the deep? The chosen people of God are the figurative sun, moon, and stars, who belong to heaven. If they fall from heaven and return to mere flesh, then it becomes the condition of being darkness. They began with the holy spirit, but they returned to mere flesh by some other force (Gal 3:3).

The scripture also describes how the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The waters are not physical waters, but they symbolize the world (Dn 7:3, 17). God was hovering over the waters in order to find a light in the world. Having found the light, means having found the person with the word of light (the pastor with the truth).

The light appears in the midst of darkness, and there is a scripture which says, “There was evening, and there was morning.” In other words, God chooses a person with the truth like light from among the people whose hearts and spirits have gone dark, due to their ignorance (1 Thes 5:4-8). Selection of a person is the first thing God does when he begins the work of re-creation.

This can be proved by several passages in the Bible such as Jeremiah 4, 1 Thessalonians 5 John 1:1-5, John 12:46, Matthew 24, and Revelation 6. These passages contain things hidden from the creation of the world, and Jesus has revealed them through the parables. Please examine these references for yourselves.

♣ Second day (vv. 6-8)

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” *So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. *God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

After God chooses the light (the pastor] from the dark waters, God creates an expanse (i.e. the sky or heaven) between the waters on the second day. He also separates the water under the expanse from the water above it.

This is not the literal water in the world. How can the sky exist in the midst of the waters? The waters symbolize the world, and the expanse symbolizes the tabernacle, which God creates in the middle of the world. A ship in the midst of the sea, such as Noah’s ark, can also represent God’s tabernacle. The water above and the water below, refer to the revealed word granted from heaven, and the worldly words respectively. To say this again, after God finds and appoints the pastor of light from the previous destroyed world, God builds an ark or a tabernacle, and referred to it as the expanse in the world. After God’s tabernacle is established, his word from above can be clearly distinguished from the words of the world below.

♣ Third day (vv. 9-13)

And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. *God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. *Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. *The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. *And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

God creates a light on the first day and the expanse on the second day. On the third day, he gathers the water under the sky to one place, and he lets dry ground appear. God calls the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters “sea.” Since God formed a man out of dust or soil (Gn 2:7), the dry ground that appears on the third day symbolizes God’s chosen people as well as their tabernacle. The dry ground which appeared on the third day and the sky (the expanse) on the second day refers to the same tabernacle. However, if a difference between those two is to be said, the sky which is created on the second day is finally revealed to the world on the third day as “dry ground”.

God lets the ground produce grass, vegetation, and seed-bearing trees, which symbolize the believers(i.e. saints) of God. One pastor plays the roles of a light and the tabernacle in the sky, just as Jesus did at the time of his first coming. The vegetation, grass, and the trees are the people, who are born (i.e. evangelized), through this pastor and they are the dry ground, the flesh, which appears in the world (Rv 21:1).

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