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then
(and not 'until) thcy shaUhave en–
tered in
lO
the KINGOO>f OF Ooo!
The KINGOOM ofOod. then, is merely
the
000
FAMILY as a ltUUNG GOVEltN•
MENT.
A KtNOOOM ís
a
govemmenL Ood
is
CIIEATOR. Ood is a FAMILY of divine
persoDS. Ood
rules
His
entire vast, limit–
IO$$
creation. GOD
1$
AKINOOOM!
Jesus preached one gospel - one mes–
sage - the KJNODOM OF
000.
The world
rejected Hito
because
ít hated
His
mcs–
sage. The world appropriated His oame.
rejected His m0$$age. and prodaitned itS
false gospel - merely
about
Christ.
while rejecting His message about the
kingdom of Ood. That is why the world
witb itS churches, wallowing in the
moral
cesspools
of conrusion.
dtHs not
understand
about either sex
or
THE
K.INGOOM OF Ooo!
Now
let's UNDERSTJ,NO! Oenesis 1: 1:
lo the beginoing,
El.oiiiM -
tloe
KING·
oow
OF Ooo - created the heavens and
the eanh. And ELOHIM - the God FAM·
u.
Y -
said, "Let us!.. -
not
hlet Me!"
Did you ever wonder why Ooo said:
~Let
us
make man
in
OUR image"? Ood
1$
a FAMILY - a ruling KINGOOM.
Notice! Understand! We speak of 1he
mineral kingdom, 1be plant kingdom,
lhe
animal
kingdom. Then there is the
hu:man
kingdom - for humans
are
not
animals and did not
deseen~
from am–
mals. There
/s,
truly,
a umissing link"!
But lhe "missíng link" does no1 l ink roan
10 the dwnb animals. The "missing link"
is JESus CH1t1ST - the ttue link between
MAN
and Ooo - aod through whorn
we
may be
bom
lnto the
GOD
kingdom!
Tbe Flrst Man and
WomiiD
Nowconsider the first man.
Adarn was
not born.
He was
cnattd,
Juddenly, a 1'1111-grown aduh man. His
wife. Eve. was crealed, suddenly, a full–
grown adult womao.
But
we
must not suppose that they
were created with a full storehouse of
knowledge implanted au10matically in
their minds. Perhaps you never thought
· of it in this light before, but consider:
How did we. the adull$ of today, come
into possession of the knowledge
we
have? We were not bom with it. A new–
bom babe knows nothing at bitth. He is
bom with a mind capable of absorbing
knowledge -. a very little
at
first. but
cumulativcly additive. Humans must be
taught - mustleam. That is one of the
vital reasons
why marriagc and family
life are necessary for humans, unlike
animals. Human babies stan out very
belpless. They need parental care, pr<>–
tection, teaching, trainlng, and love.
They need the. wármth and companion–
ship offamily life.
What was the dilference between
Ada
m.
at the instant of
bis
creation, and
a baby at the instant ofbính?
Within a ponion of a aingle day. AN
AOULT WAN
was
miraculously created,
suddenly,
out of the dust
of
the ground!
Adam was created with a
MINO,
as
yet
u:nfilled wllh knowledge,
but capable of
receiving knowledge, reasoning from
it.
actingon it.
And il
was
o mindfree from deftet or
degeneration
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What, then, was the dilference be–
tween Adam at the instant of his crc–
ation and a baby at bitth? He was
WEEK ENDINO AUOUST 2, 1975
lf the Creator designed
human sex anatomy
and s timuli, He did it
for definite purposes.
And God did not neglect
His responsibility of
revealing to that first
man and woman the
right purposes this
functioning within their
bodies and minds
was to serve.
started olf as an adult - bis mind had
adult capabilities - but he
was
as mucb
without knowledge. and there.fore
as
helpless, as a newbom babe! He was
created witb adult
(Opacity•.
but
not with
adult knowledge!
Tbe
w:ry
first
ne..dofthe first man and
the first woman was to be given essential
K.NOWLEDOE! Tbat is humanity's
first
need
today, bu! humanity has rcjected
that essential knowledge.
The
Great Educator
And here eotcrs
a
basic TRUTH long
ago forgotten by the world!
The Almighty is
not only
the Creator!
He is also the Oreat Educator!
The ETE!tNAL insttucted the ftrst man
and woman. And He insttucted them
about sex! The Great Designer. Creator,
and Lawgiver revealed for manlcind the
basic FOUNO;.TION OF AU. J<NOWLEOGE!
From the time of our lirst parentS that
foundation of necessary knowledge -
not otherwise <liscovcrable by mon -
has been accessiblc.
lt
is available 1oday
in
the Bible.
Yet our first parents rejected God's
reve lation of knowlcdge, rebelled
against Ood and His law for man's wel–
fare! And their children have been re–
jeaiogand rebelling ever sioce!
Think of it! Ood the Cteator is also
Ruler of all His vast creatioo. He is also
the O reat and Supreme Educator for all
mankind. Ye1 mankind rejeciS Him as
both Ru.ler and Educator - and most re–
ject Him as Crea10r!
Now consider! The very last act of
Ood's creation by work, was the creation
of MAN. 11 was on the sixth day of that
first week. Earlier tbat $ixth day God
had created cattle, the other mammals,
thc creeping animals. The creation of
Adam was tbe very final act of the
work
of creation. That day. by Ood's order.
ended at sunseL
As that day's sun set and the seventh
day of the week arrived, "God ended
lú.r
work
which he had made" (Gen. 2:2).
Notice what Ood ended.
Not creating!
He eoded
Hi.s work
which He had made.
God did not end
creating!
Only
His
work
-
those things made by
work.
Now
He created
His
sabbath by
rest
-
1101 by
workf
He blessed the sabbath day and
sanctilied it - that is•.set it apan from
other days as HlS, for holy use and pur–
pose. He established the sabbath as the
day for assembly and spiritual instruc–
tion.
Just as this first sabbath carne on,
there was the man Adam - suddenly
formed. shaped, crea1ed as an adult MAN
needing instruetion! And there, beside
him, was his wife and his Creator. ceas–
ing from the
work
phase of crcation!
Did the Cre:tiOr walk olf or vanisb out
of sight leaVlng the man and woman
helpless wilb empty minds. to slumble
and bungle around aimlessly into
trouble and harm?
Just
as
a newbom baby is helpless -
needing parentS - needing to
be tawght
- knowing NOTHJNG
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birth -
SO
this
newly created couple were
helpless,
needing to
bt
taught
-
knowing NOTll ·
11'10 at creation.
The record sbows that the Eterna!
Ood began
speoklng
10 the man - com–
municating knowledge - giving instruc–
tion.
lt
was on another sabbath day. sorne
4.000
years later, that Jesus preached
and insttucted His followers. Ood is
consisten! - never changing
(Mal.
3:6;
Heb. 13:8).
A$
that fi.rst sabbath carne
on. Ood set the example - teaching the
gospel to the first mao - giving that
man.
ser
rpr
sinless, Hts FELLOWSHll' on
His sabbath day!
The llistoric record says: '"And the
ETERNAL Ood toolc thc man. and put
him into the gardeo of Eden to dte$$ it
and to keep
11.
And the
ET~NAL
God
commanded the ma11, saying .
. . "
{Gen.
2:
15-16). The ETERNAL itnmedi–
ately began
speaking
ro, TEACRINO, IN·
STRUCTING. lhe mao.
Understand, oow, two poinu:
{1)
Which
person of the Ood kingdom
spoke toman: and (2) the brevity ofthis
record, as the very briefest SUMMARY.
WHO IS Yabweh!
lt
has been explained that in Oen–
esis 1: 1 the word for ' 'Ood"
in
the He–
brew - the language in which it
originaUy was written -
is
uELoHJw• -
meaning more than one person fonning
one Goo - the
one
Ood F;.MU.V or the
Ood KINGOOM - for Ooo
is
a KINGOOM.
Bu1 now. when the historie account
6rs1
begins
10 record the fact of God -
&San INDIVIDUAL - Spealting lO the man
He ereated, a
new
and dilferent Hebrew
name is used. In Oenesis 2:15 (and pre–
vious verses beginning verse 4) the
Eoglish words "LORD God" (in the
,.,V.) are translated from the Hebrew '
Yahweh Efohlm.
The Hebrew
Efohim
al–
ready has been defined as a uniplural.
1t
is the plural
orE~
or
Eloah,
meaning the
uniplural Goo. Streogth, Might, Deity.
But
Yahweh
is a name meaning
the
Ever/iving,
or the ETERNAL. There is no
one word in the English language that
translates it exactly. God always NAMES
tbings or people
what rhey
an.
Actually
Yahweh
means the Self-Existent, Ever–
living, EternaUy Living Creating One.
Pcrsonally. in the English. 1 prefer thc
name "the ETERNAL• as most oearly
translating the Hebrew name iniO
mod–
emidiom.
. This is notthe pla'ce for a long, techni–
eal, theological explanation.
lt
would re–
quire a long ebapter or more on the one
subject. But
in
maoy places in tbe New
Testament you may find quotations
from the Old Testament referring to
Jesus Christ, where, on tuming to 1he
Old Testament passage from which it is
a citation. it speaks of Yahweh - trans–
lated as
~the
loRO" (in capitalletters) in
the King James Version.
[n other words - and you may write
in for a free article giving proof - ihc
"LoRo"
(Yahweh)
ofthe Old Testament.
in nearly every
case,
is the Jesus Christ
of the New - but as He existed prior 10
His binb as
a
human of the virgin Mary.
[o John 1:1-3. this same personage is
spoken of as
the Word -
the Greek word
(the New Testament was originally writ–
ten in Greek)
is
lAgos.
meaning Word,
or Spokesman, or Revelatory Thougbt.
Jesus the Christ {Messiah) is, and always
has been, the individual person of the
Goo KINGOOM who
is
the Spokesman.
But He said that He bad spoken notbing
of himself- thc Father which sent
Him
had iostructed and commanded Hito
wbat tosay.
The FAntfR ofthe Ood Family is 1be
KEAD - the l.awgiver - the Creator. Yet
He created everything
by
Jesus Christ
(Eph . 3:9). Christ carried out the
Fathe~'s
orders.
by speakíng,
as the
Father had directed. ln the creation.
"He spake,
and it
was
done"
{Psalm 33:9; Gen. 1:3). The HOLV
SPUUT is the PoweR that produced what
He commanded {Gen. 1:2). Thus. in
Jobo 1:3: "AII thinv were made by ·
him" -
by the
lAgos
or Wqrd, who is
Jesus Christ (verse 14).
The specilie
person
of the Oodhead
who spoke to Adam, then. wu
Yahweh
- thc ETEttN'Al. (oOen falsely tra.mlated
Jehovah)-
who
beeame
Jesus
Christ.
Genesis
Hlts
Hlgb
Spols
The second itnponant point 1 wish 10
stress at this juncture is the fact that
Ood has not seen 1\t lo give us tbe
fui!
details of aU that was said and done in
these 6rst few chapters of Oenesis. The
inspired record, in these chapters, re–
veals lO
US
on/y t/oe
briefut
SUMMARV.
Yet this abbreviated account does
summarlze
what was said and done. h
does tell us that <Jod. in and through 1he
person of Christ. immediately began to
teach. instruct and command the first
mao and womatL
1t
hi!S the high spo!S.
And even though the record
omi~
the
details,
ít spans
rM
jields covered.
Much
of the detailed instruction. therefore,
may be aocurately liUed in from other
pans ofthe Bible.
What lields. then. did God cover, in
teaching our first parents?
He gave them all esseotial
spirítual
truth. He revea/ed
to them the TRUE
oos–
PEL. He revealed His spiriluallaw - His
way of
LtFE.
He revealed man's tran–
~endent
potentia! - the giO·of BTilllNAL
UFE. And He abo instructed thcm in aU
necessary
physica(
l:nowfedge - in–
cluding knowledge of the marriage in·
stitution and ofsex.
The two trees in thc garden of Eden
were SVMBOLS representing vitally im–
portan! truths. Actual literal trees
though they well may have been. they
were symbolic. and of tremendous sig·
nificance.
Notice! One of many trees in the gar–
deo was "the TllEE OF
un:
abo
in the
midst of the garden': (Gen. 2:9).
This
tree symi>D!ized Ood's G!Ff or the KOLY
SPIRIT. Freely Ood {in the person of
Cbrist) olfered this supremo gin. "Tbe
ET'EI\NAt. God commaoded the man,
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