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Emmaus Road story in Luke 24:13-32
Beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures, the things concerning him. The two disciples had the inestimable privilege of hearing the incarnate Word. Christ the risen Lord, expound the written Word, the Holy Scriptures.
In doing so, the Lord Jesus gave them the great key to the understanding of Scripture, that He Himself is its subject and that in Him the entire Book finds its unity.
And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us, along the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures.
“And beginning at Moses” Referring to the Pentateuch so full of Messianic prophecy and typology. It’s where we begin our study today in the Book of Beginnings Genesis.
God’s Creative Rest. Genesis. Ch.1: 2-15
On the sixth day God created Man. “Let us make man in our image after our likeness “Let them hath dominion our all creation.”
God blessed them and said be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it and have dominion.
a).Man created in God’s image and likeness was placed in sovereignty over the earth.
b).He was crowned with glory and honour (Psalm 8. 5-8)
c) Yet he was subject to God his creator.
The Divine was and is that man should have fellowship with God in obedience. Everything involving the creative story was perfect.
Gen 1:31 reminds us - And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
God’s Creative Rest - God rested from His creative work on the seventh day. It was to be become The Sabbath rest of God. And also become the basis of the Mosaic Sabbath.
There was no evening to the Sabbath day, it has no evening, and it is eternal. It foretells Christ, the true Sabbath, in whom God rests and in whom believers rest. This is God’s own rest.
Heb. Ch.4:3. - For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Man’s perfect environment
Up to this point in the Creative story (Gen 2:3) the general term “God” has been used “Elohim which is plural in nature. We this more clearly in Proverbs Ch8, where we see the personification of wisdom being revealed. In v22-36 we see a distinct foreshadowing of Christ
Notice in verse 26-27 While yet he had not made the earth, or the fields, or the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens I was there. (See also John 1:1 1Cor 1:24 Col 2:8)
When man filled the scene and assumed control of the earth created for him. It’s in His Jehovah character God, that is introduced. In special revelatory and redemptive relationship to man
It is also in these titles that we Christ as Jehovah Elohim, Man’s Redeemer not only the Book of beginnings but also throughout the Bible and finally in the closing verses of Revelation. When
Man created a perfect being was placed in a perfect environment (Gen 1:28)
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The Garden is the Holy of holies, Eden the Holy place. Adam was counted not only as an individual, but at the same time as the primary ancestor and organic representative of the whole of his descendents. (1Cor 15:22 & Rom 5:12-21)
In Gen 2:16 - We see the first Covenant of God. Man was placed in the Garden not only to have dominion over it but also to multiply and fill the earth, and to subdue, but with this came responsibility. . A covenant of God is a sovereign pronouncement of God by which He establishes a “relationship of responsibility” Therefore the command not to eat of the fruit was a test of obedience. And it is from this beginning, there opened up a highly significant struggle.
God’s Redemption Rest Gen Ch3.
In John Ch5 - In answer to the Jewish leader’s persecution The Lord Jesus says
“My Father worketh hitherto, and I work”. V17 in these verses Jesus is reminding them that His command to the healed man to carry his bed on the Sabbath was in accordance with a previous act by His Father recorded in Gen 3:21 “the making of coats of skins”
Here we see the tragic consequence of the temptation and fall which was nothing less than the universal sinfulness of all humanity.
God’s Covenanted Rest -
Jesus gave the Disciples the great key to the understanding of Scripture, that He Himself is its subject and that in Him the entire Book finds its unity.
Bible reading Gen 2 v1-3 & 7-17
Sect 1 God’s Creation Rest . - Sect 2. God’s Redemption Rest - Sect 3.God’s Eternal Rest
God’s Redemptive Rest - Page two >>>