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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

THE GENIUS OF GENESIS

This entry was posted on 01-04-2010 and is filed under STUDIES IN GENESIS.

Over the Christmas holidays I went to a Ralph Carmichael Christmas concert. Near the end of the concert he challenged us all to go back to the Bible in the coming New Year. He suggested placing your Bible in a handy place. Well, mine (the one my father gave me when I was a college freshman at Midwestern in 1965) now sits by my computer. It is a New Analytical Bible published by the John A. Dickson Company in Chicago, Illinois (KJV with ASV in brackets). In honor of my father, Dale V. Knowles, who went to be with Christ last year, I will be using that Bible in this special study of Genesis.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). God ought to be in the beginning of everything we say, think or do. Genesis is the book of beginnings. In this book we see the beginning of the universe, man, life, death, marriage, murder, sin, salvation, ruin, redemption, the family, literature, music, art, language, cities, sacrifices, Messianic promise, and much, much more.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) predated Charles Darwin and was the most celebrated evolutionist of his time. He was famous for his much heralded "five manifestations of the unknowable" ~ Time, Force, Action, Space, and Matter. Yet, long before Mr. Spencer was born God included those five manifestations in the very first verse of the Bible. It is as though He said, "There will come a man who will boast of his knowledge and set himself against the Creation account. I will thwart him in the first words I will inspire my servant Moses to write." Take another look at our verse for today and you will see what I mean. Here, again, are Spencer's "five manifestations of the unknowable" followed by Genesis 1:1.

TIME ~ In the beginning
FORCE ~ God
ACTION ~ created
SPACE ~ the heaven
EARTH ~ and the earth.

There you have it. The "five manifestations of the unknowable" found in the very first verse of the Bible!

Prayer: Our Father in Heaven, thank You for this New Year of life. Help us to make the very most of it by putting you "in the beginning" of all we say, think, or do. In Jesus' Name, Amen.