Annotated Genesis 1:24-26 ‘In our image’

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so./ And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The Lord God is perfect and we have been seeing here progressive revelation of the world He set about to shape. The earth was without form and void. Having made a distinction between light and darkness we see in broad brush strokes a visible universe where the sky above and the ground below our feet gives us a viewpoint as a being created. Suppose one could see these progression of creatures in the waters and on the land it would be somewhat similar to what the 24 elders said from the vision of St John, ‘Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created(Re.4:11). The memorial of 24 elders and four beasts give us an insight as to the form God had in mind. The Lord God is eternal and the memorial in a manner of speaking is divine Will given a form and motions so what they speak are given utterance as we would. The Spirit in organizing the Scripture gives the divine Will its own narrative power as the wisdom of the eternal Word bringing to fruition. So two narrative threads are plaited as one. Thus each of the four beasts have the face of man, the eagle, the calf and the lion. The man is what holds these as one. To sum the form of the earth had been settled as anthropomorphic,- and in the shape of God, the Son. In v.26 we read it and the Spirit is providing us the narrative from POV of God the Father. In the next chapter we shall find the reverse of it from POV of the Son. In cinematography we can see the first chapters, one a long shot and the other close up shot. God creates man in our image, after our likeness where in the close-up we get all the details, creation of Eve etc.,

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Exodus 27:9-13 “The court “

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“Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it:(Ps.127:1a) It is God who specifies as to the kind of house he delights in. ‘Let them make me a sanctuary’ God commanded Moses.”And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them./ According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it (25:8-9)”. From specifications it is clear God that was very particular about the divisions within the tabernacle and spaces around.Considering that the entire tabernacle was to be fenced off from the rest ought to give us an understanding to the divine Will and as to its direction. This we see in the Garden of Eden which was set apart or consecrated for man who represented his Son. In this connection we can appreciate this passage from…

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