_THE COMPLETED WORK_ ‘Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.’ Genesis 2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished when God created man in His own image. Then the universe was what He designed it to be; then He could look, not upon a portion of it, but upon the who... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SACRED DAY_ ‘And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which god created and made.’ Genesis 2:3 I. WHETHER THE PATRIARCHS WERE OR WERE NOT COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH IS A THING WHICH WE CAN NEVER KNOW; it is no safe foundation f... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE GARDEN OF EDEN_ ‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust … and the Lord God planted a garden.’ Genesis 2:7 We generally speak of our parents, Adam and Eve, when they ate the forbidden fruit, as having ‘fallen from their first estate’; and, unquestionably, there is a sense in which that is tr... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE TREE OF DESTINY_ ‘The tree of knowledge of good and evil.’ Genesis 2:9 I. WE CALL THE SCRIPTURES A REVELATION; in other words, _ an unveiling_. The Bible records were given to us to take away the veil which hung between heaven and earth, between man and God. Their purpose is to reveal God.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ONE FORBIDDEN THING_ ‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’ Genesis 2:17 These words comprehend the whole of humanity in their application; every man and woman that ever has existed or shal... [ Continue Reading ]