Parashas Bereishis – Chapters 1 & 2

First Day:

On the first day we see that darkness and emptiness cover the earth. A Divine Presence hovered upon the waters and YHVH said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. YHVH saw that the light was good and YHVH separated between the light and the darkness. YHVH called to the light ‘Day’ and to the darkness he called ‘Night’. And there was evening and morning one day.

WHOA! There is a lot mentioned here and there’s a lot of important things that YHVH not only has revealed to us but established or re-established in just these 5 verses of Chapter 1.

First, darkness and emptiness covered the earth. A judgment had occurred leaving the earth full of darkness and emptiness.

Let’s piece what happened together from the following scriptures:

First in Ezekiel 28:13-19 we see that HaSatan was the covering cherub, in Eden with 10 stones of the breastplate. He upon of the holy mountain, walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire, you were perfect in they ways from the day that you were created until sin found you.

Now what was the sin found in HaSatan, pride and self, Isaiah 14:11-15 . He put his will above YHVH’s will and fell. Resulting in a war in heaven. (See Rev 12:3-4, 7-9.

Those that followed Helel fell also, leaving their first estate and being placed in darkness. ( See Jude 1:6) And the angels which keep not their first estate but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Yeshua says in Luke 10:18, that He beheld Satan as lighting fall from heaven.

Resulting in YHVH sending them into darkness resulting in the deep being upon the face of the earth. 2 peter 2:4-5, For if YHVH spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment. Ezekiel 26:19 When I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

YHVH separated this judgment, the resulting darkness from his reestablished light. Now YHVH created light despite the fact that the Sun and Moon were not even created until the 4^th day. This clearly shows that the darkness and light being separated here is spiritual lightness vs spiritual darkness is the difference between ‘day’ and ‘night’.

Darkness according to the strongs [2821] with holding light; hide

Day or light [216] and [215]

Day Two:

On the second day we see that a firmament was created to separate the water and water. The waters above the firmament were called Heaven. Firmament is a great expanse. That’s the definition that I found in the dictionary. Here we see another separate being done. First we see the separation between light and darkness. Second we see a separation in the midst of the water. Between water and water. What is this water. We see the water was upon the surface of the deep. This water appears to be what’s now left after the light and darkness. So one of the waters represents the spiritual “light” water and other the spiritual “night or darkness” water. Since water typically always represents spirit in some way we know that YHVH is further separating the spirit of light and the spriti of darkness, with the Firmament of Heaven in the middle of the waters. Thus establishing a spiritual boundary between the two.

Day Three:

On the first day the waters beneath heaven were gatherd into one area. Letting the dry land appear. The dry land was called Earth and the gathered waters were called seas. YHVH let earth sprout vegetation, herbage yielding seed, fruit trees yield fruit each after its kind, containing its won seed on earth.

So the third dry we see dry land, seas, and vegetation, herbage yielding seed and fruit trees. Again here is a second reminder that each trees and herbage still have no sun or moon as light sources. They are being feed directly from the light of the first day, showing us that YHVH is the greatest source of light. Secondly, YHVH has established a perpetual blessing. Each tree of herbage yielding see, contained its own seed, a perpetual blessing, fruit or harvest. YHVH has also Divinely intervened allowing now after two separations growth. Since he’s gathered it can now reproduce.

Day four:

Luminaries are created, in the firmament of heave to separate between day and night. They shall serve as signs and for festivals and for days and years. And they shall serve as luminaries to shine upon the earth. The greater luminary is to rule the day and lesser to rule the night., and there were also to separate between light and darkness.

So now we see the sun, moon and stars are created. 3 days after the initial light given on day one, and one day after the trees and herbage was sprouted on the earth. 2 Peter 3:8…a day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

YHVH determined that the luminary would serve as signs, (or biblical zodiac), festivals (Pesach, Yom Kippur, Shavout, Shabbat), days and years. This is how we established the passage of time. This is why they didn’t have calendars in that time. They knew the day of YHVH because they saw the stars, moon and sun in the heavens and knew where were in YHVH timing of appointed times and seasons. The luminaries still serve and a separation between day and night. Yet we have lost how to use them to count the days, and to know when the festivals of YHVH begin.

We see in Rev 22:5, at some point the sun and moon will pass away, leaving only the Light of the first day as the only light source. And there will no longer be a night or darkness, which will exist any longer.

Day five:

Waters of the seas, were to teem with living creatures and the fowl were to fly over the earth across the expanse of the heaves. YHVH greated the sea giants and every living being that creeps. Waters teemed after their kinds and all winged fowl fo every kind. He blessed them and told them to “be fruitful and multiply” filling the waters, and fowl to increase on the earth.

Day Six:

He brought forth living creatures according to their kind, animals, creeping thing, and beasts of the land. Animal, I would imagine are like raccoons and dogs and cats, Creeping things, are our insects and bugs and spiders, and finally beasts of the land, the larger land animals, horses, sheeps goats, deer elks.

Man was also made on that day, In YHVH’s image after His likeness. Man was made to rule over the fist of the sea, birds of the sky over the animals the entire earth and the creeping things that creps. He created everything male and female. He blessed them all saying ‘be fruitful and multiply’ And the sixth day, this is the only day were YHVH said that what HE had made was very good.

Chapter Two:

Day Seven:

YHVH finished all of His work. He abstained from work on the seventh day and rested. He sanctified it, set it apart from the other six days. Establishing the first festivals of YHVH. He created man and showed him how to rest. The seventh day is a day of rest, but let’s look at this realistically. YHVH could have created the entire 6 days in a mere second. So what is the rest that YHVH is showing us. When we rest in the 7^th day with him, we are resting from the darkness. He did not abolish the darkness from the earth, that he separated on the 1^st and 2^nd days. He gave us a day to be completely protected from the darkness, and only surrounded by His light. Giving us a glimpse of when He will obliterate darkness, and showing us weekly how it will be in Rev 22:5.

Then the 2^nd and 3^rd days are recapped showing us how and why Man was created. When YHVH planted the garden in Eden and the Tree of Life and Ree of Knowledge of Good and Bad and the 4 head waters. The main river separated into four head waters. Foreshadowing the 4 tribal heads of the 12 tribes and there sides around the tabernacle. The Pishon (increase), Gihon(bursting forth), Hiddekel (rapid) and Euphrates (fruitfulness)

Man role and duties were established. YHVH took Adam to the garden and he was to work it and guard it. This meant he was to protect it also. He gave him his clean vs unclean guideslines. He could eate of every tree but the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, saying that if he did he would surely die.

YHVH knows that man isn’t to be alone that he needs a helper corresponding to him. He created all of the birds and animals and brought them to Adam and Adam would name the living creatures and that would remain their name. Adam saw that he had no helper corresponding to him, like all of the animals he had named. YHVH placed a deep sleep on him and took one of his sides and filled in it with flesh. He brought the woman to Adam, and Adam said, “this time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called ‘Woman’ (eeshah, in Hebrew meaning wife, woman, female) for from man was she taken.

Adam saw himself in his Wife. Woman later called Eve or Chavah, was the only creature not directly created from the ground. She was directly from Adam to correspond to him to help him and assist him. YHVH established marriage, a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife and they shall become one flesh. Woman was automatically one flesh with Adam because she was directly from his bones and flesh. They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed. They were covered by YHVH’s light and blessing established on the first and third day. They were to work the soil, protect the garden and keep the garden. They were also to rest on the seventh day just like YHVH did. They had nothing to hide from each other and were completely revealed to one another. Nothing was exposed.