Thursday, March 25, 2010

FIRST SHADOW OF JESUS DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

The chaotic mass of mankind (the watery deep) had light (God's Spirit) but it could not be seen because of the darkness covering it.

Gen 1:3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

Jesus comes into the world.

Gen 1:4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.

Jesus belongs to the day, when work is done. In him there is no darkness, hence darkness and light are separate. Light can exist in darkness, but darkness cannot exist in light. The way light can exist in darkness is if the light is covered.

Gen 1:6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Gen 1:7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
Gen 1:8 God called the expanse heaven. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Heaven was covered by the waters over the earth, until he divided the waters vertically, revealing what God called "heaven."

Gen 1:9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.
Gen 1:10 God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.

Earth (the dry part called Land) was covered by the waters on the earth covering it, until he divided the waters horizontally, revealing what God called "earth."

This vertical and horizontal dividing pictures the cross, by which Jesus, the true heaven (spiritual) and earth (natural) are brought together. Heaven touches earth.

Gen 1:11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
Gen 1:12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

On the 3rd day, (the day of resurrection) the first signs of life were seen. That life was produced by the Jesus (the land) in the form of seed-bearing plants (all who have the seed of God in them) which produce after their kind.

Thus we can see a type of Jesus coming into a dark world, dying on a cross, reconciling man to God in his body, and then, with his resurrection on the 3rd day, life being produced from him.

Ron