God ‘to do with’ His Work–to make them on 7th Day, to take Care His Creation
To do with every human being who will walk the face of this Earth. God’s goal is to work and care for them. Genesis 2.3
An inventor doesn’t devise something intricate and magnificent and hand it off with no further involvement and no accompanying instructions. They follow through with their invention. Similarly, the Sabbath is a day of God being with His invention. God did just that with Adam and Eve on the culminating apex day of creation doing the essential—preparing them, instructing them how to live.
(Origin of the Universe, chapter 5.4)
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What God had created ex nihilo was a man who was perfect but unfinished. Unfinished in the sense that he still had many lessons to learn. He was fully grown but he had to learn all about life.
Galacti’s Reflections
After deep thought, Galacti realizes that if God had ‘finished’ Adam and Eve with perfect computer-like brains and flawless decision making that led to ideal analysis of every life situation, faultless reasoning, faultless decision making, textbook actions, unblemished deeds and accomplishments they would have had to be programmed to ‘do only good’. They would’ve been ‘automates’ with one and only one option to follow.
But, the fact that humankind can do both good and evil, go both ways, implies that he has free will; humanity is anything but a pre-programmed disposable or replaceable contraption.
Adam and Eve have free will, as we have already seen, but before and even after they made their choice to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, they were unfinished. Much like a young adult of college age, equipped with free will, who hasn’t yet decided what professional direction their life will take. That decision, like so many life decisions, requires free will. We will see more of why humans has free will.
Adam and Eve are like adolescents in our play, and they eventually become the parents of all of humankind. From the initial 7th day God is ‘with’ our initial parents ‘to do’ them, to make, to complete their perfectly functioning but as yet, unfinished minds, working with the man and woman and the free will He gave them; leading, guiding, suggesting, telling them which way to go, what is right, what is wrong. He shows them what is the outcome of positive and negative decision-making, actions and behavior. The whole Bible revolves around this key piece of the puzzle—of God being WITH man to do him, to help humankind become the humankind they should be.
From the initial 7th day God is ‘with’ our initial parents ‘to do’ them, to make, to complete their perfectly functioning but as yet, unfinished minds, working with the man and woman and the free will He gave them.
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God was leading Adam and Eve, guiding, suggesting, telling them which way to go, what is right, what is wrong. He shows them what is the outcome of positive and negative decision-making, actions and behavior.
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In fact, the Sabbath, the 7th day of the week, is the framework of our puzzle. This specially shaped tile, with all its intricacies expressed in the subtle, important variations of meanings of ‘shin, beth, tuf’—the three root letters of Sabbath—represent the whole plan of God. We will detail these meanings later on but this seventh ultimate day—of the creation week—points to what God is going to do with (laasot im in Hebrew) all of humanity—in the past, now and in the immediate and distant future.
This seventh ultimate day—of the creation week—points to what God is going 'to do with all' ('laasot im kol' in Biblical Hebrew) of humanity—in the past, now and in the immediate and distant future.
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For the first time Galacti is speechless. Questions course through his mind: how can one verse sum up God’s entire plan? Can it be that simple and complex at the same time? What are the implications of all these ‘meanings’ of the three root letters of Shabbat? How can one word, three letters long, carry such significance? Why hasn’t religion revealed this—put this together? How has this master puzzle piece been so deftly clouded from understanding? Can all this be true?
Some scholars in the audience are outraged.
Let me just say at this point that context after context in the Bible reinforces the shape and meaning of the Sabbath master puzzle piece. Although some scholars may consider what I’ve done to be ‘twisting the Scripture’, I can tell you this is the goal of God—His—specific purpose. We are going to need space and time to develop this. The understanding is deep, the contexts are plentiful, the cross references are multitude, the enmeshing of biblical ideas and stories is enlightening and encouraging.
I will give you one example here: Remember in chapter 5.1 of Origin of the Universe I asked about Genesis 2: Why include verses 4-6? particularly verses 5-6 about no rain and ‘mist watering the ground’–it seems disjointed from 1-3. But, it isn’t, it fits in neatly–you just have to understand how. Let’s come back to this point and tie it in with ‘God doing something with humanity’
Genesis 2.3-6
3 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.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Sam’s Reflections
I will just mention here that Gen. 2.4 is clearly the start of a new thought by the author. Not only is there a change of subject but more importantly this is the first verse in the Bible where we find ‘LORD God’–until here it was Elohim, now it is ‘Yahveh Elohim.’ No details now … they will be forthcoming. Suffice to say that this ‘Yahveh Elohim’ is specifically mentioned as the One responsible for not causing the rain at this point.
In ‘Further Study’ I suggested you look at Deut: 11.10-11 about ‘watering’ and where it comes from.
Deuteronomy 11.10-11-14
10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs:
11 But the land, where you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:
12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil.
I have highlighted certain passages here (and changed ‘thee’ to ‘you’ etc. for readability) : in Egypt watering the fields was via
canals that were dug from the abundant water of the Nile river. Smaller trenches and furrows were dug alongside the fields and rows of crops. To open and close these dikes, and thus water the crops, a simple movement of the earth with their foot was necessary. This is how the Hebrews had an abundance of vegetables.This is the total opposite of the land of Canaan referred to in Deut. 11.12 … a land of hills and valleys that is watered by the RAIN of heaven, no mist, no Nile. This context shows that God gives that rain. Do you see the relationship here? God works, does, cares for humanity. This is the ongoing presence of Yahveh Elohim in earth affairs. He is working with humanity.
I will add here that He is not working with humanity in the way most people think … but that is the story that will unfold as we continue our study in Genesis. Again, patience.
So many Bible contexts will point us directly to the meaning of Shin, Beth, Tuf—that fascinating word that appears throughout the Old Testament and in particular the book of Exodus–What God is going ‘to do with all’ (‘laasot im kol’ in Biblical Hebrew) of humanity.
We’re now turning over some of the ‘spiritual and biblical pieces’ of the puzzle. There are many of these pieces that you may or may not know of, and some are out of whack, misshapen, misrepresented. One by one we are going to examine them and give you their due meaning.
Let’s move on to other interrelated pieces. God, Man and the Serpent wait patiently on our stage to come into our narrative. We have our three main characters, and each has a goal, a program each is working through, and these goals are interwoven. The three ambitions are at loggerheads one with another, but they all work side by side to make a whole. Really, a whole lot of confusion.
We have 3 main characters, God, Humanity and Serpent, each has a goal, a program each is working through, and these goals are interwoven. The three ambitions are at loggerheads one with another.
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I am laying the framework for these three main centers of attention in our grandiose puzzle picture so we can see how they fit and unfold separately yet simultaneously. That is what God told Eve when He said the Serpent would bruise her heel (the Devil’s goal) but she would bruise his head (Humanity’s goal)—God’s goal being the ultimate Sabbath rest for humankind. There’s a complex interplay of the characters within the play God wrote.
The 3 goals are: The Serpent would bruise Eve's heel (the Devil’s goal) but she would bruise his head (Humanity's goal)—God’s goal being the ultimate Sabbath rest for humankind.
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However, our audience demands to know more about the villain of our piece.
This blog post is an excerpt from chapter 5.4 of Origin of the Universe
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