Genesis Study #4 Jan. 29, 2009

In this part of our study of Genesis, we are going to look at the man that God (Eloheim) created out of Himself. ( Now remember, what the word "Eloheim" means. It means PLURAL GOD). KEEP THIS INFORMATION IN YOUR MIND, throughout this study of the Book of Genesis. You are going to REALLY learn many things about YOURSELF, in this study. And remember: "AS A MAN THINKETH, SO IS HE". (Prov. 23:7), (1John 4:17). (AS HE IS IN THIS WORLD, SO ARE WE") The word "world", in this scripture, means, "in this present arrangement". No matter how hard it is, because of past teachings, believe what God's Word says, IN HIS PRESENT TRUTH. God DID NOT make many Gods, like Himself. No. There is ONE GOD. What God did was make His Presence, ALL IN ALL. ALL includes EVERYONE. We are Him, He is us.

Ok, we see that God (Eloheim=plural God) created or brought forth, out from within Himself, man. We are told that God brought forth man in His Image and likeness. Now, this means that man was all that God was. Even the name, Eloheim. The man and God was called , Eloheim. In God's likeness, and in God's image, when He brought MAN that was brought forth, out of God, that man was EXACTLY AS GOD WAS. So what does this mean, to us? This means that ALL THAT THE MAN KNEW, WAS GOD, and that included himself. You can say that God MULTIPLIED HIMSELF, just as He told man to do in the earth, "go forth and multiply". God did not mean, "go forth and have babies", no He meant , "go forth and let ME be seen".

He (man) did not know of such a thing as evil; he knew nothing of NEED; he knew NOTHING (no-thing) except God . We saw that God was a Spirit. So, to be in God's likeness and image, means that man was created, also, as a Spirit Being; EXACTLY AS GOD. Now, this was BEFORE man put on a body; before man was in the Garden of Eden; before MAN descended into this visible, physical earthen realm, this world. Now, let's look at scripture to show us that man was created a Spirit man, not a flesh man.

I think I am going to explain, "God" and "the Lord God". So you will be able to see this for yourself, and to know WHO the bible is speaking about when it uses the word, "God " or when it speaks of "the Lord God".

There IS a difference in God and the Lord God. (but only in their THINKING). They are both the same person, because MAN or "the Lord God" is made out of the very SUBSTANCE that God is. The difference is, the "Lord God" is not mentioned until chapter 2 of Genesis. In chapter 1 we see GOD creating; in chapter 2 we see "the Lord God creating". right? Look it up so you will know for yourself. Also remember, for MAN or "the Lord God to be ONE in God, means that God or the man known as "the Lord God" are both CREATORS!! It says "MAN was made in the image of God". ALL THAT GOD WAS, SO WAS THE MAN WHO CAME OUT OF GOD. MAN was ONE IN GOD, because he was made out of what GOD WAS. This is hard to put into words, but, the MAN and God WERE NOT SEPARATE Beings. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN SEPARATED FROM GOD!! (except in our THINKING). You will see this as we look at "man". YOU MUST KEEP in MIND WHERE Man came from; and YOU MUST REMEMBER what MAN was made of. I will be doing a lot of repeating, because I want you to remember this.

GOD (of chapter 1) had EVERYTHING IN HIM. In the beginning there was ONLY GOD. But at the same time that there was only Him, MAN WAS IN HIM. Man had not been brought forth out of God yet. But, what does it say in Genesis 1:26 "And God said , let us create man in OUR image and after OUR likeness". Have you ever wondered who "our" and "us" is? Many believe that it God and Jesus Christ, but it wasn't. Why? Because GOD became flesh and He was called JESUS. (we will get into this a little further in our study, but for now read 1timothy 3:16 . As I said, we will get deeper into this later). But the "us" and "our" in Genesis 1:26, was MAN that was IN God, that God would later bring forth. You could say, that as God was the Creator, HE was teaching US, who was in Him, HOW TO CREATE. While in Him, we were watching Him create. This was the beginning of our journey,to come forth out from within God; and LEARN to create as He does; to experience the FLESH, TAKE DOMINION, and SHOW FORTH GOD IN A BODY.

Now, I would like for you tor RE-READ the chapter 1 of Genesis. ALL that God created, was perfect, He was PLEASED with all that He created; and He thought to Himself; "and behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD". (Gen 1:31) Do you remember the scripture that says, "NOTHING is good, except God"? This tells us that all that God created in chapter 1, did not have one thing wrong with any of the creation, NOTHING~~ Why? Because there is NOTHING but GOOD IN GOD and all that came out of God, is what He is. There is no evil; no hatred; no seeing people in different colors, or different ages, ALL THAT GOD SEES, EVEN NOW, IS WHAT HE CREATED AND HOW HE CREATED IT ALL, PERFECT !! You may say, "well if HE CREATED EVERYTHING, and He HAD NO EVIL IN HIM, where did evil come from and why do WE see evil? It is simple; GOD MADE THE PLAN; AND GOD KNEW THE BEGINNING FROM THE END; HE KNEW HOW ALL WOULD COME TO REALIZE WHO THEY REALLY ARE. And remember, HE SEES US AS HIMSELF, JUST THE WAY HE CREATED US, PERFECT, AND AS HE IS, AND US IN HIS IMAGE. HE SEES US WITH NO EVIL; ONLY AS HIMSELF. THE PROBLEM IS, THAT WE DON'T SEE OURSELVES AS HE IS. This is what His Present Truth is all about, to AWAKEN us to His Truth about us. You will see what I am saying as we get further into this study.

OK, we were brought forth out of God. We were and are still a Spirit Being, just as God was. (we are in His image, right? and He never changes) ALL that God was, we are, but we have forgotten it because we started thinking with the carnal mind, instead of the God Mind, that we had at our very beginning. (John 1:16, Acts 17:28, Rom 12:2, John 4:24, Col 3:3, John 1:16, Col 2:9-10, 1 Corinthians 2:16 , Eph 1:4, Gen 9:6, and so many more). Either we believe God or we don't. It is that simple. Don't allow ANY MAN to tell you that all this will be ours AFTER we die and go to heaven, THAT IS A LIE!! Why would God want us to get all this , but can't use it until we see death and go to heaven, WHEN IN HEAVEN NONE OF THIS WOULD BE NEEDED"? You see, WE HAVE NOT CHANGED FROM WHAT WE WERE CREATED AS, the ONLY thing that has changed, is OUR THINKING, but that too will be talked about , later in the study that we are doing. Haven't we been taught that heaven is all peace, all love, all holy etc? Then why would we need anything in heaven? Later, we are going to get into "WHAT IS HEAVEN?". But let's finish up learning the difference in "God" and "the Lord God".

In Genesis2:1-3, this is where GOD FINISHED HIS WORK!!!! No more blessings from God, no more creating by God, HE FINISHED HIS WORK. Isn't this what it says? Now NOTICE , in Genesis 2:4, you see THE LORD GOD BEGINNING to do the CREATING. Remember when we found out that the name of "God" was and is, "ELOHEIM", meaning PLURAL GOD, that PLURAL IS US. This is where WE started creating what WE had learned, while we were IN GOD, watching HIM do the creating, but we will see how we LEFT HIS WAY OF THINKING AND CHANGED what God had created. Remember also, that God had already laid His Plan. HE KNEW THE MISTAKES WE WOULD MAKE, HE KNEW EVERYTHING WE WOULD DO, but we had to begin creating, in order to come to know, WHO WE ARE. We had WATCHED Him create, but up until chapter 2, we had never created anything. And it was the beginning of our creating, or maybe I should say, our LEARNING to create.

God had a plan before the foundation of the world, and it is ‘this plan" that unfolds in scripture, expressed in covenant. From eternity God’s desire has been to reveal Himself, and all creation, is God’s way of doing so. It is through humanity, that His ultimate plan is to be realized. No events throughout the ages, beginning with MAN (Adam), have taken God by surprise. (oh and notice, God DID NOT call the man, Adam. It was "the Lord God" who named the man, Adam). But lets go on. Nothing has deterred Him from fulfilling His purpose. His plan IS unfolding and being seen by those who will be the FIRSTFRUITS, of His Plan. WE ARE THE ELOHEIM, THE PLURAL GOD!! (the Lord God). All these many generations, we have been LEARNING to create this natural world, to be, exactly what God created, IN THE SPIRIT REALM, . Before, God was known as "the INVISIBLE GOD"; NOW He is being seen in every one of us. Some have learned a little more than others, simply because most REFUSE to leave behind MAN'S teaching, and depend ONLY on the Spirit Being that is now coming forth in the image that they really are, HIM. Think about it; they have been teaching Salvation message for thousands of years; and yet they keep right on dieing; getting sick, repeating teachings of thousands years old teaching. Some, even pastors, will lie, steal, be cruel, and say, "oh God will forgive me", but do you think that God will keep on letting us try to fool Him? No, I don't think so. That is NOT SPIRIT THINKING; it is carnal thinking, trying to make themselves believe, that they are hidden from His glory. THEY are suppose TO BE HIS GLORY, not see how much they can do and think that God will ok it, they are fooling themselves. They will NOT MAKE DEATH THEIR LAST ENEMY. They will die and wait in that invisible realm to be called back into a new, glorified body. But, there are those TODAY that WILL BEAT DEATH and stay right here on earth, UNTIL EVERY PERSON COMES INTO SALVATION, FULL SALVATION. (1 Cor 15:51, Luke 3:6).

Now , about "the Lord God." Beginning in Genesis, chapter 2, we see "the Lord God" begin creating. We know already that God had created the HEAVEN and the earth. But, we see in chapter 2 where the"Lord God" created the HEAVENS. This appears that God created two earths and two heavens, doesn't it? These heavens and earth are the same. The difference is that God created heaven and earth IN THE SPIRIT REALM, the Lord God created the heavensand earth IN THE PHYSICAL REALM. And notice, that God created the HEAVEN (singular), but when the Lord God started creating, it became HEAVENS, (plural). Do you think that maybe, this could be symbolic of the two minds, natural,or carnal mind, and the mind of Christ? Now, because the Man that God created was created a Spirit Being, God DID NOT HAVE TO BREATH IN THE MAN THAT HE HAD CREATED, because a Spirit DOES NOT NEED AIR OR BREATH. But, the physical, man, that the Lord God made to become physical, cannot live without the breath or the air. A Spirit Being does not need blood; the physical man, cannot live without blood. A Spirit doesn't need clothes, it has no body to put them on. The physical man needs clothes. (because he THINKS he is naked) The Spirit Being cannot be seen, the physical man can be seen.

". . . God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began." II Tim.1:8, 9 Actually, the word "Jesus" does not belong here, just the word "Christ" should be here. Christ=God's Life flowing through us.

When we look at the Lord Jesus, "the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His person," we see God realizing His desire. AND HIS PLAN. But when we look at His UNITEING or BECOMING ONE with US---His PLURAL, we see God seeking His expression in a fuller way – beyond the individual person of the Lord Jesus and beyond the individual believer – to reproduce Himself in the corporate [Body of] Christ, His many - membered family. It is through the Body of Christ that God will be "ALL in ALL" and will "fill the earth with His glory." (See also Eph. 4:13-16). This "glory" that is spoken of there, is HIS PRESENCE , HIS BEING IN VISIBLE FORM. And that form is us. We are on earth to learn WHO we are. Here to know that it is HIS LIFE that we are living. This life IS NOT OUR LIFE. We are Him, and He is us, and we all carry the name, Eloheim.

Now, I want to point out a few places where WE (the Lord God) stopped using the God Mind that we had at our time of coming forth out of God. You will see, that the mind really started changing , the minute the flesh came into the picture.

1. Gen. 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He them." Notice here, MAN WAS NOT ALONE.

Gen. 2: 18 "And THE LORD GOD said, it is not good that man should be alone, I will make a helpmeet for him". (see the change in thinking?)

2. Gen. 1:11 "And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yeilding seed, AND THE FRUIT TREE, yielding fruit after his kind..." Gen. 1:31 "And God saw EVERYTHING that He had made, and behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD...."

Gen 2:9 "And out of the ground made THE LORD GOD to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree fo life also in the midst of the garden , AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL." (see WHO produced the tree of good and evil, THE LORD GOD. The trees that God had created were VERY GOOD).

3. Gen. 1:27 "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God...."

Gen. 2:7 "And the LORD GOD FORMED man of the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils, the breat of life; and man bcame a living soul..." God made man a Spirit Being; the LORD GOD formed man into a living soul; the man that God created, needed no air to breath, he was Spirit; The LORD GOD breathed into the man. (see the difference in the thinking of God and the LORD GOD?)

4. Gen 1:27 "Go God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them."

Gen. 2:21-22 "And the LORD GOD caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he (the LORD GOD) took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead there of; and the rib, which the LORD GOD had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man>" God had created man (Spirit) and woman (soul) as ONE. The LORD GOD separated them into 2 flesh beings. (see the changing of the thinking of God and the LORD GOD?) This was the fall of the mind of God , down to the natural, carnal mind.

Not ALL of that mind of God was changed though. There was a part of it that remained as God's Mind, within us. And it is that Mind that is awakening us to our True Identity. Now as man started his journey, back to his True Identity, we can see where some of the things in the Old Testament COULD NOT have been from a LOVING GOD that created everything perfect. What we are seeing in the Old Testament is US LEARNING TO REMEMBER OUR IDENTITY. I am sure if you search hard enough you can find some other verses showing us the difference in God and the Lord God. Which this being Lord God, and doing all that we did, as creators, does not make us bad. No, it is part of God's plan for us to LEARN to to RENEW our mind BACK to the Mind of God and to BE the Creator that we were brought forth out of God, to be. Some are learning; some are awakening. Hallelujah!!

As the Plural God, was lowered into this earthen realm, the earth realm took more and more of our attention. The longer man (the Lord God) became wrapped up in the physical, the less and less, we used His Mind to think with, we began to use the mind of the soul, the carnal mind. IT WAS GOD'S PLAN, FOR US TO COME HERE AND LEARN, AND TO TAKE DOMINION, NOT JUST DOMINION OF THINGS, BUT TO TAKE DOMINION OF OUR MINDS. To RE-NEW our mind and be TRANSFORMED into our True Identity. As this happens, the only thing that is seen IS GOD. The Plural God (us) are learning WHO we are, and we are on a journey to complete this Plan and return to the image of God that we ARE. Remember, God doesn't see us full of sin, or being what we THINK we are, (a human being), He knows how this journey is going to be, WE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ONE IN HIM , USING ONLY HIS THINKING, WHICH IS LIFE. (in actuality, we have never been anything else, but Him, but our mind has told us differently.) We are all, just a reflection of God, but we have forgotten this truth. We have thought (since we stopped using the Mind of God) that we are human beings, that we HAVE to see death, that disease has power over us, instead of US having power over the disease, and even death. God knows ONLY LIFE, not death. But as I have said, some are awakening to their true Identity. God is rising in some, and they are taking dominion of MANY things that we were told that we couldn't. When you read about Adam, you are reading your own biography!! Have you read anywhere in the bible that GOD called the man "Adam"? No He called us "MAN". It was "the Lord God" who re-named "the man" (Gen 2:15-20). And have you read anywhere in the bible, that the man woke up from the deep sleep that the Lord God caused the man to fall into? I haven't. But, we are coming out of that deep sleep, NOW.

In an earlier part of this study, we saw what GOD SAID HIS OWN NAME WAS. (EX3:13-15), and we saw where WE are God's image, and now we see where the Plural God, US, beginning to use the carnal mind, (FORMED AND RE-NAMED "MAN" A DIFFERENT NAME than the name God had given us. ). In the bible, the word "name" means "nature". When God brought us forth , out of Himself, our name (NATURE) was exactly HIS name (NATURE). But as we began our journey to make the physical earth the exact earth that God created as Spirit, we used the NATURE of the earthen realm. And remember , ALL OF THIS WAS PLANNED BY GOD! This is because, how can we know GOOD, if we never have seen EVIL, and learn to take dominion of evil? How can we learn to LOVE with the LOVE OF GOD, if all we know is physical love? This earthen realm is our school ground!! And remember, "of His fullness have we all received", this means that even as we create with the natural mind, it comes into being; good, bad, or ugly. It is that power of His, that we are creating whatever we believe. The creative power that we have works in the illusion as well as in the Spirit.

Look at these scriptures, and see the difference in God and the Lord God (as we go through our journey BACK to our real Being). Now, we KNOW that there IS NOT EVIL IN GOD, right? So God COULD NOT have created evil, because ALL that He had created came out of Him. But what are we told about the Lord God?

GOD: John 1:1 "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God , and the Word WAS GOD". Now keep in mind what you learned in 1 Timothy 3:`16; GOD manifested in the flesh; and we know that He took upon Himself, the name, "Jesus". It was GOD that preached to the Gentiles; ascended. all the things in 1Timothy is telling us that Jesus WAS REALLY God. God simply put on the flesh body. Why did He do this? Because He knew how far our mind had fallen from our True Identity. He knew that we were separated IN OUR THINKING, and that we are at the place where we WILL NOT believe anything that we can't see. So God became flesh so that we could SEE that WE could do the same things that He did (as the flesh man , Jesus).

John 1:3-5 ALLTHINGS were made by Him and without Him was not any thing made that was made. IN Him WAS LIFE: and the life was THE LIGHT of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness did not understand the light. " What we are being told here, is that HE was the LIFE of man, He was the Light that would awaken man to his true Identity. It says "the Light shineth (understanding) in darkness, but the darkness did not understand". The darkness is nothing more than the deep sleep that the Lord God put on man. Letting go of God's mind, WE BECAME the DARKNESS. Can you see here that we have stopped using the mind that we have, the mind of Christ. So we have not understood the Truth of our Being. (1Cor 2:13-16) "THE NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD: FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM!!!" This is why NOW, TODAY many cannot receive the Truth that is coming forth. To most, what we are learning is received by most, as foolishness. They are using their natural minds, trying to discern God's Truth, but it WILL NOT WORK.

One thing we MUST come to realize is that God was the flesh man, Jesus, while He walked on earth. But when the flesh man was crucified, He rose as God as He was in the beginning. He became flesh and was crucified so that our Spirit could be awakened. Remember WE WERE CRUCFIED WITH JESUS, we ROSE WITH HIM. Most believe that Jesus died FOR US, but that is not true, WE were crucified WITH HIM. Read Rom 6:3-6, KNOW FOR YOURSELF. And also, remember we are told, "if a piece of corn doesn't die . no LIFE can come from it". WE were the corn!! IF we had not died WITH Jesus , God's LIFE could not come from within us. IF Jeus died IN OUR PLACE, we could not have resurrected in LIFE, but what does Romans 6 tell us? We died. We arose. WE HAVE JUST NOT BEEN TAUGHT THE TRUTH. According to what man has taught us, is that WE can do noting, God has to do it all. Right? Well why did God give us HIS FULLNESS? ( John 1:16) you know why? because He has finished His work and wants US to BE Who we are and take dominion of all that does not walk HIS LIFE. He wants each one of us to BE an individual reflection of Him on earth.

You see, one reason God put on flesh, is because HE COULD NOT DIE!! God cannot die!! And if we don't SEE , we don't believe!! And so HE became flesh, so that the flesh body could die, and so that He could come within and awaken the Spirit that we are. It just as Genesis talks about Adam.

Genesis 2:21, "And THE LORD GOD caused a DEEP SLEEP to fall upon Adam and he slept: " The words "deep sleep" means "darkness". Look all you can, in the bible, NO WHERE ARE WE TOLD THAT ADAM AWOKE!!! Do you remember that the MAN is male and that male means "Spirit". Now while Adam slept, what came forth from him? "the LORD GOD" took one of his (Adam's) ribs and closed up the FLESH instead;" " and the rib, which the LORD GOD had taken FROM MAN, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man." Remember, the woman simply represents, THE SOUL. The soul is where each of us get tempted. Eve is the soul. Now remember when God created the man, it says "Gen 1:27 "So God created MAN in the image of God, created He him (the Man), both male and female". So what we are being told here is, that as we came forth out of God, our soul and our Spirit was UNITED, completely together in the image of God. At that time we could not have been tempted, because our soul was completely in unity with the Spirit. But, here in chapter 2:21, the soul is parted from the Spirit, BY THE LORD GOD. The Spirit (MAN) was put to sleep, so that the soul (the woman) could eventually be tempted and learn how to RE-TURN to the man (the Spirit) , AFTER learning knowledge of the physical realm, AND also know the Spirit realm, and UNITE HEAVEN AND EARTH, AS GOD HAD CREATED THE SPIRITUAL EARTH THAT GOD HAD CREATED. And also, another thing you can see differently, in God and the Lord God; is that when God created the man, He created him, both male and female, THEY WERE NOT ALONE!! THEY WERE UNITED AS ONE. BUT, look at what the LORD GOD said; "It is not good THAT MAN SHOULD BE ALONE!!! The LORD GOD saw man and woman as flesh and blood, God saw them as Spirit Beings, just as He was. Now this woman and man WERE and ARE the man. This has nothing to do with genders as we know genders, in the natural. the natural is just a parable of the Spiritual. The man and the woman aren't 2 separted beings, they are simply the make-up of the MAN. Now as the woman was brought forth, the soul, we begin seeing the work of the LORD GOD. the PLURAL ELOHEIM. Remember the PLURAL GOD is simply trying to learn to make the natural as the Spiritual is. And we must remember, the Lord God HAD NOT created before, ONLY GOD had done the creating, up to that point. Now, look at what the PLURAL ELOHEIM (the Lord God), did.

IS 45:1, and then verse 7. "Thus sayeth THE LORD" Now notice, it IS NOT GOD TALKING, it IS THE LORD (the Lord God,), this is the Lord God, who is doing the talking in verse 7, "I form the light, and I CREATE DARKNESS , I make peace AND CREATE EVIL, I THE LORD DO ALL THESE THINGS". Now we saw that there IS NO EVIL IN GOD. All that He creates IS PERFECT, it is PEACEFUL, it is LIGHT. But here, we see WHO created EVIL, WE DID, THE PLURAL GOD, THE LORD GOD. bUT REMEMBER, WE HAVE NOT KNOWN WHO WE ARE, WHILE WE HAVE BEEN DOING ALL OF THIS CREATING!! How have we been creating?

Prov 18:21, "Life AND death is in the power of the tongue"

MT 12:34, "out the ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS". (read through verse 37)

2Cor. 4: is just saying that what we speak what we REALLY believe.. Think of the things we have said. "we all have to die", so we do. "I THINK I am getting sick, so we do; "I can't do anything" , and even though we are told that we HAVE GOD'S FULLNESS, we can't do anything.

Prov. 23:7, "as a man THINKETH, so is he". IF we keep on believing all the garbage that the church has and are telling us, then that is what we will be, BUT IF we believe what GOD says that we are, then that is what will manifest in and through and as us.

I wanted to teach you about God AND the Lord God,so you can start seeing truth. Please understand this: the LORD GOD is not bad, he is just learning to take dominion , not only of the physical earth, but mostly he is learning to take dominion of all that enters him. HE WILL AND IS AWAKENING TO HIS TRUE IDENTITY, THE PLAN OF GOD IS AND WILL COME INTO BEING. SOME WILL HAVE TO SEE DEATH, SOME WON'T , AND WILL NOT HAVE TO BE RESURRECTD, ARE RESURRECTED and the body WILL BE CHANGED. (1 COR. 15:51-54) Meditate on this scripture, and ask yourself, isn't this so different from what I have been taught all my life?

Until the next part of this study, be blessed.

Linda

It is understandable for a child to be afraid of the dark; but, why would an adult be afraid of the LIGHT?

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