Genesis 2:1 (Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them)

 

(Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them)

 

Genesis 2:1 『Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.』 In Genesis 1:1, 『In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.』 It was the creation of the material world in darkness, blocking the light from the kingdom of God to confine them. This material world was made up of a mass of water, and the surface of the water was covered by the Holy Spirit. And God placed the firmament in the midst of the mass of water and divided the water above from the water below. God filtered the soil from the water below (muddy water) and called it dry land, and the water from which the soil was removed was called the sea. This land was created in a huge mass of water. There was a firmament in the middle, and a light body was placed there. But the light of God was blocked by the great mass of water above. Thus, the material world has become a world like a huge prison for the confinement of spirits in which God does not exist.

God created human beings in the image of God. God made a human form out of clay and breathed life into it to create living beings. The image of God is Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit operating through the flesh. The first Adam is a representation of the last Adam. So, all sinful spirits followed Adam's descendants into the flesh and were born as human beings in the image of God. However, since the spirits in the soil were confined, they became dead spirits. Thus, humans were born as soul-like creatures. The last Adam came into this world to raise dead spirits.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. (kjv) Here, the heavens have the first, second, and third heavens, so they do not mean revenge, but the heavens in the kingdom of God and the material world.

All things are called “chava” in Hebrew, which means army. This army is not only the army of the kingdom of God, but also the army on this earth (the people of Israel). The Hebrew word chabara is translated into Greek (stration) and Latin (regeon). The expression Jehovah God Almighty appears frequently in the Old Testament. Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.” And Psalm 80:4 In "O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?", Israel is expressed as an army.

In 1 Kings 22:19, “And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.” In Luke 2:13, “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,” in Matthew 26:53, “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? The armies of heaven are angels.

『Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them..』 This means "The army of heaven and the army of the earth are finished". The word "be finished" means "completed, finished". In Genesis 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work his which he had made. What God created is that He has completed the reorganization of God's army in the kingdom of God and the material world. In Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work his which God created and made.” What God created and made is the reorganization of angels in the kingdom of God. The angels, who could not keep their position, took off their clothes, put them in the dust, and turned them into human beings, and these people become the army of the earth.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. This means that the heavenly army is made up of angels except for the sinful angels, and the army of this material world is the sinful angels, meaning that creation is over. 『and all the host of them.』 They mean the army of the kingdom of God and the army of the material world. God is their master. To God, all things do not only apply to being on this earth, but also to being in the kingdom of God. When God created the heavens and the earth, all things did not refer to material things, but to the angels created by God.

Human beings created in the material world after leaving the kingdom of God are expressed in various ways in the Bible. In Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4, it refers to the angels who failed to keep their position. And in 2 Corinthians 5:6, 『Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:』, In Leviticus 25:23, 『The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”

Genesis 2:1 is a summary of God's various works of creation in Genesis 1. So, in 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work his which he had made.

In the Bible, the God of hosts is not only the God of Israel, but also the God of the kingdom of God and all the peoples of the earth. The spirit of all people born on this earth is the army of God. However, the armies of God who were born on this earth did not realize this and followed Satan with Satan's delusion, so those who followed Satan became Satan's army.

 

『And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work his which he had made.

Rest is that God has placed the seed of promise in this world so that the spirits in the material world can return. When they realize through the seed and return to the kingdom of God, they too will have rest. This fact is made clear through the parable of the prodigal son. It is said that the prodigal son asked his father for his share of the property and took it and went out into the world.

However, the Bible figuratively describes the journey of the prodigal son, who lived prodigally in the world, repented, became like a dead man, and returned to his father's house. The prodigal son means the spirits who have left the kingdom of God and failed to keep their status. However, repenting and returning as the dead means that when you are united with Jesus Christ who died on the cross and are buried, you are born again as a spirit body and return to the kingdom of God.

The armies of heaven are at rest. But the army of the material world is not at rest. Rest means entering into God. When you enter into God in Christ, you become rest. God's command to keep the Sabbath in the law means to realize that the people are not resting through the Sabbath. Keeping the Sabbath is not to have Sabbath in itself, but to find Christ in it by keeping the Sabbath. If you find Christ and believe in the Christ who will come in the future, that is rest.