In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God said let there be light and there was light. God separated the light from the darkness. The light He called Day and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.

I believe that Genesis 1 is God’s prophetic declaration of what He is doing from beginning to end on the earth. I believe it is a large cosmic mission statement and prophetic invitation to everyone who has ears to hear it. I believe that our current experience is somewhere in the afternoon hours of day six. God who is eternal and exists on a plane where time is not linear has already seen and experienced all of it, but we are only given one linear thread of time for now and we are moving much slower than He is, so we are still navigating Day 6. 

Day 6 ends with The Man and The Woman ruling the earth in the Image of God. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Creation is complete and “very Good.” We are clearly not there yet, but we are invited to enter into that dream. To let ourselves be formed by His Visage until we reflect His Image. This is what will bring heaven to earth.

Jesus is “the Light of the world.” I believe Day 1 is the day He was begotten by the Father and the Holy Spirit. He is eternal in that He has existed in God always and is of and from God completely, but He is also a Son, Unique and Personal. I don’t understand how that works in Eternity, where time is not linear or finite, but I believe it is what God is telling us in these opening verses: God had a Son; Heaven had a Prince.

This is the day that the earth became an inevitability, for the Son of Heaven must have a Queen. “It is not good for The Man to be alone.” The Son must become a man, must lay Himself down, be cut open and that which will be The Woman must be removed, reformed and made ready.

Day 6 will end when the Bride of Christ, the Church is complete. Day 7 is the marriage feast that will never end, our “happily ever after.” Those words come from “fairy tales” but they are implied in the Great Sabbath, God’s Rest, that the faithful will enter and never be parted from.

Adam is the first “prophet.” He is the individual God first chose to partner with. A small seed, one Word, one Command was planted in this small patch of earth, Adam(ah) to see if it would grow. A friendship and a dialogue grew. The desire for a wife was exposed and developed until Eve was formed and given. Now there are two. Will they work as one? Will they understand and commit themselves to the vision of a humanity in God’s image?

If Adam is earth, adamah, then the Word is a seed planted in the earth. It grew a bit, Eve is a flowering of that tree, but before it became fruit, it was cut off. As a cut flower is dead from the moment it is cut, so Adam and Eve were essentially dead from the moment their lives were no longer tied to the Word God had given. Life is in “the Law of the Lord.” Life is in gazing at Him and knowing who and what He is. “If you abide in Me, and My Word abides in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing.”

I believe that Adam and Eve were individuals. I don’t believe that they were the only individuals on the earth, but they were the ones God chose to partner with first. The narrative we have of them is probably a little poetic. It is about setting out a pattern and teaching us key things that we need to know in order to take part in what God is doing.

We have a choice to participate or not. Just as Adam and Eve had a choice to make. The tree that ties them to God and Life, or the tree that turns them from Him, and leads to a long and arduous path through death to Atonement.

They turned from simple faith in God toward self-reliance. They had no idea the fear and doubt that would ensue from a life founded on their own strength and their own understanding rather than the unwavering provision of a loving God. They truly chose sinking sand instead of solid ground.

We all do. We start life open and trusting, but quickly we become disillusioned and disappointed when the ones we look to for guidance, comfort and love prove to be pre-occupied with other things and inconsistent in their duty to us. The more we embrace this self-centered orientation in life the more fearful, angry and disillusioned we become.

When we put God at the center, and agree to join Him and make His pursuits and His dream for the world our reality, then life begins to flourish. We are not chasing our own comfort every waking minute. Trying to fill the time with our own consumption. Instead we are purposeful and given over to larger things, and the adversities that come are more easily weathered because there is meaning and love behind what we do.

God is a faithful Provider and loving Father. He is our source and He knows what we need to thrive. The endless consumption of the self always grasping for something to soothe it and fill it is an entropic cycle that leads to death. To give oneself to The Seed, let it lift you up and out, to embrace a calling and purpose larger than yourself and seek to become provision for someone else, to bear fruit that will feed others, this is Life.