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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKByQf9jsk
Introduction:
About this time, you may be asking yourself what creation has to do with people of exile.
Well I am detouring a little today in order to set up our next sermon.
This series that was to be 7 sermons is now becoming 8.
This is a series based on the book by T. Scott Daniels, called “Embracing Exile.”
However, as I began to prepare the second sermon of the series, I realized it did not follow the book and I felt this chapter needed to be preached to better understand the sermon they suggested.
Creation is familiar to us, however, Dr. Daniels sees a pattern within the story of creation that corresponds with the pattern for God’s people.
It is a different take on the story of creation and humankind that I felt worth teaching.
It is a journey...
I. From Chaos to Blessing
Follow me as I walk you through a new way of looking at...
A. Creation
We all know that the earth did not just pop into being as we see it today.
In began with chaos.
Look with me at .
This passage contains 3 very important Hebrew words that are key to this pattern I wish us to see.
They are tohu, bohu, and Ruach.
1. Tohu: (Enlish translation) Formless meaning, a worthless thing, desert, chaos, confusion, empty place
2. Bohu: (English translation) Void meaning an indistinguishable ruin
These two words are used in the scriptures only twice and always in conjunction with each other.
They describe chaos, which is symbolized in a form of water and darkness.
If you noticed in the video, they tried to create a picture of that.
It was dark and looked like black water being tossed around.
This is how the scriptures depicted our world as beginning.
For the people in Bible times, this was the most threatening way they could depict it.
Think about it.
For us the oceans are an awesome sight.
They intrigue us, but we have a healthy respect for them.
In Bible times, the oceans brought thoughts of fear.
They were mysterious.
People who tried to navigate them would disappear right off the face of the earth, or so they thought.
Remember your history.
At one time they thought the world was flat and that people who sailed would eventually hit that place where they dropped off into nothingness.
So this description was the best way for them to describe what existed before God continued His work.
Now into that chaos enters...
But into that chaos enters...
3. Ruach: meaning Breath, wind, or spirit
It literally means God’s Spirit hovering and causing movement below.
You may wish to envision God’s Spirit hovering above blowing His breath upon the chaos below causing change to being.
Things begin to take form.
God is exercising His creative power and authority upon the chaos through His very breath.
Think about the dividing of the water of the Red Sea in Moses time or Jesus power to calm the storm on the Sea of Galilee.
Think about the breath of God breathing life into the form of Adam.
From chaos God breaths forth a world of beauty and splendor.
If you are a wrestling fan, Dr. Daniels enjoys using the visual picture of a wrestling match.
I am not a wrestling fan, but for lack of a better illustration or at least a less dramatic one, I will use his illustration.
Keep in mind that Dr. Daniels is a teacher of college students.
But he sets the scene: The announcer calls forth: “Ladies and Gentlemen, we are beginning!
Lets get ready to rumble!
In this corner are the reigning champions—The twins of chaos and destruction.
They are formless!
They are void!
They are Tohu and Bohu!”
He then describes them as two steroid-enhanced wrestlers in tights, capes and scary Mexican masks.
The arena erupts into jeers and applause!
Then the announcer turns to the other corner and cries out, “And in this corner, We have the challenger!
He is omniscient!
He is omnipotent!
He is omnipresent!
He is Elohim!” (Okay, if you read the book he uses Yahweh, but I prefer Elohim in this context.
Especially since the account in Genesis refers to Ruach of Elohim!)
At this point he describes a gust of wind sweeping across the crowd and people silent in awe and wonder as there is nothing seen, only the feel of wind.
The wrestling match begins, but it does not take long for Tohu and Bohu to be conquered by Ruach.
The method by which Ruach subdues the chaos is the pattern I wish us to see today.
It is the method by which...
B. Chaos is transformed
It begins with...
1. Days of Separation
On day one God separates light and darkness ().
On day two God separates sea and sky ().
On day three God separates the dry land ().
Day three is sometimes written as “gathered together”, but the true translation is “separated.”
If you continue with the wrestling match theme, these represent the first three rounds.
It is Ruach’s attach on Tohu or in other words, the formlessness is tackled.
What had no form, now has the form of light and darkness, sea and sky, and waters and dry lands.
Tohu has been defeated.
If you continue with the use of the wrestling scenario, these represent the first three rounds.
These are Ruach’s attack on
Now God turns His attention on “Bohu” the void or emptiness that exists and He begins the...
2. Days of Filling
2. Filling
Look with me at days 4, 5, and 6.
On day four, God fills the light and darkness with sun, moon and stars ()
On day five, God fills the sky with birds and the sea with fish ().
On day six, God fills the land with animals and the best of all, man who was made in His image into which Ruach breathed His very breath into ().
By the end of day six, both tohu and bohu (formless and emptiness) were eliminated.
The chaos was no more.
It is interesting to note how organized God is.
You see there seems to be a pattern here.
What God separated on day one, He filled on day four.
What He separated on day two was filled on day five.
And what was separated on day three was filled on day six.
Once all this was done.
Once all the chaos was conquered, God rested and called the day to be “blessed.”
Genesis 2:1
Genesis 2:1-3
3. Blessing
These key verbs are the pattern I wish you to see.
They are key because they relate to our very own participation in this story.
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