Day 6 Genesis 1:26-31 MAN 4/22/14
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
First of all I see that the creation of man is the last to be created and the highest form of being that would occupy the earth. I have read quite a few writings of men on this subject of "let
us make man in
our image. Now the word "make" here is interesting to me. When we talked about the word
make when we considered the sun, we felt that in the beginning, the first mention of light must have been the sun, but later when we read that God placed them in a certain place in a certain orbit, the word made was like a re-model of the sun from just being light to being the sun for a particular reason.
So here, we have man being
made Heb.
asah in verse 26, which means to fashion, prepare, and in verse 27, we have God created Heb.
bara which means to make, select. So,
make fits with the dust of the ground being fashioned into the man, or
create meaning, out of nothing, to make. To me it's a little confusing.
Now we have what is the first mention in the Bible of the Trinity. "Let
us make man in
our image. I like what Matthew Henry had to say about this.
"Let us make man. The three persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, consult about it and concur in it, because man, when he was made, was to be dedicated and devoted to Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Into that great name we are, with good reason, baptized, for to that great name we owe our being. Let him rule man who said, Let us make man." (used by permission by E-Sword)
It's interesting that Scripture says, "made in God's image and likeness.
Image Heb.
tselem, a representative figure, resemblance....
Likeness Heb.
d muth, model, similitude, manner.
Man was not made in the likeness of any creature that went before him, but in the likeness of his Creator; yet still between God and man there is an infinite distance. Christ only is the express image of God's person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. It is only some of God's honor that is put upon man, who is God's image
only as the shadow in the glass, or the king's impress upon the coin.
Man is to have
dominion, Heb.
radah, to reign and rule. Since animal life can't fear God, they can and will fear man. After sin entered the world of man, he would take certain animals and fish for food. For now, man would eat the herbs, and fruit from the trees.
God told man to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. I say this very quietly, shhhh, the word replenish to me means to fill back up what was there. But of course there is not a gap theory so it can't be. It must mean go and populate the earth, right?
God is happy with his work and says that it is good.
