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Genesis 1:1 — ‘beginning’ part 2

Knowing where all that is comes from is important, but God plans to make the end, the outcome, of us and the earth greater than the beginning. We explore more deeply what it was about the end that God declared in the beginning, in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

Knowing where all that is comes from is important, but God plans to make the end, the outcome, of us and the earth greater than the beginning. We explore more deeply what it was about the end that God declared in the beginning, in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

Food for thought from the recorded discussion

beyt beyt = “house” or “inside of”

resh resh, rosh = “begin,” “head”

reshit reshit = “beginning”

bereshit bereshit = “inside of the beginning”

Paul said man is head of woman because he was beginning of the woman. Reuben was firstborn, the beginning of his father’s strength, power, dignity and might (Gen. 49:3). Think of the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) being the firstborn of the dead (1st Cor. 15:20). What, then, is Yeshua’s role for us now?

The first kingdoms of the world are listed in Gen. 10:10. How did God crush the beginning of those kingdoms at Babel?

What wil happen when the seed of the woman crushes the resh rosh of the Serpent (Gen. 3:15)? 

What happens to a river when the headwaters are stopped? What happens to lies when haSatan is bound and imprisoned for 1,000 years?

Isa. 46:10 — What does it mean that God “declares from the beginning the end”? What does that say for all the circumstances that arise to foul and delay God’s plan?

Lev. 23:10 — “reshit of your harvest” When does the count begin? Why is the first of the harvest presetnted to God? Who does the first fruit represent?

1st Cor. 15:20 “Messiah has been raised from the dead the firstfruit of those who have fallen asleep.” (1st Cor. 15:23 — Messiah is the firstfruit.)

John 11:25-26; Deut. 26:10 — “I have brought forth the reshit of the land” When do you briing forward the beginning of the harvest?

John 6:41-42 — “I am the Bread that came down from Heaven.” John 6:43-45 When will all be “taught by God”?

John 1:1-3 — Who shaped the world and creation in the beginning?

Prov. 8:22 — “The LORD possessed me (wisdom) reshit of His way, before His works.”

Gen. 1:2

What does “Son of Man” mean? Which prophet talks about the Son of Man often (Daniel 7)?

John 6:63 — “…the words I speak to you are spirit and are life.” What did God create in man in Gen. 2:7?

Speaker: Richard Agee.