It distinguished them - ו
Heb 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The vav ו looks like a sword and represents the word of God which is like a sword. The word clarifies, or explains things by slicing them apart and puting them back together. As a prefix, the vav is translated 'and'. 'And' joins two things, but divides them by acknowledging that they are different.
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God separated creation from himself
'Bereshith bara' בראשית ברא : In the beginning created. These are the first words of Genesis 1:1. The word for 'create' ברא also means 'separate'. God is completely different from us in the very stuff that makes God God and us us. He is not merely a more progressed man. He is not merely a more progressed spirit. He and we are not on the same path. He is the path and the way. [1]
God separated man from the rest of creation
God created a special kind of life, different from all the other life on earth. You are not JUST an animal. We share the flesh of animals. We share the instincts of animals. But we have the breath of God. [2]
This breath of God returns to God when we die. [3] The flesh is symbolized by the goat, and the spirit by the sheep. [4]
God separated Noah from all the men of earth
When God observed that men did evil continually, and it grieved him, he chose to destroy all men, but one found grace; Noah. [5] Why did God choose Noah? [6] Because Noah FOUND grace. The Hebrew word for 'found' מצא 'matsa' has hidden within it 'from מ righteous צ separation א'. Though Noah was a sinner, he has separated himself from the rest. He did not participate in the corporate practice of sin. He agreed with God that it was wrong. This is the nature of repentance.
Since Noah had separated himself, God separated Noah with his family. [7]
God separated Abram
Like Noah, Abram separated himself from Ur of the Chaldees and went to Haran. [8] So God separated Abram. [9]
God separated Abram from his father's family to create a new people. [10] He then separated Isaac, Jacob, and Judah, ... all the way to Jesus, the second Adam who would stand alone in the garden before obtaining his bride through his sleep/death. [11]
Each separation was a clarifying or distinguishing between two things.And each was for the purpose of joining them back together. The purpose of those who are distinguished, is to do the ministry of reconciliation.[12]
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References
- ↑ Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- ↑ Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- ↑ Ec 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- ↑ Mt 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
- ↑ Ge 6:8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
- ↑ Ac 10:34 ¶ Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
- ↑ 1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- ↑ Ge 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
- ↑ Ge 12:1 ¶ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- ↑ Ge 13:9 [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
- ↑ Ge 2:21 ¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- ↑ 2Co 5:18 And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
