How is your heart? Are you pondering the wonder of a triune God? I am, in everything around me and all that I see and hear it seems that the reality of the triune God is in my presence. Here are some more scriptures to move us further in our understanding of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
SCRIPTURE
AT CREATION: Gen. 1:26 Let us make man in our image.
AFTER THE FALL: Gen. 3:22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
QUESTIONS
1. What do you think about these scriptures?
2. Did you ever look and see the trinity in these early scriptures before today?
3. What gloriousness did we have from being in God's image?
4. Why, after the fall, can't we eat from the tree of life? What does that mean?
COMMENTARY
The text does not specify the identity of the “us” mentioned here. Some have suggested that God may be addressing the members of his court, whom the OT elsewhere calls “sons of God” (e.g., Job 1:6) and the NT calls “angels,” but a significant objection is that man is not made in the image of angels, nor is there any indication that angels participated in the creation of human beings. Many Christians and some Jews have taken “us” to be God speaking to himself, since God alone does the making in Gen. 1:27 (cf. 5:1); this would be the first hint of the Trinity in the Bible (cf. 1:2).
Gen. 3:22–24 The couple is expelled from the garden. God begins a sentence in v. 22 and breaks off without finishing it—for the man to live forever (in his sinful condition) is an unbearable thought, and God must waste no time in preventing it (“therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden”). The tree of life, then, probably served in some way to confirm a person in his or her moral condition (cf. Prov. 3:18; 11:30; 13:12; Rev. 2:7; 22:2, 14, 19).
According to Gen. 2:15, the man was put in the garden to work it and keep or guard it. Outside the garden the man will have to work the ground, but the task of keeping or guarding the garden is given to the cherubim (3:24). By allowing themselves to be manipulated by the serpent, the couple failed to fulfill their priestly duty of guarding the garden. Consequently, their priestly status is removed from them as they are put out of the sanctuary. The placing of cherubim to the east of the garden is reflected in the tabernacle and temple, where cherubim were an important component in the structure and furnishings (see The Ark of the Covenant).
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I think about the image of God as this: God is a Spirit, God is Love, God is Holy, God is Righteous, God is I AM. The Son is Human, the Son is Obedient, the Son has All Power, the Son is Servant and King, the Son is Compassionate, the Son is Forgiving. The Spirit is Wisdom, the Spirit is Courage, the Spirit is Knowledge, the Spirit is Comforter, the Spirit is Teacher. So wrapped up in all these beings, representing the Most High God is all that I was created in!
Meditate on this throughout the day: GOD is a verb! He is NOT a noun, it is not His name it is what He is. He IS the GREAT I AM--that denotes action. Meditate on it and let your heart be led in the ways of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Beloved. Sister, Lisa
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