Jesus and Genesis 1:2, pt.3

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2

What’s so special about this face of the waters?

As has already been noted, this Scripture involves humanity that is to come by specifically foreshadowing a scene which will mirror this description—God breathing the breath of life into the nostrils of Adam and man becoming a living being. Getting right to the point, this passage introduces us to something simple, yet profound, and deeply moving—God’s intimate nearness to His Creation. But why? The story is going somewhere, it is building up to the climactic crown of creation, to humanity. Yet, not just humanity, but God with and even in humanity. This I believe and understand to be the reason God is intimately near to the face of the waters. It’s like He’s head over heels excited, anticipating what He will soon make out of this watery abyss. He is just waiting to enter into the creation. Not just any part of the creation, not the trees to come, nor the waters, moon and sun, bears, lions, and fish, but rather, into humanity itself. He is longing to become one with humanity, to make them His dwelling place. This is the real significance of this Scripture’s intimate description of God’s anticipatory posture.

God is eagerly waiting to build a temple out of humanity. This temple would link heaven and earth together. This is the deep, mysterious, profound, astonishing, frightful, humbling, joyous, and awe inspiring truth about humanity—that we were, can be, and indeed are called to be the dwelling place of the very Breath of God, of the Creator Himself.

The Spirit or Breath of God is ever near to the special creatures which He has made. And in this Scripture, we simply read of that Divine Intimacy that is ready to unite with and engage in the creation, specifically through the human temple.

This subject may sound too good to be true. And to an extent it is. We have heard of and know all too well of the war. The war that began in heaven and entered into the earth. The war within ourselves, with others, and the wars all around us. There’s a tension, a conflict. Was this situation the Creator’s purpose? Was this tension, this war, this conflict God’s real original purpose? Is the Spirit of God’s nearness as brought to us in this Scripture just leading us on to a false hope? We know that we are not always a temple for the Divine Breath, but by default we are something else. In fact, unless a way of communion with heaven is brought to us, we can never hope to be the dwelling place of the Creator.

Enter Jesus.

The significance of this Man is that He’s not simply a man of earth, but that He is the victor in Heaven who cast the dark spirits out from there, and is now offering through His Life Breath, to cast them out from humanity, once and for all.

How do the dark spirits possess and destroy humanity from the inside out?

Human beings are physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual creatures. Simply, a union of heaven and earth. The dark spirits, then, seek possession of every faculty of humanity, and work to destroy the liberty of the soul.

Common to all human beings are seven faculties which may be possessed by the Divine Breath, or the dark spirits.

Jesus is revealed as having seven horns (powers) and seven eyes (awarenesses), which are the seven Spirits (breaths) of God, sent forth into all the earth. See for yourself.

“And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.” - Revelation 5:6

Because Jesus was human, He shares every facet of our nature, and restores to us the original capacity to be a dwelling place of the Creator. (See John 14:23)

So, what are these?

Regarding His earthly, physical and mental nature —

1. Jesus, as a man, had hands and feet. It is written that He was a carpenter, a strong worker. He also touched others gently to heal them. And, He walked at liberty from place to place.

2. Jesus, as a man, had a body that needed to be nourished, and which could be wounded, and feel pain. He wore clothes to be protected from the extremes of heat and cold.

3. Jesus, as a working man having a body, needed to eat, and so He had a mouth and a tongue. By this He could also speak words to His fellow man, and He could enjoy a meal with them.

4. Jesus, as a man, had eyes, wherewith He could see and look others in the face. And, it is written that He slept, so He closed His eyes to earthly scenes at times to contemplate the things not seen.

Regarding His emotional, spiritual, and heavenly nature —

5. Jesus, though a man, was also a child at one point. He was submissive and obedient. He must have cried at times. Also, because He was not a sinner, but the Son of God, His heart must have been as sensitive as that of His Father in heaven, which is infinitely more than any of us who have been hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. We read that Jesus wept because of the unbelief of fallen humanity.

6. Jesus, before the incarnation into humanity, was in heaven before with the unfallen spirits, the holy angels who did not rebel. He, knowing of the original war, knows the difference between those angels who are obedient to God, and those who were not, those which were cast out and which work to lead men away from the Creator of all to themselves, and ultimately to the chief fallen spirit, the Dragon.

7. Jesus, knowing the Scriptures, the Eternal Testimony and Commandments of His Father, was able to combat the Dragon in one-to-one combat when He was on earth. He was able to stand in the Truth of God’s Word regarding Who He was, is, and always will be— that He was the Father’s Beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. That He was the fullfillment of all which Scripture had written. That He indeed came down from Heaven to earth, as the Scriptures had said. Thus Jesus saw through all the lies of Satan who was once Lucifer, and overcame every sin and temptation from the very depths of His heart and mind, by staying in constant communion with His Father in Heaven.

These seven faculties are those which the fallen spirits are seeking to control, the very faculties which are gifts from the Creator, and are restored to humanity by and through Jesus. This is the earthly and heavenly temple union that humanity was and is called to be as a dwelling place for the Almighty and Eternal Breath of God.

The Divine Breath is waiting and calling for you, hovering over the face of the waters as it were. Will you and I invite Him in?

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” - Revelation 3:20

“The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” - Genesis 1:1-2

“What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” - John 6:62, 63