John 1:1-5 ESV - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Everything they talked about wrapped up in the intro to the book of John, a Jewish believer in yeshua.
Here are a few that you missed . In the beginning God Created the "Heavens=the [Spirit Realm'] and the Earth=the Physical World . With only a breakdown of the Physical World detailed . 2. The first few words are separate as the chapter heading ; or title of the Book . 3. The Creative days are from Gods standpoint of 1,000 years .Psalm 90:4 . .2 Peter 3:8 My reason for understanding it to be longer than a current human day is all the hoops poor Adam would of had to jump through on his first day of life , if they were actual 24 hour periods.
I never heard that את in the verse means jesus. I understood it as possibly being Jesus because of other instances of the preincarnate Jesus like with shadrak meshak and abedngo in the fiery furnace
“I think it’s a snake”. So I think this is a bit of an apologetic that is common in Judaism which sort of ignores the fact that the serpent had legs that YHWH removed via curse. To understand why this is important let me summarize and then explain. This chapter in Genesis is literature which encapsulates other near eastern traditions but puts its own Yahwistic spin on it. Both Genesis 1 and 2-3 but the different authors are using different sources. So then let me try to elaborate on this. Each city state in Mesopotamia at times was fully capable as acting as its own polity, and early in Mesopotamia this was the case, each city had its own foundational myths, and these myths about creation appear later and in tiny fragments. The role of the temple was to teach those who could not write and so these traditions were oral and up to the high priest. So the question is how far back do these traditions go. By comparative dating, the temple at Eridu goes back to ~5300 BCE at it appears to be E.Absu (House of Absu) Absu was the swamp, but it, a swamp sprite, goes onto symbolize the good water or we might say holy water, it’s the water that wells up from the earth, comparable to on of the sources of water in the Flood Narrative. Scholars speculate that Absu had a wife as a sea goddess very similar to the Tahom in Genesis 1. The Enuma Elis takes the Eridu tradition and takes ‘Tahom’ and turns her into a shape shifting tempest. So in this sense, Gen 1.2 has a closer approximation of NinAbsu than the Enuma Elis. So I hope we can see what’s going on here. The Hebrews in there various sagas are being exposed to different traditions in different regions of the near East and borrowing the elements they feel best represents their social norms. The construction of Genesis 1.1-2 is rather similar to the Enuma Elis, but instead of the collection of named gods (An and the Anunnuki- Marduk, Ea, Enlil, ….) the Bible replaced that pantheon with the Canaanite pantheon of ‘El but in the late, probably exilic sense in which the gods are reduced and YHWH is elevated. In the Enuma Elis Marduk is elevated by the promises the gods make to vanquish Tiamat, in Gen 1 the Tahom is not such a being that needs to be vanquished since it is passive. Thus the Bible only mentions the plural aspect of divinity as already assumed to be a function of Elohim in Gen 1 and YHWH in gen 2. So here we can see again that the borrowing comes with modifications of earlier traditions. And so the issue here is we’re do these literary sources come from. If we are talking about the Enuma Elis, by what some skeptics were and still say, it came very early. So for me very early in Mesopotamia is 6500 BCE during Ubaid 0, within the scribal context 3300 BCE, very Early for the Enuma Elis is around maybe the 13th century BCE, more likely coming out of the late Bronze Age collapse at a time of the occupation of the Chaldean tribes (same identity as Ur of Chaldeans) that occurred in the late 12th century. In as much very few people knew about this story, at various brief intervals Babylon raised its head to be decapitated by neoassyria, but for a large part these wars were a dysfunction of the Assyrian royal family. The myth itself becomes more notable in the 8th century onward and Assyria actually borrows it to make Asshur the supreme god (As if anyone doubted that, Assyria would gently remind them who the boss was ….think Nehemiah). So by far the largest exposure the Hebrews would have had to these myths come in the 6th century when Babylon had replaced the NeoAssyrian Empire. This gets us to Genesis 2. And here the point is emphasized that Genesis is very eastward looking in its origin story, the origin of Abraham from Ur and Haran, the Tower of Babel, the actual flood myth city is Shuruppak, which the Bible does not mention but all its sources do. But the most important city in the origin etiologies the Bible does not mention, Eridu. Eridu is not only the origin of Tahom and the pure waters from beneath the Earth, but also the origin of Ea (In Eblaite - Ia) the god of the waters, the wisdom god and the god of sages. Eridu is located about 12 miles from Ur and is the basis of much of the stories in Mesopotamia. Thus it is not surprising that the garden of Eden dwells up the convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates, but this stories source appears to be older, and its author is not so familiar with the layout of Mesopotamian and so he is just making stuff up. Ea was the god who instructed Nammu on how to shape men from clay. Clay is the basis for Mesopotamian civilization, its buildings, its writing, its canal works all made of clay. We don’t have a comparable story in Mesopotamia, but we only have a small sampling of the foundational myths that abounded there. For a full discussion of this see W.G. Lamberts “Babylonian Creation Myths” So finally we get to the “snake”. Within the colonization of Mesopotamia at a time there were dragons, members of the monitor family, the same family as the Komodo dragon that lived in the Indian Ocean and into Africa. These creatures very much look like a snake when they are floating in murky water, but on land they have legs and walk about. In Mesopotamia serpents have legs, and a number of traditions including biblical traditions appear to radiate from the notion of the Mesopotamian context. So it’s likely that the author in Genesis 2 had access to stories about Mesopotamian serpents, but in Israel there were none, so they need and explanation, an etiology, as to how snakes (glistening ones) lost their legs.
Wake up. This is God who inspired Moses to write Genesis. It was the Angel of God who called Moses back to Egypt, lead the Isreelites to the Promised Land, punished them for 40 years, gave the Law, and order Moses to build the Tabernacle ( God on Earth with Man) ... over 9 months ... by 1 Nisan. Everything in Genesis 1 is literal because God always knew before Creation .... every though & action of Angels & Men ... where Adam & Eve were and what they had just done, ... and ... Mankind will have 7 x 1000 years to procreate with God ruling Mankind for the last 1000 years. This is why God had a 6 day creation & the 7th day belongs to Him. The Sabbath is all Messiah who is the Son of God and the Angel of God who created Man in His image. it will take 7 000 years for Mankind to procreate all of God's Children (Chosen People) and at the end of the 7 000 years ... there will be no more Human Beings who will believe & follow God of the Torah. The first name for God ... means "male gods" ..... then Moses who knows the Angel of God is God ..... used the singular verb for "Create" then with everybody knowing God is spirit & is everywhere, Moses says the Spirit of God is hovering over the surface of the waters(deep) ... then God ( not the Spirit) says "Let there be light." The first three verses of Genesis clearly states God is ... male ... singular & plural ... and is at least God (Lord) giving orders and God (Spirit) who decided to take a form that can hover over the surface of the waters. However Rabbis, who reject Jesus being the Messiah & Son of God from the Torah .... say God is only singular, try to say the Spirit of God is just an Angel sent by God, or a "wind, and claim Elohim is used because God likes to use "royal plural" or has a preferred pronoun just like sinful Kings. Again. Moses wrote Genesis and knows the Angel of God ... is God. Abraham also knows the Angel of God is God ... and so does Jacob ... and even Hagar preggie with Abrahams "first Son." God knows Issac is not ... Abraham's ... "Only begotten Son" ... and Abraham knows the Angle of God is God and obey His order not to kill Issac ... then the Angel of God provided a Ram for a sin sacrifice that will satisfy God's just nature. The punishment for sin by Man ... is simply death (body on Earth, Soul in Hell after 3 days). You sin, you must die. Anybody descended from Adam & Eve, or King David ... will have a corrupt body ... will sin ... and must die (body & soul). The only way God can forgive sin by Man ...... is if a perfect & pure Man with a body & soul ... agrees to take your punishment ( death on EArth, 3 days in Hell). But only Adam was created perfect ... by the Angel of God ....with body & soul .. and freewill to follow & obey God or sin & die. And God can not create another Adam .. as this would not be Mankind but a new Race. So again, ... the Angel of God ordered Moses .. to build the Tabernacle (God on Earth with Man) ... over 9 months ... by 1 Nisan. The Temple has always represented God & the Messiah (God's only Son). The Angel of God ... agreed to be remade a Son of Man (Adam) by being implanted as a fertilized egg in a surrogate Mother .. and not actually be a descendant of Adam & Eve or King David. The Messiah is a Descendant of King David ... purely by his adoptive/surrogate Mother ... and must be pure (without sin) to be the Passover Lamb. You missed all the evidence from Genesis 1 proving God is male, singular & plural ( at least two persons). And you clearly had the "royal plural" interpretation of any word, or pronouns referring to God in the plural. Even when Adam was created in God's image ... and it was not good for Adam to be along .. so from Man came Woman ... and as One (marriage) .. Adam is the Head of the Unions with Eve obeying his will. C'mon. Genesis 1 - 3 confirm God is singualr & plural .. and is likely ... Father, Son, Spirit .... because God is male. However we learn by Genesis 15, God(Son) does not exist but He is the Angel/Word of God instead. Then in Genesis 22 we get learn about the Messiah being God's Only Son .. and .. the Angel of God, to be the sin sacrifice that will satisfy God. BTW. It was never a Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago ... but simply are very large & bright light ( hollow sphere of energy) surrounding tiny Earth in a empty dark Universe (Heaven). The Universe was created over 4 days starting from this bright light expanding away from Earth forming Stars, & other bodies and filling the Universe. By the 4th Day, the stars filled the Universe .. and only then did God create the Solar System putting it in the Milky Way Galaxy and put Earth into its orbit & rotation ...... formally defining a day & year, seasons ... and night/day, morning/evening. Because the Angel of God always knew it would take 7 000 years to save ... His Children.
He does not believe in Yeshua Hamashiach, should messainic believers even let non messainic people teach them? This is a serious wiestion I struggle with.
I stop listening to you guys, you have to read the instructions; Isaiah 28: 9 to 13. The Holy Spirit of God covered the Earth like the Hen covers her chicks. Shalom!
LOVE AND SHALOM brothers i learned alot with these programs they are such a BLESSING TEACHING, GLORY TO YEHOVAH AND OUR LORD YESHUA AMEN AMEN.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Thank you gentlemen. 🇿🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱
Shalom desde argentina ... gracias
It’s not about him creating the earth. It’s about him, creating a kingdom of people in covenant in the earth.
I remember binging these some time ago! It's time for another round. Glad to see this uploaded to YT.
I love it when Nehemiah gets excited about one of his discoveries, his excitement is contagious! Love it. God bless you Nehemiah.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and beliefs.
Love that I get to go back to the beginning with you guys. Please support this ninistry. Love you all so much💚💚💚✝️
Would have been great to hear you explore the word and dissect each letter's meaning and numerical value.
John 1:1-5 ESV - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Everything they talked about wrapped up in the intro to the book of John, a Jewish believer in yeshua.
OH MY GOODNESS! Nehemia, Keith, And Jono are FINALLY back together again. I was wondering what happened to these three!!!
Here are a few that you missed . In the beginning God Created the "Heavens=the [Spirit Realm'] and the Earth=the Physical World . With only a breakdown of the Physical World detailed .
2. The first few words are separate as the chapter heading ; or title of the Book .
3. The Creative days are from Gods standpoint of 1,000 years .Psalm 90:4 . .2 Peter 3:8
My reason for understanding it to be longer than a current human day is all the hoops poor Adam would of had to jump through on his first day of life , if they were actual 24 hour periods.
I never heard that את in the verse means jesus. I understood it as possibly being Jesus because of other instances of the preincarnate Jesus like with shadrak meshak and abedngo in the fiery furnace
balem indeed did haha, but thas all he apparently listened to
“I think it’s a snake”. So I think this is a bit of an apologetic that is common in Judaism which sort of ignores the fact that the serpent had legs that YHWH removed via curse. To understand why this is important let me summarize and then explain. This chapter in Genesis is literature which encapsulates other near eastern traditions but puts its own Yahwistic spin on it. Both Genesis 1 and 2-3 but the different authors are using different sources.
So then let me try to elaborate on this. Each city state in Mesopotamia at times was fully capable as acting as its own polity, and early in Mesopotamia this was the case, each city had its own foundational myths, and these myths about creation appear later and in tiny fragments. The role of the temple was to teach those who could not write and so these traditions were oral and up to the high priest.
So the question is how far back do these traditions go. By comparative dating, the temple at Eridu goes back to ~5300 BCE at it appears to be E.Absu (House of Absu) Absu was the swamp, but it, a swamp sprite, goes onto symbolize the good water or we might say holy water, it’s the water that wells up from the earth, comparable to on of the sources of water in the Flood Narrative. Scholars speculate that Absu had a wife as a sea goddess very similar to the Tahom in Genesis 1. The Enuma Elis takes the Eridu tradition and takes ‘Tahom’ and turns her into a shape shifting tempest. So in this sense, Gen 1.2 has a closer approximation of NinAbsu than the Enuma Elis.
So I hope we can see what’s going on here. The Hebrews in there various sagas are being exposed to different traditions in different regions of the near East and borrowing the elements they feel best represents their social norms.
The construction of Genesis 1.1-2 is rather similar to the Enuma Elis, but instead of the collection of named gods (An and the Anunnuki- Marduk, Ea, Enlil, ….) the Bible replaced that pantheon with the Canaanite pantheon of ‘El but in the late, probably exilic sense in which the gods are reduced and YHWH is elevated. In the Enuma Elis Marduk is elevated by the promises the gods make to vanquish Tiamat, in Gen 1 the Tahom is not such a being that needs to be vanquished since it is passive. Thus the Bible only mentions the plural aspect of divinity as already assumed to be a function of Elohim in Gen 1 and YHWH in gen 2.
So here we can see again that the borrowing comes with modifications of earlier traditions.
And so the issue here is we’re do these literary sources come from. If we are talking about the Enuma Elis, by what some skeptics were and still say, it came very early. So for me very early in Mesopotamia is 6500 BCE during Ubaid 0, within the scribal context 3300 BCE, very Early for the Enuma Elis is around maybe the 13th century BCE, more likely coming out of the late Bronze Age collapse at a time of the occupation of the Chaldean tribes (same identity as Ur of Chaldeans) that occurred in the late 12th century. In as much very few people knew about this story, at various brief intervals Babylon raised its head to be decapitated by neoassyria, but for a large part these wars were a dysfunction of the Assyrian royal family. The myth itself becomes more notable in the 8th century onward and Assyria actually borrows it to make Asshur the supreme god (As if anyone doubted that, Assyria would gently remind them who the boss was ….think Nehemiah).
So by far the largest exposure the Hebrews would have had to these myths come in the 6th century when Babylon had replaced the NeoAssyrian Empire.
This gets us to Genesis 2. And here the point is emphasized that Genesis is very eastward looking in its origin story, the origin of Abraham from Ur and Haran, the Tower of Babel, the actual flood myth city is Shuruppak, which the Bible does not mention but all its sources do. But the most important city in the origin etiologies the Bible does not mention, Eridu. Eridu is not only the origin of Tahom and the pure waters from beneath the Earth, but also the origin of Ea (In Eblaite - Ia) the god of the waters, the wisdom god and the god of sages. Eridu is located about 12 miles from Ur and is the basis of much of the stories in Mesopotamia. Thus it is not surprising that the garden of Eden dwells up the convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates, but this stories source appears to be older, and its author is not so familiar with the layout of Mesopotamian and so he is just making stuff up. Ea was the god who instructed Nammu on how to shape men from clay. Clay is the basis for Mesopotamian civilization, its buildings, its writing, its canal works all made of clay. We don’t have a comparable story in Mesopotamia, but we only have a small sampling of the foundational myths that abounded there. For a full discussion of this see W.G. Lamberts “Babylonian Creation Myths”
So finally we get to the “snake”. Within the colonization of Mesopotamia at a time there were dragons, members of the monitor family, the same family as the Komodo dragon that lived in the Indian Ocean and into Africa. These creatures very much look like a snake when they are floating in murky water, but on land they have legs and walk about. In Mesopotamia serpents have legs, and a number of traditions including biblical traditions appear to radiate from the notion of the Mesopotamian context. So it’s likely that the author in Genesis 2 had access to stories about Mesopotamian serpents, but in Israel there were none, so they need and explanation, an etiology, as to how snakes (glistening ones) lost their legs.
Wake up. This is God who inspired Moses to write Genesis. It was the Angel of God who called Moses back to Egypt, lead the Isreelites to the Promised Land, punished them for 40 years, gave the Law, and order Moses to build the Tabernacle ( God on Earth with Man) ... over 9 months ... by 1 Nisan.
Everything in Genesis 1 is literal because God always knew before Creation .... every though & action of Angels & Men ... where Adam & Eve were and what they had just done, ... and ... Mankind will have 7 x 1000 years to procreate with God ruling Mankind for the last 1000 years.
This is why God had a 6 day creation & the 7th day belongs to Him.
The Sabbath is all Messiah who is the Son of God and the Angel of God who created Man in His image. it will take 7 000 years for Mankind to procreate all of God's Children (Chosen People) and at the end of the 7 000 years ... there will be no more Human Beings who will believe & follow God of the Torah.
The first name for God ... means "male gods" ..... then Moses who knows the Angel of God is God ..... used the singular verb for "Create" then with everybody knowing God is spirit & is everywhere, Moses says the Spirit of God is hovering over the surface of the waters(deep) ... then God ( not the Spirit) says "Let there be light."
The first three verses of Genesis clearly states God is ... male ... singular & plural ... and is at least God (Lord) giving orders and God (Spirit) who decided to take a form that can hover over the surface of the waters.
However Rabbis, who reject Jesus being the Messiah & Son of God from the Torah .... say God is only singular, try to say the Spirit of God is just an Angel sent by God, or a "wind, and claim Elohim is used because God likes to use "royal plural" or has a preferred pronoun just like sinful Kings. Again. Moses wrote Genesis and knows the Angel of God ... is God. Abraham also knows the Angel of God is God ... and so does Jacob ... and even Hagar preggie with Abrahams "first Son."
God knows Issac is not ... Abraham's ... "Only begotten Son" ... and Abraham knows the Angle of God is God and obey His order not to kill Issac ... then the Angel of God provided a Ram for a sin sacrifice that will satisfy God's just nature.
The punishment for sin by Man ... is simply death (body on Earth, Soul in Hell after 3 days).
You sin, you must die.
Anybody descended from Adam & Eve, or King David ... will have a corrupt body ... will sin ... and must die (body & soul).
The only way God can forgive sin by Man ...... is if a perfect & pure Man with a body & soul ... agrees to take your punishment ( death on EArth, 3 days in Hell).
But only Adam was created perfect ... by the Angel of God ....with body & soul .. and freewill to follow & obey God or sin & die.
And God can not create another Adam .. as this would not be Mankind but a new Race.
So again, ... the Angel of God ordered Moses .. to build the Tabernacle (God on Earth with Man) ... over 9 months ... by 1 Nisan.
The Temple has always represented God & the Messiah (God's only Son).
The Angel of God ... agreed to be remade a Son of Man (Adam) by being implanted as a fertilized egg in a surrogate Mother .. and not actually be a descendant of Adam & Eve or King David. The Messiah is a Descendant of King David ... purely by his adoptive/surrogate Mother ... and must be pure (without sin) to be the Passover Lamb.
You missed all the evidence from Genesis 1 proving God is male, singular & plural ( at least two persons). And you clearly had the "royal plural" interpretation of any word, or pronouns referring to God in the plural. Even when Adam was created in God's image ... and it was not good for Adam to be along .. so from Man came Woman ... and as One (marriage) .. Adam is the Head of the Unions with Eve obeying his will.
C'mon. Genesis 1 - 3 confirm God is singualr & plural .. and is likely ... Father, Son, Spirit .... because God is male. However we learn by Genesis 15, God(Son) does not exist but He is the Angel/Word of God instead. Then in Genesis 22 we get learn about the Messiah being God's Only Son .. and .. the Angel of God, to be the sin sacrifice that will satisfy God.
BTW. It was never a Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago ... but simply are very large & bright light ( hollow sphere of energy) surrounding tiny Earth in a empty dark Universe (Heaven). The Universe was created over 4 days starting from this bright light expanding away from Earth forming Stars, & other bodies and filling the Universe. By the 4th Day, the stars filled the Universe .. and only then did God create the Solar System putting it in the Milky Way Galaxy and put Earth into its orbit & rotation ...... formally defining a day & year, seasons ... and night/day, morning/evening.
Because the Angel of God always knew it would take 7 000 years to save ... His Children.
I always wonder why believers in Yeshua Hamashiach listen to and let this man teach them. Why would you listen to someone who doesn't have the Son?
It's NehemAH not Nehemierrr, Alpha and Omega not Alpher and Omeger....
He does not believe in Yeshua Hamashiach, should messainic believers even let non messainic people teach them? This is a serious wiestion I struggle with.
I stop listening to you guys, you have to read the instructions; Isaiah 28: 9 to 13. The Holy Spirit of God covered the Earth like the Hen covers her chicks. Shalom!