Seeing What the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is and Choosing the Tree of Life!

In Gen. 2:9 we see that besides the tree of life in the middle of the garden of Eden there’s another tree, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The tree of life is simple – it gives you life, the divine life, so that you may fulfill God’s purpose. However, the other tree […]

The Tree of Life Signifies Christ as Life to Man – He’s So Available and Satisfying!

In Genesis 1 we see God’s intention and His purpose, and in Genesis 2 we see the way God accomplishes His intention. The way God obtains a man in His image to express Him and represent Him is by man taking in God as the tree of life to be filled with Him and live […]

Growing Further in Life to Fulfill God’s Purpose of Expressing and Representing God

God’s purpose is accomplished by life, and in Genesis 1 we see in type the experience of Christ as life and the growth in life for the fulfillment of God’s purpose. God as the Spirit came to brood upon our dead situation, and He spoke something to us, bringing light in our inner being, and […]

Advancing in our Growth in Life to Overcome Death and Transcend All Frustrations

The record in the first chapter in Genesis is not merely to inform us of how God created the earth and all things in it, neither is it merely to show us the order in which God created everything. If we have the glasses of God’s economy on, we will clearly see that in Genesis 1 we […]

Death (the Sea) is Defeated and Life (the Plant Life) is Generated by Christ (the Good Land)

Genesis 1 is not recorded in the Bible as “a history of the creation” but rather it is showing us how we can experience Christ as life. We start as “dead in sins and offenses” (Rom. 5:12) – corresponding to “the earth became waste and void” – and at one point, the Spirit of God […]

A Separation of the Heavenly and Earthly Things Through the Cross for Life to be Generated

Genesis 1 and 2 show us in picture how we can experience Christ as life. These two chapters are not a complete record of how God created the heavens and the earth, but they are written for us to see how we can experience Christ as our life in our daily life. First of all, […]

Christ Upholds All Things – All Things Cohere in Christ and are Unto Christ!

Christ is the Creator of all things in the universe, and He is also the means and the active instrument through which the whole creation came into being. As Col. 1:16-17 clearly tells us, all were created through Christ, they cohere in Him, and they are unto Him. This means that after He created everything, […]