LITERALLY Part 4

KEY VERSES: ¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ² And on the seventh day God ended his work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made. ⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. (Gen 2:1-4)

  You may have tired from reading, but today is the day. It is the day that is finished. (It turned out that I had more and it will continue tomorrow). What you are reading has been “expository” commentary on Holy Scripture. Usually, learning is topical. “Expository” is word for word explanation and attempting to provide insight from the literal words. When 1 + 1 is added, then it is 2. Neither the Old nor New Testaments stand alone. The Old is about the invisible attributes of God, and the New is about his visible. The combination of the two is the entire gospel and the whole truth. With that in mind, let us continue.

  The next excerpt from the key verses is, “(He) rested from all his work which God created and made.” As I have explained “rested” is coming to equilibrium in thermodynamics. The creation was a thermodynamic process accomplished by THE Spiritual Being. Since “gods” are outside the bounds of scientific inquiry, in all research God is neglected.

  When I was in college, each problem in my thermodynamics class began with the equation for the First Law of Thermodynamics, called the “Law of Conservation of Energy” that accounts for all possible changes in energy in a thermodynamic process… with the exception of changes in “Virtue.” Always to simplify the calculations, we would always show what minimal changes can be ignored because they negligibly effected the outcome. They were rational assumptions.

  Scientists did that as well. They neglected God because they thought that there was no effect from Him when in truth, God was the main effect. All the other sub-processes were driven by His Virtue. As  I did many times, I neglected changes which should not have been neglected.

  Science, by definition, neglects the change in Virtue of the system. In the beginning, there was no Virtue in the physical system but since there was no physical, Virtue was in God alone! As the process of creating began, Virtue flowed from God into the cosmos and the world, not unlike Jesus healing with virtue (Mark 5:30); enough that it could not be neglected because it was only for the cause of healing. Inevitably “healing” is the repair of a system which has been broken. Sin broke the perfect system of God, and His Virtue repairs it. With the lady with the blood issue, God repaired His creature with Virtue;  the same Virtue that He created man and woman, as well as all things.

 Why did God rest after six days of creating? Work drained much of His Virtue. Why did Jesus “give up the Ghost?” Because the Holy Spirit within Jesus is Virtue. He healed all the nations of all time; at least He provided the “repair,” but broken people must desire repair. The woman with the blood issue did.  We all have a “blood issue.” Jesus fixed her loss of blood by applying a band-aid of Virtue. The flow of the Virtue in Jesus provided the counter to the flow of blood. He fixed the massive flow of blood by damming it with a reverse flow of His Virtue.

  The Power of Jesus is Virtue. It is the Energy that creates and heals. By grace, God lost His Virtue to make Adam, and when the promise to Adam was fulfilled, He remade Adam with Virtue. The blood and water Jesus lost on the cross was the flowing of His Virtue. The blood and water healed the nations.

  That Virtue in the blood and water flowing from the abdomen of Jesus is no different than the blood and water that came from God’s side when be breathed life unto Adam (Gen 2:7). In God’s blood and water, in both cases, was Virtue; indeed, there is power in the blood, as the song goes. That “Power” is not only God’s blood but is the Living Water. As Jesus said to the woman at the well, she needed a drink of “Living Water” and Jesus provided that “drink” from His own Vessel just as He gave up the Ghost. That State of God is Power and the source of Virtue. The Virtue that flowed from Jesus is the same Virtue that flowed from His side when He breathed life unto Adam! Adam’s lifeblood was from the flow of Virtue from God.

  According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, that Virtue must be conserved. God’s Virtue is isentropic in that there was no loss of Virtue. The Virtue now is the same Virtue as in the Beginning, but its distribution is different. God shared it with His children.

  When a person is born again, the “Living Water” that God loses flows from Him to His newborn child. Scripture says that is the baptism of Jesus, and is the Virtue transmitted from God to man in the form of the Holy Ghost. The “Ghost” of Jesus is the source of Virtue, and Scripture calls that “Goodness” the “Comforter” because Goodness comforts (John 14:16). Thus, Virtue is not lost, but goes from one form to another — from the bodily shaped Spirit of Jesus to the “You-shaped” soul inside you. Virtue did not flow in the baptism of John except for Jesus (John 1:33).

  God was sharing the volume of Virtue in Existence with Jesus so that he could heal. He did not share any Virtue with water baptism. There was a Baptism of Jesus as well, but He never used stream water, but Living Water. That is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. That Baptism is Living Water flowing from God to man. Rebirth is the sharing of God’s Virtue just as Jesus did when he stopped the woman’s blood from flowing. Hers was sinful blood, for all have sinned. Jesus stopped the sin in her with Virtue. That Power healed her, and the Virtue in Jesus would soon provide healing to the nations!

  On the seventh day, what did God do? He rested from the loss of His Virtue. However, it was not lost. It was conserved. We know that from the passage, “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day” (Gen 1:31).

  “Very good” is humility. In the Hebrew it was “m@ ‘od towb.”(wholly warmed; literally). None of the “hot” from the creation process was wasted. It was “wholly good” in the sense that none of the original heat (Energy) was wasted from God. His original Virtue was conserved and made the Earth “entirely good” with no loss in the Virtue of God!

  God rested. He had lost much Virtue in creating all things and breathing Virtue into mankind. With all those processes completed, all God needed was to regain the Virtue that He had given to His Creation and His Creatures. They were commanded to multiply (Gen 1:22) and grow that Virtue. God wanted only one thing from His Creatures and that was “recharging” His loss of Virtue. Virtue is the flow of love. “God so loved the world” (John 3:16) that He created it and its inhabitants. He only wanted to be loved in return to conserve the Virtue that He had given up. Creation was by grace because God gave up some of His Virtue for Adam kind, and He did that again, by sharing His Virtuous Love when Jesus gave Virtue from Him with His blood and water.

  Because God again shared Virtue by providing His Virtuous Son, then all He wants in return is all the Virtue in His children, to wit: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength” (Mark 12:30). If Christians do that, Virtue is returned to God and no Virtue is lost. It is God’s Law of the Conservation of Virtue that rightfully belongs in the First Law of Thermodynamics but is neglected. Virtue is “isentropic” in that God’s Energy cannot be lost, and it is reversible!

  God’s rest was waiting to be recharged. Rather than love God back and conserve God’s Virtue, they wasted Virtue by committing sin.

  Sin is negative Virtue and the loss of God’s Goodness. Virtue (Good) seemed lost when evil (negative Goodness) was discovered. The budding physicists (Adam and Eve) discovered negative Virtue by eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. With that process discovered, Adam and Eve lost Goodness from the Evil in the tree, and God planned how to get Virtue restored. In Genesis 3:15, God revealed another process to regenerate lost Virtue. He would provide a Virtuous Man to regenerate Adam kind, and that would be the sharing of His Holy Ghost. Jesus “breathed life” unto Adam kind, by the loss of His Virtue on another “Tree.” What did Jesus do as the Form of God? He spilled Virtue on the world, then He rested for three days.

  After a short time, He came back glorified. His three-day rest had restored Him, and HIs old Flesh became new. It went from corruptible like ours, to incorruptible while he rested. He was fully regenerated. He was finished on His Tree. All His virtue was drained, but in the womb of the tomb, His Virtue was replenished, and He was ready to be God again. God’s Virtue is sufficient. It was enough to generate and regenerate.

  Now, fully charged, the Holy Ghost of Jesus is in the world to share that Virtue. As Virtuous people, to conserve Virtue, it must be shared with others. It is to multiply Virtue. That is our purpose in life — to grow Virtue with all Adam’s posterity. We are to love God and others with all our being, “Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; (2 Pet 2:5-6). In Galatians five there is a list of Virtues — nine of the twelve fruits of the Spirit… twelve Virtuous efforts.

  Before moving on from “rest” to another subject, consider the Law of the Conservation of Energy, to wit: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another” (Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet). Hence, the Energy called “Virtue” cannot be created. That agrees with Scripture as a Virtuous God did the creating, but that Virtue always Existed, in “THE EXISTENCE” whom we call “Jehovah God.”

  Likewise, Virtue can never be destroyed. “And He said unto me, ‘It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.’” (Rev 21:6). That ample amount of Virtue is unlimited and shared freely with all. Since the “water of life” is the same Virtue that generated Adam, and the same Virtue that will soon regenerate him, it is the same Virtue from God that flowed to regenerate us all! Revelation is the end of the original process of creating and providing a flow of Virtue to regenerate. “Revelation” could be retitled, “Re-Genesis” because it is about the conservation of Virtue.

  Energy, according to Émilie, “can only be transformed or transferred.” God, in the beginning, transferred His Virtue into all things created. He transferred His Virtue to Adam with the breath of life! But Virtue can be transformed as well. God transformed Himself into Flesh then provided the Virtue when Jesus was baptized. Before Jesus faced death, God revisited, and transformed the Son of Man completely into the Son of God on the Mount of Transfiguration. Jesus was transformed again when He was glorified with all the Spirit of God with new transformed Flesh for the Paradise in which He would return. God ahs never lost Virtue and never will. He merely transfers it to others through the Holy Spirit or transforms His creation into a new creature. You see? The Law of Conservation of Energy is the Law of God! It was all about the transfer of love and transforming persons all along. It was never about the Ten Laws written on stone! The Greatest Commandment, therefore, is the Law of Virtue, and the conservation of it.

  Now consider the phrase, “created and made” in the key verses — “bara and ‘asah.” Bara is literally, “cutting” or “carve out.” Like blind Bartimaeus before me, I see “men as trees; walking.” Perhaps the Garden of God was not a garden of trees at all, but a Garden of Living Souls! The seed of Adam was “planted” in the Garden and grew from the ground. Then life was breathed, or transferred, to Adam from God in the form of Virtue. That was according to the Law of Conservation of Energy. The “hose” for the Living Water was, I believe, the “silver cord” that will be loosed (Ecc 12:6).

  In other words, at death the life-transferring “hose” from God’s side shall be removed as with Paul who said, “To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21) Christ in you is the “silver cord” of Virtue, and “gain” is when it is loosed. All the Virtue from God imbued after rebirth changes things and is enough to transform those alive in Christ to Living Souls preserved by Christ until they are glorified and regenerated just as Adam was — wholly good (perfect in flesh, mind, and Virtue).

  What was God “cutting” when He created. He “cut wood.” He formed the “trees” of the Garden into living souls. Not by coincidence, Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3). The “wood” that He cut was mankind. Bartimaeus surely saw Jesus; as a tree walking. He surely saw Jesus as the Tree of Life in the Garden and in the Paradise in heaven. In his restoration, Virtue caused him to see through the “sea of glass” beneath God’s throne and there was the Tree of Life at His right side (Rev 22:2).

  Only after Virtue is transferred back can one eat of the Tree of Life, “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God” (Rev 2:7). The Way to the Tree of Life is guarded by cherubim (Gen 3:24) to keep all from eating, excepting those who have walked the Way of Jesus… in virtue.

  “’Asah” (made) is “work” in English. Work is the expenditure of energy. God expended His Virtue to cut us creatures of “wood.” When Jesus gave up Virtue, that was all the work required to “recut” mankind. His blood and water that mingled with the dust in the ground was a repeat of the original forming of Adam, to wit: “There went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. 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” (Gen 2:6-7). Compare that to this passage, “When they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:33-34).

  Like Adam long before, God made man again — regenerated what He had generated — by Living Water mixed with dust and adding His own “DNA” through His blood. In that process, Jesus conserved Virtue to regenerate all those who would have faith in the water and the blood (1 John 5:6). That Virtue and DNA of God breathed life unto dying souls again. Soon, Adam kind will be resurrected along with Adam himself!

  The last of the key verses is, “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.” Tomorrow, I shall conclude my commentary with that passage.

(picture credit: St. Albans Catholic Church; "The Holy Ghost")