Bereshit

 Bereshit

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ

The word "Bereshit" (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית), translated as "beginning," is a noun with the prefix "בְּ." It means "lead" or "head," not "in the beginning," as in English. It signifies the head of God's house.

Hebrew grammar consists of verb + subject + object. Since this sentence refers to Bereshit, the objective relative pronoun between Bereshit and Bara Elohim et Hashamayim et Ha'erets is omitted.

Bereshit (whom) God created the heavens and the earth.

Since Bereshit and the heavens and the earth are equivalent, it means that God created the head of the temple corresponding to heaven and the earth.

 

Bereshit is a compound word of Beh and Reshit (prefix preposition + feminine singular noun). Here, Beh (בְּ) means house of God, and Reshit means orderly order, not chronological order.

John 1:1 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος 『In the beginning (en arche) was the Word』 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος

En Arche is not the beginning, but the head of the temple, the same concept as the Hebrew word Bereshit. Translated again, the head of the temple is Ho Logos, representing Christ.

If we break down Reshit, it is made up of Rosh רֵאשִׁ֖ and Yit. The prefixes Be and Yit combined together mean "house of God." Rosh means "head." Therefore, it is the head of the house of God. In Reshit, Re means "head," Aleph represents God, Shin represents the teeth, Yod represents the hand, and Tau represents the sign of the cross.

God, the head, is the one who shows his teeth and is the leader who indicates with his hand. The head of the temple is Christ.

This depicts Christ, the head, leading His people somewhere. The first man, Adam, brings someone from the kingdom of God to this earth, and the last Adam takes them back. Those who leave God's house are considered sinners. Therefore, salvation comes when sinners who have left God return to God's house.

However, הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם (Hashamaiyim) does not mean sky, but the kingdom of God. הָאָֽרֶץ (Haaretz) means the material world.

In Genesis 1:1, "God, the head, created the heavens and the earth," or "He said, 'Let there be heaven and earth,'" we must examine the meaning of heaven and earth. People perceive heaven and earth as the visible heaven and earth. However, the Greek Bible has a different meaning.

הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם (Hashamaiyim) does not mean sky, but heavens. הָאָֽרֶץ (Haaretz) means material (earth).

The Kingdom of God, where God reigns, already exists, so why does God create heaven and earth again? This represents Christ.

In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is both the Son of Man and the Son of God. The Son of Man represents matter (earth), while the Son of God represents heaven. Therefore, the heaven and earth that God created represent Christ.

The title Genesis is also a translation of the English Bible, and the title in the Hebrew Bible is Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית).

The title for the story of Genesis 1-3 is Genesis 1:1. Chapters and verses are a later addition by humans; the original Hebrew Bible did not have chapters and verses.

To say that God creates the Kingdom of God means that he created Christ, Christ, who dwells within the human heart, and the third heaven, that is, the Kingdom of God within the human heart. The Hebrew word shamayim and the Greek word uranon are both plural, meaning the Kingdom of God (Christ) of the saints.

Next is the land ('eretz). Genesis 1:9 states, "And God gathered the waters under the whole heaven into one place, and said, 'Let the waters appear,' and God called the dry land 'Earth.'" That land is 'eretz. We can see that the land in Genesis 1:1 does not refer to the earth, but to the material world. Therefore, this material world can also be said to be the physical body.

In Genesis 1:1, God created the head of the temple with a body made of dust, and with a spirit created the first man called heaven, and the first man was Christ.

Colossians 1:15, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." This refers to Christ. The first man is Christ, and Jesus, the last Adam, is also Christ.

Romans 5:14 “Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one to come.” The NIV Bible says who was a pattern of the one to come, and the KJV Bible says who is the figure of him that was to come.

In the Greek Bible, ὅς ἐστιν τύπος (model) τοῦ μέλλοντος

The word tupos, translated as model, is interpreted to mean a seal, statue, model, or example. In other words, the first man is a shadow or copy of the last Adam, Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45-47 “And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being,’ the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. Yet the spiritual man is not first, but the natural man, and afterward the spiritual man. The first man is of the earth, dusty; the second man is from heaven.”

The term "living soul" is a mistranslation, meaning a living (limited) being. 1 Corinthians 15:45-47 states that since Jesus Christ is both the Son of Man and the Son of God, the Son of Man who died on the cross was born with the sarx (physical body) of the first man, while the resurrected Son of God was born with a spiritual body.

Why is Christ the first man? We cannot avoid telling the story of the Garden of Eden. We must consider whether the Garden of Eden represents the world or the Kingdom of God.