2. Bereshith (In the beginning), Bara (created), Elohim (God)
GENESIS 2:1-3

3. GENESIS 2:1-25, PLEASE STAND
 Gen 2:1-25, Thus the heavens and the earth
were completed in all their vast array.
 A summary overview of chapter 1, the first 6
days.

5. GENESIS 2:1, “ALL THEIR HOSTS”
 "Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
completed, and all their hosts (tsava) [κόσμος] ."
 293 X’s in NAU, only a few are not “Lord/God of hosts”
 "Exodus 6:26…the LORD said, "Bring out the sons of
Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.”
 "Exodus 7:4…I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out
My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of
Egypt by great judgments."
 "Exodus 12:17…I brought your hosts out of the land of
Egypt…
 "Exodus 12:41…all the hosts of the LORD went out from
the land of Egypt."
 "Psalm 148:2 Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all
His hosts!"

6. GENESIS 2:1, “ALL THEIR HOSTS”
 "CSB" "divisions" NET "regiments" " NKJ
"armies" , LXX δύναμις power
 NET Notes (Gen 2:1)… Heb "and all the
host of them." Here the "host" refers to all
the entities and creatures that God
created to populate the world.

7. GENESIS 2:1, “ALL THEIR HOSTS (tsava)”
 <06635> tsaba (838d)
 Meaning: army, war, warfare
 Origin: from 6633
 Usage: armies(23), army(79), army*(1),
battle(1), combat(1), conflict(1), forced to
labor(1), hardship(1), host(30), hosts(292),
hosts is the army(1), most(1), service(10),
struggle(1), trained(1), war(35), warfare(1).
 Notes: Deu 4:19; Deu 17:3

8. GENESIS 2:1, “ALL THEIR HOSTS”
 "Deuteronomy 4:19 "And beware not to lift up
your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the
moon and the stars, all the host of heaven…“
 " Deuteronomy 17:3 and has gone and
served other gods and worshiped them, or
the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly
host

10. THE SABBATH DAY
 Gen 2:2…on the seventh day he [God]
rested from all his work.

12. THE SABBATH DAY
 Genesis 2:1 Israel’s sabbath was not
celebrated on certain days of the month and
was not linked to the cycles of the moon or to
any other cycle of nature; it was simply
observed every seventh day.
 IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

13. THE SABBATH DAY
 Ex 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day by
keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and
do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall
not do any work, neither you, nor your son or
daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant,
nor your animals, nor the alien within your
gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, but he rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day
and made it holy.

14. THE SABBATH DAY
 Ex 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day…[?]
 Don’t forget what I’m about to tell you about
the 7th. Day
 Or remember something you already know
about from Gen. 2:2, &;
 Gen 4:3 In the course of time
[Sabbath?]Cain brought [to a specified
place & time?] some of the fruits of the soil
as an offering to the Lord.

15. THE SABBATH DAY
 Ex 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day…
 This word is only used 134 X’s in the NIV
 First used in Ex. 16:23

16. THE SABBATH DAY, A FEW IMPORTANT VERSES
 Matt 12:11…."If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit
on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
 Matt 24:20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter
or on the Sabbath.
 Mark 2:27 Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made
for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath."
 Acts 1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the hill
called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day's walk from the
city.
 Col 2:16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what
you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New
Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.

17. THE SABBATH DAY
 Rom 14:5-10 One man considers one day more
sacred than another; another man considers every
day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his
own mind. 6 He who regards one day as special,
does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the
Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who
abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to
God. 7 For none of us lives to himself alone and none
of us dies to himself alone. 8 If we live, we live to the
Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether
we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very
reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he
might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

18. THE SABBATH DAY
 Rom 14:5-10
 This would have been an ideal place for Paul
and God to lay down all the rules and
regulations for the New Covenant Sabbath if
there was one.

19. THE SABBATH, F. W. ROBERTSON
 The Sabbath, originally instituted for man at his creation, is of
permanent and universal obligation. The physical necessities of man
require a Sabbath of rest. He is so constituted that his bodily welfare
needs at least one day in seven for rest from ordinary labour.
Experience also proves that the moral and spiritual necessities of
men also demand a Sabbath of rest. "I am more and more sure by
experience that the reason for the observance of the Sabbath lies
deep in the everlasting necessities of human nature, and that as long
as man is man the blessedness of keeping it, not as a day of rest
only, but as a day of spiritual rest, will never be annulled. I certainly
do feel by experience the eternal obligation, because of the eternal
necessity, of the Sabbath. The soul withers without it. It thrives in
proportion to its observance. The Sabbath was made for man. God
made it for men in a certain spiritual state because they needed it.
The need, therefore, is deeply hidden in human nature. He who can
dispense with it must be holy and spiritual indeed. And he who, still
unholy and unspiritual, would yet dispense with it is a man that would
fain be wiser than his Maker" (F. W. Robertson).

20. SABBATH IN ARCHEOLOGY
 The ancient Babylonian calendar, as seen from
recently recovered inscriptions on the bricks among
the ruins of the royal palace, was based on the
division of time into weeks of seven days. The
Sabbath is in these inscriptions designated Sabattu,
and defined as "a day of rest for the heart" and "a day
of completion of labour.” Easton's Bible Dictionary
 “A day of completion of labour”
 Do you feel a sense of accomplishment on Saturday
night & look forward to Sunday?

21. SABBATH IN ARCHEOLOGY
 Archeology shows a 7 day week with the
Sabbath as "a day of rest .”

22. IS THE SABBATH SUNDAY?
 The change of the day. Originally at creation the seventh day of the
week was set apart and consecrated as the Sabbath. The first day of the
week is now observed as the Sabbath. Has God authorized this
change? There is an obvious distinction between the Sabbath as an
institution and the particular day set apart for its observance. The
question, therefore, as to the change of the day in no way affects the
perpetual obligation of the Sabbath as an institution. Change of the day
or no change, the Sabbath remains as a sacred institution the same. It
cannot be abrogated.
 If any change of the day has been made, it must have been by Christ or
by his authority. Christ has a right to make such a change (Mark 2:23-
28). As Creator, Christ was the original Lord of the Sabbath (John 1:3;
Heb 1:10). It was originally a memorial of creation. A work vastly greater
than that of creation has now been accomplished by him, the work of
redemption. We would naturally expect just such a change as would
make the Sabbath a memorial of that greater work.
 Easton's Bible Dictionary

23. IS THE SABBATH SUNDAY?
True, we can give no text authorizing the change in so many words. We
have no express law declaring the change. But there are evidences of
another kind. We know for a fact that the first day of the week has been
observed from apostolic times, and the necessary conclusion is, that it
was observed by the apostles and their immediate disciples. This, we
may be sure, they never would have done without the permission or the
authority of their Lord.
 After his resurrection, which took place on the first day of the week (Matt
28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1), we never find Christ meeting
with his disciples on the seventh day. But he specially honoured the first
day by manifesting himself to them on four separate occasions (Matt
28:9; Luke 24:34,18-33; John 20:19-23). Again, on the next first day of
the week, Jesus appeared to his disciples (John 20:26).
 Easton's Bible Dictionary

24. IS THE SABBATH SUNDAY?
 Some have calculated that Christ's ascension took
place on the first day of the week. And there can be no
doubt that the descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost
was on that day (Acts 2:1). Thus Christ appears as
instituting a new day to be observed by his people as
the Sabbath, a day to be henceforth known amongst
them as the "Lord's day." The observance of this
"Lord's day" as the Sabbath was the general custom of
the primitive churches, and must have had apostolic
sanction (comp. Acts 20:3-7; 1 Cor 16:1,2) and
authority, and so the sanction and authority of Jesus
Christ.
 Easton's Bible Dictionary

25. WHY SUNDAY?
Thetomb was found empty on
Sunday;

26. WHY SUNDAY?
 Matt 28:1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first
day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary went to look at the tomb.
 Mark 16:2-3 Very early on the first day of the
week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to
the tomb
 Luke 24:1-2 On the first day of the week, very
early in the morning, the women took the spices
they had prepared and went to the tomb.

27. WHY SUNDAY?
Jesus repeatedly met with the
gathered disciples on Sunday;

28. WHY SUNDAY?
 Matt 28:9 Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said….
 Luke 24:36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus
himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with
you."
 Luke 24:13-16 Now that same day two of them were going to
a village called Emmaus…Jesus himself came up and walked
along with them…
 John 20:26 A week later his disciples were in the house again,
and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked,
Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with
you!“
 Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all
together in one place.

29. WHY SUNDAY?
We repeatedly see the gathered
disciples meeting on Sunday;

30. WHY SUNDAY?
 Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week we came
together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people
and, because he intended to leave the next day,
kept on talking until midnight.
 1 Cor 16:1-2 Now about the collection for God's
people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to
do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of
you should set aside a sum of money in keeping
with his income, saving it up, so that when I come
no collections will have to be made.

31. ... THE IMPORTANCE OF SABBATH REST
 Everybody needs a little rest every so often.

33. GEN 2:2B, GOD RESTED?
 Gen 2:2…on the seventh day he [God]
rested from all his work.
 Was God tired?
 God had brought His creating work to
completion.

34. GOD RESTED
 Gen 2:2…he [God] rested from all his work.
 OT:7673 shabath (shaw-bath'); a primitive root;
to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in
many implied relations (causative, figurative or
specific):
 KJV - (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate,
cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to
be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to)
rest, rid, still, take away.

35. A SABBATH — REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD
 Heb 4:8-11 For if Joshua had given them
rest, God would not have spoken later about
another day. 9 There remains, then, a
Sabbath — rest for the people of God; 10 for
anyone who enters God's rest also rests from
his own work, just as God did from his. 11 Let
us, therefore, make every effort to enter that
rest, so that no one will fall by following their
example of disobedience.

36. A SABBATH — REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD
 Heb 4:8-11
 This would be another ideal place for God to
lay down all the rules and regulations for the
New Covenant Sabbath.
 We didn’t find them in Rom 14:5-10, or here,
so where will we find them?
 Not anywhere in the N.T., but you will find it
in the teachings of many N.T. Bible teachers.

37. THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY
 The Lord would not have blessed the
Sabbath day unless it was completed.
 Gen 2:3…because on it he rested [past
tense, not present, “He is resting”, Hebrew
perfect tense] from all the work of creating
that he had done.

38. Syntax is all the money collected
at church from sinners.
IN CONCLUSION

39. THE END
 It's not the ship in the water but the water in
the ship that sinks it. So it's not the Christian
in the world but the world in the Christian that
constitutes the danger. John Wilbur Chapman

40. ACTS AND FACTS, DR. LARRY VARDIMAN
 “Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human Origin.”
 A team of scientists that includes Dr. Daniel Criswell of ICR has
…completed a study of mitochondrial DNA …presenting…International
Conference on Creationism… the mitochondrion has its own small DNA
molecule and this DNA is passed down from mother to child. The study
has revealed an unexpected lack of diversity within worldwide human
mitochondrial lineages, despite high mutation rates, and this supports
the idea that humanity is only a few thousand years old.
 …it contains several interesting tenets: 1) there was a single dispersal of
mankind with three main mitochondrial lineages interspersed within
clans; 2) the dispersion was centered in the Middle East in the recent
past; 3) the dispersion was essentially tribal in nature, with small groups
pushing into previously uninhabited territory; and 4) genetic evidence
indicates that male lineages are much more geographically specific than
female lineages, with female migration rates up to eight times greater
than males. This latter tenet is an expression of the Babel account in
Genesis, where the initial, well-mixed population split up and migrated

41. ACTS AND FACTS
 In Acts and Facts, May, 2008, pg. 6, Dr. Larry Vardiman, Director of
Research at ICR, wrote “Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human
Origin.”
 Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human Origin
 by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D. *
 A team of scientists that includes Dr. Daniel Criswell of ICR has recently
completed a study of mitochondrial DNA and will be presenting its work
at this summer's International Conference on Creationism. A
mitochondrion is a cellular power plant that generates most of the
chemical energy the cell needs to support its functions. Although most of
a cell's DNA is contained in the nucleus, the mitochondrion has its own
small DNA molecule and this DNA is passed down from mother to child.
The study has revealed an unexpected lack of diversity within worldwide
human mitochondrial lineages, despite high mutation rates, and this
supports the idea that humanity is only a few thousand years old.
 Mitochondrial DNA has been used to develop several models of human