BIBLICAL CREATION TRUTH

is the bright morning Star, and ‘they that turn many to righteousness’ shine ‘as the stars for ever and ever’(Daniel 12:3).

It is just possible that stars may take in the Jewish remnant in the latter days. The value of the stars is particularly seen during the night when the moon is hidden. When the church is removed there will still be light, though not so bright. In the fourth day we come into practical righteousness as recognizing Christ as Lord in heaven.

In the fifth day we get life in a visible energetic way. ‘Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven’ (Genesis 1:20)-- the activity of life in an intelligent way, one might almost say, although man has not yet come into view. It is the introduction of life.

Following the course of the days in chapter 1, viewing them as indicating the order in which God works in men's souls so as to lead them into His Sabbath, it is evident that the sixth day brings the work to an end; for on this day man is created so as to exercise dominion over all that had been made. This was the completion, or top-stone, of what God had designed.

‘God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them’ (Genesis 1:27). In type this is Christ and the church as seen in (Ephesians 1). “When this shall have been literally accomplished, when Christ and the church are set over all things, God's rest shall ensue. God will ‘rest in his love’ (Zephaniah 3:17) but He shall rest because His work is completed. The Sabbath is cessation from labor (Genesis 2:2-3). On our side, on the side of human desire prompted by the Spirit, there is nothing more to be prayed for when the King's Son is recognized as on the throne. ‘The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended’ (Psalms 72:20).

We learn from (Exodus 31:17) that on the seventh day God ‘rested and was refreshed’. This may be applied to Christ as Man here on earth, for in Him God rested. There was the expression of the Father's delight, and the Spirit descended and abode upon Him. But in the full thought of it, the Sabbath refers to the period when God shall rest (all His counsels accomplished) in a renewed creation headed up in Christ.

Chapter 2 (Genesis) deals specially with man, his origin and nature: the scene of delight designed by God for him; the law by which he was to be governed there; his intelligence as indicated in his naming the animals, etc. and finally the origin and nature of her who was to be his companion.

It is Christ and the church brought very close to our eyes. Chapter 1:26, 27 foreshadows Christ as man according to God's counsels, but chapter 2 presents the historical side. Viewed in this light, the church is derived from Him. Adam's intelligence is particularly seen in the name he gives