Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof;
the world, and they that dwell therein.
In light of yesterday's post Reclaiming Our Voice it seemed good to share a slightly edited re-post of a re-post from my original blog in 2013 when the subject of the authority and the power of words began to take root in me. I so much enjoyed what I discovered, I thought perhaps some of you may find it helpful, or at the very least interesting. So without further ado, here in part is, A Speaking What?
Saturday, October 19, 2013
A Speaking What?
I’ve been looking forward to this entry for a while but wasn’t certain how to present it, but since it’s such a foundational truth (as far as I’m concerned) if we’d like to understand more about how God created man to function in His Likeness, I decided it’s time to go for it.
In my June 25, 2013 entry entitled Three Lives? I posted some information regarding the plural form of the word “life” which was used in Genesis 2:7. Here’s the original King James Version of that verse: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.
And here’s how it reads if you replace the word “life” with the plural form as it is in the original Hebrew:
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives; and man became a living soul.
So man became a “living soul” once God breathed the breath of lives into him making all 3 parts of man-his spirit, his soul and his body-one living being created in God’s own likeness. Genesis 1:1 confirms through the Hebrew translation this very fact. In sharing what Derek Prince wrote in his book War in Heaven, I wrote that plural nouns or pronouns normally require a plural verb, but in Genesis 1:1 this is not the case at all:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (my emphasis).
Here, “God” is plural (Elohim) while “created” is singular establishing God as a Triune Being though functionally One, so in His likeness He created man to be as He was and is. Unfortunately this oneness-along with the complete contentment and satisfaction within their whole being because of their union with God-ended with Adam and Eve’s choice to follow the deceiver’s voice rather than God’s.
I’ve written all this in order to share another discovery found in those few words contained in Genesis 2:7, but first I want to say how captivated I am by the precision of it all-the amount of revelation packed in such a few words-how interesting, and very impressive in design has everything been laid out, both in the actual creation and in the use of words to describe it accurately!
Now, finally, another secret intimated in the use of the words “living soul” in Genesis 2:7. This bit of information comes from The Stone Edition of the Chumash, a Hebrew commentary which includes comments from the Sages-Jewish scholars. I’d heard of this particular reference from several sources over the course of a few years before I decided to look into it and see for myself. The following is what I found. One of the Sages writes that the soul mentioned in verse 7 was made a “speaking spirit”, because only God could “blow” into man a rational soul which includes intelligent speech.
Once again, here’s the verse as it is written in Genesis 2:7 KJV:
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.
Here’s what it looks like with the inclusion of the information we’ve discovered:
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives; and man became a speaking spirit (emphasis mine).
This information confirms to me that we, Man, were indeed created in God’s likeness, having been given dominion and authority as stated in Genesis 1:26-29. And how else was man to have dominion over the earth and the creatures God created, except by speaking words even as God created everything by speaking words? End of re-post.
All I know is this: I want to give Him all the room He needs in order for me to be a proper speaking spirit so I can partner with Him. I know this requires us to allow the old nature to have no place in us so we can live continually out of our reborn spirit which is fully capable of being filled with the new wine that the old wine skin can not contain.
I'll close this post with something the Spirit said to me December 6, 2020:
A born again speaking spirit's mouth is only satisfied with words spoken
from a heart established in righteousness.
And that pretty much settles it for me.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.