The Title
Over the past 5 years or so our eyes have opened to understand the book of Revelation (uncovering). The cover has been pulled back, we discovered Jesus Christ, and we saw him as the pattern of perfection in the number seven. This understanding brings a new desire to study the seven days of creation and the book of Genesis. I will call this study: "The Revelation of Genesis." This means to uncover the pattern of Christ in the "Book of Genesis."
First, let's examine the title, "The Book of Genesis," which is called by the hebrews, "The Book of Generations." Here in Genesis, the word "generation" is used 21 times in the book (which are the 3 feast months: times the 7 feast days). This is the same pattern of perfection as the tabernacle and the book of Revelation. Eighteen times the plural form "generations" appear (which are the 3 feast months: times 6, the number of man). Ten times the words "these are" are added to the plural (which is the number of human government.) If the number of man, 6, is multiplied by itself 3 times and then times 10, we get 6x6x6x10=2160, one shift from house to house in the celestial procession of the zodiac). Chapter 5, verse 1 declares that this is "the book of the generations of Adam." Adam represents the beginning of a new house for God, the Christ generation. This is a proper beginning for this book, "The Book of Generations" (Book: "The Bible Through the Ages," Readers Digest Association, 1996, pg. 97, par. 4). By the way, the New Testament also begins in Matthew 1:1, calling Matthew "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham."
Let's go to chapter 1 and look at some things. Most often the first verse of a chapter in the bible contains information that gives a clear meaning to the passages of the book to follow. The first sentence, in the first chapter of the book of Genesis does NOT clearly give us insight into the purpose of this book, if it is truly "The Book of Generations" (Chapter 5, verse 1 is clearly the beginning of the book of Genesis). Experts agree that chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Genesis were added some time after the chronicles of Adam.
The first chapter shows us the same pattern of Christ as did the book of Revelation and is therefore a prophecy of the one to come, who is the beginning of the creation of God (Elohiym), Rev. 3:14. (The new species of man, who is the express image and likeness of God, Hebrews 1:3)
Chapters 2-4 and much of the Old Testament are at best a mixture of Sumerian, Old Persian, Babylon, Assyrian and Hebrew texts. The ancestors of Noah developed a method of record keeping in the form of pictographs. This knowledge was passed down by Noah (10th from Adam) to his descendants in Sumer Mesopotamia, 3500-3300BC. One of its' largest cities was called Ur (Abraham came from Ur, 19th century 2000-1900BC). These hand-painted pictographs were rotated 90 degrees and put together as readable text in Old Persia (modern day Iran). Later, the Amorites (the 1st Babylonian dynasty) printed this form of text. They were the first to employ the use of cut reeds that were pressed into clay tablets and baked. This style was called cuneiform (cuneus, Latin: reed, canon) and became known as the Akkadian language of the Babylonians and Assyrians. From 1830-1850, Sir Henry Rawlinson successfully deciphered this language. For the first time, we could understand early writings such as the compilation of seven Sumerian tablets, containing a poem about creation (the emuna-elish). This language of the early Babylonians also revealed a story of the flood called the Epic of Gilgamesh. When king Ashurbanipal built his palace in the Assyrian city of Ninevah, 17th century BC, he constructed a library that contained 1,500 Akkadian texts. The Royal Archives at Mari have a collection of over 20,000 such texts. The total number of tablets found to date is well over 30,000, as well as thousands of fragments.
The Hebrews adopted many of the Sumerian customs and traditions handed down from Abraham (their "father" of faith). They embraced a mixture of oral stories and written text and attributed many of the characteristics of the Sumerian gods to one God of their own called YHVH (hebrew national name of God). Hebrew scribes called Masoretes, meaning "to hand down" (see: Kere Kethib), dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the hebrew people, sorted and compiled a kind of bible (library) in the old hebrew language. The Aleppo Codex recorded by Aaron ben Asher and his fellow Masoretes, attempted to put things in order by adding a poem of creation and a story about the flood, 10th century BC. Over the next few centuries, these scribes put together texts called "the masoretic scriptures:" 5 books of Law; 8 of Prophets - one of which is called "The Twelve," which includes the 12 minor prophets from Hosea to Malachi; and 11 books called Writings.
It is often taught that the 5 books of the Law of Moses were written in his own hand around 1,275BC. However, critical analysis of the facts surrounding the text dispel this idea and indicate its' arrival some time during the 9th to 7th centuries BC. The Samaritan Pentateuch, (5 books of the Law), and 19 masoretic books made up the hebrew canon (authorized scriptures) by the 6th century BC. Further revisions were made under the watchful eye of King Ezra. He authorized further unification by weaving the texts of four recognized authors scriptures together.
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