God is one, a plurality of His sevenfold Spirit (Isaiah 11:2), and there are different forms and means through which He has chosen to manifest Himself to the world. God created man from the earth, and He breathed his spirit into his nostrils, and man became a living soul. And God called his name Adam and placed him in the garden he had prepared for him to dress and maintain. And God created a helpmate for Adam, whom he named Eve (the mother of all living).

One commandment was given to Adam and his wife: do not eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When they broke that commandment, they did not need to be told they were naked; they were conscious of it and were ashamed. Therefore, they hid themselves among the trees in the garden.

Likewise, when Cain slew his brother Abel, he knew he had done evil. When the Lord inquired about Abel’s whereabouts, Cain replied, “I know not. Am I my brother’s keeper?” He did not need to be told he had transgressed; he knew and therefore lied, attempting to hide his sin. This was before any law was given, bearing witness to an inherent law in the conscience.

God breathed the breath of life into Adam, and he became a living soul, placing in him a part of himself—a conscience, which became awakened to the knowledge of good and evil through sin. Man only became conscious of sin after transgression. It was then that their eyes were opened to their guilt—the transgression of the law written in the conscience. There was no written law at the time sin entered the world, or after, until the law was given to Moses. Until Moses, mankind was subject to conscience.

With the entrance of the law, six days of labor were instituted that would need to be fulfilled for the full redemption of mankind until rest from sin on the seventh day. Each day represents 1000 years granted to mankind to have charge over the affairs of this world until the 6000 years are complete. Then the Lord set up His Kingdom on the seventh day. And He will reign forever.

The hearts of men became hardened by habitual sin as the spirit of man prevailed over his conscience. Becoming increasingly detached from God, mankind eventually reached the point of being irredeemable. God repented that he had made man and determined that he would be forced to destroy all of humanity from off the face of the earth. However, Noah found grace and was spared along with his seven family members.

After the former world was destroyed, men began again to multiply and repopulate the earth. United as one people with one mind, they rebelled against God and determined to establish an earthly kingdom at Babel. In anger, the Lord confounded their language and scattered them around the world. Humanity was divided into many nations, languages, and kindreds, and they made their own gods and walked in their own ways.

Avram also found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and God separated him from his people and sent him beyond the Euphrates to make himself a people. Abvram believed God—even to the point that he was willing to sacrifice his own son, Isaac—and an everlasting covenant was given to him, and he was called the friend of God. God changed his name from Avram (exalted father) to Abraham (father of a multitude), placing a part of His name, Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ, Yāh), in Avram’s name. And he was given the promise of becoming a father of many nations to bring forth a holy people unto God.

Abraham became the father of the covenant of faith, and he was given the circumcision as a seal. This was the beginning of a new age—the first age being two millennial days (2000 years) from Adam to Abraham.

The second age, beginning with Abraham—a 2000-year period wherein righteousness was imputed by obedience to faith—was codified on the fourth millennial day (4000 years) with the death and resurrection of the promised Messiah. Two millennia from the Messiah remain to be fulfilled until the six days of the Lord’s work—6000 years foreshadowed in Genesis by the week—concludes with the seventh millennial day, the Sabbath.

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