Spiritual Gifts part 73. God did not create the earth a formless, waste place

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Thursday,
January 13, 2011

Spiritual Gifts Part 73: God did not create the earth a formless, waste place.

The Doctrine of Adoption

our Greek word huiothesia occurs twice in Romans 8, here in verse 15, and again in verse 23.

Verse 15 talks about the spirit in relation to adoption as sons, and what we have already received.

Verse 23 talks about the body in relation to the adoption as sons, and what we are waiting eagerly to receive.

The final result is that we shall become like the humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect and in glorified bodies.

The original function of nature was perfect order. However, nature had its fall along with man.

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, nature is going to function properly, ISA 11:1-10.

God will unveil the true nature of Christians at the Rapture, and He will publicly manifest our real status at the Second Advent of Christ.

The first occurred when satan and the fallen angels rebelled.

tohuw
from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing.

formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness
a) formlessness (used of primeval earth); nothingness, empty space
b) what is empty or unreal (used of idols) (figurative)

c) wasteland, wilderness (used of solitary places)
d) place of chaos
e) vanity

bohuw
from an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin:

The Hebrew expression for “formless and void” is
tohuw waa bohuw

ISA 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create [bara] it a waste place [tohuw], but formed it to be inhabited),

Therefore, something else had to happen between GEN 1:1 and GEN 1:2 so that the earth goes from not tohuw to tohuw.

Genesis 1:2 begins with a coordinating conjunction “waa”.