Building on the Foundation

  Having previously studied the first five numbers, it’s time now to cover the number 6. It’s commonly accepted that, in God’s Word, the number 6 represents man. Humanity. The question is, Why? How do we know that the number 6 in Scripture represents mankind? Let’s take a look! To start with, God created Adam and Eve on the sixth day of Creation, last of all His creatures. And when He created them, He gave them dominion over all other creatures which He’d made: “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’” (Gen. 1:26). Though God made other creatures on the sixth day also — “the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind” (Gen. 1:25) — He gave dominion only to man. The creation of man was the cu...

Many of the theological mysteries in life are mysteries for a reason, and answers, even partial answers are not possible without a great deal of speculation, such as, “What did God do before Earth?” for example, or “Where did the garden of Eden go?” Or even impossible to comprehend beyond such a basic answer as to be no answer at all like the question, "Where did God come from?" Eternity is easily imagined going into the future, but it will inspire smoke from your brain to imagine it going backwards. The question we are seeking an answer to today is not one of these, though at first glance it may appear to be so. The Bible actually has a great deal to say on the topic, and though the answers it contains may not satisfy all of our questions, it fully answers the main ones. We must be satisfied with the main trunk of the answers and content with such branches of the question that are given to us.  We seek an answer to the question, “Who is Satan?”  Even more importantly, “What ...

  Of our great Creator, we read, “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers” (Isa. 40:22). Compared to Him, we are tiny, puny creatures. Or, as Abraham put it, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord” (Gen. 18:27). Again, God says, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa. 55:9). The Almighty is so far above us, and so much greater in every way, that it boggles the mind. How, then, can we comprehend such an all-powerful and all-wise Creator as a friend to any of His puny creatures? Next to Him, we are nothing! Why would He even desire friendship with such creatures? And yet He is a friend, and He does desire such relationships! God plainly called Abraham His friend, saying to his descendants, “But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend” (Isa. 41:8). T...