REAL Burundi
We have to see this difference in our talking to be able to think differently. If we keep building our reasoning upon a traditional theology we got only to repeat what we have learned and we will miss the train of transformation, just to use an expression of the Western world.
God did not create Adam and Eve! God created Adam, male and female. Genesis 5:1-2 Eve was named Eve after they decided to be independent from God. Actually Eve was also called Adam by God. Understand, they were two, but by God they were created one. We look them as two, God looked them as ONE.
The main thing both of them, one male and one female is that they have lost the image of God. They were not like God anymore. In that moment they who were one became two.
This is a different thinking. This is not logical for many of us. But that is what happen. The universe was one. They were one with God. When they took and have eaten the fruit of knowledge of good and evil the universe was broken, they were divided, they only ONE who remained in the whole creation was God. I will share just this for now.!The diversity of the world we see today comes from the first man who was one with his woman. That is why Jesus died in the cross to make us all ONE again like He and His Father are ONE.!
Earth was created in just one portion. There were not continents when God created Earth.
“And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:9-10 NIV
God said: Let the water gathered in one place and let dry ground appear.
“For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
II Peter 3:5-7 NKJV
The earth standing out of the water. There was water and in the middle there was the Earth.
And amazingly Peter also declares that existence as we know even now will cease to exist. Not just Earth but even the heavens "where God is" will be destroyed by fire.
Now read these verses carefully:
“Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.” Genesis 10:1, 25 NKJV
The name Peleg (Hebrew palag) means literally split, divided
“To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.” I Chronicles 1:19 NKJV
When the earth (dry ground) was flooded the earth was a singular portion in the midst of water. The dry ground was a solely portion.
“Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.” Genesis 11:1, 2-11
Pelegue was a descendant of Noah (read the rest of Gênesis chapter 11) and in his days mankind which had one language and were one was divided by God, mending they not just ceased to speak just one language but literally the whole dry ground was split and continents were formed. Curiously enough if you see the world map visibly you perceive every part of land came from each other as it looks like a puzzle.
In Genesis 11 the Earth and humans were divided, in Acts 2 men and women started to become one.
“When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?””
Acts 2:1, 3-12 NKJV
“Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” John 17:11, 20-23 NKJV
What this subject has to do with our goal in REAL is that since men were expelled from the garden they begin to produce culture, ways of communication, establish government among themselves, develop ways of raising their families, types of entertainment, how they educate the following generations, forms of trading and business, they have built cities and civilizations and increase religion instead of building resltionhsip with God. Before Noah you can find a man call Enoch and what we hear about him is this: Enoch walked with God!
After Noah and the flood it was not different, and men and women came together in rebellion to the point of building the Tower of Babel. All forms of culture came to the point again of despising God. Noah walked with God and after Babel Abraham walked with God.
Business and all other forms of cultures must be originated from our relationship with God.
Dr. Josimar Salum
