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א the silent alef
The alef is the first letter of the alefbet and it is often silent when words containing it are pronounced. Why isn't it the first letter of the Bible?
The meaning of the א is that God created the heavens and the earth. We can derive from its silence, both in pronunciation and in it's absence as the first letter of the Bible, that God created the heavens and the earth in silence, meaning that there was no one there to observe him do it.
This is the first time that a riddle was proposed along the lines of "if something happens somewhere and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?". In this case the answer is "No". Not only was there no one there to observe, but there was nothing for sound to bounce off of, or propagate through.
The real mystery of this is that in the single letter alef, it includes the creation of everything that was, is and will be, in heaven and in earth. Not only was there no one who could observe the first instance of creation, but there is nothing in creation that can step outside of it and observe the whole of it in the silence representative of God's experience alone.
ב the first revelation to man
The first letter of the first word of the first sentence of the first book of the Bible is the 'bet'. Is it by accident that it's meaning is 'a revelation to man'?
בראשית
As God begins his revelation to man, he explains the meaning of the silent alef with the first word of Ge 1:1. The hieroglyphic meaning of the first word is as follows:
- ב - a revelation to man:
- ר - God revealed himself
- א - to that which he created in silence
- ש - that when he spoke there were two responses (heavens and the earth)
- י - what he conceived before the creation.
- ת - was finished.
That is the same topic as the alef, but just a bit wordier. How do you teach someone to talk? You show them something, then you say the same thing over in different ways until they get it. You then build on what they have learned, in order to teach them more.
In The Director's Bible - 009 bereshith is examined to see more doctrine that is contained in the word, and how John unpacked it. Here the focus is on following the development of the revelation as it unpacks from the silent alef.
בראשית has the same meaning, stated differently as א with a bit of a different view.
Ge 1:1
- בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ Ge 1:1
Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 says the same thing that the alef א and the first word bereshit בראשית said. The same meaning is expanded a second time.
Heaven
Now God explains what heaven is in verse 2: שמים.
Ge 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The last three letters of heaven מים means 'water'. The first letter ש represents the Holy Ghost. From 'heaven' God says, "And the Spirit of God moved (השמים was vibrating) upon the face of the waters". The letter for Spirit hovers over the last three letters of the word meaning waters. It is a graphic riddle.
Now split the word for waters: The two mem's מ and ם represent the Father and the Son. The first declared a covenant in heaven, the second fulfilled it on earth. They are two forms of the same letter. The Father and the Son are one. A01.1
Heaven is where the Holy Spirit hovers over the face (presentation) of the Waters, which are the Father and Son. In the midst of the Father and Son, in the midst of the waters, there is the remaining yud י representing the thought of creation. It will be a reality, but it is a void; "the earth was ....void".
The void is בהו and chaos, or 'without form' is תהו, the only difference between the two are the first letter. The last two letters הו mean, the one who responded - made distinct. This 'one' is Christ, and the earth was made his 'end' or 'purpose' תהו (with the addition of the tov) and his revelation to man בהו (with the addition of the bet).
v2 The deep
Both the 'deep' and 'waters' have a face. The face is the boundary between the deep and the waters. It is how God 'presents' himself to the deep.
The deep is תהום :
- תהום - the end of those who have made themselves distinct from Christ
Darkness
Now this will be an unexpected twist for those who are new. Darkness is grace not 'evil'. God did not live in evil before he said, "Let there be light".
- חשך - life earning interest by the death of the Son
The Son of God could have judged the world and taken a total loss. But he hedged his loss with his own death and not only regained what he would have lost but gained interest; the church.
- חשך - Life of the Son who was commanded to die with the Spirit in his heart
At the wedding in Cana, Jesus removed judgement from the law and chose to give grace instead.
Darkness on the face of the deep
God first loved his creation though it was separated from him. He hedged his loss and waited for the cross.
Recap
The aleph unpacked into bereshit, which in turn unpacked into Gen 1:1.
Verse 2 focused on unpacking the word for heaven from verse 1, explaining in the process that God revealed himself first in mercy.
