Genesis 1:2

Earth was tohu v'bohu ·void and chaos·. + 1:2. MPr: The expression, “Spirit of God,” (Gen 1:2) is explained as “the Spirit of the King Messiah” (Is 11:2). In the phrase “moving on the face of the deep,” the deep waters represent repentance (Lam 2:19). (Mishnah 2, Mishnah 8, and Midrash Leviticus 14). (Matt 23:31-39; Luke 19:41-44) Darkness was on the surface of the deep and Ruach Elohim ·Spirit, Breath of God· was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1B'resheet Elohim bara' ·In the beginning of the beginning, God created from nothingness· את the heavens את and the earth.

3+ 1:3. MP: Light from God. (John 3:19-20; 1 John 3:8) God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. + 1:3 This light that separates the darkness, God spoke the light of Messiah to be our redemption out from darkness even before the foundations of the world. (Col 1:12-17) says we were called out of Satan’s darkness into God’s light thru Messiah’s redemption.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:6By Adonai’s word, the heavens were made; 2 all their army by the breath of his mouth. 1

Psalms 104:30You send out your breath mind Spirit and they are created. 2 You renew the face of the ground. 1

Isaiah 45:18For Adonai who created the heavens, 2 the God who formed the earth and made it, 2 who established it and didn’t create it a waste, 2 who formed it to be inhabited says: 1 “I am Yahweh [He sustains breathing]; 2 and there is no other. 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:2-3

Genesis to Deuteronomy PREFACE Genesis to Deuteronomy Though it is most my concern, that I be able to give a good account to God and my own conscience, yet, perhaps, it will be expected that I give the world also some account of this bold undertaking; which I shall endeavour to do with all plainness, and as one who believes, that if men must be reckoned with in the great day, for every vain and idle word they speak, much more for every vain and idle line they write. And it may be of use, in the first place, to lay… Read the whole commentary →

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