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DWDP: Gen. 1-2 The Spirit Brooded · More Than Medicine

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country.
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  Speaker 1: Hosted by author and physician, Dr Robert Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Papa, can you tell me a story?
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  Speaker 2: Do you really want me to tell you a story?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Devotions with Dr Papa.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, dr Robert Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Gather around, grab your Bibles and let's look into the written Word, which reveals to us the living Word which is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: We're continuing in our new series on the book of Genesis and today we're looking at Genesis, chapter 1 and verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: Before we go into verse 2, I want us to talk about what's called the gap theory.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, we'll read verse 1 and 2 before we discuss this.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.
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  Speaker 2: The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 2 begins with the earth was formless and void.
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  Speaker 2: There was a widely held theory among fundamentalists for many years, called the gap theory, and this theory held.
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  Speaker 2: That of Genesis, chapter 1 and verse 1 occurred billions of years ago, with the geological ages inserted between verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis, chapter 1.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 2 describes the condition of the earth after a great cataclysmic event that concluded the geological ages.
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  Speaker 2: This cataclysm, which left the earth in darkness and covered in water, is explained as a divine judgment because of the sin of Satan in rebelling against God.
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  Speaker 2: Following the cataclysm, god then recreates the world in verses 3 through 31 of chapter 1.
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  Speaker 2: This is called the gap theory or the ruin and reconstruction theory.
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  Speaker 2: This gap theory was first popularized by a Scottish theologian named Thomas Chalmers, and he did so in order to accommodate biblical chronology with the geological ages which was becoming popular at that time, which was in the early 19th century.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me say this this was a compromise.
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  Speaker 2: It was a compromise of the plain teaching of God's Word.
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  Speaker 2: It was the exact same thing that happened later in chapter 2 of Genesis, when Satan came to Adam and Eve and he said Yea hath.
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  Speaker 2: God said, and he placed doubt in the minds of Adam and Eve and he caused them to doubt the integrity and truthfulness of God's Word, and the doubt that he placed in their heart led them to sin.
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  Speaker 2: This compromise proposed by a Scottish theologian has caused many to lose their faith.
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  Speaker 2: It has caused many to doubt the truthfulness of God's Word.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what are the problems with the gap theory?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me quote to you from Henry Morris' book the Genesis Record, and this is his expert scientific opinion of the problems with the gap theory.
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  Speaker 2: Of the problems with the gap theory, he says the geological age system is essentially synonymous with the evolutionary system.
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  Speaker 2: Each geological age is identified and dated by the same fossil record which constitutes the main evidence for organic evolution.
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  Speaker 2: Historically as well as logically, acceptance of the geological age system is inevitably followed, sooner or later, by acceptance of the evolutionary system.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the gap theory is thereby accepting the fossil record which identifies these ages.
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  Speaker 2: Fossils, however, are dead things.
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  Speaker 2: Think about that.
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  Speaker 2: Fossils are dead things.
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  Speaker 2: They speak clearly of a world in which suffering, disease and death, often violent, widespread death, were universal realities.
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  Speaker 2: They speak of a world much like our own world, a world containing sharks and jellyfish, dragonflies, cockroaches, turtles and crocodiles, bats, beavers, as well as dinosaurs and other animals which are now extinct.
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  Speaker 2: But that world, the world that then was perished, if that world existed prior to the supposed pre-Adamic cataclysm, that's, before Adam, then it existed before the sin of Satan, which brought on the cataclysm that is, suffering and death existed for a billion years before the sin of Satan and the subsequent sin of Adam.
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  Speaker 2: You see, that's a theological impossibility.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, however, that death came into the world only when Adam brought sin into the world.
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  Speaker 2: So the gap theory is an impossibility theologically, and I just don't know if the theologian Chalmers had put all that together in his mind before he proposed that theory to accommodate the geologist and the geological ages.
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  Speaker 2: And, as I told you before, that was a compromise, and anytime we compromise with the geologist or the archaeologist or the scientist, then it leads to problems theologically and it causes us to doubt God's Word, to doubt the integrity of God's Word and the truthfulness of God's Word.
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  Speaker 2: Well then, that leads to another question what exactly is the age of the earth?
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  Speaker 2: Well before the geologists and the Darwinists began to propose that the world was millions, perhaps billions of years old, it was an accepted truth, based on historical and biblical records, that the world was between 3,000 and 6,000 years old.
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  Speaker 2: There were many historians Usher, josephus, the record of the Egyptian kings and the biblical records that all said that the world was between 3,000 and 6,000 years old, and that was accepted by all historians until the age of Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: Only when evolutionary dogma appeared in the 19th century did anybody doubt that the world was older than 6,000 at the max.
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  Speaker 2: Why was that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because evolutionary dogma requires that the earth must be millions of years old, because the statistical improbability of mutations requires millions of years.
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  Speaker 2: To make the improbability of mutations a possibility, evolution requires a lot of religious faith.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mystery to me why anybody believes in atheistic evolution.
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  Speaker 2: So let me ask you another question how else can the earth be aged?
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  Speaker 2: Well, believe it or not, there are scientists who measure things that can quantify the age of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: One is the amount of cosmic dust that falls out of the atmosphere and, believe it or not, there are scientists who measure cosmic dust as it falls, and they've been doing so for over a hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: And it's difficult because of our atmospheric conditions, with rain and wind, but there are ways to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And when you measure the cosmic dust and the amount that falls out of the atmosphere and you extrapolate backwards over a hundred years, they calculate that the age of the earth is about 10,000 years.
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  Speaker 2: Now, think about that for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Now, some of you who are my age remember when the astronauts landed on the moon.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember the lunar module?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that the lunar module had legs on it that were about six feet high and that when the astronauts came out of the lunar module, there was a ladder they had to climb down to get to the surface of the moon?
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think the lunar module had legs on it that were six feet high?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's because the evolutionary scientist told NASA that on the surface of the moon there was no rain, there was no wind, and the cosmic dust, undisturbed by a billion years, was probably going to be six feet deep, between three feet and six feet.
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  Speaker 2: And the lunar module needed to have legs on it that were over six feet tall.
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  Speaker 2: Six feet tall.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Christian scientist, the scientific creationist, told them no, based on their calculation, it was going to be a quarter inch deep because of the amount of cosmic dust that fell in 10,000 years, because that's all the older the moon would be.
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  Speaker 2: And so when the lunar module landed, guess how deep the cosmic dust was?
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  Speaker 2: It was a quarter inch, just like the creation scientists predicted.
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  Speaker 2: And when the astronauts stepped off the ladder, that small step for man and that giant leap for mankind, their footprint on the surface of the moon was in a quarter inch of cosmic dust, just as the creation scientists predicted.
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  Speaker 2: So you can calculate the age of the earth and the moon by the amount of cosmic dust that falls out of the skies.
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  Speaker 2: And there are other things like the amount of nickel that falls out of the skies, and there are other things like the amount of nickel that falls out of the atmosphere into the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: And there are egghead scientists who measure that and, sure enough, the amount of nickel in the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: If you extrapolate backwards, they calculate that the earth is not millions of years old but about 10,000 years old.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so let's look at our scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look at verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll go through it phrase by phrase.
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  Speaker 2: And the earth was.
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  Speaker 2: Read the verse with me, verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: And the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and darkness was over the surface of the deep.
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  Speaker 2: The first phrase, and the earth was.
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  Speaker 2: Every succeeding verse after verse 1 begins with the conjunction and which indicates that each following statement is sequentially and chronologically connected to the verses before and after.
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  Speaker 2: This leaves no room for a chronological gap, as the gap theory suggested.
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  Speaker 2: So there's no room for a chronological gap of any consequence between verse 1 and 2.
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  Speaker 2: The condition described in verse 2 follows immediately upon the creation act in verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: There's no grammatical creative act in verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: There's no grammatical or scientific or theological basis for inserting geological ages between verse 1 and verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the next phrase Without form and void the phrase.
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  Speaker 2: There is tohu wabohu.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Hebrew phrase which means conformed and emptiness, unformed and emptiness.
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  Speaker 2: The implication is that the initial creation was of basic elements rather than a completed system.
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  Speaker 2: The initial creation was not perfect in the sense that it was complete, but it was perfect for that stage, for God's six-day plan of creation.
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  Speaker 2: If we could paraphrase it, it would be like this In the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth, or space and matter.
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  Speaker 2: The space and matter so created was at first unformed and uninhabited.
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  Speaker 2: So now, now, god has created the dust of the earth, the basic element necessary to create the earth, sun, moon, stars and planets which will come later.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to the next phrase darkness.
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  Speaker 2: Upon the face of the deep.
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  Speaker 2: There's a verse in Isaiah, chapter 45, which says I form the light and create darkness.
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  Speaker 2: The physical universe, though created, was neither formed nor energized.
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  Speaker 2: And you see, light is a form of energy, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: The absence of physical light means darkness.
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  Speaker 2: The absence of physical light means darkness.
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  Speaker 2: Well then, it says the face of the deep.
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  Speaker 2: That's better translated the presence of the deep.
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  Speaker 2: Darkness was upon the presence of the deep.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever the deep was, there was darkness.
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  Speaker 2: Now the word for deep is Tehom, t-e-h-o-m, tehom, and it refers to the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever that word appears in Scripture refers to the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: But initially the earth had no form, and thus this must apply to the waters also, the waters also.
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  Speaker 2: So there was a pervasive watery matrix throughout the darkness of space, and the basic elements were suspended in this matrix, this watery matrix.
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  Speaker 2: Although the marvelous universe had been called into existence by the omnipotent creator, it had not yet been imbued with energy and set in motion.
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  Speaker 2: It had to await the energizing action of the Spirit of God and the activating power of the Word of God.
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  Speaker 2: So here you had this face of the deep, this waters in the face of the deep.
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  Speaker 2: It still was just a watery matrix.
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  Speaker 2: Move to the next phrase the Spirit of God moved.
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  Speaker 2: Now the word for spirit is raka.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's ruach.
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  Speaker 2: R-u-a-c-h.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 2: R-u-a-c-h, the spirit equals R-U-A-C-H.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Hebrew word for wind or breath.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are introduced to the second person of the triune, god, who is active in the creative process.
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  Speaker 2: The creative activity here requires not a wind, but the person of God himself.
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  Speaker 2: Since the universe was everywhere in need of activation, that person of the Godhead, who is both omnipresent and supernaturally energizing, is appropriately mentioned as working in the creation at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And he moved, or, as the King James Bible says, brooded over the waters.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why does the King James Bible say brooded?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about that?
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  Speaker 2: Why does it say he brooded over the waters?
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  Speaker 2: Because the word here is rakoth, which can mean flutters, like a hen that hovers over her chicks with a rapid back and forth motion of her wings, or like fluttering, and the best modern science equivalent is vibration.
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  Speaker 2: If the universe is to be energized, there must be an energizer.
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  Speaker 2: If it is to be set in motion, there must be a prime mover.
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  Speaker 2: Now think about this Everything in the universe operates by wave forms.
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  Speaker 2: There are light waves, heat waves, sound waves, and they are generated by some.
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  Speaker 2: There's got to be a generator of some sort.
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  Speaker 2: Energy cannot create itself, and it delights me to understand that the first importation of energy to the universe was described as the brooding, as the vibrating movement of the Spirit of God Himself.
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  Speaker 2: This outflow of energy from the omnipotent Spirit of God caused the elements in the watery matrix to come together, forming a great sphere in the cosmos, and gravitational fields were formed and it was now ready for light and heat, which were soon to come.
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  Speaker 2: But this, but this, was not the only moving of holy spirit that is mentioned in holy scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Remember second peter in the Holy Scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Remember 2 Peter, 1.21 in the New Testament, for prophecy came not in time of old by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: As the Holy Spirit empowered the primeval universe to bring form and life to God's creation, so he later empowered God's prophets to bring spiritual life, to bring new creation to you and me through the life-transforming written word which they wrote.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I begin this entire podcast every week by saying to you gather around, grab your Bibles and let us look into the written Word, that transforming written Word which these prophets wrote, which reveals to us the living word which is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And you see, holy Spirit brooded over the water and His power gave form out of the watery matrix to the earth and His power gave life to the written word, which ultimately gives life to you and me.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that finishes verse two in Genesis, chapter one.
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  Speaker 2: If you'll stay with me next week, we'll be back with verse three.
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  Speaker 2: May the Lord bless you real good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this edition of More Than Medicine.
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