He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.
Genesis 5:2
“Adam” is written in exactly the same way as “man” in ancient Hebrew.
Here is a more in-depth look at this matter: An In-Depth Look at the Translation of the Hebrew Word Adam
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee, and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
Matthew 2:22-23
It appears that Joseph had originally planned to return to Bethlehelm, his ancestral village, after coming back from Egypt, but because of this, he went back to Nazareth, where they had lived before the birth of Jesus, instead.
Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
Genesis 4:6-7
Sometimes anger wells up within me and I do foolish things. James 1:20 warns us, “the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God” and Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:21-22 “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of the judgment.”
God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Genesis 3:11-12
When I sin, I also tend to make excuses and blame others or circumstances
Oh God, forgive me and may I quickly confess my sin and repent and return to Your loving grace.
Since Matthew was writing to a patriarchal society, the geology he wrote down was mostly men. But a few notable women were mentioned:
👉Tamar, who showed out Judah's hypocrisy.
👉Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute who found YHWH
👉Ruth, the Moabite whose faithfulness put Israel to shame
👉 Bathsheba, the wife of the Hittite convert Uriah, whom David murdered
👉Mary, the virgin God chose to bear His Son.
5 women were mentioned, all were “unsavoury” in some way by the eyes of the world, (Mary was seemingly unsavoury though she hadn't done anything wrong. Bathsheba really had no choice, she couldn't defy the king, but the sexist society would view her negatively.)
But God took their faith and did extraordinary things.
Verse 19: Joseph could have felt very betrayed. The girl he was going to marry seemingly went and slept with another man. He had the right to expose her to public shame, but he determined not to, but just to annul the engagement quietly.
“Vengeance is mine, says the Lord” - it's so hard to restrain our own desire for revenge when we've been hurt. But it's what God calls us to.
Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2:15
Work existed before the fall. That's why even now after the fall, work isn't all toil, there's also pleasure and fulfillment.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Genesis 2:23-24
A man who finds a wife finds a good thing!
Not created from Adam's head, to lord it over him, nor his feet, to be trampled on by him, but from his side, to be his companion. ❤
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 WEBIn the mythology of the ancient Middle East, the creation of humans was accidental or incidental, a byproduct of what the gods were doing.
But in the Bible, it makes it clear that God specifically and intentionally created humans, and not only that, in His own image.
So we're not an accident. God loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives.
