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Forming and Filling

Forming and Filling. Tohu and Bohu. תּהוּ Tohu- Chaos, formlessness, mess, confusion בּהוּ Bohu- Empty, void, desolate. Uses of Tohu and Bohu.

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Forming and Filling

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  1. Forming and Filling

  2. Tohu and Bohu תּהוּ • Tohu- Chaos, formlessness, mess, confusion בּהוּ • Bohu- Empty, void, desolate

  3. Uses of Tohu and Bohu • Isa 34:11“But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out over it the line of confusion (tohu), and the stones of emptiness (bohu).” • Jer 4:23“I beheld the earth, and, indeed it was without form (tohu), and void (bohu); and the heavens, they had no light.”

  4. Uses of Tohu and Bohu • Gen 1:2“And the earth was without form (tohu), and void (bohu); and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”

  5. Our faith is in God • Heb 11:30“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were encircled for seven days.”

  6. God’s Chaos Assessment • Psa 139:23-24“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

  7. רחףRachaph- to brood,hover, flutter • Deu 32:11-12“As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers (rachaph) over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings so the LORD alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.”

  8. Similar to: • Mat 23:37“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! “

  9. כּבודKabod • Literally ‘weight’. Glory, honour, riches, dire, massive • Used of God’s glory as displayed by creation • Also used of God’s manifest presence- seen as light, a cloud, fire, flesh (Jesus) • Called the ‘shekinah’ from mishkan- tabernacle- God tabernacles with us!

  10. God’s Glory in the Old Testament • Requested by Moses (Ex 33:12-23) • Shining from Moses’ face (Ex 34:29-35)

  11. God’s Glory in the Old Testament • Fills tabernacle:“Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the LORD was above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. • (Exo 40:34-38)

  12. God’s Glory in the Old Testament • Leaves tabernacle because of Eli’s son’s sin (1Sam 4:21-22). ‘Ichabod’- glory departed. Ark stolen. Shiloh becomes desolate. • David dances when ark returns to Jerusalem- return of God’s presence, glory (2Sam 6:16)

  13. God’s Glory in the Old Testament • Fills temple (2Chron 7:1-3) • Leaves temple because of idolatry (Ez 10:18-19; Ez 11:23) • Over 400 years of prophetic silence between Old and New Testament

  14. God’s Glory in the New Testament • Holy Spirit rests, overshadows Mary-just like at creation (Luke 1:35) • Glory of God shines when angels visit shepherds (Luke 2:9) • Holy Spirit descends like a dove and rests on Jesus resulting in the birthing of His ministry (John 1:32-34)

  15. God’s Glory in the New Testament • Jesus is God’s glory in the flesh appearing to men and he ‘tabernacles’ among them (John 1:14) • Jesus is transfigured and shines with glory (Matt 17:1-2) • The church is God’s temple where His Spirit dwells (1Cor 3:16)

  16. God’s Glory in the New Testament • We have access to glory that far surpasses what Moses experienced and will not fade (2Cor 3:7-18, 2Cor 4:6) • We are commanded to be filled (Eph 5:18)

  17. Expectation • Hab 2:14“For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”

  18. Expectation • Joel 2:28-29“And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions and also upon My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”

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