• Genesis 1:26 Then 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 heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
• Genesis 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

sequence

noun

• the following of one thing after another; succession.
• order of succession:
  Synonyms: arrangement
• a continuous or connected series:
• something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence.

Note closely the root word sequence in the word consequence.

God created us with purpose and in that we can see the order of one thing after the other, succession. Without going into any further detail allow me to parse succession and discover the word success. God set life in order and arranged it in a continuous series of connected events.

The subsequent events were known to Him and this first book of the bible is only the beginning of that long list of events that still have not come to His successful conclusion. But it will because He is God.

First God created a stage for this act to be played out. He set the scene.

Secondly He created the actors and gave them a role to play.

Third God enters as the director. Stage directions are given, what to do and how to act, including the one and only thing that is forbidden to be done on stage.

Now the villain of our story appears, the spoiler, the antithesis of the play. Note closely the use of anti meaning the opposite of the thesis, God’s script for this play.

The actors go off script and are ejected from the play, consequences are revealed.

Act two of our play begins with the offspring of our ejected actors. They make sacrifices to appease the director. Abel’s sacrifice pleases the director. Cain’s does not.

At this point the director engages the actor with directions.

Cain kills the Abel and is banished yet again. Consequences abound.

What is missing in this play up to this point? To be continued tomorrow.

Psalm 27:8 You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon indicates the Hebrew word pānîm is not singular and requires two faces, one turned to face the other. This is clearly indicated by God’s description of His relationship with Moses in Exodus 33:11 and the people could see the change in Moses’s appearance. ref. Exodus 34:35

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The God that sat at the Father’s side has made Himself known so that man could see Him face to face.

Numbers 6:26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

The same word is used for both face and countenance, pānîm. Once again the title Lord applies, not God, God the Father, Lord God, but simply Lord, Jehovah = “the existing One”.

The One that exists and was seen by man face to face is the Lord, Jesus Christ. The Lord ascended to the throne thousands of years ago. How can we seek Him face to face?

John 20:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

Jesus hinted to Thomas of a future Thomas could not imagine.

John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

We are blessed to be able to seek His face, His countenance, because we seek Him with our heart just like in Psalm 27:8.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

We seek Him by faith, we see Him by faith. Like Moses we are changed because we see Him.