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Introduction

God Said

Unlike all the living creatures brought from the earth, God formed the man from the same earth. Unlike the living creatures, God made him, his brain and all the organs for producing speech, capable of learning language, whereas the living creatures were brought forth with their language already configured; they breathed on their own.

After God formed man from clay, he lay dormant on the earth until God breathed into him “the breath of life” because man made from the earth does not live without the life giving air from God. When a baby is born, he must take his first breath in order to live; sometimes a doctor must touch him in various ways or breathe into this tiny person to start this process. God created the atmosphere in the beginning, and His Spirit hovered over it imparting it, because of the presence of the Spirit, with the life giving properties besides the various gases in perfect proportion for life. Each baby takes his first breath of life and becomes a living being.

Gen. 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Job 33:4 “The Spirit of God has made me,
         And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

When the baby takes his first breath, he receives the spirit (Hebrew meaning is mind, breath, wind and spirit) from God. With the air in his lungs and all the organs for language, the baby is a human being made in the image of God. Of course, the baby must learn language as his body grows appropriately, and he learns language from his parents. As the baby grows, he begins to not only imitate the sounds he hears but he understands what the sounds stand for: “mama” and “dada.”

Job 32:8     “But it is a spirit in man,
         And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Job understood what few on the planet know: the air we breathe comes from God, who is the life giver in every sense, but particularly in the main ingredient of life and understanding.

Job 27:3 For as long as life is in me,
         And the breath of God is in my nostrils,

God gave Jesus, among others in the past, the Holy Spirit, which is God’s language from His mind. No one, as we have noted, had the full knowledge and impact of His Word, and when that Spirit fills a person in that powerful way, amazing things happen from speaking in tongues to glorifying God in a most appropriate way. With God Spirit, mind and breath, within, because he died for all sinners’ sins, we become free from that law: “the law of sin and death.”

Rom. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free  from the law of sin and of death.

The in in verse 2 above has the following meaning:

en, en; a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); “in,” at, (up-)on, by, etc.: — about, after, against, + almost, x altogether, among, x as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), x mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, x outwardly, one, x quickly, x shortly, (speedi-)ly, x that, x there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.

A clearer translation follows:

Rom. 8:2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.

Going back to Adam for a moment, we learn the full meaning of breath. The most impressive part of the meaning is “divine inspiration, intellect.” All blessed with the breath of life and language have an intellect ranging from language to mechanics, music and art.

nshamah, nesh-aw-maw´; from 5395; a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal.

The Seven

What God says brings life.

James 1:18 In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

From God’s creating the world by His breath making the sounds of His Commands, to His breathing into man the breath of life, God told us how to live in His World. Right after completing the creation, God rested on the seventh day and made it holy thereby and, thus, told us about the importance of His Words. Six days to labor and the seventh to rest as He said and commanded. He breathed into His commandments, the breath of life. He also breathed into His World other signs of the creation beginning with the rest on the seventh day. The seven is the order of the universe because it denotes how things are completed. God commands people to complete their work in six days and then rest as the Creator did.

Gen. 1:14 ¶ Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

Gen. 2:1 ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
Gen. 2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Gen. 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Seven times God said, “Said,” in the creation as His Breath brought the things necessary for life into existence on Earth.

Gen. 1:3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Gen. 1:6 Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Gen. 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
Gen. 1:11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
Gen. 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;
Gen. 1:20 Then God said “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”
Gen. 1:24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

God Saw Seven Good Things in Genesis 1 that emerge from His breath. The entire creation was good because God, who is Good, could only create good things.

Gen. 1:4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Gen. 1:10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Then, of course, God rested on the seventh day, which completed the creation by giving a day to rest and to understand, by keeping it, the holiness represented by the seventh.

There are other good things in the cycle of seven.

Seven Things Worthless without Love

1Cor. 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Cor. 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
1Cor. 13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Peter adds seven important virtues to complete our Faith.

2Pet. 1:6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
2Pet. 1:7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

Just another interesting example of how God created the Earth in the cycle of seven. There are seven notes in musical scale. Every other note is a half note or sharps and flats. How fascinating is that?

Completion

God’s Word explains how He created everything to be completed in units of seven. How God completes those made in His image is shown in the seven Holy Days.

Whereas God has His special Holy Days based on the signs in the heavens for Holy Days. Also God has seven as His cosmic and fearful number of completion. The seventh day completes the week; the several holy Days complete the seven Holy Days.

 Why Seven?

In Revelation, God demonstrates how seven completes the salvation of mankind: seven churches, seven spirit, seven seals, and seven trumpets.

It took seven days to completely load Noah’s ark.

Seven Holy Days in Leviticus completes the series of Holy Days representing the stages of salvation.

Passover (two Holy Days) begins the process of salvation where blood cleanses peoples sins.

Pentecost demonstrates the necessity of receiving the power of the Spirit to continue toward salvation.

Trumpets signal the end of Satan and its followers’ rule on Earth.

Atonement’s fasting indicates how salvation comes from higher nourishment than food, God’s Word from His breath.

Tabernacles show how believers are the building within which the Spirit resides.

Last Great Day is the seventh Holy Day prophesying the completion of physical life on Earth and the beginning of life as Spirit Beings. 

In the meantime, Satan sadly deceives people into never obtaining God’s way of salvation in the power of His Breath and Words and His use of seven to complete His plans for the people made in His Image.

People prefer to behave like Eve who believed and acted according the serpent’s lies. They would rather participate in celebrations of the demon, which seem to hold promise and goodness but bring to all, who walk on the broad highway of evil, death, “you shall surely die.”

Only seventh day Christians and Jews keep the completion of the seven from Sabbath to Holy Days that God breathed into the creation as shown by Gen 1:14.

There Is No Breath in Idols

Jer. 51:17 All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
            Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
            For his molten images are deceitful,
            And there is no breath in them.

At Christmas, we see Santas all over the place, in every mall, many department stores and the latest and greatest Santa movies. Each of these breathes, but these characters are based on the original Santa, Saturn, a marble statue of him made in ancient Rome, which still can be seen in various museums. It is short, about 3 or 4 feet tall, chubby and a full beard. The modern Santa looks exactly like the ancient marble statue of Saturn albeit without Santa’s ruddy face and traditional clothing. The remarkable thing about the statue of Saturn is its difference from all the other lifeless gods, filling the hall of gods, which are muscular and tall statues. Santa, Saturn, is a lifeless god made by man with no breath in it.

Romans celebrated Saturnalia with gift giving, feasting and orgies because the sun god began to lengthen its stay instead its time getting shorter until it might disappear. Assuredly, this feast time on December 25th is patently pagan and satanic. This time of year is the demon’s time and all activities redound to it. These times have nothing to do with God’s times revolving around His holy seven, which have the breath of God. The idols have the wrong time because they have no breath in them.

Man tries to breathe life into idols by mixing some godly items into them. But they always keep the time of the idolatry. One pagan festival has people treating children, which is a good thing, but why only on Day of Demons. Giving food to children does change the Satan worship of the day, but only enhances it by making it seem good. The part forgotten is that the treat keeps demons from attacking and possessing the person: trick or treat is always spoken. All who keep satanic times are possessed by the demon because they bow and give obsequious to the evil demon. The name may change, but the game stays the same. Yet, people can deceived by the goodness of giving because that is just what churches did in the past. Instead of treating on a different day, they try to make an evil day good by giving. That day is evil, no matter how it is kept or how much is given to children.

People change the name of the evil days, devoid of godly completion, but keep the game. There is no breath of life in idols, just suffocation from the strangulation of demons’ ways choking a person to death.

Note this: Sunday to Sunday is eight days. Of course, Sunday is Satan’s day. However, Sunday to Sabbath is seven days. The Sabbath is God’s Holy Day of Rest.

What is it men worship? Do they worship the days given by the demon? Or do they worship the times given by the breath of God? God rested on the seventh day and thus made it holy because He breathed His goodness onto the creation during those previous six days.

Conclusion

God used His breath to command the world into existence. God used His breath to bring life into Adam. God used His breath to give Adam language and intelligence. God used His breath to speak the Words of life, the Commandments. Let us use our God’s given breath and language to praise Him and thank Him.

Amen.

Gil Kovacs, Pastor

Sabbath Christian Church