While
Christians often bemoan how the rainbow was hijacked away from Bible-believers,
there are untold words, creatures, symbols, etc., lifted and twisted by the
Great Counterfeiter. For starters, take the word and number one.
As
we know from Genesis 11, at the Tower of Babel “the whole earth was of one
language,” and as verse 6 reports, “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is
one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing
will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
Jordan
explains, “I read that chapter and I think, ‘Wow, that is so true!' Man can
accomplish and achieve anything he sets his mind on doing unless God
intervenes, as He did here. They had one world with one language and, in verse
4, they tried to create a one-world religion. It was globalism at its best.”
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Biblically, No. 1 is associated with unity; it’s the number of God. No. 2 represents
division and is the testimony of one divided. No. 3 brings one and two back together
and gives completeness.
Paul
writes in I Corinthians 12:20, “But now are they many members, yet but one body.”
“
‘But one’ means ‘the united one; to unify or make one,’ ” explains Bible
expositor Cora Harris MacIlravy, circa early-1900s. “It was because of the importance of
the church’s unity that Christ prayed as He did for His followers just before
His crucifixion. ‘I pray . . . that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father,
are in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; . . . the glory which
Thou hast given Me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as We are
One (John 17:21,22).'
“
. . . The only unity spoken of in God’s Word is divine unity and many do not
know how divine unity is perfected . . . There must be an abandonment to the
control of God and a putting away of the flesh . . . Only as we have the mind
of Christ can we be of the same mind one with the other. When every thought is
brought into captivity unto the obedience of Christ, we shall be brought into
perfect unity with one another; standing fast in one spirit, with one soul
striving for the faith of the gospel (Phil 1:27).”
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“If
you want to learn something about really believing, start in Genesis 1 and let
your Bible prove itself,” says Jordan. “The number one, the number of God and the
number of unity, is the foundation for all other numbers, because every other
number is a multiple of one.
“The number one is a fundamental, foundational number, which makes sense why it would be
God’s number. It first occurs in the text of Scripture in Genesis 1:9: ‘And God
said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and
let the dry land appear: and it was so.’
“The
waters He scattered out and now they’re gathered to one place. The idea with
one is a gathering together in one place. In Deuteronomy 6:4—the great confession of Israel—Moses
writes, ‘Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.’ ”
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“In
Genesis 2 you see that the number two is a number of division. It’s interesting
that it’s in Genesis 2 that Adam is divided. Genesis 1 says, ‘He created man
and in the image of God created he.’
“Well,
when did Adam become a ‘them’? In Genesis 2, God put Adam asleep, opened up his
side, took out a rib and out of that rib He formed a separate person, Eve. Now
there’s two.
“I’ve
often thought about what it would have been like when Adam woke up from that
sleep. I’ve never been anesthetized but once in my life and when I woke up from that I looked down at my
feet and there stood a nurse with a Geiger counter. I said, ‘What are you
doing?!’
“Well, when Adam woke up there stood Eve. I
don’t know what you think he might have said—‘Whoa, where have you been all my
life?!’
“And verse 24
describes what God did: ‘Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.’ We like to say,
‘Baby, I’m stuck on you.’ Do you see that word one there? It’s about uniting together.
“I
Peter says they are to dwell together ‘according to knowledge,’ and when they do that, they’re one flesh.
One complete humanity. One person.
“Marriage is
the reconstruction of man; it’s the completion of man. Man has that part that
was taken out of him and put back into him and they become one functioning unit.
"What Eve put back into Adam through
marriage results in a reconstruction of the original item and an
ability to function the way God created them to function. She’s there to complete
him; to be his helpmeet, the one who mirrors him, the one who answers to
him. Adam is no longer sufficient and
complete in himself; he needs this woman to come along and complete him.
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