Word for Life in Love— Scripture Meditations By Stephen Brown
Genesis 2:7 ESV
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
A man was taken from the dust of mankind to receive the life of God. This man would become a living creature with life far above and beyond life without the breath of God breathed in his nostrils. This is the Holy Spirit animating the dust of the earth into a creature that would would be the start of the union of heaven and earth.
Genesis 2:6 ESV
and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—
Water came from the earth instead of heaven in the form of a vapor or fog. The face of the ground, face means "the part that turns " -Strong's, was toward the land, for that was the source of water and life. The ground, that is man, had not turned to God, for there was no one to work the ground. No one had brought the light. Thus the earth didn't look toward heaven for rain, but got its water from the mist, or fog of the earth.
Genesis 2:5 ESV
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,
The life of God had not taken root on the earth. There was no need for the rain of heaven for there is no one to receive the rain from heaven, the blessings and light from heaven, the living water that would bring forth that light and life on earth. There was no seed in the ground and there was no man to work it if it was.
Plants in these verses may signify those people who would be able to accept the seed of the word and drink the rain from heaven. The ground was void until that took place. It would take a man to make that happen.
Revelation 9:3-4 ESV
Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Genesis 2:4 ESV
These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
The word generations imply family, people. Here earth represents man and heavens the divine. This is the story of the heavens and earth, beginning as separated until the union provided by the divine light would join the two into one, bridging them with the power of love.
There is a people chosen by God to bring the light into the world. A man is chosen for this purpose and his name was Adam. Through his descendants would come another who would be the light of the world. These are the generations of the family that would begin the unification of the heavens and earth. The imperative of creation of "Let there be light " will and is fulfilled.
