This lesson examines the Divine Council and the similarities between the natures of God and man.

1. Foundation Book of the Bible
Mike Mazzalongo
Genesis
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2. Review
Two Essential Acts of Creation:
• Creation of inanimate world
• Creation of animate world

3. Creation of Man
26 Then God said, Let Us make man
in Our image, according to Our
likeness;
- Genesis 1:26a

4. The Divine Council
20 For He was foreknown before the
foundation of the world, but has
appeared in these last times for the
sake of you.
- I Peter 1:20

5. The Divine Council
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is
about to come up out of the abyss and go to
destruction. And those who dwell on the earth,
whose name has not been written in the book
of life from the foundation of the world, will
wonder when they see the beast, that he was
and is not and will come. - Revelation 17:8

6. The LORD says to my Lord:
Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a
footstool for Your feet.
- Psalm 110:1
The Divine Council

7. Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the first I have not spoken in
secret, From the time it took place, I
was there. And now the Lord GOD has
sent Me, and His Spirit.
- Isa. 48:66
The Divine Council

8. Father, I desire that they also, whom You
have given Me, be with Me where I am,
so that they may see My glory which You
have given Me, for You loved Me
before the foundation of the world.
- John 17:24
The Divine Council

9. 1. God Communicates
The Divine Council

10. 1. God Communicates
2. God has a multi-person nature
The Divine Council

11. 1. God Communicates
2. God has a multi-person nature
3. Man’s creation is a result of design
The Divine Council

12. • Adam = Man = Earth
Man’s Creation

13. • Adam = Man = Earth
• Adam = Triune Nature
• Body
• Consciousness/Soul
• Spiritual Character
Man’s Creation

14. Ecc. 3:21
Who knows that the breath of man
ascends upward and the breath of
the beast descends downward to
the earth?

15. Ephesians 1:9
He made known to us the mystery of
His will, according to His kind intention
which He purposed in Him.

16. Genesis 1:26b
and let them rule over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the sky and over
the cattle and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth.

17. Man’s position in creation is
the result of God’s creative Act,
not a matter of chance or
survival of the fittest.

18. Gen. 1:27
27 God created man in His own image, in
the image of God He created him; male
and female He created them.

19. Essence Variation
(Likeness of God) (Male/Female)

20. Two Worlds
• World to Come (New Heaven/Earth)
• Pre-Sin World (Adam & Eve)

21. Gen. 1:28
28 God blessed them; and God said to
them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill
the earth, and subdue it; and rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of
the sky and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.

22. Gen. 1:29
29 Then God said, Behold, I have given
you every plant yielding seed that is on
the surface of all the earth, and every
tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall
be food for you;

23. Gen. 1:30
30 and to every beast of the earth and to
every bird of the sky and to every thing
that moves on the earth which has life, I
have given every green plant for food ;
and it was so.

24. Gen. 1:31
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.

25. God’s Charge to Man
1. One Man – One Woman

26. God’s Charge to Man
1. One Man – One Woman
2. Fill the Earth

27. God’s Charge to Man
1. One Man – One Woman
2. Fill the Earth
3. Manage Creation

28. God’s Charge to Man
1. One Man – One Woman
2. Fill the Earth
3. Manage Creation
4. Diet

29. God’s Charge to Man
1. One Man – One Woman
2. Fill the Earth
3. Manage Creation
4. Diet
5. All is Good – Young Earth