Just as YHWH created the heavens and the earth with wisdom, He likewise employs wisdom in bringing about the order of the new creation, justifying it to His uprightness. To start the process, YHWH redeemed His chosen people, purchasing them through the blood of the Lamb. He led them on an unleavened journey out of bondage to His holy mountain1, as they fed on His word, learning to trust Him through suffering lack. At the mountain, Israel enjoyed an Edenic existence in His Presence, hearing the thundering voice of their YHWH trumpeting the covenant terms of their marriage vows. He came down from the mountain to dwell in the midst of Israel’s camp in the tabernacle. But due to Israel’s failures, access to His sacred space was blocked. The Leviticus key opened His holy space, providing Israel with sacred meeting times. Atonements unlocked the portal to the Number’s journey, Israel’s ordered camp led by the throne of YHWH, to the Promised Land. On the Sukkot sojourn, Israel’s rebellious generation dies, giving birth to a new generation, created as a faithful bride prepared to inherit the Holy Land where YHWH dwells. The conquest and possession of the Land restores YHWH’s order and function to Israel’s existence, their wise reign in rest that would flow out to all the nations, filling the earth with the knowledge of YHWH. However, Israel turned to idolatry and Sabbath breaking and was removed from the Land.

Yet, YHWH remains forever faithful to His covenant, and through the Anointed One, the new adam High Priest, the Lamb of God’s blood was shed, redeeming His people and initiating a new spirit-led unleavened exodus out of slavery to sin to His holy mountain. Believers become new temples in Him, a new creation taught by His Spirit, which will ultimately bring Yeshua followers to the threshold of entering into His Sabbath reign. By keeping the Feast of Tabernacles with Him on the Numbers road, God’s people are those who have put off the flesh, died with Him in baptism, and raised to new life in Him –a bride prepared for life in the sacred space of His throne, awaiting the last trumpet to enter into the Sabbath of resting upon His throne with Him, liberating creation from bondage to chaos, and spreading the knowledge and worship of God throughout all the earth. The Sabbath without end flows into the Eighth Day as YHWH’s wisdom and order fill all creation, marking a new beginning.

Takeaway:
The timeline of creation is the timeline of the new creation. Into the darkness of lifelessness trickled light in the blood of the Lamb, separating day from night. God separated the dew and rain above from the waters below through the unleavened Word of God. The dry land rose out of the seas, creating the mountain of Eden where God would meet with His images at the sacred appointed times. Through His spirit of life flowing down the mountain, He filled the skies, seas, and land with teeming creatures. By His tabernacling Presence, lifelessness and its contamination were no more, and ordered abundant life functioned in wisdom through His Image’s Sabbath reign, echoing resounding praise to His majestic name. In this rest, there is perpetual light and peace of the new beginning, the Eighth Day.

Fun Factors: The Twelve Verses of 1-4-7 Days of Creation (see Blog 20)
Day 1: 3 verses, Gen. 1:3, 4, 5
117 letters, 62 + 92, 31 words (11th Prime), letter sum 3130, 10 × 313, 313 is the 65th Prime, 30th Pythagorean Prime; 10(122 + 132); 313 is the menorah shape of Genesis 1:1’s word pattern, 3-1-3.

Day 4: 6 verses, Gen.1:14-19
298 letters, 2(62 + 72 + 82) or 2(72 + 102), 53 words (16th Prime, 7th Pythagorean Prime), 22 + 72, letter sum 16843, 1944th Prime (1944 = 72 × 27, the same as 702 Shabbat and 207 ohr, light), saying “light’s victory garden.”

Day 7: 3 verses, Gen. 2:1, 2, 3
144 letters, 25 words, letter sum 10502, 2 × 59 × 89, 118(52 + 82), 10502 is the fulfillment of 152, 8 × 19, “He finished,” according to the 8 Feasts of YHWH measured by the 19-year lunar time cycle.

The three-day totals: 559 letters (63 + 73; 72 + 82 + … + 122), 119 words 7(23 + 32) or 7(12 + 42), letter sum 30,475 (52 × 23 × 53), numerically saying living (23) in holiness (25) in His garden Presence (53).