I love how God brought each living being to Adam “to see what he would call them.” Can’t you see the great joy God took in Adam? Here was a living being made in the image of God. Adam could think, consider, decide, and speak. God placed within Adam the most amazing abilities that were closest to God Himself. God shared a portion of His Deep Magic with Adam and was pleased by what Adam did in naming all of the creatures God had made.

Sixth Day of Creation (cont)

Adam, being the genius that he was, would have quickly noticed that God had Created two of every kind of animal and bird, but there was no “helper comparable” to him. The Hebrew for “helper” is ezer. It means “help, aid, assist, surround, succour, protect.” It comes from the word azar, which means “ally, support.” Both words carry the idea of one having the strength and power to give aid and protection. The Hebrew for “comparable” is keneged. It means “suitable, corresponding to, comparable.” Adam did not have a partner with similar power and strength to support him in the great work God had called them to do.

“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28

God’s intent was that both the male and female of the human race would work together to fill the earth and subdue it. They would both have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moved on the earth. The power and strength of the woman would be comparable to the power and strength of the man. They would rule and reign together.

After Adam saw that he did not have an ezer keneged, God performed another act of Deep Magic and Created Woman from the body of the man.

“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.” Genesis 2:21-22

Here we see the first use of anesthetics. God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam. While Adam was in this deep sleep, God removed one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. God then used the rib He had removed from Adam to make Woman. When God was finished making the Woman, He brought her to Adam. Adam saw her and said, “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2:23) Adam had already given names to all of the animals and birds, but he kept one name for the person who would be his partner in ruling the world – Woman (Hebrew – issah – “woman, wife, female”). Though Adam was only hours old, he had a great understanding of what a man would do in the future – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24) The word “wife” is also issah – the same word translated as “woman.”

One last thought before the end of the Sixth Day of Creation – “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” (Genesis 1:25) The word “naked” is arom and means “naked, without clothing.” The words “were not ashamed” are a translation of the Hebrew bos, which means “felt no shame.” Take note of the words “naked” and “shame” because they will have a powerful meaning in the Deep Magic to come.
Something else God did during the historical review of the Sixth Day of Creation was to share an insight to the physical location of Eden. He did that by giving clues to the boundaries of the area that encompassed Eden. It is a key to understanding much of the Deep Magic of God on earth. The word Eden means “delight” and was the place where God Created Adam and his wife. God is Omnipresent (everywhere present at the same time), so He is at the same moment dwelling in Unapproachable Light, on His Throne in Heaven, filling the universe, and on the earth. God called the place of His dwelling on earth at the time of Creation – Eden. God gave the revelation of Creation to Moses, the human author of Genesis, when he was leading God’s people during the middle of the second millennium B.C. Many of the people who read Genesis thousands of years ago would have been familiar with the locations listed.

“Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.” Genesis 2:10-14

God planted a garden for Adam and his wife eastward in Eden and watered it from a river that went out of Eden, along with the mist that went up from the ground (Genesis 2:6). The Eden River flowed eastward, parted and became four riverheads. The Pishon River skirted the whole land of Havilah. The Gihon River went around the whole land of Cush. The Hiddekel River went toward the east of Assyria. The Euphrates was the fourth river. Someone reading Genesis 3,500 years ago would have had some understanding about the location of Eden and the Garden of Eden, but it’s not as clear to us today. Two of the rivers, the Pishon and Gihon, are not known by those names today. The other two, the Hiddekel and Euphrates, are known. Knowing the location of Eden will give us some insight into the Deep Magic of God on earth.

The Pishon River is mentioned only once in the Bible and there is no river with that name in the region today, but we do have a clue that it skirted the whole land of Havilah. Havilah (meaning “sandy stretch”) is the area of the Middle East known as Arabia (Genesis 25:17-19; 1 Samuel 15:7).

The location of the Gihon River is also not known for sure today, but it went around the whole land of Cush. Cush is well-known in the Bible and ancient geography as being a large land mass to the south of Egypt – what we would know today as Sudan. Ancient scholars also thought of Cush as including Ethiopia. The major river that runs through Egypt and Sudan is the Nile River, but the Nile did not get its name until the Greeks named it (Nelios). It could be that the name Moses knew the river by was Gihon.

The Hiddekel River is the Hebrew name for the Tigris River. It “goes toward the east of Assyria.” The Tigris River we know runs from Turkey to southern Iraq where it meets with the Euphrates River, the fourth river mentioned in Genesis 2. The Tigris is east of and runs parallel with the Euphrates. They both begin in Turkey and run through Iraq until they join north of the Persian Gulf. The Tigris and Euphrates impact the areas of four primary modern countries: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Moses would have known that area to be known as Mesopotamia (Genesis 24:10; Deuteronomy 23:4). The Hebrew Prophet Daniel, who lived in ancient Persia (modern Iran) received one of his amazing prophecies beside the Tigris River (Daniel 10:4).

What we see from God’s revelation about Eden River parting and becoming four riverheads, the land mass of Eden was enormous – from Syria, Canaan, and Egypt in the west to Mesopotamia in the east to Assyria in the north and Cush to the south. God Created in Eden to the west and moved toward the East to plant the Garden of Eden. As we will see later, the human race would continue to push eastward.

If, as many scholars believe, the Garden of Eden was located in the region of ancient Babylon, where would God’s Dwelling Place have been when He Created man? What is the land area that is farthest west of ancient Babylon? Canaan – now modern Israel. As we go forward in our search for the Deep Magic of God, we will see how important the ancient land of Canaan was and is to the Creator.

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