That is how I read Genesis 1:1-2. How about you?
Like you, at least I assume like you, I read it differently every time. I'm always wanting to bring more knowledge of scripture, science, and truth in general (to include reason, and logic, though they must be subject to the spirit) to bear on whatever verse or passage I'm studying. Consequently, I would be inclined to read Genesis 1:1 in a manner that would help shine a light on the topic of this thread: the theology of semen.
And trying to use Genesis 1:1 to uncover truths about the theology of semen is probably a perfect test case to display the kind of exegesis I do.
In the signature text of Genesis, the Hebrew letters weren't distinguished as words yet. The entire book of Genesis was one long word, one long string of Hebrew consonants. In this state the text is more of a cipher-text than a normal, modern, kind of text. And this isn't by accident, or lack. The Hebrew consonants (letters) can be read in more than one way to be determined by where word-breaks, sentence breaks, and such are placed.
Without drifting into a sermon on Hebrew language and exegesis, it can be stated that the first recognized word in the typical way of reading the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 is the word "
bere****" בראשית.
But, remembering that the signature text isn't a "demotic" text, but a "hieroglyphic" text, we can know that not only are sentences, or words, not the lowest common denominator of meaning, but that even the letters themselves are pictograms made up of more than one letter (the
alef א is actually a
vav ו with two
yod י י on either side).
The first word in Genesis, בראשית, is actually the word for a Jewish daughter בת with the word for the firstborn ראש in its womb.
ב–ראש–ת
The letters on either side of the middle word spell "daughter" בת. And the word in the womb of the word for "daughter" בת, is the word for the "firstborn" ראש. Which is to say the firstborn of creation is hidden inside the first word in Genesis, which is the first daughter of God, as the first statement in the book of Genesis.
The first word in Genesis hides the Mystery Paul spoke of as being hidden since the casting down of creation (Romans 16:25) because of the original sin: that the first "daughter" בת of God, hid in her womb, from the point of her creation, the firstborn of creation, who is stillborn in the text, but born still, belatedly no doubt, but still born nevertheless, in a manger in Bethlehem.
Which is where the theology of semen comes into the picture. Using the same truisms concerning the nature of the Hebrew words and letters, remarkably, almost unbelievably, the word for "leaven" שאר, is an anagram of the word for "firstborn" ראש. Which might not seem that unbelievable or remarkable until we realize that the Hebrew word for where "leaven" is added to the dough,
miseret משארת, is the word for "man," or "husband" מת (Gesenius), with the word for "leaven" שאר in its middle section.
In the same way that the "firstborn" ראש is found in the belly of the first daughter ב–ראש–ת, the anagram of the "firstborn," i.e., "leaven," is found in the first man, or husband, such that the word,
miseret משארת, is the Hebrew word for the place where leaven from the first batch of dough is passed on to the next batch of dough. Which is to say the "leaven" in leavened-bread comes from the husband מת when he places the leaven that contaminated the first loaf (Cain) into the dough for the next loaf.
מ–שאר–ת
Do you see where this is going? Unleavened bread, the bread of the Passover, is bread not contaminated by the previous batch, or batches. Semen is leaven, and leaven is the male-seed placed into the warm oven every time a new loaf of leavened bread is made. We're all, every one of us, save one, the Savior, a loaf of bread contaminated by a tiny bit of Cain that's been passed down every time leaven is placed into the dough in the warm oven of procreation.
Jesus was made without leaven. He's unleavened bread; as is the new man made through rebirth. The new man in Christ is born without the leavening agent in the middle of man, such that the new man is the unleavened bread of life, not the leavened bread contaminated with death.
John
