Hello, everyone. This is Victor Jackson. Welcome to the Bible-centered podcast.

I'm excited to get into another episode of the Bible-centered podcast as we have been digging deep into the Word of God. There are so many things that

we take for granted in the word that we hear all the time that are commonplace where we don't

understand the underlying significance and what it means to us. One of the most profound scriptures are,

is the first scripture in the Bible, the first two scriptures. And people kind of pass over it

in their Bible plans. It's very quick.

And they don't understand what God is trying to communicate to his people from the first two scriptures.

I would argue that the entire Bible hinges on these first two scriptures because we get to see the transcendent nature of God and his

transcendent majesty and why it's worth getting into relationship with him.

Let's read it Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and 2.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was

without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God moved upon

the face of the waters.

People read this scripture and they sometimes subconsciously, we think,

it's just a great way to start a book as they do in fairy tales or fables or fictional tales.

It always begins with once upon a time.

But there's nothing fictional about these first two verses.

God was intent on how he wanted this God-inspired book to begin,

as he inspired Moses to pin these words, the beginning God created the heaven and the earth no number one when you look at this scripture is

really these are warfare terms that are subtle in the text when you consider Moses' ancient Near Eastern background.

And it's inspirational when you really understand it is very inspirational to all of us.

Because in the ancient Near Eastern custom, everything around Moses was polytheism, multiple gods.

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