Bible Wonders - Adam's Birthday

There's the wonder of springtime and harvest The sky, the stars, the sun By the wonder of wonders that clears my soul Is the wonder that's only begun Oh, the wonder I'll be torn The wonder I'll be torn Today on Bible Wonders, I want to wonder about Adam's birthday.

You know, the first man that's back in Genesis chapter 1, but we see a lot more about him in chapter 2. And the Jews have a holiday that, I don't know if you knew this, was based on Adam's birthday. I didn't actually know it, or I guess I hadn't put it all together, that Rosh Hashanah, which is the head of the year, or their first day of the seventh month of Tishri, is believed to be the sixth day of creation, which was the day that Adam was created.

And so that is the day that they blow the trumpets because, again, it's the feast of trumpets, and they are celebrating literally Adam's birthday. And the Jews have some other things that they think about Adam that are really, really beautiful. In my opinion, they believe that Adam had this phenomenal wisdom.

In fact, they said he had more wisdom than the angels in heaven. And they are quoting this passage right after Adam's birthday, right, where, you know, it says, And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam, to see what he would call them. And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all the cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field.

But for Adam there was not found any help meet for him. Now, that's clearly the setup for Eve to get born. But before we talk about Eve, you know, continue to talk about Adam. And so his name, actually, very cool, means dust. But this was very special dust that he was made out of.

And, of course, you know, we're ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But from this dust, right, that God formed out of the earth, was this phenomenal ability, according to the Jews, and I believe it makes sense, that he could understand these beasts that God made in ways that the angels couldn't, because they believe he actually even saw past their DNA when he looked at these animals to see the essence of the actual way that God had constructed them. And there's some beautiful ways to look at that when you look at these words for the animals in Hebrew. For example, when you look at the word dog in Hebrew, do you think it's just a coincidence that the word to pet, you know, when you would pet a dog, would be done with the palm of your hand?

And there's a letter in Hebrew that is the palm of your hand facing down, and that's called a kuff. Well, that's the first letter of the word dog, which the second letter is lamed, which would mean that this animal that you're petting, you would have a heart for. It certainly has a heart for you, and it ends with a bet, meaning it's of the house. So you get this idea of this is a house animal that you would pet that you loved.

Well, I mean, it's perfect. That's a dog. And so when you see these letters and you begin to think, wow, what is that animal? And a couple other notable ones, from my perspective, is the turtle dove, which clearly has a reference to in it of the Holy Spirit, and a sheep, right? When you look at the word sheep in Hebrew, it's an absolutely beautiful thing, which I guess we would all understand this, that the word sheep is that zaddy, that letter that we talked about yesterday that's in the beginning of that name of God that would be the God of angel armies, or the letter that means righteousness, but it also can mean a tree. And so when you think about the lamb of God, that here's this righteousness, it's right on the very front of its name, and also it's connected to a tree somehow. The second letter is an aleph, which we've talked about so many times. It's sort of a sign for God. And then the last letter is a nun, which has to do with the seed. So you could literally say this is the righteous father's seed, would be the way you could actually say these letters come together, and that is the word for sheep. Now, do you think that it's just an accident that these things came together, or do you think that Adam did, in fact, have a phenomenal amount of wisdom? Well, in tomorrow's Bible wonder, we're going to wonder about what Adam said after Eve was made, and I think when you see the wisdom of it, you realize that our ancestor Adam had some really cool insight, and he certainly did when he named the animals, as all this stuff happened right there as they were blowing the trumpets on Rosh Hashanah. Oh, the wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me.