The animal life in the air typifies the riches of the life of Christ in Christ as the eagle for carrying God’s redeemed to His destination (Exo. 19:4; Deut. 32:11-12; Isa. 40:31; Rev. 12:14) and in Christ as the turtledoves or pigeons for offering to God for the sins of God’s people (Lev. 1:14; 5:7).
The beasts and the cattle on the land typify the riches of the life of Christ in Christ as the conquering lion (Gen. 49:8-9; Rev. 5:5) to fight for God’s economy and in Christ as the sheep and oxen for offering to God for the fulfillment of God’s full redemption (Lev. 1:2-3, 10; 3:1, 6, 12; 4:3; 5:6; John 1:29; 1 Pet. 1:19; Rev. 5:6-8, 12-13; 12:11; 21:9, 23; 22:1, 3). John the Baptist declared that Christ was the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Man typifies Christ (Gen. 1:26-28; Rom. 5:14; 1 Cor. 15:45; Psa. 8:4-8; Heb. 2:6-9) as the head of all creation (1 Cor. 11:3) and as God’s expression in God’s image and likeness (Heb. 1:3; 2 Cor. 4:4; Col. 1:15), representing God to rule over all things created by God (Gen. 1:28). Without the plant life, the animal life, and the human life, the earth would be waste and void. The earth’s beauty and riches are dependent upon all the different kinds of life.
God’s creation is centered on life to reach the goal of expressing and representing God. The Spirit, the word, and the light refer to life. The resurrected Christ is typified by the dry land producing all kinds of life. Eventually out of the dust of this land, God created a man in His image and after His likeness to represent and express Him.
We need a vision to see that God created the heavens and the earth in order according to His purpose so that the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy (Job 38:7). The morning stars and the sons of God here refer to the angels. After God’s original creation, God’s enemy Satan rebelled against God (Isa. 14:13-14; Ezek. 28:15-18), God judged the universe defiled by Satan’s rebellion (Job 9:5-7), and the earth became waste and void (Gen. 1:2). Then God restored the condemned universe mainly to restore the land, typifying Christ as the center of God’s economy, for the producing of all kinds of life for the accomplishment of His economy (Gen. 1:1-5).
We need a vision to see that Christ, typified by the land, as the centrality and universality of God’s economy, resurrected, emerged, from the waters of death to produce, according to the riches of His life, lives in different aspects, typified by the plant life, the animal life in the sea and in the air, the beasts and cattle on the land, and the life of man to be one with God, expressing and representing God (Gen. 1:6-28).
Finally, we need a vision to see that the Triune God, in Christ as His embodiment, made man God’s man, one with Him to be multiplied and duplicated for producing the Body of Christ as His enlargement and counterpart, as illustrated in the next chapter, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem (Gen. 1:26-28).
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