I am Adam (3)

Day 4:              I am Adam (3) – Genesis 1:28     

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

QUESTIONS:

  1. Who was speaking in this passage?
  2. To whom was he speaking? So who was given this blessing?
  3. What does it mean to be blessed?
  4. What are the 5 things that they were blessed to do?
  5. Read Genesis 1:22. To whom is God speaking?
  6. What components of the blessing in Genesis 1:22 is similar to that in Genesis 1:28? What is different?
  7. Read Genesis 1:26. What component is similar to Genesis 1:28? What is different?

Use the key terms notes below to assist you with arriving at the answers to the questions above.

KEY TERMS:

  1. blessed – H1288 barak – (verb)
    to invoke the divine favour,
    to cause to prosper, to be abundant
  2. be fruitful – H6509 parah – (verb)
    to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
    bring forth (fruit)
    (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase
  3. multiply – H7235 rabah – (verb)
    to increase
    (bring in) abundance
    to be many, to be numerous
  4. replenish – H4390 male’- (verb)
    to fill or (intransitively) be full of;
    to make full
  5. subdue – H3533 kabash – (verb)
    to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard;
    positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate:—bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.
  6. have dominion – H7287 radah – (verb)
    to tread down, i.e. subjugate;
    specifically to prevail against, reign, make to rule over, dominate
    to subdue or rule over

Day 1’s study identified the need to receive a revelation of who we are, not from man, but from God.
Day 2’s study identified man’s spiritual nature: to be like God.
Day 3’s study identified characteristics of man’s physical nature: male and female.
Day 4’s study will identify man’s purpose, role, or responsibility in the Earth.

Write 1-3 sentences explaining what you are blessed to do, and consequently, who you are meant to be, based on what you have discovered in this verse.