All Our Yesterdays
"To the last
syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays. . ." (Macbeth V.v.)
A series of brief articles
dealing with Human Pre-existence
by Arthur & Rosalind Eedle.
13. Made Together
Another
angle on this theme comes from an analysis of Psalm 33:14-15 which in the
A.V. reads as follows - "The Lord looks from heaven; He beholds all
the sons of men. From the place of His habitation He looks upon all the
inhabitants of the earth. He fashions their hearts alike; He considers all
their works."
Our
interest centres on the clause, "He fashions their hearts
alike." Referring to my Interlinear Hebrew Text of the
Psalms, I find it reads, "Who forms together their
hearts." On turning to the Hebrew Concordance, the word in
question is YACHAD, occurring some 139 times in the O.T., and in all but a
handful of cases, it's translated "together". The Lexicon confirms
that this is the true meaning of the word.
Two
examples may be given, to illustrate the point. Deut.33:5 "All the
tribes of
What does
this verse in Psalm 33 mean? How shall we understand the verb
"fashions", or "forms"? It is YATZAR, and first occurs
in Genesis 2:7-8 "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. And the Lord planted a Garden in
In other
words YATZAR is one of the "creation" words, and it tell us about
God's initial act of creation of man. In the Psalm 33 text, it tells us about
the creation of men's hearts, and we are told that He performed this creative
act "together", in other words at the same time. It doesn't suggest
that all of our hearts are the same, because the word heart is used in the
Bible as the seat of the human will. "Out of the heart proceed murders . .
. etc.", and "With the heart one believes unto righteousness."
No, the "togetherness" refers to a temporal act. We were all created
at the same time, prior to the formation of the earth. We dwelt in the heavens
as spiritual beings, awaiting our time to be sent down to the earth.