In the beginning,
God created
the heaven and the earth.
2 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.
3
And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was
good: and God divided the light from darkness.
4
And God called
the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.
5
And the evening
and the morning were - the first day.
Note: This was
described as the first 24 hour day of a 7 day week. The time of darkness and the
time of light made the evening and the morning of the first day. The biblical
description denies, having a million year Night added to a 12 hour Day to make
the first day. Likewise it is not biblically needful to think, when God created
the heaven and the earth that it must be completely and perfectly arranged and
dressed on the first day as it would be later in the week of creation.
“For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
(See Ex. 20:11 and Ex. 31:17) These verses are simply stated and they stand in
stark contrast to the “Gap Theory.” At the end of the first day, there was day
light without the Sun and stars and the whole earth was covered by water, ready
to be further arranged on the next day.
The
Second Day, Gen. 1:6-8
6
And God said,
Let there be a firmament (heaven) in the mist of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters.
7
And God made
the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8
And God called
the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were - the second day.
Note: With water covering the whole earth, God
said, “Let there be a firmament (or heaven) in the midst of the waters.”
Imagine, a heaven in the waters of the Sea. It was said to divide the waters
which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.
At the end of the second day, a heaven had been placed in the midst of the
waters of the Sea, moving some of the waters of the Sea upward, leaving a
firmament or heaven between the waters of the Sea and the waters above the
firmament. We might think such waters above the firmament, were in the clouds as
we have today, but the Scriptures clearly record that in those days the Lord God
had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of
the ground. (Gen. 2:5-6) The Scriptures describe the environment of the earth at
that time greatly different from today’s environment. At the end of the second
day, there was day light without the help of the Sun, and the earth was
encapsulated up above the mountains by water (i.e. in frozen mass), being above
the first heaven. The water below the firmament still covered the whole earth.
The Third
Day, Gen. 1:9-13
9
God said, Let
the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear: and it was so.
10
And God called
the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good.
11
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it
was so.
12
And the earth
brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good.
13
And the evening
and the morning were - the third day.
Note: The dry ground appears for the first
time. In as much as the waters of the Seas under the heaven were gathered
together unto one place, it is inferred that the land was also in one place or
was in one continuous body of Earth as has been suspected by Geologist and
others. At the end of the third day, there was day light (without the sun); the
earth had Seas and dry land with grass, herbs, and trees and all were
encapsulated by water above the heaven.
The
Fourth Day, Gen. 1:14-19
14
And God said,
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the
night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
15
And let them be
for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it
was so.
16
And God made
two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to
rule the night: he made
the stars also.
17
And God set them
in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18
And to rule over
the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God
saw that it was good.
19
And the evening
and the morning were - the fourth day.
Note: The sun, moon,
and stars were created on the 4th
day and was in addition to the existing day light, created on the 1st
day. Therefore, the thickness of the crystallized water above the heaven, did
not prevent the light created on the first day from being sufficient upon the
earth for God’s developing creation. The trees and plants created on the
preceding day would now have the life giving benefits of the heavenly bodies as
well as all living creatures to come.
The Fifth
Day, Gen. 1:20-23
20
And God said,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and
fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21
And God created
great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and
God saw that it was good.
22
And God blessed
them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and
let fowl multiply in the earth.
23
And the evening
and the morning were - the fifth day.
Note: After the creation was suitable to
sustain living creatures, they were created and the fish of the Sea and the
winged fowls of the air were created in an environment which could sustain life
for them.
The Sixth
Day, Gen. 1:24-31
24
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, creeping
thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25
And God made
the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
26
And God said, Let us
make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27
So God created
Man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female
created he
them. --------
31
And God saw every thing that he had
made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were -
the sixth day.
Note: God created every creature, cattle,
creeping thing, and beast, but made man to have dominion over every living thing
upon the earth. The Lord God made Adam in the image of God and put him and all
of His creation in an environment of superior quality. Apparently, there was a
near constant temperature around the globe, such as did not require clothing to
keep Adam and Eve warm. Also they were made so perfectly that their descendents
could marry close of kin without physical abnormalities.
The
Seventh Day, Gen. 2:1-4
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all His work which
he had made.
3 And God
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it, He had rested
from all his work which God
created and made.
4 These are
the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created,
in the day that the Lord God
made the earth
and the heavens.
Note: If Adam had been examined 5 minutes after
he was created, no doubt, he would have had the appearance and characteristics
of age and maturity.
Likewise, if the earth had been examined 5
minutes after it was created, it would have had the appearance and
characteristics of age and maturity, also.
The Lord God created the heavens and the earth
and He certainly is able to convey to mankind, the correct time of His creation,
the correct order of His creation, and the correct length of time He used to
create it.
God promised the very first man, a Saviour to
come, the seed of the woman, and arranged to have the names of every generation
recorded in Scripture, from Adam to Jesus Christ.
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