IN THE BEGINNING PART 4

Let the Dry Land Appear

Psalm 33:6-8 “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!”

Job 38:8-11 ““Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?”

Jeremiah 5:22 “Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.”

Discuss the power of the ocean.

Psalm 104:5-9 “He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.”

Mount Everest weighs around 350 trillion pounds or 175,000,000,000 tons. That’s about 200,000 Golden Gate bridges. There are 1,187,049 mountains on earth.

More than 300 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest since the early 1900s. Altitude sickness is partly to blame for many of those deaths. It’s peak is located 29,029 feet above sea level. Oxygen is so scarce at the top that it's known as the "death zone." It's a place where climbers' bodies are said to be"breaking down and essentially dying". Some climbers get high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) — a life-threatening condition that occurs at high altitudes and causes brain-swelling as well as effects like confusion, memory loss, and hallucinations.

Isaiah 40:12 “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?”

At this point in the creation account, we see that there is now earth, sea, and the heavens.

Let the Earth Sprout Vegetation

Here we see the Lord create vegetation. He divided the vegetation into plants and trees. All vegetation that contains the seed itself would be classified as plants. While those that have the seeds in the fruit would be classified as trees. Notice the repetition of “according to its kind”. This teaches no possibility of evolution.

Isaiah 45:18 “For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.”

Discuss the complexities of plant life and briefly discuss seed dispersal. The most common methods are wind, water, animals, explosion and fire.

Genesis 2:5-6 “When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—”

This would include vegetables and various grains (barley, oats, wheat, etc.).

Creation Declares the Glory of God

Romans 11:33-36 “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.”

Romans 1:19-20 “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”

Psalm 8:3-4 “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”