Days of Creation

DAY 1: Light & Time

Genesis 1:1-5

Genesis 1:1–5 NASB95In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

Notice we see the Spirit’s involvement in creation

There is a void

God speaks “Word”

Light was good

Evening and Morning “one day”

DAY 2: Atmosphere

Genesis 1:6-8

Genesis 1:6–8 NASB95Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

God spoke “Word”

Our atmosphere is unique to life...

God is creating and environment for Life

It was good

Evening & morning “a second day”

DAY 3: Dry Land & Plants

Genesis 1:9-13

Genesis 1:9–13 NASB95Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

God spoke “Word”

Dry land… takes time but here we see this occuring instantly

Like when they crossed the Red Sea or the Jordan River!

“KIND” not mutating into something else but ready to produce after its “kind”

Seeds in them as to reproduce!

It was good

Evening & morning a third day

DAY 4: Sun, Moon, Stars

Genesis 1:14-19

Genesis 1:14–19 NASB95Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

God spoke Word”

These would be “signs” of time… God already created time one day one

Signs for seasons, days, and years

This is why right away we can distinguish how long peopled lived!

It was good

Evening and morning a fourth day

DAY 5: Fish & Birds

Genesis 1:20-23

Genesis 1:20–23 NASB95Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

God spoke “Word”

“After their kind”

Sea creatures for their kind

Birds for their kind

Instructed to multiply… fill waters… fill earth

Fertility of life comes from God (BLESSED THEM)

It is good & blessing

Evening and morning a fifth day

DAY 6: Land Creatures & Mankind

Genesis 1:24-31

Genesis 1:24–31 NASB95Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Once again with the creatures we see “God Spoke” the Word!

We see Him make them after their “KIND”

And this “was good”

THEN… God spoke, but not into existence He spoke of what He would do!

Make man in His image

Have them rule

Male and female

Mankind was the pinnacle of His creation, unlike anything else...

It was VERY GOOD!

Evening and morning a sixth day

DAY 7: God Rested

Genesis 2:1-3

Genesis 2:1–3 NASB95Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

God ceased, stopped… WHY? because it was complete

It DOES NOT say God was tired… rather we would see Him giving man (His creation) and example to live by

There was a starting and a completion

I understand that what I will close with today may not be the popular stance of many, however I believe it to be the Biblical one.