The Beginning of Creation
Book of Genesis Chapter 1 Verses 1-25
The Book of Genesis or better said the Book of Beginnings.
If it began then it began just as it is written in the Book
of the Beginnings!
The Bible has only one story and it is the story of God and
man!
The Bible has only One main character and that person is the
Lord Jesus Christ!
We could stand and argue about the oldest books ever
written.
We know the Book of Job as an old book maybe the oldest.
There are old books from Babylonia that tell some things
about creation.
There are other books that tell about the flood.
There are many books that tell us of things, some true and
some just old wife’s tales.
There is not another Book in existence like the Bible, and
there is certainly no greater book ever written that tells us about our
beginnings in a way that is easy to understand.
The Book of Genesis opens up by teaching us about our
creation and our purpose.
No guesswork.
No lies.
Just a Creator and His creation!
The truth of life!
*****Gen 1:1 In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
We should begin by asking ourselves, "what is
eternity"? Eternity is a place without time.
You see Elohim (God) lives in eternity. Elohim is a plural
form of Elohi, " which does not mean many gods but as we learn "One
God" in three persons.
God the Heavenly Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit.
We need to understand this from the "Beginning"!
Elohim, the Almighty, All Powerful, the Living God.
It is only by Elohim that creation took place.
That "beginning", is our beginning not the
beginning of Elohim who lives in eternity.
What does this Almighty, All Powerful God do? He
"creates". He is the Master of "life"!
To create means He called things into existence that had
never existed before.
He created our universe (Cosmos) out of nothing.
He created the heavens from nothing.
There is no one then nor now who has this ability, even
though some claim it.
The key word is "nothing".
Elohim just speaks and things take place. This is what our
Creator does.
Those who try to create today must use something that God
has already created to get started. A big difference.
There are certainly many intelligent people, but they lack
"the power" to create!
The Bible then is a portrait of human history after we had
our beginning!
Some people get confused about this, but Heaven did not
exist.
Again Elohim lives in eternity and does not need a place to
live.
We need to understand. God does what God wants to do anytime
God wants to do it!
Isa 46:8 Remember
this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Isa 46:9 Remember the
former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there
is none like me,
Isa 46:10 Declaring
the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
He is just a loving God full of "Mercy And Grace"!
By the order it is written, we know that Elohim created
Heaven out of nothing before He created Earth out of nothing!
God then decided to shower His creation with
"Love"!
It is this Elohim, God in three persons, who declared to us
all that He is our Creator!
If we as humans had any sense at all, we would listen to
what our Creator has to say.
As we go through the Bible, we will see that God refers to
us as sheep. Not because they are not a clean animal, but simply because they
are the dumbest animal in all creation.
You can train fleas, but you cannot train sheep to do very
much.
The most important training you can do to a sheep is to get
them to follow their Shepherd whose job it is to keep them safe.
We cannot live without our Creator!
So, let us see about this earth.
*****Gen 1:2 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.
Every time I read about God’s creation; I think about that
farmer who has a piece of land that he is willing to work to make productive.
Does this mean that God's creation began in chaos absolutely
not!
What God is saying is, He first created the
"matter" from which all life has its beginnings.
Matter is the material which occupies space!
Matter is the material that we can acknowledge because of
our senses.
Matter makes itself known by its properties.
It can be said that the ultimate reason for all movement in
our Cosmos is the force that God gave it at the beginning of creation.
These things are clearly scene by all people, even so-called
scientist who reject these things, simply because they would have to
acknowledge that there is a Supernatural Being.
Rom 1:19 Because that
which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto
them.
Rom 1:20 For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so
that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because
that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful;
but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
God set these things in place, but they were never to be
eternal. God has a much greater plan than what we see here.
It is those invisible things where we can see the power of
God, the architect of life.
The Holy Spirit moved, but the hands used belonged to the
Messiah!
Joh 1:1 In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was
in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things
were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was
life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light
shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
The "Word" is our "Messiah" not only our
"Maker", but also that "Light" that overcomes spiritual
darkness!
We can say that each individual human is matter that is
molded into form by our Creator, and He made each one of us a little different
from each other.
Every created being was made to give glory to our Creator!
Every created being was given a purpose by our Creator!
Everything that has life was given that life by our Creator!
Every created object was made to give glory to God!
At the very beginning there was no life!
At this first step of creation there was no life, but these
things had to be created to bring forth life.
Job 9:8 Which alone
spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Job 9:9 Which maketh
Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Job 9:10 Which doeth
great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
Remember the farmer, he has to prepare the land for life.
We must also understand that the power of God is
demonstrated by the actions of the Holy Spirit.
When the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost) moves things happen,
according to the thoughts and the words of our Heavenly Father.
It was dark!
A world without life would be very dark!
Every time a child is aborted our world gets a little bit
darker!
Every time some innocent person falls victim to the murderer
our world gets a little darker!
Notice we start getting the truth of Elohim, as the Spirit
of God makes a move upon the face of the deep.
We can understand this word "deep" to mean waters.
The "deep" are the seas, the waters, the oceans.
Isa 40:12 Who hath
measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the
span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isa 40:13 Who hath
directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
Isa 40:14 With whom
took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of
judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isa 40:15 Behold, the
nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the
balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
We now have the soil, "the matter", covered with
water, and the next thing the farmer needs is "Light".
We must not be fooled, "Light" is a creation of
God!
Our spiritual "Light" is the Lord Jesus Christ who
part of the Triune God!
*****Gen 1:3 And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw
the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.
Time as we know it today has just begun.
As we go on, we will see the Sun and the Moon and the Stars
a little later which means "Light" is a separate creation.
The truth is there are stars in our Universe today that
their light has not yet reached this earth.
It amazes me that new stars claim to be discovered that have
been there all along, their light just now reaching our eyes.
Scientists are so foolish; they know these things, yet they
claim a new discovery every time.
God said, "let there be Light".
"Light" is a good thing, so we immediately see the
spiritually speaking "darkness" is a bad thing.
We need the darkness, as opposed to without light, to
moderate the temperature of our earth!
We do not need "spiritual darkness" which is sin!
We have never needed sinful darkness, yet we must all go
through temptation.
God has now created the twenty-four, hour day.
Throughout the Bible we will see that the Israelites keep
the day as it is written in the Book of Genesis.
The day begins in the evening (around six) and goes
twenty-four hours to the next evening.
The evening and the morning were the very first day.
Most of the rest of the world begin a day at midnight and go
twenty-four hours to the next midnight designated AM and PM.
We should completely understand that Elohim is creating an
environment especially suited to humans and it was a good thing in His eyes.
End of day one, the very first "twenty-four" hour
day and almost every day since that time has been for twenty-four hours except
for a couple of days when God altered them, and those days are written down for
us in the Bible and some true scientist have proven this to be true.
*****Gen 1:6 And God
said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters.
Gen 1:7 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.
Gen 1:8 And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day.
The firmament is that expanse above us that we call the
heavens. The Bible describes three separate parts of heaven.
The atmosphere that is the source of our breathable air and
where the birds fly is the first heaven.
The remainder of what we can see, the home of the stars and
moons and the entire solar system and galaxies would be a part of the second
heaven.
Then there is the unseen realm of our Heavenly Father which
is the third Heaven. The Heaven of heavens!
The word firmament gives us the idea broad plates of metal
beaten into thin plates and polished to shine like the stars do shine and such
as a mirror.
Job 37:18 Hast thou
with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
How is Heaven described in many passages?
Exo 24:10 And they
saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of
a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Then come the dividing of waters.
That water above the firmament is not the material of the
stars, but the material of the clouds.
This is what we now call the hydrologic cycle.
Ecc_1:7 All the
rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence
the rivers come, thither they return again.
I personally believe it was different before the world-wide
flood than it is today, but it is still the way our water is continuously
purified.
The water below the firmament is our oceans which are
another mechanism to purify our waters and our air and our fresh water, but
there is also our underground water table, which helps to moderate the
temperature of our Earth.
There is so much information about creation, it is a study
in itself that we cannot cover in these short lessons.
We should understand that we breath God's air and drink
God's water and it is we the people who pollute both these sources that are
tied to our good health.
God made a way fight our pollution, but we could do more to
help these things ourselves!
Why have life spans become shorter over time? We have not
been good stewards of the things our Creator made for us!
This has absolutely nothing to do with climate change which
is something else entirely.
There is a reason our Creator separates these things into
days, and great lessons begin as our Creator begins His teaching process.
*****Gen 1:9 And God
said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and
let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Gen 1:10 And God
called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he
Seas: and God saw that it was good.
We know that after the farmer has planted the seed there is
a great need for water.
He may not understand all these things, but he knows since
the beginning of time, that once the soil has been prepared and the seed
planted then it is up to rains and water sources to cause the seeds to
germinate.
Notice how our Creator has had the soil under water and now
causes it to come into place.
Humans need a place to live.
Humans need a place to grow food.
Humans need a moderate environment.
Gen 9:20 And Noah
began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Humans need variety and beauty to behold.
It is the soil, the Earth, that we find the elements of
human life.
Gen 2:7 And 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.
Humans need to witness the glory of God in our creation, to
know that we are not alone, and not some accident.
Gen 2:8 And the LORD
God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of
the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight,
and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the
tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Isa 40:22 It is he
that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them
out as a tent to dwell in:
The dry land is called Earth!
Psa 136:6 To him that
stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
At this time all the continents that we know of today were
all joined together into one plot of land.
The Bible states this as a fact thousands of years ago and
most all scientist agree on this thing today, even though it is not important
that they do this.
They do not agree on much of the Word of God which is the
basis of all science that deals with facts. Science is to be based on facts!
All the Seas were touching one another just as they do today
but at this day in our history all those Seas were fresh water and they
remained that way until after the flood of Noah's day.
Psa 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof;
the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psa 24:2 For he hath
founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
There were no storms and no rains, this soil had its own
irrigation system.
Gen_2:6 But there
went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
This was another of the good things in the eyes and thoughts
of our Creator.
The soil was now prepared to produce fruit, but God did not
plant seeds.
The plant, whatever kind, had to come first to produce the
seed! This should answer that age-old question. Which came first the chicken,
or the egg.
Obviously, God created the chicken first.
God planted the tree that would produce that seed.
God planted that grain that would produce that seed.
*****Gen 1:11 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.
Gen 1:12 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.
Gen 1:13 And the
evening and the morning were the third day.
You see Elohim is the God of "Life"!
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and "the life": no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me.
Mat 22:32 I am the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? "God is not
the God of the dead, but of the living".
Again we see that God speaks and things happen, just as the
Lord intended it to happen.
The earth was created to be a habitation for people and the
animals, but along with this the earth had to produce a food source, a housing
source, a medicinal source, and all the other needs of humanity.
Elohim would be the Spiritual source so that all needs could
be met!
Elohim did not just call on food and resources for those
immediate humans as Adam and Eve, but He created a continuous supply of those
resources if man would do his part after the curse.
Before the curse, which will come later after sin, humans
need only to reap the harvest and tend the garden.
God said this was a good day!
*****Gen 1:14 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:
Gen 1:15 And let them
be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and
it was so.
Remember on the first day God created Light. On this fourth
day God created the source of all those different lights.
We know that a light beam travels a distance at a precise
rate without outside influences. In fact in our galaxies they are measured
according to how far that light can travel in a year or
"Light-years".
The light from our Sun reaches earth in just over one day.
The light from the Moon a great deal quicker because of its closeness.
There are stars that God created on this fourth day that
their light has not made it to the Earth as of yet.
Our heavens are constantly changing and believe it or not,
if our world were billions of years old, the scientist would not still be
finding new stars or new solar systems, simply because light travels at a
constant speed in pure space. There are some things that can distort light!
It has nothing to do with technology it only has to do with
the distance that the "light" has to travel!
The light from the distant planets are reflected light from
our Sun, just as the light of our Moon is reflected light from our Sun.
We should be praising Elohim because He placed our Earth
exactly ninety-three million miles from our Sun. Much closer and we would burn
up. Much farther away and we would freeze to death.
Earth was created for humans and there is, absolutely no
other beings in this universe.
The only aliens that exist are those whose Father is Elohim
because their names are written down in the Lamb's Book of Life!
Heb 11:13 These all
died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off,
and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb 11:14 For they
that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Heb 11:15 And truly,
if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might
have had opportunity to have returned.
Heb 11:16 But now
they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
God now provides that moderate temperature for all humans.
*****Gen 1:16 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.
Gen 1:17 And God set
them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Gen 1:18 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.
Gen 1:19 And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Our "sun", as a permanent source of necessary
light as long as this world last, and the moon, stars, and planets are in place
to show the glory of our Heavenly Father.
The sun is near the center of the entire universe, just as
earth is at the center of God's attention.
At just the right distance, the sun provides energy and
warmth in precise amounts. If the sun were any closer, we would burn in
unlivable heat; any farther, and we would be locked in ice.
The moon's gravity causes the tides to continually circulate
and freshen the oceans, without which life would not flourish as it does.
The larger planets guard earth from incoming solar bodies.
The heavenly bodies were also given for timekeeping and regulation of life.
Our rotating earth and galaxies give us signs!
The planet earth spins on a tilt. It is probably the only
planet in existence that does so.
It is this tilt of the earth that gives us our four seasons!
When the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun,
that's summer, and when it is tilted away from the Sun, that's winter for the
Northern Hemisphere.
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north
of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as
being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the
solar system as Earth's North Pole.
How does Earth's tilt affect climate change?
Gradual shifts in the Earth’s tilt can cause climate
changes!
More tilt means more severe seasons, meaning that it is
hotter in the summer and colder in the winter. Less tilt results in moderate
seasons: warmer winters and cooler summers.
Sunspots also cause our climate to change!
You see these things could not have happened by accident,
but by a Holy God in His creation of "Life"!
Every day has been a twenty-four day since the first day.
These are all gifts to mankind that could have come from no
other source!
All these preparations were precisely made, and it was now
time to bring forth the living creatures.
*****Gen 1:20 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.
Gen 1:21 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.
Gen 1:22 And God
blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Gen 1:23 And the
evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Without all the things that our Heavenly Father had put in
place before this day, there would be no life on earth.
These things could not have taken place by some accident!
It takes a foolish person, who cannot see the precise plan
put in place by our Supernatural Father in Heaven.
The key word in the passage is "living"!
God commanded these living creatures to produce, we could
say reproduce and we see that they would produce after their kind.
There is no life through evolution.
Obviously, animals and all living creatures have to adapt to
their surroundings, their environment, but this is not evolution where one
living creature becomes another creature of a separate family or some separate
"kind".
This day in the creation cycle God commanded living
creatures to come about.
All life associated with water habitats had their beginning
on this day.
Life did not have its beginning in some glob of protoplasm
that evolved over millions of years.
And yes, water related dinosaurs came about this day.
It is true that every spoonful of water contains millions of
microscopic creatures!
In that same voice, the microscopic creature and the great
whales and seafaring dinosaurs all came to life!
As far as water born creatures, it is the great whales that
give us an idea of the power of God in relation to a microscopic organism, that
is also show God's creative power.
It is creation week, that should remind us that when Elohim
speaks nothing is impossible for Him!
Mat_19:26 But Jesus
beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all
things are possible.
We should never think otherwise!
Another day comes and goes and the gifts for mankind keep
piling up.
*****Gen 1:24 And God
said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and
creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 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.
As the waters brought forth water-based life, so the soil
will now bring forth land-based life.
What we have seen is that Elohim, the Almighty Living God,
has taken His creation and from that creation he has brought forth
"life".
Animals were created from the resources of this earth, by
God's command!
1) God does not tell us how these things came about only
that He commands, and all His creation listens and performs.
The waters, the soil, the plants, the water-based animals,
and now the land-based animals.
2) Scripture is very clear, God made all the animals from
the earth! Any other man-made theory is wrong and can never be proven.
Theories are just that theories that have not or cannot be
proven!
3) Scripture will be very clear, that our Creator has done
all these things in preparation for His greatest creation which is man!
Notice again that the animals are made after their kind.
If any species could cross breed with any other species all
these things would have failed into non-existence.
The same cow Adam saw is still a cow today.
The same horse that Adam saw is still a horse today and yes,
a burro is still in the horse family.
All animals reproduce from their own kind.
You cannot take a cat and a dog and make something new!
There are no breeds caught in between to different species!
There is no Sasquatch, or Moth Man, or any other such thing!
Animal life did not just happen by some accident. If we look
at all the so-called accidents of evolution, it is easily seen that they are
impossible.
Elohim, God, tells us systematically what He did each day
and the materials He used, and all these things can be proven, except for that
part where God spoke these things into existence which we need to accept as the
truth.
There is no other explanation that comes close to what God
says took place!
There is no "by chance".
There is no "by random".
There is no "impersonal force or energy bringing basic
cells and DNA together to form animal life". (This is impossible)
There is no "physical laws in existence, past or
present that began animal life"!
Animal life was created by or Creator, just as He has said!
By the "power of His spoken Word, God caused all these
things to happen.
It is not far-fetched it is just reality!
God does not do things halfway!
God is a God of order.
God is a God of progression. (This is not progressive)
God is a God of perfection!
God is still involved with all His creation even today!
God said these things are good things.
Not perfect, but good, in fact "very good".
God cause all the animals to populate this earth and yes,
all the land dinosaurs were created on this same day!
God cause these things because all these animals would play
some part in the food chain.
God cause these things because these animals would bring
beauty to this earth.
God cause these things because many of these animals would
be companions to mankind.
We should just try to imagine living on land and never see
anything but other humans.
God created nature for us to enjoy His creation!
Psa 8:4 What is man,
that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psa 8:5 For thou hast
made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and
honour.
Psa 8:6 Thou madest
him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things
under his feet:
Psa 8:7 All sheep and
oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psa 8:8 The fowl of
the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of
the seas.
Psa 8:9 O LORD our
Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Without worrying about the climate, we should still take
care of the things God created for our pleasure.
Elohim took great pleasure in making all these things for
His greatest creation man!
Rev_4:11 Thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created
all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Amen
