I chanced to be reading Genesis, the 1st chapter and I became involved again in a schedule of the days of Creation I had made a few years ago that showed in modest detail what God did, on what day of Creation He did it, etc. This revisit to the chart of “The Seven Days of Creation” has been helpful to me and I think it may help you also.
It is refreshing to read the biblical account of Creation at a time when no one seems to believe God could have brought into being all we see around us on every side and above us to the billions of stars visible to the naked eye, some of which are many light years away. The following paragraphs and the related chart of “The Seven Days of Creation” are taken from The Life of Christ Revised Teaching Aid by Aaron J. Smith (this book is not yet available on the market).
“While speaking Earth into existence, this great all-everything God – who was all alone and yet not lonely due to His multi-faceted being that embodies ‘all things pertaining to life and godliness’ – simultaneously created the universe with trillions of cosmic objects flying and whirling hither and yon, with no easily discernible pattern, either to their movements or the reason for their creation.
“Scripture tells us that God created “the heavens and the earth,” an inclusive term meaning the entire universe. But Scripture also informs us that all that God is, dwells in Jesus (Col. 1.19, 2.9), and it also makes us to know that Jesus created the same heavens and earth that God created (Eph. 3.9; Col. 1.16) Now – it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that God (Yahweh, Jehovah) and Jesus are one and the same Person.
“Genesis 1 tells us what this Almighty God whom we call Jesus did. He rolled up his sleeves and went to work in a mighty way. You may read all about it in the first chapter of Genesis. I have capsulated what He did in the chart below.”
The Seven Days of Creation
|
Day |
Genesis |
Specific Creative Work |
|
1 |
1.1-2 |
Earth and heaven[1] |
|
1.3-5 |
Light,[2] day and night decreed |
|
|
2 |
1.6-8 |
Firmament (heaven/sky)[3] |
|
3 |
1.9-10 |
Seas and Earth divided |
|
1.11-13 |
Plants and trees |
|
|
4 |
1.14-19 |
Sun, moon, stars |
|
5 |
1.20-23 |
Fish, etc., and winged creatures[4] |
|
6 |
1.24-25 |
Land creatures, insects, etc. |
|
1.26-31 |
Man[5] |
|
|
7 |
2.2-3 |
Day of rest[6] |
[1] It seems that God did not create the heavens at this time. (See Gen. 1.6-8) The “earth and heaven” merely refers to the whole of God’s creative work.
[2] This primordial light did not emanate from the sun on this the first day of Creation. God created light where and when He wanted light. Is that difficult of acceptance? The sun was not created until the 4th day.
[3] The firmament was called heaven, which, in biblical reckoning was the “1st heaven.” (Ref., 2 Cor. 12.2 – where Paul speaks of the 3rd heaven, the abode of God) Also see M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897, “Heaven”.
[4] “And God said, ‘Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.’” (NIV) The NIV and some other versions specify only that flying birds and fish were created in Gen. 1.20, 21.
[5] It is evident from the scriptural record that man was the only creature made like God. Not even angels were so fashioned.
[6] The Scripture records the seven days of creation as a fait accompli because what God plans to do is always an established fact before its actual implementation. But, in a literal sense, the 7th day of creation has not yet dawned. Creation as Scripture refers to it is now only into the sunset of its 6th day.
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