Ps. 57:5 “Be exalted O God above the Heavens. Let Thy glory
be above all the earth. “Psalm 104.
We have been experiencing how God (Elohiym) has taken this
dismal earth and brought forth order and Light.
Lab footnotes: The vast galaxy we live in is spinning at the
incredible speed of 490,000 miles an hour. Even at this breakneck speed our
galaxy still needs 200 million years to make one rotation. God did not need to create the
universe; He chose to
create it. God is love and love is best expressed toward something or someone
else. God created the universe because He loves us. (Gals can you believe we
are spinning at this incredible speed...Wow!) Also, if we were any farther from
the sun, we would freeze. If we were any closer, this earth would burn up.
The waters are in their boundaries…God named them “seas”. Dry
ground has appeared and God named it “earth”.
Genesis 1:11-13. Can you smell the vegetation? See the trees
loaded with fruit…flowers…color…the beginning of life. He was preparing this
earth for us…mankind. What are your
thoughts about these being seed bearing plants and trees with seed-bearing
fruit? (Hebrew says producing,
yielding seed, to be sown.) I thought of self-sustaining…to produce more.
And God SAW that it was good. Evening passed and
morning came, marking the 3rd day. I love that God was
watching His creation come into being. How satisfying. What joy!!!
Vs 14-19. When God said…”said” in Hebrew it is active and
powerful…when God speaks it is explosive!!!
“Amar” “With great latitude. Challenge, command, declare, demand,
desire, expressly.” I would have loved to hear God’s voice commanding
everything into existence. To watch this creative process.
“Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night. Lights “maowr”
(maw-ore) a luminous body or luminary light. Cheerfulness; specifically a chandelier…bright.
Break of day. Glorious, kindle, set on fire, shine.” We know our sun is a ball
of fire.
Hydrogen
generally determines a star's nuclear lifetime because it is used as the main
source of fuel in a main sequence star. ... As an example, the Sun's nucleartime scale is
approximately 10 billion years. Wikipedia
Vs. 14 what was
their purpose? The greater light
ruled the day. The lesser light ruled the night. Stars “kowkab” “in the sense of rolling. In
the sense of blazing. Star…Messiah.” I thought it was interesting that Messiah
was in this description.
And the evening and the morning were the 4th day.
Vs 20—22. Now we have sound. There are fish filling the
waters and birds flying, landing in the trees. Life. I love life. I love to
hear the birds singing. I am amazed at the fish in the sea. A friend and I visited
an Aquarian in Florida…there were fish with big Blue eyes. Also saw dolphins etc. I love the Omaha Zoo with the
large fish tank. I am always amazed at the colors in God’s creation.” According to the best estimates of scientists,
there are 3,500,000,000,000 (3.5 trillion) fish currently living in the ocean.”
https://www.amnh.org/about-the-museum/press-center/new-study-doubles-the-estimate-of-bird-species-in-the-worldNew research
led by the American Museum of Natural History suggests that there are
about 18,000 bird species in the world—nearly twice as many as
previously thought. The work focuses on “hidden” avian diversity—birds that
look similar to one another, or were thought to interbreed, but are actually
different species.
And the evening and the morning were the 5th day.
Vs. 24-25 every kind of animal. The beast of the earth. The
only thing I’m not sure about it is the creepy things (lol). Oh there went a
butterfly. More life. More sounds. The
lion roaring, the cattle mooing, (even the purring of my cat (J And God saw that it was good.
MANKIND vs. 26-31. To create “bara” “To create, shape, form,
fashion. God created man in His Own image, in the image of God created He him;
male and female created he them.” Man in
Hebrew is “Adam” ( aw-dawm). A human being.
To show blood in the face. Flush or turn rosy be (dyed, made) red
(ruddy).
Image “Tselem” (tseh’lem) meaning to shade. Resemblance. A
representative figure. Semblance.
Male…”to record, to make a memorial, make remembrance. A male
of humans.”
Female “from the sexual form. Woman.
LAB footnote: “God made both man and woman in His image.
Neither man nor woman is made more in the image of God than the other. From the
beginning the Bible places both man and woman at the pinnacle of God’s
creation. Nether sex is exalted and neither is depreciated.” Thoughts?
And God blessed them. “To be blessed, be adored”. I
loved that He blessed them and He adored them. .
Vs. 28 God blessed them and God said unto them, “Be fruitful,
and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that
moves upon the earth.
LAB footnote: “To “reign over” something is to have absolute
authority and control over it. God has ultimate rule over the earth and He exercises
His authority with loving care. When God delegated some of His authority to the
human race, He expected us to take responsibility for the environment and the
other creatures that share our planet. We must not be careless and wasteful as
we fulfill this charge. God was careful how He made this earth. We must not be
careless about how we take care of it.”
They were given dominion.
“To tread down. To have dominion. Prevail against. Dominate, rule,
subjugate. “So all dominion on this earth was given to mankind. God made him
ruler over this earth. Thoughts?
There was another time when Jesus gave us the dominion over
the enemy (who will soon show up in this story). Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power to
tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and
nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Vs. 29-31. Notice what the man and the woman were given to
eat. A vegetarian diet. They did not eat meat until after the flood. Vs. 31 And
God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And
the evening and the morning were the 6th day. So mankind was created
on the 6th day.
Gen. 1:1-3. What did
God do on the 7th day? He blessed and sanctified (set apart as holy)
the 7th day. +
Rested “Shabath” (shaw-bath’) “To repose, desist from
exertion. Celebrate, be still.” To keep the Sabbath holy is one of the 10
commandments.
Notice vs 31 “And God saw everything that He had made and
behold, it was very good.” Hebrew
“towb”. “Good, beautiful, bountiful, best, cheerful, at ease, be in favor,
graciously, joyful, kindness, pleasant, pleased, pleasure, prosperity, wealth,
welfare, well favored. To be good, be pleasing, be joyful, be beneficial, be
happy, be right.” This is how God saw and felt about everything He had
created!!! Once again I am struck with the thought that God loved the
experience of what He had created…He was very pleased with it. Thoughts?
1st day….Light (so there was light and darkness)
2nd day…sky and water (waters separated)
3rd day…Land and seas (waters gathered):
vegetation.
4th day….Sun, moon and stars (to govern the day
and the night and to mark seasons, days and years.
5th day…fish and birds (to fill the waters and the
sky)
6th day…animals (to fill the earth.) Man and Woman
(to care for the earth and to commune with God.)
7th day…God rested and declared all He had made to
be very good.
Creation by the Great Creator.
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