Genesis 1C (2011) We return to Day 3 briefly to notice one interesting detail. The trees are told by God to bear fruit after their kind

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1 Genesis 1C (2011) We return t Day 3 briefly t ntice ne interesting detail The trees are tld by Gd t bear fruit after their kind The trees were cmmanded t reprduce, but in a very specific way They were ging t reprduce after their wn kind They culdn t reprduce smething ther than their kind Kind (min in Hebrew) is a difficult wrd t translate There isn t a gd English equivalent Nt species exactly brader term Yet it des imply a limit Kind is a cllectin f species but still there is a limit and the trees and plants were nt ging t mve beynd the limit Gd prvided The limit is determined by the infrmatin present in the rganism s DNA Only the infrmatin already present can be used t prduce ffspring And sme divisin r branching will be pssible within thse limits We ll talk mre abut this in the Evlutin seminar we will cnduct Third day fill in chart Gen. 1:14 Then Gd said, Let there be lights in the expanse f the heavens t separate the day frm the night, and let them be fr signs and fr seasns and fr days and years; Gen. 1:15 and let them be fr lights in the expanse f the heavens t give light n the earth ; and it was s. Gen. 1:16 Gd made the tw great lights, the greater light t gvern the day, and the lesser light t gvern the night; He made the stars als. Gen. 1:17 Gd placed them in the expanse f the heavens t give light n the earth, 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

2 Genesis 1C! 2 Gen. 1:18 and t gvern the day and the night, and t separate the light frm the darkness; and Gd saw that it was gd. Gen. 1:19 There was evening and there was mrning, a furth day. Expanse f heavens again Which raqia (expanse) and which shamayim (heaven) are we talking abut here? Cntext tells us - uter space Then He creates lights in the expanse t separate day frm night This is different frm separating light frm darkness The light/dark alternating pattern that defines the passage f time has already been established Nw Gd assciates the day with a certain light and the night with different lights S when the Bible says separated here, it means distinguished The day was distinguished frm the night by the appearance f different lights in each perid Curiusly, Gd desn t name the sun and mn here Why? Deut. 4:19 And beware nt t lift up yur eyes t heaven and see the sun and the mn and the stars, all the hst f heaven, and be drawn away and wrship them and serve them, thse which the LORD yur Gd has alltted t all the peples under the whle heaven. Since we knw He placed the stars s far away, hw culd light be visible n Earth right away? Desn t light take millins f years t travel frm the farthest stars? Scientists pint t this physical prblem t discredit the Creatin stry It s impssible, they say, fr light t be visible frm stars s far away n nly the 4 th day f Creatin 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

3 Genesis 1C! 3 This is prf that the Universe tk billins f years t frm, they wuld say The Biblical respnse is simple yet prfund Gd wuld have created a path f light frm each star t the Earth just as He created the stars themselves S n Day 4, the light was already in place and visible frm Earth And we knw He did this because f the purpses He states fr their creatin in the first place Gd gives three reasns fr these bjects t fill the day and night Fr signs Oth in Hebrew (wnder, men, witness) There are at least three ways in which the lights in the sky are useful t Gd as signs t the wrld First, t bear witness t Gd s existence Psa. 19:1 The heavens are telling f the glry f Gd; And their expanse is declaring the wrk f His hands. Psa. 19:2 Day t day purs frth speech, And night t night reveals knwledge. Psa. 19:3 There is n speech, nr are there wrds; Their vice is nt heard. Psa. 19:4 Their line has gne ut thrugh all the earth, And their utterances t the end f the wrld. In them He has placed a tent fr the sun, Psa. 19:5 Which is as a bridegrm cming ut f his chamber; It rejices as a strng man t run his curse. Psa. 19:6 Its rising is frm ne end f the heavens, And its circuit t the ther end f them; And there is nthing hidden frm its heat. Secnd, t reveal Gd s attributes r His character Rm. 1:20 Fr since the creatin f the wrld His invisible attributes, His eternal pwer and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understd thrugh what has been made, s that they are withut excuse. Third, t His plan fr creatin 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

4 Genesis 1C! 4 Jel 2:30 I will display wnders in the sky and n the earth, Bld, fire and clumns f smke. Jel 2:31 The sun will be turned int darkness And the mn int bld Befre the great and awesme day f the LORD cmes. Then Gd says He created the lights in the sky fr seasns The way the earth is psitin relative t the sun and mn creates seasns, tides i.e., circular patterns f life Psa. 104:19 He made the mn fr the seasns; The sun knws the place f its setting. Psa. 104:20 Yu appint darkness and it becmes night, In which all the beasts f the frest prwl abut. Why are seasns imprtant? Yu can live withut them (equatr) Message t the wrld abut the surety f Gd s prmises What ges rund cmes rund Eccl. 3:1 There is an appinted time fr everything. And there is a time fr every event under heaven Jer. 5:22 D yu nt fear Me? declares the LORD. D yu nt tremble in My presence? Fr I have placed the sand as a bundary fr the sea, An eternal decree, s it cannt crss ver it. Thugh the waves tss, yet they cannt prevail; Thugh they rar, yet they cannt crss ver it. Jer. 5:23 But this peple has a stubbrn and rebellius heart; They have turned aside and departed. Jer. 5:24 They d nt say in their heart, Let us nw fear the LORD ur Gd, Wh gives rain in its seasn, Bth the autumn rain and the spring rain, Wh keeps fr us The appinted weeks f the harvest. Jer. 5:25 Yur iniquities have turned these away, And yur sins have withheld gd frm yu Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

5 Genesis 1C! 5 Finally, Gd created the lights fr days and Years Cunting and marking and recrding f time Why is cunting time imprtant? Gd intends t cmmunicate abut the future (prphecy) He wants us t be aware f cming f His prmises The cunting f time is nt a cunt up it s a cunt dwn The earth is ging away ne day in the future And we are t knw that there is an end, and a judgment at that time Furth Day chart Gen. 1:20 Then Gd said, Let the waters teem with swarms f living creatures, and let birds fly abve the earth in the pen expanse f the heavens. Gen. 1:21 Gd created the great sea mnsters and every living creature that mves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and Gd saw that it was gd. Gen. 1:22 Gd blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply n the earth. Gen. 1:23 There was evening and there was mrning, a fifth day. Gd fills the seas and the air By the cntext, we knw that this time shamayim means the air There is an imprtant new detail n this day We have fr the first time living creatures The wrd fr living in Hebrew is chay nephesh Living sul, r living being By the way it s described in the text, we knw this is a new kind f life Different than plants because it represents cnscius life By the way Gd made these creatures, they will cme t serve a very useful purpse fr Gd in His plan fr redemptin 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

6 Genesis 1C! 6 Because they cntain chay nephesh (the breath f life), they can experience a death similar t man Plants lack chay nephesh, s when plants die, it s nt a death in the same sense as a man s r animals death We instinctively understand the difference We dn t murn the lss f a plant in the same way we murn the lss f an animal r persn Later, Gd is ging t use this difference in the sacrificial system f the Law t demnstrate the nature f sin and its cnsequences As we ntice that animal life first appears in the seas, we need t revisit the Day Age thery again fr a mment The Day Age therists believe that the unique rder f events in the creatin supprt their thery and mirrrs the fssil recrd They argue that the evlutinary recrd is cnsistent with the creatin stry in Genesis by virtue f each Day representing millins f years And in the gelgic recrd, evlutinists claim that animal life began in the seas And especially the first cmplex frms f animal life appeared in the ceans Scientists refer t smething called the Cambrian Explsin t explain the emergence f animal life in the sea As they study the fssil recrd in depsits, they ntice that a certain pint, mst f the species in the fssil recrd suddenly came int existence Accrding t their dating theries, this ccurred 4 billin years after the earth was frmed Day Age believers try t line up the Genesis recrd with this scientific belief by claiming that the Cambrian Explsin in the seas ccurred during the millins f years represented by Day 4 Apart frm the previus critiques I mentined, there is anther serius hle in this view at this pint 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

7 Genesis 1C! 7 Accrding t Genesis, Gd als created birds during this day But accrding t Evlutinist, birds came lng after the explsin f new species in the seas In fact, birds came even after mst ther land animals had appeared This wuld be Day 6 (r Age 6) S the Christian wh believes the Day Age thery is a way t recncile the Biblical accunt with the thery f Evlutin must admit that nt nly are the lengths f time in Genesis t seen as nn-literal (i.e., a day is nt really a day)... But they must als maintain that the sequence f events in Genesis is nn-literal Essentially, it begins t beg a huge questin: what, if anything, in the Genesis accunt is meaningful accurate? If day desn t mean day, and the sequence f events is wrng, then f what value is the entire accunt? Here again, as Christians we are faced with the fundamental questin Is Gd s wrd literal r nt? D we trust it t mean what it says, r must we invent a creative alternative meaning t please urselves? In my experience, if we place ur faith and trust in it even befre we can fully understand it, Gd is gd t bring us that cmplete understanding at a later time If we dubt it frm the beginning, He refrains frm revealing the truth t us, nt desiring t reward ur pride and arrgance and lack f faith Fifth day chart Gen. 1:24 Then Gd said, Let the earth bring frth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts f the earth after their kind ; and it was s. Gen. 1:25 Gd made the beasts f the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps n the grund after its kind; and Gd saw that it was gd Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

8 Genesis 1C! 8 On Day 6, we see mre living creatures filling the final space This time, the creatures fill the land r the earth The names used in English may sund arbitrary (i.e., cattle), but they reflect very specific Hebrew wrds Cattle dmesticated animals Beast wild animals We knw that at this time there is n death S that wuld mean that n animals were t be feared Animals didn t threaten ne anther, nr wuld they threaten humans Even large, ptentially fierce animals like dinsaurs culd ram withut threatening Adam and Eve This state is the natural, planned state fr the animal kingdm This is nt the exceptin...this is the nrm Death, even in the animal kingdm, is nt the nrmal, intended state fr Gd s creatin We knw this t be true because f hw this wrld began AND because f hw Gd will remake the wrld in the future kingdm Is. 65:17 Fr behld, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the frmer things will nt be remembered r cme t mind. Is. 65:18 But be glad and rejice frever in what I create; Fr behld, I create Jerusalem fr rejicing And her peple fr gladness. Is. 65:24 It will als cme t pass that befre they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. Is. 65:25 The wlf and the lamb will graze tgether, and the lin will eat straw like the x; and dust will be the serpent s fd. They will d n evil r harm in all My hly muntain, says the LORD. In the future Kingdm, Gd returns the wrld t a time when animals and the resurrected saints n lnger suffer death 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

9 Genesis 1C! 9 And therefre, at that time the animal kingdm n lnger sees ne anther as predatr and prey And man will nt fear even the mst deadly snake As Gd lked upn Day 6, He remarked as He has n every day It is gd By what measure is this day - and every day - gd? The answer t this questin has always been the same These days have prduce a wrld which is gd...perfectly gd...fr a single, intended purpse As a hme fr man Remember when I tld yu that the best questin t ask when studying Genesis is Why did Gd take s lng? He culd have created the wrld in a blink f an eye Instead, he tk six 24-hur perids and fllwed a very deliberate - sme might say elabrate - prcess T create in this unique way tells us He wanted t cmmunicate a purpse r reasn fr the creatin even as He went abut making it The reasn is fr man The entire plan f creatin... Frm the light & dark t cmmunicate Gd vs. Evil The lights in the sky t tell time, send signs and make seasns The atmsphere that s perfect fr man t breathe The seas t prduce weather and prvide fd The land and trees ready with fruit fr fd The animals fr cmpany and labr Everything is building tward a single purpse: 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

10 Genesis 1C! 10 T make a suitable hme fr Gd s mst imprtant creatin If it happened in an instant, the purpse and fcus wuld have been lst 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.