6 Days of restoration
Call it terraforming!
From the dateless past to the Earth’s first end full sinful career.
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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.
Restoration work of Day 1. Light restored, and light divided from darkness.
You will notice God said, “LET” there be light, in the sense of “made appear” or “made visible”. So in reality the darkness of verse 2 was the end resultof God’s command to “not make appear” or “not make visible” the light that was created in verse 1.
Visible light is nothing more than electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. It extends from a wavelength of about 780 nanometers (780 × 10-9 m) at the red end of the spectrum to one of 380 nm (violet light). Visible light spans the divide between infrared and ultraviolet radiation.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Restoration work of Day 2. Firmament restored. Clouds set in the heavens to water the Earth.
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Restoration work of Day 3. Dry land called Earth, just like in Gen. 1:1
Plus New Plant life restored grass, herbs, and trees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Restoration work of Day 4. The solar covenant is restored.
The Creative work here was to get life support systems back online. To set for signs seasons, days, years. Earth is in just the right place in the solar system to be able to sustain life, and this is no cosmic incident, it is the result of the divine work of God in Day 4. BTW 4 seasons on Earth will be eternal. I will let you look up the passages, BTW the word “LET” is used 13 times in this Chapter and not once is creation involved, but of permission.
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:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Restoration work of Day 5. Fish and fowl notice out of all the fish and fowl only the whale is mentioned by name. The whale by the way is the biggest of God’s Earthly creations. Active creation these are NEW CREATURES they were not around in the past in Gen. 1:1 Note also “after their kind” this proves there was no evolution. The same law applies in the next day’s creation, of beasts, cattle, creeping thing and man. They will never find the missing link, for there is no missing link!
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.
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.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Restoration work of Day 6. Animals, bugs, and man. Active creation the new creatures make their first appearance on earth 1 day after the fish and birds. No evolution here, are we to believe man or God? I want you to notice in verse 28 the word “replenish” Why would God say that if the earth was once not full of life before the 6 days? God used the same word after Noah’s flood see Gen 9. 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.
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.
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And 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 moveth upon the earth.
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Now if you believe in Noah’s flood why can’t you believe in the Pre-Adamite flood as recorded in Gen. 1: 2 It’s God’s universe and flooding was a result of His judgement to wipe out all that had the breath of life in them. Thank God He promised not to do it again on a worldwide scale, the next time is by fire!
Gen. 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
You see God was about to wipe out all creation like in Gen.1-2, but Noah saved us!
Look what God promised Noah in Gen. 9: 11 No more worldwide floods. He never said anything about local floods!
8 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 ¶ And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
So the 6 days were simply RESTORING the earth to a 2nd sinless state with Adam now in charge.
Look at all the passages below, God Himself states He MADE and not CREATED everything since Gen.1: 3
Gen. 2:1 ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
I explained what God created: All plants, fish, fowl, beast, bugs, and man. Sure there were plants, fish, fowls, beasts, bugs, and man before the 6 days but they were not the same as today’s version!
4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Verse 4 simply states Gen.1: 1 First initial creation and the second part of the verse to the second Gen. 1:3
Ex. 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Ex. 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.