Topic: Creation

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Three words used in the Hebrew when describing creation or this restoration:

Bara – to create something out of nothing

Asah – to create something out of material that exists (restore)

Yatzar (Genesis 2:7) – to mold, form or fashion something, derived from the idea of cutting or framing (examples of molding out of clay, forging of metal

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created (bara) the heavens, Who is God, Who formed (yatzar) the earth and made (asah) it, Who has established (stabilized) it, Who did not create (bara) it in vain, Who formed (yatzar) it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

We live on a recreated earth.

Genesis 1:1 – Original Creation

Genesis 1:2 – The earth wrapped up in the curse and judgment.

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration.

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night, light

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Creation of the Sun and the Moon

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Day 6 – Genesis 1:24-31 – Animals and man are placed on the earth.

Day 7 – God Rested

Our purpose for existing as believers is so that can reveal the manifold wisdom of God to the powers of darkness.

Day 7 – The Sabbath Rest – God Rested

Genesis 2:1-3 NKJV Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. (2) And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. (3) Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

God did not rest because He was tired. He rested because He was through with the work.

Jesus did not sit down on His through after the ascension because He was tired. He was seated because His work was through.

Hebrews 1:1-3 NKJV God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, (2) has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; (3) who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

God rests when His work is through not because the working makes Him tired.

Genesis 2:1 NKJV Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

Host – mass of persons organized for a campaign or war.

Ants and others are in groups, armies.

God puts things in groups.

Through grouping together, we can overcome the plans of the enemy. Satan’s mode of operation is to divide and conquer, create anarchy.

An army wins when there is order, structure, and organization.

Genesis 2:2 NKJV And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Genesis 1:22 NKJV And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1:28 NKJV Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 2:3 NKJV Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Blessing produces multiplication which comes by Grace.

Genesis 2:3 NKJV Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The Sabbath is a celebration of God’s grace! Not struggling to cause things to happen by our own might and power but God does it because of His grace.

Sabbath means “a rest”.

The Sabbath is Mentioned Again:

Exodus 16:23 NKJV Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ”

2000 years later God brings it up again and it becomes law.

Exodus 20:10-11 NKJV but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. (11) For in six days the LORD made (restored) the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

By the time Jesus showed up, the religious leaders had micromanaged it to the point that everything was spelled out to the minute degree.

Jesus broke men’s traditions but He never broke the law!

Mark 2:23-28 NKJV Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. (24) And the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” (25) But He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: (26) how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?” (27) And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. (28) Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

Exodus 20:8 NKJV “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Remembering is what makes the Sabbath holy. Remembering what? The Goodness of God!

Just like Communion, what is more important, the elements or remembering what Jesus did for us?

The Sabbath is designed to cause us to remember that what happened the previous six days happened because of the goodness of God.

The Sabbath was not about not working, it was about the remembering.

1. The Sabbath was designated by God to teach people about His grace.

The truth is we entered into our Sabbath when we were Born Again and the work was completed by Jesus.

Hebrews 4:3 NKJV For we who have believed do enter that rest (sabatismos), as He has said: “SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

2. When God set up the Sabbath in Exodus 20, it was a reminder of the grace of God.
3. The Jewish Sabbath was designed to cause the Children of Israel to remember the Lord’s provision.

• • • Exodus 20:8-11
    • Isaiah 58:1-14
    • Deuteronomy 5:12-15
    • Leviticus 23:3

4. Our daily walk of faith is our Sabbath.

Faith is the only thing you can do, and you don’t have to do anything.

Believing is the absence of our works.

5. There is an eternal rest.

Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (30) For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

This is a rest that begins at the New Birth and continues right on through the rapture and throughout eternity.

6. In the Old Testament there was a Sabbatical Year every seven years.

The was a Sabbatical year where the Children of Israel were not to plant crops.

God would give them a bumper crop in the sixth year so they could allow the land to rest.

• • • Exodus 23:10-11
    • Leviticus 25:3-4
    • Leviticus 26:33-36

7. The Year of Jubilee

Leviticus 25:8-17

A Generation test where once every 49 years, there was a year of total reset or cleansing. All debts were forgiven, property went back to the proper owner, etc.

A year to remember that God is the author and source of everything.

8. To reject the Sabbath was an example of rejecting the Word of God and the Grace of God.

• • • Exodus 23:37-39
    • Nehemiah 13:15-21

9. The Sabbath has been interrupted.

Colossians 2:16-17

We are no longer bound to observe a specific day but to remember the original purpose.

Genesis 2:1-3 NKJV Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. (2) And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. (3) Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Three words used in the Hebrew when describing creation or this restoration:

Bara – to create something out of nothing

Asah – to create something out of material that exists (restore)

Yatzar (Genesis 2:7) – to mold, form or fashion something, derived from the idea of cutting or framing (examples of molding out of clay, forging of metal

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created (bara) the heavens, Who is God, Who formed (yatzar) the earth and made (asah) it, Who has established (stabilized) it, Who did not create (bara) it in vain, Who formed (yatzar) it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

We live on a recreated earth.

Genesis 1:1 – Original Creation

Genesis 1:2 – The earth wrapped up in the curse and judgment

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night, light

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Creation of the Sun and the Moon

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Day 6 – Genesis 1:24-31 – Animals and man are placed on the earth

Day 7 – God Rested

Our purpose for existing as believers is so that can reveal the manifold wisdom of God to the powers of darkness.

Lucifer was one of the three highest Cherubs in Heaven.

He was over worship in God’s Kingdom.

He was over all the resources of the earth. (gold, silver, etc.)

He rebelled against God and fell to the earth.

Psalms 8:1-9 NKJV To the Chief Musician. On the Instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! (2) Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. (3) When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, (4) What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? (5) For You have made him a little lower than the angels (Elohim – god like creatures or angels), And You have crowned him with glory and honor. (6) You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, (7) All sheep and oxen– Even the beasts of the field, (8) The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. (9) O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Understand the difference between creation and position.

Man was created a little lower than the angels but God gave him authority over all creation (position).

Hebrews 2:5-8 NKJV For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. (6) But one testified in a certain place, saying: “WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, OR THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU TAKE CARE OF HIM? (7) YOU HAVE MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND SET HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS. (8) YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.

Hebrews 2:9-11 NKJV But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. (10) For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (11) For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

God cannot die but as a man He could die!

Jesus, even though He was born of flesh and became a man, a little lower than the angels, was crowned with glory and honor and had authority over all creation.

1 Corinthians 15:45 NKJV (45) And so it is written, “THE FIRST MAN ADAM BECAME A LIVING BEING.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Hebrews 2:14-16 NKJV Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, (15) and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (16) For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.

God’s plan was that an inferior being (man) would come to redeem humanity and destroy a superior being (Lucifer).

That is why it is not the name of Christ that sets men free, it is the name of Jesus (God our Savior)!

Position always takes authority over creation!

By creation we are inferior to the angels but when we receive Christ and are Born Again, we receive the position of being superior to the powers of darkness!

At the rapture of the Church, we will be higher than the angels not only in position, by in creation as well because we will be glorified just like the Risen Savior.

Day 6 – The creeping animals and creation of Man

Genesis 1:24-25 NKJV Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. (25) And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Animals are always going to stay in the parameters of his species.

v. 24 – Tame animals and creepy animals

Man is the only creature that tries to go beyond the boundaries that God intended.

Genesis 1:26-31 NKJV Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (27) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (28) Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill (replenish) the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (29) And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. (30) Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. (31) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

God created man in verse 26 – asah – to make out of something that exists – God created man’s body from the dust of the ground

In the creation of him, was the creation of them. (v26)

Verse 27 – God created man in Hi own image – (bara) made man out of nothing which exists. Man’s spirit was created out of nothing.

The body is like a glove that fits over the spirit. Your body looks like your spirit.

Woman was inside of man the entire time.

Genesis 5:1-2 KJV This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; (2) Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

All other creatures were formed of the dust of the ground because there is no spiritual element to them.

Genesis 1:28 NKJV Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

The woman came later but God blessed them because in him was them.

Genesis 2:5-8 NKJV before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; (6) but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. (7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (lives); and man became a living being. (8) The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

Genesis 2:15-20 NKJV Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. (16) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; (17) but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (18) And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (19) Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. (20) So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

Genesis 2:18-20 AMPC Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him. (19) And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and what ever Adam called every living creature, that was its name. (20) And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every [wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.

Adam must have been a genius. He named all of the animals.

All of the animals were in pairs. But there was not a helper comparable for man.

God did not make the woman because the man was lonely.

Genesis 2:21 NKJV And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Ribs – tselah

1 Kings 7:3 NKJV And it was paneled with cedar above the beams (tselah) that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row.

The beams were the supports that were in the ceiling.

The rib is the unseen support in the body to help give it rigidity and strength.

Genesis 2:22 NKJV Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

Made – built (bana)

Woman is the only creature that is taken out of man but in marriage she is put back into man to add support and strength.

This does not happen anywhere else in creation.

Verse 22 – God brought her to the man.

Chasing women is not scriptural – chasing men is not scriptural.

Get involved in the will of God and allow God to bring them into your path. Nothing wrong with spending time with each other for fun but you do not have to go out and pursue a mate.

Genesis 2:23 NKJV And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 2:24-25 NKJV Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (25) And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 1:29-31 NKJV And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. (30) Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. (31) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Before the fall, man and the animals were all vegetarians.

After the fall, man and some animals began to eat meat.

Sacrifices were not offered until after the fall because shedding of blood was a type of the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus would make.

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Three words used in the Hebrew when describing creation or this restoration:

Bara – to create something out of nothing

Asah – to create something out of material that exists (restore)

Yatzar (Genesis 2:7) – to mold, form or fashion something, derived from the idea of cutting or framing (examples of molding out of clay, forging of metal

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created (bara) the heavens, Who is God, Who formed (yatzar) the earth and made (asah) it, Who has established (stabilized) it, Who did not create (bara) it in vain, Who formed (yatzar) it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Jeremiah has a vision of what the earth looks like during the time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2:

Jeremiah 4:23-27 NKJV I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light. (24) I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth. (25) I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. (26) I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fierce anger. (27) For thus says the LORD: “The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.

Genesis 1:1-2 NKJV In the beginning God created (bara) the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Job 33:4 NKJV The Spirit of God has made (asah) me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

We live on a recreated earth.

Genesis 1:1 – Original Creation

Genesis 1:2 – The earth wrapped up in the curse and judgment

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Creation of the Sun and the Moon

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Day 6 – Genesis 1:24-31 – Animals and man are placed on the earth

Day 7 – God Rested

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Genesis 1:20-23 NKJV Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” (21) So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its 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 birds multiply on the earth.” (23) So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Let the waters abound (teem with fish, etc.) and birds

According to their kind

1 Corinthians 15:39 NKJV (39) All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Species do not cross over with each other.

Genesis 1:22 NKJV And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

The blessing of God always causes multiplication and fruit.

Day 5 – Continued

Genesis 1:20-23 NKJV Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” (21) So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its 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 birds multiply on the earth.” (23) So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Fish and the creatures of the sea are older than all other animals and more abundant because they were not destroyed in the flood.

What Noah was instructed to take in the ark:

Genesis 6:19-20 NKJV And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. (20) Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

What actually perished in the flood:

Genesis 7:20-22 NKJV The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. (21) And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. (22) All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.

Day 6 – The creeping animals and creation of Man

Genesis 1:24-25 NKJV Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. (25) And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Animals are always going to stay in the parameters of his species.

v. 24 – Tame animals and creepy animals

Man is the only creature that tries to go beyond the boundaries that God intended.

Genesis 1:26-31 NKJV Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (27) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (28) Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill (replenish) the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (29) And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. (30) Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. (31) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Why is man here?

Ephesians 3:8-12 NKJV To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, (9) and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery (the dispensation that we now live in), which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; (10) to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, (11) according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, (12) in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.

What we live in today was always a mystery until now. We have more revelation now than there ever has been.

There are so many things that are unique only to this dispensation.

Our purpose for existing as believers is so that can reveal the manifold wisdom of God to the powers of darkness.

Lucifer was one of the three highest Cherubs in Heaven.

He was over worship in God’s Kingdom.

He was over all the resources of the earth. (gold, silver, etc.)

He rebelled against God and fell to the earth.

Psalms 8:1-9 NKJV To the Chief Musician. On the Instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! (2) Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. (3) When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, (4) What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? (5) For You have made him a little lower than the angels (Elohim – god like creatures or angels), And You have crowned him with glory and honor. (6) You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, (7) All sheep and oxen– Even the beasts of the field, (8) The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. (9) O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Understand the difference between creation and position.

Man was created a little lower than the angels but God gave him authority over all creation (position).

Hebrews 2:5-8 NKJV For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. (6) But one testified in a certain place, saying: “WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, OR THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU TAKE CARE OF HIM? (7) YOU HAVE MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND SET HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS. (8) YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.

Hebrews 2:9-11 NKJV But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. (10) For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (11) For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

God cannot die but as a man He could die!

Jesus, even though He was born of flesh and became a man, a little lower than the angels, was crowned with glory and honor and had authority over all creation.

1 Corinthians 15:45 NKJV (45) And so it is written, “THE FIRST MAN ADAM BECAME A LIVING BEING.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Hebrews 2:14-16 NKJV Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, (15) and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (16) For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.

God’s plan was that an inferior being (man) would come to redeem humanity and destroy a superior being (Lucifer).

That is why it is not the name of Christ that sets men free, it is the name of Jesus (God our Savior)!

Position always takes authority over creation!

By creation we are inferior to the angels but when we receive Christ and are Born Again, we receive the position of being superior to the powers of darkness!

At the rapture of the Church, we will be higher than the angels not only in position, by in creation as well because we will be glorified just like the Risen Savior.

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

We live on a recreated earth.

Genesis 1:1 – Original Creation

Genesis 1:2 – The earth wrapped up in the curse and judgment

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration

Three words used in the Hebrew when describing creation or this restoration:

Bara – to create something out of nothing

Asah – to create something out of material that exists (restore)

Yatzar (Genesis 2:7) – to mold, form or fashion something, derived from the idea of cutting or framing (examples of molding out of clay, forging of metal

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created (bara) the heavens, Who is God, Who formed (yatzar) the earth and made (asah) it, Who has established (stabilized) it, Who did not create (bara) it in vain, Who formed (yatzar) it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Jeremiah has a vision of what the earth looks like during the time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2:

Jeremiah 4:23-27 NKJV I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light. (24) I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth. (25) I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. (26) I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fierce anger. (27) For thus says the LORD: “The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.

Genesis 1:1-2 NKJV In the beginning God created (bara) the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Job 33:4 NKJV The Spirit of God has made (asah) me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Creation of the Sun and the Moon

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Day 6 – Genesis 1:24-31 – Animals and man are placed on the earth

Day 7 – God Rested

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night

The Glory of God is what brought the light into the earth just as it will be in the end.

The earth began to rotate causing day and night.

God caused this to happen so that eventually man would see the light and darkness and his need for the light.

Throughout all of time until the end of the earth as we know it, man will need to choose between light and darkness.

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

The earth was covered in ice but then after the moving of the Holy Spirit, the earth is covered in water.

God splits the water and causes the atmosphere above to be created and the separate from the water in the earth.

Clouds and atmosphere – blanket of air.

Firmament – a swaddling band – canopy of clouds

Formed a ceiling like a greenhouse with a consistent temperature, no rain until Noah.

Genesis 2:5-6 NKJV before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; (6) but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Hebrews 11:7 NKJV By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

No one had seen rain until Noah was told about it by God.

During the flood, the canopy of water collapsed and fell in the form of rain.

Noah had never seen the sun shining until after the flood.

Genesis 1:8 NKJV And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

Since Adam’s fall, Satan is the prince of the power of the air.

Ephesians 2:2 NKJV in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

This atmospheric realm is the domain of Satan and his demons, and they control it.

When the Astronauts leave the atmosphere, they experience peace and cannot explain the feeling they have.

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

The earth swallows a lot of the water and it does into aquafers in the earth, so that the seas and oceans were made from the water that remained on the surface.

Genesis 7:10-12 NKJV And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. (11) In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (12) And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The water came down and some of the water came up.

From this time forward God begins to say that the things are good. (v12, 18, 21, 25)

God began to call these things good because He is now preparing things for His man and family. Grace is for man not for God.

Genesis 1:31 NKJV Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Psalms 104:1-9 NKJV Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, (2) Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. (3) He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, (4) Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire. (5) You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, (6) You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains. (7) At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. (8) They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them. (9) You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth.

Glaciers melting will never cause the earth to be covered with water again.

As much as the waters try to overflow their borders, they cannot stay there, they always have to return to their assigned boundaries.

Genesis 1:10-12 NKJV And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. (11) Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. (12) And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

The egg did not come first, the chicken came first and produced the egg.

The tree came first, then the fruit, then the seeds came to perpetuate the tree.

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Creation of the Sun and the Moon

Genesis 1:14-19 NKJV Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; (15) and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. (16) Then 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) God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on 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) So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

The Glory of God was originally shining in verse 3.

Now He creates the Sun and the Moon.

Verse 14 “lights” = container of lights in the Hebrew, luminaries

Three Heavens: atmosphere, outer space, and the place where the Presence of God is

Sun and moon are for signs, division of time, days, years, seasons, light upon the earth

Verse 14 – Signs – referred to a sign of the majesty of the Lord Jesus

Romans 1:20-21 NKJV For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, (21) because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Humanity is really without excuse because of the majesty of nature points to the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ

Joshua 10:13-14 Joshua commanded for the sun and moon to stand still

Isaiah prayed for Hezekiah and sundial went backwards

Stars pointed to the birth of Jesus

Earth became dark at the Crucifixion

When Jesus returns the sun, moon, and stars will not shine

Genesis 1:15 – “it was so…” = “it was established.”

Verse 16: God made two great lights – asah – make something out of something

Sun creates light – moon reflects light – Jesus’ light and the Church

Stars were created a long time ago to rule the night along with the moon.

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Genesis 1:20-23 NKJV Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” (21) So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its 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 birds multiply on the earth.” (23) So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Let the waters abound (teem with fish, etc.) and birds

According to their kind

1 Corinthians 15:39 NKJV (39) All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Species do not cross over with each other.

Genesis 1:22 NKJV And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

The blessing of God always causes multiplication and fruit.

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

We live on a recreated earth.

Genesis 1:1 – Original Creation

Genesis 1:2 – The earth wrapped up in the curse and judgment

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration

Three words used in the Hebrew when describing creation or this restoration:

Bara – to create something out of nothing

Asah – to create something out of material that exists (restore)

Yatzar (Genesis 2:7) – to mold, form or fashion something, derived from the idea of cutting or framing (examples of molding out of clay, forging of metal

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created (bara) the heavens, Who is God, Who formed (yatzar) the earth and made (asah) it, Who has established (stabilized) it, Who did not create (bara) it in vain, Who formed (yatzar) it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Jeremiah has a vision of what the earth looks like during the time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2:

Jeremiah 4:23-27 NKJV I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light. (24) I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth. (25) I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. (26) I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fierce anger. (27) For thus says the LORD: “The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.

Genesis 1:1-2 NKJV In the beginning God created (bara) the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Job 33:4 NKJV The Spirit of God has made (asah) me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Genesis 1:3 – Begins six days of restoration

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Creation of the Sun and the Moon

Day 5 – Genesis 1:20-23 – Fish and the fowl

Day 6 – Genesis 1:24-31 – Animals and man are placed on the earth

Day 7 – God Rested

Day 1 – Genesis 1:3-5 – Restoration of day and night

The Glory of God is what brought the light into the earth just as it will be in the end.

The earth began to rotate causing day and night.

God caused this to happen so that eventually man would see the light and darkness and his need for the light.

Throughout all of time until the end of the earth as we know it, man will need to choose between light and darkness.

Day 2 – Genesis 1:6-8 – Restoration of the firmament of the waters above us and around us

The earth was covered in ice but then after the moving of the Holy Spirit, the earth is covered in water.

God splits the water and causes the atmosphere above to be created and the separate from the water in the earth.

Clouds and atmosphere – blanket of air.

Firmament – a swaddling band – canopy of clouds

Formed a ceiling like a greenhouse with a consistent temperature, no rain until Noah.

Genesis 2:5-6 NKJV before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; (6) but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Hebrews 11:7 NKJV By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

No one had seen rain until Noah was told about it by God.

During the flood, the canopy of water collapsed and fell in the form of rain.

Noah had never seen the sun shining until after the flood.

Genesis 1:8 NKJV And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

Since Adam’s fall, Satan is the prince of the power of the air.

Ephesians 2:2 NKJV in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

This atmospheric realm is the domain of Satan and his demons, and they control it.

When the Astronauts leave the atmosphere, they experience peace and cannot explain the feeling they have.

Day 3 – Genesis 1:9-13 – Restoration of land and vegetation

The earth swallows a lot of the water and it does into aquafers in the earth, so that the seas and oceans were made from the water that remained on the surface.

Genesis 7:10-12 NKJV And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. (11) In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (12) And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The water came down and some of the water came up.

From this time forward God begins to say that the things are good. (v12, 18, 21, 25)

God began to call these things good because He is now preparing things for His man and family. Grace is for man not for God.

Genesis 1:31 NKJV Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Psalms 104:1-9 NKJV Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, (2) Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. (3) He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, (4) Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire. (5) You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, (6) You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains. (7) At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. (8) They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them. (9) You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth.

Glaciers melting will never cause the earth to be covered with water again.

As much as the waters try to overflow their borders, they cannot stay there, they always have to return to their assigned boundaries.

Genesis 1:10-12 NKJV And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. (11) Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. (12) And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

The egg did not come first, the chicken came first and produced the egg.

The tree came first, then the fruit, then the seeds came to perpetuate the tree.

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Verse 1 – Creation

Verse 2 – Chaos

Verse 3 – Restoration

There was 6 days of restoration to bring it back to God’s original plan of the earth being a beautiful place.

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Romans 8:18-23 NKJV For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. (20) For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; (21) because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (22) For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. (23) Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

Science vs. the Word of God

Science is constantly changing but the Word of God will never change because it is always the same.

Science can only observe and therefore scientists can only observe and make statements based on what they observe. God’s Word is always based on the surety of God Himself.

We can look at both science and the Word of God and see that the world is very old.

What About the Bible:

• The Bible is not designed to be a science book but a look at God’s principles, doctrines, salvation, and daily Christian victory.
• The Bible, where mentioned, is always accurate on scientific data. God is the Creator of all science and therefore He confirms science and science does not confirm Him.
• The Bible contradicts scientific speculation such as evolution but the Bible is not required to explain it. The world always wants an explanation but it is simply because God said it was so and that is good enough. He does not always explain everything to us but we just have to believe and receive it.

All things in Creation depend on the omnipotence and the unchangeableness of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 6:17-18 AMPC Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. (18) This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].

• Because of the fact that God will never change and He will never lie, the universe does not implode.

Malachi 3:6 KJV (6) For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

• All things in the natural are held together because of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:15-18 NKJV (15) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. (16) For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. (18) And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Things in the natural realm do not fall apart on a molecular level because by Jesus Christ all things consist.

Colossians 1:17 AMPC And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). [Pro 8:22-31]

Scientific “Laws” are a misnomer.

• There is no such thing as scientific law. Science does not have laws because what they term as laws, they did not create them and therefore cannot enforce them.
• The universe runs on Divine Laws. When God wants to change it, He can and does not need anyone’s permission to do it.
• Science confuses laws with observations. Through their many observations, we have many blessings that enhance our lives today.
• All laws as we know them now will change when there is a new heaven and a new earth.

Revelation 21:1-2 NKJV Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. (2) Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:23-24 NKJV (23) The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. (24) And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.

This is referring to the heaven surrounding the earth. There is the atmosphere around the earth call heaven, there is the universe containing the sun, moon and stars called the heavens, and then there is the place where God lives, called heaven.

2 Corinthians 12:2 NKJV (2) I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago–whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows–such a one was caught up to the third heaven.

The universe outside of our atmosphere was not polluted by sin.

• Many of the laws that are in operation in the earth will change.

2 Peter 3:10-13 NKJV But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (11) Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, (12) looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? (13) Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

• Where was science when God split the Red Sea?
• Where was science when God stopped the rotation on the earth for a few hours while Joshua was fighting a battle so that he could win?
• Scientists now firmly believe that the universe could not have been formed from a bunch of massive collisions because they have determined that everything is moving outward. This only could be happening if everything started from one central point, thus the big bang theory. Their question then becomes how did such an explosion take place? It had to be GOD.
• Scientists have tried to blame us for all the ills of nature. Yes, we need to be responsible with the planet but our Styrofoam cups and plastic bags and driving our cars are not causing the destruction of the planet. There is a curse released in the earth by sin and Satan that is causing the destruction of the planet.
• If you drink your water out of a paper cup instead of a Styrofoam cup, it is not going to save the planet, Jesus is going to save the planet, and He is the only One who can.
• National Geographic once reported that the carbon emissions from one volcano eruption put more pollution into the atmosphere than all of the car emissions combined.
• Nature is a fighter and fights to survive. Think about the fact that weeds will fight to grow up through your concrete driveway.

(Note – I would like to acknowledge that a great portion of the content of this message series comes from a series by the same name as taught by Pastor Bob Yandian of Grace Church and Bob Yandian Ministries in Tulsa, OK.)

We need to find out what the Bible has to say about all the prehistoric things that have been discovered because we cannot just dismiss them as they obviously did exist.

2 Peter 3:1-7 NKJV Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), (2) that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, (3) knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, (4) and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” (5) For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, (6) by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. (7) But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

We do not use science to prove the Word of God. The Word of God needs no proof as it is able to stand on its own.

God does not go into great detail in the Word of this time period in the earth because He does not have to justify Himself to anyone and why things happened the way that they did.

The Word of God is not a scientific book. It is the Word of God that God has given to us to first lead us to salvation and then provides a means whereby we can live and govern our lives according to God’s standards.

Does science contradict the Word of God? Sometimes it does contradict but when it does, you always go with the Word of God.

Genesis 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

In the Beginning…

Genesis 1:1 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

John 1:1 NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Hebrews 1:10 NKJV And: “YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS. (Ps. 102:25)

God has always been and ever will be. The same is true for the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Notice we see God creating the heaven and the earth in verse 1 and then in verse 2 we see the earth without form and void.

There is a line of thinking called the “gap theory” which indicates that there was a gap in time between verse one and verse two.

The earth was not created in six days; the earth was created instantaneously. What we see in Genesis 1 is six days of restoration not creation.

God restored the earth back to the original state that He created it.

From Genesis 1:2 until now it is approximately 6000 years. We see God making Adam 6000 years ago and so the history of humanity is 6000 years, but the earth is actually much older than that.

When we see the reference to the time period called “in the beginning”, we do not know exactly when this was. Even science does not know how old the earth is exactly but what we can see from science and the Word of God that it is older than 6000 years.

Genesis 1:1 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The word “Genesis” is actually the Greek word for “beginning.”

Make note of the word “created.” In Hebrew it is the word “bara.” It means to create something out of nothing in the natural.

Hebrews 11:3 AMPC By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.

God literally created the universe and all that is in it out of nothing that can be seen.

Colossians 1:15-17 NKJV (15) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. (16) For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

We also see in chapter one the word “made” and this is the Hebrew word “asah.” This word means to create something out of something else. We see that God made the animals and man.

Man was the only part of creation that was “bara” and “asah” which means that man was created out of nothing (his spirit) and then his body was made out of the dust of the earth.

Genesis 1:2 KJV (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.

Notice in this verse it begins with the word “and”. It should be more accurately translated “but.”

The word “was” should be translated “became.” The verse should read, “But the earth became without form and void…”

The earth was not originally made without form and void but it became that way.

“Without form” is the Hebrew word “tohu” and is correctly translated formless.

“without form and void” = tohu-bohuu – to lie in waste, an undistinguishable ruin

“Moved” is actually the word “brood” like a mother bird broods over her young. The Holy Spirit began to brood over the face of the waters. He began to move and heat, and light once again entered the earth.

Jeremiah 4:23 NKJV I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light.

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

“In vain” is the Hebrew word “tohu” which says that God did not create the earth void and purposeless.

What happened between Genesis 1:1 & 2:

Isaiah 14:12-15 NKJV “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! (13) For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; (14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ (15) Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.

Lucifer is a fallen archangel. He is a cherub which are the highest ranking angels in Heaven. Ezekiel 28 says that he was the anointed cherub that “covereth.” We know cherubim were made into the veil of the tabernacle. We see cherubs made into the lid of the Ark of the Covenant. Cherubs are extremely important to the Presence of God.

Lucifer was designed by God to lead praise and worship not in Heaven but rather here on the earth. His domain was here on the earth.

It has always been the will of God to be carried out on earth as it is in Heaven.

Matthew 6:10 NKJV Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 NKJV “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

God has always made Heaven and earth to work and flow together.

Notice verse 12 says “…how art thou fallen…” When you fall, you fall down. He was cut down to the ground (earth). When you ascend you go up. These things indicate that Lucifer’s domain was in the earth when he fell.

Notice that when he fell, he weakened the nations. Remember, that when he showed up in the Garden of Eden, he was already called Satan.

Isaiah 14:16-17 NKJV “Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms, (17) Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

There were inhabitants on the earth during the time that Lucifer ruled over the earth.

We do not know what the inhabitants looked like; if they were human-like or not. Scientists have discovered the remains of human like creatures and of course they have tried to link them with men but they were not men or the predecessors of men.

We do not know how long the earth was in chaos after Lucifer’s fall.

This is the timeframe in which dinosaurs walked the face of the earth.

The whole earth was thrown into chaos and everything was functioning opposite of the way that God originally intended for it to be.

2 Peter 2 says that the earth was flooded with water, God removed the light and the earth was frozen in darkness. Scientists have also talked about the ice ages that were in the earth.

The Holy Spirit then began to brood over the earth and warmth entered the earth and then in six days God restored the earth back to original state.

He then gave Satan the ultimate slap in the face by creating this creature out of the earth called man and breathed into him and then gave him dominion over the whole earth.

Think about this: God can turn that which was cursed and make it into a blessing. Think about this every time you put gas in your car. God took the chaos that Satan loosed in the earth and pack it all down and compressed it until it became fossil fuels for us to use today.

For those that believe that the earth is just 6000 years old, take a look at the stars in heaven. Some of the light that reaches us is thousands of light years old.

Genesis 1:26-28 KJV(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.

Genesis 9:1 KJV (1) And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Romans 8:22-23 NKJV For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. (23) Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

Just like we as believers are waiting for the Lord to come and complete our redemption, the earth is waiting for the curse to be removed from it once and for all.