(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.