STUDIES//OBSERVATIONS FROM CREATION


Observations From Creation
I. Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” a. God – elohiym – this is the plural form of God and speaks of the triune God – This is confirmed when God says in: i. Gen 1:26 "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;” ii. Gen 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. iii. Gen 11:7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." b. Heavens – Hebrew “shamayim” is plural c. 3 heavens i. 1st heaven – visible atmosphere and clouds above the earth; ii. 2nd heaven – above the atmosphere – the place where the stars, moon, and sun reside – Rev 8:13; 14:6; 19:17 – midst of heaven in Greek is literally “mid-heaven” 1. This is the place of dominion for principalities and powers Eph 6:12 says we “wrestle against principalities and powers in the heavenly places” 2. God’s plan is to have a people who show God’s wisdom in the 2nd heaven and defeat them – Eph 3:10 “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,” 3. This is clearly seen in Rev 12:1-6 – the manchild (sons of God, Bride of Christ) are caught up to God, and immediately in verse 7-9 Michael and his angels make war with the devil, and he is defeated – the manchild will participate in this battle and is part of the reason for Satan’s defeat! iii. 3rd heaven – We have references to this in scripture as the “heaven of heavens (it is like the holy of holies) See 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chron 2:6; 2 Chron 6:18; Neh 9:6; Ps 68:33) 1. This is the place of God’s throne – His PARADISE 2. - 2 Cor 12:2, 4 “such a one was caught up to the third heaven . . . how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.” 3. Paradise in Greek is “garden” or “park” – a place of pleasure; the words spoken here are so precious, so holy, that they cannot be spoken outside II. Gen 1:2 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. a. God who is a God of perfection must certainly have made a perfect creation b. Arthur Pink, says in his book, “Gleanings in Genesis” - “’In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,’ and we cannot but believe that these creations were worthy of Himself, that they reflected the perfections of their Maker, that they were exceedingly fair in their pristine beauty. Certainly, the earth, on the morning of its creation, must have been vastly different from its chaotic state as described in Genesis 1:2. ‘And the earth was without form and void’ must refer to a condition of the earth much later than what is before us in the preceding verse” c. We have no way of knowing exactly how much time passed between verses 1 and 2, but it seems clear that some sort of catastrophe happened to change the perfect state of God’s creation into one “without form and void” d. This could be a clue as to why scientists have found all sorts of prehistoric animals and even other races that date before the year 4004 B.C. which is the estimated date of the creation of man. e. The word “was” in v2 which says, “the earth was without form and void,” could have as easily been translated “became” thus rendering the scripture to read “the earth became without form and void” f. Without form and void are two Hebrew words “tohuw” and “bohuw” which are used together two more times in the Old Testament i. Isa 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. ii. Jer 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. g. In both of these cases this state of “tohuw” and “bohuw” were as a result of God’s judgment h. There are other cases of the words being used separately such as in Deut 32:10, (the waste); 1 Sam 12:21, (vain); Job 6:18, (nothing); Job 12:24, (wilderness); Job 26:7, (the empty place); Isaiah 24:10, (confusion); - the meaning seems consistent, a place void of God, a condition of judgment i. Isaiah 45:18 tells us that God created the heavens and the earth, and that He did NOT create them in vain, but created them to be inhabited! j. Therefore, we can see that something happened between verses 1 and 2 – a judgment of God; It would appear that this was the fall of Satan and his angels – certainly a support for scientists and their “Big Bang” theory – There was a BIG BANG when God kicked Satan out of heaven and judged the creation. k. So God took 6 days and restored his creation and told man in Gen 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it;” i. “fill” in the Hebrew is “male” and in some versions is translated as “replenish” ii. This is the same Hebrew word that God used in Gen 9:1 when He told Noah to “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” l. One needs to understand that the Bible is the history of the race of mankind or “Adam” m. It is not necessarily a complete book of the entire universe, but focuses on the race of “Adam.” Adam was chosen to bring give birth to a race who would bring Jesus to the earth to “reconcile all things unto Himself.” (Col 1:19-20)

I. Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”

a. God – elohiym – this is the plural form of God and speaks of the triune God – This is confirmed when God says in:

i. Gen 1:26 "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;”

ii. Gen 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.

iii. Gen 11:7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

b. Heavens – Hebrew “shamayim” is plural

c. 3 heavens

i. 1st heaven – visible atmosphere and clouds above the earth;

ii. 2nd heaven – above the atmosphere – the place where the stars, moon, and sun reside – Rev 8:13; 14:6; 19:17 – midst of heaven in Greek is literally “mid-heaven”

1. This is the place of dominion for principalities and powers Eph 6:12 says we “wrestle against principalities and powers in the heavenly places”

2. God’s plan is to have a people who show God’s wisdom in the 2nd heaven and defeat them – Eph 3:10 “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,”

3. This is clearly seen in Rev 12:1-6 – the manchild (sons of God, Bride of Christ) are caught up to God, and immediately in verse 7-9 Michael and his angels make war with the devil, and he is defeated – the manchild will participate in this battle and is part of the reason for Satan’s defeat!

iii. 3rd heaven – We have references to this in scripture as the “heaven of heavens (it is like the holy of holies) See 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chron 2:6; 2 Chron 6:18; Neh 9:6; Ps 68:33)

1. This is the place of God’s throne – His PARADISE

2. - 2 Cor 12:2, 4 “such a one was caught up to the third heaven . . . how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”

3. Paradise in Greek is “garden” or “park” – a place of pleasure; the words spoken here are so precious, so holy, that they cannot be spoken outside

II. Gen 1:2 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.

a. God who is a God of perfection must certainly have made a perfect creation

b. Arthur Pink, says in his book, “Gleanings in Genesis” - “’In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,’ and we cannot but believe that these creations were worthy of Himself, that they reflected the perfections of their Maker, that they were exceedingly fair in their pristine beauty. Certainly, the earth, on the morning of its creation, must have been vastly different from its chaotic state as described in Genesis 1:2. ‘And the earth was without form and void’ must refer to a condition of the earth much later than what is before us in the preceding verse”

c. We have no way of knowing exactly how much time passed between verses 1 and 2, but it seems clear that some sort of catastrophe happened to change the perfect state of God’s creation into one “without form and void”

d. This could be a clue as to why scientists have found all sorts of prehistoric animals and even other races that date before the year 4004 B.C. which is the estimated date of the creation of man.

e. The word “was” in v2 which says, “the earth was without form and void,” could have as easily been translated “became” thus rendering the scripture to read “the earth became without form and void”

f. Without form and void are two Hebrew words “tohuw” and “bohuw” which are used together two more times in the Old Testament

i. Isa 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

ii. Jer 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

g. In both of these cases this state of “tohuw” and “bohuw” were as a result of God’s judgment

h. There are other cases of the words being used separately such as in Deut 32:10, (the waste); 1 Sam 12:21, (vain); Job 6:18, (nothing); Job 12:24, (wilderness); Job 26:7, (the empty place); Isaiah 24:10, (confusion); - the meaning seems consistent, a place void of God, a condition of judgment

i. Isaiah 45:18 tells us that God created the heavens and the earth, and that He did NOT create them in vain, but created them to be inhabited!

j. Therefore, we can see that something happened between verses 1 and 2 – a judgment of God; It would appear that this was the fall of Satan and his angels – certainly a support for scientists and their “Big Bang” theory – There was a BIG BANG when God kicked Satan out of heaven and judged the creation.

k. So God took 6 days and restored his creation and told man in Gen 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it;”

i. “fill” in the Hebrew is “male” and in some versions is translated as “replenish”

ii. This is the same Hebrew word that God used in Gen 9:1 when He told Noah to “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth”

l. One needs to understand that the Bible is the history of the race of mankind or “Adam”

m. It is not necessarily a complete book of the entire universe, but focuses on the race of “Adam.” Adam was chosen to bring give birth to a race who would bring Jesus to the earth to “reconcile all things unto Himself.” (Col 1:19-20)