Genesis 1:9-13

Back to the Beginning, part 7

• When the word DAY is modified with a number, which occurs more than 100 times in the LAW alone, it is always a literal meaning of the word, DAY. Each day, therefore, deals with a 24 hour period of time!  See examples in Genesis 7:4, 10,11, 12, 13, 17, 24; 8:3,4,6,10,12,14.

• Carbon-14 Dating is often used as some sort of proof that the world is old, but it is not a reliable way to date fossils.

(Only Day 3 and Day 6 has this phenomena of two “AND GOD SAID” statements as well as two statements, “and it was so” and “God saw that it was good.”)

 

1. God SPEAKS and SHAPES the Earth: DRY LAND APPEARS, v.9,10

 

• The land rumbles and quakes as great mountains rise and tsunamis crash into the new shorelines. God shapes mountains & hills, oceans & seas, rivers & lakes, canyons & cliffs, valleys & springs of water, and beaches & shorelines. The garden of Eden was formed and four great rivers were cut out into the new earth (Gen.2:10-14).

2. God SPEAKS AND SPRINGS FORTH the VEGETATION, v.11-13

 

A. SEED Bearing Vegetation: the seed is on the outside

1. GRASS, v.11,12; (deshe) ground covering vegetation, Psalm 23:2.
2. HERBS (eseb): bushes and shrubs that yield SEEDS.

B. FRUIT BEARING Vegetation: the seed is on the inside of the fruit

 

C. Unique aspects of God’s Creation of Plant Life:

1. Plant life is different from animal or human life in that there is no “breath” (NEPHESH) in plants (see v.20)
2. Plants were created fully grown and with the appearance of age.
3. The creation of plant life before marine animals flatly contradicts (theistic) evolution.
4. Plant life is the first thing created “after his kind” (MIN), v.11,12.

• The origin and orderly continuity of life is stated as being fixed within each kind. This emphasizes the limitations of variation and teaches the permanence of kinds.  Every seed has the capacity to function only on the basis of its own extremely complex genetic code of the DNA that is in it. 1 Cor. 15:38,39.

5. “After his kind” is consistent with the “Law of Biogenesis” and boldly contradicts (theistic) evolutionary teaching that we all have a common ancestry and that one “kind” mutated into another “kind” which morphed into yet another “kind,” etc.

Dr. Henry Morris writes,

“The modern understanding of the extreme complexities of the so-called DNA molecule and the genetic code contained in it has reinforced the Biblical teaching of the STABILITY of kinds. Each type of organism has its own unique structure of the DNA and can only specify the reproduction of that same kind. There is a tremendous amount of variational potential within each kind, facilitating the generation of distinct individuals and even of many varieties within the kind, but nevertheless precluding the evolution of new kinds. A great deal of horizontal variation is easily possible, but no vertical changes.”

 

3. Lessons from God’s Creation:

 

A. WORSHIP GOD AND WAIT ON HIM. The word for “gather” means to wait or hope and is the same word often used in passages that tell us to “wait on God.” The seas are gathered by Him, and so let us gather ourselves and wait upon Him as well.

Gen.49:18; I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

 

B. OBEY GOD. Creation obeys God’s commands and responded immediately to the Word of God each and every time God spoke. So ought we to hear and obey His voice!

C. GROW into CHRIST: The seed of God’s Word and the seed of God’s Spirit is in you to form you into the likeness of Christ.

D. DISPERSE THE SEED of His WORD:

The seed of God’s Word is to disperse through the earth. The seed disperses as we carry it and as we eat it!

 

LET’s SEE JESUS IN THE POWER OF CREATION:

God forms the earth with seas, valleys, gardens, and hills. One day the very Son of God came to walk on the earth that He formed. He would walk the stormy seas and say, “peace, be still.” He will enter into the Valley Gethsemane and into the shadow of death and sweat great drops of blood while praying, “not My will but Thine be done.”

 

He will carry a cross of wood He made, up a hill He made.

 

Nails formed of iron that He made will fasten Him to that cross on that hill, Golgotha, to die for our sins and then rise to ultimately redeem the lost and even the earth that groans and travails in pain until now. Trust in Jesus our Creator and Savior to save  you from your sins and strengthen your throughout your life!