THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND MAN, AND THE FALL OF THE SHINING ONE (Part 5)
Kenute P. Curry
3.) THE RESTORED EARTH
The seven days of the restoration week can be described as follows:
DAY 1: COSMIC LIGHT (Genesis 1:3-5)
DAY 2: READJUSTMENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE (Genesis 1:6-8)
DAY 3: (a) DRY LAND REAPPEARS (Genesis 1:9-10)
(b) VEGETATION REAPPEARS (Genesis 1:11-13)
DAY 4: SOLAR LIGHT RESTORED (Genesis 1:14-19)
DAY 5: CREATION OF FISH AND FOWL (Genesis 1:20-23)
DAY 6: (a) CREATION OF LAND ANIMALS (Genesis 1:24-25)
(b) CREATION OF MAN (Genesis 1:26-31)
DAY 7: REST (Genesis 2:1-3)
DAY 1: COSMIC LIGHT
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:3-5).
When it came time for God to restore the earth to a habitable condition God began reversing the process He took to make it uninhabitable. He spoke the light into existence, which dispelled the darkness of the chaotic earth. What form this light took is not clear, but it was good for the purposes it was intended to serve. A cycle of light and dark would mean that the earth was rotating on its axis, so that there was a source of light on one side of the earth, though the sun was not yet created, hence evening and morning were the first day. The earth passed out of the “Night” of its history into the brightness of its “Resurrection Day”. God is the provider of light (2 Corinthians 4:6) and will in eternity be the source of light (Revelation 21:23).
DAY 2: READJUSTMENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. (Genesis 1:6-8).
The Hebrew word for “firmament” speaks of something spread out, as in the visible arch of the sky. It is the pure and transparent expanse that envelops the globe. God placed a firmament (expanse) between the water that remained on the earth and the water that now rose above the expanse; separating the sea from the clouds. The chaotic earth either had no atmosphere or it was not adapted to the formation of clouds. The “firmament” not only includes the lower heavens, or atmospheric sky, with its clouds and vapors, but the whole visible expanse up to the region of the stars.
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
© 2006, 2011 Kenute P. Curry. All rights reserved.
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