Genesis
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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In the beginning, GOD was already there. FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT
Pre-existing, before time/matter/energy/space
All-powerful
All-knowing
Eternal
HE created the Heavens.
HE created the earth.
For what? For us! Out of love and grace. HE didn't have to give us life.
HE knew what we would do with it.
All of creation was finished, for HIM, before HE even started.
Remember, all-knowing. Also all-wise, having created wisdom before HE created anything. I think that's Proverbs. All the designs of every human in existence was done prior to this moment. "Before the foundations of the earth," our FATHER says. Our every thought and action before HIM before HE even fashioned us. And yet, HE still fashioned us. Oh, what love! I know me. How shameful. How much of my sin have I forgotten? And our FATHER did not forget. According to our record before HIM, there is none, but it is still in the ether. Our thoughts and actions ripple through time with effect.
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2 And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
FATHER, thank YOU, for creating us; for creating everything. Thank YOU for creating wisdom first, that everything would be perfect. We've done so much damage to this planet and each other, and here you are hovering over the surface of the waters; having your way with all of creation. Please forgive us for all the millions of times we've forgotten you. Please help our unbelief. <3 Amen
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Boom. There's JESUS in Genesis 1 verse 3. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. No sun. No moon. No stars. Just HIM. Shining over all creation. Pure, perfect light.
4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
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Ah!! Hahaha!! Just screaming at us: "This is MY SON!!" THE LIGHT was good. Is good. Always will be good. Because it's JESUS. And HE and HIS FATHER are one. And GOD separated HIS SON (THE LIGHT) from the darkness. What does the darkness have to do with THE LIGHT?
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5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
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So, still no sun or moon or stars. Just water in space and THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD shining over the waters.
6 Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
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7 God made the expanse, and separated the waters that were below the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse; and it was so.
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8 God called the expanse “heaven.” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
We have the makings of a planet. Once again, no sun, no moon, no stars. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD is shining on the face of the waters. Now the waters have been separated on the inside, and there's a space inside the water.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
So we have land in the midst of the lower waters. Hmm... you mean before the flood, all the continents were one continent? Weird. Do we have evidence of that? We do? That's not what they teach in schools! I know. People hate the authority of GOD'S WORD. What can I tell you?
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10 And God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas”; and God saw that it was good.
It was good. Before us. We are the problem with this planet. None of us are good. No. Not one, our FATHER says. Our hearts are evil and wicked continually.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
Thank YOU, FATHER, for vegetation. Thank YOU for plants yielding seed and fruit trees. Oh, thank YOU for fruit trees! :) I especially thank YOU for pineapples, oranges, grapes, and apples. And pears! And raisins! LOL
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12 The earth produced vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Everything does what our FATHER tells it to do... except us. We rebel and disobey and dishonor HIM. We reject HIS wisdom and power and choose our own way because it seems right to us (and leads to destruction, our FATHER says). Once again... no sun, no moon, no stars... just THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD shining on the earth and providing light for all this vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees. Some scientists say the plants would survive a day or two with no light just fine, but they forget that JESUS is shining over all of creation in these moments. There is pure LIGHT everywhere. And it was good.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Notice that there's no mystery about the timing of all this. Evening and morning. Sound familiar? It should. Just like a day that we know would know today. A day. 24 hours. Pretty simple. And this was the "third day" 24 hours. So we are... 72 hours in on the earth now. Roughtly 6,000 years ago or so. Satan is the god of this world, so our FATHER tells us, and that is why "the world agrees" that we are 89M years old or whatever. Their carbon dating methods max out at like 100,000 years or so anyway. No way we could possibly even know something was older than that. And there is SO MUCH EVIDENCE that screams GOD'S WORD is true and their lies are just that. You can see a good amount of evidence in Genesis: Paradise Lost > on YouTube or other video outlet. Also, Dr. Lysle? Check "Nothing but The TRUTH" on FreeDiscipleship. I wanna say he was a guest of Jack Hibbs (no longer recommend). Calvary Chapel Chino Hills? (no longer recommend)
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14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and they shall serve as signs and for seasons, and for days and years;
15 and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”
21 And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kind: livestock and crawling things and animals of the earth according to their kind”; and it was so.
25 God made the animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and everything that crawls on the ground according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls 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 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
31 And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.