Building Blocks and Creation Day 1 – Lesson 4 2024
God created the heaven and the earth. God is making this announcement – in the beginning of the history of mankind and man’s relationship with God, He formed the physical, natural heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1: 1-5 KJV 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
In verses 2-5, God is telling us about Day 1 of His week of creation. About His preparing to bring form to the earth and finish with filling the heavens. He created what was needed for life to exist – water – and created what was needed to bring physical reality into existence- atoms, the building blocks, composed of space, matter and energy. I believe it is important to recognize all of this makes up Day 1 of the six literal ordinary days of God’s Creation Week.
2 And the earth (matter) was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep (space). And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (to create and support life). 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (energy). 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Atoms are the building blocks of all physical reality, Essentially, they are composed of three things–space, matter and energy.
SHAMAYIM- Hebrew word for “heavens” – simply means STRETCHED OUT SPACE!
ERETS – Hebrew word for “earth” – simply means the dirt or MATTER!
Genesis 1:2 The earth was without form, and void;
When you take the building blocks and build something, you have “form.” Before that the “Matter” is without form. The earth was VOID, empty, but the earth was about to take on form.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Light includes the entire electromagnetic spectrum, not just the narrow band of color we can see. From short wave gamma rays, to long radio waves, all ENERGY forms are accounted for in God’s spoken Word – “Let there be light.”
God made all three-space, matter and energy-essentials for creating a physical reality.
In a very simple, yet profoundly scientific way, God’s first creative act logically defines the basis of all physical reality.
I experienced a precious and deeply touching experience. I received a vision as I was pondering how to approach explaining water and light as described in Genesis 1: 2-5.
In this simple vision, I am looking downward from high above and through the darkness in the far-off distance I see light and a patch of water. What I sensed is God was giving me a glimpse of the beginning, the beginning of His process for the creation of our physical earth and the heavens.
God did His spoken work in the order described in Genesis 1. He created in His order all to prepare for the creation of man and man’s habitation of the physical, natural earth.
Next week the lesson will focus on water. Without water there is no life.