THE MOST IMPORTANT
WORDS EVER UTTERED
In the beginning, God created the
heavens and the earth Genesis 1:1
Genesis 1- 2:3
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over
the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of
the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be
light"; and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the
light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and
the darkness He called night And there was evening and
there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said,
"Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate
the waters from the waters." 7 God made the
expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters
which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God
called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a
second day.
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. 10 God called the
dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw
that it was good.
11 Then God said,
"Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on
the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was
so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants
yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them,
after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 There
was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 Then God said,
"Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day
from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and
years; 15 and let them be for 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 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 God
created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which
the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged
bird after 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 There was evening and
there was morning, a fifth day. 24 Then God said,
"Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and
creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the
cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its
kind; and God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said,
"Let Us make man 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 cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth." 27 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 beast of the earth and to
every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has
life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. 31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
1 Thus the heavens and
the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done,
and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because
in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
I Creation was PLANNED
II Creation was PERFECT
A. PARTICIPATION by the Trinity
B. PREPARATION for mankind
C. POTENTIAL for reproduction
III Creation was PURPOSIVE
IV Creation was PERSONAL
V Creation was PROBATIONARY or temporary
VI Creation was a PICTURE of
Jesus Christ
PROBATIONARY WORLD Genesis ETERNAL WORLD Revelation
Division of Light and Dark 1: 4 No
night there
Division of Land and Sea
Rule of sun and moon
Man in a prepared garden 2:8,9 Man in a prepared city 21:2
River flowing out of
Gold in the land
Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden 2:9 Tree of Life throughout the city 22:2
Bdellium and the onyx stone
God walking in the Garden 3:8 God
dwelling with His people 21:3