03-23-2008, 02:57 AM
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth...
So says the Word of God.
In the beginning of what?
Of the creation of the Heavens and the Earth it would seem a likely answer....
God spoke and they were created, the Heavens and the Earth....
But when God created the Heavens and the Earth they were not as they are now.... they were created unfurnished and empty and the Earth void of any living organisms...like Mars is today for instance...the Earth also being covered in water and the land submerged under it...
It was in that state when it is revealed that the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.... and for how long was this so... It does not reveal.... it could have been a very long time.... it does not say...
And all of this creation of the Heavens and the Earth and God moving upon the surface of a planet void of living organisms...all taking place BEFORE the 1st 'Day' of an Evening and a Morning ever started and ended....
Now, the six 'Days' that comes after this beginning is not the creation of the Heaven and the Earth.... but the furnishing of them with living organisms and heavenly bodies like Stars, moons, planetoids, galaxies, nebulae and such...these all were created and placed into the Heaven to bring light upon the Earth...Gen 1:15
Very Earth centric.... everything was created after the Earth and for the Earth and it's coming inhabitants.... God's plan from the beginning was to have the focus of the entire creation to be here on Earth.
So the Earth was here BEFORE there was time as we know it.... the 24-hour revolutions of the planet spinning on it's axis kind of time...that gives the effect of the big clock in the sky, whereby we mark off our days.... The Earth was created BEFORE this clock was put in place...
How long was the Earth here before the 1st 'Day'?
It does not say.... it could have been a very long time indeed.
I don't say that these six 'Days' are not literal days of time frames???. they are indeed???. but we know that the 1st three 'Days' of creation took place BEFORE the creation of the clock in the sky that ticks off time for us here on earth???. the whole thing set up the way it is for that very reason???. Before this took place on the 4th 'Day' there was no such time frames ticking off as it does now???.
Perhaps God used a 24-hour time frame for those three 'Days' in anticipation of the clock that He was going to create for that pourpose on the 4th Day???. it's possible. But we can't be certain???just speculate.
Or was it that God's 'Days' may be just like the Word of God reveals???. That God's 'Days' are 1000 years long???something that the Scriptures tell us to make sure that we are not ignorant of???.
The term Evening and Morning does not have to mean a 24-hour period???. it simply means a start and end of a period of time???. it could refer to a 24-hour in a 'Day' time frame, or it could refer to a thousand year 'Day' time frame???. both are possible???God's Day is revealed to be of a much longer duration than our day here on earth as we count the revolutions of the Earth around the Sun???
The days on Mars are much shorter than ours here on Earth for example because the planet mars takes less time to revolve on it's axis than the Earth does???. so the term 'Day' does not have to always be interpreted as meaning a 24-hour time frame???.
So says the Word of God.
In the beginning of what?
Of the creation of the Heavens and the Earth it would seem a likely answer....
God spoke and they were created, the Heavens and the Earth....
But when God created the Heavens and the Earth they were not as they are now.... they were created unfurnished and empty and the Earth void of any living organisms...like Mars is today for instance...the Earth also being covered in water and the land submerged under it...
It was in that state when it is revealed that the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.... and for how long was this so... It does not reveal.... it could have been a very long time.... it does not say...
And all of this creation of the Heavens and the Earth and God moving upon the surface of a planet void of living organisms...all taking place BEFORE the 1st 'Day' of an Evening and a Morning ever started and ended....
Now, the six 'Days' that comes after this beginning is not the creation of the Heaven and the Earth.... but the furnishing of them with living organisms and heavenly bodies like Stars, moons, planetoids, galaxies, nebulae and such...these all were created and placed into the Heaven to bring light upon the Earth...Gen 1:15
Very Earth centric.... everything was created after the Earth and for the Earth and it's coming inhabitants.... God's plan from the beginning was to have the focus of the entire creation to be here on Earth.
So the Earth was here BEFORE there was time as we know it.... the 24-hour revolutions of the planet spinning on it's axis kind of time...that gives the effect of the big clock in the sky, whereby we mark off our days.... The Earth was created BEFORE this clock was put in place...
How long was the Earth here before the 1st 'Day'?
It does not say.... it could have been a very long time indeed.
I don't say that these six 'Days' are not literal days of time frames???. they are indeed???. but we know that the 1st three 'Days' of creation took place BEFORE the creation of the clock in the sky that ticks off time for us here on earth???. the whole thing set up the way it is for that very reason???. Before this took place on the 4th 'Day' there was no such time frames ticking off as it does now???.
Perhaps God used a 24-hour time frame for those three 'Days' in anticipation of the clock that He was going to create for that pourpose on the 4th Day???. it's possible. But we can't be certain???just speculate.
Or was it that God's 'Days' may be just like the Word of God reveals???. That God's 'Days' are 1000 years long???something that the Scriptures tell us to make sure that we are not ignorant of???.
The term Evening and Morning does not have to mean a 24-hour period???. it simply means a start and end of a period of time???. it could refer to a 24-hour in a 'Day' time frame, or it could refer to a thousand year 'Day' time frame???. both are possible???God's Day is revealed to be of a much longer duration than our day here on earth as we count the revolutions of the Earth around the Sun???
The days on Mars are much shorter than ours here on Earth for example because the planet mars takes less time to revolve on it's axis than the Earth does???. so the term 'Day' does not have to always be interpreted as meaning a 24-hour time frame???.