I have previously stated that the creation account in Genesis chapter one is a prewritten history of the world. I would like to explain further. The elect who are to rule and reign have been given a coded outline, a "syllabus", if you will, of God's teachings to mankind. All of man's days on the earth have an appointed total, and come to seven thousand years. (Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” This is 120 jubilee years to reach the total of seven thousand.) Each "day" of creation, while literal, is also a picture of a covenantal change between God and man, incrementally bringing man (if he be willing) further in his education and spiritual progress. The hebrew words for evening and morning, in the account, also mean chaos and order, respectively, and used in that order, affirm the advancement of God's plan for man. (Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night. 2 Peter 3:8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.)
(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.) God first lets innocence be taken from man, lets man be able to see and understand evil and how it is the opposite of good. As C.S.Lewis said, "I believe in the sun not only because I can see it, but because by it I can see everything else." So there was a separation, a judgement made and boundaries drawn, and men could see the violence enacted all around them, could feel the sorrow and the pain. A hard school indeed!
(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.) At first the host of heaven were not physically separated from mankind. Some of the fallen angels reproduced with "the daughters of men" and it would take a judgement of water, the flood, to reorganize the hierarchy so as to resume the appointed plan. All else was jettisoned as unprofitable, the self indulgent man and the rebellious angel.
(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.) At this point, God chose a certain family to use, to bless all of mankind, and through this bloodline He would send a redeemer. This people were to be separated from the other nations, as God separated the land from the sea. They were to act differently, were given laws, specific laws, which were a physical acting out of a spiritual reality, of the eventual culmination of God's purpose and plan.
(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.) The fourth day is when God sent His Son, the preexistent Light which was only unveiled to mankind at this point in the plan. Satan, who rules the dark, can only imitate the radiant glory of the Son, and only after the fact.
( 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.) The "gentile" nations (the sea) now teem with the creativity and blessings of God, who grants them dominion. Even the evil ones (the birds) have freedom to expand their subtle and pernicious influence.
(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 thebeasts 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.) On this day is reborn the nation of Israel (the land) which is again granted a nation and given back their land to husband. Closer to the end, at the end, of the sixth day appear The Man and His bride, to rule over all the earth and to care for it in loving communion.
Still to come is the seventh day, the rest promised to the people of God! The transition comes very SOON!
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