Genesis 1:2-5 ...The Evening and The Morning were The First Day

THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION WERE “NORMAL” TWENTY FOUR HOUR DAYS.

The earth was created by GOD in the BEGINNING, in the SIX DAYS OF CREATION. ( see Genesis 1 and Exodus 20 :11 ).

On the Seventh Day God Rested. ( Genesis 1:1-2 ).

There is no suggestion that the SIX DAYS OF CREATION were longer than TWENTY FOUR HOURS EACH.

The Six days of Creation were normal twenty four days that had both an evening and a morning.

“Normal Twenty Four Hour Days” have an evening and a morning.

The Traditional understanding of a “…DAY..” is that the day begins with a sun rise and ends with a sun set.

But in the Bible in Genesis Chapter 1 from Day One of Creation begins with a sunset and ends with the sunrise !

Note : there are Six Twenty Four Days of Creation . How do we know that ?
What we call a normal day , begins with a sunrise and ends with a sunset !
But in The Book of Genesis each Day of Creation began with THE SETTING OF THE SUN—Evening and ended with THE RISING OF THE SUN !

Traditionally Our Belief System has been PROGRAMMED to accept and believe that a TWENTY FOUR HOUR DAY begins with a SUNRISE and ends with a SUNSET !

Each of the Six Days of Creation started with THE EVENING and ended with THE MORNING !
The Bible says different !

The Bible says that in each of the SIX DAYS OF CREATION there was an EVENING and there was a MORNING !

Day One begins with an earth that is dark void and covered with water.

The earth created in Genesis 1 verse 1 was without form and void.

The Dry Land of the earth was completely covered with water.
Why was the earth in darkness and void ?
We are not told.
Some talk of the GAP THEORY .
Was there a GAP between Genesis 1.1 and Genesis 1.2 ?
Why does Genesis 1.2 begin with the CONJUNCTION “AND”. ?

Let it be CLEAR that the BIBLE makes no mention of a PRE-ADAMITE WORLD.
Let it be clear in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS so that there is NO MISUNDERSTANDING there was No PRE-ADAMITE WORLD.

We do not have “ to talk of “ a PRE-ADAMITE WORLD to try and explain where GIANTS came from !

Giants were First mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 6 :1-4.
The Bible does not talk of a PRE-ADAMITE WORLD.
There was No PRE-ADMAITE WORLD for the Bible to talk of !
There was an EVENING and a MORNING !

The first day of creation began when GOD commanded Light to shine on the earth.

".. For GOD, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of The Glory of God in The Face of Jesus Christ...". ( 2 Corinthians 4:2).

The universe was created in the beginning.
The sun, the stars , the planets. earth, the earth's moon and the moons orbiting the other planets in our galaxy and in other the galaxies etc were all created in the beginning.

"... In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ( Genesis 1:1).

However, In Genesis 1:2 we see that the earth was "... without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep...".

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 the Book of Genesis Chapter One, we get a Brief and Concise Account of The First Six Days that each had an evening and a morning.

Many people . secular people, mockers and scoffers have asked the question :

“ How old is the earth ?”

Now that is a genuine honest sincere question and every genuine honest sincere question deserves a genuine honest sincere answer.

Now people ask the question “How old is the earth ?”

Some will ask the question is the earth about 6000 years old or is the earth older than 6000 years old ?”

Now those are real sincere honest questions and where there is a real sincere honest question , there has got to be a real sincere honest answer.

Now, Creationists base their view that the earth is 6000 years old and that the heaven and earth were created in Six Days and that GOD first had to prepare planet earth to support and sustain diverse forms of life on planet earth.

Bible Believers do not believe in evolution.

Creationists do not believe in Evolution.

I do not believe in evolution.

I believe the whole Bible from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation.

I believe GOD says what He means and GOD means what He says.

Now there are two schools of thought that we want to address.

One school of thought says that the earth is about 6000 years old and that in Six Literal Days GOD created the heaven and the earth.

The other school of thought says that the earth came into existence after some big bang billions of years ago and that through some process called Abiogenesis life began on planet earth when the conditions for life were right.

Now don’t that sound just like some scientist wanting to deny The Holy Bible and make you Look Away from The Truth and look to something that is not True…?

Friend, we live in a time where secular philosophy is corrupting the minds of the people.

We live in dangerous times.

We live in perilous times.

We live in a time where people openly rebel against The Word of GOD and deny The Holy Scriptures.

But friend , Thank GOD for The Truth.

The Truth will always defend itself.

No Scripture is of any private interpretation.

The Holy Bible is The Only Holy Book where Scripture interprets Scripture.

What does The Holy Bible say about creation ?

What does The Holy Bible say about the age of the earth ?

What does The Holy Bible say about who we are, where we come

What does The Holy Bible say about Life on other planets ?

Before we answer the above questions, let us look at the question “ How old is the earth ?”

Now , we know that there is a school of thought that says that the earth is about 6000 years old.

In Genesis Chapter One we read about the first six evenings and the first six mornings on planet earth.

When did time as we know it begin on planet earth ?
The twenty four hour day as we know it began when earth had it's first evening and it's first morning.

Notice the universe was created in the beginning for we are told in The Holy Bible in Genesis 1:1 that the heaven and earth were created in the beginning.

The moon, stars and planets are part of the heavens and the heaven was made in the beginning so we know that the universe was created by GOD in the beginning. { see Genesis 1:1 }.

“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.”( Genesis 1:1:5).
When did time as we know it begin on planet earth ?

Time as we know it began on earth when GOD said " Let there be Light : and there was Light". { See Genesis 1:3}.

As we read on we find that GOD then separated Light from darkness and the evening and the morning were the first day.

On planet earth we measure time on a 24 four clock that includes day and night. Time is said to be relative. Since time is relative then it is important to see the starting point of the 24 hour day on earth as we know it.

It is important to note that in our solar system, the length of what we call day and night time on other planets in our solar system and other solar systems is not the same or similar to the twenty four day on planet earth as we know it.

In Genesis 1:1 we see that the heavens and the earth were created.

In Genesis 1:2 we see that earth was in darkness.

In the remaining verses of Genesis Chapter 1 we see that the phrase evening and morning is mentioned six times.

The first six twenty four hour days of planet earth are mentioned in Genesis Chapter One as follows :-

1st Day - Genesis 1: 5
2nd Day - Genesis 1:8
3rd Day - Genesis 1:13
4th Day - Genesis 1: 19
5th Day - Genesis 1:23
6th Day - Genesis 1:31

The heaven and the earth were created in the beginning.

Time as we know it did not begin on planet earth until there was an evening and a morning. So where was planet earth before the first sun and the first sunset ?

Was planet earth in another orbit that did not take it around the sun.

Think about it. 

Before the end of the first day the earth was in darkness and covered with water.

Was the water the result of some cataclysmic judgement between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 ?

Before The First sun rise and the first sun set on earth, the earth was already created and in darkness and covered with water.

When we read Genesis 1:1-5, it becomes clear that when planet earth was created , for one reason or another, planet earth was covered in in darkness and covered with water.

““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.”( Genesis 1:1:5).

Why was earth in darkness ?

Was there a cataclysmic judgement on earth when satan was cast out of heaven and fell like lightening that plunged earth into darkness ?

Planet earth, without Divine Intervention, in Genesis 1:2 was not in state that could support and sustain Life.

Divine Providence had to intervene in Genesis 1:2 to bring Order out of Chaos.

Planet Earth was without Form.

Planet Earth was Void.

Planet Earth had no Life.

Planet earth was in darkness and covered with water.

According to Genesis 1, GOD had to separate Light from darkness and then GOD had to make dry land appear and separate The land from the water and then we see plant life and we see the sun and moon and stars are made to appear….

And then we see aquatic life and land animals and creeping things like insects and reptiles etc appear on the sixth day  and at evening of the sixth day we see GOD created man…

Adam was the first man created.

Adam was created about 6000 years ago.

Noahs flood happened about 1656 years after the creation of Adam.

Where am I getting this ?

Read Genesis Chapter 5 and we see that about 1656 years after the creation of Adam, we had Noah’s flood.

It is important to note that before the first evening and the first morning of the first 24 hour day, the earth already existed from since the beginning. The Holy Bible said so.

The Holy Bible said that :

“In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth”.

So when was the beginning ?

No one knows when the beginning was but it was a very long time ago .

Time on earth only began when there was an evening and a morning on the first day. ( see Genesis 1:5).

But before that, we are just told that “In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth”.

Why was earth in darkness in Genesis 1:2 ?

We do not know.

What we do know is that in Genesis 1:2  “ …And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep….”.

Some Bible Scholars ( Like Reverend C.Schofield and Finis Jennings Dake  etc ) believe that between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, that was a cataclysmic Judgement.

However, what we do know is that before the first evening and the first morning on planet earth, there was no life on earth until GOD commanded Light to come forth ( to appear and shine on earth ) and then after  GOD separated Light from Darkness, there was an evening and there was a morning on the first day on planet earth.

Notice there was an evening first and then there was a morning.

Was earth moved from it’s orbit of dark ness into an orbit where it could receive Light from the sun ?

Or was their a thick veil of darkness over the earth that veiled planet earth in darkness ?

Notice , only planet earth was in darkness.

In Genesis 1:2 we are told that : “ …And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep….”.

When David looked up at the heaves, David saw the moon and the stars. ( see Psalm 8 ).

“…³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;..”.

The Psalmist David said that the heavens were The Works of The Finger of GOD and he mentioned the moon and the stars.

The moon and the stars are part of the heavens.

And we know that the moon and the stars were created in the beginning because in Genesis 1:1 we read.

“ In the beginning GOD created the heaven ( the universe i.e. the moon of the earth, the stars , the planets and the moons of the planets etc ) and the earth.”

Now in Jeremiah 4:23, the prophet Jeremiah seen the same thing that Moses saw in Genesis 1:2.

Jeremiah 4:23 “… I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light…”.

Notice Moses said in Genesis 1:2 :

“…And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep…”.

Notice Moses in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah in Jeremiah 4:23 are describing the same thing that they saw by Prophetic Vision.

Remember that Moses and Jeremiah were Prophets and Prophets see Visions.

Both Moses and Jeremiah saw that the earth was void.

Notice Moses said that the earth was in darkness and Jeremiah said that the heavens had no light. In other words, planet earth was in darkness. Is that right.

Remember that in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 we do not read about the creation of the Angels.

But in Genesis Chapter 2 , we see that already evil is present in The Garden of Eden for we read about The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. ( see Genesis 2:18).