CHAPTER 1

(4004 B.C.)

THE ORIGINAL CREATION

¹In the beginning (refers to the beginning of creation, or at least the creation as it refers to this universe; God, unformed, unmade, uncreated, had no beginning; He always was, always is, and always shall be) God (the phrase, In the beginning God, explains the first cause of all things as it regards creation) created the heaven and the Earth (could be translated the heavens and the Earth because God created the entirety of the universe).

CHAOS

²And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep (God did not originally create the Earth without form and void; it became this way after a cataclysmic happening; this happening was the revolt of Lucifer against God, which took place some time in the dateless past). And the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) moved upon the face of the waters (the moving of the Holy Spirit signified and signifies the beginning of life).

FIRST DAY

³And God said (presents the manner in which creation or re-creation was carried out; some ten times this phrase is used, and in the exact manner, with the exception of the last time, where it says, And the LORD God said [Gen. 2:18]), Let there be light: and there was light (God is the essence of light [Jn. 1:4-9]; Gods Word is of such magnitude that light continues to expand in the universe at the rate of 186,000 miles a second).

⁴And God saw the light, that it was good (it did what it was designed to do): and God divided the light from the darkness (simply refers to the fact that there were now periods of light and darkness; darkness is simply the absence of light).

⁵And God called the light Day (a character description), and the darkness He called Night (has to do with the revolution of the Earth). And the evening and the morning were the first day (literal 24-hour days).

SECOND DAY

⁶And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters (refers to an expanse between the waters, so to speak, called the atmosphere), and let it divide the waters from the waters (water in the rain clouds and water on the Earth).

⁷And God made the firmament (there is a difference in made and created; made refers to something already created, but brought back to a useful existence), and divided the waters which were under the firmament (oceans, seas, rivers, etc.) from the waters which were above the firmament (water in the clouds, which comes down upon the Earth): and it was so.

⁸And God called the firmament heaven (the word as used here pertains to the atmosphere around the Earth). And the evening and the morning were the second day (a 24-hour time frame).

THIRD DAY

⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place (refers to the places designed for the waters on the Earth, seas, oceans, rivers, etc.), and let the dry land appear: and it was so (refers to the continents being formed, which necessitated great convulsions on the Earth).

¹⁰And God called the dry land Earth (refers to the Supreme Being naming what He had created); and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God saw that it was good (Divine approval).

¹¹And God said, Let the Earth bring forth grass (a carpet), the herb yielding seed (vegetables), and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind (indicates that the different species of plants are already fixed), whose seed is in itself, upon the Earth: and it was so (the modern dogma of the origin of species by development is unbiblical).

¹²And the Earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind (the first creation of plant life did not come from seed, but that it came into being through the power of the Word): and God saw that it was good (pertains not only to the fact of creation, but as well the order of creation).

¹³And the evening and the morning were the third day (on this day was the first creation of life, i.e., the plants, etc.).

FOURTH DAY

¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night (God is not here creating the sun, moon, and stars, that having already been done in the beginning); and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years (refers in essence to time):

¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth: and it was so (proclaims the fact that God said it, and His glorious Word contained such power that these planetary bodies will ever carry out their prescribed function).

¹⁶And God made two great lights (the sun and the moon); the greater light to rule the day (the sun), and the lesser light to rule the night (in fact, the moon has no light within itself; it is a reflection of the sun, hence much lesser, exactly as the Scripture says): He made the stars also (God created the sun, moon, and stars at some unknown period of time in the beginning, and afterwards, when preparing the Earth for man, He made, i.e., pointed them in relation to the Earth [regulated them] as light-holders, as measurers of time, and as vehicles of revelation [Ps. 19]).

¹⁷And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth (refers to their function),

¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good (everything is now set for animate life, i.e., animal life as opposed to plant life).

¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

FIFTH DAY

²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the Earth in the open firmament of heaven (here the creatures of the sea are distinguished from all previous creations, and in particular from vegetation, as being possessed of a vital principle; this does not, of course, contradict the well-known Truth that plants are living organisms; only that the life principle of the animal kingdom is different from that of the vegetable kingdom).

²¹And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good (some ten times in the First Chapter of Genesis, the phrase, after his kind, or similar is used; this completely shoots down the theory of evolution; Science has never been able to cross that barrier and, in fact, will never be able; in other words, there is no such thing as an animal that is half fish and half land animal; as well, there is no such thing as a fish that is half whale and half shark; the barrier regarding the different kinds remains, and ever shall remain).

²²And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the Earth (it may be asked as why God did not bless the plant life? of them Moses simply says that God saw that it was good, but He did not bless them; but here, God begins a new way of propagation, namely, that from living bodies come forth other similar living bodies, which is not true of trees and plants; the pear tree, for example, does not bring forth another pear tree, but only a pear, while a bird produces a bird and a fish a fish, etc.; here, then, is a new creative work, for a living body propagates others out of itself; in fact, the Blessing of God means propagation; His Blessing is just as powerful to propagate as His curse is to cut off).

²³And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

THE SIXTH DAY

²⁴And God said, Let the Earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the Earth after his kind: and it was so (proclaims the fact that God leaves nothing empty that He has made, but furnishes all with His store and riches).

²⁵And God made the beast of the Earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the Earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good (tells us unequivocally that God designed each species of the animal kingdom in such a way that it cannot be crossed).

²⁶And God said, Let Us make man in Our Image, after Our Likeness (the creation of man was preceded by a Divine consultation; as well, the pronouns Us and Our proclaim the consultation held by the Three Persons of the Divine Trinity, Who were One in the creative work; image and likeness enable us to have fellowship with God; however, it does not mean we are gods, or can become gods; in Our Image after Our Likeness actually refers to true Righteousness and Holiness [Eph. 4:24]): and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the Earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the Earth (this dominion was given by God to man, and is always subject to God; the relationship of man to the balance of creation is now defined to be one of rule and supremacy; the sphere of His lordship is from the lowest to the highest of the subjects placed beneath his sway).

²⁷So God created man in His Own Image (the word man should have the definite article, and should read the man, that is, Adam the same man Adam spoken of in 2:7; these are not, therefore, two accounts of the creation of man, but one Divine statement), in the Image of God created He him (the Image of God was lost at the Fall; however, the restoration of the Image was carried out at the Cross, but the completion of that restoration will not take place until the First Resurrection); male and female created He them (represents, at least as far as we know, the first time that God has created the female gender, at least as it regards intelligent beings; there is no record of any female Angels).

²⁸And God blessed them (again, speaks of the ability to reproduce), and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth (the word replenish carries the idea of a former creation on the Earth before Adam and Eve; according to Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, Lucifer ruled this world for an undetermined period of time, and did so in Righteousness and Holiness as a beautiful Angel created by God; if, in fact, he did rule the world at that time, it would stand to reason that there had to be some type of creation on the Earth for him to rule; the word replenish refers to that creation), and subdue it (and that man has done; however, he would have done it much sooner, but for the Fall): and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the Earth.

²⁹And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the Earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (refers to the fact that both animals and mankind were vegetarians before the Fall; incidentally, this was changed after the Flood [Gen. 9:3]).

³⁰And to every beast of the Earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the Earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so (this tells us that animals were not originally created as predators; in other words, all animals were then vegetarian as well, which means that all, and not just some, were docile).

³¹And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good (means that it was not simply good, but good exceedingly; it is not man alone whom God surveys, but the completed cosmos, with man as its crown and glory). And the evening and the morning were the sixth day (the word evening signified the fact that the new day began at sunset, instead of 12 midnight as it presently does in our reckoning of time).