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!!!!!! Genesis 1:12-2:25

 

We are dealing in Genesis with beginnings: the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life forms, and the beginning of man.

In chapter two, more details are revealed on the beginning of man and in chapter three we will read of the beginning of sin, towards the end of the chapter we will read of redemption.

As we move along we begin to follow a family line which will ultimately bring us to the Messiah.

In verse twelve of Genesis, chapter one, we read, "And 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; and God saw that it was good."

If there was ever an opportunity to find proof of a change of species, a transmutation; it would be in the billions of wheat seeds that are planted every year.

If a farmer, in planting his crop of wheat, would reap a corn stalk; then, we would have an example of evolution and transmutation.

Think of what chaos there would be if a wheat seed did not produce wheat.

If the seed were not after its kind, the farmer could plant his wheat fields and not know what was going to grow.

God has put order in His universe.

"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also."

(Gen.1:14-16).

At this point, we have to go back to the beginning of Genesis where it says, " In the Beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

There are those who see God bringing the earth into a relationship with the sun and the moon, in order that the earth might draw energy from the sun; perhaps, bringing the earth into a fixed orbit around the sun.

We have found, up to this point, that there have been evenings and mornings which would indicate the rotation of the earth upon its axis.

This is probably the first day of creation and not an account of the actual creation of the sun and the moon, but, only the establishing of the order: for in the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

God established the earth and its relationship to the sun, which by the way, "just happened" to be the right distance to support all of the various life forms upon the earth.

If the sun were a few million miles further away, we might have problems with a great ice age and if it were a little closer, we would have problems with vast desert areas.

God placed the sun at just the right distance so the earth could get the amount of energy and heat needed to support its various life forms.

He spun the earth in its orbit and then placed it, in its orbit, around the sun.

The earth completes an orbit every 365 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes, and some odd seconds.

Then God had to place the sun in its orbit passing through our Milky Way Galaxy.

David tells us in Psalm 19, "In them..." (the heavens) "...hath

He set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."

The orbit of the sun extends to the ends of the heavens.

The sun travels approximately 600,000 miles per hour, so, its making quite a journey through our vast Milky Way Galaxy.

The earth's orbit around the sun, tilted at a twenty-three and a third degree tilt, gives us the various seasons of the year, all designed and planned by God.

"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

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

(Gen.1:17-19).

"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good."

(Gen.1:20-21).

I love to go skin diving in Hawaii.

It's fun to take along a loaf of bread to feed the fish.

There are all shapes and varieties of fish, with gorgeous colorings and markings.

As I look at this wide variety of fish, I am fascinated at their design and how they propel themselves through the water, utilizing the God given ability to take oxygen from the water through their gills.

Gods creative genius and the beautiful infinite variety of His creation are truly marvelous.

Have you ever thought why God made such a variety in creation?

Just look at each other and you will see that basically, in our faces, we all possess the same features.

We all have a nose, eyes, mouth, forehead, jaw, etc. and yet, God has created such a wide variety of looks that no two of us are alike.

There may be similarities in some of us, but there are no two exactly alike.

Another marvel of God's creation is the instinct that he has placed within the animal kingdom; for example, the instinct of the great whales to travel through the vast oceans and the instinct of salmon to return to the place of their birth to spawn.

The tiny little insects that fly around, do they know where they are going?

How close does a fly get to the ceiling before he flips over so he can stand on his feet?

The gyroscopes in the wings of these insects to get them around and the ability of the fly to see in so many different directions.

It's marvelous, the creative genius of God.

Then there are the fowls of the air, the birds, how God designed them aerodynamically to enable them to fly and the instincts which He placed within them.

Who taught the swallow to build its nest?

How does he know to take the dirt and swoop down to get the water to make the mud and then carry it back to the eaves and make his little nest?

Who taught him how to design and create that nest?

The Golden Plover lives in the Aleutian Islands and Hawaii.

It goes to the Aleutians in the springtime to mate and to have its offspring.

In the Fall, when it starts growing cold, they head for Hawaii, some 2,000 miles away.

Before they leave the Aleutians they start gorging themselves full of food as it is a non-stop flight to Hawaii.

How are they able to navigate across the water from the Aleutians to Hawaii?

Do they navigate by the stars?

What do they do if its stormy and cloudy the whole way?

What is their guidance principles?

What do they have that, even if they get blown off course by strong winds, they still come back to Hawaii?

You might say, "Well, they've been there before."

That’s true.

However!

When the parents leave for Hawaii the children are not quite strong enough to make the flight.

It's about two weeks later that the children take off and they have never been to Hawaii.

How did they know that Hawaii was a good place to spend the winter?

How are they guided there?

How can you explain this by an evolutionary process?

Who led the first plover to Hawaii?

This is just one example of the marvelous genius evidenced in creation, the work of God.

"And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."

(Gen.1:22).

They obeyed God and we see the evidence of this in the millions of fish in the seas and birds in the air.

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

(Gen.1:23).

"And 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." (Gen.1:24).

Again we see the establishment of the specie and the reproduction according to its kind.

"And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good."

(Gen.1:25).

In a way, as you look at the creation and the universe, you might say that God did an overkill.

There was a time when one fellow tried counting the stars.

He said that there were 5,716 stars.

Of course that was before telescopes.

Other fellows counted and got different numbers.

So, there was a debate among the scientists as to how many stars there actually were; but, as we developed our capacity to peer into the universe, we found that there was an innumerable number of stars.

That is exactly what God told Abraham; there were too many to number.

He said He would make Abraham's seed as the stars of heaven, too many to number.

The scientists may have scoffed at this statement, in the bible, when this fellow counted his 5,716 stars.

They may have laughed at the revelation of God.

Through the invention of the telescope, it is now estimated that there are as many stars as there are grains of sand upon the earth.

One estimate says there are ten to the twenty-fifth power stars in the universe.

Did God, in making this vast universe, just put inhabitants on the earth?

I don't think so, but that is only a personal opinion.

The Bible doesn't give us any insight to this question, yet, I can't see God creating this vast universe, with all its galaxies, and inhabiting only one of the solar systems in one of the galaxies.

That's something that we'll discover later on, but not in this lifetime.

In His creation of creeping things, God created over a hundred different varieties of beetles alone.

The infinite variety of God's creation, each one after its own kind.

"And God saw that it was good."