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1. God Transforms Chaos into Creation ~/ God Contemplates Gen. 1:1-
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2. God Creates Everything by His Powerful ~/ Efficient ~/
Sufficient ~/ Powerful ~/ Sovereign Word
3. God Celebrates His Creation
I. God Transforms Chaos into Creation ~/ God
Contemplates Gen. 1:1-2
Remember the historical context of Genesis 1.
It is not the
beginning of the earth.
It is God's people in captivity in Egypt.
God has told Moses at the burning bush that He will give Moses
what he is to say to the people when he gets there, and this is it!
Moses will bring affirmation from Almighty God that they are His
people, unique, and that Egypt and her gods are no match for Him.
He is there to let them know the the Creator God, who called them
out of Ur in Abraham and made them a nation for Himself, who
judged them and protected them, is not only ready to free them
from the Egyptians, but he is willing, and HE IS ABLE to do so.
The first two verses of this book are tone-setting to say the
least.
These words let us know exactly what God wants His people
to hear first.
They are not primarily intended to explain HOW God did
what He did, although, as we have learned time and time again, the
Bible has a way of describing things with uncannily scientific
accuracy, at least when science gets around to getting it right.
If we didn't have verse 2 to deal with, we'd have it a lot
easier.
Isaiah 45:18 (For thus says the Lord, who created the
heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He
established it and did not create it a waste place [tohu],But
formed it to be inhabited), "I am the Lord, and there is none else)
clearly states that what God made was not formless and void.
In
fact, from Jeremiah 4:23 ( I beheld the earth, and indeed it was
without form [tohu], and void [bohu];) we see "formless and
void," always used together, as results of God's judgment on the
earth, not of His creative action.
We may take Gen. 1:1-2 in a three ways:
A. Either it describes original creation, and is simply
showing a sequence necessitating the word of God to
complete it.
It's valuable for us to realize that the prime
ingredients of the universe, if you could go back and find
them, still don't spontaneously, by a process inherent in
them, produce anything orderly or complete.
All of
creation continually awaits the emowering word of God
before it can really BE something.
B. A second possibility is called The Gap Theory.
Genesis
1:1 describes the original, perfect creation.
Gen. 1:2 describes
the effects of cosmic warfare between the angels when
Satan and his legions fell, and "without form and void"
the results of God's summary judgment on that rebellion.
C. A third possibility is the Relative Beginning view.
There is an original creation that cannot be dated.
The
fall of Satan and some of the angels happened before
Genesis 1:1, with resulting judgment and chaos to the
prehistoric universe, and Genesis 1 describes the act of
God in restoring the universe in giving it new
inhabitants.
So, what we have in Genesis 1:1-2 is an affirmation of who did the
creating, and how the creation might look without His intervention.
If "without form and void" describe the result of some prehistoric
judgment of God, then Genesis 1 describes God as not only
Creator, but Redeemer, for His first recorded act here is one of
"redeeming" the "lost" creation.
In addition, Geneis 1:2 sets the format and the tone for the
remainder of Chapter One.
The earth is formless and void in verse
two; God will form it and fill it in the remainder of the chapter.
And there is a tone of hope, because verse two concludes by
observing that the Spirit of God is at work, like a hen over her
chicks, surveying the scene in preparation for the mighty creative
act of Yahweh.
II.
God Creates Everything by His Powerful ~/
Efficient ~/ Sufficient ~/ Powerful ~/ Sovereign Word
(Gen.
1:3-2:1)
A. (In verses Gen. 1:3-13, Day 1-3...) God Gave His Creation Form
1. Day 1 Light (Gen.
1:3-5)
First recorded words of God.
God said ... and there was.
Don't miss the significance of God's method and God's words --
they all count.
God, who identified Himself to Moses as "I AM"
said "Let there BE [another form of the same verb]," "and there
WAS." Isn't that beautiful?
And Jesus, called the Word of God by
John, was the one John describes as the one "through whom" all
things were created.
It was God's word that made everything.
(I like the T-shirt I saw recently.
It said, "I believe in the Big
Bang Theory.
God said Let there be light,' and B-A-N-G!! there
was light!)
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