The Days of creation:
Day 1 – Light, Day, and Night
Day 2 – The Firmament to separate the waters, which He called Sky
Day 3 – Dryland and the Seas, Vegetation, Plants, and Trees
Day 4 – Sun, Moon, and Stars
Day 5 – Creatures of the Seas, Birds of the air
Day 6 – Livestock, Creeping things, Beasts of the field, Man and Woman
Day 7 – Rest
John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.”
On day one, God said, “Let there be light.” (The LXX says, “Let light come into being.”) The Messiah said He was the light of the world. I posit that those two things are the same. But if God created light on day one, then that would mean that God created the Messiah. But wait. God didn’t create light; He revealed it. Remember that God exists outside of time. To reveal Himself to man, He has to put Himself inside of time. It’s the only way we can comprehend Him. God told Moses that no one could look on Him and live, yet God showed Himself to many people, as we will see going through the Torah portions. But when men looked on God, it was for a moment in “time.” If God were outside of time when men looked on Him, their minds would be consumed by knowing everything at once. The fallen nature of our bodies wouldn’t be able to withstand that. That’s why God said we couldn’t live. So, on day one of creation, when God revealed the Light, He put Himself inside of time for our benefit.
Ephesians 1:4 says, “In the Messiah, He chose us in love before the creation of the universe.” He had a plan for salvation before He created anything. He had to put Himself inside of time in able to fulfill that plan. And if you don’t think I’m correct in that, then ask yourself why God made light on the first day when the sun which gives us light wasn’t created until the fourth day? What would the light on day one be? Genesis 1:5 says that the light was called Day and the darkness was called Night, but consider what it says in Revelation 21:22-25. In the new Jerusalem, there will be no sun or moon because God’s glory will be the Light for the Day and there will be no more Night. Darkness will be gone; Only Light remains. And we will live with Him outside of time, forevermore.
This is another reason why the first three days of creation were also literal days. Even though the sun wasn’t created until day four, the very first day of creation started time. Even Einstein said there was a beginning to the universe, which means there was a beginning to time. And time didn’t wait until day four to begin. Interestingly, the Hebrew word hāyâ (H1961), which is translated into the English phrase “let there be” means was, has been, to become, and come to pass. Those are all words pertaining to time; past-tense and future-tense.
I’m not the only one who holds this belief. Last year after reading the first Torah portion, I happened upon an article from Answers in Genesis. There were many theories about what the light was for the first three days of creation, and these theories go back to the second century AD (or CE). The article mentions that Genesis and Revelation are different genres, therefore it’s talking about two different kinds of light, but I will stick with what I said before. If you want to read the article, you can find it at Answers in Genesis, “Light Before the Sun” article.
On day two, God created the firmament to separate the waters. The firmament is called the Sky, so that means there are waters above and beyond the Sky. Psalm 148 even mentions the waters above the heavens. More on that later.
God caused the dry land to appear in the waters below the firmament on day three. Pangea is the prevailing theory of one single landmass surrounded by water. The grass, seed-bearing plants, and fruit-bearing trees are all created on the dry land. Another reason to believe in the first three days being literal days is that all plants were created on day three, but the sun wasn’t created until day four. How could plants fourish without sunlight for many, many years?
The sun, moon, and stars were created on day four. The sun is the greater light to rule the day, and the moon is the lesser light to rule the night (Gen. 1:16), but what about the stars? They also are meant to help us determine the seasons. The constellations move according to the time of year as the earth revolves around the sun. But what are the stars?
Scientists tell us that the stars are no different than the sun; our sun is a star. So we believe that the stars are burning balls of gas. But what if there were evidence to suggest they are something different. Deep space telescopic video of stars shows different frequencies of vibration. Audio recordings of deep space sound like eerie singing. The astronauts that went around the dark side of the moon lost contact with the earth for several minutes of what they expected to be quiet except for their voices. What they heard gave them a spooky feeling as space seemed to sing them a creepy song.
When sound waves go through water, the water will vibrate until it gives off light. It’s called sonoluminescence. Remember the waters that are above the firmament? There’s not any water in the vacuum of space, so where is it? What if God gathered that water into stars?
Psalm 19:1 says that the heavens declare the glory of God, and we can certainly see that when we look upon a clear, night sky, but Isaiah tells the heavens in 44:23 to sing for joy at the restoration of Jerusalem. That’s not to say that the heavens are indeed singing, but the stars are giving off different vibrations based on size and age, and together they do sound like they are “singing.” Job 38:7 says that “the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.” The morning stars are the principal angels. Lucifer was a morning star. What if the morning stars are singing while the angels are shouting the glory of God throughout the universe, and their song vibrates through the balls of water above the firmament until they give off light, which we see and call stars? Genesis differentiates the sun from the stars, and it also says there are waters above the firmament. Here’s what Psalm 148:1-5 says:
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord from the heavens;
praise Him in the heights!
2 Praise Him, all His angels;
praise Him, all His hosts!
3 Praise Him, sun and moon,
praise Him, all you shining stars!
4 Praise Him, you highest heavens,
and you WATERS ABOVE THE HEAVENS!
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord!
For He commanded and they were created.
Many years ago, I saw a video where a guy put salt on a flat, black panel and then placed it over a speaker. By changing the frequency coming out of the speaker, the salt would take on different shapes. Sometime after that, I learned about bioluminescence. Since I was taught that stars are just big balls of gas, I never thought about bioluminescence on a grand enough scale to think that stars could actually be water. That is until I saw the video Stars are NOT what you think they are. Take it for what it’s worth, but that concludes day four.
On day five, God created the creatures of the seas and the birds of the air. There’s not much more to report on this day, so we’ll wrap this up and talk about days six and seven in the next post.