Has it ever occurred to you how everything truly started? Who brought the mighty oceans to their knees and taught the sky its endless width? But why did we who made the animals that roam the earth and people fill in it? When did all of this start? All of those questions can be answered with one answer… it was the Father who created everything. But… did you ever stop to think, where was God before everything? And that is what we are going to be diving deeper into today in our Bible study.
Pre-Creation: The Realm of GLORY
Think about what it must be like to live before time was created — in a world without mother earth, no sky above, and not a star to the names of all.datatables. There was just God. He was not subject to time or space, and He lived in a dimension that we cannot imagine. For everything other — omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent God was always there. The Bible also tells us that God is eternal; He has no beginning and no end. But where was He before He created heaven and earth? He was in some glory realm, whatever that thing is.
In Psalm 8:1 we read, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! 081 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, and stars that you have established; 082 what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? 083 Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. It makes the statement that God’s glory is so high; it overtook our highest knowledge which is heaven. In the beginning, there was nothing, just darkness — a horrible darkness that went on and on forever. Yet in this emptiness, God was there. He had a great plan for everything that was yet to be, everything we see and interact with today.
Day One : Light in the Darkness
At first, there was only the darkness — a vast and infinite nothing. So God created the void. Genesis 1:3-5 says, “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Simple words that sped forth light, revealing creation and the birth of time. And, of course, this divine light was not just physical brightness but the beginning stages of the great plan that God had initiated to bring warmth, energy, and life to such a cold, dark universe.
Day Two: The Sky
On the second day God did the sky. Waters/above and from the waters/below He separated. What appeared was nothing but blue. Then you have Genesis 1:6-8, ‘And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water. And God saw that it was good, and He separated the water below the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault ‘sky.’ And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.
And God called the dry land earth, and the waters that were gathered together He called seas. Genesis 1:9-13 reads “Then God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land ‘earth,’ and the waters that were collected He called ‘seas. And God saw that it was good. And it was so: The land produced vegetation; plants bearing seed according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.”
God lifted His hand, and mountains exalted themselves; valleys grounded as the vast spaces widened. And vegetation erupted and covered the earth with plants as well as grasses, each containing its kind of fruit with seeds.
Fourth Day — Sun Moon Stars
He then created the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day. Genesis 1:14-19 writes, — 14 And God saith, ‘Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and between the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.
The heavens stirred with this command. The day was ruled by the sun, and the night by the moon. They were positioned like so many stars, each placed with careful intention by the Creator.
Day Five: The Waters and the Air of Life
Then on the fifth day, God populated the seas. Genesis 1:20-23 And God said “Let the water team with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
At the word of God, the seas teemed with monsters, sea serpents large and small, creatures divine and mundane; they all played their part in the grand orchestra of life as though it were not preordained: Whales, leviathans, sharks, families, and schools of fish darted through rippling meadows throughout time. Cala daggas gorgonae while above the sky alone among earth’s vast menagerie a haven for birds—an ark for creation.
DAY SIX: ANIMALS AND MAN
God created the animals to walk upon the earth so far on day six. Read the following from Genesis 1:24-31: “Then God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures after their kind.’ But the special part of this day is mankind was created. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.
God created mankind, male and female, in His image and gave them dominion over the earth and all its inhabitants. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
The Seventh Day: Rest
And on that seventh day, God went for a holiday. Genesis 2:1-3, for example, and I could make any English speaker out there sneeze with my thees and thous: By the seventh day, God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day, He rested from all His work. Suspending His work for one day, to rest and reflect upon the goodness of creation.
The Majesty of God’s Creation
It is the invisible eternal, ever-present God who was at work from before the dawn of creation, creating and sustaining. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. — Psalm 19:1 God planned creation as His magnum opus, reflecting His current being and everlasting touch.
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