The Creation to The Great Flood
First Generation
1. JEHOVAH GOD THE CREATOR.
IN THE BEGINNING:
God created by the Power of His Word - He spoke the heavens and earth
into existence.
WHY: Psalms 19:1
- This verse tells us 'The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim
the work of his hands.' His creation was
a manifestation of his power and glory.
He wants to receive glory and honor from His creation. Isaiah 55:12 - 'You will go out in joy and be
led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.'
Genesis 1:1 - 'In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.' This tells us
that there really is a beginning - not made from something that already existed
but CREATED.
Genesis 1:2 - The earth did not have form and it was
empty and dark. It also says that the
'Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.'
FIRST FOUR DAYS: God brought order to his creation.
DAY 1: LIGHT
- Genesis 1:3-5 - 'And God said, "Let There be light," and there was
light. God saw that the light was good,
and he separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day" and the darkness he called
"night." And there was
evening, and there was morning --the first day.'
DAY 2: SKY - Genesis 1:6-8 - 'And God said, Let
there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.' (The expanse is the atmosphere between the
water on the earth and the clouds above it.)
'So God made the expanse and separated the water
under the expanse from the water above it.
And it was so. God called the
expanse "sky". And there was
evening, and there was morning --the second day.'
DAY 3: LAND & VEGETATION: - Genesis 1:9-10 - 'And God said, "Let
the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground
appear." And it was so. God called
the dry ground "land" and the gathered waters he called
"seas". And God saw that it
was good.
Genesis
Genesis
DAY 4: LIGHTS
IN THE SKY: - Genesis 1:14-19 - And God said, "Let there be lights in the
expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as
signs to mark seasons and days and years.
And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the
earth. And it was so. God made two great lights--the greater light
to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to
give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light
from darkness. And God saw that is was
good.
And there was evening and there was morning--the
fourth day.'
DAYS FIVE AND SIX:
Creation of Life
DAY 5: FISH
& BIRDS: 1:20-23 - 'And God said,
"Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the
earth across the expanse of the sky. So
God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing
with which the water teems, accord to their kinds, and every winged bird
according to its kind. And God saw that
it was good. God blessed them and said,
"Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and
let the birds increase on the earth."
And there was evening, and there was morning--the
fifth day.'
DAY 6: ANIMALS:
Genesis
MAN: Genesis 1:26-27 - 'Then God
said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule
over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all
the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
'So God created man in his own image, in the image
of God He created him; male and female he created them.'
Genesis 1:28-31 - 'God blessed them and said to
them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue
it. Rule over the fish of the sea and
the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the
ground." Then God said, "I
give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree
that has fruit with seed in it. They
will be yours for food. And to all the
beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that
move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every
green plant for food. And it was so.'
'God saw all that he had made, and it was very
good. And there was evening, and there
was morning,--the sixth day.'
PURPOSE FOR CREATION OF MAN: God created man in His own image so that he
could have a loving, personal relationship forever. Man is a triune being - body, soul, and
spirit just as God is triune - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. Man has a mind, emotion and will
so that he can respond and worship God freely out of faith, loyalty and
gratitude. God created us to love,
worship and interact with Him. However
He gave us our own will and He will not force us to walk with Him. He wants us to choose willingly to serve Him.
GOD RESTED
DAY 7: God Rested:
Genesis 2:1-3 - 'Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all
their vast array.'
'By the
seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day
he rested from all his work.'
'And God
blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the
work of creating that he had done.'
He had the following
children:
+ 2 M i. *Adam
CREATED BY GOD was born 4004 B.C. and died 3074 B.C.
+ 3 F ii. *Eve
CREATED BY GOD (from Adam's rib) was born 4004 B.C. and died 3076 B.C.