Tell me what you learned about Lesson # 17

Re-creation continued

In Lesson # 16 we stopped after the second day of creation. But let’s look at them in summary.

The First Day

Is found in Genesis 1: 3-5. God created heaven light and darkness, called the light Day and the darkness Night.

The Second day

In Genesis 1: 6-8 is where this is found. God created the firmament and placed it in between the waters of earth and heaven.

The Third Day

The third day is found in Genesis 1: 9-13. Read them! Verse 9: “And god said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.”  Think about the word “appear” for a moment. For the earth to appear, it had to have already been there, another validation for re-creation. And He gathered all the water and made seas.

On this day of creation God made grass, herbs and fruit trees to replenish the earth. But the most significant part about these items of creation are found in the following words: “after his kind,” and “whose seed is in itself.”

The orange tree produce oranges, the apple tree produced apples from it’s own seeds. These trees did not start out as orange and apple trees and later become pear or persimmon trees.  Each thing God made reproduced from it’s own seed. Evolutionists hate the first chapter of Genesis.

“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”  James 32: 12

The Fourth Day

This day is recorded in Genesis 1: 14-19

On this day God put lights in the firmament (heaven)

1.           To divided the day from the night

2.           Let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

3.           He made the sun and the moon to give light upon the earth and to divide the light from the darkness.

The Fifth Day

You will find this recorded in Genesis 1: 20-23

On this day god created the creatures of the sea, including the whale and the fowl of the air.  Each of these creatures “brought forth abundantly” AFTER HIS KIND.  There was no evolving of one-cell beings.  God made each of them individually and they reproduced living creatures that were the same as they were.

The Sixth Day

Genesis 1:24-31 is where you will find this day.

On this day God created animals and reptiles and they reproduced “after his kind.”

Then God created man – in His own image.  You will notice in Verse 26 these words: “And God said, Lets us make man in our image, after our likeness:” It is evident from this passage that the “us” and “our” in the passage refer to The Father and the Son, and perhaps the Holy Spirit. But I know there were at least two of the Godhead involved in the creation of man.

John 1: 1-4: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.”

From these verses we can clearly see that there was nothing made without the Son of God having a part in it. And man was created with an image – just like that of the Father and Son.

When people of today say we are created in the image of God, are they correct in that assessment?  Adam was created in the image of God but the offspring’s of Adam were not, they were created in the image of a fallen Adam.  The key word here is fallen. Adam sinned, his godly image died and he took on the flesh of man. “But the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis 2: 17.

Eve ate, then Adam ate the forbidden fruit. “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” Genesis 3: 7.  The realization of their nakedness is evidence their bodies had change from what they were to something else.  They were created as spirit beings with the shape of man as we know man today. But when they disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit they became flesh and blood.

I believe the fruit that was eaten was a grape, not an apple.  One reason I believe this is because the juice of the grape is called blood in Deuteronomy 34: 14.  “Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.”

But not only that but every person of science knows that life is in the blood of human beings – have good blood live long, have bad blood don’t live long.  Have you ever wondered why it was necessary for Jesus to shed His blood? It was shed as a sacrifice for sin, true, but it was also to rid Him of fleshly contamination. When Christ arose from the dead he had a glorified body absent of blood.

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” 1 Corinthians 15: 50

So Adam was created in the image of God and was blessed and told to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. He was then given dominion over all of God’s creation.

The Seventh Day

On the seventh day God rested (Genesis 2: 1-3) and blessed and sanctified it.