Reflection
- (Gen 1:20 ESV) And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”
- (Gen 1:21 ESV) So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- (Gen 1:22 ESV) And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
- (Gen 1:23 ESV) And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
- (Gen 1:24 ESV) And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds–livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- (Gen 1:25 ESV) And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Discussion
In days 5 and 6 God fills the earth with fish, birds, and animal life. Every living thing except for mankind is created complete, mature, and ready to go. This answers the age old question:
Which came first? The chicken of the egg.
In fact they came together. God created the birds and other animals fully mature and bless them with the task of multiplying. So the chicken is created ready to lay the eggs that God created insider of her.
Connection
Consider the variety of fish, birds, and animals on the earth and the way ecosystems work together to support each other. What wisdom must God have to create this?
What power must He have to perfectly to this in a word?
What purpose can we draw from all of these animals is we know everything was vegetarian at this point? When did the diet change for creation?
Expansion
God the Father has eternally existed in the past and will eternally exist forever in the future. He alone is the sovereign creator and supreme ruler of everything. He is unchanging, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient and entirely holy in every capacity.
Genesis 1:1, Exodus 3:14, Genesis 1:26-27, Isaiah 40:28, Romans 11:36, Malachi 3:6-7, James 1:17-18, 1 Kings 8:27, Jeremiah 23:23-24, Hebrews 13:5, Matthew 28:18-20, Job 9:19, Revelation 19:6, Luke 1:37, Isaiah 40:28, Isaiah 40:13-14, Psalm 147:5, 1 Timothy 1:17, Jude 1:25, Romans 11:33-34, Romans 16:27, Isaiah 6:3, Revelation 4:8, Psalm 111:9