- (Gen 1:20 ESV) And God said, “Let the waters __________ with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”
- Swarms gives us the sense of an __________ in the beginning
- Not gradual building up over long periods of time.
- A __________ ecosystem of marine life created in an instant
- Birds – plural: different species all created complete
- The heavens vs Heaven
- The heavens – the sky, the __________
- Heaven – the dwelling place of God apart from the fallenness of __________
- (Gen 1:21 ESV) So God created the great __________ creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged __________ according to its kind. And God saw that it was __________ .
- God created all of these animals
- All of the fish
- All of the birds
- All works of God’s creative hand specifically.
- Great sea creatures
- Hebrew: Tannin – tan-neen’
- 26 occurrences in the OT
- dragon, serpent, sea monster
- Ps 91:11-16, Ps 148:7, Ps 74:13
- Even these are under God’s __________ control
- Every living creature
- All of them from all time
- Our discoveries may be new to us, but they are not new to __________.
- Winged bird
- So which came first? The chicken or the egg?
- Kinds – the units of a group that can produce fertile offspring
- Unlike: Mules & Hybrid striped bass
- God saw that it was __________
- Because it fulfilled the __________ He created it for.
- (Gen 1:22 ESV) And God __________ them, saying, “Be fruitful and __________ and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
- This is the first time God addresses something with words
- He has spoken in general during the creation account about it
- Now He speaks __________ to a part of the created order
- The command is for them to reproduce.
- But not just a command for them to do it
- A blessing that He will be with them in it.
- The reproductive cycle is an act of God
- We miss this in the english, but this is poetic in the original text
- Create(d) v21 – bârâ’ – baw-raw’
- Blessed v22 – bârak – baw-rak’
- Fruitful v22 – pârâh – paw-raw’
- Multiply v22 – râbâh – raw-baw’
- Fill v22 – mâlâ’ – maw-law’
- (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.
- All the __________ of the land are made here.
- According to their kinds.
- Livestock – Behêmâh – be-hay-maw’
- Ex 11:5, Lev 26:22, Job 40:15-18
- Dinosaurs?
- Job 41:1-10, 1 Kings 4:33
- Creeping things
- Beasts
- (Gen 1:25 ESV) And God made the beasts of the earth according to their __________ and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the __________ according to its kind. And God saw that it was __________ .
- And God made the beasts of the earth
- All the living things on the earth
- Just like He said, He did.
- According to their kinds
- Each one as He wanted it
- Complete and not lacking
- Mature and capable of reproduction
- But… Genesis 1:30
- Everything was vegetarian
- No need for meat as food
- Hide as clothing
- Leather as a tool
- What is the value then of livestock to man?
- Is this also God’s foresight into our future needs as a fallen humanity?
- Eph 1:3-6
- Job 12:7-25
