LESSON EIGHT
THE STORY OF RE-CREATION
Gen. 1:3-2:25
Earth Made Perfect a Second Time (Gen. 1:3-2:25)
In this lesson we shall study the story of the end of chaos on the Earth, and the beginning of the restoration of it to its second perfect state: that is, the work of the six days and the beginning of “the heavens and the earth, which are now” (Gen. 1:3-2:25; 2 Pet. 3:5-7).
The biblical proof in Lessons Five and Seven should automatically clear up all questions that would naturally arise from a wrong conception of the story of creation. Thus, questions concerning the original creation of the heavens and the Earth before the flood of Gen. 1:2, the pre-Adamite world, the chaotic period, the source of demons, the age of the universe, the location of Lucifer’s kingdom and the cause of his fall, the cause of sin on Earth, and many other questions have been fully answered so we shall next show how and when the present creation was made. The time of the re-creation was during the six days of Gen. 1:3-2:25. The main points of the story of re-creation are as follows:
I. Are the Six Days of Gen. 1 Literal Days?
That the six days of Gen. 1 were literal 24-hour days as we have known days ever since, is very clear in Scripture. The reasons why they were literal days are as follows:
1. The word “evening” is from the Hebrew ehred, meaning “dusk,” “evening” or “night.” It is translated “evening” 49 times, but it is not once used in a figurative sense. The word “morning” is from the Hebrew boker, meaning “dawn,” “break of day,” “morning” or “early light.” It is translated “morning” 187 times, but not once in a figurative sense. This shows that the words “day” and “night,” or “light” and “darkness” are literal days and nights, and are regular periods of light and darkness regulated by the sun, moon and stars, as mentioned elsewhere in Scripture (Gen. 8:22; Ps. 19:2; Job 38:12; Jer. 31:35-37; 33:19-26). There is no hint in Scripture anywhere that day and night ever did, or ever will, come from a different source than from the sun, moon, and stars that were created before the Earth, or that we are to understand day and night in a symbolic sense.
2. It is true that the word “day,” which is used 2,182 times as a literal day, may refer to a prolonged period when it is qualified as “the day of the Lord” or “the day of God.” However, when it is used with qualifying words beginning or ending the day, like “evening” and “morning,” it can only be understood in the literal sense. It is further proven to be literal by numbering each day as first, second, third, etc., as one naturally would number literal days. No symbolic period is ever numbered in Scripture.
3. It is definitely stated in Exod. 20:8-11; 31:14-17 that God made, not created, the heavens (firmament, not the Heaven where God dwells) and the Earth in six days. Man was told to work the same length of time that it took to do the work of Gen. 1:3-2:25; “Six days shalt thou labour . . . For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth.” It is just as logical to argue that man was supposed to work 6,000 years or six indefinite periods of time before resting, as to argue this about the six days’ work of God in Gen. 1. If the six days of Gen. 1 can be proven to be periods of 1,000 or more years each, then it can also be proven that the six days of Exod. 20:8-11 are the same length, for exactly the same words are used in each case referring to the same kind of days.
It cannot be that mere personal interpretation of the same words to prove two different ideas could be a basis of proof that literal days are used in one case and not in the other. It is never argued that the six days of Exod. 20 are long periods of time, and yet they do not have as clear qualifying words like “evening” and “morning” and “first,” “second,” “third,” etc., as the days of Gen. 1. Therefore, from the standpoint of literal language and common sense it can be seen that the days of re-creation are as literal as the work days for man. Everyone knows that the work days for man could not be indefinite periods, for days in Moses’ time were as long as days now, and so it is with the days of re-creation in Adam’s time. From where then could one get the idea that the days of Genesis are not ordinary days? Such an idea could not come from the plain language of Scripture, and any other source we must reject.
4. Remember, our fundamental principle of true Bible interpretation is like that of any other book—take the Bible literally wherein it is at all possible. When the language cannot be literal or when language states to the contrary, then the passage is figurative. On this basis we have to take the days in Genesis as literal. Could not God do this work in six literal days as well as in 6,000 years? If He can, and if this is stated in the Bible, then let it alone and do not change it.
5. If the idea is advanced that the days of Genesis could not be literal because the sun, moon, and stars had not yet been created to regulate days and nights, we reply that they had been created originally in the beginning when God created the heavens before the Earth, as in Gen. 1:1; Job 38:4-7. If the Earth was in existence before Day 1, as is clear in Gen. 1:2, and if the heavens were created before the Earth, then the sun, moon, and stars were also in existence before Day 1. If this is true, then the light of the first three days came from the same source that it has come from every day since. There had been days and nights all through Lucifer’s reign, but not through the total darkness of chaos while the Earth was cursed and the lights had been withheld from it, as in Gen. 1:2; Jer. 4:23-26. The work of Day 1 was simply the restoration of day and night as it had been on Earth when Lucifer ruled.
6. The 1,000-year-day theory is ridiculous in the light of facts. If this theory were true, then it took God a long time to do the work of these six days, and it took a much longer time originally to create all things which we have discussed in Lesson Five, Point VIII. Also, if this theory were true, then the waters remained on the Earth at least 1,000 years before they were divided; the Earth was still desolate another 1,000 years before vegetation was planted; and vegetation was on Earth 1,000 years before the sun, moon, and stars were created (if, as supposed, they were created on the fourth day).
Here the question arises, “How could vegetation live so long without the sun?” Further, vegetation was here about 2,000 years before animal life was on Earth; so the Earth must have been a dense forest for 2,000 years. Fish and fowls were here 1,000 years before man and other land animals, so they were the rulers of the Earth all these years. Then, too, we would have to conclude that it took God 1,000 years to create fish and fowls and another 1,000 years to create land animals and man. According to Gen. 2:7-25, man was created before the animals, and the animals were all created before the woman, or Adam was created in the beginning and the woman at the end of the sixth day. If this day was 1,000 years long, man was 1,000 years old before a wife was made for him. God rested another l,000 years between the making of Eve and fall of man; so there are about 2,000 years from Adam’s creation at the beginning of the sixth l,000 years and the fall of man after the seventh 1,000 years, and yet Adam was only 130 years old when Seth was born (Gen. 5:1-3). How foolish are the theories of men when examined in the light of common sense and the Scripture! We conclude, therefore, that the six days of Genesis were literal 24-hour days, as is plainly evident by the facts themselves.
7. It is true that some translations read “age” for “day,” but that is incorrect. Even if an age is meant, we have seen in Lesson One, Point IV, 1, that an age is any period of time, whether long or short. A literal day is an age—a short one—and since “day” is limited and qualified as a literal one in Gen. 1:3-31 it will not be wrong to believe literal days are meant. This is the only theory that will harmonize with all the facts and Scriptures on the subject.
II. The Work of the First Day—Light Restored (Gen. 1:3-5)
The work of this day was nothing more or less than the restoration of light and the division of light and darkness, or the restoration of day and night on Earth as it was when Lucifer ruled and as before the curse of total darkness on the Earth in Gen. 1:2; Jer. 4:23-26. This was caused by the brooding of the Spirit of God over the waters that covered the Earth and by a direct command of God, “Let there be [become] light: and there was [became] light” (Gen. 1:3-5).
The word “let” is used in the same sense as we would say, “Turn on the light.” Both light and darkness were in existence and were created originally with the heavens and the Earth. The word “let” never denotes creation but permission, as is seen in Gen. 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 20, 22, 24, 26 and determination, as in Gen. 11:3, 4, 7. This further indicates that Gen. 1:2 is an act of judgment and that here God is permitting judgment to cease and the sun, moon, and stars to shine again on the darkened planet as was the original creative purpose. Neither here nor in Gen. 1:14-19 is an original creative act implied. The sun, moon, and stars were created in the beginning with the heavens and this was before the Earth, as we have seen.
The light of Days 1, 2, and 3 came from the same source it has been coming from every day since. The work of Day 4 is the permanent regulation of the solar system in connection with the restored Earth that came forth in Day 3. God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” These have been the names of regular periods of light and darkness ever since.
God began His work of restoration on the morning of the first day, for when He said, “Let there be light,” the first day began. It was day or light for a period or until evening, or until the first period of darkness after the restoration of light and then there was night, or the first period of darkness after the restoration of light, or until the next morning—the second period of light. Thus, the first day and night, or the first period of light and darkness since the curse on the Earth, were divided and distinctly marked off by evening and morning which were the first day. Thus, it is clear that it takes evening and morning, or a period of light and a period of darkness, to make one day, called the first day.
III. The Work of the Second Day—Firmament Restored (Gen. 1:6-8)
The work of this day was nothing more or less than the restoration of the firmament, or the clouds, to hold the waters again that had fallen on the Earth to cause the first flood to destroy the first social system as in Gen. 1:2. These waters had been in the firmament and had been poured out as rain to water the Earth all through Lucifer’s kingdom, for when Satan fell he said, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds” (Isa. 14:12-14). The clouds were originally created to hold moisture to water the Earth (Job 38:4-9, 25-30; Ps. 104:2-3, 13-14).
The firmament then was created in the beginning along with the heavens and the Earth, but in Day 2 it was restored to its original creative purpose. This was done by making, not creating, the clouds. God put part of the waters back in the clouds and named the firmament “heaven.” The firmament is called “clouds” (Job 26:8; 38:9; 26; Ps. 77:17; Prov. 8:28). The Heaven as a planet and the heavens as clouds are distinguished in Scripture (Judg. 5:4; Ps. 147:8; Isa. 14:12-14; Dan. 7:13; Mt. 24:29-31). The second days’ work began on the morning of the second day, or the second period of light, and continued to the second period of darkness called night and on through the night until the third morning, or the third period of light. Thus, the evening ending the second period of light, and the morning ending the second period of darkness were the second day.
IV. The Work of the Third Day—Earth and Vegetation Restored (Gen. 1:9-13)
The work of the third day was nothing more or less than the restoration of the Earth from its water baptism (which had lasted all through the period of chaos and through the first two days), and the restoration of the vegetation that had grown on the Earth when Lucifer ruled before the chaos of Gen. 1:2. As we have seen in Lesson Seven, Point VI, there were fruitful places on the Earth, but they had become a waste because of judgment when Lucifer rebelled. This work was done by a direct command of God and the creative power of the Holy Spirit. At the rebuke of God, the waters that had not been put in the clouds on Day 2 fled and hasted away to go into the low places of the Earth. God then set bounds around the waters that they should be confined from covering the Earth (Ps. 104:5-9).
God then called the dry land, “earth.” If dry land is Earth, then we can read Gen. 1:1 as follows: “In the beginning God created the heaven, and the dry land.” The dry land had become wet land by the flood of Gen. 1:2, and now dry land is being restored for the habitation of land animals and man. Neither the waters nor the Earth were created on the third day any more than the planets were created on the fourth day, or the light and darkness and the firmament on the first and second days. All the heavens and the Earth were created in the beginning before Lucifer ruled the Earth. All the work of Day 3 is re-constructive, not creative. When dry land appeared vegetation could be planted and grow, for the sun was already shining and had been for the first two days as well as on this day and all days that have been since.
The purpose of vegetation was to sustain life on the restored Earth. In all likelihood, the life germ in seeds was destroyed in the chaotic period when the Earth was water soaked for an indefinite period—no doubt a longer period than Noah’s flood, which did not destroy vegetation. In Gen. 2:5 it is plainly stated that all vegetation on the restored Earth of the new period was absolutely new: “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew,” thus proving all of vegetation to be a new work. God began the work in the morning of the third day, or when the second period of darkness (or night) was over, and He worked throughout this third day or period of light until the evening of the third period of darkness called night. Then He worked through the third night until the morning of the fourth day. Thus, the evening ending the third period of light and the morning ending the third period of darkness were the third day.
V. The Work of the Fourth Day—Solar Regulation Restored
(Gen. 1:14-19)
The work of Day 4 was nothing more or less than the restoration of the solar system in connection with the restored Earth, which work had been completed the day before. Permanent regulation of the solar system to give light on the Earth and to regulate its times and seasons could not be done until the Earth was restored. In this passage we learn where the light of the first three days came from and how the light and the darkness were divided and ruled on these days, and all days since then. Here God fixed the solar system in connection with the Earth as before chaos.
From this day on, the sun, moon, and stars were commanded to govern seasons on the newly restored Earth. These lights had given light on the Earth and regulated times and seasons all through the rule of Lucifer, but in the curse on the first social system they had been withheld from shining on the cursed Earth (Gen. 1:2; Jer. 4:23-26). Here God commanded them to renew their original creative purpose to sustain life on Earth and to regulate times and seasons and day and night forever.
Some translations read, “God had made two great luminaries . . . and God had fixed them,” proving God had done this work of actually creating them in the past. When? In the beginning before Lucifer ruled the Earth and when it was first created. God began this work on the morning of the fourth day or period of light and worked until evening or the fourth period of darkness. He then worked all night until the morning of the fifth day. Thus, the evening ending the fourth period of light and the morning ending the fourth period of darkness were the fourth day.
VI. The Work of the Fifth Day—Fish and Fowls Restored
(Gen. 1:20-23)
The work of the fifth day was nothing more or less than the creation and formation of new sea animals and fowls to fly in the clouds. In this passage we have the second creative act of God mentioned in the Creative Ages—the first being the original creation of the heavens and the Earth and all things therein in the beginning, as in Gen. 1:1. Here on Day 5 God creates and makes fish and fowls. Between the two creations of the dateless past and that of the fifth day, God merely restores the day and night, firmament, the Earth and vegetation, and solar regulation. Of course, the new vegetation of the third day is also a creation of God, but all the rest is merely restoring already created things as they were before in Lucifer’s kingdom.
God first fixed the realms where fish and fowls were to live, and then He created and made them to reproduce their own kind and live according to certain laws. The bodies of all fish and fowls were formed out of the dust of the ground, and the life was created in them (Gen. 2:19).
The Hebrew word for “bring forth” is shawrats, meaning “to wriggle,” “swarm,” “abound,” “breed,” “increase,” and “move.” Its meaning can be seen in its usage in Gen. 1:20; 9:7; Exod. 8:3. Things of the animal and plant worlds multiply abundantly. Under the present curse a watermelon seed reproduces a product 200,000 times its own weight, and each melon produces hundreds of seeds, each capable of producing such a product. Each grain reproduces many of its own kind. Each tree that bears fruit reproduces hundreds of seed bearing fruits, each capable of producing a tree with hundreds and thousands of seed bearing fruits. Loggerhead turtles lay l,000 eggs at a time, and a cod fish produces 10 million eggs annually. Other organisms multiply abundantly, each after its own kind as commanded by God. Thus, there is an abundant supply for man of anything he wants. All he has to do is follow certain laws, and all things are his.
The word for “life” is nephesh, “soul” or “feelings,” “emotions,” “appetites,” and “desires,” as we have seen in Lesson Six, Point IX, 2, (1). Thus, all animals have souls or feelings and appetites, but their souls are not immortal and created in the likeness of God’s soul, as is the soul of man.
Every creature was to bring forth “after his kind,” which expression states the law of reproduction of all things. It occurs ten times in Gen. 1:11, 12, 21, 24-25. The same law was still in force 1,656 years later after the flood (Gen. 8:19). It is still in force and different species cannot be crossed to reproduce other than its own kind, as is well-known to all. Hence, man and monkey and other animals are so far apart that they never were related. God began this work on the morning of the fifth day or period of light and worked all day until the evening or the fifth period of darkness. He then worked all night until the sixth period of light. Thus, the evening ending the fifth period of light and the morning ending the fifth period of darkness were the fifth day.
VII. The Work of the Sixth Day—Land Animals and Man Restored (Gen. 1:24-31)
The work of the sixth day was nothing more or less than the creation and formation of new land animals and man to take the place of the animals and inhabitants of the first social system, over which Lucifer ruled, the naming of all things by Adam, and the giving of commands by God to the new creation. The bodies of man and all animals were formed out of the dust, and the life was created (Gen. 2:7, 19).
The phrase “Let us” is the divine purpose stated, but the divine act is not described until Gen. 2:5-25. In other words, Gen. 1 states what God did, and some things as to how He created and made all new things, and Gen. 2 goes into more detail telling how He did the work of forming and creating man and animals and the planting of a garden, or it explains more fully the work of Days 3, 5 and 6. The image and likeness of God referred to in Gen. 1:26, “Let us make man in our image and likeness” was discussed already in Lesson Four, Point II, 2-3. God began His work on this day in the morning or sixth period of light called “day,” and He worked through the day to the evening or the sixth period of darkness called “night.” He worked through the night until the seventh morning when He ended His work. Thus, the evening ending the sixth period of light and the morning ending the sixth period of darkness were the sixth day.
VIII. The Seventh Day of Rest (Gen. 2:1-4)
(End of the Creative Ages—Beginning of the Seven Dispensations for Men)
The seventh day was one of rest for God, not that He needed rest, but because His work of restoring the Earth and its inhabitants was finished. He had worked constantly six days and six nights and was now finished with His work. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them [all the inhabitants and creatures of all kinds in the heavens and the earth]. And on the seventh day God ended his work . . . which God created and made. These are the generations [family history or productions] of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [period] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens” (Gen. 2:1-4).
The order of all the Creative Ages, as discussed in Lesson One, Point IV, 1, (4), is as follows:
1. The original creation and perfection of the heavens and the Earth and all things therein as when Lucifer ruled before the six days (Gen. 1:1).
2. The Earth part of the creation made chaos and imperfect and all life destroyed in the Earth, because of Lucifer’s rebellion (Gen. 1:2).
3. The restoration of the Earth to perfection and the creation of new life to take the place of that which was destroyed (Gen. 1:3-2:25).
IX. Why the Earth Was Restored to a Habitable State
The Earth was restored to a habitable state because God had originally intended that it should be inhabited: “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain [Hebrew, tohu, “a waste” or “desolation,” so if it was desolate in Gen. 1:2 it later became that way], he formed it to be inhabited” (Isa. 45:18).
The fall of Lucifer and the total rebellion of all the inhabitants of the first social system under Satan did not discourage God and cause Him to blot out the Earth. He had started out with a purpose that the Earth should be inhabited with free moral agents to whom He could reveal Himself and show the riches of His grace, and who would serve Him of free choice, and He continued the original purpose by making a new creation when the old one had to be destroyed.
The rebellion of the new creation that was made in the six days did not discourage God or cause Him to want to blot it out and start all over again. He had purposed that as truly as He lived “the earth shall be full of the glory of the Lord” (Num. 14:21) and this purpose will yet be realized, in the New Heavens and the New Earth of the future. God did not create the Earth to turn it over to rebels, and He will yet see to it that only the meek and the righteous shall inherit the Earth (Mt. 5:5; Ps. 37:9-11, 29). Thus, God restored the Earth from chaos and ruin to replenish with free moral agents so that His original purpose will finally be realized. (See the “Reason for God’s Dispensational Dealings,” Lesson One, Point VIII.)
X. God’s Plan for the New Social System on the Earth
God’s plan for the new social system was the same as it was for the first social system—that all free wills consecrate themselves to the highest good of being and of the universe. This means that free moral agents must consecrate themselves to the same end to which God is consecrated; that they submit wholeheartedly to those things that will be for the best good of all society; that they recognize God as the Supreme Moral Governor of the universe; that every thought, word, and deed be to the betterment of society, including their own good; and that they live dependent upon God for needed grace for body, soul, and spirit and appreciate life and all that it holds.
God planned to make the new creation an example to all angelic powers of the manifold wisdom of God concerning His eternal plan (Eph. 3:10-11; 1 Cor. 4:9). He planned to manifest His own grace and goodness to man and make him the ruler of all the Earth, including the sun, moon, and stars (Ps. 8:3-7). He planned that man should be faithful to his responsibility if he so desired and that he should be greatly rewarded and continue to rule over all, or, if he failed, he should be punished according to the law. He also planned redemption for man should he fall, as we have seen in Lesson Seven, Points VII, IX and X, and as we shall see more fully in future lessons.
Earth’s Second Sinless Career (Gen. 2:15-25)
ADAM THE NEW RULER OF THE EARTH
God created Adam on the sixth day of Gen. 1 to take the place of Lucifer in the position of the Earth-ruler. He was the Earth’s second worldwide dictator and could have been yet if he had not sinned. Lucifer, the first worldwide dictator, had sinned and failed in not becoming reconciled to God. Adam failed and it is not known whether he became reconciled to God or not. Looking at it from the record of the Bible it would seem that he never became reconciled to God. He is not mentioned in the list of worthies of the faith according to the Old Testament (Heb. 11). He is not mentioned once as a righteous man in either Testament, which fact is more striking when we consider that others are mentioned several times. Of the Antediluvian period only Abel, Enoch, and Noah are mentioned as righteous ones. We do know from Gen. 6:3 that Adam was not reconciled to God when he was 810 years old, as we shall see in Lesson Eleven. Jesus Christ will be the third and final worldwide dictator, and He will eternally prove true to God and head God’s government forever, as we shall see in later lessons.
Adam had the greatest responsibility of any man that has ever lived, besides Christ. He was given dominion over all creation to rule for God and to be subject to God forever. He was given the charge to keep out all enemies and to resist all claims of spirit-beings concerning dominion of the Earth. God knew that Lucifer and the fallen spirits were still around and would contest man’s claim of dominion. God permitted this so as to test the new free moral governor of the Earth, as we have seen in Lesson Six, Point X, 9.
The responsibility of Adam included the bringing into the world of his own kind and the training of them to respect God, to continue in righteousness and true holiness, to reject all temptation and to overcome all enemies. The charge to Adam and Eve is stated in Gen. 1:26-29; 2:15-17, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb [grain bearing plant and vegetation] . . . and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat . . . And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it [protect, preserve it, as in Gen. 3:24; 17:9-10; 18:19]. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of 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.”
In Ps. 8:3-9 we read that man was to have dominion over “thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon, and the stars, which thou hast ordained . . . For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.”
From these and other passages we learn that God’s plan for man was that he should have dominion over everything. What a great responsibility! What a great position! Man was fully capable of ruling over all things, for he had super-intelligence and was able to name everything in creation. He no doubt was to have access to the planets and rule them for God, but he sinned and came “short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). In the final restitution of all things man will again have dominion and will help God administer the affairs of the universe (Rev. 1:5-6; 2:26-29; 3:21; 5:8-10; 22:4-5; 1 Cor. 6:2-3; 2 Tim. 2:12). That this future dominion includes more than the planet Earth is clear from Rom. 8:17-18, “and if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.” Everything that God owns will become the inheritance of the saints, and they shall reign forever and ever (Rev. 1:5-6; 2:27; 5:9-10; 22:4-5; Dan. 7:13-14, 18, 27).
If man would only realize the future that can be his, if he would simply submit to God and lay down his arms of rebellion, there would be few, if any, but what would wholeheartedly surrender to God and conform to His eternal will. But because the devil keeps man occupied with trifling and temporary things and makes him think that there may not be a future, he causes man to neglect God and the essentials of life and by so doing causes man to be cut off from his rightful inheritance in Christ. If one chooses to have nothing to do with God and His plan for man, then God has planned to separate him from society and carry on His eternal purpose with those who will choose a part in the plan.
QUESTIONS ON LESSON 8
1. What is the subject of Lesson Eight?
2. When was the time of the re-creation of the Earth and all things therein?
3. Prove fully from Scripture that the six days were literal days and not periods of 1,000 or more years each.
4. Prove from the standpoint of common sense and reason that they were literal days.
5. Prove from the Scripture that the heavens were created before the Earth.
6. How does this prove that the light of the first three days came from the planets?
7. How does this prove that there was chaos on Earth in Gen. 1:2?
8. Explain fully the work of Day 1.
9. Does Day 1 include the creation of the heavens, the Earth, the darkness, and the waters that covered the Earth? Why?
10. When did God begin His work? Did He begin it in total darkness or in light?
11. When did day and night begin in the restored creation?
12. Explain the word “let.” How does it indicate that the sun was in existence?
13. Prove from Scripture that there will be day and night forever.
14. Explain fully the work of the second day.
15. Had there been a firmament before this time? Prove.
16. Is Heaven as a planet and the heavens as clouds distinguished in Scripture?
17. Explain fully the work of the third day.
18. Was the Earth originally created in Day 3 or merely restored?
19. Prove from Scripture that there had been vegetation on Earth before this.
20. What is the name for dry land? When did dry land become flooded? Why?
21. Did God originally create the Earth dry? Prove.
22. What was the purpose of God in planting vegetation on Earth again?
23. Prove from Scripture that no vegetation remained from the pre-Adamite period.
24. Explain fully the work of the fourth day.
25. Did God create the sun, moon, and stars in Day 4 or merely regulate them?
26. Did the planets regulate times and seasons on Earth before Adam?
27. Explain fully the work of the fifth day.
28. Did God make places for creatures before creating them?
29. How fast do some creatures multiply?
30. What is the law of reproduction given by God? Is it still in force?
31. Explain fully the work of the sixth day.
32. Why did God create land animals, fish, fowls, and man?
33. Were there two creations of man—one in Gen. 1 and another in Gen. 2?
34. What is the purpose of the two records of man’s creation?
35. When did the Creative Ages end?
36. When did the seven dispensations for man begin?
37. What happened in Day 7? Did God have to rest because He was tired?
38. Give the three main points on the Creative Ages.
39. Why was the Earth restored to a habitable state?
40. What was God’s plan for the new social order on the Earth?
41. How did God plan to use man in His eternal purpose?
42. Who was the first worldwide dictator? The second? Who will be the third?
43. Why has it been necessary to have more than one worldwide dictator?
44. What man had the greatest responsibility outside of Christ?
45. What was his responsibility?
46. Why did God allow evil spirits to be loose in the restored creation?
47. Will man ever have again the responsibility of ruling the Earth?
48. Was man supposed to have access to the planets before the Fall?
49. What all will redeemed man inherit in the eternal future?
50. What would happen if all men would realize the future that could be theirs?—God’s Plan for Man