Genesis - first to fourth day

The Creation as documented in the Bible is more than what it appears in the first read. A previous blog has hinted about TWO separate creations. Today's focus from verses 3-14 about the First to Fourth day.

From first reading, it seems that on the first day, the God had created light and darkness for Earth, or Day and Night. The way we know Day and Night is because Earth rotates round so it is expose to Sunlight half the time. So it appears the Sun was there with the Earth on the First Day.

However, read on in verses 14-19 and it appears that the Sun and Moon and Stars are only created on the Fourth Day. The Sun is the "greater light to rule the day" and the Moon is the "lesser light to rule the night". Together with the stars, the Sun and the Moon are the lights in the firmament of heaven, that is the sky. And it is true when it says " let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years" because our ancestors use these heavenly bodies for agriculture, to tell the seasons, and also navigation. So it seems quite clear that the Sun, Moon, and Stars are created on the Fourth Day.

So what was the light that was created in Day One. Could it be God revealing His Glory to His Creation? Could His Glory be the Light that separated the Darkness mentioned in verse 2?

The Third Day is also interesting, especially in the context that there was Light and Darkness; Day and Night, without Sun and Moon yet. On the Third Day it appears that the Earth is a blob of water extending to space. Then God separated the waters with empty space. The water at the bottom is the ocean covering the whole Earth (there is no land yet). Then the space in between is the sky and there is actually a layer of water above the sky. The bottom layer of water then got accumulated into regions, leaving dry patches of land in some areas - this is called earth. Then plants started growing on this Earth. Now the question remains, whatever happened to the layer of water on top of the sky?

Also note that the plants created on the Third Day is living under the Light of God, because the Sun did not get created until the Fourth Day.

Another interesting verse (Genesis 2:5-6) describes what happened between the Second and the Third day before plants were  created. So this is the period dry land was there but no plants yet and the verses below says that moisture streams out of the Earth to keep the land moist.



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Ref: Genesis 1:

3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.


6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.


14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.