The Six Days of Creation

GENESIS 1:3-31
THE STAGES OF CREATION

The First Phase The Second Phase

 Day 1: Light established  Day 4: The heavenly bodies

 Day 2: The waters separated ordained to function
 Day 3: The continents raised
 Day 5: Fish and Fowl created
from the sea and plant life  Day 6: Animals and man
established created
 Day 1

Then God said,

“Let there be light”;
and there was light.
(Genesis 1:3).
 Day 1
And God saw the light, that it
was good: and God divided
the light from darkness.
And God called the light Day,
and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and
the morning were the
first day
(Genesis 1:4-5).
 Day 1
 Day can refer to:
And God saw the light, that it
was good: and God divided 1) The light portion of a twenty-four-
the light from darkness. hour period (1:5,14).
And God called the light Day, 2) An extended period of time (2:4);
and the darkness he called or
Night. And the evening and 3) The twenty-four-hour period
the morning were the which basically refers a full
first day rotation of earth on its axis, called
(Genesis 1:4-5). evening and morning.
Textual Formula in Genesis 1
• God’s creative statement: And God said...
• The fiat: “Let there be...”
• The creative act: And there was light...
• A declaration that the creation was good:
God saw that it was good.
• The time limits of that creative period: And
there was evening and there was
morning...
• The numerical listing of that day: One day.
Day 2
And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the
waters.
(Genesis 1:6)

The Hebrew word speaks of

something spread out.
Day 2
And 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.
And God called the firmament heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day.
(Genesis 1:7-8).
Day 2
The heavens declare
the glory of God;
And the FIRMAMENT [;yqir'
sheweth his (Raqiya)
handywork. (Psalm
19:1).
 Day 3
And God said, Let the waters
under the heaven be gathered
together unto 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 waters called Seas:
And God saw that it was good.
(Genesis 1:9-10).
 Day 3
And God said, Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the
earth: and it was so.
(Genesis 1:11).
 Day 3
And the earth brought forth
grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and tree yielding
fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
(Genesis 1:12).
(vv. 21, 24, 25)
 Day 4
And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the
day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the

firmament of the heaven to give light

upon the earth: and it was so. (Genesis
1:14-15).
 Day 4
• Weather (Matt. 16:2,3).
Signs – The Hebrew word
means “beacons” or “signal”
• Testimony to God (Romans
These certainly included: 1:14-18).

• Divine judgment (Matt.

24:29).

• Navigation (Matt. 2:1).

 Day 4
And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the
day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the

firmament of the heaven to give light

upon the earth: and it was so. (Genesis
1:14-15).
Day 4
And 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.
(Genesis 1:16).
Day 4
And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon 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.
(Genesis 1:17-18).
Day 5
And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and
every winged fowl after his kind: and
God saw that it was good..”
(Genesis 1:21).
Day 6
And God said, Let the
earth bring forth the
living creature after his
kind, cattle, and
creeping thing, and
beast of the earth after
his kind: and it was so.
(Genesis 1:24).
Day 6
And God made the
beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every
thing that creepeth upon
the earth after his kind:
and God saw that it was
good. (Genesis 1:2).
Day 6
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..
(Genesis 1:26-27).
 TRI - UNITY
Plural (3) Singular (1)
FATHER

ONE
GOD
HOLY
SON SPIRIY
Day 6
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.
(Gen. 1:28).
Day 6
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the
earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so.
(Gen. 1:29-30).
 THE ISRAELITES
GENESIS 1 EXPERIENCE
Light and darkness They had seen God
are made by God on bring light and darkness
Day 1 over Egypt
A division of the They had passed
waters on Day 2 through the Red Sea
The sun and moon Egyptians worshiped
and stars created on the sun and moon and
Day 4 stars and had seen the
sun darkened in Egypt.
 THE ISRAELITES
GENESIS 1 EXPERIENCE
Man is created in Only the Pharaoh was
the image of God thought to be in the
image of God
Man is told to rule Only the Pharaoh had
over the earth the right of rulership
Man is placed into a Israelites are tempted to
beautiful garden return to the meats of
Egypt, but Canaan is
the new promised Eden.
 THE ISRAELITES
GENESIS 1 EXPERIENCE

In light of Israel’s personal

relationship with God, they need
to know that He is not only the
God of Israel, but He is God
over all creation.
Day 6
And God saw every thing that he
had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:31
Day 6
And God saw every thing that he
had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:31
• Rising crescendo
• This would change at fall
• Creation was made to be very good
• That culmination was part of a process
He’s still working on me