Genesis 1:2 KJV
[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

In our March 12, 2019 article entitled “In the Beginning God”, we pointed out that the overarching theme of the Genesis Creation Account is that, “In the beginning God, created the heaven and earth.” God spoke, the Spirit moved and the universe jumped into existence at the Word’s command. The remainder of the creation account is God highlighting His creative ability and it is laid out in a way to make it memorable for mankind.

This earth represents God’s covenant with mankind. It is a kind of house which God gave man dominion over. If the first man Adam could have lived up to his end of the deal then we would have remained within the paradise garden of God’s promised rest! The six days of creation and the seventh day in which God RESTED are a type of framework for this earthly house which God built, by the Word. (see 2 Corinthians 5:1) God created heaven and earth to reveal Himself to mankind: the crowning achievement of creation, made in God’s own image. Everything God created is a natural example by which mankind may understand a Spiritual God’s nature. I like to call it a Nicodemus thing. Go back and read John 3 or our article on this site entitled “It’s a Nicodemus Thing”.

God is using His created earth to reveal Himself to mankind, the crowning achievement created in the image of God. We can see the cycle of day and night; with observation we can appreciate the pattern within the 7-day framework God lays out in Genesis. This seven-day cycle Moses describes in Genesis is also a memory aide. It is easy to forget in our media driven information age that in antiquity mankind did not have the ability to mass produce books. God’s word was first passed on by the oral tradition of storytelling. Moses was likely the first one inspired to write down God’s story and then tell it to the people. No one in Moses’ time was packing around KJV Bibles, Bible apps or any kind of personal literature, if they wanted to know His story (God’s story) they had to memorize it. The Genesis creation account is laid out in a way to make it memorable for people who did not live with information to be read but had to memorize.

So, on days one, two and three we have the creation of Light, Sea and Land, contrasted by days four, five and six, in which we have Heavenly Lights, Sea Creatures and Land Creatures created. This type of thinking is now foreign to our generation which lives on the “information highway” known as the internet. The chart below is provided to help illustrate how it works.

Again, the creation account beginning in Genesis 1, and running through Genesis 2 verse 3 is a seven-day pattern based on the nature of God’s creation. In six days, God created everything, and on the seventh day God RESTED. A seven-fold pattern is used throughout the Bible to communicate God’s message to mankind. This seven-fold pattern which begins in Genesis and is typified by Eden a paradise garden by which God supplied all of man’s needs, until Adam breaks God’s 7-day covenant of REST, finds its culmination in Revelation with a series of sevens, by which God returns mankind to paradise or Heaven as we call it now. If you think of it in this way it sheds additional light on Hebrews 4, in which Paul speaks about the people of God entering into His REST! In Revelation we see: seven churches, seven Spirits, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, a book with seven seals, seven angels with seven last plagues. Interlaced throughout Revelation, God via John uses other sevens to illustrate both God’s creation covenant of REST and mankind breaking God’s creation covenant. All the imagery contained within the seven day or sevenfold pattern throughout the Biblical accounts is brought life in Jesus Christ the Beginning and the End.

Romans 8:22 KJV
[22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Next time “CREATION DELIVERS GOD’S MESSAGE” Bringing all the covenant imagery to life in Jesus Christ. THEME VERSE Revelation 21:9