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- VI. The Fourth Day
14. מאור _mā'ôr_, “a light, a luminary, a center of radiant
light.”
מועה _mô‛ēd_, “set time, season.”
Words beginning with a formative מ _m_usually signify that in which
th...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT
The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it
is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth.
The questio...
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The second set of four works on the last three days corresponds to the
set of four on the first three. Thus we have the creation of light and
of the luminaries; the firmament separating the upper from...
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Fourth Day. The Creation of the Heavenly Bodies
Observe that the creation of the "lights" in the heaven on the fourth
day corresponds to the creation of "light" on the first day. If we
divide the six...
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Day Four: Chronology (Genesis 1:14-19)
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons,
and for days and years...
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PART SIX: THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS
Genesis 1:2-19
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The verb
_bara,_ translated create, writes Skinner (ICC, 15) is u...
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_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:_
Let there be lights in the fi...
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1:15 lights (d-6) Lit. 'light-bearers.'...
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THE CREATION
'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know
that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everything
that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
ABOUT GENESIS
Many people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other people
probably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the words
o...
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EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.
Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3)
the Deity is simply called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of
_Eloah,...
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TO GIVE LIGHT. — This was to be henceforward the permanent
arrangement for the bestowal of that which is an essential condition
for all life, vegetable and animal. As day and night began on the
first...
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וְ הָי֤וּ לִ מְאֹורֹת֙ בִּ רְקִ֣יעַ הַ
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THE CREATION
Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1
IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of
this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding
the order in which plan...
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SKY, EARTH, SEASONS
Genesis 1:6
There were successive stages in creation. The days probably represent
long periods. It is so with the new creation in our hearts. See 2
Corinthians 5:17. In nature the...
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The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of
the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do
appear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
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"GOD CREATED"
It should be noted the writer of this account is not concerned with
science. However, no proven fact of science contradicts any scripture.
The expression "and God" is used 28 times in Ge...
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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...
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There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention
may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with
facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
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15._Let them be for lights _It is well again to repeat what I have
said before, that it is not here philosophically discussed, how great
the sun is in the heaven, and how great, or how little, is the...
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Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we have
the creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centre
and head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
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AND LET THEM BE FOR LIGHTS IN THE FIRMAMENT OF THE HEAVEN,.... To
continue there as luminous bodies; as enlighteners, as the word
signifies, causing light, or as being the instruments of conveying it,...
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_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: _ Gen 1:15 _And let them be for...
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_Let there be lights_, &c. God had said, Genesis 1:3, _Let there be
light;_ but that was, as it were a chaos of light, scattered and
confused: now it was called and formed into several luminaries, and...
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[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.]
1 The creation of Heauen and Earth,
3 of the light,
6 of the firmament,
9 of the earth separated from the waters,
11 and made fruitfull,
14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
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THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE,
AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF
HEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
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In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given
us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and
decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
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14-19 In the fourth day's work, the creation of the sun, moon, and
stars is accounted for. All these are the works of God. The stars are
spoken of as they appear to our eyes, without telling their nu...
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There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the Holy
Ghost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, in
the essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
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Genesis 1:15 lights H3974 firmament H7549 heavens H8064 light H215
(H8687) earth H776
Deuteronomy 4
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‘And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for
seasons, for days and years, and let them be for lights in the...
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Genesis 1
It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the
germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the
sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
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Genesis 1:1. _In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth._
When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long
ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but i...
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CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth for
habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life.
CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis
1:26 (See...
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_Let there be lights in the firmament_
THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES
I. THESE LIGHTS ARE ALL GOD’S SERVANTS.
II. THE MISTAKES MAN’S EYE MAKES IN JUDGING THE WORKS OF GOD. We
“limit the Holy One of Israel...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys
the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:14 These verses, describing the fourth
day, correspond with the separating of light and darkness on the first
day (vv. Genesis 1:3). Here is the creation of...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 1:14. Lights] “Luminaries:” Heb. _me’ôrôth_, sing,
_mâʼôr_, not _’ôr_ as in Genesis 1:3: Sept. _phôstêr_ here,
_phôs_ there. There was “light” before the fourth day
MAIN HOMI...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 1:14, GENESIS 1:15
_Day four_._ _With this day begins the second half of the creative
week, whose works have a striking correspondence with the labors of
the first. Having perfecte...
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Now on the third day,
God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into
one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called
the dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
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Genesis 1:15...
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CREATION SCENES
Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command
to t
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THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Genesis 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have a very interesting study to set before you today. Most of us
realize how vital a part the Holy Spirit plays in our own exp...