(Ver 1.2)  We are of course still in the beginning of the creation of our world system in God’s Day 1.  It is important to note what God does on each day of creation.  It is important to note the order of the events of creation.   I believe from years of Bible study that each day of creation is a prophetic view into God’s overall plan for the future of mankind.    I believe sincerely that each day of creation reveals something that either already occurred or will occur at a specific time in the natural timeline of man’s existence on the earth.

Isa 46:10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

We learn these concepts from reading verses like Isaiah 46:10 that says God “declares the end from the beginning…”.  From this information we understand that the story of the beginning of our world also reveals to us the end of our world and it’s timetable.  Since we are discussing day 1 and a day is to the LORD is as a 1000 years we further understand day 1 until the end of day 6 have already passed by.  It is only the end of Day 6 that is still occurring right now.  Then we will learn that Day 7 will be the coming millennial day of the LORD described in the book of Revelation. You might say I’m jumping to conclusions and making some radical assumptions, but nevertheless I will stand by that statement.  I hope as we continue to go through this chapter that you will begin to see it also.

Gen 1:4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

So what did God do on the first day of creation?  God looked at the earth and saw darkness and said “light be”.    According to Genesis 1:4 God informs us that this first act was done in order to “divide” light from darkness.  That is a amazing revelation if you choose to understand it.  We know from 1st John 1:5 that God is revealed to be “light” and then the verse goes on to teach us that in Him is no “darkness”.  If we search the Bible using our Bible Search software we should look for verses containing the words “light”, “darkness”, “day” or “night”.  These verses connect us to a revelation of a spiritual realization that we can see being initiated first in Genesis 1:3-5.  If God is Light, what is darkness?  We all understand that darkness is defined as the absence of light.  Therefore, spiritual “darkness” would include anything not being a part of God.

The implied meaning of this verse is that God has separated himself (God=Light) from darkness (Eph 6:12).  Let’s look briefly at the word “divide” in the Hebrew.  According to Strong’s the Hebrew word H914 means to “sever”, “separate”, “divide asunder”, “make a difference”.  This word implies a cutting into two pieces using a sharp knife.  I could probably go into a lot more detail right here but that might just cloud the issue.  What we should take away from the 1st day of creation is that there was a plan of God implemented for the separation of light from darkness.  I will also mention this for the sake of argument later, if the world was introduced to light on day one the “sun” has to also already exist doesn’t it?  It is an interesting puzzle, but one that we will address later.