CREATION

Many times I have heard on the radio, T.V., or in church, people discussing Creation versus Evolution. It has always been upsetting to me to see a big name preacher trying to explain creation with statements like: "I believe the Bible and that is all there is to it. ELOHIM created the world in seven days." Then some smart evolutionist would say: "One week? Is that what you believe?" When the answer was yes, the evolutionist would laugh at him and shake his head. The preacher would be called a fool, made to look silly, and the people watching would be left in confusion. There is no need for confusion. When reading the Bible it is best to realize that it was written to ancient people. These people had little understanding of the universe, or of the plan of ELOHIM as we have been able to see in the Kodesh Scriptures. Please read on to see an explanation of creation.

CREATIVE DAY ONE: Gen.1:1 "In the beginning ELOHIM created the heavens and the earth." It doesn't say that it was only twenty-four hours from the time that the earth was created to the time that Elohim moved on it in DAY ONE of creation. You must understand that between Verse one & Verse two there could have been billions of years pass. We don't know what happened on the earth in that time span, but we are given hints in other scriptures. These hints point to there being other creations on this earth before us. Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 tells us that there is no new thing under the Sun. It states that there is nothing that is done that has not been done before time, and that there were ones before us, that there is no remembrance of, and there will be ones coming after, that will have no remembrance of us. Other references will be talked about later.

There are other scriptures that give us a glimpse of things that have been before us on this earth, but they will have to wait until another time. Please realize that we are able to understand things of more recent times more clearly than the things further back. The same is true when looking at creation. For example, day six is more clear than day one. Another pointer is that Genesis and Revelation are sister books. They are written in the same manner, using many of the same symbols, and understanding one, can enhance your understanding of the other. Some examples of similar symbols include water symbolizing people, light symbolizing Yahweh, darkness symbolizing Satan. And, there are many more. Using the different meanings to these symbols causes day one and day two of creation to have duel meanings. One version considers the symbolic meaning of the words, the other version considers the generally understood meaning of the words. This may be addressed in later chapters, but there is not time to go into detail now. I feel though, that you should think along those lines when reading day one and day two of creation. It is important to note here that the earth was not in the solar system as we know it today. It was probably wandering through outer space with all of the water frozen (The Ice Age). When ELOHIM moved on the earth creating LIGHT (HEAT), and the ice melted, giving us water. That is one of the things needed to sustain life of this planet.

CREATIVE DAY TWO: ELOHIM placed a firmament {space} between the waters, dividing the waters that were above the firmament from the waters that were beneath it. This firmament he called Heaven. This means that all of the area above the ground can be, and in some cases is, called Heaven. This causes some confusion. To simplify things, what we know as our atmosphere should be called the first Heaven. What we know as outer space should be called the second Heaven, and the throne of YAHWEH should be called the third Heaven. In many places in the Bible the word Heaven has been translated where the word sky or air would have been more appropriate. There are several places that this has caused confusion. One such place is in Matt: 24:31 where it speaks about gathering people from heaven, it is really speaking of within the earth's atmosphere. The same confusion surrounds the word Hell. In most places it should have been translated as Grave, some places garbage dump, and some places as lake of fire. These things are not hard to figure out. Here, it is important to note, ELOHIM created an ATMOSPHERE (AIR), another thing that is needed to sustain life.

CREATIVE DAY THREE: ELOHIM caused dry land to appear. On this dry land, ELOHIM caused grass, trees, and all kinds of vegetation to grow. One thing that should be noted about this creative day is that there was no sun or moon. The sun and the moon were not created until the fourth day! How could vegetation have grown without the benefit of sunlight? The answer can only be that it grew from the light of ELOHIM. Under his great light, it probably grew and reproduced very fast. At the end of this creative day, there was much upheaval, volcanic action, earthquakes, and floods. The vegetation was crushed, buried deep, and preserved so that today we can dig it up as coal and burn it for heat and energy. If you drive along the roads in the coal supplying areas of our country, you can look at the cut away sections of the hills to see the uneven seams of coal and slate. Seeing this causes the origination of the mountains and hills to be easier to understand. As a matter of a fact, it is evident that at the close of each Creative Day, there was great destruction. Again it is important to note that not only was coal and wood created for FUEL, but also vegetation creates OXYGEN, another thing needed to sustain life on earth.

CREATIVE DAY FOUR: Genesis 1:14-18 describes the fourth day of creation and the placing of the sun and the moon in the firmament. Notice that even though there was light upon the earth on the first creative day, there was no sun or moon before the fourth creative day. This proves that the days spoke of in Genesis may not have been twenty-four hour, solar days. The solar day refers to the time it takes for the earth to revolve ON ITS AXIES. If there was no sun, there could be no solar day. ELOHIM could take any amount of time to complete his work and call it a "day", at his discretion. In Gen. 1:16 ELOHIM said that he made the stars ALSO. The word Also implies that they may have been made at a different time, not necessarily in the fourth creative day.

Again, please remember that this was written to people who had no understanding of the Universe. It was not in ELOHIM'S plan to enlighten them before the end of time, at which time it was ordained that knowledge was to be increased. It was written that ELOHIM put the sun and the moon in the heavens. In a future chapter, we will discuss the likelihood that instead, he caused the earth to travel in space to this solar system. I hope to present a theory of where it traveled from, but for now, we will leave it at that.

Please note that on the forth creative day that the SEASONS, winter, spring, summer, and fall, were created along with night and day, and heat. All is needed to sustain life on earth.

CREATIVE DAY FIVE: In this day, ELOHIM created living creatures called fowls which were to fly above the earth, moving creatures in great numbers, and great whales. The important point from this day is that everything created was created from water. When these creatures died at the end of the fifth day, their bodies returned to a liquid substance. Today we drill into the earth, extract this substance and call it oil. We now use gasoline in our cars, refined from this oil. These creatures and fowls were the great dinosaurs. Scientist have long thought that these animals were reptiles, but many now are realizing that they were more like fowls. Their only clues have been bones, tar, and oil; so they have only been able to guess. We can assume that there was a great flood at the end of this creative day. Our assumption stems from the fact that the water dwelling creatures, were the only things created in that day to survive to live in our day. These are the great whales. Some other surviving sea creatures were probably created on this day, but the whales were specifically mentioned.

Please note that on this day,   things were created that makes it possible for life to advance to the MOTORIZED civilization that we know to day. Also, much FOOD comes from the sea.

CREATIVE DAY SIX: I will now address the question of just how long these days were. We cannot know for sure, but we can get an idea by looking at Day Six. ELOHIM created man in the sixth creative day. This is the creative day in which we now live. We know that there has been almost six thousand years from the creation of Adam until now. According to the Bible, there is another one thousand years of peace in the future coming Kingdom. This shows us that day six is seven thousand years. If day six is seven thousand years, I think it is safe to assume that the other creative days were of equal time.

Notice that in day six, ELOHIM created cattle, creeping things, and beast of the field from the earth rather than water. Things made from water that lived in the water did not have to be recreated. ELOHIM then made man. He made them male and female, and told them to be fruitful, and "replenish" the earth (Gen. 1:27-28). Isn't it strange that he would tell them to replenish the earth? The word replenish means to refill something. Lets suppose that I were to build a new house and put new cabinets in it. If I were to ask my wife to replenish these cabinets, she would think I was crazy. She would then say to me; "there has never been anything in them. How can I "replenish" something that has never been full before?" And she would be correct. This verse insinuates that the earth had been occupied before. ELOHIM then said that he had given all of the herbs and fruit trees to man for food. He also said that the animals should eat herbs. This will also be the case in the coming Kingdom on the earth. At the end of most of the creative days, ELOHIM saw that it was good. At the end of day six he said that it was VERY GOOD. This indicates that this was his best work.

CREATIVE DAY SEVEN: Creative day seven is a chapter of it's own, so I will not say much about it now. Just realize that ELOHIM ended his work, rested, and blessed the seventh day. This day he made kodesh. The seventh day has always been the kodesh day. This was never changed. Man has been working for thousands of years to profane this day, but that does not change it.

In Genesis 2:5 it is mentioned that there was not a man to till the ground. This signifies that man had not yet formed. Chapter two of Genesis goes back to explain the sixth creative day. The sixth creative day is the day that we now live in. The rest of the Bible, to the twenty-first chapter of Revelation, is spent explaining this day, with references of things to come.

Genesis 2:7 says: "And YAHWEH formed Man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Stop here and consider the difference between creation and formation. When building a house, it would be silly to get a hammer and nails and just start nailing boards together. The results would be unorganized, unsafe, and probably wouldn't resemble a house. However, if time was taken to plan the actions, and a blueprint was drawn, everything would come together beautifully. I would first create this house in my mind, next on paper, then I would take action to form it. This is what the days of creation are. Blueprints of the way Yahweh wanted his world to be. First the creation, then the actual forming of the days. In Gen. 1:27 in the sixth day of creation, Elohim created man. But man was not actually formed until Gen. 2:7. This should explain why ELOHIM says in Gen. 2:1-2 that the Heavens and earth were finished, and his works ended. He was planning for the end of his work. The seventh day has not yet begun and ELOHIM has not yet entered into his rest. He won't until Rev. Chap. 10:5-7, when the mystery of ELOHIM is finished. At this point I would like to reference the fourth chapter of Hebrews. In this writing, Paul speaks of ELOHIM entering into his rest. In the fourth verse he quotes; "And ELOHIM did rest the seventh day from all his works". In the fifth verse he quotes, "If they shall enter into my rest". In the sixth verse he states, "Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein.........." Paul's references make it plain that he understood that ELOHIM has not as yet entered into the seventh day. Paul also understood that we can enter into that day with him if we will not let unbelief enter our hearts. We must also love him, and obey his laws.

CHAPTER TWO

SPACESHIP EARTH

The Bible was written as a mystery, and the spirit of ELOHIM must open your understanding. This is evident in Proverbs 25:2: "It is the glory of ELOHIM to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings to search out a matter." Also see Proverbs 3:13: "Joyful is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding." To understand YAHWEH's plan, we must understand his plan of creation. We are not given enough information in some areas to figure all things out. Some things are left to our speculation. We have to theorize about how things happened with little clues. But we can be sure that YAHWEH has left us plenty of information to achieve our salvation. One area of sketchy information is the placement of the earth before the fourth creative day, and during the seventh creative day. It certainly was not in the solar system as we know it today. Now the earth has a sun and moon with a gravitational pull to keep it in it's present position, revolving around the sun. At the time of the first creative day, it had no sun or moon in it's orbit. The earth was in total darkness before ELOHIM moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). At this time the earth may have been wandering through space. The earth was also described as "void" in Genesis 1:2. According to the Strong's biblical concordance and dictionary, the meaning of the word "void", as used in this reference, is "chaos". It may have been then brought to the place of ELOHIM. It is unlikely that YAHWEH went to it. I propose that it came to him. I say this because there are several references in the Bible to the earth being in YAHWEH'S light and near YAHWEH'S throne room during YAHWEH'S day of rest (the seventh creative day). It also mentions that there would be no more sun or moon. It seems unlikely that YAHWEH would move his throne room to this position, and the sun and moon out of this position, when instead, he could call the earth back to him and his throne room. We do know that the earth was in YAHWEH'S presence and his wonderful light. It stayed with him until the Forth Day of Creation, benefiting from the LIGHT and WARMTH of YAHWEH. HIS light and warmth melted great sheets of ICE that had covered the earth during it's time of darkness (we now hear of evidence of an "ice age"). During this time, it formed the Atmosphere that was present in the time of Adam. These glorious conditions had to be in effect for the vegetation to grow on the third day of creation. If the earth was in fact at YAHWEH'S throne room during this time, the time it entered our solar system was the fourth creative day. It will remain here until the end of the sixth creative day.

In Rev. 21:1-2, John saw the City of New Jerusalem coming down from Elohim. He may have been describing a scene in which the earth was actually moving back to YAHWEH. If you were standing on the earth, witnessing the earth moving through space, it would seem as though the city was actually falling down to the earth. What actually may have been happening was, the earth was leaving this Solar System on its way back to The House of YAHWEH. YAHSHUA told us in John 14:1-3: "In my Fathers House are many Mansions" speaking of New Jerusalem. Also Rev.22:5-6 says there will be no night or sun THERE.