Gods Wonderful World

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Gods Wonderful World

• Then God saw everything that He had made, and
  indeed it was very good. So the evening and the
  morning were the sixth day (Gen. 131)

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UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY
REQUIRES

• AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS CREATION
• AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS FALL
• AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS END

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IF WE FAIL IN UNDERSTANDING THIS

• AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS CREATION
• REQUIRES AND UNDERSTANDING OF ITS FALL
• REQUIRES AND UNDERSTANDING OF ITS END

• BECOME EVOLUTIONISTS
• SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS LONG AGES
• ADD OPINIONS TO THE BIBLE
• REJECT OTHER MIRACLES
• SHALLOWNESS IN UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF GOD

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IF WE FAIL IN UNDERSTANDING THIS

• AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS CREATION
• REQUIRES AND UNDERSTANDING OF ITS FALL
• REQUIRES AND UNDERSTANDING OF ITS END

• DISTORTED VIEW OF THE PRESENT
• MAY QUESTION THE LOVE AND EXISTENCE OF GOD WHEN
  BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO LOVED ONES

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IF WE FAIL IN UNDERSTANDING THIS

• AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS CREATION
• REQUIRES AND UNDERSTANDING OF ITS FALL
• REQUIRES AND UNDERSTANDING OF ITS END

• DISTORTED VIEW OF THE PRESENT
• MATERIALISTIC MIND

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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• IN THE BEGINNING
• FOUNDATIONAL PASSAGE OF BIBLE
• FIRST THING SPOKEN OF IS TIME
• THREE DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE
• TIME BEGINNING
• SPACE HEAVENS
• MATTER EARTH
• MAY REFLECT THE TRI-UNE NATURE OF THE GODHEAD

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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11
POINT

• GOD EXISTS BEFORE MATTER
• GOD EXISTS BEFORE SPACE
• GOD EXISTS BEFORE TIME
• GOD IS NOT LIMITED BY ANY OF THESE BOUNDARIES!

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2 PETER 38 But, beloved, do not forget this
one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Question Concerning The Beginning

• when was the beginning. . .how old is the earth?
• Archbishop James Usher (1581-1659) fixed 4004 BC
• LXX 5270 BC
• JOSEPHUS 5555 BC
• evolutionists/progressive creationists suggest
  billions of years ago
• assumptive
• no proven accurate dating method
• observations often fit prevailing paradigm

DATING
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Scientific Dating

• Of the methods that have been used to estimate
  the age of the earth, 90 percent point to an age
  far less than the billions of years asserted by
  evolutionists (How About Carbon Dating?)
• evidence of rapid rock formation
• red blood cells found in unfossilized dinosaur
  bone
• moon slowly receding from earth 1 ½ inches year
• salt entering sea much faster than escaping
• etc.

DATING
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• PROBABLE AGE OF EARTH
• 6000 10,000 YEARS
• FACTS
• biblical framework doesnt allow millions of
  years
• no death of nephesh (life) before sin
• reasonable scientific methods suggest younger
  earth
• the creation work week was 6 solar days not
  long ages

DATING
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NO "TIME BUYING" THEORIES!
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and
void and darkness was on the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face
of the waters.
NO GAP!
OF MILLIONS OF YEARS
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles
of God. . . (1 PET. 411)
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NO "TIME BUYING" THEORIES!
5 . . .So the evening and the morning were the
first day. . . 8 . . . So the evening and the
morning were the second day. . . 13 . . .So the
evening and the morning were the third day. . . .
. etc. . .etc. . .
NO GAPS OR AGES!
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"How Readest Thou?"
Exegesis
Eisegesis
Then God saw everything that He had made, and
indeed it was very good. So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day (Gen. 131)
After millions of years of billions of
mutations, mass extinctions, devastating
diseases, and violent deaths, God saw all that He
had evolved and behold it was very good (The
Darwinian Christian 131)
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• GOD CREATED

HEBREWS 113 By faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word of God, so that
the things which are seen were not made of things
which are visible.
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• GOD CREATED

HEB BARA BRINGING INTO EXISTENCE THAT WHICH
WAS NOT

• HEB ELOHIMUNI-PLURAL NOUN
• 3 PERSONS
• US (126 322 117 Is. 116)

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QUESTION
CAN YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED ALL THAT
WE CAN SEE, HEAR, TOUCH, TASTE AND SMELL?
CAN YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT ALL WE CAN SEE, HEAR,
TOUCH, TASTE, AND SMELL WAS CREATED BY CHANCE AND
RANDOM PROCESSES?
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• 1ST HEAVEN BIRDS FLY (JER. 425)
• 2ND HEAVEN STARS (IS. 1310)
• 3RD HEAVEN PRESENCE OF GOD (2 COR. 122 HEB.
  924)

3 HEAVENS
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED BUT NOT ENERGIZED!
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• WITHOUT FORM lt08414gt
• VOID
• DARKNESS UPON FACE OF DEEP

1Sa 1221 And do not turn aside for then you
would go after empty things lt08414gt which cannot
profit or deliver, for they are nothing lt08414gt.
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• WITHOUT FORM lt08414gt
• VOID
• DARKNESS UPON FACE OF DEEP

Job 267 He stretches out the north over empty
space lt08414gt He hangs the earth on nothing.
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• WITHOUT FORM lt08414gt
• VOID
• DARKNESS UPON FACE OF DEEP

Isa 2410 The city of confusion lt08414gt is
broken down Every house is shut up, so that none
may go in.
TRANS empty things, nothing, empty space,
confusion
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• WITHOUT FORM
• VOID lt0922gt
• DARKNESS UPON FACE OF DEEP

Isa 3411 But the pelican and the porcupine
shall possess it, Also the owl and the raven
shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over
it The line of confusion and the stones of
emptiness lt0922gt.
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THE CREATION WEEKGENESIS 11

• THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

• WITHOUT FORM
• VOID lt0922gt
• DARKNESS UPON FACE OF DEEP

the whole fluid mass of earth and water mixed
together (John Gill)
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The fact that this compass Prov. 827, AV,
sjw had to be set on the face of the deep
shows that the face of the deep originally had no
such sphericityit was formless, exactly as
intimated in Genesis 12. Elements of matter and
molecules of water were present, but not yet
energized. . .the physical universe had come into
existence, but everything was still and darkno
form, no motion, no light (Henry Morris, Genesis
Record, p. 51)

• EARTH

• WITHOUT FORM
• VOID lt0922gt
• DARKNESS UPON FACE OF DEEP

NEEDS ENERGIZED
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Ge 12, The earth was without form, and void
and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God was hovering lt07363gt over the face
of the waters.
SPIRIT
De 3211, As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers
lt07363gt over its young, Spreading out its wings,
taking them up, Carrying them on its wings Jer
239, My heart within me is broken Because of
the prophets All my bones shake lt07363gt. I am
like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has
overcome, because of the LORD, And because of His
holy words.
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DAYS OF CREATIONDAY 1 (13-5)

• CREATED LIGHT
• LIGHT IS OLDER THAN THE SUN
• GOD CAN MAKE LIGHT APART FROM THE SUN
• IN HEAVEN THERE WILL BE NO SUN, BUT STILL BE
  LIGHT (Rev. 225)

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DAYS OF CREATIONDAY 2 (16-8)

• TOOK THE DEEP AND DIVIDED IT WITH AN ATMOSPHERE
  (HEAVEN)

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DAYS OF CREATIONDAY 3 (19-13)
dry land appear
gather Seas

• GOD GATHERS THE WATER UNDER HEAVEN BY MAKING THEM
  INTO SEAS
• THE WATER ABOVE REMAINED UNTIL THE FLOOD
• GOD BROUGHT FORTH GRASS, TREES, HERBS
• NOTE BROUGHT FORTH AS MATURE NOT AS SEEDS

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DAYS OF CREATIONDAY 4 (114-19)

• GOD CREATED HEAVENLY BODIES
• GIVEN FOR THE EARTH
• FOR LIGHTS IN THE FIRMAMENT TO GIVE LIGHT ON THE
  EARTH (v. 15)
• NOTE CREATED WITH THEIR LIGHT ALREADY GIVING THE
  EARTH LIGHT. . .DIDNT NEED TO WAIT FOR THE LIGHT
  TAKE MILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS TO REACH THE EARTH

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DAYS OF CREATIONDAY 5 (120-23)

• FILLED THE EARTH AND ATMOSPHERE WITH LIFE (HEB.
  NEPHESH)
• NOTE WERE CREATED MATURE TO FULFILL THE COMMAND
  TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

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DAYS OF CREATIONDAY 6 (124-31)

• CREATED LIVING CREATURES, CATTLE, CREEPING THINGS
  AND BEASTS OF THE EARTH
• MADE MAN AND WOMAN
• IN HIS IMAGE
• CREATED MATURE
• MAN BEAST ATE PURELY VEGETARIAN

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THE MIRACLE OF MAN
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made Marvelous are Your works, And
that my soul knows very well (Ps. 13914)

• heart beats over 100,000 times per day
• Can be expected to work for 75 years (2.75
  billion heart beats)

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THE MIRACLE OF MAN
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made Marvelous are Your works, And
that my soul knowsvery well (Ps. 13914)

• eye is a precision lens that can distinguish
  between thousands ofcolors and focuses in
  either wide angles or small areas

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THE MIRACLE OF MAN
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made Marvelous are Your works, And
that my soul knows very well (Ps. 13914)

• brain more complex than any computer
• virtually unlimited storage capacity (i.e., 20
  million books) with almost instant recall of
  information
• processes sights, sounds, smells, touch and
  several kinds of emotions

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IT IS A BEAUTIFUL WORLD
stars
birds
air
trees
oceans/sea creatures
man
land/mountains/ deserts
beasts/creeping things
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IT IS ALSO A DEADLY WORLD

• SIN-CURSED
• DEATH, PAIN, SUFFERING EXISTS

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GENESIS 2 16 And the LORD God commanded the
man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may
freely eat 17 "but of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the
day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
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SOMEDAY DEATH WILL DIE!
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Gods W RLD
recap

• Was created perfect (Gen. 131)
• Was cursed because of Mans sin (Gen. 3)
• pain
• suffering
• death
• Will be destroyed with fire when the Lord comes
  back (2 Pet. 31-10)

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Your Purpose In Gods World

• is to obtain salvation (1 Thess. 59)
• is to work out your salvation with fear and
  trembling (Phil. 212)
• is to prepare/condition your faith for eternity
  (Jas. 12-4, 12)

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