The Very Beginning Part 2

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This is The Very Beginning Part 2 of 4

This Biblical Research Narrative is God and 7 Days

This Biblical Research Resource expounds the narrative given to Moses from Genesis 1:2 to Genesis 2:4

We affirm the narrative revealed to Moses by Yahweh Almighty God is without any contradiction between planetary research and the account given us in Genesis.

Review of Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Yahweh Almighty God the ONE & ONLY Eternal Spirit brought the Cosmos into
being and the heavens and Earth by His Authority & Power:

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The Heavens emphasizes the expanse of space that

started when the Big Bang happened and cast all the

materials needed for creation into being.

Yahweh Almighty God the ONE Eternal Spirit is the

Creator of the heavens and earth and all things

pertaining to all life on earth.

The Big Bang started time almost 14 billion years ago.

God created a singular primordial entity in the very beginning before the Big Bang.

The word created in the Hebrew is “bara”.

It means to bring into existence something that did not exist before.

God brought the Cosmos into existence.

Astrophysics and planetary research have evidence that

Stars came into being before our milky way existed.

The very first Stars came into existence about 200 million years after the Big Bang.

The Stars formed from the gases that came from the Big Bang containing hydrogen and helium.

The early Stars in the Cosmos made it possible for the universe that we see today to come into existence.

These early stars built-up elements to bring into existence planets almost 11 billion years ago.

Oxygen was one of the elements to mix with hydrogen to form water.

There is conclusive evidence the First Heavens and Earth had water.

Planetary Research Source:  The First Stars

Planetary Research Source:  Super Nova Effects

Planetary Research Source:  Cosmic History

Some time after the creation of the first heavens and earth this creation was

overflowed with water.

Genesis 1:2

The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.

Biblical Research Source:  Amplified Bible (AMP)

Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631.
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Moses was given the light that God created the first heavens and earth and that something happened to the first heavens and earth.

The change in the creation of the first heavens and earth becomes clear when the usage of the word “was” is properly translated.

Moses uses the word “hayah” for the word was.

The research of this word “hayah” in lexicons informs us that Moses stated the original heavens and earth had become void and without form.

The transliteration of hayah into English is actually became.

We find the usage of hayah in Genesis 19:26 that shows the correct translation into the English is the word became.

The record of the wife of Lot is that Lot and his wife were told to not look back at the destruction of the city of Sodom.

She disobeyed and as she turned to look back she BECAME a pillar of salt.

The Prophet Isaiah substantiates that there was a change in the heavens and earth from when they were first created.

Isaiah states:

Thus says the Lord who created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He has established the heavens and earth.

God literally created the heavens and formed the earth.

He made it and secured its foundations.

God established the boundary and orbit of the first heavens and earth.

Isaiah states God made His creation to be habitable.

The Prophet Isaiah states that God has not created the earth in vain.

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens,

God Himself that formed the earth and made it, He hath established it,

He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited:

“I am the LORD, and there is none else. [There is no other Creator]

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

The Hebrew text reads that the HEAVENS AND EARTH BECAME

                                          TOHU BOHU

God did not create the heavens and earth without form and void.

God did not create the heavens and earth Tohu Bohu.

Lucifer became the Adversary of Yahweh after he tried to usurp God from
His throne.

Lucifer was cast out of the Kingdom of God and established his spiritual strongholds in the heavens.

Lucifer was in a position to use his power to bring destruction to the heavens and earth that was created by God.

The light of a motive for Lucifer now comes into view:

We know that Yahweh Almighty God established spiritual fellowship with Adam and Eve.  It is recorded in the narrative given to Moses.

Perhaps God established spiritual fellowship with a human that is unrecorded and this gave Lucifer a motive to bring destruction to the heavens and earth. 

Genesis 1:2 informs us the heavens and earth became the way it was with water making the universe formless.

Planetary research shows evidence that  Stars had hydrogen and oxygen to
mix and form water. 

Asteroids that collided with earth brought more water. 

This devastation by asteroids and water overflowing the heavens and earth could be done by the Adversary who had the power to do it. 

The Apostle Peter was given the light of the destruction of the  heavens and earth by water.

Biblical Research Source:  II Peter 3:6.

The record that we have given in the Biblical Narrative

is that the universe, the  heavens and earth, that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

Biblical Research Source:  II Peter 3:5&6

For of this they are willfully ignorant: that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water,
whereby the world as it then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

 

Biblical Research Source: 
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

 

The world is put for both the heavens and earth. He states the heavens and earth which are now, according to the Word of God, are being kept from destruction by God and are reserved unto fire unto the day of Judgment and perdition of the ungodly.

Biblical Research Source:  II Peter 3:7

But the heavens and the earth which now are, by the same Word (of God) are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition
of ungodly men.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

 

The Apostle Peter exhorts believers in his time to remain faithful and look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.

This new heavens and a new earth will exist in a future time.

Biblical Research Source:  II Peter 3:13

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. This will be Paradise.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

This is the revelation of a future heavens and earth by the Apostle Peter.

A future heavens and earth are confirmed by revelation given to the Apostle Paul.

The Apostle Paul states he was taken to the third heaven. He reveals this 3rd heaven was Paradise.

Paradise is our future home. It is a future time of existence. It is not available now until the time the Adversary Lucifer is judged and after the final judgment in the time of the resurrection of the just and unjust.

This new heavens and earth that is Paradise is revealed by the Apostle John in Revelation:

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.

Biblical Research Source:  Revelation 21:1
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

God will establish Paradise in the future in the time of the 3rd heavens and earth.

This information concerning the heavens and earth gives us the narrative:

First:  The original heavens and earth were overflowed with water.  This was not just the earth but the entire heavens and earth.  This establishes that this was not the flood of Noah that only covered the earth.

Second:  The current earth on which we now live is going to be destroyed by fire.

Third:  This current earth is going to be replaced with a future new 3rd heavens and earth.

The Biblical Narrative given us by Moses shows how God set in order the heavens and earth covered with water beginning in Genesis 1 Verse 3.

Moses organizes the works of God to re-establish the first heavens and earth that He had created in Genesis 1 Verse 1 into DAYS.

Moses credits God for the works He did to re-establish the heavens and earth.

Moses states:

AND God on DAY 1 Genesis 1 Verse 3

AND God on DAY 2 Genesis 1 Verse 6

AND God on DAY 3 Genesis 1 Verse 9

AND God on DAY 4 Genesis 1 Verse 14

AND God on DAY 5 Genesis 1 Verse 20

AND God on DAY 6 Genesis 1 Verse 24

AND God rested on DAY 7 

Moses said God blessed the 7th DAY and Sanctified the 7th DAY

Moses is the one who received the 10 commandments from God.

The 4th Commandment is about the Sabbath.

A DAY of rest. Exodus 20: 8-11

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work;

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God.

In it thou shalt not do any work,

thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,

and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day.

Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

Moses received revelation about the works of God and put them in order by DAYS.

This is how Moses chose to reveal the works of God and the establishment of the Sabbath DAY

There is no time frame between the creation of the first heavens and earth and the DAYS given us by Moses. 

Thus, there is no time frame between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:3

God has given us the work to explore our universe and  to establish the Biblical Narrative given us in His Word from Genesis to Revelation.

Biblical Research reveals that each day of the works of God is an actual day. 

The Hebrew word YOM is transliterated into English as the word DAY.  It means  a literal DAY consisting of 24 hours. 

This is the meaning of YOM in the context that Moses states God completed all Hs work in 6 DAYS and on the 7th DAY He rested.

Biblical Research Source:  Strongs Hebrew Concordance 

The work of God on each day is completed before the next day.  Each day is a new day of work by God.  

Here is what is revealed to Moses the Prophet of God.

Genesis 1 Verse 3 The First DAY

And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

Our entire galaxy in our spear of the universe – the earth, space itself with the sun, the moon and the stars were entirely in darkness by being overflowed with water.

God is the Phos – the Father of ALL Light

God made the light from material that already existed.

The very First stars came into existence about 200 million years after the Big Bang.

The stars formed from the materials and gases that came from the Big Bang containing Hydrogen and Helium.

Astrophysicists have evidence these were stars that existed before our Milky Way.

Astrophysics Star Research: The First Stars

National Geographic Research: The Big Bang and Stars

There is evidence that suggests that the burning balls of gas started forming about 180 million years after the cosmos burst into being.

The narrative given us by Moses is that the very first act of God was to dispel Darkness with Light

Genesis 1 Verse 6 The Second DAY

And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so

And God called the firmament Heaven.

And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

God started the process to move the water that overflowed the heavens and earth and made the earth uninhabitable.

God re-established open space between the earth and the expanse of our sky and space of the universe.

Our earth and heavens already existed.

All God had to do was establish the sky – the expanse of space that makes the earth habitable.

Our current earth is the same earth that was overflowed with water and we now live in the time of the heavens and earth after God removed the water between the heavens and earth.

This heavens and earth is going to completely vanish by means of fire in the future when Yahweh Almighty God deems it is time.

The Cosmos is much bigger than just our Galaxy.

Astrophysicists estimate between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies
exist in the Cosmos.

Genesis 1:9 the Third DAY

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that this was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.

God said, “Let the earth sprout [tender] [a]vegetation, [b]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth”; and it was so.

The earth sprouted and abundantly produced vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.

Biblical Research Source:
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631.
All rights reserved.

Planetary research shows evidence our Earth came into being about 4.6 Billion years ago.

There is evidence that water to fill the oceans existed on the earth since the beginning of the earth’s formation.

The earth has been totally covered by a salt ocean at least twice.

The first global ocean was 4.4 billion years ago.

The second global ocean was around 3 billion years ago.

These oceans left salt deposits on a global scale on dry land.

As it turns out, salt is an essential ingredient of life. Our brain neurons are composed of sodium.

Planetary Research has proven the oceans allowed the process of life to begin.

Planetary Research Source:  Smithosonian:  Oceans through Time

God has made all life in the Cosmos which includes all galaxies and our heavens and earth in our galaxy.

God beginning in Genesis 1 Verse 11 tells how He established life.

It is very important we are faithful to the revelation God has given us concerning life.

God said, “Let the earth sprout [tender] [a]vegetation, [b]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth”; and it was so.

Biblical Research Source:
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631.

A study of the word “kind” reveals it is derived from Greek as “Genos”.

Genos is transliterated into “Genus” in English.

Yahweh Almighty God has established that there is no deviation from the GENUS of any living thing.

Planetary Research has shown while there are variations in the evolution of species, there is NO variation in GENUS.

Planetary Research Source: Plants

The first plants on Earth likely evolved from algae, which are simple, one-celled organisms that live in water.

Algae are thought to have evolved around 3.5 billion years ago, and it is believed that they were responsible for creating the Earth’s oxygen atmosphere.

2.3 billion years ago a bacterium emerged that could convert sunlight into usable energy. In the process, gaseous oxygen was formed.

This blue-green microbe called a cyanobacterium was likely the first photosynthetic organism.

Over millions of years, oxygen continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, thanks to cyanobacteria and other photosynthetic organisms.

It was this oxygen that would allow complex life to thrive in the millennia to come.

The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn’t have deep roots.

Planetary Research: Oceans and Plants

Genesis 1:14 The Fourth Day

14 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;

15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth”; and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

Our SUN came into existence 4.6 Billion Years ago.

Astrophysics Research estimates the SUN has enough nuclear fuel to last another 5 Billion years.

Our Moon came into being 4.425 Billion years ago.

Our SUN in our solar system is just one Star of more than 100 Billion Stars in our Milkyway.

Star forming galaxies came into being after about a Billion years after the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago.

Astrophysics Research Source: First Stars
Astrophysics Research Source: The SUN
Astrophysics Research Source:  The Moon
Astrophysics Research Source: Earth and the Moon

Genesis 1:20 The Fifth Day

God said, “Let the waters swarm and abundantly produce living creatures, and let birds soar above the earth [a]in the open expanse of the heavens.”

God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind;

and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.

And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Biblical Research Source:
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation,
La Habra, CA 90631. All rights reserved.

The following is commentary from Danielle Hall

Reviewed by Brian Huber, Smithsonian Institution

The first recorded complex life forms appear around 560 million years ago, though they were very different than the creatures we are familiar with today.

The earliest life forms we know of were microscopic organisms (microbes) that left signals of their presence in rocks about 3.7 billion years old. The signals consisted of a type of carbon molecule that is produced by living things.

By 650 million years ago the first supercontinent, Rodinia, formed. It is unclear exactly how big Rodinia was, although it is likely that its core landmass was the land that is now North America.

The familiar shapes and locations of today’s continents were not the same—both Asia and Africa were split into pieces, Antarctica was right up against India and Australia, and the Americas were warped into unrecognizable shapes.

On either side of the continent were the Panthalassic and the Pan-African Oceans

The Paleozoic Earth era had seas that flooded the continents and receded several times.

During the early Paleozoic three small continents— Laurentia, Siberia, and Baltica—split apart from the rest of the supercontinent Gondwana and formed the Lapetus Ocean in between.

Through the Ordovician period, the continents continued to drift and by the Silurian Period, Baltica collided with Laurentia, an event that resulted in today’s Appalachian Mountains.

This new continent called Euramerica, and three newly-formed oceans, the Iapetus, Rheic, and Paleo-Tethys, spanned the smaller continents and Gondwana.

By the end of the Paleozoic, the supercontinent Pangaea was beginning to take shape. Euramerica plowed into Gondwana, an event that caused many of the low-lying seas to dry up. Surrounding the entire continent, the Panthalassic Ocean covered the rest of the globe.

Plants began to grow on land during the Ordovician, followed by invertebrates during the Silurian and finally vertebrates during the late Devonian. These early land dwellers were amphibian-like, eventually giving rise to reptiles by the end of the era.

Ocean and Earth Research: Ocean Life

The First Birds BY RILEY BLACK FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

For over a century and a half, the prehistoric Archaeopteryx has been celebrated as nature’s earliest bird.

The iconic Jurassic creature was covered in feathers yet retained the teeth, claws, and bony tail from its dinosaurian ancestry, known from at least 11 specimens that have been chipped from limestone quarries in Germany.

Planetary Research: Birds

Genesis 1:24 The Sixth Day 24

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind”; and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good.

26 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 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat”; and it was so.

Biblical Research Source:
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

The time frame for Adam and Eve to come into existence on the earth has been established.

There was Biblical Research done by two men in 1650.

They were James Ussher who was an Archbishop and John Lightfoot of Cambridge.

They did extensive Biblical Research that was faithful to the Biblical genealogy of Adam and the narrative of his descendants.

They established that the year Adam was created was 4004 B.C.

This is also the year that Yahweh Almighty God began His 6 DAYs of work

On the 6th DAY of His work, He formed, made and created Adam & Eve.

The Biblical Research regarding the reality that Adam and Eve were formed, made and created will be presented in the Biblical Research Resource:

The Very Beginning Part 3:  God and Adam & Eve. 

Biblical Research Source:  Isaiah 43:7

The Prophet Isaiah tells us of the origin of Adam & Eve:

For I – Yahweh Almighty God – have created man for My glory. I have formed him; I have made him.

Animal Life on Earth Commentary from Smithsonian Institute

The First Animals are known to exist around 800 millions ago

The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition was a period of immense change in the Earth’s biosphere. Most notable was the appearance and evolutionary diversification of animals, alongside several major global chemical and physical events.

Our research aims to unravel the pattern and process underlying the origin and early evolution of major animal groups, the evolution of body plans, and the assembly of complex metazoan-dominated ecosystems.

Microbes did not have the specialized cells that are needed for complex
bodies.  Animal bodies have various cells –skin, blood, bone – which contain organelles, each doing a distinct job. Microbes are just single cells with no organelles and no nuclei to package their DNA.

Something revolutionary happened as microbes began living inside other microbes, functioning as organelles for them.

Mitochondria, the organelles that process food into energy, evolved from these mutually beneficial relationships.

Also, for the first time, DNA became packaged in nuclei. The new complex cells (“eukaryotic cells”) boasted specialized parts playing specialized roles that supported the whole cell. Cells also began living together, probably because certain benefits could be obtained. Groups of cells might be able to feed more efficiently or gain protection from simply being bigger.

Living collectively, cells began to support the needs of the group by each cell doing a specific job. Some cells were tasked with making junctions to hold the group together, while other cells made digestive enzymes that could break down food.

These clusters of specialized, cooperating cells eventually became the first animals, which DNA evidence suggests evolved around 800 million years ago.

Sponges were among the earliest animals. While chemical compounds from sponges are preserved in rocks as old as 700 million years, molecular evidence points to sponges developing even earlier.

For several millennia, life on Earth could be boiled down to only simple cells.

However, almost 600 million years ago, multicellular life forms started appearing. We refer to that event as the Avalon explosion, and it resulted at the end of the icy cold Cryogenian period of our planet.

During the next period, called the Ediacaran, many more species started to appear, although it is still hard to determine how many of those were actually animals. Some were undoubtedly algae, fungi, or lichens.

Scientists are, however, confident that some of the species that were found out to be living during that period are animals and can be considered the first animals on Earth.

Planetary Research Source: Earth and Animals

Yahweh Almighty God rested on DAY 7

The Sabbath was created by Yahweh Almighty God and given to Moses to incorporate the Sabbath into the 10 Commandments as a day of rest for all generations.

We who believe the Faith according to the Biblical Narrative given us by Yahweh Almighty God in His word are to observe the Sabbath.

This is the commandment of Yahweh Almighty God for humankind.

FOR ALL GENERATIONS

Next in Genesis is the Biblical Narrative of God and Adam and Eve

This Biblical Research will be The Very Beginning Part 3