Genesis 1:2
The second earth age
King James Bible
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Again I have given you the first 5 versions on Biblehub.com of Genesis 1:2 again for comparison
Tohu wa -bohu, Earth “Was” or “Became,” Waste and Void?
BY ROB ROBINSON on JULY 29, 2014•( 6)
The Original Hebrew Reveals What God Is Saying In the Creation Of The Universe
When we conduct a serious study in the correct usage of the Hebrew language, we find that Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, was not written as a collection of verses which describe the original creation of God.
The sentence, “
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” is an ending to God’s description of the creation of the universe. If it was intended as a part of God’s summary of the entire creation, then the second verse—”
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”—would have been the beginning of the description of this creation. It is not. Verse 2 is a completely separate and distinct subject.
The second verse of Genesis introduces us to the condition of the earth at some point after the creation. Most read this verse and assume that it describes the state of the earth as God originally created it in verse 1. This idea would have us believe that God created a world completely in darkness without any substance and order. The words “without form” and “void” are translations of the Hebrew words
tohu and
bohu. Tohu and
bohu are often paired together in the Old Testament and portray a “place of chaos, formlessness, emptiness, a wasteland” (
Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon).
Deuteronomy 32
1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4He is the Rock, his work
is perfect: for all his ways
are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right
is he.
This is part of the song of Moses that the elect will sing so it is good to know.
Isaiah 45.
18.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.
19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
God Creates man
Remember this is God's word not mine.
The Sixth Day: Creatures on Land
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.
28And 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.
29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30And 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.
31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
I want to focus on the creation of man [Ken's thoughts this is where time changes from God's day a thousand years to man's day 24 hours.]
26And 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.
We do not see God form man out of the earth He created him in His own image and in the image of the others that were with Him both male and female. You want to know what the angelic beings look like; just look at yourselves. Let them reign over the fish of the sea, anything that fly's in the air over the cattle, heard animals and every thing else that moves on the earth. God says that they can eat the herbs, fruit, vegetables, fish, birds, wild animals, and domestic animals.
God has created man to be hunters, fisherman, headsman, and gathers of fruit ect. Then He says they are very good.