Was a day 24 hours in the beginning?

Thewatchman · Apr 7, 2022

We are not going to do a whole bible study on the 2-6 but I do want to make a point about a 24 hour day and was that what we had in the beginning.
And God said let there be light: God said He was the light unto the world, God is light and in Him there is no darkness. God said the light was good. He divided the light "goodness" from the night, darkness. All prophecies given about God are given in days (in light) all prophecies about Satan are given in months, moons, darkness. Light God's time, darkness Satan's time.
Then God made the firmament (expanse; something spread out) and divided the waters from the waters. The water that covered the earth and the waters(ozone layer that separates the earth from space) And God called the other large expanse Heaven.
We are coming down to verse 9. God gathered all the waters in one place and let dry land appear, He called the dry land earth and the waters seas. Upon the earth He brought forth grass and fruit after it's own kind.
Verse 14. And God said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. To divide the day from the night and let them be for sings and seasons and days and years.
Verse 15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth.
Verse 16. God made the grater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night and He made the stars also.
Verse 17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth.
This placing of the sun and the moon did not take place untill day 4. So, if there was no sun, or moon, or stars till then could there even have been a 24 hour day?
Verses 20-23 God places all the animals, birds, fish, etc. Still no man so was it a man's day 24 hours or a Lord's day a thousand years, do we really know.
I thank we will stop right here and I may pick it up with another thread Day 6 and beyond.

2ndTimothyGroup · Apr 7, 2022

My gut tells me no. When we look at all of the megalithic structures that absolutely required electrical-powered machinery around the entire globe, I'd have to say that these things were taking place, likely by the Sons of God, before Adam and Eve. This seems to explain why no one knows how, or by whom, these marvelous structures were created. Check out the Ellora Caves:

Ellora Caves Documentary 2019 The Mind-Boggling Rock Cut Temples of India - YouTube

Carry_Your_Name · Apr 7, 2022

2ndTimothyGroup said:

This world didn't come into being by itself, man. Turn the simulation theory into a simulation theology, and everything in Genesis 1 will make sense - God simply initiated His program of the cosmos we're living in, and day by day, step by step, new contents were added into it strictly according to His schedule.

2ndTimothyGroup · Apr 7, 2022

Carry_Your_Name said:

This literally made me laugh out loud.

2ndTimothyGroup · Apr 7, 2022

Thanks for your impressive "Red X" . . . by the way. That's a great way to bring attention to yourself.

Carry_Your_Name · Apr 7, 2022

2ndTimothyGroup said:

Alright then, that's a bonus. Never intended to be funny.

2ndTimothyGroup · Apr 7, 2022

Carry_Your_Name said:

I know. It was "Christ living in you."

Webers.Home · Apr 8, 2022

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Two kinds of days are described in the first chapter of Genesis. One is a
creation day and the other is a natural day.

Natural days last only until the sun goes down and night begins; whereas
creation days lasted for as long as the creator needed. In other words; the
evenings and mornings related to creation days aren't solar events. The
terms are merely index tags indicating the end of an unspecified period time
and the beginning of another.

NOTE: The six days of creation were all bounded by an evening and a morning,
whereas the seventh day is unbounded; indicating that God is still on sabbatical
and apparently has no plans as yet to pick up where He left off.
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Carry_Your_Name · Apr 8, 2022

Webers.Home said:

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Two kinds of days are described in the first chapter of Genesis. One is a
creation day and the other is a natural day.

Natural days last only until the sun goes down and night begins; whereas
creation days lasted for as long as the creator needed. In other words; the
evenings and mornings related to creation days aren't solar events. The
terms are merely index tags indicating the end of an unspecified period time
and the beginning of another.

NOTE: The six days of creation were all bounded by an evening and a morning,
whereas the seventh day is unbounded; indicating that God is still on sabbatical
and apparently has no plans as yet to pick up where He left off.
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The only two kinds of day are 24-hour natural day and 1000-year prophetic day.

TMS · Apr 8, 2022

We have no reason to think that the original time that God created is different today then it was when He created it. God set up the evening and the morning (24 hour day) and we still have the evening and the morning today.
If the week is not the same why did God ask us to keep the sabbath the same as Him.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

For our good God has set us a constant order of time.

2ndTimothyGroup · Apr 8, 2022

TMS said:

But is it "constant"? If so, then we have a slight deviation below:

2 Thessalonians 2:2 NLT - "Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don't believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us."

I don't think that Tuesday has already begun . . . if you get my drift.

Is the Day of the Lord only a 24 hour period?

pottersclay · Apr 8, 2022

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day

Moses sure believed it. Thats good enough for me🤗🤗

pottersclay · Apr 8, 2022

15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Again he tells us and shows us the sign that this is true. Seems like God in his foreknowledge knew men would challenge his word of creation.

posthuman · Apr 8, 2022

Carry_Your_Name said:

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

And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.

God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.

(Genesis 1:3-5)

Carry_Your_Name · Apr 8, 2022

posthuman said:

Yeah, day and night combined as a calendar day. By the way that's before sun, moon and stars were created on the fourth day.

Jocund · Apr 8, 2022

It is worth noting that there are at least three schools of thought around this:

1) standard 24 hour days, supernatural means of creation
2) nonstandard days, supernatural means of creation
3) nonstandard days, creation by natural means

Nonstandard days don't necessarily equate to 1000 years each. The passages speak of "days being like 1000 years" or "like a watch in the night"

The interpretation of creation from natural means follows from the book of Job (the oldest book in the written Bible) where it was stated that Job was created but also born (natural creation). This points to the concept of how personal a connection God has with each of us. This ties in with the concept that "God determines how the dice fall" and that evolutionary processes could have been a method for crafting the forms of life that He placed.

It is interesting to note that the rising and falling of the sun isn't necessarily directly tied to the measure of a day. Either that or the length of the day has changed in at least one case:

"And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." - Joshua 10:13 KJV

birdie · Apr 8, 2022

Thewatchman said:

The KJV : "And God called the firmament Heaven " If the firmament is heaven why do people keep thinking it is the expanse of the sky or upper atmosphere. Heaven, the Bible says, is God's throne. KJV: "Heaven is my throne " And who is in the midst of God's throne? KJV: " in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb " Which is also known as Jesus or the Word. No wonder the firmament divides the waters above from that below. Because the Word brings division. Waters, we learn in Revelation are peoples: "The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. " Apparently, the word divides between those above (saved persons) from those below (unsaved).

Psalm 78 says that the Bible is written in parable form, so the meaning of Genesis, like all of the Bible, is to be interpreted: "
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable"

Mark 4 says, "But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. "

posthuman · Apr 8, 2022

Carry_Your_Name said:

Well, an evening and morning called the first Yom / Day

Not light and darkness. Those He separated, and called day and night

Roughsoul1991 · Apr 8, 2022

TMS said:

We have no reason to think that the original time that God created is different today then it was when He created it. God set up the evening and the morning (24 hour day) and we still have the evening and the morning today.
If the week is not the same why did God ask us to keep the sabbath the same as Him.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

For our good God has set us a constant order of time.

Technically scripture does say we are still in the 7th day. An 8th day is coming soon though.

Webers.Home · Apr 8, 2022

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Holy days begin and end differently than natural days and creation days.

Holy days are 24-hour religious events that begin at sundown and end at
sundown the following day.

For example: the first day of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread. This
year, 2022, the first day of that particular feast begins on Friday evening at
sundown of the 15th of April, and ends on Saturday evening at sundown of
the 16th of April.
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