CHAPTER THREE

GOD'S HISTORY IN TIME
GEN. 1:1—REV. 20:15

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RESTORING THE JUDGED UNIVERSE
AND CREATING MAN

OUTLINE

1. Restoring the judged universe—Gen. 1:2-25:
1. The earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep—the issue of God's judgment upon His original creation—v. 2a.
2. The Spirit of God was brooding upon the face of the waters—v. 2b.
3. God restored the light to divide the light from the darkness, calling the light Day and the darkness Night, on the first day—vv. 3-5.
4. God made the firmament in the midst of the waters to divide the waters under the firmament from the waters above the firmament; God called the firmament Heaven, on the second day—vv. 6-8.
5. God gathered the waters under the heavens together unto one place and caused the dry land to appear; God called the dry land Earth and the gathering together of the waters Seas, on the third day—vv. 9-10.
6. God caused the earth to put forth grass, herbs, and fruit trees, on the third day—vv. 11-13.
7. God restored the lights in heaven to divide the day from the night, for signs, for seasons, for days and years, and for lights in heaven to give light upon the earth: two great lights—the greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night—and stars, on the fourth day—vv. 14-19.
8. God caused the waters to swarm with swarms of living creatures, and birds to fly above the earth in heaven and multiply on earth, on the fifth day—vv. 20-23.
9. God caused the earth to bring forth living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and beasts of the earth, on the sixth day—vv. 24-25.
2. Creating man—Gen. 1:26—2:25:
   God's history in time with man objectively
   Gen. 1:26—Mal. 4:6
1. God created man in His image, after His likeness, on the sixth day—Gen. 1:26-31:
1. To express Him in person—vv. 26a, 27.
2. To represent Him in office—vv. 26b, 28.
2. Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground (for man's body) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (for man's spirit); and man became a living soul—Gen. 2:7.
3. Jehovah God put man in the garden of Eden in front of two trees—Gen. 2:8-9:
1. The tree of life, signifying God in Christ as life to man, to be taken by man—Rev. 2:7b; 22:2, 14, 19.
2. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, signifying Satan as the origin of death (Heb. 2:14), to be prohibited from being eaten by man—Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
4. With a river, in the flow of which are gold, bdellium, and onyx stone—Gen. 2:10-12.
5. Jehovah God built a woman with the rib of Adam as his wife to match him as his counterpart, signifying that the church was constituted with the resurrection life of Christ to be His counterpart—Gen. 2:18-24; Eph. 5:23-32.
6. God rested on the seventh day after He finished all His work which He created and made—Gen. 2:1-3.