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In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth.
~Genesis 1:1~
In the
beginning meaning time as we know it, God created what: the heavens
and the earth, the world as we know it. |
So God
created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving
thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and
every winged bird according to its kind.
~Genesis 1:21~
What did God
create? Everything in the sea and every kind of bird. |
So God created man
in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female
he created them.
~Genesis 1:27~
God created man
and woman in his own image, |
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The LORD God
formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
~Genesis 2:7~
What are we made
of? The very dust of the ground. So, monetarily speaking, we are
really not worth very much. And He actually breathed into the nostrils
so that man became a human being. |
Now the LORD God had formed
out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of
the air.
~Genesis 2:19~
And so we would
have companions as well as food, God made every animal that exists,
and all the birds. So from the very beginning, God was providing for
us. |
...When God
created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
~Genesis 5:1~
The most
awesome part: we are made in the likeness of God. This is perfection.
God makes no mistakes. |
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Ask now
about the former days, long before your time, from the day God
created man on the earth...
~Deuteronomy 4:32~
Here, Moses,
speaking to the children of Israel, is referring to the beginning of
time when God created man. Moses says, "Has anything so great as this
ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?" |
The earth is
the LORD'S, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;
for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the
waters.
~Psalm 24:1-2~
In this Psalm,
David acknowledges that the earth and everything it it belongs to God.
Another excellent Psalm all about creation is Psalm 104 (one of my
favorites). Well worth your time to read it. |
The sea is
his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
~Psalm
95:5~
The Psalmist gives
certitude to God for the oceans and the dry land formed by the hands
of God. |
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May you be
blessed by the LORD, the
Maker of heaven and earth.
~Psalm 115:15~
This entire
Psalm encourages us to fear and place our trust in the LORD so that we
may receive His blessings. |
I lift
up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
~Psalm 121:1-2~
The Psalmist wants us to know the
comforting assurance we have by seeking help from our God, the Maker
of heaven and earth. |
He
determines the number of the stars and calls them each by
name.
~Psalm 147:4~
How amazing
that God made and knows the exact number of stars (maybe zillions),
and calls them each by name. |
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By wisdom,
the LORD laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the
heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the
clouds let drop the dew.
~Proverbs 3:19~
God didn't just on
a whim create the earth. Divine wisdom guided the Creator. For us to
live by wisdom is to imitate the Lord and conform to the divinely
appointed creation order. |
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a
mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
~Ecclesiastes 11:5~
Ecclesiastes, written by
Solomon, and similar to Proverbs, renders a number of
truisms. In Chapter eleven, Solomon speaks of casting your bread upon
the waters. And verse five above acknowledges God as the Maker of all
things. |
Lift your
eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He
who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by
name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one
of them is missing.
~Isaiah 40:26~
Isaiah has much
to say about creation. Here, in verse 26 of chapter 40, Isaiah is
referring to the same account which Solomon spoke in Proverbs...By God's
great power and mighty strength, not one star is missing. |
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This is what God
the LORD says--he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who
spread out the earth and all that comes out of it...
~Isaiah 42:5~
In this 42nd
chapter of Isaiah, God is speaking to Israel, announcing that His Son,
the Messiah, would atone for the sins of the world. Isaiah then
acknowledges this is the same God that created the heavens and the
earth. |
...I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who
spread out the earth by myself.
~Isaiah 44:24~
God is
speaking to Israel through Isaiah, proclaiming that He, alone,
created the heavens and the earth. |
It is I who
made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands
stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.
~Isaiah 45:12~
Again, God
reveals to Israel that He is the one who created the earth, mankind,
and stretched out the heavens and created all |
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For this is what
the LORD says--he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned
and made the earth...
~Isaiah 45:18~
Isaiah
acknowledges what the LORD says, that he created the heavens and made
the earth. |
That you forget
the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the
foundations of the earth...
~Isaiah 51:13~
Going back to
the beginning of verse 12, God, speaking to Israel, reminds them that
it is He who comforts them. So why should they fear men, who are but
grass, that they should forget their Maker who created the heavens and
the earth. |
...For
them the spirit of man would grow faint before me--the breath of man
that I have created.
~Isaiah 57:16~
God giving us
another reminder that He created each of us. |
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He made the
earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched
out the heavens by his understanding.
~Jeremiah 51:15~
God reveals to
Jeremiah that He is the divine and Sovereign God in His power to
engender the heavens and the earth.
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"This is what the
LORD says, he who made the earth, the
LORD who formed it and
established it--the LORD is his name...
~Jeremiah 33:2~
Creation by God
repeated again
to Jeremiah. Must be important. |
But at the
beginning of creation God made then male and female.
~Mark 10:6~
Taking a look
back in chapter 10 of Mark: Now, in the New
Testament, after the birth of Jesus, who speaking to the Pharisees,
reminds them of what Moses wrote in the law regarding divorce, and
that God made them male and female. |
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Because
those will be the days of distress unequaled from the beginning,
when God created the world...
~Mark 13:19~
In this verse,
Jesus speaks of the end times, saying that distress in those days will
be far worse than anything since the very beginning of time, when God
created the world. |
When they
heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God.
"Sovereign LORD," they said, "you
made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in
them.
~Acts 4:24~
A
little background: Upon the release of Peter and John from the Sanhedrin,
they went back to their own people and reported all that the chief
priests and elders had said to them. Then the people acknowledged God
as Sovereign and the one and only Creator. |
...And to make
plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages
past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
~Ephesians
3:9~
Paul, preaching to
the Gentiles at Ephesus, speaks of his own salvation to help them
understand the mystery of Christ, which in the past was only known by
God, who created all things.
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For by him
all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible...
~Colossians 1:16~
In Paul's letter
to the Colossians, he reminds the Colossians that Christ is the image
of the invisible God, then adding that by God all things were created.
So Paul is getting the creation message out to them. |
"You are
worthy, our LORD and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for
you created all things, and by your will they were created and have
their being."
~Revelation 4:11~
When John was
given a glimpse of heaven, he saw the twenty-four elders falling down
before God and worshiping him for ever and ever. They lay their crowns
before the throne and say that the Lord and God will receive glory and
honor and power, for He created all things. |
And he swore
by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all
that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and
all that is in it...
~Revelation 10:6~
In the beginning
of Chapter ten, John saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven
and with his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion, and swore by Him who lives for
ever and ever and did create the heavens, earth and the sea and all
that it is it.
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And so from the
beginning, in Genesis, to the end of God's Word, Revelation, creation
is eulogized. I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading about our God's
creation. It is most amazing!
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