THE FIRST WEEK

GENESIS 1:1-2:3

Pastor Rick Jackson

We celebrate "firsts" don't we? First place in a race, the first step a baby takes, the first word they say, the first tooth. We remember "firsts" also. The first Americans to fly, the first man on the moon, the first president. Nothing wrong with that. It should not be considered unreasonable then that we remember the first man, the first woman, the first murderer, and the first murder victim. All of which can be found in the first book of the Bible. Where we also find our subject for this message... the first week.

I. THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK- GN. 1:1-5

1. It was a Sunday (even though that name for the first day of the week hadn't been invented yet).

2. According to the Bible it was approximately 6 to 10 thousand years ago.

The Bible date is taken from the genealogies. The age is probably closer to 6000 years old. Some claim the genealogies have gaps in them but even if they did (I say, "Nay, nay") they couldn't be over 4000 years of gaps. Hence the 6-10 figure.

The evolutionists hate that so they ignore the fact that 90 percent of dating methods that have been used to estimate the age of the earth point to an age far less than the billions of years asserted by evolutionists.

AIG lists some on their website (with longer details and documentation than I can give here):



Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some (unfossilized!) dinosaur bone. But these could not last more than a few thousand years—certainly not the 65 million years from when evolutionists think the last dinosaur lived.

The earth’s magnetic field has been decaying so fast that it couldn't be more than about 10,000 years old.

Helium is pouring into the atmosphere from radioactive decay, but not much is escaping. But the total amount in the atmosphere is only 1/2000th of that expected if the atmosphere were really billions of years old.

Salt is pouring into the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for billions of years.

3. The Lord created the heaven, earth and light on day one. God saw the light and noted that it was good (v.4).

II. THE SECOND DAY OF THE WEEK- GN. 1:6-8

1. Monday

2. The waters are divided by the firmament of the atmospheric heaven

3. Some suppose the waters above to be clouds but they would be in the atmospheric heaven, not above it. Many believe the world was enveloped by a vapor canopy which caused a general greenhouse effect and provided additional protection from the sun's rays, thus causing longer life for men and animals (reptiles generally grow all their life, this could also explain the massive size of some dinosaurs).

III. THE THIRD DAY OF THE WEEK- GN. 1:9-13

1. Seas and dry land gathered together [v. 9-10] 1 supercontinent is likely

2. Plant life appears and is regulated "after his kind" (no oranges on apple trees) [v. 11-12a]

3. Angels had to have been created before this day according to Job 38:4-7 apparently after light was created (Ps. 104:1-5) as noted by the late Dr. Henry Morris.


4. On Tuesday God saw noted the work He had done "was good" [v. 12b-13]

IV. THE FOURTH DAY OF THE WEEK- GN. 1:14-19

1. One purpose of the heavenly lights [v. 14-15]

2. Another purpose of the lights [v. 16-18a]

3. On Wednesday, God noted "that it was good" [v. 18b-19]

V. THE FIFTH DAY OF THE WEEK- GN. 1:20-23

1. God creates sea life and flying creatures [v. 20]

2. Detail on these creatures (same pattern for man's creation, overview 1:26-31, then detail 2:7-25) [v. 21-22]

Note "after their kind... after his kind". In High School biology we learned of the "fixity of the species". Though man's concept of "species" may not be the exact same as God's "kinds" both truths doom evolution's basic need, for one kind to turn into another. Mutations (now called micro-evolution by some though it isn't really evolution per se) within a kind are not true evolution (macro evolution). Creationists believe God allowed for wide variety and adaptations within a kind but no kind has turned into another and the honest evolutionists admit that fact.

3. Thursday was the fifth day [v. 23]

VI. THE SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK- GN. 1:24-31

1. God creates all land animals (including dinosaurs) and insects [v. 24-25a]

2. God notes that "it was good" [v. 25b]

3. God takes special care in the creation of "mankind" [v. 26-28]

-v. 26 hints at the Trinity (revealed more fully in the New Testament but referred to often in the Old Testament- Ps. 2, etc.)

-v. 26-27 man has and must answer to authority, reason, (a trinity himself -soul, spirit, body- as some suggest?)

-v.27-28 God designed the differrence between male and female, the physical relationship between the two is not wrong within the confines of marriage, established by God Himself)

4. Man and animals originally vegetarian (what variety was lost in the fall and the flood?)

5. God notes on Friday that everything He had made was good hence Satan's fall had not occurred at this point [v. 31]

VII. THE SEVENTH DAY- GENESIS 2:1-3

1. Six 24 hour days of creation [v. 1]

2. God rested though He was not tired [v. 2]

3. God established the 7th day on Saturday (2500 years later He would establish the Sabbath on this basis, here He establishes a 7 day week, explained no where else in the universe that we know of).

The first week, 6000 years ago. Those were the days!