Genesis Part 1: Day 1, Part 1

Greetings friends, new listeners and welcome to the sound of faith. I'm sure not thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Today's message is from a series I did on the Genesis account of creation the heavens and earth are introduced in a chaotic state without form and void what occurred. That turned God's once beautiful creation into this calamitous date learn this and more in part one, the re-creation of heaven and earth. Today were going to start in Genesis chapter 1 and verse one and regular read the first five verses as the foundation of the word of the Lord that he's given me for today Genesis 1 and verse one in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth 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. And God said, let there be light and there was light. And God saw all the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness he called night and the evening in the morning were the first day. So here we have the beginning of creation and we are told here. The earth was without form, but where you see the verb was it's not the best translation of the Hebrew verb hi Ya, because it actually means.

Become how many can tell the difference between was and became amen to what it is telling us is the earth was not always point the earth was not always in the condition that we see without form and was void. It became that way and that's important for us to make that distinction, it became in this state.

It was not the original state, but it became like this where it says without form. The Hebrew word is total, who and it means to be chaotic, something that is totally chaotic and how many know the God does not create chaos and the word void is both who and it needs to be empty and wasted and desolate. So the earth became total, who both who the earth became a place of chaos so that it was empty and wasted and desolate and we see that it was covered in water and darkness was upon the face of the water.

Now the word deep there refers to the very deep deep seas. The very deep oceans and darkness was upon the face of the waters.

Now the word darkness obviously means dark absence of light but figuratively it means destruction.

It means wickedness, and we even use it in our language today when we look at the world we say the whole world lies in darkness the whole world lies in wickedness. Amen. So the earth had become a wasteland covered in darkness and water resembling nothing like the earth resembles today. It was a chaotic state, not always that way.

But something traumatic. Something calamitous occurred causing the earth to be in this desolate condition. We are not fitted with Genesis. But I would like you to turn with me to Jeremiah the fourth chapter. Turn with me to Jeremiah the fourth chapter.

I can read it for you but I really want you see in your Bible because I don't think you're probably accustomed to reading these verses and I really would like you to see them Jeremiah for and looking at verse 23 IV healthy earth and low it was without form and void and the heavens and they had no light, so let's stop for a moment the same exact Hebrew words both Bhutto who were told who both who are right here the same words I beheld the earth.

It was without form and void and it had no light. The very same condition that we just read in Genesis chapter 1. Look at verse 24 and I beheld the mountains and low they trembled and all the hills moved likely. I beheld in low there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld in low, the fruitful place was the wilderness and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger. Now were learning a little more here that we see that this is a parallel of what it says in Genesis the same words are being used. We find out that the mountains trembled and that means that they were shaking violently like an earthquake because all the cities to be destroyed. All were learning something this earth had cities on it. It had inhabited it had humans because now we see that he said that there was no man, so another words there was a time before this occurred that there was an earth that was an inhabited earth that had cities and then dwell there in but when this catastrophic thing took place there was destruction. God was paying Lori and all of these things occurred because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

It said they fled by the presence of the Lord in the Hebrew word for presence there is Benin and it means face your face, they fled at the face of God because of his fierce anger. In the Hebrew word means burning hot anger so we can learn by this that God did not create the earth in this condition when he created it where we read in Genesis 11 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The word therefore create the Hebrew word is Barack and that word means to create something from scratch to create something out of nothing and this Hebrew word is only used, to refer to God, it's never used to refer to man to human beings because man cannot create out of nothing, he can re-create out of existing materials. In some ways, but he cannot create out of nothing. Amen when they cloned animals and such. They had to take cells from an animal that God created.

Amen. But we see that because it said in verse one Genesis 11 God created from scratch from nothing that heavens and the earth and yet something chaotic had to take place between verse one and verse two in Genesis because in verse two of Genesis. Now we got chaos with God on earth that has undergone destruction at God's fierce anger has caused destruction in the earth before I move on. Here in Genesis. How many can clearly see that we see it because number one in verse one created means to create from scratch. Only God can do it. Number two in verse two we see the earth was, but actually the Hebrew verb is the earth became, it became chaotic without form, and was desolate covered in water covered by darkness, so that tells us something happened between verse one and verse two. Amen. But in verse two, at the very end of it.

It says the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters in that word move means he hovered. He hovered over this chaotic planet because he was going to re-create it to make it habitable for human beings. Amen. You know, God did not create man for the earth. That's what is being put out there today.

People worshiping the earth. Now, God did not create man for the earth. He created the earth for man and he fine-tuned it for human life. Amen. And we know that in Genesis 226 after he created Adam and he told them he said I want you to be fruitful and multiply, and re-clannish the earth replenish the earth. That means that one time there were human beings on the earth, but we read in Jeremiah something traumatic, calamitous took place and he said all there's no more men there are no more humans. Amen. But now God has re-created the earth, and now he is telling mankind. I want you to be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and then he goes on and says, and have dominion over it and subdue it. See were not to be worshiping the earth and mother Earth and the treason and everything else they worship in the animals. You know, I know people don't like it when I throw these things out there, but when they come in my spirit I got a Sagem. Did you know that it's a criminal offense to kill a dog or a puppy or cat and I think it should be. They made a big uproar over those seagulls that somebody ran over in a parking lot two weeks ago and killed how many saw that on the news, somebody will purpose put out food and the seagulls came down a big root problem and then they ran over and killed 11 or 12 of them when they find that person that they're going to be charged with a crime and I think they should be.

But why is it okay to kill babies. They just passed a law to that you will be criminally charged if you deliberately abuse a dog or cat or an animal. But yet they are passing laws that a baby right up to the time of birth can be killed. They were worshiping the preachers amen they are worshiping their own bodies. My body, my choice is what they're saying and worshiping the preacher more than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. So something happened in God was going to re-create the earth so that he could start over which he did with Adam and Eve from whom we all calm. Amen. Everyone of us go back to Adam and Eve.

So what was this thing that took place that was so awful, so low that God's fierce anger burned so that he would destroy the earth and everything on it now. Most Bible scholars with pondered this very thing believe that the thing that must have done this was when Lucifer rebelled against God, and convinced one third of the angels to join him in his rebellion, and we know that he was kicked out of heaven to the earth. Amen. Now I'm not that I have read all the verses because I don't want to take up too much time there but the best chapters on this are Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 I'll read one verse from Isaiah 14 and that is verse 12.

How are you fallen from heaven over Lucifer, son of the morning. How are you cut down to the ground that did weaken the nations so there were nations on the earth.

Amen. Now I do want you to read a couple verses in Ezekiel because I when you see the wording. Ezekiel 28 verses 16 through 18. Prior to this, the verses are talking about Lucifer and described them as this beautiful beautiful angel that was in the garden of Eden with God describe what a beautiful angel. He was that his body actually had all kinds of precious gems.

It is body. Amen. And he was beautiful.

He even had musical instruments. Somehow God created him with musical instruments. We all have a musical instrument. We all have a voice, although some of us are smart. If we don't try to use it to sing like me to preach and don't try singing.

Amen. But he had the ability to play strings and reads all he was just absolutely phenomenal. And yet, because iniquity was found in his heart because of pride he was lifted up. He knew he was beautiful. He really was why the Bible says he was the wise is the most beautiful of God's creation. Another words he didn't just take this up in his head.

He was beautiful.

He was wise, but he focused. He focused on his self beauty, and he focused on his wisdom. Instead of giving glory to his creator. Amen. And so iniquity formed in his heart and then he went about trying to get other angels on his side will pick that up in verse 16 by the multitude of your merchandise. You have filled the midst of thee with violence and you would send therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty and you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness.

I will cast you to the ground.

I will let you before kings, that they may behold you you have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your traffic. Therefore, I will bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it will devour you and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that beheld you by the multitude of your merchandise and by your trafficking and those words just let me tell you simply what they mean. They mean that he traffic through the heavens.

He went through the various places where these other angels were and we know that there are countless numbers of angels, but he went amongst them, and somehow he convinced them that they actually could dethrone God.

He had to do some phenomenal things to convince them this was a huge arrest for them to take to follow after him, but he did something and he convinced them he probably told them you know God is overlooking you.

You could have a much higher position with me, you come on board with me. I'll give you a more important job. You should be doing more. You know he probably used flattery. Amen. And so whatever the argument may have been. He convinced them to follow him, and one third fell with him and God's anger was so burning hot against that because he rebelled and he incited in numerous angels to rebel with him and Jesus said in Luke 1018, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

I beheld it because Jesus was at that point in his pre-incarnate Nate state as the word of God with God. How many follow me so far. Okay, we want to make sure we get all our timelines right so he wasn't Jesus at that time he was what John said in John 11. He was the word of God, and he was God and he said yeah I had a front row seat. I didn't even have to get off my throne. I just sat right where I was and I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

I mean, when he fell.

It was so fast and so furious you now lightning strikes and were told in Revelation 12. Nine and Satan that great Dragon, that old serpent, called the devil was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. So putting all these pieces of the puzzle together, we can safely assume that this was what took place between Genesis 11 and Genesis 1 to amen.

So the spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep and began to vibrate and begin to shake with sound waves and we read in verse three and God said, let there be light and there was light. This is the first time God speaks in the Bible. These are the first words that the creator God utters in his holy word and they are young people via Yaqui or I told you many times I would tell you again that in the Hebrew, there is no let there be. It's just light be in light was light be because it was a command and within the word of God within his voice with in his words, there is creation his words created what he said if he would've said that there be light that it's like he's getting somebody else to agree with him or assist him like you know hey somebody get the house lights and flip the switch but no, his words are spirit, his words are life, and with it his words of the creative power and so when he said light be what was occurring was those pre-existing materials that God created in Genesis 11 amen those pre-existing materials now are hearing the voice of God. The building blocks of all creation are space, matter and energy and light is energy in its most fundamental form. Do you know that light includes sound waves radio waves, TV waves, x-rays, ultraviolet rays light is energy and light is energy for atoms ATL when it is the basic molecule of life.

Amen. So the soundwaves in God's voice called forth the light and his voice just started gathering all those atoms all those atoms.

Amen.

And they came together. Amen. And there was light. Using God's spoken word which we don't see is greater than the world which we do see amen and were told in the book of Hebrews Hebrews 11 three tells us that the worlds were framed by the word of God specifically by the word of his power. That's Hebrews 11 three.

The worlds were framed by the word of his power, and in that verse, which now were in the Greek language in that verse, the word word. What is it going to be. It's Rhema it's important to know that the worlds were framed by the word of God, not the written word by the spoken word. If we go to Hebrews 13 were told that he upholds the world and everything in it by the word of his power, which the Greek word for word. There Rhema word of his power if he created the world. My spoken word and are being upheld by spoken word there still hearing the word in the command when he created them there still hearing the word of God. That's why they're not fallen out of their orbits down and destroying us. That's why the sun doesn't move over here one day and we target doing a small move over here.

We talked until a fire ball because he put in place is what this bucket will hence from that.

My favorite message of all times. The sword of the Spirit, the spoken word of God, because I've gotten a revelation in the spirit anything I created a revelation when I was lying on the bed of affliction for years and years in pain and anguish to what I didn't spot the sword of the spirit that's gonna get you up and that's why I'll preach it every chance I get, because God's spoken word is so powerful and you know when he speaks it to your spirit. It forms one blade, but when you speak it out loud.

It forms another blade and it becomes the two-edged sword. So God saw the light and it was good and what did he do he separated. He divided the light from the darkness. He made a distinction to set apart light and darkness. And here's where were going to go from here on.

From the dawn of creation God has made a clear distinction between light and darkness. He divided he is separating Debbie's clearly distinctly separated the two light from darkness and now saints, to stop talking about physical creation were going in the spirit, amen. God is still making a distinction between light and darkness, and I want you to turn with me if you will to second Corinthians 46. We are going to read a verse that you're going to see is the spiritual counterpart, the spiritual parallel to Genesis where God said, let there be light, you're going to see the spiritual counterpart in second Corinthians 4 and verse six for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, when God commanded the light to shine out of darkness in Genesis 1. What we read and God said light be and light was now just like God spoke to this physical world that was covered in darkness and chaos. Because darkness symbolizes metaphorically chaos tribal desolation wickedness.

Amen. Just as God commanded the light to shine out of the darkness of a chaotic earth. God has shined in our hearts. Amen to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. God has spoken to our hearts. We were in darkness the work there and the greatest Scott Thomas and it literally means night, but it also means to be blind. Whether you're blind physically.

Whether you're blind spiritually it means to be ignorant about God it means to be on Godley and Morrow. We get it can even refer to people in whom darkness holds power and influence. Paul told us in Ephesians 612 that we need to put on the whole armor of God, he said were not wrestle against human flesh. Amen.

The word wrestling against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age amen were wrestling against rulers, those who have power to disseminate darkness and wickedness in this age but just like God commanded in creation like be.

He has commanded his light to shine in our hearts, our hearts that were dark, some of us there were dark because you are ignorant of God. You really didn't know you heard about God, you heard about Jesus, but you didn't know anything about the gospel but one day God commanded the light of the gospel to shine in your heart. Amen. Some of you may have heard about you might've even been taking the church as a child, but somehow or another you got out there in the world and you got steeped in dark bondage and bondage from which you could not extricate yourself. Maybe it was chemical substance abuse alcohol and all the drugs that are out there maybe was sexual perversion, whatever it may have been you are in bondage you are in darkness. You are in darkness, that you could not set yourself free, but one God commanded his light, he commanded his light shine in your heart and when light shone in your heart and you surrender to light the darkness.

Definitely God gave man he separated the light has come, God made a distinction separated you darkness in your life and wickedness.

Amen. This light is fast. One way and that's in the face of Jesus Christ. There is no other way in the world today will tell you you can't say that that's intolerant.

There is more than one way to God or to heaven they'll tell you that.

But there is only one way the light shines and that's in the face of Jesus Christ.

Only receive the knowledge of darkness, and and amen I hope you're enjoying this comprehensive study from my Genesis series part one the re-creation of heaven and earth, the Genesis account begins with the heavens and earth and a state of chaos that does not match the beauty of the unfolding creation of which God said seven times.

It is good. Something calamitous occurred between verse one and verse two of Genesis chapter 1 that turned the earth into a dark expanse covered with water.

The prophet Jeremiah uses the identical language to describe the earth without form and void and had no light. He said there were no animals, no birds, no humans, and the cities were destroyed. This describes what occurred on earth as stated in Genesis of the first two verses there was a traumatic event that plunge the earth into the state. Lucifer's rebellion. If you want more of this teaching the entire three-part series is available on three CDs for your love gift of only $20 or more for the radio ministry you will receive part one the recreation of heaven and earth part two recreation days two through four and part three recreation days five through seven stench or minimal love gift of $20 to sound of faith PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 request SDK 777. You may order online@soundoffaith.org where MP3s are available, but to order that Genesis series the complete set of three CDs by mail. Send your love gift of $20 or more to PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 request K777 till next time.

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