Genesis 1:1 — In the Beginning | The First Day

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

In the beginning God. Who is God The Supreme God - the self existing one, who was here from the very beginning ,who was here when nothing else was. He is the self existing God. In the beginning the self existing God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:2 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.

The earth was without form, the earth was a desolated place, it was without form, nothing, and the earth was void, meaning, empty, or  to be empty, there was nothing in the beginning, and then God said something

The First Day

Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Stop right here,  and let's examine this. We see God in verse one, we see the Spirit in verse two, and then we see God saying something in verse three, what do we see here? God, the Spirit and then God saying something. God is now speaking. Before we move on, we need to look at, God speaking during creation.

John 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

 Before the Word was made flesh it was with God in the beginning, it was with God, the Spirit in the beginning of creation working together in creation.

In the beginning was the Word, the Word was in the beginning with God. And the Word was God, but this same Word would become flesh in the New Testament. But here in the beginning it is the spoken word of God, the part of God that speaks and things are created, or brought into existence.  

Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

And God said, "Let there be light," The first thing God in a world that is without form, a world that is empty, a world that is void, in a world that is only darkness, that word darkness and the first thing call for is the light, the illumination, bright, clear.

When your world is full of darkness, you feel empty, void, misery all around you, no happiness, you need the light. The Bible says that the light shinneth in the darkness and the darkness comprehened it not, in other words, the darkness cannot over come the light, light overcome the darkness.

John 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not

This light did not get it's light from the sun or the moon, but God himself is the giver of light. Light represents God's presence. Throughout scripture light  consistently represents God's present truth and life. The Scripture says that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. 

 

Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 

God divides light from darkness. There is a distinction between the light and the darkness, God separated light from darkness. 

Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Here in this verse we have a time frame, the evening and the morning were the first day