NOW FOR LANDSCAPING

 This is IOPNA’s 7^th article in our conversational series on CREATION in Genesis 1:

 

So what happens to the water under the sky?

Moving into the next day, God causes the waters to gather into one place – notice that - so that dry land would appear. He calls these waters yam, meaning ‘roaring seas’. 2 Peter 3:5

I also notice that’s the third time God has called something by a specific name.      
First of all He called light and dark – Day and Night; next He called the ‘firmament’ – Heavens; now we find He calls the waters – Seas. That’s another series of three.

That’s right. The first series of 3 was Space-Time-Matter, the next is God calling something by a name, and meanwhile we’re looking out for that word ‘bara’ to appear again.  

This is so elegantly simple but I’m sure I couldn’t write with this intricate detail even if I tried.

There’s even one more series here. This is the third time God has separated or divided: first of all light from darkness, then waters above from waters under, and now a ‘gathering together’ of waters from dry land.   

So what does God do with His new piece of real estate once the waters had receded?

God uses His voice again to get the dry land producing grass, seed-bearing herbage and trees bearing fruit.

Hey, God has said:“…after its kind” three times here!

…as He describes 3 different types of plant growth. If you think about it , this is the only possible way – every plant must have been supernaturally made with its seed integrated.

I could have told you that!...you can’t grow a tree without starting with a seed and you can’t have a seed unless a tree has produced it.                                                   

Home is ready – now to fill it!     

NEXT WEEK: ‘Sky & Sea’

 http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/sky-sea.html

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