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Beginning with the End in Mind

Posted on January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 by jovial_cynic

While we may see death/rebirth, night/day as perpetual cycles, an eternity of repetition, the Scriptures teach us something different. Something better.

Genesis 1 ends in the daylight. It ends VERY GOOD. It ends in flourishing.

Genesis tells us the beginning and the end.

Names

Posted on January 7, 2025 by jovial_cynic

In Genesis 1, God only names the things He separates.

Light & Dark become “Day” & “Night.”
The waters above becomes the “Sky.”
Gathered waters becomes the “Sea” & dry ground becomes “Land.”

Nothing else is named in this chapter. Everything else springs forth from named things.

Evening and Morning

Posted on January 7, 2025January 11, 2025 by jovial_cynic

Perhaps God instructed Israel start their day with the evening instead of the following morning because we must remember the proper order of things: it was dark first, but we remember that God brought the light.

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning–the first day.

Genesis 1:5 (NIV)