Genesis 2:4 tells me that the order is not the point of the story. This is why the timeline inconsistencies between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 don’t bother me. The order is not the point.The message in the center is that God created it all.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
Genesis 2:4 (NIV)