And on the sixth day... The day before the sabbath, the day before rest. Everything is done except for this. God has set up the earth so that all can function. We are given food, drink and the ability to make shelter. Maybe there was shelter...under trees, in caves. So is this when Satan came about. I always wonder. I tend to think of him as a creepy thing (pun intended). Though really the serpent in the garden had legs. Otherwise God would not have removed them as punishment.
So here is our sixth day. The day God has carefully planned and created everything else around. This is the creme de la creme. The cherry on top. He must do one more thing first. The very last creation before he makes the first man. He makes all the land creatures. I find it funny that the only thing singled out here is the cattle. When he made the sea creatures. He wanted to point out the leviathans. The great sea monsters of enormous size. And now the cattle. Why are these two singled out? (me I have no idea) But I would like to know why. I find it interesting that it's the great animals the children seem to love. Every time I've taught a lesson on dinosaurs, boy or girl, it didn't matter, the children were always entranced.
Genesis 1:24-25
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Who--God
What--Creation
When--The Beginning
Where--Everywhere--on land
Why--For His pleasure
How--by His omnipotence
Day 1--The light of the world
Day 2--separation of the waters and Heaven created
Day 3--creation of dry land and plants and their seeds
Day 4-- Sun and moon
Day 5--sea and air creatures
Day 6 part one-- land creatures
Genesis 2:19
19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 6:20
20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 7:14
14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
Genesis 7:21-22
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; 22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 8:19
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
Proof that we did not fear anything on the earth nor them us. And a hint as to the damage the flood did to the earth... for why else would we go from eating on plants to animals. I wonder if there was and effect on the nutrition in the plants when it flooded.
Genesis 9:2
2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
Jeremiah 27:5
5 “I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.
So here is our sixth day. The day God has carefully planned and created everything else around. This is the creme de la creme. The cherry on top. He must do one more thing first. The very last creation before he makes the first man. He makes all the land creatures. I find it funny that the only thing singled out here is the cattle. When he made the sea creatures. He wanted to point out the leviathans. The great sea monsters of enormous size. And now the cattle. Why are these two singled out? (me I have no idea) But I would like to know why. I find it interesting that it's the great animals the children seem to love. Every time I've taught a lesson on dinosaurs, boy or girl, it didn't matter, the children were always entranced.
Genesis 1:24-25
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Who--God
What--Creation
When--The Beginning
Where--Everywhere--on land
Why--For His pleasure
How--by His omnipotence
Day 1--The light of the world
Day 2--separation of the waters and Heaven created
Day 3--creation of dry land and plants and their seeds
Day 4-- Sun and moon
Day 5--sea and air creatures
Day 6 part one-- land creatures
Genesis 2:19
19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 6:20
20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 7:14
14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
Genesis 7:21-22
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; 22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 8:19
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
Proof that we did not fear anything on the earth nor them us. And a hint as to the damage the flood did to the earth... for why else would we go from eating on plants to animals. I wonder if there was and effect on the nutrition in the plants when it flooded.
Genesis 9:2
2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
Jeremiah 27:5
5 “I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.
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