Gen 1:3-5 | KingComments | STEP | In the middle of the darkness a powerful voice is heard. God speaks. His first word is: “Let there be light!” The result is immediate: “And there was light” (cf. ). When God speaks, His might and power are revealed. God looks at His work and concludes that it is good. This announcement shows God’s commitment to His work. He does not look at it to see if there is any unevenness. He is perfect and everything He does is perfect. The project is not only good in itself, but also serves a good goal. God gives everything a name. In that name He expresses the character, the nature of it. This is how we can recognize things. Man is wise to call the things as God calls them (cf. ). The first day is bordered by evening and morning. Because of this we know that the days of creation are ordinary days of twenty-four hours, as we still know them. If we read Genesis 1 without prejudice, we can only conclude that God created heaven and earth in six literal days ( ). There is spoken about day and night and about “and there was evening and there was morning”. The Hebrew word for day, yom , as a separate word, is in all cases ‘day’ in the ordinary sense of the word ( , as opposed to ‘night’). Knowing the truth exposes the lie. Every theory of origin that deviates from the account in Genesis 1, we can send to the realm of fables. is applied by Paul to the work of God in the darkened heart of a sinner: “For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ” ( ). From this we learn that what happened literally and historically also has a spiritual application. In this way, we discover in the days of creation a process that takes place in someone who comes to repentance. This process begins in the sinner who is in darkness: “For you were formerly darkness” ( ). The Spirit begins to work, to ‘breed’, at the heart of such a person. Then comes the moment when the sinner discovers that he is in darkness and needs light. Then God lets His light shine in the heart. Through this, all wickedness and dirtiness is revealed. By repentance and conversion new life comes.

‏ Genesis 1:3-5

The First Day

In the middle of the darkness a powerful voice is heard. God speaks. His first word is: “Let there be light!” The result is immediate: “And there was light” (cf. Psa 33:6 ; 9). When God speaks, His might and power are revealed.

God looks at His work and concludes that it is good. This announcement shows God’s commitment to His work. He does not look at it to see if there is any unevenness. He is perfect and everything He does is perfect. The project is not only good in itself, but also serves a good goal.

God gives everything a name. In that name He expresses the character, the nature of it. This is how we can recognize things. Man is wise to call the things as God calls them (cf. Isa 5:20). The first day is bordered by evening and morning. Because of this we know that the days of creation are ordinary days of twenty-four hours, as we still know them.

If we read Genesis 1 without prejudice, we can only conclude that God created heaven and earth in six literal days (Exo 20:11). There is spoken about day and night and about “and there was evening and there was morning”. The Hebrew word for day, yom, as a separate word, is in all cases ‘day’ in the ordinary sense of the word (Gen 8:22 ; Gen 29:7, as opposed to ‘night’). Knowing the truth exposes the lie. Every theory of origin that deviates from the account in Genesis 1, we can send to the realm of fables.

Gen 1:3 is applied by Paul to the work of God in the darkened heart of a sinner: “For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ” (2Cor 4:6). From this we learn that what happened literally and historically also has a spiritual application. In this way, we discover in the days of creation a process that takes place in someone who comes to repentance.

This process begins in the sinner who is in darkness: “For you were formerly darkness” (Eph 5:8a). The Spirit begins to work, to ‘breed’, at the heart of such a person. Then comes the moment when the sinner discovers that he is in darkness and needs light. Then God lets His light shine in the heart. Through this, all wickedness and dirtiness is revealed. By repentance and conversion new life comes.