Day 2:
As we are learning, the creation of the world did not come about by accident. There was a designer, and he had a plan. God created the universe in 6 days. Everything we see about us was made by God.
On the first day, God made the heavens, the earth, light, day, night, and started time.
Today, we are going to learn what God made on the second day. God was looking at the earth. He was moving over the surface looking at it thinking what it would look like, imagining where he would put things. God gave the earth a shape. He molded the earth in a round ball.
Job 26:7- He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Then God placed the earth exactly where he wanted it. He hung it like a picture in the universe. He knew exactly where it needed to be. He knew exactly what it needed to have. And he knew exactly who and what would be living there. And he knew they would need air to breathe.
Proverbs 3:19- The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Genesis 1:6- And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
At first the earth was nothing but a ball of water. God wanted many different types of things on this earth. So, he separated the waters. He created an atmosphere. He places all the necessary gases that plants, animals, and people would need to survive in this atmosphere. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and other gases that would be used by plants and animals to breathe. Under a very powerful microscope, you can see that each of these gases are made in their own special way. They have little building blocks called atoms, which consist of even smaller building blocks called protons, electrons, and neutrons.
It sounds funny, but God made all these little building blocks just so he could create the air that we would need to survive! Today we usually call this the sky.
Genesis 1:7- And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
God wanted to keep all that air around the earth. He didn't want it wandering all around the universe! So he made a special lid to go around the earth and keep those precious gases where they needed to be. We call this the ozone layer.
Now, he starts getting things prepared for his next step. He has the waters on the earth which he already knows what he's going to put in them. And the earth formed like a ball. He has the atmosphere over the water so that his creation can breathe. And he has the ozone layer which will separate the earth from the universe. He has some very special things that will into that universe, too!
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
God had finished this day of creation. Now, all he had to do was name it. Heaven. That was a good name. All these wonderful things that God created on the second day.
