Day 6:
We are almost done with our creation study. We learned what God created on:
Day 1- Heaven, Earth, Light, Dark, Time
Day 2- He formed the earth, created an atmosphere with air
Day 3- He made dry land appear, created plants, and seeds
Day 4- Sun, Moon, Stars
Day 5- Fish and birds
Day 1- Heaven, Earth, Light, Dark, Time
Day 2- He formed the earth, created an atmosphere with air
Day 3- He made dry land appear, created plants, and seeds
Day 4- Sun, Moon, Stars
Day 5- Fish and birds
And now, we'll find out what God made on day 6.
Day six rolls around and God looks at his beautiful world. There's light, seasons, plants, fish, birds, stars, planets, and a lot of other wonderful things! But, God still wasn't done. There was something else that God wanted to create- Land animals.
Genesis 1:24-25- And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Have you ever been to the zoo? You can spend all day at the zoo in New Orleans and you can't see all the animals that they have. But, did you know that they don't even have every kind of animal that God created?
God created 2 legged animals, 4 legged animals, 6 legged animals, animals with trunks, animals with spots, animals with strips, animals with fur, animals with skin, animals with scales, he made a lot of animals! And just like he did with everything else, he made each animal special. He gave the elephant a trunk. He gave the giraffe a long neck. He made the tortoise with a shell. He made lizards with sticky feet. He made frogs with long tongues. He even made the nasty creeping animals- like beetles, ants, and roaches.
He gave each of these animals the ability to have babies that look just like them. He made the food they needed on day 3 and the air they needed on day 2. And everything was ready for God to put his animals where he wanted them.
But God wasn't done. He had one more very special piece of creation. He wanted something to worship him. Something with a free will that would look after his creation. What do you think that was?
Genesis 2:7- And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
He made humans! We were the last thing that God created. He gave us a spirit, soul, and a body, just like God has- none of the animals were created with a soul. That's what makes man so different and special- our soul.
Genesis 2:18- And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
God knew that he wanted more than just a man. He knew that man needed something else to help him. God knew this, but he wanted Adam to know this. So...
Genesis 2:20- And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Could you see Adam coming up with names for all those animals!?!? But, Adam noticed something when he named them- there were always 2 of them. There was the cow and the bull, the stallion and the mare, the peacock and the peahen. But there was only one of him. Perhaps Adam wondered if God realized that he was the only one. We don't have to wonder if God knew- he already told us. But now that Adam knew, God was going to fix it!
Genesis 2:21-22- And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
God gave Adam a wife. The woman is probably the most different creation in all the universe! She is the only one that came from another one of God's creations. She was made with a very specific purpose. She was made to love Adam.
Genesis 2:23- And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Humans were made to need each others company. God made us to have a desire to be around other people. He also gave us the desire to care for things and to worship him.
Genesis 1:27- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
But God didn't just want 2 people on the entire world forever.
Genesis 1:28- And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God made us with the ability to have babies. But, he gave us a job. He didn't give the animals a job. We were to subdue the earth and have dominion over the animals. Do you know what that means? We were to take care of the earth and the animals.
Then, God told us how to take care of it.
Genesis 1:29-And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
God said that he made fruits and vegetables for us to eat. When your mom says to eat your veggies, she's telling you exactly what God told Adam and Eve.
Now, God looked at everything he made and he knew it was complete. Everything he dreamed of, everything he planned for was there. Do you know what God said about that?
Genesis 1:31- And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
