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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
This was before time or the beginning of time. The creation then was complete, but something happened between verses 1 and 2. This is known as the gap theory and teaches that the earth came under judgment and was recreated in the Genesis account. This is thought to link with the fall of Satan from heaven.
- CREATION

2 And the earth became an empty, formless, waste; and darkness covered the surface of the depths. And the Spirit of God brooded over the waters.
The earth became like this but was not created this way originally. How do we know this? Because we are told in Isaiah 45:18 that God did not create the earth like this. The Hebrew word 'tohuw' is used in both of these passages but is translated differently in each. Here in Genesis 1:2, it is translated as, 'without form' but in some versions of Isaiah 45:18 it is translated differently. What is important is that the passage in Isaiah tells us God did not create the earth this way originally.

The Spirit of God hovered over the earth like a dove, waiting for God's Word of creation. It was then the Holy Spirit that reformed the earth as described in this chapter.
- SPIRIT CREATES - SPIRIT OF GOD

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Light was created first because all matter is made up of electromagnetic energy contained in light. After that everything created was made from the foundational matter of light.

4 And God saw that the light was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
God lives in the realm of light and His Kingdom is known as the Kingdom of Light. Everything related to Satan is darkness, and his realm is known as the realm of darkness. Sometimes it is referred to as the Kingdom of Darkness, but in reality, it is not a kingdom, because Satan is not a king, he is only a prince.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the expanse, and divided the waters which [were] under the expanse from the waters which [were] above the expanse: and it was so.
8 And God called the expanse Heaven [atmosphere]. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven [atmosphere] be gathered together in one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
 - WAY OF HEALTH
12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after its kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the earth after its kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So God created mankind in his [own] image, He created them in the image of God and he created them both male and female.
28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and grow, and fill up the earth, and take control of it: and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
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, which contains the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it will be for food.
 - WAY OF HEALTH
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, in which [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for food: and it was so.
 - WAY OF HEALTH
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and He could see that it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.