In The Beginning: Part 3

 In The Beginning: Water

 

We have made it through the first day, so let’s continue and see what we can make out of the second day.

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.”

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.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

 

Okay, What the heck is a firmament?  I looked it up on the internet.

firmament

[ˈfərməmənt]

NOUN

literary

firmament (noun) · firmaments (plural noun)

1.     the heavens or the sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing.

"thunder shakes the firmament" · "one of the great stars in the American golfing firmament"

synonyms:

the sky · heaven · the blue · the wide blue yonder · the azure · the heavens · the skies · the vault (of heaven) · the celestial sphere · the empyrean · the welkin

·         a sphere or world viewed as a collection of people.

"one of the great stars in the American golfing firmament"

synonyms:

the sky · heaven · the blue · the wide blue yonder · the azure · the heavens · the skies · the vault (of heaven) · the celestial sphere · the empyrean · the welkin

ORIGIN

Middle English: via Old French from Latin firmamentum, from firmare ‘fix, settle’.

 

I understand now. God made the heaven’s or universe as we know it.  Forming or firming it up.  (The expansion of the universe as it expanded from the big bang?)

This is cool.  Reading this is like seeing it in my mind. Watching the stars move outward.

Now God gets even more creative, he divides the waters.  Putting water in the sky and below the sky and above it.  Is the universe surrounded by water?  I know ice has been found all over our little solar system.  I suspect some of what is considered the asteroid belt that surrounds our system has a lot of ice.  Least from what I have read there’s lots of water out there. We already know that the earth we live on is made up of water.

Isn’t God Amazing?  You can already tell he’s got a plan and is putting it together.

God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.  Heaven has been made on the second day of creation.  I’m beginning to feel that these were earth days.  Call it faith. 

 

God is telling us how long his day is.  Not thousands or millions of years, but the evening and the morning.  Isn’t it amazing how God works and is working?

May your faith grow stronger each day and God Bless you in every way. Amen.