Page 53 - Foundations

Day One
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

This fact reasonably leads to the conclusion that the first two verses of Genesis are speaking of
events that preceded the six days of creation. At some time prior to day one of creation, Yahweh had
created the heavens and the earth, and they had subsequently become formless and void and covered
in darkness.

This leads into a second point in favor of the ruin/reconstruction doctrine. We are told that God did
not establish the lights in the heavens until day four. The Bible does not say God created (bara) the
heavenly bodies on day four, but the sense is more of God arranging them to “separate the day from
the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.” Those familiar with
Biblical astronomy and the testimony of the constellations and stars in the heaven, will understand
how they proclaim the story of man’s fall and redemption. The Bible tells us that the stars are given
for this purpose.

Psalms 19:1-4
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are
there words; Their voice is not heard. Their utterance has gone out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world.

That the ancients recognized the constellations, and perceived messages from God in them was
observed long before the magi read the heavenly declaration that the King of the Jews had been born
in the time of Christ. The book of Job is among the oldest books of the Bible, and it speaks of a
number of constellations. It also speaks of the ancients having a knowledge that God had once sealed
the earth in darkness, commanding the sun and stars to no longer give light to the planet.

Job 9:5-9
It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how, when He overturns them in His anger;
Who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; Who commands the sun not to shine,
and sets a seal upon the stars; Who alone stretches out the heavens, and tramples down the waves
of the sea; Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south...