The Green House Affect

Light has returned to the surface of the waters upon the earth, the earth has begun to spin, and now God is going to create an environment that is perfect for the creations He is about to make.

And Elohim said, "Let there be an expansion (firmament) between the waters and let it separate between the waters from the waters." and Elohim made the expansion (firmament) and He caused a separation between the waters which under the expansion and between the waters which were above the expansion. and it was good, Genesis 1:6,7.

The division between the waters is very interesting. God has, in essence, just created a very large green house, over the entire earth. This green house affect is going to cause the entire earth to warm to a fairly comfortable temperature for humans and animals. We see evidence of a warm earth even today, under many layers of ice, where animals have been found with green vegetation still in their mouths. The Berezovka Mammoth is one example of an animal that was instantly frozen, and the content of his stomach provides evidence that his environment was warm and full of vegetation.

(I am going to add more evidence of the ice dome in this section after further study.)

God called the firmament, or expansion, between the earth and the stars heaven. This is what is known to us as the sky, or first heaven. Although the ice dome no longer exists, we still have a separation from our atmosphere and space. (What happened to this ice dome will be discussed in chapters 6 and 7.) This layer, which we know as the ozone layer, offers some protection from the sun and other objects that may collide with the earth; however, it does not retain the heat from the sun like the ice dome did. Therefore, we live in a world that is not like the world of Adam and Eve's time. Our world has large temperature shifts. Their world stayed within a moderate temperature all the time. As we continue through the book of Genesis, keeping the environment in mind will help us understand life at this time in man's history.

and the second day came to an end...

The Renovation of the Earth

We are not told in Scripture how long the earth was under water after the judgment of Lucifer. Nor are we told the actual age of the earth. Lucifer's throne was upon the earth before his fall. The earth could be very old; however, we do know that physical life did not exist on the earth until about six thousand years ago. The creation story found in Genesis chapter one, is a story of the creation of mankind, birds, beasts of the field, fish, and the renovation of the earth. Physical life was not upon the earth before God renovates the earth. Lucifer did not rule on an earth that had dinosaurs on it. We know this because it was man that brought death into the world. In Genesis 1:2 the earth is flooded and nothing lives on it. Since man brought death into the world, no physical life could have existed before the flood. Romans 5:12 "Because of this, just as through one man the sin nature entered the world and through the sin nature, the death. And thus unto all man the death passed on..."

in just a few verse in Genesis, we have gone from the creation of the universe, through the judgment of Lucifer, to the Spirit of God is brooding over the earth because of the judgment placed upon it. Now God returns to the earth to begin renovation...

"And Elohim said "let there be light", and there was light," Genesis 1:3.

This is not the creation of the sun. Remember, the darkness in verse two was upon the deep. The water upon the surface of the earth was not allowing light to penetrate. When God said, "let there be light," the sun already existed. The earth was covered with water, not ice; therefore, there had to be a source of heat already created. The creation of the universe had already happened, Job 38:7. (Spirit beings were created before the universe. They witnessed the creation of the universe. Lucifer's throne was in Eden prior to Adam and Eve and the renovation of the earth, Ezekiel 28:13.) God is not creating the earth, the sun, the moon, or the stars, He already created them. Rather, God is now permitting light to return to the face of the earth.

"And Elohim saw the light for it was good. And Elohim caused a division between the light and between the darkness. And Elohim called the light day and He previously called the darkness night. And it was morning and it was evening. Day one." Genesis 1:4,5

The earth begins to spin; day and night are divided. Since time is determined by the spin of the earth and its rotation around the sun, by causing the earth to rotate, time can now be divided into days, hours, minutes, and seconds. However, a day in Genesis is not necessarily a twenty-four hour period of time as we know a day to be today. There is no indication of the actually hours in the day at this time. It would be proper to consider the days in Genesis as solar days, rather than twenty-four hours days. What is the difference? As the earth begins to spin, it is naturally going to start out slower and gradually increase until it is spinning at full speed. As we go on in the account of Genesis, we will see that God causes a canopy of ice to cover the earth. This canopy protects the earth from the sun's harmful rays and turns it into a green house. At what speed the earth was required to spin to support physical life with this canopy is not specifically known; however, I am not saying that the earth was not renovated in six days, but rather that it was not days as we know them, they no doubt averaged a slightly longer period of time.

A change in the rotation of the earth is not a foreign concept in Scripture. God has cause the rotation of the earth to stop, Joshua 10:13, and will speed up the rotation of the earth during the great tribulation, Matthew 24:22.

If you have ever wondered why the day is called day, and the night is called night, God was the one that named them. It is interesting to note that until the Genesis account, God had not named the light upon the earth. Genesis chapter one verse five states that God had previously called the darkness night, but the light He called day. Lucifer no doubt shined very brightly and was the major source of light upon the earth when his throne was here. After judgement, all light was removed from the face of the earth. Now, in the Genesis account, the main source of light for the earth is the light coming from the sun. God calls this light day.

Day one has now come to an end...