Created by pastorbuddy on 7/26/2009
Before I demonstrate the days in creation it will help to know the scriptural definition of a day and what makes up a scriptural day. We must understand the Hebrew mindset and the definition of day, which is called YOM in Hebrew and simply means a space of time. We have examples in Scripture where a,
A Year
A Month
A Week,
A Day
is all called a Day/Yom.
Therefore the Hebrew definition for Day/Yom is a space of time ;
It depends on how DAY/YOM is used or understood in the Scriptures as to what it is speaking of. The question is, how many spaces of time or YOMS, where there at creation before the Almighty rested on the seventh day?
The count for the Seventh day rest began AFTER heaven and Earth was created which began on the first work day of the week that he worked on his creation and when he rested the seventh day, there was still a creation day that was not counted in the six working days that he worked on his creation.
I believe they understood that there was a space of time when heaven and Earth was created, separate from the six workdays. I believe there were eight spaces of time/yoms or eight sequences of events in creation. The first event was Heaven and Earth was created and then worked on for six days. The creation of Heaven and Earth is not counted in with the six working days. This is a total of seven separate events or space of time/yoms. The Almighty rested the Seventh day after working on his creation for six days but it was the Eighth DAY event counting from the beginning. We believe He rested on the Seventh day of the week but it was the eighth day or space of time of the month, i.e. heaven and Earth was created on what later began to be called new moon day, then worked on his creation for six days, and then rested the Seventh day.
Moses was also commanded to rear up the tabernacle on the new moon day [SEE EXODUS 40-1] which was followed by six working days which ended with a holy convocation on the Seventh day of the week which was on the Eighth Day of the month, same as in creation. THE TABERNACLE was finished on the new moon one year later.[see exodus 40-17]
This was what was shown to Moses in the Mount. Moses would have written the book of Genesis later on after this was shown to him in the Mount. see my discussion on this with brother Chuck.
The Almighty teaches that there are three category,s of days/yoms in Ezekiel 46:1 He teaches that they are NEW MOONS days/yoms He teaches there are six working days/yoms and he teaches there are Sabbath days/yoms. In other words the six working days comes after the new moons and Sabbaths. The last Sabbath worship day at the end of each month will be followed by a new moon worship day causing TWO back to back worship days in a row in which the gates will remain open, BEFORE the first day of the six working days begins, when the gates are to be shut, according to Ezekiel 46:1. This is simple deductive reasoning.
I believe the same example applies to creation. You have a space of time/yom when heaven and Earth was created before it was worked on for six days/yoms. The space of time when heaven and Earth was created is simply referred to as IN THE BEGINNING and it was not counted as one of the six working days.
There were no evening and mornings or night and days during this space of time. There was only Darkness at creation and there was no scriptural night and no scriptural light because that did not come until the first work day when he said let there be light. The reason I say there was no scriptural night is because the Hebrew definition for night is the twisting away of the light which produces evening/night.
Everything before this was simply referred to as Darkness but when he said let there be light and divided the light from the darkness, and called the light Day and the darkness He called NIGHT or twisting away of the light, this produced the first evening and morning of the six workdays but there were still a space of time before these six workdays. Everything that happened before the light and it’s division is simply referred to as the BEGINNING when heaven and Earth was created in the darkness. There was no NIGHT because there was no twisting away of the light. I realize that night as we know it, has darkness, but that is not the same as the darkness that was on the face of the deep before he said let there be light because that darkness was so dark that it would be absolutely impossible for anyone but him to see anything.
The night that was produced by the twisting away of the light produced a darkness that you can still see in because of the stars etc, which were not lit up during the first darkness. The light that was divided from the first darkness that was here when he created heaven and earth, produced evening and morning of the first day of the six workdays spoken of by Ezekiel.
That darkness or space of time represented the new moon day which is not counted when counting the six working days. The space of time/yom that was here before the six workdays would cause the moon to beacon A 8 day phase on the seventh day of the week in creation. The Seventh day of the week would actually be theEighth day of the month or space of time and there would be six workdays between the weekly seventh day and the day that heaven and Earth was created, same as it is today. After the first month in creation, this space of time was later called a new moon day which came before the six workdays and the new moon day commemorates creation each and every month and the Sabbath commemorates His rest after working on his creation the six workdays. Remember in Ezekiel 46:1, the Almighty NEVER counted the new moons and S abbaths as any of the six working days. They were SEPARATE from each other, i.e. you have the New Moon WORSHIP DAY, the six working days, and then the Sabbath WORSHIP DAY which makes up the scriptural lunar week with a lunar Seventh day at the end and I believe this is what happened at creation. The beginning day/space of time/new moon was not counted in with the six working days same as in Ezekiel 46, neither was it counted when the Sabbath was made known to Moses and the children of Israel in Exodus 16.
THIS IS simply staying with the Hebrew definition of night which gives us an understanding of what happened. The Hebrew definition of night is as follows;
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There was no night/twisting away of the light until he said let there be light and divided it from the darkness. This SECOND space of time/yom produced the FIRST evening and morning of the week.
There are several ways in which you can put the Seventh day rest in creation on an 8 day phase of the moon but I believe it was like this. I believe heaven and Earth was created in the first space of time/yom before it was worked on for six days.
I believe that the Sun and moon was a part of the heavens in the day that they were created but it does not say what position the Sun was in when he said let there be light but I believe the light came on just below the horizon in the West and then you had 12 hours of evening and the sun came up in the East and you had 12 hours of morning, a total of 24 hours. Most people agree there was a space of time in creation before he said let there be light. Some think it was 1000 years others millions of years and others believed there was 12 hours. At any rate there was a yom/space of time before the six workdays began.
From the above the creation calendar would look like this,
The FIRST space of time/yom would be in the BEGINNING when heaven and Earth was created.
The SECOND space of time/yom would be the FIRST day of the six working days when he said let there be light and divided it etc.
The THIRD space of time/yom came to be on the SECOND day of the week.
The FORTH space of time/yom would be the THIRD working day.
The FIFTH space of time/yom would be the FOURTH working day.
The SIXTH space of time/yom would be the FIFTH working day.
The SEVENTH space of time/yom would be the SIXTH working day.
The EIGHT space of time/yom would be the SEVENTH/yom Sabbath, after working on his creation for six days. The emphasis is on the creation, then six workdays, then the Sabbath day rest.
After the Sabbath was observed on the eight space of time/yom or eighth day of the month the serpent approached Adam and Eve on the NINTH day of the month and they transgressed that same day and in the evening or cool of the same 9th day they hid themselves and the Almighty made them coats of skin on the 10thday in creation when the 9th day ended at evening. This commemorates the Day of Atonement when the Almighty Atoned for Adam and Eves sins and is to be observed on the 10th day beginning from the 9th day at evening.
Brother Arnold
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