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Old Earth MinistriesHomeschool Series

• Creation
• The Fourth Day

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Creation The Fourth Day

• The 4th day of creation is discussed by God in
  Genesis Chapter 1, verses 14 thru 19.

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Creation The Fourth Day

• 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.
• Genesis 114

• Long before man invented the calendar, God
  planned the divisions of time by seasons, days,
  and years

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Creation The Fourth Day
How did God do it?

• 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.
• Genesis 114

This doesnt make sense.

• Many Christians assume that God made the sun and
  the moon on Day Four
• However, the sun, moon, and stars existed before
  this point
• This does not make the Bible wrongit must simply
  be interpreted correctly

What does the Bible say?
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Creation The Fourth Day

• The creation account is written from the point of
  view of an observer standing on the surface of
  the earth

• Day Four is the point at which the atmosphere,
  created on Day Two, is clear enough to see the
  sun and moon for the first time
• Prior to this point, the sun did light the earth,
  but with the new atmosphere, the observer is
  unable to visibly see the sun and moon for
  millions of years due to the particles in the
  atmosphere

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Creation The Fourth Day

• The plants created on Day Three did not need
  direct sunlight to grow. The earliest plants in
  the fossil record are simple algaes

• Further plant creation is ongoing on Day 4 with
  the principle of Creation Overlap

Creation Overlap

• As the earths atmosphere cleared, more delicate
  plants could be created which could withstand the
  direct rays of the sun

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Creation The Fourth Day

• And let them be for lights in the firmament of
  the heaven to give light upon the earth and it
  was so.
• Genesis
  115

• In order for advanced life forms to survive,
  direct sunlight was needed.
• The sunlight provides for increased growth of
  plants, which are needed for food by the animals
  to be created later

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Creation The Fourth Day

• 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.
• Genesis
  116

• As the young atmosphere cleared, the moon became
  visible from the surface of the earth, as well as
  the stars

• To the observer on earth, it would appear that
  God just created these objects, when in fact they
  already existed

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Creation The Fourth Day

• And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
  to give light upon the earth, 18And to rule over
  the day and over the night, and to divide the
  light from the darkness and God saw that it was
  good.
• Genesis 117-18

• Our sun rules the daytime, and is the greatest
  light in our sky. It is not the greatest star.
  There are many stars that are brighter than our
  sun.
• From the surface of the earth, our sun appears to
  be the greatest. It is clear that the Genesis
  account is written from the point of view of an
  observer standing on the surface of the earth

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Creation The Fourth Day

• And the evening and the morning were the Fourth
  Day. Genesis 119

• Day Four details the purpose of the sun and moon,
  and their first appearance from the surface of
  the earth
• Direct sunlight is critical for the survival of
  plants, which animals depend upon for food
• With this sunlight, plants are able to grow
  rapidly, allowing the animals that God will
  create later to survive

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Creation The Fourth Day

• How Long is the Fourth Day?

Creation Overlap

• With Creation Overlap, it is difficult to
  determine exact lengths for any of the days of
  creation
• With Day Four, there is no clear starting point

• Day Five records the creation of the first animal
  life, which first appears in the fossil record
  about 600 million years ago that is probably
  the best estimate for the end of Day Four

• Length is not as important as the events that
  occurred in these Days as told by God
• We cannot know why God chose to divide the days
  of creation the way He did

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Creation The Fourth Day

• More on Creation Overlap

Creation Overlap

• The days of creation categorize the events into
  logical groups. For example, Day 3 is plants,
  Day 4 is Light, Day 5 is ocean life, and so on

• Consider Day 3. New plant species appear
  throughout the fossil record, all the way from
  3.8 billion years ago to the present

• Clearly God was still making plants at the same
  time we see Him making animals on Day 6. We know
  this is true because grass first appears about 70
  million years ago, well after the arrival of the
  dinosaurs
• Creation Overlap, the process of the creation day
  events overlapping each other, is critical to a
  correct understanding of the Bible and science

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Creation The Fourth Day

• The fourth day of creation presents no problems
  for a person who believes in an old earth
• You can believe that Gods Word is without error,
  and that the earth is 4.5 billion years old

This concludes this module on the 4th Day of
Creation