1. Then There Was Life Gen 1:20-2:3 Created by David Turner www.BibleStudies-Online.com

2. Days leading to life Day 1 – God created the Universe God called forth light. Day 2 – God separated the waters from the waters. Day 3 – God caused land to appear and made vegetation. Day 4 – God placed the lights in the heaven (w/out naming them). Day 5 – God populated the waters and the sky Day 6 – God populated the land.

3. Life starts in sea and sky Day 5

4. Genesis 1:20 (NET) 20 God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures

5. Day 5 Genesis 1:20 20 God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

6. Day 5 Genesis 1:21 God created (bara) the great sea creatures תַנִּינִם (tanninim) Exodus 7:9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.” Ezekiel 29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” Jeremiah 51:34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.” Isaiah 27:1 At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

7. Day 5 Genesis 1:21 (NET) 21 God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds,

8. Day 5 Genesis 1:21 (NET) 21 God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

9. Day 5 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas,

10. Day 5 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” 23 There was evening, and there was morning - a fifth day.

11. Life on the Land Day 6

12. Genesis 1:24 (NET) 24 God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds:

13. Day 6 Genesis 1:24 (NET) 24 God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle (bəhēmah)

14. Day 6 Genesis 1:24 (NET) 24 God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things,

15. Day 6 Genesis 1:24 (NET) 24 God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

16. Day 6 Genesis 1:25 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds,

17. Day 6 Genesis 1:25 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

18. Day 6 – The Climax Genesis 1:26 26 Then God said, “Let us make man …

19. Jesus – Creator/Sustainer Colossians 1:15-17 (NET) 15 He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, 16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.

20. John 1:3-4 (NET) 3 All things were created by him (Jesus), and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

21. Hebrews 1:1-2 (NET) 1 After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets, 2 in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.

22. John 1:10-12 (NET) 10 He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

23. John 3:16 (NET) 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.