The story of Creation is recorded in Genesis chapters 1 & 2 as the main Biblical text. Some other passages of Scripture gives underlining meaning to the Creation story. In this study we delve into the order of Creation, the significance and the personal and corporate lessons derivable from the Genesis account of the Creation story

1. The Kingdom of God Season 2
The Earth Program
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2. The Creation of The Earth
The Earth Program
Episode 4
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3. The Introduction
The Earth Program is the term used to describe the
Original Plan and Purpose of God for the living space
called Earth.
The Earth Program covers all the activities, events,
personalities and places that occur before, during and
after the Creation leading up to the end of the world.
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4. • The Earth Program begins at the Council of Heaven
when the matters of Earth’s Creation were being
discussed, The Divine Selection of the Israel to give
birth to the Messiah before Salvation opened up to
the Gentile world, The End-Time Church, The Last
Events leading up to the Unveiling of the Anti-Christ,
The Final Judgment of Satan, and The New Heaven
& Earth. The following passages of scriptures makes
reference to the Foundation of the World.
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5. Today’s Topic
THE CREATION OF THE EARTH
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6. Introduction To The Creation of the Earth
• The story of Creation is recorded in Genesis
chapters 1 & 2 as the main Biblical text. Some other
passages of Scripture gives underlining meaning to
the Creation story.
• The Creation occurs six (6) times in the KJV
• Other variants includes:
• Create – 10 verses
• Created – 38 verses
• Createth – 1 verse – Amos 4:13
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7. • In all the verse where the word(s) creation, create,
created or createth is used, its always in reference
to God the Creator
• God is the only being with the exclusive right to
create, every other being manufactures
• The authority and claim of God as the Creator of all
things is clearly established in Scriptures
• Science is still in search of God when all of creation
speaks of His marvelous and majestic works –
Ps.19:1-6
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8. Key Facts About The Creation #1
 Everything without exception was created by God
as recorded in Genesis – Gen.1:1,3; Mk.13:19;
Col.1:16
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9. Key Facts About The Creation #2
 Jesus is the first creation of God – Prov.8:22-31;
John 1:1-3; Col.1:12-20; Rev.3:14
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10. Key Facts About The Creation #3
 All things were made through the Word who is
Jesus – John 1:1-3; Eph.3:9; Col.1:12-20
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11. Key Facts About The Creation #4
 Angels were created and long existed before human
beings were created – Job 38:4-11
 Satan who was an Angel was originally created to
stand in God’s presence for the purpose of Music
and Beauty – Ezek.28:12-15
 Satan was made with the same material
composition the throne of God was made, hence his
affinity for Thrones, Kingdoms, Dominions and
Power – Ezek.28:12 and Rev.4:3
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12. Key Facts About The Creation #5
 The First act of creation was Light – Gen.1:3
 Jesus is the Light of the world – John 8:12; 9:5
 The Light of the Earth is the Sun and Jesus is
personified as the Sun – Mal.4:2; All life form on
earth benefit from the light of the Sun. (See
Photosynthesis)
 As it is in the physical so it is in the spiritual, all life
form on earth benefit from the Son, Jesus the Light
of the world - Matt.4:16; Lk.1:78-79; Eph.5:14
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13. Key Facts About The Creation #6
 Light is the most principal foundation for every
development. As it was foremost in the creation of
the Earth so it is in the development of any life,
society or nation.
 Light in any form is pivotal to development.
 Spiritual – The gateway to Salvation in Christ
 Mental – The gateway to Self-awareness
 Physical – The gateway to Earth Discoveries
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14. Key Facts About The Creation #7
The Earth will remain forever on till Jesus returns
The Earth has capacity to rejuvenate itself if left on its
own
The Earth is an agent of God and any enemy of Satan
The Earth is where all of God’s attention is on for all
time
The Earth msut look like heaven before the close of
time
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15. Number of Galaxies
• 2 trillion
• Several thousand galaxies, each consisting of
billions of stars, are in this small view. XDF (2012)
view: Each light speck is a galaxy, some of which are
as old as 13.2 billion years – the observable
universe is estimated to contain 200 billion to 2
trillion galaxies.
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16. Number of Stars in the observable Galaxies
• There are about 10 billion galaxies in the observable
universe! The number of stars in a galaxy varies,
but assuming an average of 100 billion stars per
galaxy means that there are about
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 1 billion
trillion) stars in the observable universe!
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17. Number of Species on the Earth
• In 2013, a study published in Science estimated
there to be 5 ± 3 million extant species on Earth.
Another study, published in 2011 by PLoS Biology,
estimated there to be 8.7 million ± 1.3 million
eukaryotic species on Earth.
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18. The Perfection of Creation
• The perfection of Creation is a marvel for all time!
• The position of the Sun to the Earth – is at a
distance such that if its one kilometer too far we will
freeze from lack of its heat and if its one kilometer
too close we will fry from its heat
• The Sun’s external temperature is about 6,000
degrees Celsius and internal temperature is about
40,000 degrees Celsius
• The distance of the Sun from the Earth is about
149.6 million km
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19. Order of Creation
• Day 1: Light & Darkness, Day & Night – Gen. 1:3-5
• Day 2: Firmament, Sky, Space – Gen.1:6-8
• Day 3: Dry Land, Seas & Oceans, Green plants
(Grasses, Trees, Herbs etc.) – Gen.1:9-13
• Day 4: Two Great Lights in the Firmament (See Day
and Night occasioned by the Rotation and the
Revolution of the Earth) – Gen.1:14-19
• Day 5: Aquatic animals, Amphibians, Birds and
Fowls – Gen.1:20-23
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20. Order of Creation (Contd.)
• Day 6: Terrestrial Animals (Beast of the earth, Cattle
and Creeping things) and Man – Genesis 1:24-31
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21. Illustrations & Animations
• Videos will be shown on Wednesday Deep Waters
Bible Study
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22. The Order of Creation: DAY 1
• Genesis1:3-5(KJV)
• 3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
• 4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
• 5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were
the first day.
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23. The Order of Creation: DAY 2
• Genesis1:6-8
• 6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters.
• 7
And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament: and it was
so.
• 8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the
evening and the morning were the second day.
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24. The Order of Creation: DAY 3
• Genesis1:9-13(KJV)
• 9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was
so.
• 10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
• 11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
• 12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after
his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
• 13
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25. The Order of Creation: DAY 4
• Genesis1:14-19(KJV)
• 14
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:
• 15
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so.
• 16
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.
• 17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth,
• 18
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
• 19
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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26. The Order of Creation: DAY 5
• Genesis1:20-23(KJV)
• 20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
• 21
And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and
God saw that it was good.
• 22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
• 23
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
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27. The Order of Creation: DAY 6 – First Part
• Genesis1:24-25
• 24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it
was so.
• 25
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
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28. The Order of Creation: DAY 6 – Second Part
• Genesis1:26-27
• 26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth.
• 27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
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29. The Order of Creation: DAY 6 – Third Part
• Genesis1:28-31
• 28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth.
• 29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit
of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
• 30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
• 31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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30. The Divine Mandate God Gave To All Humans
1. Be Fruitful - Fruitfulness
2. Multiply - Multiplication
3. Replenish the Earth - Preservation
4. Subdue
5. Dominate
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31. Secret To Personal & Corporate Development
Productivity
Growth
Preservation of Systems and Resources
Management and Control of Energy
Authority and Power over
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