Dr. Pothana's Teaching

1. The Six Days of Creation
Genesis 1:3-31

2. Unformed Unfilled
Day 1: Light Day 4: Light-bearers
(sun, moon, stars)
Day 2: Water & sky
divided
Day 5: Fish & birds to
fill water & sky
Day 3: Dry land &
vegetation
Day 6: Land animals
& man
Day 7: Sabbath Rest

3. Then God said,
“Let there be
light”; and there
was light.
(Genesis 1:3).

4. And God saw that the
light was good; and
God separated the
light from the
darkness. 5 And God
called the light day,
and the darkness He
called night. And there
was evening and there
was morning, one day.
(Genesis 1:4-5).

5. Textual Formula in Genesis 1
• God’s creative statement: And God said...
• The fiat: “Let there be...”
• The creative act: And there was light...
• A declaration that the creation was good:
God saw that it was good.
• The time limits of that creative period: And
there was evening and there was
morning...
• The numerical listing of that day: One day.

6. Then God said, “Let there be
an expanse in the midst of the
waters, and let it separate the
waters from the waters.”
(Genesis 1:6)

7. And God made the expanse,
and separated the waters
which were below the expanse
from the waters which were
above the expanse; and it was
so. 8 And God called the
expanse heaven. And there
was evening and there was
morning, a second day.
(Genesis 1:7-8).
[;yqir'
(Raqiya)

8. • Defined in verse 8 when
“God called the Raqiya
heaven” (note that the
Hebrew is plural; “Heavens”).
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(Raqiya)
• Further explained in verse 20 where God
says, “...let birds fly above the earth in the
open expanse of the heavens” (It literally
reads “...upon the face of the raqiyah of
the heavens”)

9. [;yqir'
(Raqiya)
The heavens are telling of
the glory of God;
And their EXPANSE is
declaring the work of His
hands. (Psalm 19:1).
Praise the Lord!
Praise God in His sanctuary;
Praise Him in His mighty
EXPANSE. (Psalm 15:1).

10. Then God said, “Let the
waters below the
heavens be gathered
into one place, and let
the dry land appear”;
and it was so. 10 And
God called the dry land
earth, and the gathering
of the waters He called
seas; and God saw that
it was good. (Genesis
1:9-10).

11. Then God said,
“Let the earth
sprout vegetation,
plants yielding
seed, and fruit
trees bearing fruit
after their kind,
with seed in them,
on the earth”; and
it was so.
(Genesis 1:11).

12. Then God said, “Let
there be lights in the
expanse of the heavens
to separate 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
expanse of the heavens
to give light on the
earth”; and it was so.
(Genesis 1:14-15).

13. And God made
the two great
lights, the
greater light to
govern the day,
and the lesser
light to govern
the night; He
made the stars
also. (Genesis
1:16).

14. And God placed
them in the
expanse of the
heavens to give
light on the earth,
18 and to govern
the day and the
night, and to
separate the light
from the darkness;
and God saw that
it was good.
(Genesis 1:17-18).

15. Created Kingdoms Created Kings
Day 1: Light &
Darkness
Day 4: Light-bearers
to rule day & night
Day 2: Division of
waters into sky &
sea
Day 5: Birds to rule
the sky and fish to
rule the sea
Day 3: Dry land &
vegetation
Day 6: Land animals
& man as ruler
Creator King
Day 7: The King takes His Rest

16. Then God said,
“Let the waters
teem with swarms
of living creatures,
and let birds fly
above the earth in
the open expanse
of the heavens.”
(Genesis 1:21).

17. Then God said, “Let
the earth bring forth
living creatures after
their kind: cattle and
creeping things and
beasts of the earth
after their kind”; and
it was so. (Genesis
1:24).

18. God made the
beasts of the earth
after their kind, and
the cattle after their
kind, and everything
that creeps on the
ground after its kind;
and God saw that it
was good. (Genesis
1:25).

19. Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let Us make
man in Our image, according to Our
likeness; and let them rule over the fish
of the sea and over the birds of the sky
and over the cattle and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth.”
And God created man in His own
image, in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created
them. (Genesis 1:26-27).

20. Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God
said to them, “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth, and
subdue it; and rule over the fish of
the sea and over the birds of the
sky and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.”
– In the Image of God
– Federal Headship
– Stewardship and a basis for Ecology

21. Genesis 1:29-30
Then God said, “Behold, I
have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the
surface of all the earth, and every
tree which has fruit yielding seed;
it shall be food for you; 30 and to
every beast of the earth and to
every bird of the sky and to every
thing that moves on the earth
which has life, I have given every
green plant for food”; and it was
so.

22. Genesis 1
Light and darkness
are made by God on
Day 1
The Israelite
Experience
They had seen God
bring light and darkness
over Egypt
A division of the
waters on Day 2
They had passed
through the Red Sea
The sun and moon
and stars created on
Day 4
Egyptians worshiped
the sun and moon and
stars and had seen the
sun darkened in Egypt.

23. Genesis 1
Man is created in
the image of God
The Israelite
Experience
Only the Pharaoh was
thought to be in the
image of God
Man is told to rule
over the earth
Only the Pharaoh had
the right of rulership
Man is placed into a
beautiful garden
Israelites are tempted to
return to the meats of
Egypt, but Canaan is
the new promised Eden.

24. Genesis 1
The Israelite
Experience
In light of Israel’s personal
relationship with God, they need
to know that He is not only the
God of Israel, but He is God
over all creation.

25. Lessons from Genesis 1
• There is only one God and that is the
God who created us.
• The God who created us is a very big
God.
• God is personally involved in His
creation.
• The purpose of the Genesis account is
not merely to have us view the creation,
but that we might see the Creator who
created the creation.