The Chronological Development of Genesis
We have approached our exposition of the Genesis revelations in reverse order: starting with the finished product and ending with "In the beginning...." This is because we were in effect reverse engineering until we came to the first cause. We had to start with what people who don't believe in God, do believe in - and work our way backwards! Now that that work is complete, we can put the facts together in their most natural way: the way they occurred - chronologically. Hence, we will start with "In the beginning," and end with Jehovah's sabbath day of rest.
There will be no extensive explanations in this section, as we have already covered them. This section heavily emphasizes illustrations, so that we get a visually hard wired impression of the creative process. Such chronological treatment of the science of Genesis allows us to present the information in its most natural format, so that we don't have to memorize cause and effect, and what came before what - because we will understand Jehovah's incredible creative works intuitively! Understanding trumps memorization, any day. We begin.
"In the Beginning"
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earthGe 1:1
EXPLANATORY NOTE
As always, you will play around with the controls to orient yourself with the illustration. We know there was only two entities in the universe before initial conditions - while the universe was shrouded in darkness. It is these celestial entities that are represented above. The fine gauze of Space, with its halos and filaments is depicted as having many halos (in green, white and purple). This is to highlight that Jehovah created Space as a complete unit! He would never add more space than what was stipulated in this verse. Just like there is only one Earth, and everything else he did to the Earth, from then forward, only involved shaping and fine-tuning what was already there, for the Earth was "formless and waste" and Space had not yet been stretched. After their creation, Jehovah did not add any new mass to either object! That is why the entities created in Genesis 1:1 were created - complete. It is a way for us to distinguish them, from everything that came afterwards. As Jehovah was stretching the Inzintian Universal Web, it was into these halos that Christ was putting the galaxies, Jehovah had told him to manufacture.
Having swiveled the illustration 180 degrees, you have seen the water covered Earth, with its vast ocean, on the other side. The whole picture is, of course, very dark, for it would be inappropriate to have much light in an illustration about times prior to initial conditions, which is the first time light was brought into existence.
Let there be Light
And God said: 'Let there be light.' Then there was lightGe 1:3
Jehovah's timing of the introduction of Light/MUMBR is fantastic for many reasons! Besides the primary reason of Light being a LiDAR system that was engineered to record every detail of the developing universe and make them available to humans thousands of years later, its secondary and also vital function is to serve as the great divider! The appearance of Light, of course, represents the moment of "initial conditions," when the five salient apparent features of the universe were established - empirically. It is at this point that the zero entropy beginnings of the Cosmos were recorded by Light. It is at this point that the tracing of the one-way arrow of time starts - and it cannot be traced beyond this juncture in the history of the universe.
How, though, does Light serve as the great divider? Because, once you see how the pieces fit together, you can never un-see the pattern! It distinguishes everything that happened after there was Light; from everything that took place before there was Light - before initial conditions. How does that help us? Some have mistakenly thought that Genesis 1:1 meant Jehovah created the whole universe at some undisclosed era in time, and that the events of Genesis 1:3, that is, from initial conditions forward, merely represent Jehovah "organizing" what he had already created into its final form. In other words, the Sun and the moon, and all the stars already existed, but were just not in their final positions. I have illustrated this situation below. Please have a look.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
There are two primary reasons why the picture above cannot be what Genesis 1:1 is describing: chronology; and as per Ricky Gervais' earlier slight - Jehovah created the entities of Genesis 1:1 in darkness. Light did not exist! Let us start with the chronological development of entities. We know from the account that when Jehovah did create the luminaries, he put them in the "expanse" called heaven. Now, the expanse was only created on the second creative day. Thus had Genesis 1:1 represented the scenario we see above it would contradict Genesis 1:14-17. You cannot put things in an expanse that does not yet exist. Chronologically, the expanse comes before the items that will later be put into it.
Our second point has to do with Light itself. God could not have said in verse 3: "Let there be light," if light - in one form or another - already existed. This is especially relevant if the source of that light is a star. Stars by their continual operational nature, are always shining. They will always be lighting up roughly 50% of the celestial objects around them. The Sun is more than 98% of the mass of everything in our solar system, that's how large it is! Thus, its light is far reaching. What would have prevented its light from reaching the surface of the watery deep? Especially, as in Genesis 1:3, the waters have not yet been divided - and there is thus, no waters above the expanse, to block any incoming radiation. No, the reason the "surface of the watery
deep" was dark, is because light did not yet exist. We were still in state of zero entropy - pre-initial conditions.
Moreover, we know empirically, that at initial conditions, there was only one object in the Cosmos - the Earth. Thus, the source of light could not have been a second object, such as a star - it had to be the Mighty UMBR. (I use MUMBR here, instead of Light, to differentiate it the light - small letter - coming from a star such as the Sun.) Thus, Light or the Mighty UMBR is a great divider between what existed post initial conditions; and pre initial conditions. It is the MUMBR, that Jehovah called into existence in Genesis 1:3 and not starlight. That was still several creative days away. Thus at the end of Genesis 1:3, that is, at initial conditions the universe looked like the illustration below.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
You will notice, upon careful inspection, that under the vast "watery deep" sits the land mass of planet Earth as we know it today. You will recognize the shape of the continents, as you pan left and right. From our earlier work, we have seen that initial condition incorporated three factors, or variables: Space; the Earth (Cosmos); and light, in the form of the Mighty Universal Microwave Background Radiation.
The yellowish half-sphere is obviously Light/MUMBR. The red and purplish/blue mesh on either side of it represents Space. Light was enmeshed in a thin layer of space, in a way similar to how I have depicted it, because Light was then the Celestial Sphere and continues to be such today. The only way that status could have been preserved, was if it was carried along by the stretching of Space, as Jehovah stretched Space to expand the universe. Galaxies must by within an Inzintian halo - otherwise they will remain in their original position. Similarly, Light/MUMBR had to be within a Space envelope - to achieve the same result. We are done with Genesis 1:3.
Although we are done with Genesis 1:3, we are not yet finished with the era before the counting of creative days, begin. That is because, we have not yet spoken about how God divided the Light/MUMBR to create light and dark conditions upon the surface of the watery deep. This, though, is simple. Jehovah does not go into the technical details, thus we will not go into them either. Instead, we will focus on the end result: global light conditions; and global darkness - with each period lasting thousands of years, and the full cycle: the sum of those two periods. Below is what the "evening" looked like.
DAY 1: "And God Began to Divide the Light from the Darkness"
God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first dayGe 1:5
It Starts with Evening ...
EXPLANATORY NOTE
I have left the meshes of 'Space' as is, since Space is non-electromagnetic. However I have greatly reduced the brightness of Light/MUMBR and the resultant effect on planet Earth. You can say that this moment is like twilight, just before full evening sets in and everything is completely dark. You wouldn't see anything, if I drew that. "And there was evening and there was morning, a first day." (Ge 1:5b) That last statement represents the start of the Creative Days!
We have to take special note of the sequence of day and night. Is it night and day; or day and night? Remember, that Jehovah creates Light. We now have universal lighting conditions. He then divides it, by making the MUMBR have two global modes: 'on' and 'off.' What is important to note is that the counting of the creative days starts - not with light conditions, but with the darkness. I have said that the above illustration shows the universe just before full night came. When it came Jehovah started counting the creative days, for his reckoning starts with the dark conditions of evening: "And there was evening and there was morning, a first day." It couldn't be clearer. This, again, is why the Jewish reckoning of days, started in the evening and lasted until the beginning of the following days evening! So, the above illustration represents the first half of the day, and below is the second, or closing half!
& Ends with the Morning!
DAY 2: "Let there be an Expanse Between the Waters"
Then God said: 'Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let there be a division between the waters and the waters.'Ge 1:6
Up until now, the Earth has been "formless and waste" or desolate. But that is now about to change.
It Starts with Evening ...
There was a considerable amount of water on planet Earth before Jehovah declared that the waters must be separated and an area he called "Heaven," which was an expanse between the waters must come into existence. It is noteworthy to consider the ways in which this heaven was different from the prototype of Heaven, which was the original heaven of Genesis 1:1. The fact that there is more than one heaven, is why the Bible uses the qualifier "ancient" heavens when describing the one that was created before the beginning of the creative days! (Ps 68:33) That term differentiates between Space, which is the original heavens of Genesis 1:1 - what is elsewhere descriptively called the "fine gauze," (Isa 40:22) i.e. the universal web of halos, filaments, and voids! How then is Space different from an expanse? Space is something; while an "expanse" is the absence of something, being defined, as it is, by the surrounding parameters of what borders it in - as opposed to its own native dimensions.
Of course, if that was the only comparison between the two, the expanse could not be rightly called "Heaven." No, for that label to fit, it must have properties that are like Space - not just features that are opposite to it. The expanse called heaven does this in two ways. It is a volume that can hold objects, just like Space. And it has, according to Jehovah's design - a Habitable Zone(s) - just like the "ancient" Heavens does. In the case of Space, there is one overall Habitable Zone - even if there are "many abodes," (Joh 14:2) Just like there are many candidate first heavens (any exoplanet we can terraform successfully), but we will always label such as 'first heavens' - no matter how many we find and subdue! But that is not all for the Cosmos, for any subsequent exoplanets must reside withing a second tier of habitability - the second heavens. That equals the galactic habitable zones. Every first heavens, is nested inside the environment of a second heavens. In turn, all second heavens are bordered concentrically, by the spherical third heavens - like the rings on bull's eye.
While, we find that at the start of the second day (in the evening), as depicted above, there was much water on the Earth; after Jehovah "divided" the waters, the total volume left behind is greatly diminished. I have represented this below by reducing the mass of the watery deep greatly, which places the surface of the waters much closer to the continents underneath.
& Ends with the Morning!
EXPLANATORY NOTE
I have made the planet much bigger underneath the watery deep, to give the impression that much of the waters that were originally there have been separated off - "divided" - from the waters that are left on Earth, and in between them is the expanse where the Sun, moon, and stars were put into by God, upon his creating them on Day 4. I have not shown such upper waters as scientists are not doing their job - and there is thus not any empirical evidence as to where they are today. Instead they are spending research funds chasing black holes and alternate universes. Nonetheless, we can imagine them to be somewhere just inside of the Celestial Sphere of "Light" - but we won't depict that here. "And there was evening and there was morning, a second day." (Ge 1:8b) Onto Day 3.
DAY 3: "Let Dry Land Appear"
Then God said: 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, but the collecting of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was goodGe 1:9,10
It Starts with Evening ...
Jehovah accomplishes two monumental things on the third creative day: he makes continents rise to their current levels on Earth's surface, thereby limiting the seas (oceans) to their place in the topography of planet Earth - as we discussed in some detail in an earlier chapter. He does this in the first part of the day - under the darkness of the Night, or evening.
The second half of the day is just as busy. In it he starts creating the living support systems that will sustain the user-interface - not only of humans - but of all Earth's creatures: he creates delicious plant life "as food for you ... and to everything moving on the Earth, in which there is life." (Ge 1:29b,30) Jehovah is love! If you do not know that, you do not know anything at all! If you do know it, there is precious little else to know.
& Ends with the Morning!
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Now, under the full light of the 'day' portion of the overall third creative day: Jehovah creates plant life. You will remember, that, at a minimum, the creative days are multiple thousands of years long. It is this fact that alerts us to the narrow range of visible light that the MUMBR, or Light, was in from its inception at initial conditions onwards. If it was not in the visible light part of the electromagnetic spectrum - it could not have supported plant life for multiple millennia! Thus, how would the plants survive the turning off of the MUMBR as Day 3 ends and the start of the Day 4 starts: with its first portion of its cycle of day and night - the "Night?" This is not a question we need to ask when we are dealing with an entity as all encompassingly brilliant - as Jehovah Most Precious! We close the events of Day 3 according to the words of the account itself, as we thereafter move onto Day 4 ...
Then God said: 'Let the earth cause grass to sprout, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees according to their kinds, yielding fruit along with seed on the earth.' And it was so. And the earth began to produce grass, seed-bearing plants and trees yielding fruit along with seed, according to their kinds. Then God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third dayGe 1:11-13
DAY 4: Jehovah Creates the Cosmos!
Then God said: 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, but the collecting of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was goodGe 1:9,10
Most things that most people identify with the activity of "creation" and will point to saying, "God created this" or "God created that," - happen on this day! Day 4 is truly monumental from a human perspective. But for Jehovah - it took him just as long, for him to create the Cosmos, as it did for him to make land appear and terraform the Earth. That is incorrect. Terra-forming means turning something inhospitable to life-sustaining, like Mars, into a Habitable Zone like Earth - by introducing an atmosphere and enriching the soil to where it can support plant life, as an example. That is not what Jehovah did on Day 3. He created plant life! That, we will all readily admit is a feat that does not belong in the same category as - in effect - gardening. Now, you understand why the first responsibility Jehovah gave Adam was to be a gardener. (Ge 2:15) He had given us an example of what paradise looked like in the Garden of Eden, and according to his Fatherly wishes, he wanted us to spread that paradise, first, Earth-wide, and then once our knowledge base was sufficient, and we had advanced in other ways: to conquer the Cosmos - which he created as our eternal playground! Adam didn't make it to being 1 000 years old. Fool.
We need only flesh out our own solar system in illustration, as Jehovah replicated solar systems throughout the universe - in galaxies far and near. Below is the template. Again, Earth was a turnkey project, where Jehovah - our Loving God - did everything for his Earthly children. All we had to do was enjoy pleasures - forever! But, the rest of the Habitable Zones in the Cosmos, will be for us to "subdue," by terra-forming them to paradisaic standards. I marvel at people who think living forever will be boring. You deserve the unique death you are going to die! That is of little account. We are glorying in the beauty, wisdom, and power of our Almighty God. All such haters of Jehovah ... are of no account. Let's now take a closer look at the momentous events of a special day - Day 4. There are big changes afoot.
It Starts with Evening ...
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Of critical importance in understanding the two images, above and below, this note of explanation, is applying all the knowledge we have previously gained. For instance, why is the Earth so much bigger, when compared to Light/MUMBR at the beginning of the day than it is when it ends? Why are the more galaxies at the end of the day than just after it started? Why has Light, or the MUMBR changed from being just the yellow of being 'on,' and the darkness of being turned 'off'; to now displaying a speckled pattern. What is responsible for that? And what does it have to do with why there are so many more galaxies in the universe at the end the fourth creative day?
These and many other details you can think of, will be most enjoyably answered in group discussion. So, I encourage you to do just that. Have conversations with others who have gone through the material and find out what they might have picked up, that you might have missed - and vice a versa. Below are some of the answers.
A Dramatic Expansion in the Cosmos
The earth is bigger at the start of Day 4, as a ratio of the fact that the universe was much smaller, for Jehovah had not yet stretched the "ancient" Heavens - Space - in the first 3 creative days. This is because the total volume of baryonic matter was the same. Critical Density only changes when the mass of what is contained (in our case the Cosmos), changes, not when the existing mass is redistributed: as happened when the waters were divided, and an expanse between them created. Expanding the contents of the Cosmos so dramatically, meant there would need to be an equally dramatic stretching of Space to maintain Critical Density! This is exactly what all observational data tells us happened!
Maintaining Critical Density
As to why there are more galaxies at the end of the fourth day, than at an earlier point during the developments of that day - the answer is obvious. What is of more interest, is the fact that: as Jehovah was adding galaxies - through Christ fabricating them - He was personally stretching the Heavens ... keeping pace with Christ! What a team Jehovah and his awesome Son are! The empirical record from all observational data, tells us that this stretching started vigorously and slowed over time. That means the graph of Christ's production (production, not productivity, his productivity is always at 100% - because he is working for the glory of his beloved Father!) was at first very high. These are the galaxies farthest away from us - today. As we look closer and closer to home, the recessional speed (away from Earth) of the galaxies gets less and less. Thus, outside of our solar system, the first galaxies, Jehovah created through Christ's fabrication activities, are the ones that are currently most distant. The last galaxy(ies) to be created are the ones closest to us - the Andromeda galaxy etc. Today, the universe is at Critical Density, which means it is not expanding, since Jehovah has finished his creative works!
Thus the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. And by the seventh day, God had completed the work that he had been doing, and he began to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had been doing. And God went on to bless the seventh day and to declare it sacred, for on it God has been resting from all the work that he has created, all that he purposed to makeGe 2:1-3
From Uniform to Speckled: Why has the Appearance of Light Changed?
You might notice that this subheading is a sub-set of the last one. That is because the answer is a subset of our last answer. You will recall that Light/MUMBR is the highest capacity LiDAR system imaginable! It has been recording every large scale development in the entire universe for our benefit. It is the light that provides all the information Jehovah says he encoded into his creation "from the world's creation onward." (Ro 1:20) We know two things: everything we know about the universe, we have learned through light. Secondly without such light, we cannot gather any data. Thus, Jehovah's statement is not that we can find out how Genesis 1:1 came to be, for that is before Light appeared. "From the world's creation onward" relates to Keating's and Paul Steinhardt's "initial conditions." That is the zero entropy state the world was in at the advent of radiation, or as Jehovah put it: "Let there be Light!" I told you what one of my big brothers said: "Jehovah is a God of style. Everything he does - he does with style." I'm reminded of that when I quote Genesis 1:3. I say the advent of radiation; Jehovah says: "Let there be Light."
Jehovah. Is. Awe. Inspiring!
Getting back to the question of this section then: the speckles are the recordings of the development of the Cosmos in the form of lobes in the pattern of Light. Lobes that we can decompose mathematically through Fourier Analysis, and thus understand the coded data! Isn't the true science of the Bible wonderful! Who is like Jehovah? Tell me!
A Question I Will Leave for You
We have seen the pattern clearly that each creative day starts under conditions of darkness - and ends with light! Why, then have I decided to depict the fourth day in the opposite fashion? Why is the MUMBR bright at the beginning of the day, which we know is the "evening" portion of the overall Day, which lasts thousands of years; but dark in the "morning," end portion, of the day? Previously the pattern was the opposite. I will give you a clue. The Light/MUMBR represents two separate variables: the one is "on"/"off," which is how we used it in days 1 to 3. The question is: what is the second variable, which is so important that it takes precedence on Day 4? Happy thinking!
& Ends with the Morning!
You Live with the Effects of Days 5 & 6
I will not be drawing giraffes and elephants, butterflies and fireflies. These form a part of your everyday experience - and thus, do not need exposition to be understood. Its nature. And we all glory in it. Thus, our journey through the creative wonders of Genesis draws to a close. Above, our solar system is represented by the Earth. Below, is an illustration of what things looked like, on the local level, after the end of Day 4.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
It is fascinating that Jehovah spent most of his time focused intently on the improvements he was making to the Earth. He only dedicated one day to the Cosmos - Day 4. By the end of the fourth creative, all the stars and galaxies in existence, along with all their planets and moons, where all fabricated. An amazing achievement, considering that the Earth was the only celestial object in the Cosmos (aside from Light), just that evening - when Day 4 started!
Putting it all Together!
As is our practice, we will now synthesize all our knowledge into one coherent picture of reality! Our discussion is centered on the heavens - and why there are three of them. We know that there are giraffes in the first heavens; and stars in the second heavens; and angels in the third - but our main focus is not on the peripheral details: but on Jehovah's thoughts. The holy grail of synthesizing Science and the Bible, is the realization of Einstein's - and every other serious scientists deepest wishes:
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are detailsAlbert Einstein
And, as a bonus ...
Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him" Johannes Kepler
Giraffes, stars, and angels - are details. What you have just read is the greatest scientific journey of discovery ever published - or that will ever be published - in the history of mankind. I have told it to you as it has been revealed to me - and me alone - by my Father, who lives in Heaven ... and lives in me (and in the 144 000 other individuals, who are as privileged as I am). (1Co 2:7-10; 3:16; 2Co 6:16-18): It is the story, not of details, but of Jehovah's thoughts - and their realization - through the creation of his magnificent, awe-inspiring universe! It is the greatest story ever told. And all who love Jehovah, his wonderful Christ, and truth - will glorify Him endlessly! All praise belongs to Jehovah!:
You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and were createdRe 4:11
And ...
I am Jehovah. That is my name; I give my glory to no one else, nor my praise to graven imagesIsa 42:8
There are many aspects to The Greatest Story Ever Told. That is why there are 300 episodes. But in all of them, the same format will be followed: synthesizing the Bible and Science to show reality as it is - to let people know God's thoughts on this or that subject.
Below, is the final reality - and realization - of God's thoughts on the creation of the universe and its two realms as encapsulated in the three heavens. These two realms, in turn constitute the two orders of existence - and all reality! Isn't the true Science of the Bible wonderful - and simple! No metaphysics. Just facts, logic & reason - which = faith!
EXPLANATORY NOTE
As you scroll out, you will be going through each of the heavens. They are demarcated through green Habitable Zones. Identify them at the solar, galactic and Inzintian scale of Space itself - the "third heavens!" Once you zoom out far enough, you will see a very faint Light, in the background (clues to lose ends, anyone). This is the Celestial Sphere. The very end of the universe. Nothing baryonic exists outside that parameter. The halo you will see in green is very significant! It is not just a heavenly Habitable Zone - it is where Jehovah himself has built his own personal abode. He lives in the Inzintian halo that encompasses the Earth. Not in some other halo, towards the edges of the universe. Jehovah loves us! The slow zoom speed is intentional to reflect the neighbourhoods that the fantastic Fotini Markopoulou told us about so long ago. I used it to communicate the vastness of the distances the illustration is covering!
Next: we tackle the long-promised subject of ... "The Last Frontier."