Genesis 1:1 – 2:3 · Featured Study
The Creation Week
In six ordinary days God first forms three empty realms, then fills each one — and crowns the finished whole “very good.” The design is the doctrine: a world made by a word, ordered by separation, and made ready for rest.
Days 1–3 · Forming the realms
Days 4–6 · Filling them
“Let there be light.”
Light, divided from darkness — Day and Night
“Let there be lights in the firmament.”
Sun, moon, and stars — to rule, for signs and seasons
“Let there be a firmament.”
The expanse (raqia), dividing the waters — Heaven
“Let the waters swarm… let birds fly.”
Sea creatures and birds — the first living souls
“Let the dry land appear… let the earth put forth.”
Land and Sea; grass, herbs, fruit-trees after their kind
“Let the earth bring forth… Let us make man.”
Land animals; then man, male and female, in God's image, given dominion
God rests and sanctifies the seventh day — the goal the whole week moves toward, and the pattern of Israel's week (Exod 20:11).Gen 2:1–3 →
MannaFest's Reading
Six ordinary days. Each is marked “evening and morning” and a counted number, and the Fourth Commandment grounds Israel's literal week in the creation week (Exod 20:11). Read with the genealogies (ch. 5, 11), this yields a young earth. The day-age and framework readings are noted and answered under the reader's contested section.
Christ in the Week
- “In the beginning” — the Word who made all things (John 1:1–3; Col 1:16).
- “Let there be light” — the pattern of new-creation light in the heart (2 Cor 4:6).
- The image of God restored in Christ, “the image of the invisible God” (Col 1:15).