Creation Time Table

King James Version Comment
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 		Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Christ existed before being born as the human Jesus, and it was through his power, and the will of his father, that the universe was created.

Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Exod 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you

Jesus was in fact, the same person as the God of the Old Testament, jhvh, the I am, the God who talked to Adam, Abraham, and Moses, the God who caused the flood and created the ten commandments.

It was for this apparent blasphemy, a human claiming to have been God, that he was threatened and eventually killed.

John 8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Deut 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

The Hebrew scriptures frequently refer to God as the Rock. The Greek scriptures indicate that it was that same Rock that was incarnated as Jesus.

1Cor 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

God is translated from the Hebrew word Elohim, which is plural, consistent with the pre-existence of Christ.

son of ... is a Hebrew figure of speech, not meant to be taken literally (as it would be in the Greek scriptures that refer to Jesus as the Son of God).

The angels already existed at the time the universe was created, approximately 15 thousand million years ago. morning stars possibly refers to those angels under Lucifer with sons of God referring to those under the other archangels, Gabriel and Michael.

  Ezek 28:12 ... Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Ezekiel and Isaiah compare the kings of their day with Lucifer, the archangel that rebelled against God. As a result of his treason, he became known as Satan, or the devil, and the angels that followed him as demons.

Isai 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The rebelling spirits were banned from Heaven and confined to Earth.

Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
2Pet 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

And just as the flood destroyed the old earth of man during Noah's time, the rebellion destroyed the ancient earth of the angels. It was in this pre-Adamic world that creatures such as dinosaurs lived.

Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Despite being confined to Earth, Satan is still the God of this world. He was deceiving the world in Jesus's day, and still is today.

When Satan offered him rulership of the world, Jesus did not deny that it was Satan's to offer.

John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
2Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form [tohu], and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Isai 45:18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain [tohu], he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

Isaiah tells us that God did not create a world that is described by the Hebrew word tohu (which is elsewhere translated as ruin, waste, etc.), yet in the second verse of the Bible, that is how the world is described. But that is because of the vast destruction caused by Satan's rebellion, not because it was created that way.

In the King James version of the Bible, forms of the verb to be are often written in italics to indicate that the word did not appear in the original Hebrew, where the simple state of being does not require a verb. But in this verse, was is not italicized as it is the direct translation of a word in the original Hebrew text. That word, hayah, does not indicate a simple state of being, but has connotations of change of state. The New International Version has a footnote stating that it could have been translated as became, just as the same word is translated in Genesis 19:26 (... became a pillar of salt).

This possibly very long time period between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 is not, as some might think, a recent invention to counter the claims of modern science. It was debated by Middle Age scholars, and was not an uncommon belief centuries before that, such as The Targum of Onkelos, a second century Aramaic translation of the Bible, which renders this as and the earth was laid waste.

1Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.  

This massive destruction had left the earth's atmosphere opaque (like the effects of a nuclear winter), but now God caused the dust to settle and the air become translucent, allowing sunlight through.

The day is created as a 24-hour period, from sunset to sunset.

Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 1:7 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. 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 2Cor 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

The atmosphere, here called heaven, is now clearing.

Genesis 1:1 should be translated as God created the heavens, since the Hebrew word shamayim is plural, (like cherubim or the word Elohim also used in that verse). Depending upon context, there are three meanings to heaven. The first heaven is simply the earth's air, the second is space beyond the atmosphere, and the third is the location of God's throne.

Gen 1:9 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. 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 1:11 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. 1:12 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. 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.  

Most or all of the land had been submerged beneath the seas, but now it is lifted above and new plant life created and allowed to grow.

Gen 1:14 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: 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 1:16 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. 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 1:18 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. 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Lev 23:2 ... Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.
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The atmosphere is finally clean and the sun, moon, and stars (in the second heaven) can be seen.

The Hebrew word moed, here translated as seasons, is elsewhere translated to such expressions as appointed time, feast, congregation, or assembly.

The Revised English Bible translation is let them serve as signs both for festivals and for seasons and years.

Gen 1:20 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. 1:21 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. 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.  

Now sea-life and birds are created.

Gen 1:24 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. 1:25 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. 1:26 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. 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 1:28 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. 1:29 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. 1:30 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. 1:31 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.  

Now land-animals are created.

Then God (notice the use of us and our) creates man. Humans are unlike the other creatures, being the image of God and made responsible for the Earth.

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Lev 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Exod 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Finally God creates the Sabbath day for man, as a permanent symbol and reminder that the world was created by God and not by man.

Note especially that it is the sabbath of the LORD, not of the Jews, or of man.