The Creation Week Cycle

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This section takes a look at the creation as if it was done in a pattern that mirrors the typical human development cycle. This lays out a framework that we can use when we get off track and feel lost.

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This is an application of the Creation week as explained in Genesis 1. The view is that God created in a pattern that also matches true spiritual development.

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People start off their lives in darkness, adrift without grounding. God creates light first so we can get a handle on the truth of our circumstances. We need to see how bad things really are for us to come to terms with the depth of help we need. Hopelessness is what brings us to transforming repentance. God, help me!

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On the second day of creation God clears the atmosphere, enhancing our vision. He clears the air around earth, creating an open sky, so we can see up into heaven. This vision opens us up to our potential. Now we have a contrast: how bad things are on earth and how good heaven looks. We get hungry for substance.

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Which brings us to the third day of creation. The waters on the earth separated, dry land appeared, and plants began to grow. Once we have our vision clarified, on day 2, we move on to make the vision possible. This is what we need to do. We create space by moving the waters of chaos out of the way and expose our dry land, on which life can grow. We are deeply serious. We are laying the foundation of life.

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On day 4 we see the calendar is created. God puts the sun and moon in the sky and gives them authority to mark seasons, days, and years. This is the foundation of a worldview with interacting cycles that grow life on earth. It is the framework for the spiritual calendar, with weekly, monthly and years cycles. So after things begin to grow on day 3 we have a context for planning the future, and what we are looking to accomplish. Our worldview develops.

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On day 5 we have the creation of birds and fish. They inhabit the non-land portions of earth, where humanity doesn’t live. They live beyond our reach, but they are still part of our dominion responsibility. This is going to take sophisticated creativity. And it will take an out of the box heart approach. We must care for them just as much as the animals we interact with on land. We are called into creativity.

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Consider this example. It’s like making disciples in Judea, Samaria, and the outermost portions of earth. We need to immigrate to foreign countries and accept major cultural differences to fly and swim in their terrain, until the Gospel life we live brings people to Christ. This is a missionary context and mirrors the more challenging parts of our community life. We are exercising creativity. And, when we look at the Kingdom Jesus sets up for God, He emphasizes that we will be given authority over cities, based on our developed capacity, from our use of creativity. Luke 19

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On day 6 we have the creation of all types of animals and people. Humanity was created in God’s image to be able to oversee everything on earth. Interestingly almost all mammals, amphibians and reptiles travel on 4 feet, like in a bowed condition. They tend to show themselves to be perpetually submitted to our dominion by living bowed. Do we appreciate the level of authority God has given us? Do we treasure the responsibility for the creation God has given us sovereignty over? The level we saw Jesus exercise in 3 short years? This is an area of growth that takes us into the richness of an Edenic experience in life.

 

On day 7 God filled the day with rest. It was a special rest, designed to pervade the creation, and be the end of the creation. This rest was to prevail in the atmosphere. It was to intoxicate humanity’s mindset in our dominion of earth: God designed this to work well, for people to easily handle. Fruit growing on trees is reached in an upright position. Later, after the Fall, humanity must work bowed to the ground for agriculture. We now live perpetually submitted to our enemy since we separated from God. As Jesus said, "My yoke is easy, my burden is lite." This too must become our experience. Much maturing to do, but such a rich experience. We can tell that from the future restoration of this nature of Rest during God’s restored kingdom on earth.

 

Isaiah 11:1-11

 

1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

3 His delight is in the fear of the Lord, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;

4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, And decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.

5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

6 "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them.

7 The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea.

10 "And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious."

11 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

 

 

Isaiah 65:20-25

 

20 "No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22 They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat; For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble; For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, And their offspring with them.

24 "It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, The lion shall eat straw like the ox, And dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," Says the Lord.

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All living things are instructed to fill the earth. This is God’s instruction as He creates living creatures: be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. It’s a full statement, with every verb dynamic, not just one reference. God wants life to find a way. As Jesus pointed out: we gather all types into the kingdom. He’ll sort them out later. We don’t have to require quality. We just need to get them born again and He’ll take it from there. He is their Lord!

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