90 Day Bible Reading Plan Devotional Day 1

Genesis 1:1 and 1:2

1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

The first line in the AV 1611 proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that this book is going to be the most unusual one ever written. There are ten words in the sentence. (In the Hebrew text there are seven.) This undesigned coincidence is remarkable when one studies the numerology of the Bible and learns that the number seven is the number of “perfection” or completion given as a sign to Israel (see comments on Gen. 2:1), while the number ten is the number of the Gentile (see comments on Gen. 10:10).

The Hebrew text, under the examination of the Russian scholar Panin, exhibits even greater peculiarities which space will not permit listing. Psalm 12:6 tells us that the Hebrew text is “tried...seven times.” Since God told the Hebrews to observe “sevens” throughout their national feasts (see Lev. 23, 25), we are not surprised to find the opening words of the Hebrew Bible (Gen. 1:1) are “Berashith bara Elohim eth hashamayim waeth ha’aretz”—7 words, with 28 Hebrew letters (4x7), 14 letters in the subject (2x7), 14 letters in the predicate (2x7), and “God” as the third word in the sentence.

But the wonders of the text only begin here. A theologian, upon examining Genesis 1:1, is struck by the fact that in the very first verse of the Bible, without apologies to anyone, the Holy Spirit attacks the six favorite philosophies or religions of mankind.

1. “GOD created”: this denies atheism, for the first statement is that there is a God present. (There went Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky!)

2. “GOD created”: notice the singular. The “gods” (Psa. 82:6 and 2 Cor. 4:4) did not create the Universe. There went the Babylonian mythology of the “demiurge,” and there went Siva, Krishna, Pali, and a thousand Hindu “deities.” (No wonder the Bible leaves a bad taste in an ecumenical mouth!)

3 . “GOD created”: if God “created,” and Jesus said that He did—see Mark 13:19—then Darwin has blundered and has led astray 80 percent of the high school teachers in America. Nor does “Theistic Evolution” offer a decent substitute, for the statement is that God “CREATED”; He “evolved” nothing. Jesus was a “Creationist” (Mark 13:19), and Moses said “Amen” to this theology in Deut. 4:32. If Jesus “corrected Moses” in the Sermon on the Mount (and the Liberals believe that He did), how is it that He forgot to correct Moses’ mistaken ideas about volution and Creationism?

4. “God created THE HEAVEN” : the verse now takes a sideswipe at Unity, Unitarianism, Brahmanism, and Christian Science, for the verse declares that God is separate from His creation. This defeats the philosophy of “pantheism” which teaches that God is “one with matter.” The universe is not God, and God is not “the heaven.” It therefore follows that the “Kingdom of God” is not the “Kingdom of Heaven,” for “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24), and the “heavens” are literal, physical, visible elements. (See book The Sure Word of Prophecy. ) Heaven, in the Scriptures, is used as the space between the earth and the clouds (Acts 1:8–12; Job 35:5), the space between the atmosphere and the solar system (Gen. 1:1), and the space between the galaxies and the presence of God Himself (see commentary on Revelation, Rev. 4:1–6). This direction is straight north, over the star Alpha Draconis (Psa. 75:6,7, 48:2; Isa. 14:12–14; Job 26:7, 37:22). No understanding is needed of the Hebrew (Shamayim) or the Greek (ouranos) for an understanding of a cosmology superior to that taught at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.

5. “IN THE BEGINNING God”: the verse now attacks the Greek philosophers (regardless of which school they professed to follow), for all Greek philosophers believed in the eternity of matter, exactly as it is taught in the state universities today. The heavens are not “in the beginning” (see the corrupt translation by Goodspeed); God is in the “beginning” (see John 1:1 and 1 John 1:1 for the Holy Spirit’s comment).

6. “IN THE BEGINNING GOD created”: clearly indicating the intervention of supernatural power into the visible element and the time element. This is clearly an attack on Kierkegaards’s “existentialism,” and it is somewhat of an insult to Calvin’s fatalism. God does have an active interest in His creation and does insert Himself into the activities of His creatures (see Psa. 148). The glorious uphill procession of the “blind staggers” into an unknown future is a doctrine which Genesis 1:1 defeats at the start.

The Bible, therefore, begins with six pieces of hate literature written for the purpose of overthrowing the major religious and philosophical propositions of the twentieth century. This explains all the opposition which the Bible receives, and it clearly marks the Book, from the beginning, as a negative attack on man. Man is against the Bible because it is against him.

In verse 1 of the Book, we can find all the elements of science summed up in 10 words: (1) Time —beginning, (2) Space—heavens, (3) Motion—created, (4) Matter—the earth, (5) Energy—God created.

David, a man who accepted God’s pronouncements against him (2 Sam. 16:10–12), was correct when he stated: “Thy word is true from the beginning” (Psa. 119:160).

The last thing to notice about this opening verse in the Bible is that the date of creation is not given. Although a “recreation” is described in verses 2–20, no date is given for Genesis 1:1. We should notice this, as most college professors and high school teachers display their ignorance at this point. They assume that the Bible teaches that the earth is only 6,000 years old (dated according to Archbishop Ussher’s chronology). This is quite typical of Bible-rejecting education. (Very seldom do critics of the Bible have even a handful of facts with which to work.) The earth could have been here a good 4,000,000 years before God “recreated it” in seven evenings and mornings. Read the text closely; it is much more “scientific” than the superficial guesswork of Einstein, Darwin, Huxley, Millikan, or Bernard Ramm.

1:2 “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

The Hebrew verb reads “tohu vabohu” and implies a previous catastrophe and then a “remaking.” This introduces a mysterious element into the narrative which has never yet been explained satisfactorily by commentators. The standard interpretation is arrived at by lining up the verse with John Milton’s fable of Satan falling from heaven with his angels. But Milton put the expulsion in the past, whereas the verse he used for proof, Revelation 12:4–8, is clearly future. Jeremiah 4:23 and Isaiah 14:17 are other verses produced to teach this doctrine. The argument is that the world was once populated by a “pre-Adamic” race—and this must follow, for there are “cities,” “birds,” “kings,” and “men” in the contexts of Jeremiah 4:23 and Isaiah 14:17—and that this race and “pre-Adamic world” were destroyed by a terrible ice age or meteorite bombardment from outer space or an ice cap or something that had to do with Satan’s fall. The argument is not without difficulty, although some of it checks with the other Scriptures.

1. Man, as such, does not show up in the Scriptures until after the recreation (see Gen. 1:27, 2:7).

2. The first city is built by a murderer in Genesis 4:17.

3. No animals show up in the Scriptures until Genesis 1:20.

4. The contexts of Jeremiah 4:23 and Isaiah 14:17 is obviously the same as that of Revelation 12:3–10; it is the Great Tribulation, which is yet future.

However, it is plain to see that something happened which destroyed the original creation. Satan was in some way connected with it, for he is called the “god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4). He is the “demiurge” of the Babylonian Cuneiform tablets, and of course, he is the universal “father of all mankind” worshipped by the contemporary race-mixer and liberal theologian.

At this point, the student must be prompt and attentive to believe the word of God where it is written, as he finds it. The key to understanding Genesis 1:2 is found in the unsearchable riches of the AV 1611, but it is carefully concealed from the unbeliever (see l Cor. 1–2). Comparing Scripture with Scripture, the Holy Spirit reveals:

1. Although men were not present before the creation of Adam and Eve, something like men must have been present, for beings called the “sons of God” are mentioned in connection with the preAdamic earth (Job 38:1–8).

2. These “sons of God” appear in Genesis 6:1–6 (see comments).

3. These “sons of God” are angels who appear (like all angels) as young men without wings; they are taken to be “gods” when they land on earth (Acts 14:11).

4. These “gods” are the constant theme of the Old Testament warnings, and the power of Satan is well illustrated by the fact that all Fundamental, Catholic, Liberal, and Neo-Orthodox commentators mistake the “gods” of John 10:34 for Old Testament “Jewish judges”!

5. These “gods” will be mistaken by John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Anders, Bormann, and Von Braun to be “men from other planets” when they put in their third appearance on this earth (see Luke 17:26–30).

6. These “gods” were on this earth before Adam. They came in male form, and were under the “god of this world,” before Genesis 1:3 (see Psa. 82:6, 86:8, 82:1, 97:7, 96:5, 97:9; Job 21:22). What they did to this earth between 3000 B.C. and 2340 B.C. they will do again in the near future. (You don’t have to pay extra for that; I just threw that in there because it will come to pass whether anyone believes it or not!)

7. In mythology (see the definitive work by Hislop, The Two Babylons), these are the “gods” of Socrates (471 B.C.), Homer (100 B.C.), Ovid, Virgil (100 B.C.), Horace (100 B.C.), Herodotus (413 B.C.), and Sophocles (405 B.C.). –Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, Commentary Genesis

On The GAP and the fall of satan

"Another problem among the brethren is their views vary for example when it comes to trying to pinpoint when Satan fell. Some say he fell on the second or third day. Believe it or not there are still others who go so far to the extreme and say that he couldn’t have fallen until Adam fell. There are differences of opinion when he fell. They will say that God created the universe in 6 days starting from Genesis 1:1 and it runs through verse 2 without any “break” or “gap” to the end of the chapter, despite the fact that verses 2, 4-8 have so many negative blasts in them that you couldn’t possibly smooth them over unless your approach to the Book was subjective and positive, just like Satan’s “Yea (that’s positive) hath God said…” Verse 2 alone is a 4-fold negative blast, “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Let’s break the verse down;

1. “the earth was without form – NEGATIVE!

2. “and void…” – NEGATIVE!

3. “and darkness…” - NAGATIVE!

4. “was upon the face of the deep – NAGATIVE! (as we shall see).

How do you reconcile the fact that God said, “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, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else” (Isaiah 45:18) when in Genesis 1:2 you’ve got –

“the earth was without form – NEGATIVE! “and void…” – NEGATIVE! “and darkness…” – NAGATIVE! “was upon the face of the deep – NAGATIVE!

There is no possible way to reconcile “he created it not in vain” with “without form” “void” “darkness” etc. other than to say that God’s creation was a PROCESS. THAT IS EVOLUTION, the very thing they accuse evolution creationists of. They fell into their own trap.

There is yet another “missing link” as to who Leviathan is. They can’t figure out whether Leviathan was a crocodile, an elephant, whale, or a hippopotamus, to deny that FACT that Satan himself is a seven-headed sea monster. More on that later.

The anti-gap theorists use Romans 5:12 as their foundation upon which they build their theory. Anybody can prove from the Bible his or her own convictions and then make those convictions a Bible doctrine. Karl Marx used the Bible to prove communism by using Acts 2:44 and 4:32. Hitler had “theological” reasons to kill about 7 million Jews. Stalin killed close to 20 million, a great many of them were murdered in the Gulags during former Soviet Russia. Of course he had “good reason” for doing that. The bloody whore of the Catholic Church (Rev. 17-18) has her “theological” reasons to reign over the kings of the earth. So that is nothing new. Any and all heresies always have an element of truth in them and come across very positive to fool the unconcerned and naïve Christian. Heresy is always truth that has been twisted just a little bit." –The GAP Fact by Bro. Perry Demopoulos ThD