GENESIS 1:1

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

The Bible begins with an independent narrative statement, and not a summary of the whole chapter or a title.  It simply declares God as the creator of a perfect universe.

TIME:         In the beginning

POWER:    God Created – Source of knowledge, design, cosmic order

SPACE:      The Heavens

MATTER:  The Earth – A mineral garden containing all 92 elements. Four Basic Forces of Nature- Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces

Since this is the beginning of all things from the very start of time, this includes the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation that fills all of space in every direction.  This is the oldest radiation ever detected.

The Universe was created with time, space, matter, and every type of energy.  It was created with the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background of -455 Degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.725 Kelvin. The heavens and the earth were of a specific size, possibly 8,000 light years in diameter, the distance to all the stars visible without a telescope.  The point is God created the universe instantly at a specific size and temperature. There is no expansion of the Universe until the creation of the stars on the fourth day.

Young earth creationists and deep time evolutionists all agree that the Cosmic Microwave Background is not associated with any stars, dust, or galaxies, and is the most perfect radiation in the universe.  This places the CMB in Genesis 1:1, the only perfectly created (Hebrew ‘Bara’) space before God made the sun, moon, and stars on day four.

“A sensitive radio telescope detects a faint background glow, that is almost uniform and is not associated with any star, galaxy, or other object.  This glow is found to be strongest in the microwave region of the radio spectrum.  This background radiation was discovered by Penzias and Wilson in the year 1964.”

    Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Physicsanduniverse.com

Danny Faulkner, from Answers in Genesis, on pages 73 and 74 of his “Universe by Design”, Master Books, 2004, states the “CBR cannot be caused by dust or starlight…thermal radiation from dust should be very inhomogeneous, unlike the very smooth CBR.”

This idea is repeated by Dr. Jake Hebert on page 71, “Universe”, by ICR, Institute for Creation Research, 2024, “We observe very faint but uniform electromagnetic radiation – radiation not associated with particular stars or galaxies – coming from all directions in space…brightest in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

The interesting phenomenon that has recently appeared in science journals is that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has an axis that is in line with the plane of the Solar System.  This indicates that the Cosmic Microwave Background is local in origin, since there is an alignment with the ecliptic plane of the Solar System.

This only confirms the first sentence of the Bible as the true picture of the original cosmos: the fact of the earth itself being there, is the reason that the orbital plane of the solar system is found imbedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background.  The Earth and the CMB were created at the same time and place: that is why they are linked together.

The significance of this is that the Cosmic Microwave Background, the main proof of the Big Bang theory of the cosmos, is really a Local Microwave Background that is nearby and not 13 billion light years away. 

In the scientific literature on Cosmology this is known as “The Axis of Evil”.  This alignment between the Cosmic Microwave Background, the oldest radiation, and the plane of the Solar System, was noticed in data from the WMAP satellite, and then confirmed by the more sensitive instruments of the Planck satellite.  The astronomers hoped it would go away. It did not.

It is called the “Axis of Evil”, because it calls into question the entire ‘Big Bang Theory’, evolution, and the science fiction of a ‘Multiverse’ (infinite universes from which we are one possibility).

“The universe being what it is, we have been sent a few curveballs from its first light.  Adding to the infamous ‘cold spot’, physicists found a trail of anomalous hot and cold spots stretching out along an axis, dubbed the “Axis of Evil” in a 2005 paper.  Even more annoyingly, this axis aligns with our solar plane (the plane on which the planets of the Solar System orbit the Sun)…If statistical errors, data collection errors, and other local causes are eliminated and the problem remains, we could need new physics…If the data is correct, it has big implications regarding our universe.”

“Why Does Our Solar System Align With The Axis Of Evil?”

 James Felton, iflscience.com, May 8, 2024.

“The Axis of Evil”, Kate Land and Joao Magueijo, Theoretical Physics Group, Imperial College, London, February 11, 2005.

Yes, indeed, the ‘new physics’ is the order of creation originally given to us in the Bible, by the Creator God Himself.  Only God was there!

“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

There are several places in the Bible that are not only scientifically accurate, but even thousands of years ahead of its time.

1) The number of stars equal to about the number of grains of sand:

You can only see about 5,000 stars, but you can hold about 5,000 grains of sand in your hands.  It was not fully understood until the Hubble Deep Field Photo in 1995 that there were 10 to the 23rd power number of stars (one trillion galaxies with 100 billion stars each).  God told Abraham in 2000 BC, “ I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore.”  Genesis 22:17

2) Gravity, the Earth in space:

God told Job about 2000 BC, “He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.”  Job 26:7

3) Expanding Universe:

Ancient cultures believed the stars were fixed in place.  Edwin Hubble in the 1920’s saw the galaxies receding from each other with redshifts detected by the 100 inch telescope on Mt. Wilson. God told Zechariah about 500 BC,

“The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.”  Zechariah 12:1

I include this verse, because it describes the complete realm of the cosmos:

The true God creator of the universe found only in the Bible

The heavens stretching or expanding containing the stars and galaxies

The earth that is the center of God’s plan; where Jesus was crucified

The innermost personal part of man, his very own spirit of life

GENESIS 1:2

“‘Now’ the earth ‘became’ formless, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” 

This is the true translation from the original Hebrew based on language experts.

What became of the perfect ‘Cosmos’ was chaos and Divine judgment.  The words ‘waste and void’, ‘tohu va vohu’, in Hebrew, are always a negative when used together.  ‘Darkness’ is definitely associated with judgment and evil throughout the Bible. The ‘deep’, ‘tehom’, is the ‘opaque deep’, or the abyss.  Not one of these words describes the original perfectly created (Bara) world of Genesis 1:1.

It is not logical for God to ‘curse’ the Universe to begin with.  The earth ‘became’ cursed because of the Fall of Satan.  This is a ‘gap’ of time, only for the fall of Satan: this is not geologic ages and millions of years, but a curse on the earth, making it ‘formless and void’.  There is no death here before Adam’s sin.  We maintain the correct theology of the Bible. The ‘gap’ of time may only have been six days long, equal to the time that God will take to reconstruct the heavens and the earth. 

Genesis 1:2 in Hebrew contains fourteen words.  After the first two words, “now the earth became”, there are six words that describe the curse on the earth, and then six words beginning with ‘ruach’, God’s Spirit, preparing the way for the re-creation of the heavens and the earth.  This is all in the same verse.

It is this short ‘gap’ that separates us from the original perfect creation. Thus the source of the Cosmic Microwave Background becomes a distant ‘relic’ radiation from the past.  But the memory of the plane of the original earth has been imbedded in the Cosmic Background Radiation.  Astronomers call this the “Axis of Evil”, because the explanation of the Universe itself may be completely different from the current models.  The Bible and Genesis 1:1, it turns out, are the best descriptions of how everything came to be, and the true meaning of why you and I are here.

The Bible comes first, and then we see the science follows.  

THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION AND THE SABBATH REST

Let us look at the Hebrew word for ‘day’: Yom. This could mean long periods of time, but it is always a 24 hour day when it is used with a numbered order, First, Second, Third, etc.  Also, if the text uses the words ‘evening and morning’, it is again only 24 hours. Genesis Chapter One uses both of these formats, so it is definitely 24 hour days.  Adam and Eve were there on the seventh 24 hour day.  The day of rest only makes sense if all of the other six days are 24 hours.

The re-creation of the cosmos begins in Genesis 1:3, and is separated from Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The six days of creation have a special wording and format that is not found in the first two verses.

We see in Genesis 1:3-5, God is creating light on the first day. The format continues for the six days:

“And God said,”

“Let there be” - Light

“And there was” - Light

“And God made” - Divided the light from the darkness

“And God called” - The light Day, and the darkness he called Night

“And God saw” - The light, that it was good

“And the evening and the morning” - Were the first day (2nd,3rd,etc.)

FIRST DAY

The Light: 
Dividing of Light from Darkness

The Light of God Protects the Universe from Darkness;

Physical Darkness and Spiritual Darkness 

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.  And the evening and the morning were the first day.”  Genesis 1:3-5

God is lifting the darkness that was part of the curse on the earth.  He is separating the darkness from the light, and calling it good.  The source of this light is the ‘Shekinah Glory’ of God, before the sun, moon, and stars.  A 24 hour day only requires the earth to be spinning and a source of light.  This light would include all of the electromagnetic spectrum:  radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.

“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”  II Corinthians 4:6

SECOND DAY

The Sky: The ‘Rakia’, the Firmament or Stretching out of the Sky

                  The Sky Protects the oceans and air from evaporating

                  The Magnetosphere Protects the earth from Solar radiation

“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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. 

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” Genesis 1:6-8

God is creating the sky, an expanse, ‘the Rakia’, dividing out the waters on the earth from the waters above in the sky.  God is preparing the earth for life, so He is placing a protective covering over the land and the oceans.  As part of this covering, He is working on the iron core of the earth.  This will create the Magnetosphere, a ‘Magnetic Bubble’ of charged particles that will surround the earth and protect life from the harmful high energy rays of the sun, the solar wind.  This is why the Earth, with its protective shields, had to be created ‘before’ the Sun.

The Science follows the Bible: the Earth first with its protective shields, before God made the Sun and Stars.

There is one additional source of water, and it is inside the Earth.  It was just discovered that there are ‘oceans’ of water 400 miles inside the earth attached to a mineral called ‘ringwoodite’.  There is enough water to provide for ‘Noah’s Flood’. 

“New Evidence for Oceans of Water Deep in the Earth”, Brookhaven National Laboratories, June 13, 2014.

This is the only day not called ‘good’.  The third day will be called good twice.

THIRD DAY

The Dry Land:

Separated out from the Gathering of the Seas

The Dry Land Protects life from Tidal Waves

Plant Life: 
Produces Food and Oxygen for the Higher Animals

Plants create Oxygen - Protects life from the Sun’s UV rays

“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.  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.”  Genesis 1:9,10 

“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….and God saw that is was good.” Genesis 1:11,12 

There are three types of vegetation presented here:

1) Grass and Grains

2) Vegetables

3) Trees with Fruit

God is preparing the earth for animals and Man himself.  There is an abundant supply of liquid water, vegetarian food for all God’s creatures, and an atmosphere that holds the air we breathe and the moisture in the clouds.  There is also a protective bubble, the Magnetosphere, that shields us from the high energy rays of the Sun and the stars.

FOURTH DAY

The Sun: Creates the Heliosphere - a Protective Shield from other Stars

The Moon and Planets:  Protect the Earth from Comets and Asteroids

The Stars and Galaxies: Declare the Glory of God

Gravitationally hold the Solar System and Galaxy Clusters in place

With the Sun and Moon- Reference for Time and Signs on the Earth

“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divided the day from the night: and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: ” Genesis 1:14

This verse indicates the normal division of time was already in place during the first week of creation: day and night, seasons, and years.

“And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.”  Genesis 1:15

“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.”  Genesis 1:16

This shows us that light was visible on the earth the same day the sun, moon, and stars were created.  This could only be possible if they were made less than ‘One Light Day’ distance, about 16 billion miles. Traveling at the Speed of Light, the Light from the Sun reaches Earth in 8.2 minutes, and sunlight reaches Pluto in 5.3 hours, 4 billion miles away.  The Stars were created at a distance of about 12 billion miles, about 18 light hours away, so their light could reach us in One Day.

We see that God created the Sun, Moon, and Stars in a two-part process.  The Sun and Moon, the Solar System, were created first, and then “He made the stars also.” The Sun’s Solar Wind creates the Heliosphere, which is a protective bubble about 24 billion miles in diameter.  This ‘bubble’ protects us from deadly radiation of nearby stars and super novae.

The Science follows the Bible: the Solar System first with its Heliosphere, then God made the Stars.

The Earth by Day Three had a Magnetosphere and Atmosphere to protect us from the Sun.

Now that the Earth was ‘Double-Shielded’ by the Magnetosphere (protects from the Sun), and the Heliosphere (Protects from other stars), all the stars of the Universe could be created less than ‘One Light-Day’ away, about 12 billion miles.  About 5,000 stars are visible on a clear night, so only these had to be fully energized on Day Four.

Because ‘Space’ itself can expand faster than light, those trillions of stars could ignite as the Universe expanded.  This expansion of space on Day Four is the source of the Cosmic ‘Red Shift’: the stretching of light toward the longer, redder wavelengths.  This expansion of space begins at the edge of the Heliosphere, our Solar System’s ‘Protective Bubble’. Thus the Stars could fulfill their purpose by giving us light on the same day they were created.

The entire Solar System with the Earth, Sun, and Planets, was placed in our Milky Way Galaxy a safe distance from the high energy core.  We are 27,000 light years from the center of our Spiral Galaxy, on a spur of the Orion Arm.  Our Milky Way Galaxy has a diameter of 100,000 light years. The Local Group of Galaxies stretches 10 million light years, and is part of the Virgo Super-Cluster, which is about 100 million light years in diameter.  This again is nested in the larger ‘Super’ Super-Cluster of Galaxies, Laniakea: Hawaiian for “immense heaven”, 500 million light years in size.

Because of the enormous mass of all these stars created near us, there would be an extreme ‘Time Dilation’, according to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.  In simple terms, the Earth would experience only one day, while the Universe aged and expanded to 13 billion light years.

Clocks at sea level run slower than clocks on mountaintops, because they are nearer to the center of the mass of the Earth.  The great mass of all the stars would make all our ‘clocks’ run a lot slower.

The Stars and Galaxies certainly declare God’s Glory, Power, and Creativity!

Now to complete the creation of the cosmos with all the Clusters of Galaxies, we finally come to the Cosmic Web: The largest scale of the Universe.  It is called a ‘Web’, because the Galaxies are connected by filaments, sheets, and voids of Stars, stretching billions of light years.

The Great Cosmic Web can be described like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas and stars nourishing galaxies throughout the cosmos. Since the earth possessed the original 92 elements with all the laws of physics operational in Genesis 1:1, we are not made of ‘Stardust’, but the stars and nebulae are made of ‘Earth dust’. The Earth was made before the Sun, Moon, and the Stars!

This fills the work of the First Day: Sun, moon, and stars for lights to divide the Day from the Night.

The Bible has accounted for three main areas in Cosmology:

1) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB):

Created in Genesis 1:1, the oldest relic radiation in every direction, with an ‘Axis’ aligned with the Solar System. Proves the CMB was created at the same time and place as the Earth. Becomes a Local Microwave Background, (LMB).

2) Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium:

The source of the ‘lightest’ elements, and all 92 elements are found on the Earth in Genesis 1:1. The Earth was originally a ‘mineral garden’ containing all of the elements. Ezekiel 28:13,14

“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…in the midst of the stones of fire.”

Stars and nebula are made of ‘Earthdust’.  Stars can produce heavier elements with Gas (Hydrogen) and Dust (Oxygen, Silica, Iron) through nucleosynthesis - Fusing elements in their 20 million degree cores.

However, the original gas and dust came from the earth itself:

Hydrogen - From Earth’s Water

Oxygen - From Earth’s Atmosphere

Silica - From Earth’s Surface Land

Iron -  From Earth’s Core

3) Expansion of Space:

God says that ‘He stretches forth the Heavens’, when He made the Stars and Galaxies: 2700 years before Edwin Hubble discovered this.

The Bible first, then the science follows.

FIFTH DAY

The Fish: To Fill the Void in the Oceans

The Birds: To Fill the Void in the Skies

This fills the work of the second day, the sea and sky.

“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.” Genesis 1:20

“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.“ Genesis 1:21

God creates by speaking the Fish and the Birds into existence.  He makes each one after its own ‘kind’, allowing for variations within species, but not changing one species into another.

   Fish and Birds required the creation of the Sun, moon, and stars first, for the navigation of their extremely long migration patterns.

Gray Whale: “The longest whale migration goes to ‘Vavara’, a female gray whale as she swam 13,988 miles in 172 days.”  UK.whales.org

Arctic Tern: “By far the longest migration known in the animal kingdom…55,923 miles from pole to pole every year.” 

Birdlife.org    June 27, 2018

The Bible first with the sun, moon, and stars, then the science discovery of the long distance migration of Fish and Birds.

SIXTH DAY

The Animals: Cattle, Creeping Things, and Wild Beasts of the Earth

Mankind: Male and Female made in the Image of God

This fills the work of the Third Day: animals and man to inhabit the land   and plant life for food.

“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 God saw that it was good.”  Genesis 1:24,25 

“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…

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them…And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply… ” Genesis 1:26-28

“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.” Genesis 1:31        

God created three types of Creatures:

1) Cattle – Animals controlled by Mankind directly

2) Beasts – Wild animals

3) Creeping things – Reptiles, creatures with short or no legs

Sheep, bulls, and goats created on the same day as Mankind, providing sacrifices for his future Spiritual Fall and sinful nature.

Mankind, male and female, are the crowning high point of creation. We are separated from the rest of creation because of our Spiritual Nature, that we can know God personally and collectively.  God visited the Earth in person as the man Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah.  The entire purpose of Creation was for mankind to be in relationship with God his creator. God the Father desires us to be in His family, calling us Sons and Daughters. This was God’s plan from the beginning of time.

SEVENTH DAY

The Sabbath Day:  Rest, First full Day of the Finished Creation

First complete Day that it was possible to fulfill the ‘Greatest Commandment’: there had to be two people walking with God.

“And Jesus answered him:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  There is none other commandment greater than these.”  Mark 12:30-31

Fills the purpose of the entire Creation - the Picture of Salvation:

Adam and Eve, Bridegroom and Bride, living in Eden, Paradise, walking with God their creator in the light of the day.

The ‘reality’ of Adam and Eve is confirmed by Jesus the Creator in Matthew 19:4-6, “ Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female…..What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

This took only Seven Days, but after man sins, it will take Seven Thousand Years and the crucifixion of the God-Man Yeshua, to restore all things.   Then there will be Jesus, the New Adam, the new Bridegroom with His new Bride, believers washed in His blood, wearing beautiful white wedding garments. This will be in the New Heavens and the New Earth of Revelation 21 and 22, and the Earth will be a Mineral Garden once more.

“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” Isaiah 46:10

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

Robert Lyons
San Diego, CA
September 21, 2025