This may be the most fluid transition of the whole set. The
flying and swimming “Nephesh Chay” (Strong’s H5315 and H2416) are now joined by
the land walkers and runners. The hard and dangerous work of figuring out how
to handle day five’s critters, relatively easily transfers to the management of
the first set of day six’s created beings.
However it should be expected that systems and relationships
will become more complex.
The creation of Human in day six signals that a “God like”
being has entered the arena and from now on his role will affect the rest of
creation for good or evil.
All of creation now awaits Human’s decision…. Will he rest
and worship the Creator or will he plunge ahead, continuing to try to improve
his enterprise, in essence worshiping the works of his hands?
Signs of his decision will be evident in day six, since if
he plans to rest and worship he will be in the mode of preparation and
gathering in day six. On the other hand if he plans to ignore the day of rest
he will be setting things up with the intent to build and grow his enterprise
in a liner fashion without regard for the revealed.
Sometimes he may get away with this lack of respect for his
Creator, but eventually there will be a day of reckoning. The concurring sets
of seven days, months, years and sets of seven years, all running
simultaneously, causes these reckonings to appear random and convinces an
untrained eye that our world is not understandable or ordered.
However a trained eye can see clear purpose of each segment
of time. In many respects creation is as
much about division of one element from another, as it is about adding new
elements. Early on elements are moved from where they were before to
new defined, purposeful locations. For
example the water becomes restricted to its place above and below in day two
and later, farther restricted to the seas, lakes and rivers creating bare
ground as the place for plants in day three.
Each new day brings new physical structures or beings into
the arena but these new creations are set in their place apart from those that
came before.
Fish are given the water, birds the air and mammals and
human the land. All of these are also separated into male and female form. Therefore
not only are these beings created but they are properly set in their habitation,
each with their unique role.
As you may recall the element of time came into being in day
four with the advent of the sun, moon and stars. This division of time has some
very unique characteristics. Its role in our lives is huge yet without the
revelation, it’s as though there is nothing we can do with or about time, except
to march through it, one day after another. However the information revealed by the biblical counts of seven shows division, separation and specific purpose
for each segment of time. They also explain the reckonings that happen from
time to time, to those who ignore the revealed appointments.
Human as the last created being, given the right to rule,
has a decision to make, If he chooses to ignore the appointed times the Creator
set, then the divisions so neatly organized by the divine hand will begin to
break down and the chaos of Genesis 1:2 will begin to creep back into our
ordered world.
Next week we will explore the antidote for this creeping
chaos and the gift that allows the return to the divine order.
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