CHAPTER THREE

GOD’S HISTORY IN TIME 
(FROM THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE 
TO THE FINAL JUDGMENT 
AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE— 
GENESIS 1:1—REVELATION 20:15)

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RESTORING THE JUDGED UNIVERSE 
AND CREATING MAN

OUTLINE

1. Restoring the judged universe—Gen. 1:2-25:
   1. The earth was waste and emptiness; and darkness was upon the surface of the deep—the issue of God’s judgment upon His original creation—v. 2a.
   2. The Spirit of God was brooding upon the surface of the waters—v. 2b.
   3. God restored the light to divide the light from the darkness, calling the light Day and the darkness Night, on the first day—vv. 3-5.
   4. God made the expanse in the midst of the waters to separate the waters under the expanse from the waters above the expanse; God called the expanse Heaven, on the second day—vv. 6-8.
   5. God gathered the waters under the heavens together into one place and caused the dry land to appear; God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters Seas, on the third day—vv. 9-10.
   6. God caused the earth to sprout grass, herbs, and fruit trees, on the third day—vv. 11-13.
   7. God restored the light-bearers in heaven to separate the day from the night, for signs, for seasons, for days and years, and for light-bearers in heaven to give light on the earth: two great light-bearers—the greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night—and stars, on the fourth day—vv. 14-19.
   8. God caused the waters to swarm with swarms of living animals, and birds to fly above the earth in heaven and multiply on earth, on the fifth day—vv. 20-23.
   9. God caused the earth to bring forth living animals: cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth, on the sixth day—vv. 24-25.
2. Creating man—v. 26—2:25:
   

   God’s history in time with man objectively
   Gen. 1:26—Mal. 4:6

   1. God created man in His image, according to His likeness, on the sixth day—Gen. 1:26-31:
      1. To express Him in person—vv. 26a, 27.
      2. To represent Him in office—vv. 26b, 28.
   2. Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground (for man’s body) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (for man’s spirit); and man became a living soul—2:7.
   3. Jehovah God put man in the garden of Eden in front of two trees—vv. 8-9:
      1. The tree of life, signifying God in Christ as life to man, to be taken by man—Rev. 2:7b; 22:2, 14, 19.
      2. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, signifying Satan as the origin of death (Heb. 2:14), to be prohibited from being eaten by man—Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
   4. With a river, in the flow of which are gold, bdellium, and onyx stone—2:10-12.
   5. Jehovah God built a woman with the rib of Adam as his wife to match him as his counterpart, signifying that the church was constituted with the resurrection life of Christ to be His counterpart—vv. 18-24; Eph. 5:23-32.
   6. God rested on the seventh day after He finished all His work which He created and made—Gen. 2:1-3.