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The Six Days Of Creation - The Second Day

Gen 1.6-8

• 1. The second day
  • a. on this day we see the emergence of form and order
  • b. direct continuation of the previous days creation

• 2. The firmament
  • a. Gen 1.6 - Firmament: the vault or arch of the sky
    • 1. Alternate translation - dome (read)
  • b. Gen 1.2 - darkness was upon the face of the deep
  • c. Gen 1.1 - had created the heaven
    • 1. Heaven: the expanse of space that seems to be over the earth like a dome
  • d. Psm 19.1 - the heavens declare the glory of God
  • e. Psm 33.6 - by the word of the Lord were the heavens made
  • f. Psm 8.1 - who has set thy glory above the heavens
  • g. Psm 57.5 - be thou exalted o God above the heavens
  • h. Psm 97.6 - the heavens declare his righteousness and all the people see
  • i. Rom 1.20 - the invisible of him from the beginning
  • j. Isa 59.2 - your sins have hid his face
  • k. Psm 36.5 - thy mercy O Lord is in the heavens
  • l. Rom 1.18 - wrath of God revealed from heaven

• 3. The Waters
  • a. Gen 1.6-7 - let the firmament divide the waters
  • 1. Alternate translation: let there be a dome amid the waters ...
  • b. Gen 2.5-6 - a mist that watered the whole face of the ground
  • c. Gen 7.11 - windows of heaven were opened
  • 1. alternate translation - sluices of heaven
  • d. 1 Pet 3.20-21 - saved by water
  • e. Rom 6.3-5 - baptized into his death