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Genesis 1: 14–25 — The Fourth, Fifth, and Beginning of the Sixth Day · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin reading from the ESV, Genesis 114 to 25, the fourth, fifth, and beginning of the sixth day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was so.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning the fourth day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind, and God saw that it was good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, livestock and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was so.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God saw that it was good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the fourth day God appoints the lights in the heavens to separate day from night and to mark signs and seasons in days and years.
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  SPEAKER_00: These lights do more than illuminate the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: They become part of the way time is measured and organized.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice that Genesis does not call them the sun and moon here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It calls them the greater light and the lesser light, then adds, and the stars.
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  SPEAKER_00: The focus stays on God as creator, not on the heavenly bodies themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: This also connects back to the first day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Light already existed before these lights were placed in the heavens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, God assigns the heavenly lights their roles, to give light on the earth, to rule day and night, and to separate light from darkness.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the fifth day, the waters and sky are filled with living creatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the first time in Genesis, God blesses living creatures and tells them, Be fruitful and multiply.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life is not only created, it is given the ability to reproduce and fill the places God prepared for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then verse 24 begins the sixth day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The earth brings forth land animals, livestock, creeping things, and beasts, again according to their kinds.
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  SPEAKER_00: That phrase keeps repeating because Genesis presents creation as organized, with living things reproducing within the patterns God established.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is also a larger pattern taking shape.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier God prepared environments, light and darkness, sky and sea, dry land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now those spaces are being filled.
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  SPEAKER_00: The heavens receive lights, the waters receive sea creatures, the sky receives birds, and the land receives animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Genesis 114 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with Genesis 126 31.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.