Genesis 1:9 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 1:9

7 Thus God made the firmament, ^aand divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were ^babove the firmament; and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 Then God said, ^a“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and ^blet the dry land appear”; and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, “Let the earth ^abring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the ^bfruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.

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This sets the pattern for the revelation of His governance. Now here we begin to see His sovereignty over the inanimate aspects of the creation. He speaks, and light appears.

He speaks. He governs the movement of water, and says, Water, I want you to go here, and land, I want you to rise up here. That is what a governor does. He manages what He made. Water seeks its own level, which then means that God designed that the water go into certain places. So we see God, right from the beginning, managing what He is creating. Here we come to the Flood:

Excerpted from The Sovereignty of God (Part 4) by John W. Ritenbaugh

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