(Gen 1:5, 1:8,
1:13, 1:19, 1:23, 1:31) “…And there was evening and
morning...” Moving from evening to morning gives insight into
the direction of creation. The Hebrew
word for evening is “erev” and its root means “mixed-up, stirred together,
disorder”. Morning, is “boqer”, and its
root means “discernable, able to be distinguished.” More than establishing the sequence of the
Hebrew day, the text is telling us something crucial about the flow of matter
in the universe. Contrary to the laws of
thermodynamics, the universe moved from “disorder” to “order” during each day
of creation.
“Each ‘day’ marked an epoch,
a flow from disorder toward increasing order in the material of the
universe. This transition from disorder
to order is hinted at in the evening to morning phrasing of the biblical test. The root mean of the Hebrew word for evening
is ‘disorder’ and for morning is ‘order’.
‘And there was evening and there was morning’ is telling us that in each
‘daily’ episode, at a specific location within the universe, order was imposed
by God on the disorder that existed.” [1]
The total entropy (disorder) of an isolated system,
such as the universe, never decreases because isolated systems always evolve
toward thermodynamic equilibrium. Stated
another way, the universe will always move from order to disorder when left to
its own forces. Yet, the sequence of
events following the Big Bang show the universe moving from disorder to order,
from a planet hostile toward life to a planet capable of sustaining life, from the
formation of simple life forms to the creation of man. Following the pattern of creation, the
believer is called to walk after God (Duet
5:33), “making the most of your time,
because the days are evil,” (Eph
5:16). The believer has an obligation
to bring order to the world as God performed during creation.
The seventh day of creation is the only day that is
not followed by the phrase, “there was
evening and morning.” Since all is “very good” (Gen 1:31), at the end of the sixth day, there may be no disorder to
overcome at the beginning of day seven.
“The Onkelos (an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew text) translates Genesis
1:31 as, ‘And God saw everything that He had made and behold it was a unified
order.’…From the parallel use of ‘good’ in Exodus 33:19 and Genesis 1:31, it
appears that ‘all My goodness’ refers not to a quality of God but rather to the
very nature of the creation, the exquisitely balanced, or orderly,
interrelationships therein.” [2]
Since the seventh day is seen as a picture of the
Millennial Kingdom, the absence of the phrase “evening and morning” on day
seven could be construed as a picture of exceedingly great revelation of the
Creator in the days of the Millennial Kingdom and the never ending days in the
world to come.
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