February 9th

Separation

And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

(Genesis 1:4) ESV

We (that’s me and the Holy spirit) have come to understand that the Earth is part of an ongoing process of permanent, physical separation of light from darkness. The process isn’t complete. Yet.

The purpose of creation is to bring about the permanent physical separation of light from darkness, day from night, good from evil.

– The Purpose of Creation

Dividing between the light and darkness can’t be the alternation of day and night. Day and night are both taking place at the same time depending on where you are. There’s no space between them, they alternate in a cyclical transition.

The condition of creation at the beginning of the second day was a formless mass of water, called the deep in zero-gravity. Without gravity there’s no weight. Particles may have more or less mass, and be more or less dense, but when there’s no gravity they’re mixed together randomly. The deep was filled with atoms, molecules, compounds and life forms including Prokaryotes, Red, Green and Brown Algae, aquatic Fungi and colonial animals like sponges and jellyfish. It was dark.

and said God Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters – let it divide a space between the waters from the waters.

(Genesis 1:6) Interlinear

The Hebrew words To discern: בִּין – bin and A space between: בֵּ֥ין – bayin make it clear that light and darkness are going to be physically separated by a space between them. This is being brought about by gravity and we have developed a core accretion model of planet formation. The firmament formed in synchronicity with the Earth.

The space between light and darkness was established on the second day. The same word, bayin, is used to describe separation of the waters above the firmament from the waters below the firmament.

Here’s my first attempt to animate the core accretion model. It’s not to scale. The animation starts out solid black because it got dark at the end of the first day, and this happened because the deep was teeming with life which obscured the light.

Separation – Navigation

Section	Title	Scripture
1	Introduction	Genesis 1:4
1.1	To discern: בִּין – bin	Genesis 1:6
2	Physical Separation	Genesis 1:1
2.1	A space between: בֵּ֥ין – bayin	Genesis 1:6
3	Separation of Heart and Mind	Jeremiah 17:9
4	Spiritual Separation	2 Corinthians 6:17
	Salvation	Romans 10:9-10

Read through the Bible in a year

Reading plan	February 9
Linear	Numbers 11-13
Chronological	Exodus 30-32

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