![]() The word indicates a high degree of care, even concern in its action. Genesis 1:2, "and the Spirit of God moved/hovered/brooded over the face of the waters." The Hebrew for 'moved, hovered, brooded' is the word 'rachaph' which is only used 3 times - Genesis 1:2 Jeremiah 23:9 and Deuteronomy 32:11. The Fall of Satan (Isaiah 14:12-17 Ezekiel 28:11-17) has brought this chaos, darkness, and destruction. We can only avoid that understanding by not being literal and going metaphoric. Where did the darkness come from? So, if we understand it literally in the Hebrew, we have destruction and darkness. Genesis 1:2, "and darkness was on the face of the deep". Something happened to cause the chaotic state of Genesis 1:2, "And the earth became TOHU VA BOHU." This Hebrew expression implies destruction - see Jeremiah 4:23-27 etc. It is the same word in Genesis 1:2, "And the earth was." Note the footnote on "was" in the NIV "or possibly became". That's what the word "was" means in all these references. See all the "and it was so" verses which mean "and it became so". Every instance of 'hayah' in Genesis 1 has the meaning "became". Secondly, the Hebrew word 'hayah' and its form 'hayeta' used throughout Genesis 1 is the verb "to be" and means "became". Darkness comes from Satan, it is the absence of light (John 1:15 3:19 Ephesians 6:12 etc). There was no darkness for in God there is no darkness (1 John 1:5 James 1:17). "In the beginning (TIME), God created the heavens (SPACE) and the earth (MATTER)." A triune God created a triune UNIverse not a MULTIverse and He created it beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11). ![]() Jeff Hammond In Genesis 1:1 we have the amazing revelation, from the first verse in the Bible of the nature of the universe - time, space and matter.
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