The Creation of Life or the Six and Seventh Day of Creation: Genesis 1:20-2:3. Please download this free PowerPoint to use in teaching or preaching about Genesis. Download Free PowerPoint at www.bibleguy.org

1. Then There Was Life
Gen 1:20-2:3

2. Days leading to life
Day 1 – God created
the Universe
God called forth light.
Day 2 – God separated
the waters from the
waters.
Day 3 – God caused
land to appear and
made vegetation.
Day 4 – God placed the
lights in the heaven
(w/out naming them).
Day 5 – God populated
the waters and the
sky
Day 6 – God populated
the land.

3. Life starts in sea and sky
Day 5

4. Day 5
Genesis 1:20 (NET)
20 God said,
“Let the water swarm with swarms of
living creatures

5. Day 5
Genesis 1:20
20 God said,
“Let the water swarm with swarms of
living creatures
and
let birds fly above the earth across the
expanse of the sky.”

6. Day 5
Genesis 1:21
God created (bara)
the great sea creatures ‫ם‬ִּ‫נ‬‫י‬ִּ‫נ‬ ַ‫ת‬ (tanninim)Exodus 7:9 “When
Pharaoh says to
you, ‘Do a miracle,’
and you say to
Aaron, ‘Take your
staff and throw it
down before
Pharaoh,’ it will
become a snake.”
Ezekiel 29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what
the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am
against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster lying in the midst
of its waterways, who has said, “My
Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”
Jeremiah 51:34 “King
Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylon devoured me
and drove my people
out. Like a monster
from the deep he
swallowed me. He
filled his belly with my
riches. He made me
an empty dish. He
completely cleaned
me out.”Isaiah 27:1 At that time the Lord
will punish with his destructive,
great, and powerful sword
Leviathan the fast-moving serpent
Leviathan the squirming serpent;
he will kill the sea monster.

7. Day 5
Genesis 1:21 (NET)
21 God created
the great sea creatures
and
every living and moving thing with which the water
swarmed,
according to their kinds,

8. Day 5
Genesis 1:21 (NET)
21 God created
the great sea creatures
and
every living and moving thing with which the water
swarmed,
according to their kinds,
and
every winged bird
according to its kind.
God saw that it was good.

9. Day 5
22 God blessed them and said,
“Be fruitful and multiply
and
fill the water in the seas,

10. Day 5
22 God blessed them and said,
“Be fruitful and multiply
and
fill the water in the seas,
and
let the birds multiply on the earth.”
23 There was evening, and there was morning -
a fifth day.

11. Life on the Land
Day 6

12. Day 6
Genesis 1:24 (NET)
24 God said,
“Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds:

13. Day 6
Genesis 1:24 (NET)
24 God said,
“Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds:
cattle (bəhēmah)

14. Day 6
Genesis 1:24 (NET)
24 God said,
“Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds:
cattle,
creeping things,

15. Day 6
Genesis 1:24 (NET)
24 God said,
“Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds:
cattle,
creeping things,
and wild animals,
each according to its kind.”
It was so.

16. Day 6
Genesis 1:25
25 God made the wild animals
according to their kinds,
the cattle
according to their kinds,

17. Day 6
Genesis 1:25
25 God made the wild animals
according to their kinds,
the cattle
according to their kinds,
and all the creatures that creep
along the ground
according to their kinds.
God saw that it was good.

18. Day 6 – The Climax
Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let us
make man …

19. Jesus – Creator/Sustainer
Colossians 1:15-17 (NET)
15 He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation,16 for all things in
heaven and on earth were created by him – all
things, whether visible or invisible, whether
thrones or dominions, whether principalities or
powers – all things were created through him
and for him. 17 He himself is before all things and
all things are held together in him.

20. John 1:3-4 (NET)
3 All things were created by him (Jesus),
and apart from him not one thing was
created that has been created. 4 In him
was life, and the life was the light of
mankind.

21. Hebrews 1:1-2 (NET)
1 After God spoke long ago in various
portions and in various ways to our
ancestors through the prophets, 2 in these
last days he has spoken to us in a son,
whom he appointed heir of all things, and
through whom he created the world.

22. John 1:10-12 (NET)
10 He was in the world, and the world was
created by him, but the world did not
recognize him. 11 He came to what was his
own, but his own people did not receive
him. 12 But to all who have received him –
those who believe in his name – he has
given the right to become God’s children

23. John 3:16 (NET)
16 For this is the way God loved the world:
He gave his one and only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him will not
perish but have eternal life.