The Beginning of Creation
2403.—The Beginning of Creation.—No. 1305.
—We do not necessarily understand from Gen. 1: 5 that God began the creation of the world in the evening. When He began the creation of the world we do not know. That is stated in the first verse, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." How far back it extends or what period of time is covered by that expression "in the beginning," which occurs several times in the word of God, is unknown to us; that is among the mysteries that God has reserved to Himself. The record in Genesis 1 is the taking of this earth from its waste and void and dark condition and fitting it for the home of man in six days; and for the Lord's own good reason He placed the beginning of the day at evening or the dark part.