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Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.It's because the verse above is speaking of God creating or speaking into being, the Air and the Ground, and the Water necessary for Clay wasn't created because God knew it would come forth from the Air. But the ground was without form and empty because there was NO physical God present to shape and mold the clay into physical form.
God's first act of creation was to create a mass of [sea] water into the hollow of His hand.
Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
I say sea water, because all the natural elements in the periodic table are found in sea water.
I'm not sure which heaven is meant in that verse (since there are three of them) ...
2 Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, ( whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; ) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
... but it is either Heaven proper, or outer space.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void;
He called it "Earth," and it was at first "formless and void," since it was nothing but sea water sloshing around in the palm of His hand, and it was void of life.
God then creates gravity at some point not documented in His autobiography (the Bible), and the earth becomes a ball of sea water in the hollow of His hand.
I like to call that ball of sea water Terra Aqua.
Then God shears off a layer of Terra Aqua and balloons it out into space.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
... and that is when Second Heaven (the atmosphere) is created.
So to put this all together, God makes three heavens (also referred to as "firmaments"), then populates them with their respective artifacts:
1st Heaven = 0-62 miles up = atmosphere = populated with terrestrial life, etc.
2nd Heaven = 63 miles-edge of universe = populated with stars, planets, moons, etc.
3rd Heaven = Heaven proper = populated with seat of Christ, Crystal Sea, the Tabernacle, etc.
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