I can't seem to find info I'm looking for about why the Bible says the evening and the morning were the first day, and on until the seventh day when it says God rested why was each day labeled as the evening and the morning. Just as from the beginning when it is daytime on one side of the world it is nighttime on the other, so where the Bible says evening and morning then the morning and evening should have been the first day on the other side of the world.
1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
The First Day
3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And seeing that the light was good, God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Created light and revealed what He called/named them (and separated them) - light - day dark - night
The Fourth Day
14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years. 15And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
16God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
17God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth, 18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Created all the great lights and revealed they would be used as time measurement for us.
So God creates and reveals on the fourth day, how what He created is measured and the other purposes of the lights.
So that being the case .... and being reaffirmed .... "there was evening & morning on the whatever day being stated at the end of each creation day according to the time measurement He set forth re-affirms
If the phrase evening & morning didn't appear in verses 1-3 (in relation to a day) there would be nothing "time-wise " for us to relate them to. ie we wouldn't know what a day is, we wouldn't know what night is and what their measurements are. Also, of quite importance, we would not know or understand His special day ... the Sabbath, the 7th day and therefore much everything else biblically would be a bunch of non-sense.
So, to make sure we could understand, evening and morning appears after every creation day to "drive that point home"
Yes, the Lord wanted us to know how much time it took for Him to create everything and it took 7 days (evening & morning) using the great lights created on day 4 as the measurement for it.
so ... by the time we get to the 7th day .... we are very clear what a day is and signifies the last day of His creation work.
1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
God established what the general guideline of what a "day" is ... the specifics within that general guideline then came forth through man learning more details about the sun, moon, stars, etc but they are in fact based on the general guidelines as in (fourth day)
Sunset to sunrise is a day to the Lord and it's doesn't matter where on earth one lives.
He's not on a 24-hour clock ;o) In fact He's not on a clock at all.
The short answer is:
No matter where one lives in the world 7 sunsets to sunrise = 7 days
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.