Brother, I know that "evening" does not mean "night" and that "morning" does not mean "day" as our tradition makes us believe when they are different words with a different meaning. I know that from evening to morning is only 12 hours compared to the 24 hours of a Sabbath in Israel from evening to evening, a period bordered by two evenings. Where are the other 12 hours left to complete the first day? God ends the first day in a "morning"! The other 12 hours are before the 12 hours from evening to morning of the night that end the days of creation. The missing period is the 12 hours from morning to evening that God called "day". The period of light before the end of the first day with a "night".
Brother, the sun existed from the first day. There are three pieces of evidence. First, the word "evening" which means sunset reveals that the sun is the greater light from the first day. It’s obvious that the greater light is present from day one for its purpose to count the days already listed before the fourth day. Second, the use of the “waw-consecutive” on the fourth day continues events that end chronologically after the start of the fourth day. On the fourth day, added is the lessor light of the moon to go with the greater light to complete God's plan for these two lights in the sky. All phrases underlined are a single word from the original language in “waw-consecutive” form. The “waw-consecutive” form tells us that there is a chronological continuation of events with something new added on day four, the moon, which is not necessary before day four, while the sun was necessary to count the earlier days from the first day. Third, there is a different verb used on the fourth day that in the later context with Abraham shows that it means prepared (asah) and not create (bara') as in the previous verses.
Brother, there is a different verb used on the fourth day that in the later context with Abraham at the end of this post shows that it means prepared (asah) and not create (bara') as in the previous verses.
Brother, written is it that they were wrong in many things that we must correct by studying the written word of God and not assume that they are right because the human tradition is with us for so long.
Brothers, the word "evening" which means sunset reveals that the sun is the greater light from the first day. It’s obvious that the greater light is present from day one for its purpose to count the days already listed before the fourth day. The use of the “waw-consecutive” on the fourth day continues events that end chronologically after the start of the fourth day. On the fourth day, added is the lessor light of the moon to go with the greater light to complete God's plan for these two lights in the sky. All phrases in red are a single word from the original language in “waw-consecutive” form. The “waw-consecutive” form tells us that there is a chronological continuation of events with something new added on day four, the moon, which is not necessary before day four, while the sun was necessary to count the earlier days from the first day.
Brother, in Genesis 1:16, from Hebrew syntax I translate the first portion of the verse "God prepared two great lights." God prepared the sun on the first day and now God simply describes its role. The word translated "made" refers to a prior "doing." I say that the light of the first day comes from the sun. Here's how someone I found on the internet explained it so you know I'm not alone in my reading:
Brother, there was only the sun. God added the moon on the fourth day. As God explains, the sun is the sign that separates the periods that God called "day" and "night" from the first day. For three days before the fourth, the purpose of the sun needed was as the sign for the days of creation explained on the fourth day. The novelty of the fourth day is the moon as a sign of the seasons and the year. Before there were two, the sun and the moon, there was one in the days of creation explained on the fourth, the sun. The phrase "It came to be" says that the result is present without saying how it "came to be." Before they both "be" there was only one, the sun.
That word "made" does not mean created as the tradition forces in contradiction to the purpose of the sun as the sign needed since the first day. For God to separate the two periods of the first day He called "day" and "night" necessitates the sun as the sign explained in the fourth day. In a later verse with Abraham, the word “made” clearly means prepare something already created.
Before God placed the two together, there was only one, the sun, as He explains as the sign to divide the periods, He named from the first day.
On the fourth day God created the moon during what God called day between morning to evening before the period from evening to morning elapsed without incident, because God has nothing to report during the period of the night every day of the creation week. He only creates during the earlier period of light from morning to evening before ending each day of creation with the period He called night from evening to morning.
Brother, the word "make" is never creation out of thin air and is best translated as prepared. Inspiration beats "human tradition"! For my church, I have our prophetess to help me correct the Sabbath tradition. It's what Jesus expects when we find a contradiction. When tradition says something different from what God wrote, shown is God's inspiration above "human tradition". Written is it that they were wrong in many things that we must correct by studying the written word of God and proved correct is God's word, especially when the human tradition is with us for so long.
Brother, happy Sabbath! The church is not inspired with its understanding of the word of God. Inspired is our prophetess and her inspiration is consistent with what I see in Genesis. When I say her inspiration, I don't mean what she understood but what she wrote. She wrote that we would understand more in the future and she highlights when evening falls as something to learn that we haven't changed, although I found the reason to change it. We still think that the days of creation begin with an evening when I found out that Genesis reveals that the evening falls in the middle of the first day and not at the beginning as supposed was due to the Sabbath in Israel, which is not a day of the week as set were the weekdays in the creation week from morning to morning.
