The Bible Study Podcast, episode 199. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues a study on newness.

Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Not quite sure how to number this one. I'm going to call this

the second in a study on Nunes. Of course, last week was also the last study on Revelation.

And we saw that the Bible ends with a new creation. So let's go back this week to the beginning, to Genesis 1, to the first creation.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and

empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the

waters. And God said, let there be light, and there was light.

God saw the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.

And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day.

And God said, let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from

water. So God made the vault and separated the waters under the vault from the water above it. And so it was.

God called the vault sky, and there was evening and there was morning the second day. And God said,

let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear. And so it was. God called the dry ground land. And he gathered the waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, let the land produce vegetation, seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds,

and so it was. The land produced vegetation, plants bearing seed according to their kinds,

and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds, and God saw that it was good,

and there was evening, and there was morning, the third day. And God said, let there be lights in

the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark

sacred times and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light

on the earth. And it was so. God made two kinds of light, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light

to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on earth,

to govern the day in the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good,

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