Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies. And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we will go ahead and get started.

And when we get started in just a moment, you will be picking up in Genesis chapter 2,

verse 4.

So last time, God created the heavens in the earth.

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Genesis 1-1 through 2-3, as we saw were the description of the creation of the heavens

of the earth in terms of the structure of six days.

We talked about how that's really sort of two groups of three.

At the beginning of the book of Genesis, there are these two problems where the Earth is

formless or chaotic and then that it's void or empty.

And on the first set of three days, God puts everything in order, right?

Separates things out, makes these spaces.

And then on the second set of three days, he fills those spaces.

So the two sets of three correspondent, right?

He fills those spaces with life.

And then we talked about how on the seventh day, famously it's translated as he rested,

but this isn't rested like he needed a break to sit down because it had been super

difficult, right, to make the world, but that this was about him being enthroned then,

rested is and he came to rest, right?

He sat down on his, on his throne to rule over the creation. That being

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