A STUDY OF GOD’S CREATION

The Bible consistently represents God as male. This is true for all 3 Persons of the Trinity. When the Son became flesh He became a man. The Holy Spirit is always called He. The male was also the first to be created. All of this in no way means that the Bible depreciates the female, for we will see that woman was the crown of creation. She put the finishing touch on it all, and history reveals that the Bible has done more to advance the status of women than any other force. The Bible is not anti‑female, but it is anti‑goddess. All through the ages men have worshipped mother goddesses. Archaeologists are constantly digging up figures of these goddesses from ancient civilizations. It even crept into Christianity when Mary was proclaimed the Mother of God, and many in ignorance began to worship her. Many worship Mother Nature, and for all practical purposes they consider nature as God.

Goethe in his Hymn To Nature says, "She placed me in it; she will also lead me forth. I trust myself to her." The advantages of this commitment to Mother Nature are that you can be extremely religious, for your goddess is everywhere. At the same time you have no obligation to do anything but what comes naturally. In other words, you combine pantheism, which says all is God, and atheism, which says nothing is God. You get, as a result, religious atheism. This permits you to have a sensible explanation of the world, for all that happens is according to the laws of Mother Nature.

The Bible, however, says that the laws of nature are not eternal, but that they began in time, and they were put into operation by the Word of God. God is the Father of all nature, and He is the Father of all the wisdom and order that men attribute to nature. Those who think they can explain anything by reference to the laws of nature fail because they can find no source for the energy of these laws. None would be so foolish as to think that it is the laws of architecture that builds buildings, or that the laws of navigation sail our ships. They recognize that these laws must be put into operation by persons. Persons must supply the energy. You can have a law on the books that will find you for breaking a parking meter, but a man can break one and drive away with nothing happening. The law is powerless without persons to enforce it. Laws do not punish or protect anyone. It is only as persons give them energy that they operate.

The Bible says that this is true also of the laws of nature. It is not the laws that keep order, but it is the energy behind them, and that energy has its source in God. The laws of nature are the impersonal means put into operation by a personal God to accomplish His goals. We who believe this reserve our praise for the wonders of the universe for God, and not for impersonal laws. With Alfred Tennyson we say, "Hallowed be thy name‑Hallelujah, Infinite Identity, Immeasurable Reality, Infinite Personality! Hallowed be thy name‑Hallelujah!"

As we continue our study of creation we see how God gives birth to all that men attribute to the wisdom of Mother Nature. God began with the raw materials of land and water, and on the first day He called forth light. This, of course, is another basic factor needed to produce and sustain life. But as we continue into the second day we see that God has much to do yet to prepare this planet for life. Walking into you attic and turning on the light does not change the mess. It is only as you exert energy that you can put it in order. So God by His Word begins on the second day to bring order into the chaos. In verses 6 through 8 we have the creation of the atmosphere.

In verse 6 God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters to separate them." The word firmament comes from the Latin word, which carries the idea of firmness. A better word might be expanse since firmament has led critics of the Bible to say that the Hebrews thought that heaven was hard and had holes in it through which the rain came down. This is completely unfair to judge Moses by the meaning of a Latin word when the original Hebrew doesn't mean any such thing. Critics also say that they probably thought the sky was blue because there was an ocean up there. All of the ignorance that men try to impose on the Bible is the result of their own ignorance. The Hebrews were not so foolish as to believe what the critics try and make them appear to believe. Critics twist the poetic language and try and make them literal statements.

Dr. Albertus Pieters says that by this same method you can make the modern American look ignorant and gullible. You would be offended if a Russian publication described us as so scientifically immature that we think the sky is solid, and only a few hundred feet high. Yet what else are they to think if we persist in calling our tallest building skyscrapers? Wooden literalism gives the critics much to mock at in the Bible, but it is completely dishonest. God's inspiration did not reveal to the Hebrews any modern science, but it kept them from all the false science and speculation of the heathen, which would have discredited the Bible.

It is important to keep in mind that it is just as dishonest for us to claim that the Bible teaches modern science as it is for the critics to impose ignorance on the Bible writers. Both arise from the same source, which is an over zealous search to find evidence for a pre‑conceived idea without trying to see what the Bible is really saying. In other words, the Bible does not predict cars, airplanes, radio, TV, and the atom bomb. To say this leaves you just as guilty as perversion of God's Word as the critic who reads ignorance into it.

Getting back to the firmament, we see that Moses says God created it to separate two bodies of water. That sounds like it would support the critic who says the Hebrews thought there was an ocean in the sky. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what they did believe, and so do we. Delitzsch says, "The upper waters are the mists and clouds which move above us." It is estimated that the average quantity of vapor in the air is 54,460,000, 000,000 tons. In other words, it is scientifically accurate to believe there is a ocean in the sky. If all of the water in the atmosphere fell at once it would be as it was in the day of Noah. There would be a universal flood.

God on the second day established the atmosphere, which would be essential for the whole program of maintaining life on all levels through the power of evaporation and rainfall. We see the logical order of God's plan. First there is the provision for life, and then the plants for food, and then animals, and finally man. Science and Scripture agree on this order. The Bible only states the fact of what God did on each day. It does not go into detail except on the creation of man. Chapter two goes back and gives a more detail account of what was just briefly stated about man in chapter one. The details of these other days we can learn from science. The Christian says that science can be used to glorify God in that it spells out for us just what God did when He set in motion the laws of nature.

Water, for example, is 773 times heavier than air, yet through the process of evaporation tons of it are silently lifted into the sky. God was the author of automation that makes man's machines very small in comparison. The whole world is watered by this process. The rivers carry the water back to the ocean, and the cycle begins again. The unbeliever can say what luck that it all worked out like this, for life would perish without this process. The believer, however, says this is my Father's world, and he has made it livable. The unbeliever is not so ignorant as to look at a water tower and say, "What luck that there is such provision of water." But they can look at the reservoirs in the sky and call it chance, or they call it the work of Mother Nature, but those who have seen the light of God's Word say with Jer. 10:12‑13, "It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the heavens. When He utters His voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightening for the rain, and He brings forth the wind from His storehouses." Personally is behind all the wonders we see in the universe.

Someone might say that it seems strange that God would take a whole day just to make the atmosphere. It is essential, but it is only air, and air is nothing. According to Roy Laurin there is in the space the size of a small pinhead 31 quadrillion molecules of nitrogen, 8 quadrillion molecules of oxygen, 16 trillion molecules of carbon dioxide, 400 trillion molecules of agon, 400 billion molecules of neon, and 2 to 40 billion molecules of helium. I know there are those who believe nothing but what they can see. They must reject the truth of science as well as Scripture then. For it is the unseen that makes life on every level possible. If the balance of these unseen molecules were not maintained, there would be universal death. We see here the marvelous wisdom of God again. Plants were made not only for food, but also because they set oxygen free for animals were breathe oxygen, and in turn the animals set carbon dioxide for use by plants. It was on this second day that God made the environment for life.

The reality of the unseen is basis to science and faith. God made us with 5 senses that we might we aware of far more than what we could be by sight alone. If you put sugar in water it disappears from sight, but none argue from this fact that it is gone, for their taste buds tell them it is still there. All of us have known the presence of a skunk without ever seeing it, and so everyone believes in the unseen to some degree. Science devices ways to go deeper and find much more in the unseen world that our senses can detect, but faith goes even beyond this. Faith is not ignorance, but it is the greatest intelligence, for it rises to the awareness of the highest and ultimate unseen reality, which is the reality of God. So we read in Heb. 11:3, "By faith we understand that the world was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear."

The Bible makes it clear that not only is the visible a product of God's creative power, but also the invisible, which still does not appear. Col. 1:16 says, "For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by Him and for Him." God forbid then that we praise Mother Nature for the marvels which science reveals. All of our praise belongs to Christ, or more comprehensively to the Triune God of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We reject those poets who put Mother Nature in the place of God, and who write like Spenser in this poem:

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation,

How in His cradle first He fostered was,

And judge of Nature's cunning operation

How things she formed of a formless mass.

He agrees with a Genesis account of how by wisdom the formless mass of chaos became an ordered cosmos, but refuses to accept God as its author. Though science and the Bible agree as to the basic pattern, yet many scientist refuse to accept the revelation that a personal God is the source of all the energy needed to produce this pattern. They are like a group of men who find a complex instrument in the desert. They begin a study to figure out where it came from and what it is. As they speculate and offer up their learned guesses, a man comes along and says I made that to measure the intensity of the light during and eclipse. Now this has spoiled the whole thing, for he has shattered all their speculation and research in an instant. They wanted to discover the origin and purpose of it. They didn't want anyone to tell them right out, for that ends the search. Many happy debates are cut short and ruined by someone who comes along with the answer. This is the basic reason why many do not want to listen to the Bible. If they admit that God was the cause of all, and is the sustaining power of all, it stifles the whole search for the answer.

The believer, however, says we are satisfied to accept the answer, and to pursue other problems far more crucial to man's well being. Believing scientists also recognize there is much for science to do after accepting the answer of revelation. Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest of early scientists, said, "He must be blind who from the most wise and excellent contrivances of things cannot see the infinite Wisdom and Goodness of their Almighty Creator, and he must be mad and senseless who refuses to acknowledge them." The believer sees both the glory of the world and the God it glorifies, and they accept the poetry of men like Addison who wrote,

The spacious firmament on high,

With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens, a shining frame

Their great Original proclaim.

Forever singing as they shine,

The hand that made us is divine.

A pastor in England once preached a sermon on astronomy. Someone came up after and asked, "What practical value is there in such a sermon?" He answered, "None at all, but it greatly enlarges my concept of God." I would go even further and say that nothing is more practical than that which enlarges your concept of God. It is a fallacy to think that the study of creation, and of the great wonders of what God has made is not spiritual, and of no food for the spirit for everyday living. What can be more encouraging than to know that the order, beauty, and marvelous mystery of all about you is the handiwork of one you can know and pray to as your heavenly Father?

2. THE WONDER OF WATER Based on Gen. 1:1‑2

The Bible begins and ends with God in the midst of water. It is the physical substance that is nearest to the spiritual. It is the physical source of all life. There is no known life on earth that can survive without water. God gave birth to the world out of a mass of water as the Holy Spirit hovered over the deep. The earth was immersed in water before it came to life. And so it is with us. From conception to birth we are immersed in water. When the water breaks we are born into a world totally dependent on water. Seven eighths of our body and OF all animal life is water. Nine tenths of all plant life is water. 75% of the worlds surface is water.

The clouds above us are floating lakes of water. They are tiny droplets so small that one hundred billion of them would not fill a tea cup. They form the clouds that make rain possible, which keeps the world alive. Water is the blood of the world that gives life to all that God has created. The blood in our veins that keeps us alive is 90% water. Water supply is not just vital for farmers, it is vital to the life of each one of us.

When everything is working normally there are about 16 billion tons of rain that fall on U.S. soil every day. We take water for granted, but have no idea just how much of it is needed to keep life going. Ten to twenty tons of water are needed for every bushel of corn that is harvested. 15 to 20 tons are needed for every pound of beef, and 120 gallons for every egg. If it was not for all the irrigation in this country we could be going through a drought like they often do in Africa. Water is the blood of our nation just as it is all the nations of the world.

Water is also the key factor in industry. All that man makes is just as dependent on water as all that God has made. The production of one car requires 60 thousand gallons of water. For every gallon of gas you put in that car, it takes 10 gallons of water to produce it. Water is the life line of nature, and also of industry. Nothing significant happens in this world without water.

Therefore, it is not surprising that water plays a major role in the Bible. It would take hours just to read all of the verses in the Bible that deal with water. Some of the highlights would be‑

1. The creation.

2. The flood, where Noah and his family were saved by water, and where the most

universal symbol God ever created, the rainbow, is dependent upon water.

3. The great exodus of Israel out of Egypt by crossing the Red Sea.

4. The striking of the rock that gave water to Israel, and which the New Testament

says was Christ.

5. The crossing of Jordan into the Promise Land.

6. The 23rd Psalm where he leads us beside the still waters.

7. Jesus is the water of life, and He walked on water, and He stilled the stormy waters,

and He turned the water into wine, and He made water basic to the ordinance He gave

to the church to go into all the world and baptize. The Lord's Supper has two elements

Bread and wine, and both are products of water. Some would add His washing of feet, another water event.

There is no escaping the importance of water for both the physical and spiritual life.

We cannot live without water, and we cannot live a life of obedience to Christ without water. All three persons of the Godhead are identified with water. God the Father says in Jer. 2:13, "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." Jesus said to the woman at the well in John 4:10, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is who asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." Later in John 7:37‑39 this living water is identified with the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "If a man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him. By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believe in Him were to receive,"

It is through faith in Christ that we receive the Spirit of Christ‑the living water, and for all eternity Jesus will lead us to springs of living water, says Rev. 7:17. Water is not only essential for life in time, it is basic even to life in eternity. Water is forever because God made it the key to life. In Rev. 21:6 there is a fountain of the water of life in heaven, and in Rev. 22 there is the river of the water of life that flows from the throne of God and the Lamb, and produces the fruit of heaven. For all eternity nature and man will still depend upon the water of life. There will be no more thirst in heaven. This may not seem relevant to us, but for many of God's people in Bible lands this was a precious promise that meant paradise to them.

Geoffrey Moorhouse in The Fearful Void tells of running out of water while crossing the Sahara Desert. He almost died of dehydration, and he writes, "Almost unconscious even of my mind, I was aware of trees somewhere ahead, somewhere beyond Ibrahim and the Camels, who seem to be a great distance ahead. Then there was a tent. Ibrahim was squatting by it, drinking from his brass bowl. Then a small boy was running towards me trying not to spill what was in the bowl. The water in it was the color of diluted blood. This was the most beautiful thing in the world, more beautiful by far than the stained glass of Chartres, than a fugue by Bach, then the moment after ecstasy with the one woman you love, or the moment when your son scrambled to squeeze the breath out of you and say, I think you're smashing dad. There was nothing in the world as beautiful as this bowl full of water." You may never have this emotional experience with water, for you would have to pay too high of a price to have it, but we should be able to have an intellectual appreciation of this experience.

Like the oceans, the revelation of God about water is two vast to cover. So we will

specialize on one aspect of water, which is the water of baptism. It is all a wonder, but the water of baptism has additional wonders. It takes a lot of water to obey Christ and be baptized. The Ethiopian Eunuch went down into the water, and Lydia was baptized in the river, and the early church stressed the importance of being baptized in living water, that is, in natural flowing water, like the Jordan, where Jesus was baptized. There were no churches and baptisteries, and so this was not an option open to them, as it is to us. It was several centuries before baptism inside was accepted as the norm.

Baptism for the early Christians was an experience with nature, as well as with God.

This is still true for Christians on many of the missions fields of the world. Rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds are used all over the world to immerse people in. Creation is used to worship the God of creation. Baptism is a spiritual use of nature to glorify God. There's no way to separate the spiritual and the natural in baptism, for they are one. We cannot do it in the Lord's Supper either, for you cannot have bread and juice without nature and the power of water.

Literal, physical water is not only essential to physical life, but to a life of obedience to God, or spiritual life. The person who attempts to be spiritual without the physical is forgetting just who it is that created the physical, and that He rejoices in it, and expects that we will also, and use it to glorify Him. The point is, baptism links the Christian with nature. We cannot obey God without nature. We can go inside to a man‑made baptistery, but we cannot make water. Water is essential to baptism, and so nature is essential to baptism.

Jesus began His own ministry with His baptism in the Jordan. He made baptism in water a symbol of the transition from the old to the new. His ministry was to take the world from the old covenant to the new covenant in his blood. Baptism is the symbol of new beginnings. Many churches make baptism the transition from being a non‑member of the local church to becoming a member. It means new opportunity, new service, and a new voice in the local body.

Water is a transition element. We can't explore it in depth, but water is a key factor

in the transition of the seasons. We use it all the time for transition. From work to a night of relaxation, we take a shower in between, for we want to clean up and be refreshed for the evening. Water gives us the feeling of newness. So it is with baptism, for it is like a spiritual bath that cleanses us and makes us ready for a new agenda in the will of God. Every square mile of air has a two and one half million cubic feet of water in it, and this is crucial for the cleansing of the atmosphere. Without this water all life would soon choke on the dust and smoke particles in the air. Water is the cleansing agent of the natural world, and God made it the cleansing agent of the spiritual world as well. The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin, and 90% of blood is water. When Christ's side was pierced there came forth blood and water.

The waters of baptism are to be seen as the symbolic cleansing agent of sin. In Acts 22:16 Ananias came to blind Saul in Damascus and said, "Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on His name." It is faith in Christ, and calling on His name that leads to the cleansing of sin, but this is symbolized in baptism. Only God can cleanse from sin, but He gives the symbolic power to the water of baptism, and, thereby, gives a new slant to the old saying that cleanliness is next to godliness.

The old man is buried in baptism, and the new man that rises out of the water is to be a cleansed man, ready to walk a new path on the Rock, which is Christ, and no longer on the dusty road of the world. Paul fell on the road to Damascus, and was likely quite dirty. His baptism could have literally washed away the dirt, but it also cleanse him from his evil attitude toward Christ and the church. Paul was a new man after his baptism because the old was buried, and he came forth from the water to walk in newness of life.

Lydia was not a wild woman on a rampage against Christianity, and so her baptism was not as great a cleansing, for she did not have such dirty feet as Paul. Baptism is to be seen as the symbol of God burying our sins of the past in the deepest sea. We sing,

Let the water and the blood

From thy wounded side which flowed,

Be of sin the double cure,

Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

Cleanliness was next to godliness in the Old Testament. All that was done in the presence of God had to be done with the participants cleansed with water. Everything the priest did had to be preceded by washing, just like a doctor does today before he goes into surgery. The high priest on the day of atonement had to wash himself before he put on the holy garments, and after he came out of the holy of holies he had to wash again in water. Our baptism is very much like the high priest getting ready to enter the service of God. Paul in Gal. 3:27, "For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." Just as the high priest put on the holy garments to enter God's presence, so we, in baptism, put on the most holy garment of all, for we put on Christ. We clothe ourselves in that which is most acceptable in the presence of God‑His Son. We put on Christ and stand before God clean and pure. Here is the wonder of water par excellence.

The fish became the symbol of the early Christians. A creature that lives in water became their primary sign. Like fish, we are to be at home in the environment of the water of life, and have a hard time when we find ourselves cast up on the dry land of the waves of the world. The Christian should feel out of his element, and very uncomfortable in settings displeasing to God. They should be eager to get back into the element of Christlike ideals. Holiness is feeling at home in the realm of the spiritual, and like fish out of water, feeling not at home in the realm of the worldly.

Our baptism is to mark that time in our lives when we begin to focus on the things of Christ more completely, and let the things of the world fade into the background. Baptism is to be that bath of transition. We are wash up and leave the grimy work of the world, and enter into the joy of serving our Lord. Jesus began His public ministry with baptism. Paul was baptized, and after his time in the desert, he began his public ministry. Baptism is to be a turning point where the goal is to be immersed in the things of Christ. Baptism is a commitment to make the Christian life more than a mere part time, and side line religion.

To rise from the water and walk in newness of life is not easy, in fact, it is impossible. Our very failure to be able to be Christians as we ought to be, is to keep us ever conscious of our dependence upon Christ. The wonder of wonders is that He loves us, and will use us for His glory, even after all we have done out of His will. And the wonder of water is that Jesus uses it to symbolize His love for us in forgiving and cleansing us from all sin. Let us now go and worship our Creator and Redeemer by obeying Him with water.

3. THE MOON IN THE BIBLE Based on Gen. 1:14‑19

Bruce Barton said, "When you're though changing, you're though." Change is inevitable, and one might just as well refuse to accompany the earth in rotating on its axis as to refuse to accept change. Robert Burns said, "Look abroad thro' Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change." Longfellow points out, "There are no birds in last year's nest." Change is constant, and Robert Browning feels we should be excited about this fact of reality, for he writes, "Rejoice that man is hurled, from change to change unceasingly, his soul's wings never furled."

Change is essential to progress, and as man's concepts of reality keep changing and expanding, he draws nearer to the Author of reality, and the God who changes not. Truth in any realm points to the Author of truth. When man stopped centering his thoughts on himself alone, and took the whole world into consideration, he became geocentric. When he realized that the earth was not the center of the solar system, but that the sun was, he became heliocentric. Then man learned that the sun is just one of billions of stars in the galaxy, and he became galactocentric. The final stage of growth is when man learns that the one who made all of the vast universe is a Person, and then they become Christocentric. When we study space and objects like the moon we are studying the handiwork of Jesus our Savior. This changes how we see everything.

There were many who objected to man's going to the moon, and many even said the Bible taught that it was impossible. They said that it was not God's will for man to go into space. But Wernher Von Braun, the Christian who was greatly responsible for man getting to the moon said, "..don't tell me he doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go." Man is made to be an adventurer and climb every mountain just because God put it there. The Bible does not settle all issues dealing with the moon, even though it refers to the moon 34 times in the Old Testament and 9 times in the New Testament. Our interest in this message is to just learn all we can about what the Bible says about the moon.

I. THE PURPOSE OF THE MOON.

Our text makes it clear that the moon was no mere accident. God created it for a definite purpose. The God of light filled His creation with lights, and He prepared the earth to have a lighting system for both day and night. The creation of the moon was an act of God's love for man, even before man was created. If there was no moon or stars, man would be plunged into total darkness each night. Total darkness, however, is reserved for those who reject completely the light of God, and especially the light of the world‑Jesus Christ.

The most simple and obvious purpose of the moon is to give light to the earth at night. It is the secondary of the two great lights. The first reference to the moon in the Bible in verse 16 does not name it, but it simply calls it the lesser light. Lesser is an understatement, for it would take 600 thousand full moons to equal the splendor of the sun. The moon always plays second fiddle to the sun. In Buddhist thought the sun is spirit and the moon is matter. The ancient felt that when man died his spirit went to the sun and his body to the moon. Being inferior to the sun lead the ancients to think of the moon as female, and the sun as male. We think of the man in the moon, but the people of the East think of a maiden in the moon. We shall see that the Bible followers the Eastern imagery, and it refers to the moon as the Queen of heaven. Verse 16 says a greater light is to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. It follows then logically that the sun is king and the moon queen. George Croly wrote,

How like a queen comes forth the lovely moon,

From the slow opening curtains of the clouds,

Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

In Gen. 37:9 Joseph had a dream that the sun, moon and eleven stars bowed down to him. The sun was his father, the moon was his mother, and the eleven stars were his brothers. We see the moon is associated with the female. Later we shall we that poets always refer to the moon as female. The moon is second to the sun, but it is superior to the stars. In Joseph's dream the stars are the children. Here in Gen. 2 it the great lights that are stressed and the stars are merely mentioned. Elsewhere the stars are made much of, but in terms of visible and practical light the moon is superior to the stars. Sir Henry Wotten wrote,

You meaner beauties of the night,

That poorly satisfy our eyes,

More by your number than your light;

You common people of the skies.

What are you when the moon shall rise?

The stars then are the common people of the skies, and the sun and moon are the royalty. The Bible supports this image, and Milton in Paradise Lost gives a beautiful picture of it.

Now glow'd the firmament

With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led

The strong host, rode brightest, till the moon,

Rising in clouded majesty, at length

Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light,

And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

The sun, the moon, the stars, in that order is there glory, for in that order God made them for the purpose of giving light to the earth.

In verse 14 we see another purpose of the moon, and that is to be a sign. God expected man to be an astronomer. No one puts signs where they will never be read. God put the sun, moon and stars in the sky for signs, and He expected man to read these signs and learn how they regulate the days, months and seasons. Man got the point of God's purpose almost universally. The Chaldeans, Persians, Hindus, Chinese and Egyptians all named the 7 days of the week after the sun, moon and the planets, just as we do. We begin with sun‑day, then moon‑day, and then Tuesday from the name for Mars, Wednesday from Woden, which is the same as Mercury, then Thursday for Thor, who was also Jupiter, then Friday for Friga, who was also Venus, and finally Saturday from Saturn. There are two females out of the seven, and they are the queen moon and Venus Friday.