Grandad & Nanna's Bible Story - Chapter 2
Do you remember what Grandad and Nanna wrote to you in Chapter 1?
Remember how we learned that Lucifer came to be filled with pride about himself, and he became the enemy of God, so his name was changed to Satan? (Isaiah 14:13-14)
Well, not only did he get the name Satan, but he was also called by God, the Dragon, and the Devil. (Revelation 12:9)
Satan’s fellow bad angels were called demons because they were against God.
Even today, Satan and his demons trick people and make trouble because they still want to fight against God and people who God has created.
The Devil and his demons try to make everyone stop loving God and disobey God even to this day. (Ephesians 6:11)
So, I here you ask: “Grandad & Nanna, why did God allow Satan and his demons to attack”.
Well, dear child, did all the angels know at the end of the war, who were the angels who loved God and were faithful and who were not?
Yes, they did, and God did too, didn’t He? (Job 4:18, Jude 1:6)
Satan and his demons sinned a great sin and God took away their powers. That is the great penalty of sin. (1 John 3:4, Romans 6:23)
Do you think that human beings are now being tested by God, just as God tested the angels?
Can you remember at the end of our last Chapter Grandad & Nanna said: “What happened next, our child, is very exciting”?
Well God our Father and Jesus His Son, had decided that after the first creation of the dinosaurs, there would be two more creations.
The second creation on this earth is the one we are now experiencing and there is yet a third one to come. (Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:1-5)
But, we are jumping ahead of our Bible Story a little bit, says Nanna.
Well a very long time passed after the battle by the good angels against Satan and his demons.
This world was in darkness, the wind whistled cold and nothing was alive. Water covered the earth.
God decided it was time to start His very important second creation on the earth.
The 1st Day
With His great power, directing the angels, God cleared away the darkness and made light. God glows like bright blazing light, so this was not hard for God to do.
The light was day and the dark was night which was the first day, from sunset to sunset (Genesis 1:3-5).
Did you know that God measures a day from sunset to sunset?
The 2nd Day
On the second day, God made the fresh air to breathe and clouds which is the sky or our atmosphere.
The evening and the morning was the second day, from sunset to sunset (Genesis 1:6-8).
The 3rd Day
On the third day, God had His angels raise the land out of the waters. Then God had them separate the lands and push them around on the huge plates of the earth, to make the continents we know today.
On the land God told the angels to plant all the different wonderful plants and trees and vegetation, with lots of variety on the different continents and islands, God had formed.
The evening and the morning was the third day, from sunset to sunset. (Genesis 1:9-13).
The 4th Day
Remember how Grandad & Nanna talked about how there had been a great war between God and Satan and how many stars like our Sun and other big things like our Moon were damaged and put out of their paths?
Well on the fourth day, God re-set our sun and moon and stars and the earth in their right orbits.
Do you know why God did that and set our earth spinning 1,000 miles per hour at a tilt of 23 degrees?
The sun, moon, earth and stars had to be put in their correct places and orbits, so there would be seasons, months and years.
God appointed those seasons very specially for God’s Holy Days. But Nanna says Grandad is jumping a bit ahead again, in this exciting story.
The evening and the morning was the fourth day, from sunset to sunset. (Genesis 1:14-19).
The 5th Day
On the fifth day was lots more fun, because God made birds and fish and whales and all creatures that live in the sea.
Can you imagine God’s delight in doing that? (Revelation 4:11)
Yes, God gets a lot of pleasure watching the wonderful, fish and birds in his creation as well as what He created in the previous days and then the 6th and 7th days.
The evening and the morning was the fifth day, from sunset to sunset (Genesis 1:20-23).
The 6th Day
Wow! On the sixth day, God created cattle and all the animals of the earth and ever thing that creeps, and God saw that it was good.
Later on the 6th Day God our Father and Jesus God’s Son said: “Let us make man in our shape, after the way we look. Let him rule the fish and the birds and the cattle, the earth and everything.”
God cleverly put in all living things, the way for each one to make more of their own kind.
Not only did God make the man, who he called Adam, but he put Adam to sleep and took one of his ribs and made his wife Eve. (Genesis 1:26)
The Evening and the morning was the sixth day, from sunset to sunset (Genesis 1:24-31).
Did you know, our child, why God created our human minds far superior to animals?
Because God wanted us to look after them and care for them, and God wanted to have a loving Father to son and daughter family relationship with us humans.
We have the spirit in man that God gave us so that we can think and have loving, kind relationships. Animals have a different spirit, which we call instinct. (1 Corinthians 2:10)
Ask Grandad & Nanna or ask your Mom and Dad and they will explain this better to you.
Our invisible “spirit in man” that God has given us, helps us to use the six main thinking parts of our brain, called our intellect, which are: reason, imagination, perception, willpower, intuition and memory, in a way that animals can’t do.
For example, we can use these 6 major intellectual powers to think and reason, to design plans for a building or a boat or a plane or a rocket; to make funny jokes with a sense of humour; to paint a beautiful painting; to compose music; to write stories; to invent and create wondrous things, etc, which animals can’t do.
The 7th Day
On the seventh day, God rested from all his work.
God told Adam and Eve to keep the seventh day holy and very special, by us remembering who is our Great Creator God.
The Seventh day is called the Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
The Sabbath was made for us human beings to enjoy together and to thank God for our lives and our family and friends and for loving us and taking care of everything. It is not a day for us to go to work and earn money like we do the other 6 days of the week. (Exodus 20:8-11)
It is also a day that we can tell God our Father and Jesus His Son, how much we love them. The Sabbath is a special sign that we are God’s children. (Exodus 31:13, Exodus 31:17)
God does not slumber or sleep, but He knew that we would need one day a week to rest and be refreshed in our human spirit with God’s holy spirit, that He gives to us.
So, aren’t we are rich, our child, in having a holiday holy day that God has given us to enjoy every week together with God?
We sure are!
The evening and the morning was the Seventh day of creation, from sunset to sunset (Gen 2:1-3).
…to be continued in Chapter 3.
