Now, verse 6, And God said, Let there
be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from
the waters.
Now, this firmament is Ruat, it's these air
spaces, and God divided the waters from the
waters.
What does that mean?
Well, He divided the waters first perpendicularly.
There's water above us, water beneath us.
Out in the Hawaiian Islands, when we were
out there last year, did you know that
five inches of rain fell in Honolulu in
just a very short time?
I started to say a few minutes, and
I think I'm accurate on that.
But they told us that over 200 inches
of rain falls in a place where we
were.
My friend, there's a whole lot of water
if there's 200 inches of it that can
get above you like that.
Well, that's what God did.
God divided the waters above from the waters
that are beneath, and God called the firmament
heaven.
Now, this is not heaven as you and
I think of it.
There are three heavens that are mentioned in
Scripture.
The Lord Jesus spoke of the birds of
heaven.
I think that's what you have here.
The heaven is mentioned here.
And then there's the stars of heaven.
And then there's the third heaven where he
dwells.
And so the first layer up there, the
first deck, is the deck where there are
clouds, and where the birds fly also.
And the evening and the morning were the
second day.