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In the Beginning

Name: In the Beginning
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: abwasOT03
Price: 3.95 USD
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Creation unfolds in a radiant vision of the first world: light shines across the heavens, planets hang among the stars, waters gather beneath a lush paradise of palms, waterfalls, birds, fish, and land animals. The composition gathers the major works of the creation week into one sweeping scene, presenting the ordered universe, the fruitful earth, and living creatures under the command of God. Its biblical meaning points to Genesis 1, where God speaks light into darkness, separates sky and sea, causes vegetation to flourish, and fills the waters, heavens, and land with life. The image is well suited for teaching creation, worship visuals, children’s ministry, Genesis studies, and themes of God as Creator and sustainer of all things.

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ABWE GoodSoil Dept.

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Keywords	animals creation creator earth genesis heavens paradise
Secondary Keywords	birds creation week fish in the beginning palms stars vegetation waterfalls waters
Tertiary Keywords	children's ministry creation teaching Genesis study Land animals living creatures planets sea worship background
Scriptures	Genesis 1:1-5 Genesis 1:14-19 Genesis 1:20-25 Genesis 1:9-13 Genesis 1 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Genesis 1 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. Genesis 1 20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. 24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1 9 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.