What Most Churches WON'T Tell You About CREATION 

Also the grass and herbs were given life before the sun and stars. Letting us know that God can do all things and be all things. He can be the light of the world because He is the Great I AM.

I never thought of the creation story in the view of early peoples. Thanks for the insight.

I was so thrilled to hear this told at last, and in a way that challenges our Biblical encyclopedia worldview to that of a true "believer" in the author of all things. Years ago, I read in the Cultural Studies Bible that even the word "create" is describing a process "to bring order to, " rather than to "bring into existence".

The firmament (vaulted dome) is absolutely true. Disproving men’s theories! Many things have come to light in my spiritual experience these last few years, including understanding the firmament. As the heavens are above the earth, so are His ways above ours.

Thank you for showing us how caring and tender our Father is from the beginning.

Good message, Brandon. Great way to end it, tying in the connections we need to make and highlighting the encouragement it brings.

The word of YEHOVAH is always accurate. Many of us, in our arrogance, think that it's not true when we don't understand, or are erroneously ill informed, because we are indeed arrogant.

Thank you for this insight and explanation of the view of those in the time after creation. Our God is, indeed, most high, merciful, and caring.

What a gift you give us when you share your insight.

God said the seventh-day Sabbath is the sign that he created the heavens and earth in six days. He blessed and sanctified the day, and called for us to keep it holy. Happy Seventh-day Sabbath 🎉

This might be your best video yet, Brandon. Good job!

Wow Brandon! This one is excellent. A beautiful insight and preach wrapped into one! Thanks.

Like my mama says "the church is not corrupt only its people!"

Excellent Bible study. This is what I always believed but couldn’t find any teaching on it. Thanks for the great insight.

Very interesting. Thank you for your insight on this. I always appreciate your videos.

Jesus is the Way The Truth and The Life🥰

Thank you Brandon. God has blessed you with the gift of wisdom

I got saved after hearing a creation sermon. I was 12.

Brandon, thank you again for sharing your God giving wisdom with me.🙏🙏

In short God is saying, I created it. Don't worship the created things, worship me.

Excellent! Thank you!

You know, my dad was a strict Catholic, but he once told me, "I still believe in evolution. What could be one day to God would be millions of years. All of God's creations are beautiful, but of course they took time to develop. He didn't just wave a wand and make animals and human beings suddenly appear!" The creation story from Genesis holds truth, but in a different way. Doctors and scientists who are devout Jews or Christians know this.

Outstanding video.

Amen Pastor Brandon. It's wonderful to remember that times were so different and the people, to whom this was written, and first given, were of a much different culture and mindset. Our ancestors, too, were in a sense, akin to a different world. My grandfather, who I am trying to study, was born in 1887. A much different time than now. Thoughts about what was possible, and what might be dreamed, were far different than now. Genealogists have to be reminded of that, as do we Christians about God's word. Again, thank you.

I love this understanding thank you

Thank you!

You videos are so informative. I appreciate you

Amazingly done.

Amen brother. You hit the spot. One thing many people don't realize is the Creation story was also meant to explain to Israel why they were to keep the Sabbath. In the Pagan Creation stories humans were created to do the dirty work the gods didn't want to do. So when they read about God resting on the Seventh day that was radical to them. Today many Christians believe the Sabbath was only for the Jews, but Scripture makes clear that the Sabbath was made for Mankind to rest and enjoy.

Helpful, thank you

Thank you Brandon!

Thank for explaining in detail about creation.

Thank you for all your deep insights!

Thank you again. You are helping me very much.

That conclusion was amazing

Thank you for your studies and research, gifts of understanding and knowledge, and your natural insight.

Thank you..

I certainly appreciate your work on your channel. For the first time ever, I am understanding the Bible, Jesus, and so very much more. Thank you!

Thank you Brandon an excellent teaching lesson. I try to watch as many as I can, you help me to understand scripture.

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Glory Glory Glory in the name of Jesus Christ Amen, and Amen

Beautiful

Awesome.❤

Thanks!🥰

Thank you

I really liked this video, especially when you showed the pattern of creation.

Yes, exactly. Thanks.

Amen Brother Brandon! He is the God of our hope 🤩

Thank you, thank you, thank you! As someone who attends an evangelical church, I'm surrounded by people who want to view scripture scientifically instead of according to its intention. I wonder how many people have turned away from Yaweh and Jesus because they were never offered the point of view you provide in this video. Once you see it, it seems clear that Genesis was created to speak to people in their time (not ours) and to point to Jesus.

If it is upon every Christian to spread the gospel, then how does one do so when they are not public speakers, nor preachers nor a gospel singer? What if there has to be a way to spread the gospel without saying a word or being able to sing, your voice isn't something anyone wants to hear, but your duty is still before you? What are many of us to do to help our family, our community, our country? With each of these Techniques there are words added to the gospel. So what if we can spread just the gospel, nothing added? It doesn't matter if you do as Jesus says and preach,or how God teaches and plant a seed. What if those who make quilts can put a prayer or the Sermon on the Mount in the quilt, giving whoever receives it a covering in the voice of Jesus? Or a hatband with the Ten Commandments in it to allow someone to wear the very voice of The Father? If one is sick can we give them a prayer in a gift and pray with them? What if each of us worked together to spread the gospel and STOP with the downing of the way other Christians do their best to help us all? We have forgotten God in our deeds. By binding The Word, as God describes in Deut. 6:8-9, any part of it, placing it in gifts and spreading the charity, God blessed each of us and gave us an abundance of things we no longer need or want and give with The Word added as a gift to another who has needs or wants? Plant the seed of God's Word. Why can't we as Christians spread the gospel the only way we know how and be accepted by other Christians? We are one in our Lord Jesus Christ and some of us are not those who can speak or sing. There is more to the Body of Christ than just a mouth. What? Are we all talk and no action? People need the love, hope, mercy, prayer, songs, peace etc. that is in the pages of the Holy Bible.The Word, The Truth will last forever. Let's use every gift of God and spread His Holy Spirit across our land. This is something we all can do. Whatever you do, wherever you go, find a way to add the Holy Spirit. Psalms 119:151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. We have to plant seeds in order to reap a harvest. Where there is light, there is no darkness. Light up your world, spread the voice of God. Dress you and yours in The Lord. We cover the world in the Biblical spirit just as The Father did in the beginning. All world religions just lead to death, none has found life. There is more that you can do than pray.

notice some examples of the harmony between science and the Bible. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis. 1:1) This was written by Moses through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit about 1500 B.C. In 1820 A.D. a man named Hubert Spencer gave the world five scientific principles by which man may study the unknown. They are time, force, energy, space, and matter. However, Moses, by inspiration, gave us those scientific principles in Genesis 1:1. "In the beginning" -time; "God” -force; “created" -energy; "the heavens" -space; "and the earth" -matter.

"YEHOVAH ( God ) is light ". 1st John 1-5 "This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all". Revelations 22:5 " And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever". So it is clear that YEHOVAH provided light before the sun was made , because he is pure light. This is why angels are depicted with halos. Radiance eminates from the holy spirit's light. You will find this true in both literal and in figurative senses. Shalom.

What I see in the Genesis 1 Creation story is the establishment to the 7 Cycles necessary for Life as we know it -- Day-Night Cycle, Water Cycle, Carbon Cycle making Photosynthesis possible, Earth-Sun-Moon Cycle, Marine Life Cycle, Land Animal Cycle including Mankind to be the Manager, Work-Rest Cycle.

Geeee!! Pastor Brandon; this means joy to my heart; of course I have a bias, but also this reminds me of my youth at College when I dared an essay that compared conceptual similarities between Genesis and Life Origin Oparin's Theory. My Professor maybe was not enthusiastic 😅 But it meant A LOT to me, and my brains. Thank you for this renewed delight; I love Genesis record ❤

It's true that ancient literature is limited by ancient language, and that ancient language is limited by ancient thought. So for example, if a 21st century AD unbeliever and a 20th century BC unbeliever saw... let's say the vision of Ezekiel of the Seraphim, their accounts would be quite different to the point that one may think that they saw completely different things. The 20th century BC unbeliever would say that he saw gods in the heavens. The 21st century AD unbeliever would say that he saw aliens in the sky. Yet Ezekiel would say that, actually, he saw seraphim. And the surprising thing is that a 21st century AD believer might also say Seraphim. But to the ancient unbeliever anything spotted in the sky was a god, whether it was a Seraphim or a shooting star. People don't realize how much the bible connects thoughts over thousands of years. And they also don't realize how dangerous it is to disconnect these thoughts in favour of modern thought. It would be exceedingly embarrassing for a believer to see Seraphim in the sky and say that he saw aliens. And not only would it be embarrassing, but it would turn Seraphim into mythical creatures that could only exist in the time of Ezekiel. So let's not go throwing out the creation account in Genesis 1 just because we don't believe that there's a literal vault in the sky holding back water. Moses' intention in mentioning the "separation between the waters above and the waters below" was to indicate that God created the atmosphere. That's the thing that didn't exist before the waters were separated. But Moses described it according to ancient thought, which also limited the language that he used. There is no "sky" or "atmosphere" in ancient Hebrew. So if we know that "waters above" refers to the blue sky or to the clouds, and that waters below refers to the oceans or the seas, then whatever is left between them is what God created on the second day. Even though languages have changed significantly over time, let's not disconnect or abandon the thoughts. They weren't written down and preserved by God for thousands of years to be made light of or done away with.

I am hoping I detected Dr. Michael Heiser’s influence in this video. I’ve heard him speak about the Canaanite gods in some of his seminars. I love this video. Thank you!

Yes! A flat stationary earth, scripture points to that, especially when The Almighty stopped the sun and moon, no mention of stopping the earth! The ancients knew this. We have been so deceived

Thank you for this insight! It came at the right time because I just started a Christian Apologetics course and we’re going over creation and how those beliefs are impacted by our worldview and culture. )PS Luckily, I’ve become a student of Brandon Robbins before then 😅 so I was able to be aware that there is more going on with a Bible verse than what I anticipated!)

Watch video from Dr. Gerald schroeder, a orthodox Jewish physicist that explains it more thoroughly. The first light was neutrinos and not the moon or stars. Just like a Yom is a day or a period of time. In Hebrew context is essential.

I had to figure out all the stuff on my own, I’m 58 now, a lot of churches preach milk. Not meat

“Let there be light”, The moon and stars were also created on day 4. So the light in Genesis 3 is not the moon and stars.

I am fortunate enough to have a pastor who did a complete series on Genesis. He is also quite the geek. He did an awesome job of explaining how everything written in Genesis was easily backed up by scientific fact. The only time it doesn't make scientific sense is when one does not have a Godly worldview. God's creation is beyond awesome, and the more one knows his word the more incredibly complex and perfect it is.

This video's audio volume is a bit low Brandon. Loves your videos BTW.

Inside the LDS Temples, also talks about the creation too! (and the story of Adam & Eve)!

I have really enjoyed your clarifications and insights. I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and realize that many protestants say we aren't Christians. Not true. But I appreciate your work. Thank you.

The connections between Yam and the (original creation myth epic featuring the) Babylonian Tiamat were well understood by the culture of that time and following. We see throughout history that the same mythology filters down through the cultures (like the Greek and Roman) using different names and reworked stories. It's the same lies retold. Genesis cuts through them all with its simple visual.

Genesis 1:6 KJV does not mention a vaulted dome. The KJV is generally used as the most accurate. You will find in Deut 4 and Rev 22 warnings about adding or subtracting from the Bible. Please get your act together!

No, I didn’t read anything about a “vaulted dome” as a child. Nor as an adult. King James says, as you pointed out, “firmament.” God watches over His Word. He is the Word. I can’t watch videos when the book used is not the Holy scripture. Return email notifications are not available at this time.

It is so difficult to explain to people that God stands outside of creation (matter, energy, space and time) To reason that He literally created in six evening and morning days, by His spoken word is therefore irrelevant and places God in a LESSER position. There was NO time to measure a day when He started, there was no air to carry a word from His "mouth" (what mouth?) But, we can see that the story is poetry (through the pattern you mention), intended to convey greater meaning, and we can see that God created Adam around six thousand years ago. Thanks for boldly proclaiming the truth.

In my original KJV, that verse says nothing about a 'vaulted dome'; It says firmament. The original versions say FIRMAMENT. The 'vaulted dome' is the phrase some other versions translated it as later on. Light on the first day was the ORDER out of CHAOS (light and darkness was divided to set the difference between them). Interesting video. :)

Thanks Brandon. This is a really good start at explaining why Genesis was written and it’s purpose. It was clearly not written as a scientific text book for people living 3000yrs later. If people are interested in reading more about Genesis, the purpose of the creation story and what this means for us as Christian’s (for example, why we still need Jesus to save us if there was no actual ‘fall’), then I’d recommend The evolution of Adam by Pete Enns.

Gen 1 is the day to day creation, Gen 2 is the specific creation of man which is day 6 in Hen 1, so its not 2 creations hubdreds of years apart

great video - yet I need to add 1 - the Torah must be understood in 4 levels - 2 - the light - ohr - is not just light - it is the force of creation - 3 - the Zohar (written hundreds of years ago) has the exact description of the big bang theory in its first page.

Space is a lie. Let God be true and every man a liar. God's firmament is truth.

I just had an entire sermon shredded by the denomination because it was "too contreversial", how God uses the language of myth to reveal Himself in the story of creation.

I'm going to push back against some of the critical scholarship creeping into this video. Some of the arguments sound similar to those about the flood story being based on the epic of Gilgamesh instead of accepting the that flood actually occurred first but that the Babylonian epic was just the first corrupt extra biblical attestation to the real event. Similarly, there is much speculation involved in this "higher" criticism of the Genesis text about what the authors were really thinking or referring to, coupled with implicit evolutionary assumptions about man being dumber in the past. It is WE who may be ignorant of God's actual creative process and the underlying science behind these descriptions. A glaring example is discounting the creation of light without the sun. Incomplete information meets a lack of imagination and *poof* the information can't be right. Taking God's word seriously requires self-abnegation and pronounced intellectual humility, but I urge everyone reading this to heed the words of the wisest man who ever lived, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding..."

I like what you are saying and it's logical, however, how do you know what Moses believed when describing the "waters above" was referring to the blue sky. What is your source/evidence for this statement?

Pick up a copy of Starlight and Time by Russell Humphreys for a physicist's perspective inline with the Genesis account.

And… didn’t he rest on Saturday, yet we go to Church on Sunday ??????

Great content but the sound is low for my hearing.

The Old Testament is about what was there, what became wrong/inadequate about it and how it was going to be put right. The whole of the Old Testament in some way points to Jesus. If we were to discard the Old Testament we would forget why Jesus had to come.

As Jesus spoke in stories, parables, some of the Bible is told in a way people can understand.

Brandon do you surrender your biases when you read the Bible?

Very interesting; however, science does support the story of Genesis as shown by information presented by "Answers in Genesis". You may want to give them a watch. God bless!

As with all scripture it is too deep and rich to be just one thing. The creation account is just as much for us now as it was for Israel then

Which bible version are you refererncing that translates "firmanent" to "vaulted dome"?

The thing about the bible is.. when a point is made.. it is made more than once. He is not a God of confusion.

Doesn't John also hint at this is chapter 1 of the Gospel in Jesus being the Word and the Light in making sense and bringing order and Peace to the lost sheep of Israel and then to the nations: Kingdom of God is at hand. Excellently articulated. Well studied

I may be wrong, but my opinion is...When God said 'Let there be Light', it was Jesus. Jesus is the light of the world.

Thanks for the video! But I want it to be longer. 😅 If the creation story is more about the origin of God's relationship with humanity instead of a scientific explanation of Earth's history, then I would be very interested if you went verse by verse to explain what each day of creation says about our relationship with God.

In Strongs Concordance (and the NAS Exhaustive Concordance) the Hebrew word raqia (7549) means an extended surface, expanse, and is translated that way in other Old Testament passages. So you lost me right at the start.

The truth about creation. Jesus is my best friend. Back in the mid 80s, I asked the Lord to tell me the truth about the creation of the world, and he showed me Moses' vision of the creation. It did not take long to figure out that the days of creation were taking a lot longer than 24 hours a piece. So I asked Jesus, "How long is the day?" He asked me, "How do you calculate one day for man?" "Well, one revolution of the earth on it's axis." Then Jesus said, "But man had not been created yet." I said, "So then the earth going around the sun." Jesus said, "But the earth had not been created yet either. So what is next?" The solar system revolving around the galaxy?" "And how long does that take?" he asked. I looked it up. It takes several hundreds of million of years. Now that might work. Now I have revisited the vision many times and this is what I see today. The creation of the earth begins in a nebula out in the galaxy. Inside the nebula are father stars and mother planets. I saw a father star and God said, "Let there be light," in other words, "Let there be life." And I saw a fire ball go out from the sun and it fell into the ocean of a mother planet and a new planet was conceived and for the next several hundreds of millions of years, the earth grew in the womb of the mother planet. At the start of the second day, I saw that baby earth had grown and was ready to be born and I saw the mother planet turn on her axis so her pole was pointed toward the star and baby earth fell to the pole and popped out of the ocean. There was the greater water above, the mother, and the lessor waters beneath, and there was a space between them. and for the next several hundreds of millions of years Baby earth grew, at first as a moon revolving around the Mother, then by the time it reached full grown, broke away from the mother to become a separate planet. At the start of the third "Day" there was a crack that opened up in the earth's crust under the ocean and volcanoes grew up from the floor of the ocean to create land, and continued to spew out magma until there was on Giant continent. When the land was suitable to support plant life, God gave the earth power to create seeds and the earth created seeds in the ocean and on the land and the seeds grew and produced all manner of plant life in the oceans and on the land. Then in the fourth day, I saw that star we call our sun enter into the nebula and as the sun passed through the nebula, I saw him gathering planets, including the earth, and moons and other space debris and after several hundreds of millions of years, the sun emerged from the nebula and became the solar system we are familiar with. In the fifth "day", God gave the earth power to create animal life in the oceans and on the land. On the sixth day, God gave power to the earth to create the large land animals and mammals. At the end of the sixth day, when the earth was deemed habitable for humans, God said to his wives, Let us go down and make babies, in our own image and likeness, boys and girls. God and his wives planted seven colonies on the earth, and then God rested. For the next several hundreds of millions of years, while God rested, his children created an advanced global civilization. There were pyramids dotting the earth that provided light in the night. Earth was a paradise for man and there was no war, hunger, disease or death and people evolved into higher states of existence without death.

It made perfect sense thousands of years ago, and it makes sense today. The Bible is not wrong, we've been lied to about earth and space. And we're still being lied

What Bible translation is this I became curious as soon as I seen the words valted dome and opened 47 translations and CAN'T find these words anywhere. Would anyone share the translation ?

Why do we have to submit to a book. Can we get for free and not submit...

What do you say about the Gap Theory?

Make a video called, What all padtors won't tell you about Acts 20 and 1 Corinthians 9.

Moses wrote the first 5 books inspired by God not man

I've always wondered how we know that is how creation occurred. If there were no humans till the 6th day then how do we know what happened on days 1-5?

Wonderful explanations; however, you have to read the scrools of Bereishit "The Beginning " in the original language or the transliteration of the Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages or language Elokim is plural used in the singular masculine Blessed be the Holy One of Abraham, Havayah is Elokim

This was a very Catholic approach to Genesis. I agree with your opinion that Genesis was not written as a scientific explanation. But this comes with a price: Alleging that the human writers of Genesis just revealed their own understanding of how creation works in order to transport spiritual truth simply means that the frame of this spiritual truth is only their imagination. Does God´s revelation really work this way?