Day 1

Genesis 1:3-5
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 and God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was Evening, and there was Morning, the first Day.

When you read these verses closely, it is clear that God did not create the light, he just said "let there be light", it does not say "created" or "made", but he gave a command.

It also says that the light was good, i.e. the darkness was not good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

I think there is more to it than the light of day and the darkness of night.

The word “choshek (strongs 2822) is not an ordinary darkness. We see it used in Genesis 1:2, the darkness over the waters, Exodus 10:21, a darkness that could be felt, which was over all of Egypt as a punishment against Pharaoh, a spiritual darkness.

In particular, making such a big deal out of saying that there should be a distinction between them seemed almost to beg the question: “I wonder if it is nothing more than the light of day and the darkness of night”.

Imagine making such a big deal out of something so obvious, there must be more to it.

That the light is good, echoes Jesus’ own words:

John 9:4
I must work the works of him who sent me as long as it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

Here Jesus is also speaking figuratively, which Moses also clearly does.

The idea of evening and morning is also the idea of a movement from entropy to order. So God is here in the process of bringing order to his broken creation.