Lesson 8: The World, Part 2

Genesis 1:1‑19  •  3 min. read  •  grade level: 2
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Gen. 1:1-19
WHEN God made the dry land, there was nothing on it. It was bare.
So God spoke, and things grew out of the ground. Trees came out of it; they were covered with green leaves of different shapes. Some were called oak trees, and some were called elm trees, and some were called beech trees. Some trees bore nice fruit, such as plum trees, apple trees, orange trees and fig trees.
Vegetables grew out of the earth. Potatoes and beans, cabbages and lettuces, are called vegetables. Corn came out of the earth. Some corn is called wheat, and some corn is called barley, and some is called oats. The ears of corn bend down when they are ripe; then they look yellow like gold.
God made the soft green grass to spring up, and flowers to grow among the grass—flowers of all colors, and of the sweetest smell. The yellow buttercup, the white lily, the blue violet—and the rose, the most beautiful of all flowers.
I have told you of five sorts of things that grow out of the earth:
1. Trees.
2. Vegetables.
3. Corn.
4. Grass.
5. Flowers.
The world looked very beautiful when it was covered with grass and trees. But only God and the angels saw its beauty.
Afterward God placed the sun in the sky. He made it shine all day long and go from one end of the world to the other.1
God made the moon to shine at night, and He covered the sky with stars.
You never saw anything as bright as the sun. It is very large indeed, only it looks small, because it is a very long way off. It cannot fall, for God holds it up. 2God makes it move across the sky. The moon does not shine as brightly as the sun, for God lets it be dark at night, so that we may rest, and sleep soundly.3
Who can count the stars?
No one but God. 4He knows their names and their number, too. 5When we look at the moon and stars, let us think how great God is! Yet He cares for the little birds, and loves little children. 6
Questions
How many different sorts of things grow out of the ground?
Tell me the names of some trees.
Tell me the names of some vegetables.
Tell me the names of some flowers.
What bright things did God put in the sky?
How many stars are there?
God is wise:
A verse from the Bible for you to learn:
“He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.” Psa. 147:4.
 
1. God demands of Job, ‘Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place?’ Job 38:12.
2. ‘Upholding all things by the word of His power.’ Heb. 1:3.
3. ‘He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness, and it is night.... Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labor until the evening.’ Psa. 104:19, 20, 23.
4. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered.’ Jer. 33:22.
5. ‘Behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them all by names, by the greatness of His might.’ Isa. 40:26.
6. ‘When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him?’ Psa. 8:3, 4.