There is a parallel between the order of things I in the first chapter of Genesis and other portions of Scripture of which 2 Timothy, for instance, furnishes an example. Dividing the six days into two parts of three days in each – a recognized division – the first three are marked by separation, and the second three by furnishing.

In the first three :day is separated from night ; the waters above from the waters below ; and the sea from the land. In the second three:the heavens are furnished with the sun, moon and stars; the sea and the land with fishes and with fowls; the earth with cattle and creeping things, and finally with man.

This of course is divine order in general ; and so therefore in 2 Timothy Chap. ii, we have ''depart from iniquity," that the servant may be sanctified and ready, "to every good work;" and in chap. 3:by the knowledge of the " Holy Scriptures" the man of God is furnished "unto every good work," as the phrase is really in each case.

Thus the mind is impressed afresh with the perfections of God's word and ways in every detail.

One may notice also, though not in immediate connection with our subject, that each alternate
day's work reaches to things above. On the second day the waters "above" get their place; on the fourth day, the sun, moon and stars; and on the sixth day, the man and the woman are assigned the place of rule over all the earth.

The very fact that we have to take the man and woman as typical of Christ and the Church ruling over the millennial earth to complete the suggestion, is also a lesson. That is, we know by Scripture elsewhere that Adam and Eve are a type of Christ and the Church, and then in the present consideration we are forced to view them typically to get the harmony suggested in the alternate days; for otherwise the second and fourth days would lead the mind to things "above " and the sixth day would not, just at a point where we would expect that it should. But the type explains the difficulty, and gives a harmonious lesson.

That is, the second and fourth day's work say to us, Look for something heavenly on the sixth day; and as we have seen it is found in the type.

If on the second day, the waters above suggest the second dispensation (that after the flood), when in the covenant with Noah government was committed to man, we have before us what will utterly fail at last.

So the fourth day presents, in the moon, the defective witness in the Church. But in the sixth day we have at last that which is perfect in the millennial reign of Christ and the Church.

May the perfection of God's work and ways stir our hearts to diligently seek Him. E. S. L.