Genesis Lecture 34 (Third day of the Creation 1) Eng.
Bible passage: Genesis 1:9-13
“[9] Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. [10] God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. [11] Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. [12] The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. [13] There was evening and there was morning, a third day.”
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is the 34th Lecture on Genesis. On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth for an hour 29 minutes. He is known to have left two famous quotes. One was, "The Earth is blue," and the other was "I don't see any God up here." A few months later, another Soviet cosmonaut, Gherman Titov accomplished 17 earth orbits for about a day. And he said, "I circled the Earth a dozen times, but I didn't see God." The US also succeeded to launch a manned spaceship on February 20, 1962. And John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth is known for having made this quote: "While in the space, I saw a tremendous view. God truly exists not only in the earth but also in the space." On Christmas Eve, 1968, for the first time in history, Apollo 8 with 3 astronauts entered an orbit of the moon.
Over the 71 miles from the moon, the astronauts of Apollo 8 said they had a special message that they'd like to send to the people of the earth. A live broadcast of the actual event was broadcast on TV and radio stations throughout the States and the world. They began sending a very special message from the moon to entire human race on earth. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light...." They took turns reading Genesis 1:1-5.
