Revelation 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that lives for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
This fact has to be made abundantly clear, because there is a lot of noise out there, with some saying that the earth had been in existence for many eons, and that God simply brought order out of chaos on the first day of creation week. This perspective is incorrect because it immediately destroys the Sabbath as a commemoration of God’s creative activity during the first week of our planet’s existence. The 4th commandment explicitly says “For in six days, The Lord created the heavens, and the earth.”
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 44] After the earth, with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator, and the one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon the stage of action. [Testimonies Vol. 8 pp 258] In the formation of our world, God was not indebted to pre-existing matter. On the contrary, all things, material or spiritual, stood up before the Lord Jehovah at His voice and were created for His own purpose.
The heavens and all the host of them, the earth and all things therein, are not only the work of His hand; they came into existence by the breath of His mouth. Another erroneous view which diabolically attempts to blend evolution with creation, which has become popular even in many Christian circles, is that the six days of creation were symbolic, not literal days, and as such, they represent vast periods of time. The following Scripture has been erroneously used and misinterpreted to support this incorrect view.
2nd Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!