Tomorrow is the first day of Advent, and today we will start making things to honor the days before we celebrate Jesus’s birthday on Christmas Day. Each day we’ll talk about something that happened in the Bible before Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem. We will start in the very beginning — before there was anything at all. I’ll call this Day 0. It is BEFORE God turned darkness into light.
Many, many years before Jesus was born, the world had nothing in it at all, and it was simply dark and wet.
But God did some wonderful things to turn that dark emptiness into our beautiful world, and we’ll begin talking about those things tomorrow on Day 1 of Advent.
Advent is a period of waiting. Christians believe that it is a period of waiting for Jesus to be born, again and again. Jesus had many names. One of those names was Emanuel:
Many, many years before Jesus was born, the world had nothing in it at all, and it was simply dark and wet.
But God did some wonderful things to turn that dark emptiness into our beautiful world.
The Beginning
“1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
“Genesis 1 (NIV).” Bible Gateway, www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1.
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“1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
“The King James Version of the Bible.” Gutenberg.org, www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10/pg10-images.html#The_First_Book_of_Moses_Called_Genesis. Accessed 7 Nov. 2022.