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Deep Magic – Song of the Supernatural – Chapter 9
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God moved next to the waters He called Seas. He filled them and the sky above the waters with amazing creatures (nepes – “living being, being with the life principle”) of all shapes and sizes.
Creation – Day Five
“Then God said, ‘Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.’ So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.” Genesis 1:20-23
God Created “great sea creatures” (tanniyn – “dragon, dinosaur, sea monster”). Whales are some of the great sea creatures we can still observe. Other “sea monsters,” like the great dinosaurs that used to populate the seas, are no longer with us. The “living things” that move in the water include fish, dolphins, scallops, squids, porpoise, shrimp, sharks, crabs, clams, eels, sponges, sea worms, turtles, manatees, and sea otters – an estimated 240,000 marine species – and God Created every one of them. And these are just the ones we know about. Marine scientists who are working on a massive census of marine life believe there may be millions more species living in the sea that are yet to be discovered. As scientists are able to go deeper into the seas of the world, they are finding new creatures that are amazing in their ability to live and thrive at depths that would crush sea creatures that live closer to the surface. We marvel at the complexity of every creature of the sea and at the God Who Created each one.
My wife and I visited a multi-story aquarium years ago with one of our sons and his wife and children and were thrilled to see so many different types of sea life up close. I remember thinking throughout the tour of the aquarium about how each of the creatures we were looking at began in God’s Mind. The Almighty God created each one with a special color, beauty and purpose. Some of the creatures may not be beautiful to us, but they are to their Creator. Every living thing that moves in the waters is part of God revealing Himself. We see from the many shapes, sizes and colors that God is a Master Artist.
God also filled the sky with creatures that had wings and could fly above the waters – “every winged bird according to it kind.” God Created thousands of kinds of birds – eagles, egrets, robins, sparrows, bats, cranes, seagulls, ducks, herons, penguins, owls, geese, quail, wren, finch, loons, parrots, doves, pigeons – a truly amazing array of sizes, shapes and colors of living beings that fill the sky with their presence.
Every creature in the sea and sky sings a portion of the Song of the Supernatural. God taught them their part of the Song and they sing it faithfully every day. Take a walk through a large wooded area and you will hear their songs – chirping, whistling, cooing, crying, calling – the songs they sing are the Creation of a Musical God. Just as birds fill the sky with their songs, so the creatures of the sea faithfully sing their songs as well – the playful song of the dolphin, the quick clicking of the porpoise, the low grunting of a seal, the high-pitched call of the Beluga whale, the haunting cry of the Blue whale, the playful chirping of the penguin. Those are some of the songs we can hear, but there are many more that are outside the range of human hearing. Each creature has a distinct song they sing in harmony with their Creator.
What was God’s Will for creatures of the sky and sea? He blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” Be fruitful – multiply – fill. That is God’s Will for His creatures. God’s Deep Magic was explained to us in the magical language of Hebrew, so let’s see what words He used.
“Fruitful” is parah and means “to bear fruit, bear young.” “Multiply” is rab and means “to become much or many, to increase in number.” “Fill” is male and means “to be abundant and overflowing, to fill a vacant space with its bulk and abundance, to fill up, be full, to satisfy.” God Created large spaces – sky and seas – Made living beings for each and told them to be fruitful, multiply and fill those spaces. In doing that, every living creature satisfies the Purpose and Will of the Creator. We see God’s satisfaction with what He Created – “And God saw that it was good.”
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