(圣经算日子是从晚上到早晨)
创一 2~4『而地变为荒废空虚，渊面黑暗。神的灵覆罩在水面上。神说，要有光，就有了光。神看光是好的，就把光暗分开了。』
创世记一章二节是圣经中第一次提到灵。神的灵作为生命之灵（罗八 2）覆罩在死水之上，以产生生命，特别为著神的定旨产生人（创一26）。在属灵经历中，灵的来到是产生生命的第一条件（约六 63 上）（圣经恢复本，创一 2 注 5）。
灵覆罩之后（创一 2 下），神的话来到，带进光（参诗一一九 105、130）。在属灵经历中，话的来到是产生生命的第二条件（约五 24，六 63 下），而光的来到是第三条件（太四 13~16，约一 1~13）。
灵、话和光，是神为著完成他定旨所用以产生生命的凭藉。灵、话和光，都是属於生命（罗八 2，腓二 16，约八 12 下）。基督是灵，乃是神的实际（罗八 9~10，林后三 17，约十六 13~15）；基督是话，乃是神的说话（一 1，来一 2）；基督是光，乃是神的照耀（约八 12 上，九 5）（创一 3 注 1）。
光暗分开，是为著区分昼夜（创一 5，参林后六 14 下），这是产生生命的第四条件（创一 4注 1）。
严格的说，创世记一章并不是创造的记载…，乃是生命的记载。…神创造地，并非使其荒废，但地变成荒废。这是由於撒但的背叛，就是以赛亚十四章（9~14）和以西结二十八章（12~18）所记载的。…〔因而〕整个宇宙受了神的审判；经过那次审判，地就变为荒废空虚。
在创世记一章二节，有四个辞描述在神审判之下地的荒凉：荒废、空虚、渊面、黑暗。地变为荒废空虚，渊面黑暗。地的表面是深渊，而深渊的表面是黑暗。这告诉我们没有生命，只有死亡。地变为荒废空虚，渊面黑暗，乃是一幅死亡的图画。
二节的『覆罩』与申命记三十二章十一节的『展翅』同字，那节说，神像展翅覆雏的鹰一样。神的灵覆罩、展翅在死亡的情况里，目的是为著产生生命。母鸡覆罩在蛋上，是要产生一些活的东西。圣经里首次提起神的灵，是覆罩的灵。灵的覆罩指明，创世记一章不仅仅是神创造的记载，乃是生命的记载。
在三节，光进来产生生命。那里有黑暗，那里就有死亡。那里有光，那里就有生命。在一章，光进来，主要是为著生命，不是为著创造。一章主要不是创造的记载，乃是生命的记载。…〔四节的〕光暗分开，乃是为著产生生命。我们得救时，神圣的光进到我们里面，那光作了分别或分开的工作。光的事物与黑暗的事物分开。光进来是为著生命，这光将积极的事物与消极的事物分开或分别出来。五节说，『神称光为昼，称暗为夜；有晚上，有早晨，这是第一日。』…圣经算日子是从晚上到早晨。圣经的方式比人的方式更好。人的方式是从早晨下到晚上，但圣经的方式是从晚上上到早晨。从前有晚上，但如今有早晨。从前有黑暗，但如今有光。从前有死亡，但如今有生命（圣经中关于生命的重要启示，一至三页）。
参读：圣经中关于生命的重重要启示，第一章；神中心的思想，第一至二章。
English Version
Gen. 1:2-4 "But the earth became
waste and emptiness, and darkness was on the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was brooding upon
the surface of the waters. And God said,
Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw that the light was
good, and God separated the light from
the darkness."
[Genesis 1:2] is the first mentioning of the Spirit in the Bible. The
Spirit of God, as the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2), came to brood over the waters
of death in order to generate life, especially man (Gen. 1:26), for God's
purpose. In spiritual experience, the Spirit's coming is the first requirement
for generating life (John 6:63a). (Gen. 1:2, footnote 5)
After the Spirit's brooding (Gen. 1:2b), the word of God came to bring in the light (cf. Psa. 119:105, 130). In spiritual experience,
the coming of the word is the second requirement for generating life (John
5:24; 6:63b), and the coming of the light is the third requirement (Matt.
4:13-16; John 1:1-13).
The Spirit, the word, and the light were the instruments used by God to generate
life for the fulfillment of His purpose. The Spirit, the word, and the light
are all of life (Rom. 8:2; Phil. 2:16; John 8:12b). Christ as the Spirit is the
reality of God (Rom. 8:9-10; 2 Cor. 3:17; John 16:13-15); Christ as the Word is
the speaking of God (John 1:1; Heb. 1:2); and Christ as the light is the
shining of God (John 8:12a; 9:5). (Gen. 1:3, footnote 1)
The separation of the light from the darkness for the purpose of
discerning day from night (Gen. 1:5; cf. 2 Cor. 6:14b) is the fourth
requirement for generating life. (Gen. 1:4, footnote 1)
Genesis 1, strictly speaking, is not a record of creation [but of
life]....God did not create the earth waste, but it became waste....Due to the
rebellion of Satan...recorded in Isaiah 14:9-14 and Ezekiel 28:12-18,...the
whole universe was judged by God, and through that judgment the earth became
waste and emptiness.
In Genesis 1:2 there are four words describing the desolation of the
earth under God's judgment: waste, emptiness, darkness, and deep. The earth
became waste and emptiness, and darkness was on the surface of the deep. On the
surface of the earth was the deep, and on the surface of the deep was darkness.
This tells us that there was no life, but death. The earth becoming waste and
emptiness with darkness on the surface of the deep is a picture of death.
The word for brood [in verse 2] is the same word as hovers in
Deuteronomy 32:11. This verse says that God is like an eagle who spreads his
wings and hovers over his young. The Spirit of God was brooding, stretching out
His wings, over the death situation for the purpose of producing life. The
brooding of a hen over eggs is to produce some living things. In the Bible the
Spirit of God is first mentioned as the brooding Spirit. This brooding of the
Spirit indicates that Genesis 1 is not merely a record of God's creation but a
record of life.
[In Genesis 1:3] light comes in to produce life. Where darkness is,
there is death. Where light is, there is life. In Genesis 1 light came in
mainly for life, not for creation. Genesis 1 is not mainly a record of creation
but a record of life....[In verse 4] the separation of the light from the
darkness is for producing life. When we were saved, the divine light came into
us, and that light did a separating, or dividing, work. The things of light
were separated from the things of darkness. Light comes in for life, and this
light divides, or separates, the positive things from the negative things.
Verse 5 says, “God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And
there was evening and there was morning, one day.”...The Bible reckons a day
from the evening until the morning. The biblical way is better than the human
way. The human way goes down from morning to evening, but the biblical way goes
up from evening to morning.
There was the evening, but now there
is the morning. There was darkness, but now there is light. There was death,
but now there is life. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, p. 390)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, “The Crucial Revelation of Life in
the Scriptures,” ch. 1; The Central Thought of God, chs. 1-2
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