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and God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:18, “…and to govern
the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness;
and God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:21, “And God created
the great sea monster, and every living creature that moves, with
which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird
after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”

Genesis 1:25, “And God made the beasts of the earth after
their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that
creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was
good.” And then He created man, Genesis 1:31, “And god saw
all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there
was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” After He
finished, Genesis 2:1&2, “thus the heavens and the earth were
completed, and all their hosts. And by the seventh day God
completed His work which He had done; and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work which He had done.”

The key to understanding that God rested, on day one He
said, “That’s good.” On day two He finished and said, “That’s
good.” And days three, four and five He said, “Good, good,
good.” And when He created man he said, “Very good.” God
was pleased with His creation. It was finished. It was completed
and He was happy. God was satisfied. One reason He made man
on the sixth day is because man would say, “May I please help
you. One grain of sand, one blade of grass; can I help?”

God created man when everything was finished, so that
man’s first day was the Sabbath and to enter rest. Everything was
done and finished and complete. You couldn’t add to it and you
couldn’t subtract. It was a full and complete creation. God’s joy
and happiness and satisfaction in finished creation is a picture of
His joy and happiness in a finished redemption. When Jesus was
on the cross, John 19:30, “When Jesus therefore had received the
sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished!’ And He bowed His head, and
gave up His spirit.” When He brought so great a salvation to man
He said, “It is finished!”