Introduction

Good day to all! Some of you might wonder, is there so much to expound on in Genesis Chapter 1? Actually, what I want to share is far more than this. Genesis Chapter 1 embodies the very foundation of Christian theology. I reckon our brothers and sisters may not fully grasp this yet, but that's alright, listen to me patiently. God's creation of heaven and earth, the creation of man, and all of God's intentions are reflected in Genesis Chapter 1. As Christians, do we live according to Genesis Chapter 1, or according to something else? Some might say that's just the Old Testament, but brothers and sisters need to start rethinking one thing: Is the God of the Old Testament the same God as the New Testament? Or did the New Testament replace the Old Testament God, with a new God taking over? Is that the case? No, it is not.

The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are the same God, the God of Genesis and the Jesus Christ we believe in today have never changed. If you go back to the epistles of the Apostle Paul, or the teachings of Jesus Christ, the names they mention most often are basically from Genesis. If the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament were different Gods, then Jesus' teachings would be in vain, wouldn't they?

The theme we are discussing is "After Their Kind," which is from the original text of the Bible and is the foundation of management. If I were to ask you to take photos of your bed, your home, your kitchen, your bathroom, and then send them to me. According to my personal statistics, I find that many people can't even manage their own small space well. It's a complete mess! I wonder, is this God's will? If you can't even manage your own space, what can you manage? From this, I can roughly judge whether a person has a demon or God in them. When I see that a person's home is very dirty, I suspect that they may have dark forces or spiritual things on them, and later I find that this is indeed the case.

More than ten years ago, I pastored a sister who later left the church because she was getting married and wanted to go to the same church as her husband. Two years ago, this sister became mentally ill, actually possessed by a demon. She remembered me and came to me, and I cast the demon out of her. Later, when I went to her house, oh my goodness! Banana peels eaten several days ago were on the table, plastic bags from shopping at the store were hanging all over the windows, and the things in the storage room were falling down like a small mountain, making it impossible to enter. It was hard to find anything.

Later, I gave her a demonstration: I found a room, cleaned up the dirt, dust, and oil stains, and threw away more than a dozen bags of garbage. After cleaning, I took a photo, and it looked much neater. I left the rest for the sister to clean up herself. As a result, when her husband came home from work, he picked up the more than a dozen bags of garbage that I had thrown away at the garbage station! They like chaos, how can they not be possessed by demons?

Many years ago, I ministered to a sister who suffered from depression. After she wore her clothes, she would take them off and put them in the corner of the bed or the corner of the wall, and then pick them up and wear them when she went out. This fellow was quite capable, with no concept of after their kind at all. Our brothers and sisters must think about it, if you can't even manage such a small thing, what can you manage? About two or three months ago, I went to the home of a preacher, and it was simply unbearable. Clothes, pants, underwear, and underpants were piled up on the stool, one pile after another, it was really chaotic. The door of the kitchen was about to fall off, and then it was taped up with tape. The cabinet was also rotten, and the things in the cabinet were dazzling to look at.

Our brothers and sisters, think about it, are you a person who does things after their kind, or a person who creates chaos? Are you a person who creates chaos, or a person who is orderly? In fact, there are many people who create chaos, and this is still a spiritual matter. Genesis Chapter 1 tells us that God never created chaos when He created things. From the first verse of Genesis Chapter 1, it is about turning chaos into order, which is called management. From chaos to order, and then the entire environment is managed to be very suitable for being fruitful and multiplying, can you understand? I'm not criticizing anyone, I'm just telling the truth, preachers who create chaos pastor Christians who create chaos, and they even call themselves those who do not love the world. In fact, loving the world and not loving the world have nothing to do with keeping things clean.

Management is a theme of Genesis Chapter 1, and God's will is for us to manage, never for us to shout hallelujah there. Why didn't I see anything about shouting hallelujah in Genesis? Later, I listened to the old pastor's Bible study, which was very interesting: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of heaven and earth, holy, holy, holy! He even argued about whether it was three holies or four holies. In fact, that's not important, what's important is whether we can manage things well?

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. (Genesis 1:22)

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28)

Chinese Mingding Destiny emphasizes management. I think one day in the future, I will write a book about management, to manage things well, to manage people well, and to manage the environment well. How do we judge whether it is managed well or not? It is to see whether it is fruitful and multiplying after management, or whether it is shrinking more and more. Some people, the more they manage, the more work they do, the bigger their scope of responsibility, the more prosperous they become, the more flourishing they become; but some people shrink more and more, until they drive the company into bankruptcy, can that work?

Brothers and sisters, take a serious look at yourselves, how long have you not grown, how long has your scope of responsibility not expanded. Why doesn't the thing you do expand? But don't expand blindly, why? Because I know that for some people, the less they expand, the less chaos there is; the more they expand, the more places they create chaos. Wherever he manages, it must be chaos; wherever he cleans up, there is absolutely no after their kind. A few days ago, a sister took a photo, which looked terribly dirty, you can't help but admire it. God created us in His own image, God's way of working is to do things after their kind. If you do things not after their kind, you are probably a demon. So management is not to make things chaotic, but to make things clean.

After Their Kind is Management

I have a bit of a cleanliness habit, but I don't have high demands. Actually, I don't call this a cleanliness habit, I call it management. I am a person who knows how to manage, so don't put a cleanliness habit hat on me, I wear a management hat. The most important thing about management is to make things run in an orderly manner, simple and orderly. If you go into a five-star hotel and find that the entire service is well-organized, don't think this is a matter of course, because someone has managed things and people very well, making people feel very comfortable. If you check into a hotel and find a cockroach when you open the quilt, and a mouse jumps out, would you dare to stay in such a hotel? If they used a toilet brush to brush your cup, would you dare to use it?

After their kind is management. Have you ever observed that if something is not managed for too long, let's say half a year, that thing will immediately become disorganized. If a place is not managed, this place will naturally become broken and old. Let me popularize a scientific term for you: entropy change. It generally refers to something that you don't manage, it will naturally change from order to disorder. If something changes from chaos to order, that is management.

Once, I had the opportunity to visit a sister's company in our church, and I found that this company was very well managed. I often like to do this, because I like to explore, understand and learn about management. They managed to such an extent that from the general manager and president to the ordinary employees, they had to be trained to wash toilets as soon as they entered the company. They require you to scoop a spoonful of water from the toilet you washed and drink it! If it were you, would you dare to do such a thing? But this company dares to manage everyone in the company in this way.

One day, after I had dinner with some colleagues, I cleaned up all the dishes and plates, poured the soup into a large bowl, and then I washed the dishes and wiped the table. They looked at me strangely, because they didn't do this. I said to them: As long as I use something, whether it's a dining table or a toilet, it will probably be cleaner than before after I use it, so the next person who uses it will feel very comfortable, and I also learn management and after their kind by cleaning things up. Why do we often say that Genesis is so important? Because Chinese Mingding Destiny is inseparable from the truth revealed in Genesis, which are all revelations that I have received through long prayers and seeking God.

The Theological System of Pastoring

If you are from another church, you can ask your pastor, what is pastoring? Many people can't answer this question, and they can't explain it clearly. People who know how to pastor can make others grow, and to make people grow, you must first make this person healthy, so that he can be fruitful and multiply. Being fruitful and multiplying means that you pastor some people, and after these people grow, they can also pastor other people, this is being fruitful and multiplying.

The key to making people grow is that there is no more chaos in people's minds, because the specific manifestation of a person's chaos is chaos in the mind. Everyone can ask themselves, is your mind and your environment very chaotic? The thing to do in pastoring is to first solve the chaos in people's minds. I am not afraid of people asking me questions, I can probably answer the questions you ask, I used to grow up by asking questions like this. I just hope that everyone will not confuse themselves by asking questions.

The Chinese Mingding Destiny theological system comes from Genesis Chapter 1, specifically, people can manage and do things after their kind. If you are chaotic today and chaotic tomorrow, then it is very likely that you will be chaotic until you die, so pastoring a person must first solve the chaos inside him, and the person will grow healthily. If a person grows, he can also make others grow, this is pastoring. Pastoring is not for the money in your hand, but for your growth.

Everyone should learn to calculate an account. If you used to earn S$7,000, it sounds like a lot, but after deducting the various expenses of daily life, you will find that the money is gone, and there is nothing left. If I make you grow, you can earn a salary of S$25,000, and you will become valuable. Then wouldn't growth become a very cost-effective thing? As long as you come to Chinese Mingding Destiny, it is very difficult not to grow. For example, the matter of donating money, in fact, I don't need you to donate, but you need to donate, because when we donate, we pay a price, and people will grow. There is nothing in the world that can be obtained without paying a price.

Management is to put things after their kind. The small pastors among us must solve the chaos in themselves and the chaos in the people they pastor. So it is very good and normal for people to come and ask questions, because people who ask questions are seeking people. If we solve the chaos in their hearts, people will grow up. Everyone should know that the Chinese Mingding Destiny system is extended from management, a management system that can make people fruitful and multiply, and after their kind is management.

Managing Living Things

Have you ever noticed that in Genesis Chapter 1, whenever a chapter mentions after their kind, you will find that it all refers to living things, living creatures. In fact, it is not easy to manage a living thing. If you manage a stone, even if it is placed there for a year, two years, or even longer, it will still look like that. If it is a living thing, such as a puppy, because of the epidemic, if you go out for a year and then come back, then this puppy will become a mummy. So dead things do not need you to manage, living people need to be managed, you have to manage people when they are alive. You can't ignore your own children. Chinese Mingding Destiny is about giving birth to and raising spiritual children ourselves.

There is a sister among us who used to be an administrator in another church. Since she met us, she has often listened to sermons on our Chinese Mingding Destiny website. As a result, as she listened, she couldn't listen to what her own church pastor was saying. It turned out that there was no such thing as pastoring in their church, so she managed the dead things of administration every day, not printing leaflets, but managing PPT. Brothers and sisters who come among us should gradually adjust their inner concepts and learn to manage living people. Chinese Mingding Destiny is a theology that specializes in managing the living. If you are a person, then we manage you; if it is dead, like PPT, leaflets, buildings, etc., we don't manage those.

Everyone should know that people are the most important thing in the church. Living things need to be managed. If they don't eat for a day, they will be hungry. Spiritual food must be distributed in due season. In Chinese Mingding Destiny, our spiritual food is very abundant. Some members who have not been pastored in the church are blessed if they can find Chinese Mingding Destiny. Chinese Mingding Destiny has a lot of spiritual food, because we specialize in solving people's spiritual problems. We not only solve people's financial problems in life, but also solve people's spiritual emptiness. So we don't spend money to buy a dead building. It's useless for us to sit there once a week. In order to make us living people grow, we will invest heavily in making everyone grow in the future, such as courseware, pastoral tools and methods, these things must be constantly improved, and even artificial intelligence.

Why do we do this? Because people are the most important. We are not like some churches, the buildings are very beautiful, but their sheep are hungry and shriveled. On this matter, I definitely read the Bible and understood it before doing this, these are all things that the Bible says. There was a sister whose former pastor only prepared 50 sermons and repeated them once a year, which sounds like a joke. When it is repeated for the second year, everyone has already heard it. When it is repeated for the third year, everyone has heard it again. His 50 sermons are fried and cooked back and forth, that is, eating leftovers and eating kitchen waste every year.

If he does this, people cannot grow well. It's like a child saying to a very lazy mother: Mom, I'm hungry. Then this mother says: Didn't I give you food last year? If you ate last year, are you not hungry this year? When I heard this, I used it as a mirror. I basically don't cook kitchen waste for everyone. No matter how hard I work, I prepare a fresh paper for everyone every week. I just want to cook new spiritual food for everyone, because everyone is alive.

Many people use the manna in the wilderness as a metaphor. I am thinking, if I always give everyone manna to eat, will everyone get tired of eating it? When I was a child, I got tired of eating cornbread, because I always ate cornbread, and later I didn't like to eat cornbread. When I first came to Singapore, I found that chicken wings were cheap, so I always ate chicken wings. As a result, after a few months, I didn't want to eat chicken wings anymore, because I could burp out the taste of chicken wings. I was tired of eating it, and I felt sick when I smelled the taste of chicken.

I was thinking, the Israelites ate manna in the wilderness for forty years, and they didn't get tired of eating it? I thank God! Everyone should know that this is not a blessing, this is their bad luck, they are unwilling to enter the promised land. People still have to eat a variety of things when they are alive. It is not necessarily good to only eat manna. They still have to enter the land flowing with milk and honey. Don't read the Bible and think that eating manna every day is a good thing. Eating that thing every day is definitely not good.

Living things must be after their kind. Why must they be after their kind? Horses and donkeys crossbreed to produce mules. They are castrated things and have no fertility. They are hybrids. The word hybrid is an insult, which is not good to hear. Hybrids cannot be fruitful and multiply, so everyone's faith should not be mixed. If you want to inherit Chinese Mingding Destiny well, you should inherit it well. People are alive, so they must be after their kind. Some people say that there are many different kinds of people, and there are many different kinds of churches. It sounds good to be after their kind. Because God created an ecology, a system, a complete system that makes people grow.

If you want to build an ecosystem, you want to build a mall, create an ecosystem for the mall, you need a system, and then this system must be able to grow. What is the purpose of your life? If it is money, money is dead, people are the most important. To be fruitful and multiply is not to make money. You must understand what people are doing in their lives and learn to manage living things. That is why when Jesus asked Peter:

He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. (John 21:16)

It's such a simple principle, that's why you should feed my sheep, not feed my stones. Stones are dead, sheep are alive. You have to take the sheep to the green pastures and to the quiet waters, and then the sheep can be fruitful and multiply, and you can build a pastoral ecosystem. Everyone should know that the Chinese Mingding Destiny system believes that you are the most important person. Churches and buildings are not important. Everything is for people. How can people be fruitful and multiply? People must first be healthy and have God's blessing. How can people get God's blessing? They must manage according to God's will. Some people spend their whole lives trying to make money. Is it better to get people or to get fish? Of course, it is better to get people. Fish cannot be compared with people. Fish are for people to eat. So our management is to enable people to be fruitful and multiply, but how can we be fruitful and multiply?

Master the Laws of Life Growth

Today, we spend a lot of effort studying how to make people grow and learn, because learning can make people grow! Now I will reveal to you a little bit of my recent research results, that is, I have basically mastered the laws of learning. It is important to master after their kind, because each kind has its own laws, and people also have their own laws. Then how do human beings be fruitful and multiply, how do sheep be fruitful and multiply, and what about fish? I must push you into growth and become a growing person. Regarding the laws of human growth, my recent research results have made some progress. If I talk about this today, it will take too long. I will definitely find an opportunity to share the laws of growth with you in the future.

Learning is summarizing the laws of things. Mathematics has the laws of mathematics, physics has the laws of physics, and biology has the laws of biology. If you master the laws of this kind, you have learned it. When I teach people to learn, I ask them to first establish a framework, so you know which kind is which, and then what are the laws of this kind. If you are confused after learning, you have not learned it clearly. For example, gold has the laws of gold. If you pick up a piece of yellow metal on the street and are not sure whether it is gold or copper, then bite it with your teeth. If it is soft, it may be gold.

After their kind is the foundation of learning, that is, learning what laws each kind has. For example, learning to program and write software is actually learning the laws of writing software, that is, variables and functions. This simple sentence is my summary. So people who learn programming with me can do it no matter how old they are, because I have thoroughly studied the laws of this kind and can explain it very clearly. The reason why I study this is to hope that everyone can grow, master the laws of learning, and then understand the laws of all kinds of things. For example, how to be a person? Many people may not have learned how to be a person, so can you be a person? Being a person is a law. Some people think that being a person is easy, just three meals a day and two sleeps. Actually, that's not right. A person who only knows three meals a day and two sleeps will be very depressed, so how can he live well?

To live well, people must be able to speak and work. The hands and mouth determine your life. The mouth must learn to speak, and the hands must learn to work, that is, to be able to speak and do things. This is the law of living! If you are not happy, and you can't speak, can you be happy? When you open your mouth, it's like someone owes you money. Everyone who hears it wants to vomit. Can you have good interpersonal relationships? You have to speak well. In the future, we will arrange to teach people to speak well. I hope that those who can speak well among us will rise up. If you say that you are not particularly good at speaking, but you teach those who are particularly bad at speaking to be like you, who are not particularly good at speaking, that is also called being fruitful and multiplying.

Some time ago, a brother who knew how to raise fish came among us and told me a law of raising fish: fish cannot be fed too much, they are all suffocated to death. In fact, people are the same, they cannot eat too much. Many diseases are caused by eating too much. Some people have two fish at home and feed them a little when they have time. As a result, they die in a few days. Because fish don't know when they are full, they eat when they see food, so they are suffocated to death. Master the laws of development of all kinds of things. To manage a hotel, you must learn the laws of hotel management. People must also learn how to manage the laws of people. The same person will work with enthusiasm under my hands, but he will work with enthusiasm to destroy under other people's hands. The difference lies in management. The foundation of management theory and the goal of management is to make him after their kind and be fruitful and multiply.

Living Things Consume Resources

Living things need to eat, consume resources, and cannot be used as collateral. Some say they mortgage 100 pigs to someone, but that person still has to feed the pigs. If you mortgage a house, you don't have to feed it. If you return those 100 pigs, there are only 90 left. What do you do? Therefore, living things are not counted in the process of asset mortgage because they are alive today, but who knows what will happen tomorrow. It is the same among us; those who are alive count, those who are not breathing do not! Children get hungry if they are not fed for a day, and pigs will squeal if they are not fed for a day. They consume resources.

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the living creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. (Genesis 1:29-30)

If it does not consume resources, a stone does not need to be managed by anyone; it will not die if you do not feed it. Living things need to be fed to grow and multiply. Start with the concept that we only count those who breathe, and we do not care about those who do not breathe. Someone said, "Teacher, he is dying!" If he is dying, we will revive him, but those who are already dead are not our concern. A sister brought her brother with cancer to us. Patients with cancer have many bad habits. I tried very hard to help him change, but I did not succeed. Speaking of this, cancer patients among us must know that if you do not change your bad habits, even gods will not be able to help you.

I tell you how to live; you have to learn. Back to the sister who brought her brother, the brother with cancer later died. The local church was very interested in helping her brother with the funeral. They manage the dead, but I manage the living. Some people ask me, what about funerals for online churches? You can do whatever you want. After listening, do not discern good and evil. If you want to manage the dead, that is fine. I want to manage the living. This is in accordance with the Bible. Managing the living is exhausting because the living have to eat. Therefore, whether a person can earn money to support themselves, live well, have financial health, and whether their body and person are healthy are all our pastoral goals.

Living things are exhausting because living things have to eat. A person who can earn money to support themselves, live well, be financially blessed, and be healthy are all our pastoral goals. Consuming resources is one thing, but it is worthwhile if people can be transformed to create resources. For example, if a person consumes one hundred dollars a day but can create one thousand dollars, of course, it is worthwhile. You are my one talent of silver. I want to turn everyone into someone who can earn ten talents of silver. When Jesus comes, I will be rewarded! I look forward to everyone becoming valuable every day. It is very important for everyone to become valuable.

Therefore, I train our pastors to enable everyone to become more valuable because everyone is alive. The dead cannot be trained. A living thing can create resources. For example, I started by buying a sheep, and as a result, this sheep gave birth to a flock of sheep. Each sheep in this flock gave birth to another flock of sheep. Each sheep is very valuable. Can a stone turn from one into two? No! Only the living can multiply. Although the living consume resources, they can also create resources. The process of enabling living things to create resources and multiply is management. Do not think that those who breathe do not count. If you can transform anyone who breathes to multiply, you are very powerful.

Rely on God's Blessing

The matter of human life is a spiritual matter. The most important thing about multiplying is to rely on God's blessing. God blesses us because we are managers.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (Genesis 1:28)

So, if you want God to bless you, you must take on this responsibility, enable others to grow and multiply, and let these spiritual children be more than physical children. God blesses you not by your ability but by God's ability. Multiplying by God's ability is the seal of blessing. After a person is blessed, they will be healthier and financially healthier. If a person does not walk in God's will and is very selfish, they cannot enable others to grow and are just a pool of stagnant water with nothing. This is why people must work with God and reflect on whether they are willing to take on this responsibility and become a servant. Whether they willingly serve God, not by offering chickens and ducks to God, but by shepherding God's flock. If you do this, God will surely bless you. The system that God created is too good. God created a complete ecosystem. People may consume resources, but resources come from God and are infinite. Because God blesses you, it is especially good once you walk in God's will.

Each According to Its Kind is a Spiritual Matter

God's creation is from chaos to order, and then to multiply. The work of demons is to make order extremely chaotic and then to cause people to die. Originally, there were living people with spirits who could do creative work, but after being deceived by demons, they became dead people without spirits. Today, through the power of Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead, God has brought us, who were destined to die, back to life so that we can live according to God's will and become managers in God's kingdom in the future. God has never changed His will to let us manage the birds in the sky, the beasts on the ground, the fish in the sea, and all living things on the earth, and then to make us people who create value, representing God on earth to work with God to manage this earth because resources come from God.

The Gospels of Luke and Matthew emphasize that Jesus preached the gospel, healed the sick, and cast out demons. The reason Jesus Christ said this is that many churches are now very chaotic because demons are causing trouble there. Looking around, the members are possessed by all kinds of evil spirits. Establishing a church is a spiritual matter, and bringing the church into orderly operation is also a spiritual matter. Therefore, casting out demons is a very important part of the gospel. If people often cast out demons, the church will definitely become orderly. Some churches fail to cast out demons and need to return to Genesis Chapter 1 to seek answers. Chapter 1 tells us to shepherd God's flock and let the flock grow to the full stature of Jesus Christ. Today, many erroneous theological teachings in the world are very chaotic. Chinese Mingding Destiny Theology is to bring everyone back to the teachings of Genesis Chapter 1.

May God bless everyone!

Genesis Chapter 1 Scripture

1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 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.
1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
1:4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
1:5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
1:6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
1:7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
1:8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
1:9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
1:10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
1:11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
1:12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
1:15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
1:16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night—and he also made the stars.
1:17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
1:18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
1:19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
1:20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
1:21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
1:22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
1:23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
1:24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
1:25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
1:29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the living creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.