Today's Favorite Verse: Moses 2:19

Today's Favorite Verse: Moses 2:19

"And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

As I was going over the creation story in the book of Moses this repeated phrase "the evening and morning were the (x) day" caught my attention. I was aware of this quote of Joseph Smith.

"So with regard to the periods occupied in the creation of the earth. Joseph taught that a day with God was not the twenty-four hours of our day; but that the six days of the creation were six periods of the Lord's time."

(George Q. Cannon, "Peculiarities of Public Preaching Among the Saints", JD 24:56)

So if the creation happened in not 24 hour days, but were creation periods wouldn't I see it in this story? I just thought and reflected on what was off by this phrase that I kept reading and was standing out to me. Then I realized it was backwards. If I talk about a 24 hour day I refer to it as day and night, not night and day. My day doesn't start with the night. This phrase wasn't typical to how I understand days. Could it be that is what God is trying to say? My day is not your day. It is according to my order of time. Ah, I think that is it. Now the creation periods fit for me. They were created by God's word and when he said they were done, which is according to his time.

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