“I was then carried back to creation and was shown that the first week, in which God performed the work of creation in six days and rested on the seventh day, was just like every other week.  The great God in His days of creation and day of rest, measured off the first cycle as a sample for successive weeks till the close of time. . . God gives us the productions of His work at the close of each literal day.  Each day was accounted of Him a generation, because every day He generated or produced some new portion of His work.  On the seventh day of the first week God rested from His work, and then blessed the day of His rest, and set it apart for the use of man.  The weekly cycle of seven literal days, six for labor, and the seventh for rest, which has been preserved and brought down through Bible history, originated in the great facts of the first seven days. . . we understand the record of creation to mean literal days. . . the week of seven literal days. . . God accomplished the work of creation in six literal days.”  1SP:85; 3SG:90; ST, March 20, 1879; PP:112.

 

“But the infidel supposition that the events of the first week required seven vast, indefinite periods for their accomplishment, strikes directly at the foundation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment.  It makes indefinite and obscure that which God has made very plain.  It is the worst kind of infidelity; for with many who profess to believe the record of creation, it is infidelity in disguise.  It charges God with Commanding men to observe the week of seven literal days in commemoration of seven indefinite periods, which is unlike His dealings with mortals, and is an impeachment of His wisdom.”  1SP:86.

 

“Infidel geologists claim that the world is very much older than the Bible record makes it.  They reject the Bible record because of those things which are to them evidences from the earth itself that the world has existed tens of thousands of years.  And many who profess to believe the Bible record are at a loss to account for wonderful things which are found in the earth, with the view that creation week was only seven literal days, and that the world is now only about six thousand years old.  These, to free themselves from difficulties thrown in their way by infidel geologists, adopt the view that the six days of creation were six vast, indefinite periods, and the day of God’s rest was another indefinite period; making senseless the Fourth Commandment of God’s Holy Law.  Some eagerly receive this position; for it destroys the force of the Fourth Commandment, and they feel a freedom from its claims upon them.  They have limited ideas of the size of men, animals, and trees, before the flood, and of the great changes which then took place in the earth.  1SP:87.

 

“Bones of men and animals are found in the earth, in mountains and in valleys, showing that much larger men and beasts once lived upon the earth.  I was shown that very large, powerful animals existed before the flood, which do not now exist.  Instruments of warfare are sometimes found; also petrified wood.  Because the bones of human beings and of animals found in the earth are much larger than those of men and animals now living, or that have existed for many generations past, some conclude that the world is older than we have any Scriptural record of, and was populated long before the record of creation, by a race of beings vastly superior in size to men now upon the earth.”  1SP:87.  

 

“I have been shown that, without Bible history, geology can prove nothing.  Relics found in the earth do give evidence of a state of things differing in many respects from the present.  But the time of their existence, and how long a period these things have been in the earth, are only to be understood by Bible history.  It may be innocent to conjecture beyond Bible history, if our suppositions do not contradict the facts found in the sacred Scriptures.  But when men leave the Word of God in regard to the history of creation, and seek to account for God’s creative works upon natural principles, they are upon a boundless ocean of uncertainty.  Just how God accomplished the work of creation in six literal days, He has never revealed to mortals.  His creative works are just as incomprehensible as His existence.”  1SP:88.

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