Creation Moment 1/8/2022 - Time, as distinguished from eternity on Day 1

"THIS has been a puzzling question to very many. They cannot understand why Sabbath-keepers should commence their rest at the setting of the sun, while other people regard the day as commencing at midnight.  

Some have thought that it was all arbitrary distinction, more for the purpose of peculiarity than anything else; but a little reference to the Scriptures will suffice to clear the subject of all doubts.

In the first place we have evidence that the first day of time
began in the evening. That is, the dark portion of the day preceded the light portion.
Genesis 1
5 The evening and the morning were the first day.
 

That this was necessarily the case, may be seen from the order of events in the creation. 

Time, as distinguished from eternity,

 commenced with the first creative act of God. 

 

But at that time there was no light, nothing but intense darkness, for we read that:
Genesis 1
2 ...darkness was upon the face of the deep.
The next act was to create light

 3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.
God then ordained that darkness and light should hence-forth succeed each other in continuous round, and a period of
darkness and one of light, called respectively night and day, should constitute one entire day.  

This completed the first day’s work. 

E.J. Waggoner