Until the seventh day, the Sabbath, some theologians say, the Creation was unfinished, W. says.
On the first day, God made heaven and earth, but the earth was still without form and void – it was what the Hebrew Bible calls the tohu vavohu, W. says – and darkness lay on the face of the deep. On the second day, dry land appeared, and put forth vegetation, the plants yielding seed, and the fruit trees beating fruit in which there was seed.
On the third day, the stars were born, and then the sun and the moon, each set in the firmanent of the heavens to give light to the earth. On the fourth, the waters brought forth swarms of living creatures, and birds flew across the sky.
On the fifth, the beasts of the earth appeared and then, on the sixth, the first man, made in the image of God. Be fruitful and multiply, said God to Adam and Eve. Fill the earth, and subdue it.
But the Creation still wasn't finished. 'On the seventh day, God rested from all his work which he had done, and saw that it was good'. And was the Creation over then? The Creation was over, but the Destruction began.
What happened on the eighth day?, W. says. – 'You appeared, scratching your head'. On the ninth day, I published my first book, and the heavens wept. On the tenth, my second book, and the stars fell from the sky.
And on the same day, our day, there come the storms of financial collapse, which sweep the economies of the world into darkness.
And on the eleventh, there will come the fires of climatic collapse, which despoil the land, destroying the fertility of the soil. The rivers will dry up and the deserts grow, and snow will no longer fall on the mountains.
On the twelfth will come the mass extinctions - the fish disappearing from the acidic seas, and the birds dropping from the burning skies. On the thirteenth, the great extinction of the human population, survivors fleeing towards the south pole and the north pole – to Canada and Siberia, to Patagonia and the western Antarctic coast.
And on the fourteenth? The oceans will rise to drown the world, and it will all begin over again.
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