• to separate day/night
• to govern day/night
• for seasons
• for days
• for years
• for signs

Gen 1:14-19
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;
and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Many interesting things here.
For instance.
They are given for seasons, yet seasons as we know them, did not exist for hundreds of years thereafter. Not until after the Noahic flood.

Gen 8:21-22

The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said fo Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

The Lord uses the lights in the heavens for signs.

What are we as Believers to do?

I believe that all the heavens declare the glory of the Lord.

Therefore, the signs are ongoing.
They are calling man to salvation.

Psa 50:6
And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Psa 97:6
The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples have seen His glory.

Rejoice in the declaration of the heavens.

Then, we are to fear not.

Jer 10:2
Thus says the LORD,
“Do not learn the way of the nations,
And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens
Although the nations are terrified by them;

We are not to learn the way of the nations…of the world.
We are not to be terrified by the signs of the heavens…though the nations are terrified.

We do not pervert the signs that the Lord has given.
This is what the world does through astrology, horoscopes and the like.

There is more that we are to do.
…to be continued…