God’s sequential creation—from organizing raw materials into celestial bodies, to forming living creatures from those same elements—points to a final remolding of his children. Isaiah’s concept of God’s creation as re-creation—of the heavens and the earth and of people on the earth—testifies of an ongoing cyclical process. As they keep his law and word, God re-creates his children on ever higher spiritual and physical levels, closer to his image and likeness.
Isaiah 45:18Thus says Jehovah who created the heavens,
the God who formed the earth—
who made it secure and organized it,
not to remain a chaotic waste,
but designed it to be inhabited:
I am Jehovah, there is none other.
Isaiah 40:26Lift your eyes heavenward and see:
Who formed these?
He who brings forth their hosts by number,
calling each one by name.
Because he is almighty and all powerful,
not one is unaccounted for.
Isaiah 43:6–7Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the end of the earth—
all who are called by my name,
whom I have formed, molded and wrought
for my own glory.
Isaiah 65:17–18See, I create new heavens and a new earth;
former events shall not be remembered
or recalled to mind.
Rejoice, then, and be glad forever in what I create.
See, I create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.