God’s sequential creation—from his organizing of raw materials into celestial bodies to his forming living creatures from those same elements—points to his final remolding of his children. Isaiah’s concept of God’s creation as re-creation—of the heavens and the earth and of his people on the earth—attests to an ongoing cyclical process. As they keep his law and word, God re-creates them 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.