Before the start of time, I AM (the name of God) began space and the universe. And there was nothing in the whole universe (and space was just darkness) when the Spirit of God started the universe.

2PET 3:8 With the Lord a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as a day.

GEN 1
1 In the beginning God created heavens and earth.
2 Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God was over the planets.
3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 God saw that light was good, and He separated a light from darkness. 5 God called light Day, and darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning - the first measurement of “time” (universe?)

6 And God said, Let there be an expanse between the planets to separate planet from planet. 7 So God made an expanse and separated the planets under the expanse from the planets above it. And it was so. 8 And God called the expanse sky. And there was an evening sky, and there was a morning - the second measurement of “time” (sun, stars?)

(These two “measurements of time” could be two thousand years or two trillion years)
Why the hell do we care about "time" when there will be no "time" in Hell? "Time" is better measured from it’s end. The beginning of a measurement far away may be open to debate but an end has to stop and there will be an indisputable present measurement.)

EX 3
13 If I go to the Israelites and say, The God of your fathers has sent me,
and they ask, What is his name? what will I say?
14 God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. This is what you are to say: I AM has sent me.

2PET 3
5 They deliberately forget that from the beginning the stars existed; Earth was formed by the Word of God both above and under water. 7 By the same Word the present stars and Earth are preserved, being saved for fire at a “time” of judgment and destruction of atheist men.

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