GENESIS 1:21
"And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good." [AKJV]
So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. [NKJV]
Commentaries:
In the true vision of God's creativity, neither the waters nor winds would willingly veil the differences and varieties in lives, in beauties, in shapes, in sizes, in greatness, in strength, in abilities, in messages, in significances, in signs, in stories, in kindness, in goodness, in wisdom and in grace. The waters and the winds revealed those differences, distinctions and excellence, and not veiled them to those who are given the eyes to see them as God saw them. There are uncharted pleasures in seeing, beholding and appreciating the goodness in them as God saw it in them, for God was pleased with what He saw when He saw it was good, which also means it was in harmony. These are parts of the libraries of God's Creative Wisdom mirrored in the waters, in the atmosphere and in His Creations. Many shall find pleasures in these treasures.
Bible Teacher:
Let's find solace in this gospel of the creation of great whales, varieties of living creatures in the waters, and varieties of birds with wings; for God saw that it was good. If God saw it was good, then it was gospel (good news) in the Sight of God then and now to us.
Behold the three basic fundamental rights given to them at their creation:
№ 1 — The right and freedom to live as living creatures in their Habitations: They were the first set of lives or living creatures on earth and they were not taken from the ground nor bound to the ground. Not every living creature today has right to live inside or through water, neither is every living creature of the water given right to live without or outside water.
№ 2 — The right and freedom to take after their kinds: There was no pattern, shape, figure or likeness, that was a law of conformity to them. Every specie took after its kind or after its differences without apology.
№ 1 — The right and freedom to move and have movements: And they were also the first set living creatures that were given the Fundamental rights of movement and freedom in the world, because they were created free Creatures and servants to no one.
Commentaries:
God created every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed and the atmosphere vibrated. They were living creatures that move, but not necessarily living creatures that walk. Their movements were neither dependent on the ground nor dependent on their feet (legs) if they have them. Rather they have their movements and advancements by their wings, tails and gliding bodies, crossing through their habitations. The movements of those living creatures make the waters and the atmosphere feel more filled or fulfilled than the numbers of those living creatures inside them. "A Moving Thing is better than many things." Where their numbers stop, their movements make up for the filling and pleasuring of the waters and air, inside which they inhabit. Movements are signs of life.
Bible Teacher:
It's the second time the words "Create" or "God Created" were used in the same Chapter of "Genesis 1." Actually there were altogether three times they were used in "Genesis 1:"
However, it was the only time in that chapter that "God created" was neither enough nor used alone, but needed "Collaboration" with a Helper or "Co-Creator/Procreator" — The Waters. So God created these Living Creatures, but the Waters were the ones that brought them forth or that begot them as in childbearing.
In the Bible verse above, God created the living creatures and the waters brought forth those living creatures after God created them. It's like giving credits to scientists or people who discovered and brought forth technologies, inventions, secrets, innovations and helpful things, from their hidden or undiscovered states after they were created/made by God. Such people are called Founders, Authors, Initiators or Begetters, of those new things or innovations they brought forth. So the waters (seas) were founders, authors, beggeters, of those living creatures which God created to have life and movements both in the waters and in the open heaven: for the waters brought them forth into manifestation out of invisibility or obscurity, and established them into being according to their kinds without compromising their uniqueness, differences, varieties, and abundance.
Commentaries:
As the waters had more hidden things to discover and to bring forth to life from where God already created those things and ordained for only the waters to discover and procreate them, even so everyone of us have many hidden things to discover and to bring forth to life on time from where God already created or made those things. He ordained/assigned for each of us to specially have the grace to discover and bring forth those things into life. The seas did not fail in that calling, neither should we. We are God's Collaborators in the Lord Jesus Christ.