According To Their Kinds

Genesis 1 9-13 NetBible
1:9 God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so. 1:10 God called the dry ground “land” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good. 1:11 God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so. 1:12 The land produced vegetation – plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. 1:13 There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

Just as the waters were separated, now attention is turned to the water below. Water is gathered to one place revealing the ground which it had covered. The subsiding water of the flood of Noah echoes this act of creation. The land was created not for its own sake, but for a purpose. It was to bear life, yielding seed and bearing fruit according to their kinds.

Jesus used the analogy of seed and the bearing of fruit on several occasions to speak of the kingdom of God. We too have a purpose. We were brought forth to yield to God and to bear to fruit of the Holy Spirit. He makes that possible. He appeared so that we might appear out of the water of baptism into the kingdom of life. His seed is within us. We are brought out of the waters of mankind and reborn as children of God. A new earth is being revealed.