Let's look at one more place in Job before continuing in Genesis:

 

Job 38:4-7
4    Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5    Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6    Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7    When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

      God is telling Job here in this Chapter 38 to pick himself up and act like a man of God, a child of The Living Father. Note verse 7 where 'all the sons of God shouted for joy'. This was when God created all of His children and His creation, so this shouting for joy occurs somewhere after Gen.1:1, and before Satan's rebellion at Gen.1:2, for we were (past tense) all 'sons of God' in that first earth age, before Satan and the 'fallen ones' rebelled, causing the earth to become 'tohuw va bohuw' (a desolation and ruin). This is why we are again called 'sons of God' when we accept Jesus Christ as our Saviour. This is the true meaning of the word 'convert' and to 'return', as our Father speaks in Isaiah. By believing on His Only Begotten Son that He sent for us, we return to that 'spiritual' state of grace we had before Satan's rebellion. We must wait for Christ's return and the chance for all others to 'return' that will; before that similar first earth age condition, called 'God's eternity', which will be set up again upon this ancient earth

 

 See Rev.20 through to 22: Read All. `And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand` 21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and there was no more sea. 22 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.

Now continuing with Gen.1:26:

Gen 1:26    And God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

      This word 'man' is 'adam' translated from the Hebrew (Strong’s 120 a human being, (an individual, or the species, mankind etc.) and it has no article before it. When this happens in Hebrew grammar, it means 'in general, mankind', not a specific man named Adam. Since all souls were in that first earth age, i.e., they had already been created at Gen.1:1; God is now making 'man' flesh. Note that this is on the 'sixth day' of creation (during the establishing of today's second earth age). Here he 'makes' the hunter-gatherer, and fisherman types of all races, not just one man. This is how the many different races came into being, and God will tell us that 'it was very good' in verse 31.

 

Gen 1:27    So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

      The actual 'creating' of all the different races happen with this verse. This word 'man' is 'adam' in the Hebrew, and with the article (Hebrew 'eth'Ha'adham'), meaning a particular man Adam. Since the last verse carries over to this one, both male and female were 'created', both at the same time, not necessarily separate with 'adam' and then the 'woman' as in Gen.2:21-23. I realize that these two verses of Gen.1:26 and 27 are taught to mean a general explanation of the creation of man, with the actual details in Gen.2. There is a distinction with the word 'man' in Hebrew here in Gen.1:26-27 and Gen.2:7-8 which our Father calls to attention. We'll soon cover these distinctions pointed out in the Hebrew manuscripts.