Abraham 4

My profession has been in the construction industry.  No project is actually constructed with out a great deal of planning, design, engineering, procurements, preparations, and scheduling.  As Abraham writes of his revelation concerning the creation, we begin to realize that even with the creation, the same pattern seemed to be followed.  In this chapter, it becomes apparent that this is more of a record of planning than the actual creation, even though it is recorded that "the Gods" reference that in the real creation it was done.  We see this type of chronological order in Isaiah.

We see this pattern with references such as -

"...they went down at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 4:1)

I see this organization and formation as creating, planning and designing much as a architectural drawing such as

"...the Gods ordered..."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 4:7)

"Ordered" could be defined as -

"...the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method..." The New Oxford American Dictionary

"...the Gods said: Let us prepare the earth to bring forth grass; the herb yielding seed; the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, whose seed in itself yieldeth its own likeness upon the earth; and it was so, even as they ordered."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 4:11)

Again, there was great deal of preparation and planning on how things would develop and happen.  Abraham even tells us this was the planning stage writing -

"...the Gods prepared the waters that they might bring forth great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters were to bring forth abundantly after their kind; and every winged fowl after their kind. And the Gods saw that they would be obeyed, and that their plan was good.
22 And the Gods said: We will bless them, and cause them to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas or great waters; and cause the fowl to multiply in the earth."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 4:21 - 22)

He even states that their plan was to "bless them".  And in the planning stage, Abraham calls this a day or "time".  We can also tell that we are still in the planning stage as -

"...the Gods took counsel among themselves..."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 4:26)

...stating over and over that they "will" do it.

In summary, I add the following testimony of this planning period as  -

"...the Gods said: We will do everything that we have said, and organize them; and behold, they shall be very obedient."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 4:31)

"...the Gods said among themselves: On the seventh time we will end our work, which we have counseled; and we will rest on the seventh time from all our work which we have counseled.
3 And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because that on the seventh time they would rest from all their works which they (the Gods) counseled among themselves to form; and sanctified it. And thus were their decisions at the time that they counseled among themselves to form the heavens and the earth."  (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 5:2 - 3)