Reichenbach again states: "the creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:3) can be properly understood as the account of God establishing his kingdom …The first The creation story is…an ordered series of acts by which God, by royal decrees, causes His territory to become. Interestingly, departing from an eternal vision of Yahweh, Reichenbach's language points to God as in the process of becoming something, as if he is making his way to his kingship. However, this is not the portrait of Yahweh that Genesis paints. He is not the God who became king, he is the God who turns out to have been king all along. Genesis 1:2, which at first glance appears to be an exception in the history of creation, shows the presence of unexpected chaos or disorder in the darkness of the world order before creation. Everything in the Genesis account, except this tehom, resembles progress, the generation of substance and specificity. But it is in the very image of the divine wind, or spirit, hovering over the waters, before anything has been spoken, that the kingship of Yahweh is most clearly visible. Gottlieb emphasizes that God, in the following verses, will divide and separate, and bring recognizable balance and friendship. But it is crucial to emphasize that He does not overcome the depths, He sets forth creative order from the very place of disorder. It is shown that the place of emptiness has always been full. Yahweh does not