“And the evening and the morning were the first day”. Time is the first necessary element for creating the universe and the life that exists in it. So all of creation hinges on this statement.
Why does evening precede morning? God’s protocol; order out of chaos, light out of darkness, clarity out of obscurity. God is light, and there is no darkness in Him, yet He establishes this order of “evening and morning” for our benefit.
He calls Space/Time into existence in preparation for us. We live in it, locked in it, hungering always for Eternity and His Presence, where there is fullness of joy. In reality our days, like His, start in the evening, as the light fades and evens out, heading gradually toward the rest of darkness. We watch helplessly as the light seeps out of the fields and trees, color slowly dissolving into monochrome, filling us with longing for permanence. But we know that the morning will come. He has ordained it.