Other Creatures were Commanded to be Fruitful and Multiply

I know I have read the book of Genesis repeatedly, especially chapter 1 of the book but am just taking note that it was not only man that God blessed and commissioned to be fruitful. Each account of "and God said, let there be" ended with "and God saw that it was good" but I went further today to see that after God created the sea creatures and fowls, God saw that it was good and went further to bless them, saying be fruitful, and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. Genesis 1: 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

I just discovered that the difference between man, the sea creatures and the fowls of the earth was that God commissioned man to replenish, subdue and have dominion. So, no matter how these other creatures multiply, they can never subdue or dominate man. In fact, they are to multiply for man's consumption. Verse: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Scripturally man is not the only entity entitled to the blessings of God. It makes known that God places value on everything He took time to create.

What does this teach us? God is interested in how man dominates and rules over every other thing He created. This also is to educate us on how we are to treat God's creatures. A lot of people do things against nature, against the standard God has already set in place. So many people abuse and defile the earth.

This is a call to value everything God created and to manage them with fear and reference to God knowing that misusing or abusing anything that carries God's blessings could attract God's punishment and curse.