Number Seven

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What if the Creation happened first and the number
seven got associated with meanings afterwards?

Well, perhaps.

The thing is that the number seven is older than Judaism, which was held by ancient religions as well and astrology, and the roots of it seems to come from the fact that only 5 planets were seen with the naked-eye in ancient history, the 5 planets plus the moon and the sun, making them the seven heavenly objects. Which seems to be the basis from ancient mythologies and religions to think of the number as sacred and to make different uses of it, and to make a week of seven days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_heav ... _mythology
http://www.experiencefestival.com/seven_sacred_planets

"Older than Judaism"

That means nothing. Is Judaism what you think of it today, basically deriving from Rabbi Akiba?
Is it from Moses at the time of the Exodus? Is it from Abraham? Is it from Noah? Is it from Adam?
Or is it from God? The sacrificial system was instituted at the time of Adam, according to the Bible.
So, Biblically, "Judaism" would have been present from the beginning.

Well, it was believed that Abraham was the founder of Judaism which would place the date around 1800 BC I think, although some scholars seem to think that monotheism in its pure form in Judaism might have started during the time of King Hezekia around 700BC, in which it seems that it might have had gradually changed from politheism to monotheism. Some think that it might have been influenced by a new egyptian religion which eventually became the new Judaism, either way the influence from Egypt and other sources is taken into account which it has been stated that evidence exist for it, probably being why, the ten commandments relation, as the concept of angels and demons, and the devil taken from another ancient religion.

everyone knows that 9 is the sacred number.

How about scholars prior to the 1800's?

Really, it wouldn't surprise me if scholars a few hundred years from now claim that Judaism was invented in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion. Hopefully things wont get so bad, but I see no improvement as of my lifetime.