“WHICH IS, WHICH WAS AND WHICH IS TO COME”
REVELATION
1:8
GENESIS 1:1-5
‘VERSE 2 WAS
WITHOUT FORM: lie waste; a desolation (of surface), desert;
a worthless thing; in vain
:- confusion, empty place.
AND VOID: meaning
to be empty); a vacuity, an undistinguishable ruin :- emptiness, void.
AND DARKNESS: misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow,
wickedness :- dark (-ness), night, obscurity.
AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD
MOVED: brood; by implication to be relaxed :- flutter, move, shake.
LET THERE BE LIGHT:
illumination or luminary lightning, happiness,
bright, clear, day, morning, sun.
GOD DIVIDED LIGHT FROM DARKNESS: separate,
distinguish, difference,
divide asunder
The Pre-Adamite World
1. The following facts prove that the term "in the beginning"
in
Genesis 1:1 refers to the original creation of the heavens and the earth, and does not
refer to the time or work of the six days of
Genesis 1:3-2:25:(1) The word "and" is used 153 times in
Genesis 1-2 to
separate the 102 independent acts of God. The "and" of Genesis 1:2 proves
that the work of Genesis
1:2 is entirely independent of the work of Genesis 1:1. While Genesis 1:1 records
the original creation of the heavens and the earth, Genesis 1:2 records
the original dry land, or earth, made into chaos and flooded through a great
catastrophe which destroyed all life on a pre-Adamite earth.
(2) The word "was" in Genesis 1:2 is from
the verb to become, not the verb to be, proving that the earth became waste and
empty since its original creation and habitation in the beginning. See note on
"was," Genesis
1:2.
(3) The phrase "without form" in Genesis 1:2 (see
notes there) is from the Hebrew tohuw (OT:8414), meaning waste or desolation.
It is translated "waste" (Deut. 32:10),
"without form" (Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23),
"vain" (Isaiah
45:18; 1
Samuel 12:21), "confusion" (Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 41:29),
"empty" (Job
26:7), "vanity" (Isaiah 40:17,23; Isaiah 44:9; Isaiah 59:4),
"nothing" (Job 6:18; Isaiah 40:17),
and "wilderness" (Job 12:24; Psalm 107:40).
It can be seen from these passages what the condition of the earth was in Genesis 1:2. Yet Isaiah 45:18
states that God did not create the earth "in vain," or tohuw
(OT:8414). Therefore, the earth was originally perfect, dry land, beautiful,
and inhabited, but later became empty, waste, and a ruin because of sin (Deut. 32:4; Eccles. 3:11).
(4) The Hebrew for "void" in Genesis 1:2 is
bohuw (OT:922), "empty, ruined, void." It is translated
"void" (Genesis
1:2; Jeremiah
4:23), and "emptiness" (Isaiah 34:11).
The Hebrew phrase, tohuw wabohuw, "waste and empty," describes the
chaotic condition of the earth at the time that it was cursed and flooded
because of the sins of Lucifer and the pre-Adamites. It doesn't refer to the
earth as originally created-beautiful, perfect, dry land.
2. The earth was created to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18),
and was inhabited before the flood of Genesis 1:2 and the
work of the six days of Adam's time (Genesis 1:3-2:25;
Isaiah
14:12-14; Jeremiah
4:23-26; Ezekiel
28:11-17; 2
Peter 3:5-7).
3. The earth is called "dry land" in Genesis 1:10 which
means that Genesis
1:1 could read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and dry
land." Since it was created dry, it stands to reason that the flooded
condition of Genesis
1:2 was a curse, not a creative act. According to Psalm 136:6 the
earth was originally "stretched above the waters," not covered by
them (see note, Psalm
136:6). This requires a pre-Adamite race whose sin brought such a curse.
4. In Genesis
1:2 the earth is not only flooded with water but covered in total darkness,
causing all life on earth to be destroyed. This requires a pre-Adamite world
with vegetation, birds, animals, and human beings as proven in the notes on Jeremiah 4:23-26.
5. Genesis
1:2 reveals that the earth, waters, and darkness were already in existence
before the work of the six days which began in Genesis 1:3 and
continued until the earth was restored to a second habitable state in Genesis 2:25.
Thus, it is clear from Genesis 1:1-2
(and related scriptures) that:
(1) In the beginning-the dateless past, not six thousand years
ago-God created the heavens, including the sun, moon, and stars. See note, Psalm 136:7.
(2) At the same time God also created the earth or dry land.
(3) The heavens and the earth were created by God, a personal
and an eternal Being. They were not the result of a cosmic accident.
(4) The heavens were created before the earth, as revealed in Job 38:4-7.
(5) Both the heavens and the earth were created before the
earth was flooded.
(6) The earth was created dry land, not wet and flooded (Genesis 1:1,10; Isaiah 45:18).
(7) The waters that flooded the dry land were created in the
beginning along with the earth, to cause the dry land to become productive (Job 38:4-30),
not to curse the earth as in Genesis 1:2.
(8) Light and darkness was also created in the beginning, to
help sustain life on the earth (Job 38:4-41).
(9) The earth alone was cursed, flooded, and filled with
darkness-not the heavens (Genesis 1:2).
We therefore conclude that Genesis 1:1-2
proves a pre-Adamite world that was destroyed in a flood, requiring the making
of the present Adamite world for God's original purpose for the earth to be
realized (Isaiah
45:18).
6. Genesis
1:2 reveals the Spirit of God moving on the flooded earth to restore dry
land. This confirms that the pre-Adamite world was destroyed, making it
necessary to restore the earth to a second habitable state.
7. In Scripture, all instances of obscuring the sun and
bringing darkness are the result of judgment, not creation-which is also true
of the two universal floods (Genesis 6:8-8:22;
Exodus 10:21-23;
Isaiah 5:30; Jeremiah 4:23-26).
All predictions of future darkness depict judgment
(Matthew 8:12; Matthew 24:29-31;
Rev. 6:12-17;
Rev. 8:12; Rev. 9:2; Rev. 16:10; Isaiah 13:10; Joel
2:30-3:16; Amos
5:18-20).
Could we say that Genesis 1:2 is the
only place in Scripture where darkness and a universal flood are not an act of
judgment? If it isn't an option, then Genesis 1:2 proves
that there was a pre-Adamite world destroyed by darkness and flood. No one
questions that Noah's flood was an act of judgment, or doubts the existence of
free moral agents before the flood actually came. Why then doubt the existence
of a pre-Adamite world which was destroyed by the darkness and flood of Genesis 1:2? See
Lucifer's Flood.
8. The command for Adam to "replenish" the earth
(fill it again, not plenish it) proves the earth had been filled before this (Genesis 1:28). God
gave the same command to Noah, after the second universal flood (Genesis 9:1-2).
Should we conclude that God meant for Noah to fill the earth for the first
time, and not refill it? Substitute the word fill (meaning supply for the first
time) in
as some do in Genesis
1:28 and see if it makes better sense. Whatever we conclude in the other
places where "replenish" is used, we should be consistent and give
the same meaning to Genesis
1:28.
9. The fact that Lucifer had already ruled the earth and become
a fallen creature before Adam's time is proof that Adam and his race were not
the first ones on earth. We must acknowledge that Satan's fall was before
Adam's time, because he was already a fallen creature when he came into Adam's
Eden (Genesis 3; 2 Cor. 11:3).
Hence, he must have fallen with a pre-Adamite creation.
10. According to Isaiah 14:12-14,
Lucifer actually invaded heaven from earth, hoping to defeat God and take His
kingdom; but Lucifer himself was defeated and his kingdom cursed. Before his
defeat, he had a throne, implying a kingdom and subjects to rule over. His
kingdom was under the clouds, under the stars, and under heaven-therefore, on
earth. Having weakened the nations over whom he ruled, and wanting to be like
God and take His place in heaven, Lucifer led the invasion of heaven. All this
had to be in Adam's day, because no such things have occurred since Adam was
created.
11. Ezekiel 28:11-17
pictures Lucifer before he fell, as the anointed cherub or protector of the
earth, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, ruling in a garden of Eden (before
Adam), created by God and perfect in his ways up to the time of his fall. The
passage gives both the reason for his fall and the results. The only time this
could have been true of Satan was before the days of Adam, thus proving a
pre-Adamite world.
12. In Jeremiah 4:23-26
we have a full description of the earth under a total curse, as in Genesis 1:2. It was
desolate and empty. The heavens had no light, the hills and mountains were
undergoing convulsions, and there was neither man, bird, animal, nor fruitful
place; no city was left standing because of God's fierce anger. The only time
Jeremiah could have seen the earth "without form and void" was at the
same time that Moses saw it thus, as recorded by him in Genesis 1:2. There
never has been a time from Adam until now when the earth was in such a
state-not even at the time of Noah's flood-and there will never be a time of
such a curse in the eternal future. The only time Jeremiah 4:23-26
could be fulfilled was before Adam, because the earth was in that condition
when the Spirit began the six days' work of restoring it to a second habitable
state (Genesis
1:2-21). Regarding the future, this will never be the condition of the
earth again, because at His second coming Christ will begin to reign over all
nations on earth forever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end
(Genesis 8:22; Genesis 9:12; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 59:21; Daniel 2:44-45;
Daniel 7:13-14,18,27; Zech.14; Luke 1:32-33; Rev. 1:6; Rev. 5:10; Rev. 11:15; Rev. 20:4-10; Rev. 22:4-5).
Even the renovation of heaven and earth at the end of the Millennium will not
make the earth desolate as pictured in
Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23-26
(see notes,
Therefore, Jeremiah 4:23-26
must refer to the same judgment as Genesis 1:2,
proving further that a real social system-human beings, birds, fruitful places,
cities-existed before Adam.
13. Psalm 104:5-9
speaks of God sending a flood on the earth after its creation, at which time
the waters stood above the mountains. Psalm 104:7
identifies this as Lucifer's flood, saying "At Thy rebuke they fled."
In the case of Noah's flood, the waters slowly and naturally abated.
Furthermore, Psalm
104:9 makes it clear that this flood was at a time when God set a boundary
for the waters "that they turn not again to cover the earth," and
that is what happened in the six days' work of Genesis 1:3-2:25.
Thus, Psalm
104:5-9 refers to the same flood as Genesis 1:2 and
proves the existence of a pre-Adamite world which was overthrown by a flood.
14. Turning to the New Testament we find that Jesus taught the
fall of Satan from heaven in Luke 10:18. When
did he fall? Before Adam's time, because he was already a fallen creature when
he came into Adam's Eden (Genesis
3). Why did he fall? Because of pride and wanting to exalt his earthly
kingdom above God's (Isaiah 14:12-16;
Ezekiel
28:11-17). What was the result of his fall? All of Satan's earthly subjects
as well as over one third of God's own angels fell with him (Rev. 12:3,7-12); and all
nations were totally destroyed, along with vegetation, fish, fowl, and animals
(2 Peter 3:5-7).
Thus, Luke 10:18
substantiates the teaching of Old Testament passages regarding a pre-Adamite
world.
15. Jesus further taught the overthrow of the pre-Adamite world
by plainly stating that the world had been overthrown. See note, Matthew 13:35.
16. Paul also taught the overthrow of the pre-Adamite world (Ephes. 1:4; Hebrews 4:3; Hebrews 9:26; see
notes at these scriptures and the note on Matthew 13:35).
In Col. 1:15-18
he made it clear that there are thrones, principalities, and powers in heaven
and in earth, visible and invisible. It shouldn't be difficult to believe that
Lucifer was given one of these thrones and a kingdom to rule over, before he
fell. That his kingdom was on earth in a pre-Adamite period is indicated by the
fact that he returned to the earth after his fall and brought about the
downfall of the new ruler, Adam. Why all this desire to usurp man's dominion on
earth if the earth was not at one time Lucifer's place of rulership? Even his
eternal punishment will be in the lake of fire under the earth, which further
proves his sin was in connection with the earth-and when else could that have
been but at the time of a pre-Adamite world?
17. Contrasting "the world that then was" with the
heavens and the earth "which are now" Peter spoke clearly of a social
system overthrown before Adam. See Pre-Adamites.
18. John also referred to the overthrow of the pre-Adamite
world, as is clear from the note on Rev. 13:8.
Thus, it is clear that both the Old Testament and the New
Testament give proof of a pre-Adamite world. Scientific findings of prehistoric
animals and human beings, the age of the earth, and other facts are consistent
with the Biblical revelation of a pre-Adamite social system. There are many
questions which cannot be answered apart from a belief in the pre-Adamite age.
How did Lucifer become the devil and the prince of demons? When did he weaken
the nations, ascend into heaven to exalt his throne above the stars, and fall
from heaven as in Isaiah 14:12-14?
How did demons originate, for what purpose, and when? What caused the calamity
of Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23-26;
Psalm 104:6-9;
and 2 Peter 3:5-6?
Why was hell prepared for the devil and his angels as stated in Matthew 25:41,
and why was it located beneath the earth (Matthew 12:40; Ephes. 4:7-11)?
Why was Adam told to "replenish" the earth and not merely to plenish
it? These and other questions go unanswered apart from a belief in the
pre-Adamite world.
Hebrew: hayah , became. Translated
"became" 67 times (Genesis 2:7; Genesis 19:26; Genesis 20:12; Genesis 24:67;
etc.); "becamest" (1 Chron. 17:22; Ezekiel 16:8);
"came" and "came to pass" 505 times (Genesis 6:1; Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1;
etc.); "become" 66 times (Genesis 3:22; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 48:19;
etc.); "come to pass" 131 times (Genesis 4:14; Genesis 24:43; Genesis 27:40;
etc.); and "be" in the sense of "become" (Genesis 1:3,6,9,14; Genesis 3:5; etc.).
Hebrew: tohuw , "waste
and empty" (Jeremiah
4:23). The earth wasn't created tohuw in the beginning (Isaiah 45:18),
but "became" (see note above) this way because of sin.
Obscuring the sun and consequent darkness is always a result of
judgment, never of creation (Genesis 6-8; Exodus 10:21; Jeremiah 4:23; Joel 2:31; Rev. 6:12; Rev. 8:12; Rev. 9:2; Rev. 16:10).
Dr. Michael N. Smith Sr
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