THE PRE-ADAMIC WORLD - Part 2: In Darkness Dwells

Genesis 1
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The word "was" in this verse of Scripture plays a crucial part in explaining what happened here. This word is also a point of controversy for many theologians and bible scholars. The reason being that the Hebrew word from which we translate the word "was" is the word "hayatah" from the original word "heyeh". This word has two meanings in the Hebrew language. It can be translated as the word "was" but it can also be translated as the word "became".  In the English language we don't have a word that can simultaneously mean "was" and "became", hence the controversy. I've been given the impression that most theologians and bible scholars will teach that the word "was" is the correct translation. This is stated even within the pages of my own KJV Study Bible commentary. However, I have issues with my bible commentary, and these so-called theologians and bible scholars.

For starters, they put all of their emphases on explaining why the word "was" is the correct translation, while completely ignoring the interpretation issue with the Hebrew word for heaven. That's a red flag for me. They also put a lot of effort into defending the once saved always saved doctrine at every given opportunity. Red flag number two. The third and final red flag in my commentary was their clarification on the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit... according to them these gifts no longer function. Having read that, I now completely reject all of the commentary unless its speaking about a location or something. These guys come across as religious Pharisees with an agenda. Not only do they refuse to enter the gates themselves, but they shut the gates to everyone else through their teachings and translations. By their removal of the word "became", they eliminate an important question that upon further exploration would lead to a deeper understanding... that question being simply this, what caused the earth to "become"?

What caused a perfectly beautiful earth created to be inhabited to become a lifeless, barren, chaotic mass in perfect darkness... empty with one exception, the waters... which as I stated previously, I believe to have been frozen due to there being no source of heat or light... possibly for millions if not billions of years. You see, this explains many of the prehistoric things that can be seen in museums today. I'm convinced earth is much older than six thousand years as scientists have proven many, many, many times... and they're still trying to figure out what happened. They call it the ice age.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am convinced that these frozen waters are part of a flood... the result of a supernatural, cataclysmic judgment beyond the imaginings of man. Keep in mind that our God is eternally just, eternally fair, and eternally righteous. This leads us to a question of what sin was so horrific that it would warrant judgment of this magnitude and severity? Who sinned? Did the earth itself become corrupt? No, we've already established by the Scriptures that it was a perfect and beautiful creation. The key to answering these questions rest in our knowledge of God. In looking to His ways and what they reveal about Him. Think about it for a moment. We know that if God sends judgment, there must be sin in existence that must be judged. In order for sin to exist, there must be a sinner or sinners. Finally, in order for a sinner or sinners to be classified as such, they must enter into rebellion against God. The Scriptures elaborate more about this judgment involving the frozen flood in the book of Job.

Job 38
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

God caused waters to break forth in judgment from within the earth, like a woman's water breaks forth when she is about to give birth. Then He caused the waters to shut... to be sealed suddenly as if shutting a door. The waters froze where they were. Also, keeping in context, notice the previous verse is speaking of the angels... But I'm jumping ahead here.

Job 38
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

This happened back at the time of perfect creation, but something caused there to be judgment. This was a flood so massive, that the Scriptures describe it as gushing out as when water breaks forth from a woman about to give birth. The waters broke forth from within. Then God sealed it. He held them in place like shutting a door. Look at verse 25 of the same chapter...

Job 38
25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightening of thunder;
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

It rained on the earth where no man was. I do not believe God to be speaking about some undiscovered place deep in the wilderness. The Scripture specifically says,

To cause it to rain on the "earth," where no man is...

I also maintain the opinion that God was not speaking to Job about the flood of Noah. There was no man on this earth being spoken of here. I believe God is speaking of a time when He caused it to rain and there where no men. In Noah's flood men where dying everywhere by the millions.

Job 38
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

The waters hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen? This is a clear picture of Genesis 1:2.

Genesis 1
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.


Those waters were frozen. So frozen in fact, that they where like stone... like solid rock. The scriptures give even more information about this flood in Psalm 104. But so far, this seems to be a flood that happened before the flood of Noah's day. When it rained and no man was on the earth... and this flood froze. In Psalm 104 there is more conformation concerning this.

Psalm 104
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

Here we see the Holy Spirit testifying by the Psalmist about God's preservation of nature. These verses however speak of the creation, when God first laid the foundations of the earth...and then the judgment that followed as a result of what happened between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

Psalm 104
6 Thou coveredst it with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

At thy rebuke they fled... the scriptures say nothing of the waters of Noah's flood being rebuked. The waters of Noah's day did not flee. Those waters never knew the rebuke of the Lord. The scriptures say in Genesis that those waters receded. It took many days. This scripture in Psalm 104 speaks of an instantaneous removal of waters. At thy rebuke they fled. They ran away... it went from frozen/flooded in an instant change. At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. This is not what happened with Noah. He had to wait on that ark for days.

Psalm 104
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

The flood waters went up the mountains and froze for billions of years, and at the rebuke of the Lord they shot back down all in one verse. Noah's flood took days to recede. This verse speaks of something instantaneous. Therefore this cannot be the flood of Noah's day. So it seems, there were two floods. The flood of Noah's day, and a pre-adamic flood.







TO BE CONTINUED...