Chapter 24
The Pre-Adamic Age, The Age of Angels
The Pre-Adamic Age is the First Age in God’s Plan for All. It began at the creation of the heavens and the earth, and ended at the start of the six-day creation week, during which Adam and Eve were created. The Pre-Adamic Age was the age when angels were the key focus of God’s dealings.
The First Age is an important age in God’s Plan of the Ages. It helps us to appreciate and understand the following seven important biblical truths:
1. Our earth is much older than six thousand years.
2. When God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, He created the earth in such a beautiful and perfect Garden of Eden state that the angels responded with joyful singing and shouting.
3. Before the Garden of Eden earth where Adam and Eve were created, there was a previous Garden of Eden earth teeming with plants and animals in the Pre-Adamic Age. God put Lucifer in charge of this Pre-Adamic Garden of Eden earth, as the leading angel. This Pre-Adamic earth with its firmament (its heaven/atmosphere) was completely ruined, wasted, destroyed, flooded and darkened when Lucifer, who became Satan, sinned and led a rebellion against God with the following of a third of the angels.
4. After the Pre-Adamic earth, with its atmosphere, was destroyed, it remained for an unknown period of time as a wasted, flooded and dark tartaroo prison for Satan and his fallen angels. This was until God renewed the surface of the earth and its firmament (its heaven/atmosphere) in the six-day creation week, which marked the beginning of the Second Age, the Adamic Age, in God’s Plan of the Ages.
5. Satan and his fallen angels became free from their flooded and dark tartaroo prison when God renewed the surface of the earth at the start of the Adamic Age. However, they remain chained in spiritual darkness and confined to the earth and its atmosphere as ‘spirits of the air’, awaiting their final judgement in the Lake of Fire. This is why Satan was already present as a sinful fallen angel in the Adamic Garden of Eden, ready to deceive and tempt Adam and Eve.
6. Earth’s geology and topography have been greatly impacted and shaped by the massive Pre-Adamic cataclysmic global judgement from God against Satan and his fallen angels, when God violently cast them back down to earth.
7. At the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, there will be yet another massive cataclysmic global judgement from God against this present sinful world of man. This will result in earth’s geology and topography being greatly impacted and shaped once again. It will be in preparation for Christ to establish His glorious Millennial Kingdom, and transform the earth’s surface into a Garden of Eden once again.
Let us now begin our study of the important First Age, the Pre-Adamic Age.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The heavens and the earth mean the whole, complete universe consisting of billions of galaxies with billions of stars and planets. Our minds cannot even begin to grasp the wonders and limitless power of God, which the universe displays.
God singles out the earth as the most important planet in the entire universe. This is because God has a tremendous purpose to use the earth as the centre of the universe. It is on earth that God will first establish His Millennial Kingdom, at the return of Jesus Christ. Then, after God has refined and renewed the earth during the Lake of Fire Judgement Age, He will establish His Eternal Kingdom of the New Heaven and the New Earth.
So how did God create the universe and the earth in the beginning? The Bible says that God simply commanded and they were created.
Psalm 148:2-5
2 Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! 3 Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light! 4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He commanded and they were created.
The creation of the entire universe including the earth must be understood as an instantaneous creation at the command of God. When God created the universe in the beginning, He also designed and created the Law of Gravity. God introduced the Law of Gravity for the stability and continual existence of the universe. All bodies in the universe are held together and maintain their orbits because of gravitation. Smaller bodies are held in their orbits by bigger bodies. Moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, stars orbit galactic centres, and galaxies orbit other galaxies in clusters.
The important point to understand is that it is impossible for the moon, as we know it, to exist without the earth; and it is impossible for the earth, as we know it, to exist without the sun; and for the sun to exist without our galaxy, the Milky Way; and for the Milky Way to exist without other galaxies. So, the whole universe must have been created instantaneously for it to exist, and this is exactly what God did in the beginning, as Psalm 148:5 above confirms, ‘He commanded and they were created’.
Time began when God created the earth, the sun and the moon with the rest of the universe, in the beginning. This is when God's Plan of the Ages began. How long ago was the beginning when God commanded and instantaneously created the universe with the earth? The Bible does not say. However, star distances and many other modern scientific methods, all show us that the beginning was millions of years ago. It cannot have been around six thousand years ago, as believed by Young Earth Creationists.
Even Young Earth Creationists themselves admit that star distances are a problem when defending their belief in a young earth. Most probably, scientists have overestimated the age of our earth as being about 4.5 billion years old. However, we can be absolutely sure that earth is much older than six thousand years because the Bible clearly teaches us that there was a Pre-Adamic Age, which we shall soon go on to discuss.
Young Earth Creationists claim that the various scientific methods of calculating the age of the earth cannot be relied upon because all these methods and calculations are based on assumptions. Granted, scientists base these calculations on assumptions, which they consider to be legitimate assumptions in accordance with their understanding of the laws of physics operating in the universe, and their analysis of other scientific data. However, even if it turns out that these assumptions made by scientists, when calculating the age of the earth, are out by 99.9% in favour of a younger earth, then that would still make the age of the earth very old at 4.5 million years compared with only six thousand years, as believed by Young Earth Creationists.
Young Earth Creationists claim to interpret the Genesis account of creation literally to justify their belief in a young earth. They say that anything other than about six thousand years is playing around with the literal translation of the creation account. In actuality, it is the Young Earth Creationists themselves who play around with the literal meaning of the Genesis account of creation. Let us now see what the Bible says and what Young Earth Creationism (YEC) says.
The Bible says that God created the earth in the beginning; YEC says that God created the earth in the first day.
The Bible says that God created the sun and the moon in the beginning; YEC says that God created the sun and moon in the fourth day.
The Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning; YEC says that God created the heavens and the earth in six days.
Young Earth Creationism misunderstands the Genesis account of God's creation when it misinterprets the very first verse of the Bible (Genesis 1:1) as being a summary statement of the six-day creation account, which is described in Genesis 1:3-31. This misunderstanding of the very first verse of the Bible has led Young Earth Creationists to believe that God created the earth on the first day without the sun, and that it wasn't until the fourth day that God created the sun, the moon and the stars. This is not only biblically untrue but also scientifically nonsensical. It is impossible for a 24-hour day comprising of both light and darkness, day and night with morning and evening to occur, without both the earth and the sun existing together. This is elementary physics and common sense. The Bible is extremely logical and it does not contradict true science, after all God Himself is the greatest scientist. God does not want us to believe in something that is illogical and scientifically stupid.
We shall show you later why Young Earth Creationism confuses the beginning of the heavens and the earth many millions of years ago, as stated in Genesis 1:1, with the beginning of the Second Age, the Adamic Age, approximately six thousand years ago, as described in Genesis 1:3-31.
Let us now go on to understand the literal interpretation of the Genesis creation account as the Bible actually teaches.
What was the state of the earth when God created it along with the rest of the universe in the beginning? Let us see what the Bible says.
Job 38:4-7 (NIV)
4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. 5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? 6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone- 7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
Job Chapters 38 and 39 show God humbling Job, who thought that he had a great fount of knowledge. In the verses above, God challenges Job about his knowledge of the creation of the earth. God did this to make Job acknowledge God's greatness and to show Job that he knew absolutely nothing about how and when God had created the earth.
Notice that all the angels sang and shouted for joy when God laid the foundations of the earth. ‘Morning stars’ here also refers to angels.
The verses above reveal two important truths:
1. God created angels before He created the earth and the universe.
2. When God created the earth in the beginning, He created it in such a beautiful and perfect condition that the angels responded with joyful singing and shouting. We shall show you later using relevant scripture that this Pre-Adamic world was created as a beautiful Garden of Eden, teeming with plant and animal life.
However, shockingly, in the second verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:2, we read that the earth had changed from its beautiful and perfect Garden of Eden state, when it was first created in the beginning, to a totally different ruined state. It had become formless, empty, submerged under water, and dark.
Genesis 1:2 (NIV)
Now the earth was (hayah) formless, and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Since God did not create the earth in a formless, empty, flooded and dark state in the beginning, then it must have become that way at a later date. This is exactly what happened to the earth, because an accurate translation of the Hebrew word hayah in Genesis 1:2 above is became, as given in Strong's dictionary, and as confirmed by the NIV in their footnote. Strong’s H1961 gives the meaning of hayah as: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen and fall out. When you consider all of these possible meanings together, you get a more accurate meaning of hayah in Genesis 1:2 as became rather than was.
Young Earth Creationism argues that Genesis 1:2 is the description of a stage in the construction of the earth. It is a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of this verse to believe that God firstly had to create the earth in a formless, empty, dark state and totally submerged under water in order to proceed and complete the rest of His beautiful creation on earth. This is not how God of the Bible operates.
The truth of the Bible is that Genesis 1:2 is the description of the earth resulting from God's massive cataclysmic global judgement because of the sins of angels. It is not speaking about a stage in the construction of the earth, as mistakenly believed by Young Earth Creationists. Let us now have a closer look at Genesis 1:2 to understand that it is indeed a description of God’s global judgement.
God's Global Judgement of Rebellious Angels in the Pre-Adamic Age
Genesis 1:2 (NIV)
Now the earth was (hayah, meaning became) formless (tohuw), and empty (bohuw), darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
The Bible is abundantly clear that the inspired Hebrew words tohuw and bohuw in Genesis 1:2 above, when used together, are the descriptive words for God's global judgement.
The Hebrew word tohuw occurs 20 times in the Old Testament and Strong’s H8414 gives its meanings as: formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness, wasteland, wilderness, place of chaos and vanity (worthlessness). Something that is in a state of formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness, wasteland, wilderness, place of chaos, and vanity (worthlessness) is obviously in a chaotic state. Therefore, the best meaning of tohuw in Genesis 1:2 is chaotic.
The Hebrew word bohuw occurs 3 times in the Old Testament and Strong’s H922 gives its meanings as: emptiness, void and waste. God inspired the use of the Hebrew word bohuw in Genesis 1:2 to reinforce the meaning of tohuw, which we have just shown above means chaotic. Therefore, we believe that the best meaning of bohuw is wasted, meaning ruined. So, a more accurate meaning of Genesis 1:2 is:
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth became chaotic and wasted, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over surface of the waters.
Please understand that God did not create the earth in the beginning (Genesis 1:1) in a chaotic, wasted, state submerged under water and in darkness. The earth became like that because a massive cataclysmic change took place in the earth between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. The Bible specifically confirms in Isaiah 45:18 below that the earth was not created in the chaotic and wasted state that we see in Genesis 1:2.
Isaiah 45:18(NKJV)
For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain (tohuw), Who formed it to be inhabited: 'I am the LORD, and there is no other'.
Isaiah 45:18(NAS)
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place (tohuw), but formed it to be inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:18(RSV)
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos (tohuw), he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other.
All versions of the Bible, like the NKJV, NAS and RSV given above, confirm what Isaiah 45:18 says that the earth was not created in a vain (worthless), wasted and chaotic state. We do not understand how Young Earth Creationists can deny such a clear scripture.
Let us believe what the Bible says that God did not create the earth in a worthless, wasted, chaotic and uninhabitable state. As we have shown from Scripture, the earth was created in such a beautiful state that the angels sang and shouted for joy. Most certainly, the angels would not have sung and shouted for joy over the creation of a chaotic ruined earth.
It is clear from Scripture that there was a gap of time between the creation of the beautiful earth of Genesis 1:1 and the totally chaotic ruined earth of Genesis 1:2. This gap of time is the Pre-Adamic Age, which may have lasted for millions of years.
So, the key question is: ‘Why did the earth become chaotic and ruined as described in Genesis 1:2?’ Let us now go on to understand that Genesis 1:2 is the description of the earth resulting from God's global judgement because of the sins of angels.
The Sins of Angels
2 Peter 2:4-6 is an account of three important historical judgements of God, which helps us to understand the consequences of sin.
2 Peter 2:4-6
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell (tartaroo) and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly.
Sin has consequences and it brings judgement from God in the form of death and destruction. Please note that God did not spare the angels who sinned, and He did not spare the sinful world of Noah or the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
In verse 4 above, the Greek word tartaroo is mistranslated as hell because all fallen angels are free to roam the earth as spirits of the air, and they are not in ‘hell’ but still awaiting their final judgement in the Lake of Fire. Tartaroo is used only once in the Bible. Now, let us clearly understand the significance of this Greek word tartaroo.
According to Strong’s G5020, tartaroo is, “the name of the subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds”. Of course, this is the pagan ancient Greek belief in an underworld. However, it does reflect to some extent the meaning of tartaroo.
The state of the earth described in Genesis 1:2 is in fact the tartaroo referred in 2 Peter 4:2 above. The Bible is clear that when Satan and his angels first rebelled, they were judged and violently cast back down to earth (Revelation 12:7-9). We can be sure that the chaotic, wasted, flooded and dark state of the earth as described in Genesis 1:2 was in fact the tartaroo judgement of Satan and his fallen angels. The beautiful Garden of Eden earth of Genesis 1:1 was violently thrown into the ruined and dark tartaroo state of Genesis 1:2 because of the sins of angels.
The Bible does not say for how long God left the earth in this ruined flooded and dark tartaroo state, as a prison for Satan and his fallen angels. However, in accordance with the God’s Plan of the Ages, the time came for God to transform and renew the ruined earth of Genesis 1:2 into a Garden of Eden once again, at the beginning of the Adamic Age. This is why Satan (fallen Lucifer) was already present in the Garden of Eden when God created man (Adam and Eve) for the very first time. Also, this is why Jesus Christ could say that Satan is a liar and a murderer from the beginning, meaning from the beginning of the Adamic Age (John 8:44), and not from the beginning of the Pre-Adamic Age of Genesis 1:1.
The Bible further reaffirms that Genesis 1:2 is indeed speaking about the state of the earth, which resulted from God’s global judgement, and it is not a description of a stage in the construction of the earth as mistakenly believed by Young Earth Creationists. The Hebrew words tohuw and bohuw occur together in the same verse only twice in the whole of the Bible. The first time is in Genesis 1:2 and the second time is in Jeremiah 4:23, which also describes God’s global judgement. However, the Jeremiah 4:23 global judgement of God is yet to be carried out against this present sinful world of man, which remains deceived and inspired by Satan and his fallen angels. This judgement will occur at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Let us now compare Genesis 1:2 with Jeremiah 4:23 to appreciate that both these verses speak about God’s tohuw and bohuw global judgements.
Genesis 1:2 (NIV)
Now the earth was (hayah, meaning became) formless (tohuw), and empty (bohuw), darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Jeremiah 4:23 (NIV)
I looked at the earth, and it was formless (tohuw), and empty (bohuw); and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
Genesis 1:2 is a description of God’s global tohuw and bohuw judgement against sinful fallen angels carried out at some point in the Pre-Adamic Age millions of years ago, as previously discussed.
We know from the Bible that there was another global judgement when God flooded the whole earth completely destroying Noah’s world, approximately 4300 years ago, because of the wickedness of men who were deceived and inspired by Satan and his fallen angels. This global judgement of God against Noah’s world was not a tohuw and bohuw judgement, as Scripture does not describe it such. However, at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, there will be another global tohuw and bohuw judgement against this present sinful world of man, as described in Jeremiah 4:23 above.
Jeremiah was inspired to write about future events that will come to pass in this present age, during the final period of the Great Tribulation at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Jeremiah 4:5-28 is a prophecy of God's horrific judgement against Israel and against the whole world. We advise our readers to refer to Jeremiah 4:5-28 in their Bibles to note the following points.
Verses 6 and 7 say that God will bring disaster and destruction from the north upon Israel. Israel will become desolate, and its cities will be laid waste. Verse 8 says that the fierce anger of the Lord will not be turned back. Verse 12 says that God will speak judgement against the people of Jerusalem. Verse 13 speaks about the return of Jesus Christ on the clouds. Verses 14 to 18 speak about people's wickedness. Verse 20 says that God will bring destruction upon destruction. We now come to the key verse Jeremiah 4:23.
Jeremiah 4:23 (NIV)
I looked at the earth, and it was formless (tohuw), and empty (bohuw); and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
Notice that Jeremiah saw the whole earth in a state of tohuw and bohuw, which means a chaotic, wasted and empty state. Also, he saw that the heavens had no light, meaning that the earth was plunged into total darkness. The state of the earth, which Jeremiah saw, resembles the description of the earth as given in Genesis 1:2, except that there was no global flooding. This is because God promised never to flood the earth again following Noah's flood. Let us now read Jeremiah 4:24-28, in order to further understand what the future tohuw and bohuw judgement will involve.
Jeremiah 4:24-28
24 I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth. 25 I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. 26 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, by His fierce anger. 27 For thus says the LORD "The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, And the heavens above be black, Because I have spoken. I have purposed and will not relent, Nor will I turn back from it”.
Please bear in mind that in these verses, Jeremiah is speaking about the future judgement against this present world, at the return of Jesus Christ. Notice that the future tohuw and bohuw judgement will not only involve the sun being darkened but also the mountains will shake and the hills will be moved out of their place, and the earth will be reduced to a wilderness.
This tohuw and bohuw judgement against the whole earth at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah, is also described and prophesied by Apostle John in Revelation 6:12-17, and by Jesus Christ Himself in Matthew 24:29-30. You will note that there are close similarities between these three prophecies, which means that they are speaking of the same global tohuw and bohuw judgement.
By putting together the scriptures Jeremiah 4:5-28, Revelation 6:12-17 and Matthew 24:29-30, we can clearly see that God’s future global tohuw and bohuw judgement at the end of this present age will be absolutely cataclysmic, involving the powers of the heavens being shaken, the stars (meteorites) falling onto earth, the sun and the moon being darkened, great earthquakes and upheavals causing every mountain and every island to shake and move out of its place, great global devastation of the earth's surface causing chaos and waste, massive destruction of all types of life, and surviving unbelievers so terrified that they hide away from the face of the returning Jesus Christ and His wrath.
Unlike the previous global tohuw and bohuw judgement in the Pre-Adamic Age when all living plants and animals were killed, God will not totally wipe out ‘not make a full end’ to all life on earth in the future global tohuw and bohuw judgement. There will be a proportion of earth’s population who will survive it to enter Christ’s Millennial Kingdom, over whom Christ and His resurrected Bride will reign.
As mentioned, it is significant that the Hebrew words tohuw and bohuw occur together in the same verse only twice in the Bible, the first time in Genesis 1:2 and the second time in Jeremiah 4:23. We have highlighted and described in detail the future global judgement against this present sinful world of man referred to in Jeremiah 4:23, to prove the point that Genesis 1:2 also speaks about God’s global judgement, and it is not a description of a stage in the construction of the earth, as mistakenly believed by Young Earth Creationism.
There should now be no doubt in the minds of our readers that Genesis 1:2 is indeed a description of a horrific and cataclysmic global tohuw and bohuw judgement, which God carried out during the Pre-Adamic Age, because of the sins of angels, and there is indeed an age-gap of perhaps millions of years between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
The Pre-Adamic world was destroyed because of the sins of angels. However, God understood right from the beginning, before He created the universe and the earth, that this would happen because God is all knowing and He knows the end from the beginning. Although God destroyed the Pre-Adamic earth, it was always in His Plan to renew the earth and start the Second Age, the Adamic Age. Man, who is the pinnacle and most important of all of God’s creation, was created for the very first time at the beginning of this Second Age. This was when God renewed the earth and its atmosphere in the six-day creation week.
Young Earth Creationism relies on three key ‘proof texts’ to support its belief. These texts are Romans 5:12, Exodus 20:11 and Genesis 1:31. We shall have a detailed look at each of them, and we will see that these texts are all misinterpreted and misunderstood by Young Earth Creationism. However, we first ask a question that has an obvious answer, ‘Who sinned first, angels or man?’
The fact that angels sinned before man cannot be disputed because Satan was already a sinner and present in the Garden of Eden, before Adam and Eve sinned. Young Earth Creationism, because it denies the truth of the Pre-Adamic Age, also denies that angels sinned before Adam. This obvious truth that angels sinned before man is further confirmed by the historical sequence of the three judgements listed in the scripture 2 Peter 2:4-6 given previously, where the Bible places the sins of angels before the sins of man.
Let us now examine Romans 5:12 in detail, as it is one of the three key 'proof texts' used by Young Earth Creationists to support their belief. Young Earth Creationism misunderstands Romans 5:12 when it argues that sin and death first entered the world through man, and not through angels.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.
Young Earth Creationists misinterpret this scripture to believe that there was no death before Adam sinned; hence they say that there was no Pre-Adamic world of plants and animals that was destroyed.
Romans 5:12 above speaks only of death spreading to all men because of Adam’s original sin, but it has absolutely nothing to say about death spreading to all plants and animals. Romans 5:12 simply does not address the question of whether or not there was any plant and animal death before Adam sinned. Therefore, this verse cannot be used to prove that there was no Pre-Adamic world. Yes, it is true that ‘through one man sin entered the world’, but which world does this scripture refer to? It obviously refers to sin entering the Adamic world, the world of man.
The truth of the Bible that Satan and his angels sinned, and were cast back down to earth out of heaven to undergo their tartaroo judgement, before Adam sinned cannot be disputed. This clearly proves the fact that there was a Pre-Adamic world when Lucifer, who became Satan, sinned before Adam was created.
Romans 5:12 is only concerned with sin and death spreading to all men because of Adam’s original sin. In fact, Romans Chapter 5 is a beautiful chapter emphasising the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and His finished work on the cross. Through one man Adam, sin and death spread to all men. However, through One Man Jesus Christ, the gift of God’s righteousness and eternal life will be granted to all men (Romans 5:18).
There is absolutely nothing in the Bible to suggest that Satan was cast back down to earth from heaven after God created Adam and Eve, during the Adamic Age. Also, if Satan sinned for the very first time during the Adamic Age, as Young Earth Creationism maintains, then how was it that Satan was not judged and he could still remain free to deceive Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, after his rebellion? This view obviously contradicts 2 Peter 2:4, where it says that all fallen angels received their tartaroo judgement when they sinned.
Luke 10:18
And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven”.
When did Jesus Christ see Satan fall like lighting from heaven? It can only have been during the Pre-Adamic Age, and not during the Adamic Age. When Satan fell from heaven, he together with his fallen angels, had to go through their tartaroo judgement, before they became free to roam the earth and its atmosphere as ‘spirits of the air’ during the Adamic Age.
We will now examine relevant scriptures in some detail to see how sin first entered the Pre-Adamic world through Satan and his fallen angels, bringing death and destruction to the Pre-Adamic Garden of Eden earth.
Isaiah 14:12-15
12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer (heylel), son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
This scripture confirms Jesus’s statement in Luke 10:18 above that He saw Satan fall from heaven. It was indeed Satan (previously the holy angel Lucifer), whom Jesus saw fall from heaven.
Please note that the Hebrew word heylel is translated as Lucifer in the NKJV translation above. Lucifer is a Latin word meaning ‘Light Bearer’, which first appeared in the Latin Vulgate circa 400 A.D. This Latin word Lucifer has been retained by both the KJV and the NKJV, thus the Christian world has been familiar with the name Lucifer for over a thousand years. Modern versions of the Bible translate heylel to mean Morning Star, Bright Star, Shining One and Day Star, all of which are similar to the Latin word Lucifer, meaning Light Bearer. Therefore, Lucifer is as good a name to use as any of the other names given in other translations.
Isaiah Chapter 14 refers to both the king of Babylon and Lucifer. However, it is important to note that Isaiah 14:12-15 above is specifically speaking about Lucifer who became Satan. This scripture is not referring to the king of Babylon. It is referring to a fallen angelic being and not a man, as no man is capable of ascending above the heights of the clouds. Notice that Lucifer coveted the throne of God and he wanted to become like the Most High.
Isaiah 14:15 above says, “Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.” Sheol in Hebrew means grave, pit or underworld. This verse confirms the tartaroo judgement, which Satan and his fallen angels received when they were cast back down to earth from heaven for their rebellion during the Pre-Adamic Age. They were imprisoned in the deep, frozen, watery, dark grave of the ruined and flooded earth until they became freed from their tartaroo prison. This was when God renewed the surface of the earth in six-days, at the beginning of the Adamic Age.
When Jesus Christ returns, Satan will once again be imprisoned under the earth’s surface, but this time in a ‘bottomless pit’ for the duration of Christ’s one thousand year Millennial Kingdom. After which, Satan will be released for a short time before his final judgement in the Lake of Fire.
Let us now read a parallel scripture about the fall of Lucifer given in Ezekiel 28.
Ezekiel 28:12-15
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created.” 14 You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
Ezekiel Chapter 28 begins by describing the king of Tyre who became proud in his heart and thought of himself as god. The power and deceiver behind the king of Tyre was Satan himself. The scripture Ezekiel 28:12-15 above takes us on from speaking about the king of Tyre to speaking about Lucifer who became Satan, as these verses can only fit the description of a fallen angelic being, and not a man. Lucifer was created perfect in his ways. He was the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, the anointed cherub and perfect in beauty before iniquity was found in him when he rebelled against God. In contrast, the king of Tyre was born imperfect with a fallen, sinful Adamic nature, and he was not the anointed cherub. Therefore, these verses can only refer to God speaking to Satan, who was the real influence and power behind the king of Tyre.
It was Lucifer and not the king of Tyre whom God had placed in Eden, the Garden of God. This Garden of Eden was not the same Garden of Eden of the Adamic Age, where Satan was present as a fallen angel who lied to and deceived Eve.
It is important to understand that the Bible speaks of at least three Gardens of Eden in three different ages. There was the first Garden of Eden in the Pre-Adamic Age, as given in Ezekiel 28:13 above. There was the second Garden of Eden during the Adamic Age, as given in Genesis 2:15. There will be yet another, the third Garden of Eden, in the coming Millennial Age of Jesus Christ, as given in Ezekiel 36:35.
A garden has both plant and animal life, thus God created the Pre-Adamic world with plants and animals. The enormous deposits and reservoirs under the earth's surface of the fossil fuels; coal, oil and gas, and the abundant existence of fossils throughout the world bear witness to the fact that the Pre-Adamic earth was absolutely teeming with luxuriant plant and animal life. This Pre-Adamic earth was destroyed after ‘war broke out in heaven’ between the holy angels led by Michael and the fallen angels led by Satan.
Revelation 12:7-9
7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
These verses describe a war between armies of angels in heaven. We are speaking about an angelic war with massive destructive power at the angels' command. This angelic war started in heaven but was finished on earth when God cast Satan and his angels out of heaven back down to earth. As a result, the whole earth suffered cataclysmic violence of unimaginable proportions, and death, destruction, flooding, darkness and sin entered the world of the Pre-Adamic earth for the very first time.
Let us now summarise the events that led to the fall of Lucifer and his angels. Lucifer was the anointed cherub who governed the beautiful luxuriant Garden of Eden earth. He was adorned with precious stones and gifted with musical instruments of worship. He had freedom of movement as a trusted holy angel of God to move back and forth from earth to heaven (God’s dwelling place). Lucifer became tempted and sinned when iniquity was found in his heart. He became jealous of God and decided to lead a rebellion to try to usurp God from His throne. Lucifer (a holy angel), became Satan (a sinful angel) because of his sin of rebellion.
Satan ascended above the clouds from the earth to rebel against God in heaven (God’s dwelling place). This is when war broke out in heaven between Satan and his angels and Michael and his angels. Satan and his angels (a third of the angels) were defeated and they were violently cast out of heaven back down to earth (Revelation 12:4) with global cataclysmic consequences for the earth, as previously described.
The beautiful Garden of Eden earth of Genesis 1:1, which God created in the beginning and gave Lucifer dominion over, was transformed into a totally ruined chaotic earth in darkness and covered by deep frozen water (ice) by the time we come to Genesis 1:2. This ruined, ice covered and flooded dark earth became the tartaroo prison for Satan and his fallen angels until God renewed the surface of the earth at the start of the Adamic Age. Satan and his fallen angels are now confined to earth and its atmosphere awaiting their final judgement in the Lake of Fire. However, Satan will once again be imprisoned, but this time to a ‘bottomless pit’ at the start of Christ’s Millennial Kingdom before he is released to receive his final Lake of Fire Judgement.
Young Earth Creationism confuses the beginning of the Pre-Adamic Age, which happened millions of years ago with the beginning of the Adamic Age, which happened only approximately six thousand years ago.
Genesis 1:1 refers to the beginning of time, millions of years ago, when God created the heavens and the earth. This also marked the beginning of the First Age, the Pre-Adamic Age, in God's Plan of the Ages.
Genesis 1:3-5 refers to the first 24-hour day in the beginning of the Adamic Age, the Second Age, after God destroyed the Pre-Adamic world through God’s global tohuw and bohuw judgement because of the sins of angels. The Adamic Age started about six thousand years ago.
The Beginning of the Adamic Age
As we have shown the original beautiful Garden of Eden earth of Genesis 1:1 was thrown into chaos and darkness (Genesis 1:2) when Satan and his fallen angels were cast back down to earth following their rebellion in heaven. In Genesis 1:3-5, we find that God reintroduced the light of the sun to shine onto the earth's surface at the dawn of the Second Age, the Adamic Age.
Genesis 1:3-5
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
It is clear and it logically and scripturally follows that when God said, ‘Let there be light’ in verse 3 above, it was the light of the sun, which God had previously withheld, or caused by some other means to be blocked, from reaching the earth’s surface in His global tohuw and bohuw judgement. We know for certain that the sun had already been created in the beginning (Genesis 1:1), and this was millions of years before God reintroduced the light as described in the verses above.
Please understand that there can not be the first 24 hour day, evening and morning without the light of the sun, and it is impossible for the earth to hang and rotate by itself in the universe without the gravitational pull of the sun. Since, Young Earth Creationism (YEC) believes that it was not until the fourth day that God created the sun, it becomes a huge problem for YEC to explain how there can be the first 24 hours of day and night without the sun. In order to get over this dilemma, YEC teaches that it was the light of the Holy Spirit which shone on the earth for the first three 24 hour days of creation. Of course, anything is possible with God, but we find the YEC explanation unbiblical, illogical and ridiculous. It invites derision and unbelief in the Word of God from educational establishments and scientists, and it becomes a great stumbling block for young people to accept the Bible as the Word of God.
The rest of the Genesis account of creation, Genesis 1:3-31, makes complete sense, once we understand that God darkened the sun and withdrew its light in His Pre-Adamic tohuw and bohuw judgement against Satan and his fallen angels. When God began the Second Age, the Adamic Age, He reintroduced the light of the sun to the earth, and renewed the earth's surface and its atmosphere. Then, God recreated plant and animal life, and finally He created mankind for the first time, as described in the six-day creation account of Genesis 1:3-31. This happened approximately six thousand years ago.
God’s Creation in the First Six 24-hour Days of the Adamic Age
Let us go on to understand that there is absolutely no contradiction whatsoever between Genesis 1:1, where it is says that God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, and Genesis 1:14-19 where it says that God made the sun, the moon and the stars on the fourth day. Once we see and understand that the whole of the six-day creation account is written from man’s earthly perspective rather than from a cosmic perspective, then the scriptures become clear and everything make sense.
Day One (Genesis 1:3-5)
God reintroduces the light of the sun to reach and shine onto the surface of the deep frozen waters of the flooded and ruined earth. The effect of this heat and sudden change in temperature resulted in a massive global melting of the ice.
The ice must have been so thick that the Spirit of God first needed to shake, break and soften it, even before Day One when the light was reintroduced. This was in order to assist the melting process, which would occur on Day One. This is exactly what God did because a correct meaning of the Hebrew word rachaph, where it says in Genesis 1:2 'And the Spirit of God was hovering (rachaph) over the face of the waters (ice)', is to shake, break and soften. This meaning of rachaph is confirmed by Strong’s H7363. So, the 'hovering' of the Spirit of God over the face of the waters (ice) was not a gentle hovering movement of the Spirit of God, but an active shaking and breaking of the deep ice. This was in preparation for the great melt that took place once the sunlight with its heat was reintroduced onto the earth's surface on Day One.
Day Two (Genesis 1:5-8)
God forms the firmament by lifting the 'waters from the waters'. The firmament refers to the space or expanse within the earth’s atmosphere between the earth’s surface and the cloud strata, which God formed using the process of evaporation, when the heat of the sunlight caused vast volumes of water vapour to rise up from the surface of the melt-waters to form dense dark clouds in the sky.
Day Three (Genesis 1:9-12)
God forms the dry land by causing the melt-waters to recede from the flooded earth. He also causes plant life to grow on the land.
Day Four
Genesis 1:14-19
14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament (the space between the earth’s surface and the clouds) of the heavens (the earth’s atmosphere) to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. 16 Then God made (asah) two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
At the beginning of Day Four, God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven’. Therefore, we can certainly conclude that by the end of Day Three the firmament of the heaven (the space between the earth’s surface and the clouds) had become darkened again, but this time by the dense clouds of water vapour formed on Day Two. These clouds would have blocked out light - sunlight, moonlight and starlight - from reaching the firmament and thus the earth's surface. So, on Day Four God thinned and dispersed these dense dark clouds so that the sunlight, moonlight and starlight could shine through the firmament down onto the earth’s surface.
Therefore, from an earthly perspective, the sun, the moon and the stars were made (asah) on Day Four 'for signs and seasons, and for days and years' for the benefit of mankind. Notice that verse 17 above, does not say that God created these lights on Day Four, but that He set these lights in the firmament, meaning that He made them appear, be visible, in the firmament from man’s earthly perspective. We know from the very first verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:1, that these lights (sunlight, moonlight and starlight) had already been created (bara) in the beginning, and not on Day Four.
Day Five (Genesis 1:20-23)
God creates sea life and bird life.
Day Six (Genesis 1:24-31)
God creates animal life and human life, Adam and Eve, on land.
The pinnacle of God's creation was the creation of man in God's own image.
The Important Difference between Bara and Asah
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created (bara) the heavens and the earth.
The inspired Hebrew word for create in Genesis 1:1 is bara, when God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning. However, the inspired Hebrew word for make in Genesis 1:16 is asah, when God made the sun, the moon and the stars to be set in the firmament, on Day Four of the six-day creation week of the Adamic Age.
These two accounts are not contradictory as they refer to two different situations. The first account of creation (bara) in Genesis 1:1 relates to the beginning of time, millions of years ago at the start of the Pre-Adamic Age, when God instantaneously created the heavens and the earth at His command. The second account of making (asah) the sun, the moon and the stars in Genesis 1:16 relates to the appearance of the sun, the moon and the stars in the firmament (the sky) from an earthly perspective on Day Four, approximately six thousand years ago, at the start of the Adamic Age.
The single most important 'proof text' used by Young Earth Creationism is Exodus 20:11. Let us examine this verse in detail, and show you that it is also misunderstood by Young Earth Creationists.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made (asah) the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The Bible is consistent. In this verse, we see that the inspired Hebrew word asah, and not bara, is used to refer to the making of the heavens and the earth in six days.
The Bible makes a clear distinction between the creation of the heavens and the earth in the beginning by using the Hebrew word bara, from the renewal of the heavens and the earth in six days by using the Hebrew word asah. These words are not used interchangeably with respect to the heavens and the earth, despite what Young Earth Creationists say. The account of God creating (bara) the heavens and the earth instantaneously in the beginning, millions of years ago at the start of the Pre-Adamic Age, should not be confused with the account of God making (asah) the heavens and the earth when He renewed them in six days, approximately six thousand years ago at the beginning of the Adamic Age. We shall now prove this point by using relevant scriptures.
There are only five places in the Bible where the context clearly shows that bara is specifically used to denote the instantaneous creation of the heavens and the earth in the beginning. These five places are Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2:3-4, Psalm 148:5, Isaiah 42:5 and Isaiah 45:18. We have already looked at three of these references, Genesis 1:1, Psalm 148:5, and Isaiah 45:18. Let us now take a detailed look at one more, Genesis 2:3-4.
Genesis 2:3-4 (KJV)
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created (bara) and made (asah). 4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created (bara), in the day that the LORD God made (asah) the earth and the heavens.
These two verses clearly demonstrate the distinction in the use of the inspired Hebrew words (bara) and (asah), and show that they are not interchangeable when relating to the heavens and the earth. Please note, in verse 3, that God rested from all His work, which He had created and made. The Holy Spirit would not have used (bara) and (asah) in the same sentence, one following the other, if they had both meant the same thing and were interchangeable. It is clear that there is a distinction between these two words.
This distinction is reinforced in Genesis 2:4 above, when relating these two words to the heavens and the earth. Please note, that the generations of the heavens and the earth include both their creation and their making (renewal). The fact that the word ‘generations’ is plural further confirms that God is speaking about two separate situations in the history of the heavens and the earth. Genesis 2:4 above demonstrates that the instantaneous creation (bara) of the heavens and the earth in the beginning was followed in a later generation by the making (asah) of the heavens and the earth in six days, which is referred to as 'the day'. This verse agrees with both Genesis 1:1 and Exodus 20:11.
The Hebrew word asah occurs 2633 times in the Old Testament. However, there are approximately only twenty places in the Bible where asah is used to refer to the making of the heavens and the earth, when God renewed them in six days. We have already considered three of these twenty places, Genesis 1:16, Exodus 20:11 and Genesis 2:3-4. Let us consider one more example, Nehemiah 9:6.
Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD; You have made (asah) heaven (the earth’s atmosphere), The heaven of heavens (the universe), with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, And You preserve them all. The host of heaven worships You.
Here, Nehemiah is praising God from man’s earthly perspective for the heavens and the earth, which God had made (asah) appear in the firmament, approximately six thousand years ago, when God created man for the very first time. God is of course, both the creator and the maker of the heavens and the earth, but as we have demonstrated the instantaneous creation (bara) of the heavens and the earth in the beginning was followed in a later generation of their history by the making (asah) of the heavens and the earth in six days.
So, we can see from Scripture that God makes a clear distinction between the Hebrew words bara and asah when referring to the heavens and the earth. This is to uphold the truth of the Pre-Adamic Age, and God’s global tohuw and bohuw judgement against Satan and his fallen angels.
It was Very Good
Let us now examine the third key ‘proof’ text used by Young Earth Creationism in support of its belief.
Genesis 1:31
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Young Earth Creationism argues that God could not have pronounced that everything was very good in the Garden of Eden if there had been evidence of death and destruction, in the form of millions of plant and animal fossils underneath the earth's surface, from a previous Pre-Adamic world. This is an erroneous argument, which is easily refuted by considering Jeremiah 31:40.
Jeremiah 31:40
And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever.
Jeremiah Chapter 31 is a prophecy about the coming Millennial Kingdom of God to earth following God’s future global judgement against this sinful world at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. This judgement will cause massive worldwide death and destruction, and in Israel there will be huge numbers of dead bodies including those of the armies of Gog and Magog who fought in the final great battle of Armageddon. Please note, in Jeremiah 31:40 above, that the whole valley and all of the fields of dead bodies around Jerusalem will be holy to the Lord. Holy obviously means that it is also very good in the Lord's eyes.
Would Young Earth Creationism argue with God that He does not have the right to make the valley and fields of dead bodies holy? In fact, God will turn all of the desolate, wasted and ruined places including the valley and fields of dead bodies into a very good Garden of Eden during His Millennial Kingdom.
Ezekiel 36:35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'
As we have seen, Young Earth Creationism has misunderstood and misinterpreted its proof text Genesis 1:31 above, as well as its other two proof texts, Romans 5:12 and Exodus 20:11, which we have already discussed. Let us now go on to see that earth's geology abundantly supports God’s Pre-Adamic global tohuw and bohuw judgement, which Young Earth Creationism rejects.
Earth's Geology supports God's Global Judgements
The Bible speaks of two global judgements in the history of the earth, which resulted in catastrophic mass extinctions of life on earth, first in Lucifer's World during the Pre-Adamic Age, and then in Noah's World during the Adamic Age. Therefore, we should expect earth's geology to have evidence to prove that both of these global judgements of God occurred.
There is overwhelming support for God's global tohuw and bohuw judgement against Lucifer's world. Scientists have long been puzzled about how and why the continents moved apart to their present day positions. We believe that God’s tohuw and bohuw judgement was so massively cataclysmic that the earth’s crust broke up into plates and caused the large-scale movement of these tectonic plates resulting in the continents moving apart, as well as causing earthquakes, volcanoes, oceanic trenches, mountain range formation, and many other geological features.
There were such upheavals that even the seabeds were raised to form sedimentary mountains like the Himalayas. We believe that other impressive geological features such as the huge and deep Grand Canyon were birthed at this time. In addition, earth's strata folded trapping the dense Pre-Adamic forests resulting in vast deposits and reservoirs of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. Earth's rocks contain millions of fossils of sea and land animals. These include some amazingly huge animal fossils, like woolly mammoths and dinosaurs, which must have roamed the Pre-Adamic world. Many scientists believe that these animals suffered a sudden and abrupt extinction, millions of years ago. It is highly significant that no human fossils have been found alongside dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and other ancient animal fossils. This does not surprise us, as God did not create man in the Pre-Adamic Age.
It is clear from Genesis 1:2 that God's global judgement against Lucifer's world resulted in a global Ice Age, which is supported by earth's geology. ‘Snowball Earth’ is a scientific hypothesis that the earth's surface became entirely frozen over at least once in its history. It is worth noting that the geological community generally accepts this hypothesis because it best explains glacial geological features surprisingly found in the tropics. During the 1970's, in the Namibian desert, geologist Joseph Kirschvink found sedimentary deposits containing drop stones, which are of glacial origin. This scientific evidence, showing that even the tropics were once completely under water and frozen, supports the biblical account of God’s judgement against Lucifer’s world resulting in a global Ice Age.
Although Noah’s world suffered God’s judgement of a global flood, very little geological evidence of it survives today. This is because Noah's world did not suffer a global tohuw and bohuw judgement, as experienced by Lucifer’s world. In God’s judgement of Noah’s world, the powers of the heavens were not shaken, and there were no cataclysmic upheavals of the earth's surface such that mountains were formed. Also, there was no withdrawal or darkening of the sun to cause global freezing.
In order for fossils to form, living organisms need to be buried quickly between two layers of rock and/or quickly frozen before the natural process of decay can take place. Geologists have failed to discover fossils in any vast number, which they consider to be only a few thousand years old. The fact that no human fossils have been found in any number anywhere on earth proves that Noah's world did not suffer a global tohuw and bohuw judgement.
It is therefore clear that it was not God’s judgement against Noah's world, but God’s judgement against Lucifer's world in the Pre-Adamic Age that caused massive cataclysmic upheavals of the earth's surface, which greatly impacted earth's geology to bear witness for us all to see today.
Young Earth Creationism uses Noah's Flood as a catchall solution to explain earth's geology. In order to fit with Noah's Flood, Young Earth Creationism must massage, manipulate and assume scientific data to explain away much of earth's geology such as massive sedimentary fold mountain ranges, the Ice Age, fossil fuels, millions of plant and animal fossils, some of which are massive such as huge dinosaurs and woolly mammoths. Also, it has no valid explanation for the lack of human fossils in the geological record.
High hills and mountains already existed before Noah's Flood, as the Bible clearly tells us. Noah must have used tons of pitch to cover and seal the incredibly huge Ark and, as pitch is derived from coal and oil, this proves that fossil fuels preceded Noah's Flood. Young Earth Creationism tries to explain the Ice Age unconvincingly as a post Noah's Flood event, yet the Bible clearly speaks about an Ice Age in the second verse of the Bible.
Young Earth Creationism really comes unstuck when it tries to explain star distances. It is forced to admit that it has no answer to the fact that star distances undoubtedly prove that the earth is millions of years old.
Let us now consider some relevant scientific theories.
The K-T Extinction Event
Many scientists now believe in a theory proposed in 1980 by the physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist. Their theory says that a mass extinction of plant and animal species occurred as a result of a huge asteroid impacting the earth's surface at the end of the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago. This is known as the K-T extinction event. The following quote summaries the general scientific belief about this K-T extinction event.
In the Alvarezes' scenario, an asteroid 10 kilometers in diameter struck the earth at high velocity, forming a crater 150 kilometers wide. In addition to the immediate devastation of tidal waves, global fires, and giant storms, impact debris hurled into the atmosphere at high altitude spread around the Earth, preventing sunlight from reaching the ground. With photosynthesis blocked, herbivorous and carnivorous species died as the food chain was snapped at its base.'
It is interesting, yet not surprising, that this scientific theory supports the Bible's account of God's global tohuw and bohuw judgement in the Pre-Adamic World. We know from Scripture that God's global tohuw and bohuw judgement involves the powers of the heavens being shaken, stars (meteorites) falling on earth and sunlight being withheld or blocked from reaching the earth’s surface. Do you know that the Bible is amazingly clear that the earth will be struck once again by a huge meteorite in the future tohuw and bohuw judgement at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?
Revelation 9:1-2
1 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star (meteorite/asteroid) fallen from heaven to the earth. To him (the angel) was given the key to the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
Uniformitarianism
Scientists worldwide are increasingly beginning to realise that they must include catastrophic events in their philosophy of uniformitarianism. This is a scientific theory, which says that geological processes operating at present are the same processes that operated in the past, and that there have been no catastrophic events in earth's history. Uniformitarianism is commonly described as 'The present is the key to the past'. Scientists are now beginning to accept that geological evidence shows that catastrophic events occurred in earth's history and 'the present is not always the key to the past'.
Obviously, uniformitarianism has played a part in the shaping of earth's geology, as the earth is millions of years old. However, it is clear that earth's geology has also been greatly impacted by God's global cataclysmic tohuw and bohuw judgement of Genesis 1:2. We believe that Christians who are knowledgeable geological scientists, and who understand and accept the truth of the Pre-Adamic world lasting millions of years, are in the best position to correctly understand earth's geology.
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang theory, which teaches that the universe began with an explosion of a primeval atom, is unbiblical and nonsensical. How can the vast universe, with billions of galaxies and stars and our beautiful earth with its amazingly complex and intricate design and life, come from an explosion of one tiny atom? Where would this primeval atom have originated in the first place? The truth of the Bible that God created the universe and the earth in the beginning instantaneously, perhaps millions of years ago, makes a lot more sense than the Big Bang theory.
The Theory of Evolution
God is the Creator of all. He commands and things happen. There is not a hint anywhere in the Bible that God used evolution to create life. As we reject Young Earth Creationism, we also reject the theory of Evolution.
Conclusion
The correct biblical understanding of the Genesis account of creation and acknowledgement of the Pre-Adamic world is the best and the only way for Christians to fight the false theories of the Big Bang and Evolution taught in our schools and universities. We believe that the case for these false scientific theories will be immensely weakened once Christians worldwide accept and preach the biblical truth that God created the universe, with the earth teeming with plant and animal life, in the beginning millions of years ago. Also, after God’s global judgement against Lucifer’s world in the Pre-Adamic Age, God renewed the earth and its atmosphere and created/recreated plant and animal life, with man for the very first time, approximately six thousand years ago at the start of the Adamic Age.
We appreciate that Young Earth Creationists are passionate in their belief that the Bible is the infallible Word of God, God is a Creator and that evolution is a false theory. However, the sad irony is that Young Earth Creationism itself, with its false interpretation of the creation account in Genesis, supplies evolutionists and atheists with all the ammunition they need to ridicule the Bible as being contradictory, illogical and scientifically nonsensical. In fact, the false unbiblical theology of Young Earth Creationism is a great stumbling block for young people to believe in the Bible as the infallible Word of God.
Young Earth Creationism has yet to discover the biblically correct 'Answers in Genesis'; the answers, which are not only very logical but also scientifically and geologically defensible; the answers, which not only protect but also enhance the credibility of the Bible as the Word of God.
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