Part 1 of 3 – Introduction to the GenerationS of the Earth

This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called The Pre-Adamite World.

“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, Genesis 2:4 (KJV)

Here above the term “generations (plural) and as used in this series, the Bible and I are speaking of the multiple ‘earth ages with their beginnings and/or endings.’

First, we will pick up at the fall of man in the Garden of Eden and work backward for a time. Bible-believing Christians know that when “the Serpent,” as a manifestation of Satan, tempted Adam and Eve to eat of “The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil” (Genesis 2:17, 3:5-6, 22), they lost their innocence, and their conscience’ was activated, and they died to God spiritually. Adam’s transgression brought “Sin and death” into the world of mankind. “Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world (Gk. cosmos, the arrangement of the heaven and the earth), and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Romans 5:12)

But as we will see Sin and death came into God’s original creation much earlier than the time of Adam.

 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. 6:23)

The realization that should come to mind is that the Serpent (Lucifer, Satan) in the Garden of Eden was Already the Enemy of God…  before he tempted the Eve and Adam! The conflict of the ages began much earlier that with Adam.

Lucifer MUST have become a sinner and an enemy of God prior to the temptation in the Garden, when he used his lies to deceive the very man whose purpose was ordained of God to “have dominion (Gen. 1:26). With man’s creation, the Lord used the words “have DOMINION,” “SUBDUE it” andREPLENISH the earth.”

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing [the serpent] that creepeth upon the earth. 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 ReplenishThe 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.” (Gen. 1:26-28 (KJV)

Note that man was created to “replenish” the earth – thus the earth was once populated before Adam; and he is to “have dominion”; but over who and what?

Since Sin results in Death (cf. Rom. 5:12-13, 8:2, 1Cor. 15:56b) what is their source. It is important to note that the devil sinneth from the BEGINNING (1Jn. 3:8). The “beginning” refers ‘the earths first estate or first domain,’ while Lucifer was in service to “the throne of God” in “the third heaven.” With his sin there he was “cast out” to the lower heavens of outer space (second heaven) and the earth’s atmosphere, that we call the first heaven.

How exactly did Satan Sin Against God, what happened?

The critical act of Satan’s first Sinning could NOT have happened during or after the seven-day Genesis recreation of “the heavens and the earth.” Yes, Rom. 5:12 clearly says by one man (Adam) sin entered into ‘the world (Gk. cosmos, the heaven and earth arrangement of today’s age).” Satan’s sinning occurred before the seven-day regeneration account of Genesis 1:3-31.  Satan’s sinning was in the time of a previous the current world arrangement of “the heavens and the Earth,” prior to the world of Adam and us today. But through the fall of Adam, Satan became the false father of mankind… as “sin in the flesh” (Rom. 8:3) of every man since Adam. Satan is that spirit in

“Wherein in time past ye [Gentiles] walked according to the course of this world [age], according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh IN the children of disobedience:” “Ephesians 2:2)

Thus, Jesus could say to the unbelieving religious leaders of Israel;

“Ye [religious leaders of Israel] are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He Was A Murderer from The Beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44 KJV)

The Earth already existed from Gen. 1:1, long before the start of the seven-day regeneration, under the auspices of Lucifer... its overseer as the covering Cherub of God. The Biblical record reveals the ruined remains of the ancient world God had originally created. Genesis 1:2a below describes the original perfectly created earth in ruin and chaos!

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form [in ruin and chaos], and void [empty of life]; and darkness was upon the face of the deep [frozen waters].

In Gen 2b we see the hope of life again on earth.

2 And the Spirit of God moved [Heb. rahap, brooded as a hen to bring life] upon the face of the waters.” (Gen. 1:2)

“In the [very] beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” The original creation had no conflict. So, what exactly happened between the record of an orderly perfect Genesis 1:1 creation and Genesis 1:2a where we see chaotic desolation under frozen judgment waters; total darkness was over the frozen earth. Why?

The answer explains how Sin and Death already existed before the 7-day Genesis regeneration, before Adam ever sinned?

We must look to the writings of Isaiah and Ezekiel, where the Holy Spirit spoke through these men concerning the ancient origin of Sin in Lucifer and His fall from the 3rd heaven. This is a key to us. In the passages below the prophets are speaking against the “king of Babylon” (Isa. 14:4) and the “prince of Tyrus” (Eze. 28:2) who were renown mortal men of history. However, actually the Spirit is prophetically addressing another man that is yet to come, the “Antichrist (read 2 Thes. 2:1-10), and it is clearly evident from the text below that the Holy Spirit is simultaneously speaking here against a powerful ‘spirit being,’ an ancient, unholy, a ‘evil spirit being’ who motivates the evil deeds of mortal men on earth... even today.

This is the account of Lucifer’s fall from the Third Heaven.

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O LUCIFER, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground [Heb. eres, earth], which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars [angels] of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

[This next refers to Lucifer being bound for the thousand years Millennium in a pit.] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell [Heb. Sheol, pit in the earth], to the sides of the pit. They [men] that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;” (Isaiah 14:12-16 (KJV)  (Note that the name “Lucifer” is stricken from most modern Bibles, NASB, NIV, ESV, etc.)

“Thou [Lucifer] hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the ‘stones of fire.’ Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, Till iniquity [Sin] was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise [trade] they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I [God] Will Cast Thee As Profane Out Of The Mountain of God: and I Will Destroy Thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast Corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground [Heb. eres. earth – this his fall, mid-Millennium], I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee [in the pit during the Millennium].” (Ezekiel 28:13-17 KJV)

The words highlighted speak of things that could not possibly be attributed to the actual acts of any human, king or prince. No man in history has ever “walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire” or in “the mountain of God” or “fallen from heaven,” being “cast to the ground [earth].” This obviously does not concern historical men on earth, but rather Lucifer and his fall from heaven.

The “stones of fire” reference in Eze. 28 (above) is obscure, but the Hebrew word indicates something akin to building stones. Some say these were the planets of these universe under Lucifer’s oversight of the heaven and the earth.  Keep in mind that “fire” can be a physical and/or spiritual component.

 “And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him [Moses] in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” (Exodus 3:2 KJV) “For our God [is] a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:29 KJV) For He consumes but is not himself consumed.

Several other things of importance are contained in the above passages. The words “Eden the garden of God” reveals that there was vegetation on the Earth at one time before Adam. In the regeneration of Gen. 1:3-31 the roots and seeds buried beneath the frozen waters would later produce again (cf. Gen. 1:11). The word “Eden” represents a specific place on the face of the Earth. It was the same location on the face of the Earth where God later planted another garden and formed Adam and Eve. It was the location where Lucifer was when he was manifested as “the Serpent” to tempt Eve. Lucifer had been on the “holy mountain of God” and the “sides of the north,” which Biblically identify the location and where the New Jerusalem is currently located in the “third heaven.”

Isaiah below writes of it in Christ’s Millennial Kingdom on earth.

“And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.” (Isaiah 66:20 KJV)

“O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.” (Daniel 9:16 KJV)

“Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” (Psalm 48:2 KJV)

Lucifer was not just an angel, as one many angels referred to as “sons of God” and the “morning stars” (Job 38:4-11). Lucifer was the ‘covering Cherub’ at the throne of God in the highest [third] heaven before he fell.

Job gives an account of the original creation and their appreciation for the wonder of God’s creation when the “morning stars (angels) sang together” due to the earth’s perfection for man’s habitation.

“For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.” (Isaiah 45:18 (KJV) “Where wast thou [Job] when I [The LORD] laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”(Job 38:4-7)

Note above the terms “laid the foundations of the earth” “laid the measures thereof,” “stretched the line upon it” “the foundations thereof fastened” and “laid the corner stone.” These are terms used to tell us how mindfully and orderly the Lord was in the originally creation of “the earth.” He refers to the use of a plumbline (as a mason would] to assure the earth was created to plan, for it would be the habitation of man. There is no “chaos” here as seen of the world’s condition later in Gen. 1:2.

Looking like men, angels do not have wings, but Lucifer was a ‘cherub,’ a winged creature with great power. Cherubim are seen with wings here below, describing the two cherubim fashioned of gold over the Ark of the Covenant, in the Holy of Holies the third and most holy part of the Tabernacle.

Lucifer as a Cherubim originally served “the Throne of God” in “the Third heaven.”

“And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.” (1 Kings 6:27 KJV)

Reading below you will note that Lucifer, the cherub, was said to be “anointed,” indicating he had a high position of service to the Lord when he was created. As the “anointed cherub” Lucifer had a covering containing jewels similar to what was on the breastplate (ephod) of Israel’s high priest. The breastplate of the priest of Israel had twelve jewels Lucifer had a covering of nine jewels set in gold. Similar jewels, but different in number. (cf. Eze. 28:13-17 KJV) The “tabrets” indicate an association with a music. Lucifer was the worship leader of that ancient world. The words of Lucifer “that covereth” implies that Lucifer Was the Steward ‘OverThe Entire Physical Creation of The Original Earth and Heaven, during the “first estate” or first the original generation.

Regardless of Lucifer’s original high rank in the Third Heaven, he wanted to be more than his original estate, he wanted to be worshiped like God. And that act of rebellion was his trespass against the LORD God. His SIN ultimately brought DEATH into the ancient “heavens and Earth.” Lucifer rebelled, transgressing against the Lord God to become the first created being to sin, long ago, long before Adam or his world was even created. This first documented sin in the Holy Scriptures occurred countless eons ago. We can know this by examining the Earth’s geologic record. Geologists observe a record of life in the fossil record back in deep-time as far as 3.8 billion years ago. From a Biblical standpoint, DEATH also has been on the Earth for at least that long.

Death is the Result of Sin. Because Lucifer was the steward of the whole creation under the highest heaven before he fell; all things under his rule were also subjected to corruption (i.e. death and entropy). The physics law of entropy is the second law of thermodynamics, defining that which goes from order into disorder. Paul calls Lucifer, “the god of this world(2Cor. 4:4) and “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” (Ephesians 2:2 (KJV)

Lucifer’s act of rebellion unleashed “the wrath of God” on the entire universe. There is great geological evidence of a great bombardment of the Earth in the Hadean geological period that could have destroyed the surface of the Earth, erasing what terrestrial flora and fauna that may have been present in that early pristine world. If there were other forms of life on the planet’s surface, they would have been greatly diminished. In the aftermath of the destruction, those life forms that survived and eventually arose would have the sentence of death upon them. Their fossilized remains are the testimony, written in stone, of life’s struggle under that death sentence across the geologic ages since that time.

Scientists use the term Evolution to describe the observed progress of life-forms on this planet as revealed in the fossil record. But we know the Biblical record that tells us “God created the heavens and the Earth” (Gen 1:1) and everything living in them and the reproduce “after their own kind.” (Gen. 1:24-25). God placed the first life-forms complete on the planet long ago (no evolution) ... before Adam and the regeneration of Genesis 1:3-31.

The dinosaurs came and went during the gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2, before Adam’s creation. All things died, and those creatures that came after them also died. So, death has continued across millenniums of historical time until “death” finally overtook all things, including the lifeless stars across the universe. A few million years ago coldness and darkness began to increase. It was the onset of what we call the beginning of the well-known last Ice Age. It is the universe’s eventual cold, dark, and completely dead condition that “the Spirit of God moved [brooded] upon the face of the waters” as described here.

“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.” (Gen. 1:2 KJV)

With darkness there is no light, then there’s only freezing cold and death. With that the Lord God began a process to ‘restore’ the ‘cosmos,’ the arrangement of the heavens and the Earth,” to ultimately Replace what Lucifer’s fall corrupted in “the heavens and the Earth.” The eternal plan of God is to replace Satan’s reign on earth with the believing “flock” of Israel and replace the reign of Satan and his fallen angelic host in the lower heavens with “the church, the body of Christ.” Recall how Job wrote of fallen angels reigning in the heavens saying; “the heavens are unclean (Job 15:15) since Lucifer’s fall with a third of the angelic host.

God’s restoration of the whole 'arrangement,’ in the cosmos began with the seven-day Genesis REgeneration of the Earth and the creation of Adam (man) as seen in Gen. 1:2b-31. Ultimately the Savior would come through Adam and Abraham as seen in Jesus’ recorded genealogies of Matthew 1 and Luke 3:23-38. Matthew traces the genealogy from Jesus back only to Abraham including the line of a promised Messiah/King for Israel. Luke traces the genealogy from Jesus back to Adam through whom Jesus obtained a physical body by which He could pay for “the sins of the world.”

The KJV Bible has its own internal set of words and definitions, which are self-interpreting in their specific meaning and in ‘context.’ From Genesis to Revelation, translated from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek manuscripts, the KJV Bible’s English translation is an integrated whole throughout its sixty-six books written by forty authors. “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” (Psalm 12:6-7, KJV)

The English words worldand earth are different words and have distinct, separate conceptual meanings in the Bible and the English language. These meanings are defined by the Scriptures when used in context. Understanding their distinction is CRUCIAL to “rightly-dividing the word of truth.” (2Tim. 2:15) In the book of Hebrews, the Lord Jesus Christ is said to be the maker of the worlds (plural)” as seen below.

“Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds [Gk. aions, ages];” (Heb. 1:2 KJV)

“Through faith we understand that the worlds [Gk. aion, ages] were framed (Gk., katartizo, repaired, altered) by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Heb. 11:3 KJV)

The Greek word in these two verses for worlds is as eon or “aion,” which means ages of which there are several Bible ages. Each age has specific prevailing conditions within a time period on the face of the Earth.

Definition: An aeon(s) (Latin) Aion (Greek) is an age, a period of time; the usual meaning is as it relates to a spiritual being considered as an emanation from the divine essence, also a particular period of time which is brought about by the existence of this spiritual being.

So, the word world as doctrinally defined in our Bible does not refer to ‘planets’ in outer space, but rather to define an age and the prevailing conditions during that time period, be they the past, present, or future.

The Earth is a planet; a spherical-shaped mass of matter in time and space. But the world is the specific arrangement or set of conditions prevailing upon the face of planet Earth during a specific Biblical time or age. The Earth is a part of our present world (arrangement), the past worlds, and the future worlds to come (see Matt. 12:32, Mark 10:30, Heb. 2:5). The Earth is not the whole world [Gk. cosmos]”; our present “cosmos” also includes of the stars in the sky, the trees of the field, the people, the cities of the nations. This includes the present Satanic ‘world system in heavenly places. Job 15:15 says they are not clean”; nor it the Earth. Below we see two different kinds of worldsmentioned in the Bible.

“And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of theworld’ [Heb., eres, earth] … (Isaiah 23:17)

“[Christ] Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil ‘world’ [Gk. aion, age], according to the will of God and our Father:” (Gal. 1:4)

We’ll consider the example of the last world [age]” to come on the face of the Earth, ‘the age of the Millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ.’ It begins when Christ returns to Earth at the close of “the Great Tribulation” judgments. That “world [Gk. aion, age]” is spoken of in Rev. 20. At the very end of that world [age] is “the Great White Throne Judgment judgment and the destruction of Death and the Devil.

Then God will renew and “heaven and Earth.”

“And I saw a new [Gk. kainos, refreshed] heaven [single tense] and a new [Gk. kainos, refreshed] earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” (Revelation 21:1 KJV)

Ultimately the “heavens” will be fully purged of Lucifer and His angelic host then to be refreshed with their replacement, that being the believing members of “the body of Christ” who suffered and endured in faith. (cf. 2Tim 2:12)

The Tribulation judgments will “purge out the rebels” among Israel and all mankind on earth where then the believers of Israel will enter into the Millennial Kingdom on earth to co-reign with Christ on earth (Rev. 5:10, 2:6, Matt. 19:28).