Jeremiah 4:24-27 is yet
another passage referring to the pre-Adamic earth.
23 I beheld the earth,
and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains,
and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo,
there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo,
the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken
down at the presence of the Lord,
and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath
the Lord said, The whole
land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
In verse 234 we see the
same verbiage and Hebrew words as in Genesis 1:1-2. There was never a time that
the earth was utterly obliterated and was obscured in darkness except on this
pre-Adamic world.
Verse 24, prior to the
apparent pre-Adamic global flood, the destruction of the pre-Adamic earth began
with (according to the Hebrew) the mountains trembled and crumbled and became
light, or shall we say, lost gravity or exploded, flying (moved lightly)
through the air!
In verse 25 there was
no Adam, no man, meaning all the pre-Adamic humanoid beings were destroyed. As
well as the birds, they couldn’t even escape this cataclysm. This could not
have been Noah’s global flood, because eight humans survived that as well as
birds and other animals on the ark.
We see in verse 26-27
that the pre-Adamic world was an Eden, a fruitful place, as discussed in
Ezekiel 28:13 and thus the reason God wanted Adam and Eve and Noah’s family to
be fruitful and multiply and RE-plenish the earth (Gen. 1:28, 9:1). The
pre-Adamic world had inhabited cities that were broken down, Hebraically
meaning a wasted desolate ruin.
Verse 27b implies the
re-creation of Genesis 1:3-2:25 by saying, “yet will I not make a full end.”
Looking at the context
and duel meaning of prophecies, as well as the Hebrew wording, one is hard
pressed to come up with another interpretation that is so plain and fits.
God is omniscient and
gave His creation free will, meaning He knew Hellel, the pre-Adamites, and the
Divine Council would rebel and yet He had a master plan for man, even before
Genesis 1:1.
Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. – Acts 15:18
The Greek word for
“world” is “aion,” meaning, “eternity,” so God has a master plan for mankind
since eternity past, even before the pre-Adamic earth or even this one was
created.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. – Matt. 13:35
The word, “foundation,”
has two equal and opposite meanings in the Greek, “to lay” and “to overthrow.”
The foundations of the earth were “laid” in Genesis 1:1 and was thus “overthrown”
in Genesis 1:2 and God rebuilt, if you will, on top of the foundation that was
already laid in Genesis 1:1.
The word “world,” here
in the Greek does not mean age, time, or social system. It is the word
“kosmos,” where we get the word, “cosmos” from, meaning the whole sum of the
universe i.e. the created order.
The same Greek word for
“foundation,” and “world,” is also used in Matthew 25:34, Luke 11:50, John
17:24 and Hebrews 1:10. The Apostle Paul and John the Revelator too used the
Greek wording of Yeshua (Jesus) in Ephesians 1:4, Revelation 13:8, and 17:8. In
Luke 21:32, “this generation,” can also mean “race,” by implication, Yeshua is
saying there has been more than one humanoid race (the pre-Adamites) and this
present human race will not pass away (like the pre-Adamites did) until
prophecy is fulfilled.
II Peter 3:5-13
5 For this they
willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and
the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world
that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and
the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not
ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to
us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.
10 But the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the
earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all
these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all
holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and
hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire
shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we,
according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness.
This passage has been
used by Pre-Adamite proponents to say Peter here is referring to the pre-Adamic
world. However, it seems pretty clear to me in the English and the Greek that
this is referring to the Noahtic flood and it takes one to make great liberal
use of the Greek to make it seem as if it’s speaking of a pre-Adamic flood. But
what would be the point of referring to the pre-Adamic flood, seeing as we
don’t know any specifics regarding the pre-Adamite people, or if there was any
redemptive plan offered to the pre-Adamites as none survived? And no Scripture
records such a plan. The pre-Adamites and its age have little relevance to
people of today and this world. However, the Noahtic flood would have great
relevance seeing as we are the survivors of that flood, being descendants of
Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Notice the wording in
verse 5 regarding the “earth standing out of the water and in the water.” To
me, this speaks of the hyperbaric chamber the earth of Noah’s time was
surrounded in by the separating of waters below from the waters above in
Genesis 1:6-8.
The only possible hint
of a pre-Adamic world in this passage could be to hone in on the phrase, “the
heavens were of old,” alluding to the pre-Adamic heavens of Genesis 1:1. The
phrase makes it seem that the heavens are older than this re-created earth.
Which they are and in verse 8 which one could take as the gap between Genesis
1:2 and Genesis 1:3, where the pre-Adamic earth was destroyed and sat in utter
ruin for an undisclosed amount of time, which could have been thousands upon
thousands of years, we simply don’t and can’t know.
As I brought up
earlier, because Peter here refers to the eventual destruction of this world by
fire (v.10-13), the principle of Torah being, anything corrupt and unclean has
two chances to be cleansed by water and a third time must be a purge by fire
(Lev. 13:47-59). So too the earth was twice cleansed by the waters of the
Luciferian (pre-Adamic) flood and the Noahtic flood and God, honoring His own
Laws, must now purge this world, as Peter said, by fire.
I believe Genesis
1:1-2, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28 and Jeremiah 4 are very plain when speaking of the
destruction of the pre-Adamic earth via a flood, coinciding with Hellel’s fall.
But to really highlight this, allow me to show a side by side difference
between the pre-Adamic flood and the Noahtic flood based on Finis Dake’s
observations:
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THE
PRE-ADAMIC FLOOD
1.
The earth was utterly
destroyed and empty and dark (Gen.1:2, Jer. 4:23-26).
2.
No light from heaven
(Gen. 1:2-5, Jer. 4:23-26).
3.
There was no day and
night (Gen. 1:2-5).
4.
All plant life and
foliage was destroyed (Gen. 1:2, 2:5-6, Jer. 4:23-26).
5.
Water consistent
(Gen. 1:6-12).
6.
Water gone in a day
(Gen. 1:10).
7.
All aquatic life
obliterated (Gen.1:2, Jer. 4:23-26).
8.
Avian life
obliterated (Gen. 1:2, Jer. 4:23-26).
9.
All animal life, gone
(Gen. 1:2, Jer. 4:23-26).
10. Social systems and all pre-Adamites destroyed (Gen. 1:2,
Jer. 23-26).
11. Hellel’s (Lucifer’s) rebellion and corruption of
pre-Adamites caused the flood (Gen. 1:2, Jer. 4:23-26)
12. Re-creation took place, for all was utterly obliterated
(Ge. 1:3-2:25, Isa. 45:18, Eph. 3:11).
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THE
NOAHTIC FLOOD
1.
The earth was NOT
utterly destroyed, empty and dark (Gen. 8:11, 22, Heb. 11:7, I Pet. 3:20).
2.
There was light from
heaven (Gen. 8:6-22)
3.
There was day and
night (Gen. 8:1-22).
4.
All plant life and
foliage was not destroyed (Gen. 8:11, 21, 9:3, 20).
5.
Water evaporated
(Gen. 8:1-14).
6.
It took months for
the flood waters to go down (Gen. 8:1-14)
7.
Aquatic life survived
(Gen. 1:20-23, 6:18-22).
8.
Avian life survived
(Gen. 6:20, 8:7-17).
9.
Pairs of all animals
survived (Gen. 6:20, 8:17, 9:2-4, 10-16).
10. Social system preserved through Noah and his family (Gen.
8:15-22, 9:1-16, I Pet. 3:20).
11. Sin of mankind and the angelic race cohabitating with
human kind caused the Noahtic flood (Gen. 6:1-8:22, 9:1-16).
12. Noah’s family and the animal kingdom was preserved on the
ark and there was no need for God to create again (Gen. 6:18-8:22, 9:1-16).
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As you can see one
can’t help but see two worlds and two floods. Again allow me to reiterate that
believing or not believing this teaching has absolutely no bearing or
consequence upon ones faith and salvation. As fantastical as this teaching may
be and how it goes against the grain of conventional modern Christian theology,
I do not want to dismiss something because simply because I was never taught
this in Sunday school or in Bible College or that no big name theologians
believe this. If the Bible says it or teaches it, I want to obey and believe it
regardless of who does or doesn’t. There are many things I now believe that my
peers and contemporaries do not believe such as the relevance and applicability
of Torah (Mosaic Law) today, the fallen angels cohabitating with human women to
create the Nephilim; angelic-human hybrid, that the gifts of the Spirit still being
active and in operation today, etc. And I believe these things because I
searched the Scriptures for myself and went by what the Hebrew and the Greek
say and not by what some religious intellectual or minister says or believes.
Even the great Apostle Paul told people not to take his word alone for things
and praised them when they put his words against the Scriptures themselves.
These were more noble than those in
Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and
searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. –Acts 17:11
Don’t
dismiss something simply because it’s new or strange to you or because others
don’t teach or believe it.
