The Gap Theory is what many call the idea that there is a gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Most of those who do this do so because they do not understand what the Bible says about this. The idea begins with a knowledge of the Dateless Past. "In the beginning" (Genesis 1:1) refers to the dateless past I just mentioned. We find more details on this time period in the following scriptures: Proverbs 8:22-23; John 1:1; Acts 15:18; Ephesians 3:9; Colossians 1:18; Hebrews 1:10, and 11:3; 1 John 1:1; Revelations 1:8, 3:14).
We all recognize Genesis 1:1 as the introduction to the Bible. We need to recognize it as the beginning all of written history, because it marks the boundary between time and eternity. Job 38:4-7 makes it clear that the heavens were created first or the stars couldn't have rejoiced when the earth was created. This proves that Genesis 1:1 refers to prior acts of God, as we know it reads "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
At Revival Streams we believe that Genesis 1:2 also shows that the earth was under a flood of judgment. And, the verses which follow refer to the earth's restoration to a second habitable state. The earth is more than six thousand years old and was inhabited before the days of Adam. It was cursed and flooded because of sin before the six days of re-creation which began in Genesis 1:3.
The following facts prove that the term "in the beginning" in Gen. 1:1 refers to the original creation of the heavens and the earth, and Genesis 1:2 is not a part of "In the beginning:"
(1) While Genesis 1:1 records the original creation of the heavens and the earth, Genesis 1:2 shows that the original dry land, "earth," was in chaos and flooded through a great catastrophe which destroyed all life on earth before Adam.
(2) The word "was" in Gen. 1:2 is from the verb to become, not the verb to be, proving that the earth became waste and empty since its original creation.
(3) The phrase "without form" in Genesis 1:2 is from the Hebrew word meaning waste or desolation. It is translated "waste" (Deuteronomy 32:10), "without form" (Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23), "vain" (Isaiah 45:18; 1 Samuel 12:21), "confusion" (Isaiah 24:10; 34:11; 41:29), "empty" (Job 26:7), "vanity" (Isa. 40:17,23; 44:9; 59:4), "nothing" (Job 6:18; Isaiah 40:17), and "wilderness" (Job 12:24; Psalms 107:40). It can be seen from these passages what the condition of the earth was in Genesis 1:2. Yet Isaiah 45:18 states that God did not create the earth "in vain," using the same Hebrew word. Therefore, the earth was originally perfect, dry land, and it was inhabited, later it "became" empty, waste, and a ruin because of sin (see Deuteronomy 32:4 and Ecclesiastes 3:11).
(4) The Hebrew for "void" in Genesis 1:2 means "empty, ruined, void." The phrase "without form and void," or "waste and empty," describes the chaotic condition of the earth at the time that it was cursed and flooded because of the sins of Lucifer and the "pre-Adamites." It doesn't refer to the earth as originally created.
(5) The earth was created to be inhabited as we see in Isaiah 45:18. According to Psalm 136:6 the earth was originally "stretched above the waters," not covered by them This requires a flood.
(6) In Genesis 1:2 the earth is not only flooded with water but covered in total darkness and there is no life on the earth.
(7) Genesis 1:2 also reveals that the earth, waters, and darkness were already in existence before the creative work of Genesis 1:3 - Genesis 2:25.
(8) The waters that flooded the dry land were created in the beginning along with the earth, to cause the dry land to become productive (Job 38:4-30).
(9) Light and darkness was also created in the beginning, to help sustain life on the earth (Job 38:4-41).
(10) Genesis 1:2 reveals the Spirit of God moving on the flooded earth to restore dry land. This confirms that the world was destroyed, making it necessary to restore the earth to a second habitable state.
(11) In Scripture, all instances of obscuring the sun and bringing darkness are the result of judgment, not an act of creation. All predictions of future darkness are the result of judgment Matthew 8:12; 24:29-31; Revelations 6:12-17; 8:12; 9:2; 16:10; Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:30-3:16; Amos 5:18-20.
Why would anyone who knows this willingly say that Genesis 1:2 is the only place in Scripture where darkness and a complete world wide flooding is not an act of judgment? This proves that there was a pre-Adamite world destroyed by darkness and flood.
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