Joshua 10:12: Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon.

 

Gen 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:" and it was so.

     Very, very important verse here; don't skip over it, for this verse links to 2 Peter 3:5. God is still talking about the dividing of the waters overspread upon the 'whole' earth to create today's earth atmosphere and the earth's oceans.

 

 The second 'day', which we just covered, ended with the whole earth being covered with water, and an atmosphere of water above the earth being formed from part of the "waters". The 'firmament' above is called our sky and clouds.

 

 At this verse we begin the 'third day', and what is taking place? God is gathering the remaining 'waters' which are remaining on the earth, and He is moving them here and there in order to make the 'dry land' appear (that is, 'appear again'), or in other words, the earth was already there underneath all that water, along with buried cities where man dwelt upon this earth in that first age between Gen.1:1 and Gen.1:2.

     And by the way, this word for "appear" in the Hebrew is ra'ah, (raw-ah) which does not mean to make or create, it definitely means for something to appear, or to see and be visible (Strong's no.7200). That means the phrase "and let the dry land appear" was not an act of creating the land or earth, for the earth was already there under those waters.

     Note the word 'place' in this verse. This is where we link to 2 Peter 3:5. This word 'place' in the Hebrew is 'maqowrn', (maw-kome) meaning 'a standing' or 'a spot' (Strong's no. 4725). Now let's turn to 2 Peter 3:5 and read it again:

 

2 Peter 3:5: 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:

 

Gen 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God saw that it was good.

     Here we have the product of 'gathering the waters' over the earth to make the dry land (erets in the Hebrew) appear.
     (It would be nice if I had a link right here for information on the stone roads... [Some say Roman, but I doubt it] ...found deep underwater off the Azores many years ago. How deep is the Mariana's Trench in the Pacific?)

     God spoke and it was done, and it was 'good'; that's always the product of our Father's actions, 'good', never evil which properly translated in the Old Testament is 'calamity' where He causes it for disciplining His children. You might wonder, was the destruction by God of that first earth age by water 'evil'? No; since Satan was the one who caused it; God had to overflow that age with water upon the whole earth 'cleansing' it in order to re-establish this old earth, and prepare it for this second earth age of now (The Flesh Age). For us, His children He did this, He reinstituted order so that each could 'return' unto Him. Only those who made their definite choice to rebel against Him in that first earth age are already destined to 'perish' (Satan and those of...