Jude 1:6. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the People out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

     I realize it's very difficult for many to grasp this idea of a prior earth age, mainly because of the dependence upon the world of the flesh, and the flesh understanding that goes along with it.

However, like it or not, God's Word describes a previous earth age, an age long before the time of Noah. Many people seem to think that when a new child is born, that child's 'soul' is then created to go into that new flesh body, but God's Word refers to the pre-existence of the 'soul' (see

 

Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest fourth out of the womb I sanctified thee a prophet unto the nations.

 

 Romans 8:29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

 

Romans:30:  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

 

Romans: 9 concerning Jacob and Esau; Read all of Chapter 9.

 

Romans 11: 1: I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

 

Peter 1:2:  Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, onto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

 

Rev.13:8. And all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

 

  Those 'wrapped up' in the flesh even have a hard time believing that the 'soul' leaves this old flesh body upon death, and returns back to The Father.

 

 Eccl.12:7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it.

 

They would rather believe that their relatives are waiting it out somewhere for their old flesh body to rise from the casket when Christ returns. Holding to that idea is an insult to Christ, for Jesus became angry at this 'flesh reasoning' when He went to raise Lazarus.

 

 John 11: Read All.

 

 Because of their lack of faith in the Power of God, Jesus tarried purposefully from arriving too early in order to perform the raising of Lazarus, because one of the traditions held by the religious community of that day, was that the spirit of the dead person roamed for four days, and if it was not able to return into the body within that time limit, it then left for good and could not return. Note what Mary stated in;

 

 John 11:32, Then when Mary come where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto him,” Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.”

 

 And translate the word 'groaned' in;