God’s Plan the second earth age and Flesh age.

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     OK, now that we can see that there was an earth age before this one, chronologically transpiring between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, let's examine why there had to be the second  age.(our present one, this flesh age).  There is very little written of that first earth age, but we will examine a couple of places where it is spoken of.  The key to understanding that there was an earth age before this one, is in understanding why God destroyed that first earth age and created this one.  God does not do anything without a reason, and in understanding why He destroyed that first earth age we can know; with a surety, that it did in fact; once exist.

 

 Genesis 1:1 - 1:5: Dave Ramey.

Gen 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    The Hebrew has 'eth' before heaven and earth, emphasizing each "the" article before both. This treatment makes a distinction between the state of the earth in Genesis 1:2. In other words, as we'll find out in the next verse, this creation of the heaven (heavens, plural in the Hebrew), and the earth, is the very first forming of the universe by God (Elohiym here in Hebrew).

When God accomplished this, no one truly knows how long ago, but scientists can document that this old earth is literally thousands and thousands of years old. There is no disagreement here with God's Word.¹

 

 

Gen 1:2   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.

 

    This word 'Spirit' is 'ruwach' in Hebrew, and it means 'wind, by resemblance breath' (Strong's no. 7307). This is when God's Spirit 'spoke', starting the cleansing of that state of 'ruin' and began this earth age (Flesh Age) we are now in. This act is also referred to in...

 John 3:3-8,

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Romans: 8.

 

 You'll also see this 'ruwach' translated as the 'four winds' in several places in the King James Version.
     I call your attention to this phrase "the face of the waters". The word 'face' is simply the Hebrew word 'paniym' meaning 'in the presence of' (Strong's 6440). God's Spirit was before the presence of the waters. This is important, because you'll find there is no mention of God creating earth matter past Genesis 1:1. These "waters" were outstretched over the whole earth, covering all of it, and that's how God destroyed the earth that then was; that time of old; to end Satan's rebellion.

 Even at this verse, the earth is still under all those "waters".

 

Gen. 1:3 And God said, "Let there be light:" and there was light.

Gen. 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.