Lets look at the first Earth age for a moment so that we understand what it is.
God created the Earth first earth age.We are not told a lot about this first earth age,
Why?
The Bible is about this earth age. God wants our attention here and now not on the past,
He doesn't tell us much about the third earth age either, for the same reason,
However there will be a third just as there was a first.
We do have a few scriptures and lots of scientific evidence of this first earth age.
God destroyed this age because of Satan's rebellion.This is called the Katabole in Greek
Interesting little fragment from dead sea scrolls198.
The Word of the Lord Creates
1 By Wisdom the LORD created and perfected heaven and earth.
2 And the earth was waste and void,a desert without the sons of men or any cultivation at all.And darkness was spread on the face of the deep,And the Spirit of mercy from before the LORD blewon the face of the waters.
3 And the Word [Memar] of the LORD said:--"Let there be light!"And there was light in his Word [cf. Ps 119:105]
4 And it was revealed before the LORD that the light was good;and the Word of the LORD divided the light from the darkness.
1.The First earth age ended before Gen 1:3 before the creation Week began
2..Second there was no flesh man that lived in the first earth age
There were animals Dinosaurs, apes that resembled men, plant life ect. all things we find in fossil, and skeletons ect. This is why science says Rocks and sediment layers are from times of old.
3. All spirit /souls were created at the same time it is these spirit/soul bodies that lived on earth (not flesh)What is our spirit/soul body? It is our natural state where God fore knew us from,
The state 1 Cor. 15:50-54tells us we will return to at Christs Return, the state we will live in during the Millenium and in the New Heaven and New earth.
These are not ghosts bodies, Angels wrestled with Jacob, eat these are spirit/soul bodiesBefore I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb...
Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV) 4. How was it during the first earth age?
Knowing how God teaches and that what was before will be again
I would expect it was much like the New heavens and New earth that will be there was cities and we lived upon the earth and there was no sin and God was our King.
New earth like the first?
1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son
10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
I expect this was how the first earth age was Lucifer was guardian of the Mercy seat and a most beautiful Angel he was made the full pattern (full of knowledge beauty and grace) Lucifer then became full of pride he thought he should be God and set his throne above God that he should be the most most high.
So he rebelled. (Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High) Many of us in our soul bodies rebelled with Lucifer/Satan. God had a choice here he could kill a large number of his children or he could create us in a flesh/clay body and give each the opportunity to choose to love him of our own free will
Jeremiah 4:22 - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 4:23 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:24 - I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah 4:25 - I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah 4:26 - 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.
Jeremiah 4:27 - For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
II Peter 3:6 - Whereby the world that then was[/u], being overflowed with water, perished:Wycliff Bible says of this:
2 Peter3:5 But it is hid from them willing this thing,that heavens were before, and the earth of water was standing by water, by God's word [that heavens were first, and the earth of water and by water being, or standing, together by God's word;
6 by which [things] that same world cleansed, then by water perished.
Thus ended the first earth Age and the world became Void ........
Then we start this age Gen 1:3
WycB
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens that now be, and the earth, be kept by the same word, and be reserved to fire into the day of doom and perdition of wicked men.
[Forsooth the heavens that now be, and the earth, by the same word put again, be kept to fire into the day of doom and perdition of unpious men.]
Another sourcehttp://www.ultimateriddles.com/genesis-bible-lesson-01.html
God created the Earth first earth age.We are not told a lot about this first earth age,
Why?
The Bible is about this earth age. God wants our attention here and now not on the past,
He doesn't tell us much about the third earth age either, for the same reason,
However there will be a third just as there was a first.
We do have a few scriptures and lots of scientific evidence of this first earth age.
God destroyed this age because of Satan's rebellion.This is called the Katabole in Greek
Interesting little fragment from dead sea scrolls198.
The Word of the Lord Creates
1 By Wisdom the LORD created and perfected heaven and earth.
2 And the earth was waste and void,a desert without the sons of men or any cultivation at all.And darkness was spread on the face of the deep,And the Spirit of mercy from before the LORD blewon the face of the waters.
3 And the Word [Memar] of the LORD said:--"Let there be light!"And there was light in his Word [cf. Ps 119:105]
4 And it was revealed before the LORD that the light was good;and the Word of the LORD divided the light from the darkness.
1.The First earth age ended before Gen 1:3 before the creation Week began
2..Second there was no flesh man that lived in the first earth age
There were animals Dinosaurs, apes that resembled men, plant life ect. all things we find in fossil, and skeletons ect. This is why science says Rocks and sediment layers are from times of old.
3. All spirit /souls were created at the same time it is these spirit/soul bodies that lived on earth (not flesh)What is our spirit/soul body? It is our natural state where God fore knew us from,
The state 1 Cor. 15:50-54tells us we will return to at Christs Return, the state we will live in during the Millenium and in the New Heaven and New earth.
These are not ghosts bodies, Angels wrestled with Jacob, eat these are spirit/soul bodiesBefore I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb...
Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV) 4. How was it during the first earth age?
Knowing how God teaches and that what was before will be again
I would expect it was much like the New heavens and New earth that will be there was cities and we lived upon the earth and there was no sin and God was our King.
New earth like the first?
1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son
10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
I expect this was how the first earth age was Lucifer was guardian of the Mercy seat and a most beautiful Angel he was made the full pattern (full of knowledge beauty and grace) Lucifer then became full of pride he thought he should be God and set his throne above God that he should be the most most high.
So he rebelled. (Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High) Many of us in our soul bodies rebelled with Lucifer/Satan. God had a choice here he could kill a large number of his children or he could create us in a flesh/clay body and give each the opportunity to choose to love him of our own free will
Jeremiah 4:22 - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 4:23 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:24 - I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah 4:25 - I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah 4:26 - 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.
Jeremiah 4:27 - For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
II Peter 3:6 - Whereby the world that then was[/u], being overflowed with water, perished:Wycliff Bible says of this:
2 Peter3:5 But it is hid from them willing this thing,that heavens were before, and the earth of water was standing by water, by God's word [that heavens were first, and the earth of water and by water being, or standing, together by God's word;
6 by which [things] that same world cleansed, then by water perished.
Thus ended the first earth Age and the world became Void ........
Then we start this age Gen 1:3
WycB
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens that now be, and the earth, be kept by the same word, and be reserved to fire into the day of doom and perdition of wicked men.
[Forsooth the heavens that now be, and the earth, by the same word put again, be kept to fire into the day of doom and perdition of unpious men.]
Another sourcehttp://www.ultimateriddles.com/genesis-bible-lesson-01.html