CHAPTER FOUR
THE PRE-ADAMIC AGES

       When we open the book of Genesis we are met in the second verse with a ruined, frozen earth without life or inhabitant or light, and later on with a fallen Angel, Satan, in the lower Heaven with access to the earth. No explanation is given in Genesis of how this condition of things came to pass, but the picture is painted in broad outline in Job 38:4-15; Isaiah 14:12-15; Jeremiah 4:23-26; Ezekiel 28:13-19; Luke 10:18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 1:16 and Revelation 12:7-9. From these passages the following facts emerge:

1. The Creation of the Heavens

       The Heavens were created before the earth, not for God, who is far above all Heavens, but for the Angels (Ephesians 4:10). Of the surpassing beauty of the Heavens we get a glimpse in Ezekiel 28 and Revelation 21. The Angels too were beautiful. Also they were mortal Beings capable of wisdom or folly. There also seems to have been a period of unspecified duration in which the Angels were instructed by their Creator, for wisdom must be learnt. The result of this was that Lucifer surpassed all in wisdom and brightness and glory, being next to the Throne of God. These all lived together with God in love and enjoyment. Is it fanciful to suppose that as their education proceeded they were made aware that God was educating them for a high purpose which was not yet visible, even as today God is training His Royal Family of Kings and Priests to take charge of a New Heaven

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and a New Earth which have not yet been created? In any case the vast scope of the Heavens with its enormous, and maybe expanding, number of Heavenly bodies, must have aroused curiosity in their minds, and the realisation that Lucifer occupied a position of the closest proximity to the Son of God, being the anointed Cherub that covereth.

2. The Creation of the Earth

       The time came, however, when God took His second step, and before the astonished and delighted gaze of the Angelic Host created the Earth! They shouted for joy, we are told (Job 38:7), when they saw before their eyes their life's work, for which they had been brought into being. Everything had been carefully prepared by God, and they found themselves divided into different ranks, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers (Ephesians 1:21) with Lucifer at their head.

       Of this Pre-Adamic world there is no written history, but buried in the earth are the relics of a creation of surpassing beauty. There must have been at that time a sub-tropical climate over the whole earth; for mammoths, which can only live where there is green food in tropical abundance, eating as they do half a ton per day per mammoth, flourished by the thousand in what is now Siberia! Yet they were frozen so suddenly that the food they were eating at the time has remained fresh in their mouths and stomachs until today, and their flesh when dug up is also as fresh as it was on the day of their sudden death thousands of years ago! Coalfields also, which are the product of similarly luxuriant vegetation, have but lately been found under the ice of the Polar regions! The remains of human beings also have been found buried in the Pre-Adamic earth at various places!

3. The Fall of Lucifer and Decay of the Earth

       How long this Creation continued in its perfection we do

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not know and cannot even guess, though many have put forward such guesses as if they were scientific facts. We do, however, know from Isaiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 28:11-19 that it was pride in his success and ability in his position as Governor that turned Lucifer, the bringer of Light, into Satan the lying slanderer, maybe millions of years after he was created; and finally, again perhaps after Ages of Time, brought the earth to the ruin described in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23-26. We may well remember that Noah's Flood was preceded by the production of giants, that is, outsize men, fierce and cruel, by the angels of Satan (Genesis 6:4). This forced the Almighty to wipe out the whole race of earth-dwellers, except Noah, who believed in God, and his family. So, since it seems impossible to imagine God as the Creator of the fierce creatures of the Pre-Adamic world, the pterodactyls, brontosauri, dinosaurs, etc. whose remains lie buried in the earth, we may well believe that they too were the loathsome work of Satan and his fellow angels, who despised, then, as later, the creation of God, and set about providing something stronger, fiercer, more like themselves; for by this time the war between Michael's angels and Satan's had already begun (Revelation 12:7-10; cf. Daniel 10:13). Already Satan had conceived that relentless antagonism to the Son, the angels and the people of God, that is to end in his final captivity in Hell (Revelation 20:1-10).

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