Eric W. King ~ TSW, "The Shepherds Way": Dinosaurs, Fossils, and the First Earth

Dinosaurs, Fossils, and the First Earth

By Eric William King

Let us look into this matter of the “First Earth” a little closer. We find in the very second verse of the Bible that the earth “was” (actual Hebrew word here means “became”) “without form and void”. The words for “without form and void” are used elsewhere in the Bible. The Hebrew word “tohu” is actually found 16 more times in Scripture and each time it means “worthless”, “empty”, and “chaotic”. If we use the entire Bible to explain itself it states that God DID NOT originally make this earth “empty”, “chaotic”, or “void” but instead CREATED it to be inhabited.

“For this is what the Lord says – he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty (Hebrew: “without form and void”), but formed it to be inhabited.” (Isaiah 45:18)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

“In the beginning”, probably millions of years ago. Only God knows when that happened. So when God created “the heavens and the earth” it was instantaneous and perfect. Isaiah the prophet tells us of this;

So the original “planet Earth” was made complete and inhabitable. The very second verse of the Bible properly reads in the Hebrew; “Now the earth BECAME formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” (Genesis 1:2) So the original translation tells us that something happened in-between verses one and two of Genesis….something that brought desolation to planet Earth.

The Great Rebellion

In Isaiah 14 we read about a powerful angelic being that rebelled. This same rebellion is mentioned in Ezekiel 28 and states that at one time Satan walked in the Garden of Eden BEFORE SIN. Did you get that? He was on a perfect planet earth before sin existed in the Garden of Eden. This was before the destruction of the First Earth.

It was on this first earth that the dinosaurs lived. There were also “human type” beings living on this first earth that were intelligent enough to live in some form of “houses”. We read about this in Jeremiah 4:23-26.

“I beheld the earth, and lo, it was WITHOUT FORM AND VOID; and the heavens, and they had NO LIGHT. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, the TREMBLED, and all the hills MOVED LIGHTLY. I beheld, and, lo, there was NO MAN, and all the BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS WERE FLED. 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 4:23-26)

This sounds like what we would call a “parenthetical prophetic statement”. This simply means that when God spoke through the prophets He sometimes placed statements having to do with past events or even future events (having to do with judgment and or redemption) in between the context which sometimes seems out of place. This is to make His hearers become close and careful listeners. God wants us to understand the bigger picture of His Word.

Genesis and the Re-Creation

The so called “creationists” try to explain that all the geological strata (the layers upon layers of earth) were the result of a worldwide flood. Noah’s flood was actually regional and happened only between 4000 and 5000 years ago and does not mention a world filled with numerous dinosaurs. Radiocarbon dating and potassium-argon dating are used and some Bible students will use these methods when they agree with their biasness but reject them when they contradict their dogma.

Though the Adamic race was created about 6000 plus years ago, many other races were here long before that. The last ice age was probably about 10,000 years ago and it took 4000 years for most of this ice to melt before the reconstruction of our planet’s surface - which is mentioned through the “six day” recreation account.

These “creation days” were not literal days. We find in the Targum of Onkelos which is the earliest of the Aramaic rendition of Genesis 1:2 that the earth “was laid waste” so they understood that the First Earth had “become” without form and void because of some catastrophic event. What follows in Genesis is the explanation of a “re-creation” of planet earth’s surface.

We know that the destruction of the First Earth due to spiritual rebellion ended about 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs roamed the first earth during what is called the Triassic and Jurassic period. Some of the water dinosaurs lasted all the way into the times of the Adamic Race. So much life did in fact survive the destruction of the First Earth including micro life, plant life, and some animal life. In fact, we know that God allowed at least three early Human-type life creations to survive the destruction of the First Earth. These are the earliest surviving human-type races.

The Bible does not teach evolution but CREATION. The early creatures on the First Earth were in fact created by God. There are no pre-fossil records for the great dinosaurs; they have no fossils showing that an animal went from the size of a mosquito to the size of a large dinosaur. The absence of intermediate fossil records disturbs the scientists who choose to reject literal creation.

So where are the so called “missing links”? There are none. We will let the thoughts of Michael Denton end the thoughts of this article;

“The overall picture of life on Earth today is so DISCOUNTINOUS, the GAPS between the different types so obvious, that, as Steven Stanley reminds us in his recent book Macroevolution, if our knowledge of biology was restricted to those species presently existing on Earth, “we might wonder whether the doctrine of evolution would qualify as anything more than an outrageous hypothesis.” Without intermediates or transitional forms to bridge the enormous gaps which separate existing species and groups of organisms, the concept of evolution could never be taken seriously as a scientific hypothesis. (pp 157-158)

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Eric William King (July 15^th 2020)