It is the Hebrew verb of being, hayah, and normally it is simply translated ‘was’. ‘Was’ Means ‘Was’Ī significant problem with this idea is that the Hebrew word for ‘was’ really should be translated ‘was’. I think there is quite a lot of good evidence to support the theory. Presumably they were taken away to heaven, to be imprisoned there, waiting the judgement.
Then there was a judgement, because of the rebellion of the covering cherub, and his angels, on the earth. The theory goes that is was the Nachash, the shining serpent, and the other angels, which inhabited the earth, before the gap in verse 1 and 2. Psalm 104:30 When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. I'm not sure what this is talking about, perhaps the great flood. 23 Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders. 22 They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished. 21 On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth. 20 The earth staggers like a drunken man it sways like a hut its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again. 19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. Isaiah 24:19 18 He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare.
This describes a judgment on the earth, when the earth was without form and void, like it says in the second verse of Genesis became without form and void. 26 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger. 25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. 24 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. Jeremiah 4:23 23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void and to the heavens, and they had no light. So perhaps originally the earth was with form, and inhabited and then became formless, after a judgement. Here, Isaiah states that God did not create the earth to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited. Isaiah 45:18 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, but formed it to be inhabited-he says: "I am the LORD, and there is no other. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.īut the earth became without form and void, and (deep unnatural) darkness was over the face of the abyss. The gap is here.Ģ The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The Gap Theory People such as Chuck Missler and Derek Prince, believe in the gap theory.