I want us now to continue to move
on down in this section, and we come
here to something that we believe should be
considered, and the earth was without form and
void, and darkness was upon the face of
the deep, and the Spirit of God moved
from the face of the waters.
Now, we have here something that in recent
years there have been those that have attempted
to discredit it.
They say that you do not have a
catastrophe mentioned here, but I believe that a
great catastrophe took place between verses 1 and
2, and I think there's an abundance of
evidence for it to begin with, to look
out in this vast creation something has happened
to it.
Man's trip to the moon reveals that that's
nothing in the world but a wasteland up
there.
How did it get like that?
May I say that there came a catastrophe
in God's universe.
Now, we have the earth mentioned because this
is going to be the place where man
lives, and it's the earth that became without
form and void, and darkness was upon the
face of the deep, and that's the absence
of God, of course, and the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now, you have a statement that is made
in Isaiah 45, 18.
Isaiah says that God did not create this
earth, tohu vabohu.
That's the Hebrew there, and that means that
God did not create it without form and
void.
That's not the way God created.
God created this universe, a cosmos, not a
chaos, and that is the thing that Isaiah,
of course, is attempting to make clear.
Let me turn and read Isaiah 45, 18.
For thus saith the Lord that created the
heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and
made it, he hath established it.
He created it not in vain.
He formed it to be inhabited.
I am the Lord, and there is none
else.
Now, that is important to see.
He created it, not tohu vabohu, but the
earth became tohu vabohu.
He formed it to be inhabited, and it
is God that came into this wreck and
attempted to, not only attempted, he did it.
He made it a habitable place for man.
Now, all of this study of space reveals
that you and I live in a universe
that, as far as human beings is concerned,
this seems to be the only habitable place.
And what we have here is the fact
that the earth became without form and void,
and darkness is upon the face of the
deep.
And I think this earth was just like
the moon, and the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
Now, the entire universe came in under this
great catastrophe.
Well, what was the catastrophe?
We could only suggest, and I'm not going
into detail here at all.
We probably will when we come to other
passages of Scripture, but apparently there is some
pre-Adamic creature that was on this earth,
and apparently all of this is connected with
the fall of Lucifer, son of the morning,
who became Satan, the devil, as we know
him today.
I think all of that's involved here, but
God has not given us details.
In fact, the matter is, He's given us
very few details here.
The earth was without form and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep,
and the Spirit of God moved.
And the word for moved is brooded, brooded,
like a mother hen over the little chickens,
brooded upon the face of the waters.
And the Holy Spirit begins a ministry here
that we see Him doing again and again,
recreation.
He comes into this scene, and He recreates,
and that's what He does for us.
You remember the Lord Jesus said, Ye must
be born again, and not only that, you
must be born of the Spirit, and that
which is born of the water and of
the Spirit.
Now, water is the Word of God, the
Word of God.
Now, if you want to make baptism the
symbol, fine, that's all right, but the water
means the Word of God, and the Holy
Spirit is the author of it.
This is very, very important for us to
see, friends.