2 Peter 3:5 to 7

okay welcome back i'm robert breaker and today we're continuing our verse by verse bible study through second peter chapter three we finished up last time in verse four so we're gonna start today in verse five and i hope to get done all the way down to verse seven and we've got some interesting topic to talk about today we're going to talk about the gap theory or are we actually going to talk about a gap theory or are we um actually what i'm going to do is i'm going to throw out there the two sides and then let you decide for yourself i like to do that i'm not going to get up here and say well i believe this if you don't you're wrong i'm not going to do that i don't like arguments and yet this is a passage of scripture in which i found in my ministry a lot of men like to argue over so what i figure i'll do today is i'll present both sides i'll say okay some say it's like this others say it's like this what do you think i think you have enough discernment that you can figure it out for yourself amen so rather than fight about it let's just present both sides and let you make up your own mind i feel like that's the best way to do it now i know what i believe but i'm not going to tell you i'm just going to show the two sides maybe i'll tell you maybe after i present both sides i'll say now this is the one that i more lean to or think about but i don't think that this is an issue of salvation i don't think that this is something that should divide us as christians okay i have friends that believe in this i have friends that don't and i love them in the lord and we love each other and we don't make this a point of contention but some people do so i want you to be aware of what it is and then hopefully you'll have enough grace amen that you won't fight over this um haven't we seen that already in peter have grace matter of fact the end of the chapter says grow in grace and in the knowledge of our lord and savior jesus christ some people out there claim to be christians don't have much grace and so we're coming to a part of the bible in which there are some people that claim to be christians they want to argue now there's a lot of places like that that i found in my ministry as a christian there's a lot of things that men like to argue about and boy this is a hot spot right here that we're about to touch today talking about the gap theory so we'll get to that here in a moment now before we begin in verse five i need to back up a little bit and well i want to read verse four but verse four is actually a continuation of verse 3 which is actually a continuation of verse 2 which is actually a continuation of verse 1. do you know that verse 1 through 4 is one sentence and that's what we covered last time so let me go ahead and read that and then i'll read all the way down and finish verse 7 and then we'll start knowing what the context is okay verse one the second epistle beloved i now write unto you in both which i stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the lord and savior okay so there's three there the old testament uh prophets the new testament apostles and of course jesus and jesus ties them all together why because the old testament prophets prophesy of the coming of jesus and jesus sent out many of the apostles and jesus gave revelations to the apostle paul included and we looked at you know last time i believe it was the importance of paul and how we have to have paul in the bible so we see those three now he continues there in verse three knowing this verse that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lust and i believe we are seeing that today and saying now this is verse four now this is going to tie in with verse 5 6-7 so it's very important that we take verse 4 with us as well and saying where is the promise of his coming his coming is jesus coming the coming of jesus christ the lord verse 2 and savior where is the promise of his coming when did he promise he would come well if you go back to john chapter 14 we see a promise jesus said well actually i don't think i've shown you that yet so let's look at that there is a promise that jesus gave while he was here on the earth that he was coming back and you can't deny this promise john chapter 14 and verse 1. john 14 1 let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me for in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you now verse 3 and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you unto myself that where i am there you may be also so this is a promise that jesus christ is going to come back and take us home so i hold on to that promise and i hold it dear i believe that's a promise of a pre-tribulation rapture and i go to paul's writings and i see the same thing a pre-tribulation rapture so there's a promise but people run around go where's the promise of his coming where's the promise of his coming back to second peter chapter 3 and verse 4 and saying where's the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation now notice those words from the beginning of the creation all right i think that's very important that we realize the context is the beginning of actual creation now verse 5 for this they willingly are ignorant of so here we see a willful ignorance someone who is stupid on purpose someone who does not want to know true someone who is dumb because they choose to be okay i don't i'm not name calling if you don't know something you're ignorant you're dumb okay someone who wants to be ignorant and wants to contin i don't like that i want to be somebody that knows something i want to be in the know i want to know what's going on i don't want to be ignorant but there are some people that choose to be ignorant who are they someone said premeditated stupidity it's like they sat down and thought about they said no i'd rather not know that that's premeditated stupidity is what they called it for this they willingly are ignorant of what what are they willingly ignorant of well the context is creation now we know in this world there exists in many colleges today is taught a theory called the theory of evolution and that theory gets rid of god completely because it says the big bang nothing exploded which is anti-scientific in and of itself how can nothing explode don't you have to have something did you have to have an accelerate in order to have an explosion so even i mean it's just it's crazy i think it's because they don't want to believe in a god because they know if god exists they'll be judged for their sin and they're scared to death of that because they're sinners that's what i think that's why they are willingly ignorant but here's what they are willingly ignorant of in the context for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished so he's saying what they're ignorant of is not just the creation they're ignorant of what happened in the creation and how the earth was in the water and out of the water now how do you be in water and out of water at the same time you figure that out okay either you're in the water or you're out of water how can you be in both so we're going to read some very interesting things here and that's why it's so important to pay close attention to the words of the bible notice what it says the heavens that were of old the old heavens hmm and then it talks about um the earth standing out of the water and in the water so it's out of water and it's in the water at the same time that's odd whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished so there was a time when the earth was overflowed with water and it perished somehow now verse 7 but the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved unto the fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly man so he goes into an old heaven in an old earth and then he contrasts through that now the earth now now what this gets into is what i like to call the seven stages of the earth and we're going to get into the gap theory as well but i want to talk about the seven stages of the earth now i believe firmly in sevens and god always uses the number seven but i'm getting ahead of myself let me back up before we get to the seven stages of the earth let me just call this the stages of the earth and what i want to do is i want to present this in two different ways i want to present this in one way those that don't believe in the gap theory and i want to present this in another way those that do and show you the difference okay because this whole passage takes us to what many call the gap theory now let me say this i did a video years ago entitled the gap theory if you haven't seen it please see it in that video i say i don't know if we should call it the gap theory i think we should call it a gap theory now why do i say that all right when i say the gap theory the first thing automatically that someone thinks is oh you believe in millions of years no i do not i do not believe in millions of years okay did we get that out of the way all right are you did you hear me sometimes people hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest okay i do not believe in theistic evolution which is what some people teach today and they teach what they call the gap theory and their teaching of this theistic evolution is that they believe that over the seven thousand years of human history what we're going to look at next time our next video i can't wait to get into when we get in verse 8 we're going to see some pretty cool stuff but the bible says god created everything in six days and on the seventh day god rested and many people say well i believe that but there was millions of years in between there it's not really a literal six or seven days 24-hour period it was over millions of years so the bible is metaphorical and allegorical where does that come from oh yeah gnosticism wasn't it the gnostics that said we don't take the bible literally we take it allegorically so i am not one of those and a lot of those people talk about the gap theory and to them they believe there's gaps in the in that and there's millions of years i do not believe that let me state this dogmatically i believe in seven literal days of creation and the seventh one was the day in which god rested so six days of creation and i believe that the day is a 24 hour period okay so i do not believe in millions of years things evolved and at the beginning of the bible is just an allegory i don't believe that i believe that comes from gnosticism because the gnostics in alexandria egypt believed in that their allegorical system of interpretation i don't believe that i believe in six literal 24-hour period days and a 24-hour day god rested now i also believe though each one of those represents a thousand years of the future coming history but i won't get into that now i'm going to get to that next week so when we look at this i want you to get a hold of this that i do believe in a gap theory but not the gap because most people that talk about the gap theory that's what they're thinking in their mind is millions of years okay so let's throw that one out i don't believe that but i do believe that it is possible there could have been a gap between genesis 1 1 and genesis 1 2. now a lot of people will say well i'll stop you right there i don't believe that and they'll turn off this video well i wish you wouldn't i wish you'd listen because i'm going to present your side what you believe and then i'm going to present the other side and do you have enough grace that's what all boils down to to look at it on both sides and kind of get okay so let's look at that well what is this gap theory that many people talk about well go over with me to genesis chapter one and verse one so genesis chapter one and verse one this is what i want to present to you is this theory of a gap theory between genesis 1 1 and 1 2 and we'll call the theory just for the heck of it and just present what it is what this teaching is because a lot of people go to this passage in ii peter and say this is telling us that there was a gap between genesis 1 1 and 1 2. okay i'm gonna throw it out there and let you figure out for yourself are they right are they wrong who knows well let's look together and then we'll come to the conclusion hopefully together so genesis 1 1 says in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth period now look at verse 2 this is very odd what he says look at it and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters now if god created the heaven and the earth how did he create something without form and how did he make it void many people look at that go wow how do you create something that's without form if it doesn't have form then is it created well so a lot of people say we think that between genesis 1 1 and 1 2 something happened that there was a pre-adamic world that is a god created in the beginning the earth but then something happened and so god put the water on it and it was covered in water and it was in water and water was out all around it and yet it was flooded if you will and so what we're reading in genesis is god taking that earth and then remaking what it is now some people say well that's the most far-fleshed stupidest thing i've ever heard okay then why does it say without form and void think about that for a minute so let's go up here let me show you what this teaching is here's adam and we see in genesis 1 and 2 and three the creation of adam and all the things of this earth that we are in now and some people say but before adam is when the earth was created the earth god recreated okay so we have back here we have genesis 1 1 here and then something happened to destroy the earth with water and so in genesis 1 2 god begins telling us about when god recreated it now a lot of people say well i don't believe that i don't believe that okay and they say so no further discussion let's not talk about it now i think it's worthy of further discussion just to look at because there's some possibilities that that that opens up and we need to see those possibilities we need to see that so if you don't believe it would you at least have enough grace to finish the rest of this video okay so between genesis 1 1 and 1 2 a lot of people say there was a gap and so this is where this theory of a gap theory comes from is genesis 1 1 god created the first the original earth but then something took place in which god's judgment destroyed it so that it was flooded with water and then what then god said okay we're going to take the water divide the waters you go ahead and read the rest there what does it say god divided the water and the firmament in verse six let it divide the waters from the waters and god made the firmament divided the waters which were under the firmament which are and so god is doing something here in this six days of where he's recreating okay now a lot of things that i need to get into here so let me explain to you if you do not believe in this gap theory this is how you view what i call the stages of the earth and that's what we're going to look at today the stages of the earth all right the stages of the earth this is going to be a fun bible study now this is no gap theory okay stages of the earth first one right here no gap theory all right if you do not believe in something might have happened between genesis 1 1 and 1 2 then this is what the earth is like to you let me write this up here so when we go back to ii peter he's talking about the earth that then was and all this stuff i'm gonna have to just draw it up here you have the earth created so we'll call this one the created earth but then something happened what was that that was the fall of adam adam fell into sin when he did the earth was changed because there was a curse on it so you have a cursed earth remember when god said cursed be the earth well later as time went on man became so sinful and so wicked that god had to send the flood to destroy man and then well then comes the earth now so we have the earth now and this is our present earth and this will go all the way out till the wrath of god falls on the earth and so then the wrath of god comes out in the tribulation period then jesus comes back and jesus takes the curse off in the millennium and we'll call this the millennial and i'll abbreviate it the millennial earth now if you know your bible at the end of the thousand years so this right here would be right here jesus destroys everything and he makes a new heaven and a new earth all right now go back to second peter and let's read it and let's see what people who do not have this belief in the gap theory teach and it makes sense but look what it says second peter chapter 3 verse 4 for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water they say that's the water of the flood of noah oh okay so you're saying that back then and then after the flood receded this earth okay and in the water whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished okay so the water overflooded the earth and that earth perished but wait a minute that earth didn't perish there's that earth is the same earth the only difference is there's water it was on it and now there's no water on it it's still cursed it's still but that's what they say no what it means is okay so they say that the water here in this verse is noah's flood so i forgot to write noah up here so this to them is is noah's flood and then let's continue reading whereby the world that then was being overflowed water perish but the heavens and the earth which are now so that's the earth that is now are kept in store and reserved unto the fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men so this earth that is now is waiting for the wrath of god to fall on it then jesus will reign for a thousand years and then god will destroy it all make the new heaven and the new earth so how many does that give us okay how many stages of the earth one two three four five so five different stages of the earth when god does things he always seems to use the number seven seven judgments seven mysteries seven resurrections uh seven judgments seven i mean there's so many different sevens i get written down here seven churches uh seven feasts of israel i did a video of seven raptures i thought that was good seven things peter said were precious when you go to first second peter seven appearances of christ in the bible uh just seven seven seven seven seven tabernacles seven foods the bible's likened to seven miracles in john seven times jesus says i am in the book of john it's just you know god and you know the bible you know it's 777 all the time so when i look at their teaching that it's saying they're the world that was in the water they say nope that only applies to noah well then you you map out the stages of the earth according to them you only come up with five five we're seven shouldn't there be seven doesn't god do everything in seven now over here this guy and uh this is clarence larkin clarence larkin has talked about the stages of the earth and clarence larkin takes this farther back and he just happens to have seven one two three four five six seven and this is on page 30 if you have clarence locker's book the seven stages of our phases he calls them the seven phases of the earth matter of fact he maps it out like this the three stages of the earth he calls it but really it's seven stages of the earth and this would be on page 144. and it's because larkin believes in a gap theory he believes that something happened between genesis 1 1 and genesis 1 2. so let's look at that and let's try to figure this thing out because there's a lot of interesting things going on here now i got a lot of verses to run i got a lot to get into so let's do this um before i put up here the seven stages of the earth let me say this a lot of people that say there's no such thing as the gap theory they say it can't be it just cannot be that there is a gap it can't be that god created the earth originally but then it was overflowed with water as a judgment for some reason and then he recreated it they said that just can't be well it's interesting god created adam and adam's descendants became evil and so when god destroyed the earth what did he choose flood so what if noah's flood was the second flood not the first what if the flood was back here too for a reason uh have you ever thought of that what would have happened well a lot of people teach that the angels fell over here and that satan and his angels fell before adam was created and so their falling is what led to god judging the earth it's almost like this okay god created the angels and then he created the earth and they said now angels you can go down there and populate the earth so they're down there doing their thing and the devil goes you know what i'd like to take over down here who's with me and so i'm saying well we'll do it and so he tried to go up and take over god god says nope and so god said that's it and he destroyed the earth with a flood well that would be a perfect place to put the falling of the angels of the devil and they fell back then but we see them falling again over here right there and then another flood so it's almost like something happened twice well people say well that can't be well it's interesting god told adam replenish the earth and then god told noah replenish the earth now people say well replenish doesn't mean i i don't care what it means i'm just saying it's interesting that the term is used with both of these and and what if both of these came after a flood interesting so if there was a gap theory and that would be a great time for when the devil would have fallen originally and that would account for why that earth was without form and void because you don't build something without form when you make it it has form so a lot of people that believe in a gap theory say that this is when the gap was between genesis 1 and genesis 2 and that that's when god had created the angels but that's when satan fell so we could put up here satan fell satan fell now a lot of people say no and one of the most famous ones i won't mention his name he's all over the internet and he's saying no um that's not true there is no such thing as a gap theory and things like that well i personally had an opportunity to talk with this guy many many years ago and he told me he said i don't believe in the gap theory and i said how about a gap theory heroes what do you mean i said i don't believe in the millions of years thing but i believe that it's possible that something might have taken place between genesis 1 and genesis 2 and that could be when satan fell he said no it can't be it can't be i said why not he said because because well the angels weren't created until one of the six days so his belief is that when god created everything in genesis 1 and 2 there were no angels and so according to him god created satan sometime on the second or third or fourth i forget what he teaches day well is that true well let's let's run some verses on this and let me show you some verses in the bible because if satan was created way before adam then the gap series makes sense but if not then the gap series doesn't make sense okay but now let me show you this all right let's just start this job 38 4-7 go back to job chapter 48 did the angels see this this whole thing boils down to this did the angels exist before adam or were the angels created around the time of adam there are some people that actually go to the extreme and say well adam was created first then the angels i've heard that and i'm like see people always will go to an extreme to prove what they want to believe so if they don't believe in a gap theory they will go to an extreme to defend no gap theory some people believe in a gap theory and they'll go to extreme to prove yes the gap theory i don't want to be extreme i want to look at both sides and say okay which which of these looks right according to the bible and i want to look at both sides and then make my decision so job chapter 38 and let's begin reading here verse 1 then the lord answered job out of the world when and said who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge gird up now thy loins like a man for i will demand of thee and answer me where was thou when i laid the foundations of the earth declare if thou hast understanding well this sounds like creation whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the cornerstone thereof so god says where were you when i created everything now watch what god says this is god don't argue with god god says this verse 7 when the morning star sing together and all the sons of god shouted for joy god is saying when i laid the foundations of the earth when i created the morning stars were there the angels were there so the angels were there when he was there with it and so it appears to me that the angels existed before god created everything and created adam and i see that let's see who the sons of god are okay job chapter one and verse six in the old testament the sons of god are angels verse six now there was a day when the sons of god came to present themselves before the lord and satan came also among them who is this this is angels so you've got the angels already created when god created the foundations of the earth so when god created the earth the angels were watching it and they go amen and they shouted for joy so it appears to me that they're somewhere in between genesis 1 1 and 1 2 and that would totally explain why god created it originally but then later it's without form and void because satan fell and deceived some angels to falling with it god would have gone okay let's start this whole thing over and then that's why the world was in the water and that's so it makes sense to me let's just say plausible that there could be a gap and that would be when the angels fail because the bible tells me that the angels existed when god laid the foundations of the earth i don't see them being created later in the six or seven days of creation now let's look at the devil ezekiel chapter 28 ezekiel chapter 28 so i believe firmly that satan existed before the six days of creation god would have created him before that so there's some things that god created when he created the earth originally and what we're seeing in verse 2 is god starting over because the first creation got messed up by a fault by a sin all right what what happened when adam sinned oh the earth got cursed same earth but really as something changed what happened when man sin the flood all right the earth changed a little bit same earth you could say but it's a little different so we're seeing that as the result of sin something happens to make the earth a little different than it was before that's the whole pattern of the bible so if the devil lived before it was created before the six days of creation well that would make sense that god had to recreate it because of the devil's sin and start over and that would make sense why it was without form and why now i'm doing this you know flat earth are going to have a time with it but um i just i'm trying to make it to where you can understand it okay that's why i'm drawing it as a round circle okay but anyway um let's go now to isaiah chapter 14. now this is the bible talking about satan and i want you to see what it talks about when it talks about satan okay isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 through 15. look at what it says howard thou fallen from heaven o loose verse son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground which did weaken the nations for thou has said in thine heart i will ascend into heaven i will exalt my throne above the stars of god i will sit also upon the mount of the congregation and the sides of the north i will ascend above the heights of the clouds i will be like the most high this is the fall of satan when clinton fell and he kept going i will go up i will go well if he's going up to god then where must he have been down below god somewhere on the earth perhaps and because of his sin god said okay i'm going to flood the earth and now we're going to start over that's what a gap theory person would believe and on and on and on there it says yet thou shalt be brought down to the hell to the sides of the pit in the book of revelation we see that finally happening now now go to ezekiel chapter 28. i'm going to run all these verses and i'm gonna do my best to get this out there and i hope it's a blessing to you again i'm not interested in arguing if you believe in the gap theory praise the lord if you don't fine uh you're not my enemy and i'm not gonna attack you i wanna present both sides but i wanna show you verses i want you to make up your mind because the bible says so not because so and so says so okay ezekiel chapter 20 8 verse 12 through 19 son of man take up the lamentation upon the king of tyrus and say unto him thus saith the lord god thou sealest up to some full of wisdom and perfect and beauty now if you read this whole passage god is talking to the devil inside this king of tyrus so he's jesus god in heaven is speaking to the devil inside of this wicked king he's saying perfect in beauty verse 13 thou has been in eden the garden of god every precious stone was like covering the sardis topaz and the diamond and barrel and onyx and jasper and sapphire the emerald and the carbuncle and gold and the workmanship of thy tablets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created what day was that well some people said well it had to be one of the six days no it doesn't he had to exist before that in order to see the foundations late so how are you trying to you see how that doesn't work so there must have been a day before in which he was created so we can see god creating the devil and the angels before god started to do the six days of creation starting in verse two okay are you with me and it says thou art the anointed cherub that covereth and i have set thee so that was upon the holy mountain of god thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire that was perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee and i could continue reading there um you can go ahead and read down to verse 19 if you want to it's talking about the devil so i see the devil doesn't have to be created in those six days of creation because it doesn't seem to work if the angels the sons of god were there at the creation watching god so it looks like the angels were created before do you see that in your bible if that's true let's go back to ii peter and he says there in verse four for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation okay in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth and he would have created the angels in that time as well but then we see without form and void oh something happened in between verses one and two and so in verse two god started the re-creation in six days and on the seventh day he rested that's what people call the gap theory i think it's better to call it a gap theory if that's what he's talking about here then we continue reading and look what it says verse 5 for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water okay so the earth is out of the water but in the water without form and void and then god divides the water so why would the earth have water on it and why would god divide the water unless the water was the judgment and whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished so that original earth perished with a flood just like noah's earth and it was because of the fall of the angels and then god said now let's start this thing over and i'm going to put a man down there and create him a little different in adam so this is where the idea of the gap theory comes from okay now if that's the case here's what we end up with and this is quite interesting and i've got a lot of verses that i haven't gone to yet but we'll hopefully get to them let's look at if you believe in a gap theory if you believe yes a gap theory then here's what you come up with in the stages of the earth and well i sure hope i have room up here i guess i do barely okay good so we have this would be the original creation all right so the original creation and then the angels fell oh no so angels fell well then you have the earth without forming void with the water all over it i don't know how to do that should i put the water on it i can make it without form and void i'll just make it a little bit black and then we'll have it's in the water and yet out of the water but it's it's in the water so here you have the chaotic earth so this would be we would call the chaotic earth and because of sin satan's sin then god had the earth without form and void so he had to do something what did he do he restored it he started over and that's where we get the edenic earth and that's where we get old adam but what happened adam fell adam sinned well because adam sinned then a curse was put on the earth and we call this the antediluvian earth anti-deluvian means before the flood a luvian the flood well man sinned and because man sinned well then came the flood and the flood flooded the earth and then after that flood the flood what was it it was it was water on the earth so the flood came and the present earth is now and we are in the present earth this is the earth we're in now now what happens well there's still a curse there's still a curse on the earth and then what happens well when jesus comes back he will restore the earth again so the earth is restored and he takes the curse off of the earth and he reigns for a thousand years in the millennial kingdom so we have the millennial earth then satan comes out of the pit and god destroys him and because of sin we see everything is burned with fire then god makes a new heaven and a new earth now if this is the way it is as clarence larkin suggests and those that believe in the gap theory how many stages of the earth are there well let's count them one two three four five six oh look at that seven god always seems to do things in the number seven so when you're reading your bible and you you say well i don't believe in a gap there you go oh well then according to your theory there's only five stages of the earth there's the earth that was created then adam fell and so the earth got cursed and then man sin so bad god destroyed that earth with water and now we're on this earth now and then the rapture takes us out and then the wrath of god falls on the earth and the tribulation and then jesus comes back and sets up the millennial kingdom and then after that he makes a new heaven and there's only five well everything god does he does perfect seven's the number of perfection it would make way more sense to me if there was a gap theory because i don't see the angels and the devil made during the six days of creation or recreation if you want to call it that i see the sons of god shouting for joy when god in the beginning created the heaven and the earth so he's creating the foundation of the earth and the sons of god go well amen and they shouted for joy so they were already there so something must have taken place between genesis 1 1 and genesis 1 2. and if we take that into account and we look at that and we see what it is okay satan fell god destroyed the earth the earth was without form and void and god said okay i'm going to do it over in six days he did it all over and there you have the adamic earth until adam sinned when he sinned the curse fell upon the earth and the earth was great although there's still a curse on it until man sinned so much god said okay flood and then what happened now we're in this okay let's go back and look at it now second peter chapter three verse 4 and saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation okay from genesis 2 on where we are now from here to here for this they are willingly ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water well okay so that chaotic earth there whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished the world but then was in the beginning genesis 1 1 that world was destroyed but the heavens and the earth which are now well here is the heaven and the earth that are now starting with adam and that gets destroyed over here at the end and we see a new so do you see how you can have that application which one do you think a lot of people say no gap theory so to them the water is just the flood and so they say the earth that is now and before then was this okay i can see how they see that but the whole thing is when were the angels created they have to teach that angels were created before adam in the first second third or fourth or fifth day and i don't see that because the bible says that the angels were there at the original creation of the earth and it couldn't have been created without form and void so it must have been created in genesis 1 1 and at that time the angels existed and then something happened to make it without form and void so it must have been the angel spell and then it just all makes sense and then you got seven which is god's number so do i believe in the gap theory well i believe in a gap theory i hate to say the gap theory because i don't believe in millions of years but i had to believe that there could be and i don't teach it dogmatically i'm not gonna say you have to believe this or you can't be my friend like some people but i think it's very plausible that that could have been where the angels fell so i teach a gap theory and i teach that to you now i also want you to see this book this is a book called the gap fact by perry demopolis now he's a little more extreme on it he believes it's an outright fact well i lead that way i lead toward i believe in in the gap theory but he calls it the fact not the theory and he goes through and shows you a lot of verses you can get this from kjv1611.org i believe is the website peter ruckman's old bookstore and it's a great book if you want to know more about the gap fact and he has a lot of good stuff in here because it it shows you and i've showed you this before many many many many times that the bible is a circle and things that happen in the old testament happen in the new testament it's like it's a cycle and things are happening over and over and over the same way that they happened before and so that totally makes sense if god created a guy and he fell into sin and god had to destroy the earth and start over well then we see that cycle happening again i thought it was interesting here between adam and noah adams came into a new earth if you will or a new stage of the earth well here's the flood of noah and he came into a new stage of the earth and there's so much in common between adam and noah adam was placed on the earth after a judgment on wickedness if the gap theory is true because god judged the earth because the wickedness of you know that that answers the question a lot of people say how on earth can there be a face on mars there must be extraterrestrials there must be aliens how could there be a face on mars there's a face on mars i believe that i've seen pictures of mars and there's looks like a face on mars where did that come from i don't believe in ufo aliens if you will from other planets but i do know that there are fallen angels so i think satan and the angels they could have gone all over uh planets they could have gone all over this earth they could have put faces up on jupiter or mars or whatever if they wanted to and that answers that question but uh he talks about noah started over after a judgment of wickedness by flood i could just go on and on and on i don't have time this is this is neat if you get a chance to read this but it's interesting when god created adam he said adam replenish the earth be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth well if adam came after a judgment of a flood and noah came after a judgment of a flood they've got a lot in common because god told noah replenish the earth now there's so many things there's so many things that we could get into um so many verses noah's flood is in genesis chapter 7 verse 15 through 22. and i tried my best to explain this amen and i hope you see the difference so let's go back to ii peter chapter 3 so this is how i read it okay i personally believe in a gap theory i personally believe that the angels must have existed before god recreated everything in six days if you don't believe that fine we can still be friends amen this isn't something that affects our salvation this is just one of those doctrines where okay i agree to disagree if you disagree i'm not gonna be angry i'm not gonna cuss i'm not gonna attack you if you don't believe this but i don't see where else it fits it fits so perfectly that the angels were created before genesis 1 2 and that they would have fallen then the ones that did fall and then that's why the earth is without form of void and that's why when we read genesis 1 2 and on it's god recreating the earth because of the fall and so it just makes sense so going back to second peter chapter 3 verse 4 for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old souls notice what it says the heavens were of old so there's some old heavens now now we got to talk about the heavens okay what does that mean well did you know there's three heavens the three heavens are this there's three heavens there's the third heaven and the third heaven is where god lives there's the second heaven that's where all the stars and everything are and that's what we call today outer space and then there's the first heaven and that's our atmosphere and that's where the birds fly and the airplanes fly all right now let me see if i can show you some of that let's go to uh second corinthians 12 2. second corinthians chapter 12 verse 2. second corinthians 12 2 says this i knew a man in christ above 14 years ago whether in the body i cannot tell or whether out of the body i cannot tell god knoweth section one caught up to the third heaven so the third heaven is heaven itself where god dwells and it's somewhere up north so take the world and then look straight north and god is way up that way on the other side of outer space if you will now the second heaven genesis 26 4. look what it says this is outer space where all the planets and nebulas and galaxies and all that stuff is when you look up in the sky at night you see all those stars up there that's the second heaven that's the other side of the atmosphere that's where it's dark and black not here where we live and we look up and see blue it's that black out there so go to genesis 26 and verse 4 and i'll prove that to you genesis 26 4 just as 26 4 and i will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of what stars of heaven and we'll give it unto them and on and on and on okay now let's go to genesis 1 20. now up above our heads anywhere between here and the highest stratosphere or whatever before it starts to become outer space that is just called heaven and that's where the birds fly in genesis 1 20 god says this and god said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven so and i'll draw a globe because most people here know what a globe is you got a globe and we'll just call that earth now if you're a flat earther please excuse my illustration here but here's the earth so all this around the earth where the birds fly that's the first heaven all out around that outer space where all the stars and planets are that's the second heaven where the guardians of the galaxy live if you will and then somewhere way out up there is the third heaven where god dwells now i think it's in the shape of a pyramid to be honest with you but i'm not going to go there right now because the devil was going to the sides of the north but i don't have time to get to that so we won't get there today but um that makes sense though why the devil would always imitate god why is the devil's symbol and all seeing star which is a pyramid with his little eye on top is he trying to imitate god anyway so you have the heavens of old so back to second peter chapter three verse five for this they are willingly ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water so you've got the earth created but yet it's without form and void it is standing out of the water and yet it's into water do you know in outer space there's water what do you call those guys that go up in outer space astro knots interesting not that's a nautical term astronaut you go up in a space ship you know there's water up there so way out there there's water matter of fact there's a sea of glass that separates outer space from third heaven it's called a sea of glass so it says it's out of the water yet it's in the water so this chaotic earth had water flooding all over it and god said i'm going to divide that and he did so it's interesting i think that the passage is speaking about this water other people think no it's speaking about this water the flood of noah okay you can believe that it makes sense either way sort of but it makes more sense and it ties everything back to the sevens that god does if there is a gap theory and this is the earth because he talks about the beginning that became chaotic and without form and void that was in water and he's talking about that so let's read it here again verse 6 whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished okay that's the world that then was back there that's a different world than ours today but the heavens and the earth which are now oh they were created from genesis 1 2 and on the earth that we're in now which would be this same earth not that one that's a different one this is the same earth so you literally have three different earths um which kind of to me have you ever read jrr tolkien's lord of the rings you had the middle earth and you had this earth and it's kind of like he had three different earths i think maybe he was thinking anyway so you have this one was the first earth then it was without form and void so we'll put up here void without form but then you got this earth that is and it's going to be this earth that is now until you get this earth so that would be the newer so you got two three different so that's why clarence larkin calls it the three stages of the earth well i'm calling it the seven stages of the earth because i see seven but it only works as seven if you believe in a gap theory do you understand that do you get that now watch what it says here verse seven but the heavens and the earth which are now well to a person that doesn't believe in the gap theory we're on the earth that is now so we're in agreement to someone that believes in the gap theory we're right here so we're in the earth that is now so there's no reason to argue if you believe or don't believe a gap theory we're still in the same earth okay it's just how you look at the thing and it continues there but the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly man so this earth that we're on now that eventually will have the curse taken off of it in the millennial kingdom this earth that we're on now someday will be destroyed with fire and that's when god destroys this earth at the end of the millennial kingdom now i'm going to show you the verses on that next and so the fire destroys the earth and god makes a new heaven and a new earth a lot of people say why would god do that why would god take the earth that is now and create a new heaven and a new earth well because of sin because of sin because of sin that earth i believe was without form of void so he remade it like this then adam sinned and now we're all on this sin well even in the millennial kingdom even though the curse is removed people will still sin but god will get rid of sin at the end of the millennium when he has the great white throne of judgment and then when god makes a new earth and a new heaven there's going to be no sin and nobody can sin again because we've all been redeemed and we have glorified bodies man won't that be great to have an earth in which no sin can come so it all makes sense it all makes sense but look down to what he's talking about with this fire in verse 10 but the day of the lord will come as a thief of the night and the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat and the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned seeing them that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness verse 12 looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of god wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness interesting is it not so what do you see here you see the destruction of this present earth that we're on at the end of the millennial kingdom god will destroy it and make it all over new without sin so we won't be living on an earth that had the effects of sin now there's a lot of verses to run real quick and i hope i can find them here in my notes where did i write these down here we go let's look at this let's go to revelation chapter 20 and verse 11 and i hope to close revelation chapter 20 and verse 11. and i saw a great white throne in him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them and i i could go on there but i won't but that's talking about the great white throne of judgment so this is where the earth is completely destroyed there's nothing left except god and you in a lake of fire and if you're not saved you're judged and you're put into that lake of fire let's go to another verse talks about this isaiah 34 4. the bible has lots to say about god who had the power to create the earth and he did but he has the power to destroy his creation isaiah chapter 34 and verse 4 and all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their hosts shall fall down as the lead father from the vine and as a falling fig from a fig tree all right let's go to isaiah 65 17 another place that talks about god destroying it all and then rebuilding it anew is isaiah 65 17 for behold i create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered nor come to mind and then 66 and verse 22 for as the new heavens and the new earth which i will make shall remain before me saith the lord so shall your seed in your name remain so there it is one day god now this this third heaven i think will remain forever but he's talking about the first heaven and the second heaven so this heaven this heaven so all of outer space all the planets that we know out there god's just gonna go okay i'm gonna start the whole thing over and i'm gonna make all new galaxies in an all-new earth someday and the only way you can enjoy it is if you're saved the gospel is first corinthians 15 1-4 how that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and then he rose again the third day according to the scriptures and that salvation is through christ he is the creator and he is the savior he loved us enough that he came down to his creation he died for our sins and he shed his blood and he offers forgiveness to all who will come to him for salvation so that's about it a lot more i'd like to go into let me finish here with revelation 21 revelation chapter 21. in revelation 21 1-4 and 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 and i john saw the holy city new jerusalem coming down from god out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and 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 and god will 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 so god will make all things new so there you go i just recently finished up a sermon entitled the spirit world and i showed how there's body soul spirit is what we consist of if there's an original earth well god's a trinity that would have been god the father creating that god the son restoring and creating this maybe the new heavens and the earth is god the holy spirit i don't know it's just you've got one god and three and each one is active in creation you know the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters it's just amazing to me how we have this recurring theme in the bible if god is three and when he does things seven seven is the number of perfection well the only way this thing works out mathematically you got the seven stages of the earth is if you believe in a gap theory so i do and if you don't please don't be upset please don't hate me please don't you know be my enemy like i said there's certain things in this um world that christians just want to argue about and this gap theory is one of them so get the book by perry demopolis the gap fact read that book because he brings out a lot of good things a lot of points and a lot of scriptures that i didn't even get to and he shows how he believes the bible truly proves that that happened and that there is a gap between genesis 1 1 and 1 2. so i hope this is a blessing to you a lot more i'd like to say but i'll close there and uh next time hopefully we'll start in verse eight in uh second peter and boy that brings out a whole new thing to look at we're going to look at the 7 000 years of human history so i told you that first peter has a lot of milk second beer has a lot of meat well here's the beginning of some of the meat that i was talking about and this is the gap theory but this is also the seven stages of the earth next time we're going to look at the 7 000 years of human history and it's just learning all this stuff should really strengthen your faith in christ because wow it's incredible and then we'll get to the end of second peter and probably i'll just spill the beans we'll probably go to first john when we finish this but i'm gonna be honest with you first john's kind of hard john kind of saw things a little different than the other apostles so it's kind of hard to do first john but we will attempt lord willing when we finish second peter so god bless you appreciate you watching we'll see you next time bye bye

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