It could be associated with the fall of Lucifer. Remember, he was a cherubim, possibly assigned to the earth--but he sought to garner praise for himself--was this praise solely from angels? Or was it possibly from some other creation right here on earth? When he fell either he laid waste the earth or maybe God himself did in judgement. We know that Lucifer is called "The Lord of this world" and seems to have some right in regards to this world and it's inhabitants.
No this is not true. Let's take a look at what the Bible says:
1. In Exodus 20:11, the Bible says, "For
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is and rested on the seventh day: wherefore God blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
And in Exodus 31:17, the Bible says, "It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested."
Notice the phrase, "and all that in them is" - this includes Lucifer (also known as Satan), the angels, space, rocks, trees, earth, plants, animals and man. There is no way to state this more clearly! Since everything was made in six days, then obviously Lucifer was also made during the those first six days.
2. As I already mentioned in a previous post, there was neither creation nor time before God spoke creation into being.
The Bible says, in Genesis 1:
"1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 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. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were
the first day."
It doesn't say, "a day" or "one day". No, the Bible says, "
the first day". On the first day God created light. Obviously, there was no time--no billions of years each consisting of days--before the first day. Therefore Satan, the dinosaurs and everything else were created sometime on or after the first day.
3. The Bible makes no mention of the specific timing of God's creation of Lucifer or the angels in the Genesis account. However, the Bible contains references to Satan as one of the sons of God in the book of Job. And in Job 38:4-7 we read: "Where wast thou when I
laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
The Bible says that the sons of God, which includes Satan, were present when God laid the foundations of the earth, and they shouted for joy. This clearly shows that Satan was created before God laid the foundations of the earth. The "foundations" probably refer to the "land" appearing in Gen 1:9, the account of the third day of creation, therefore Satan was created on or before the third day.
4. Eze. 28
13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
The Bible says in Eze 28:13, and 15 that God created Satan. Satan is a created being. Since the Bible says that all of creation was created in six days (Exo20:11), and that Lucifer is a created being, therefore Lucifer must have been created during the six days and not billions of years earlier (which did not exist, as stated in point #2.
We also see that Satan was in the garden of Eden, in an
unfallen state. This invalidates the claim that Satan fell during the fabricated billion years before Gen 1:2, since the Garden of Eden wasn't created until after Gen 1:2.
5. So when did Satan fall? We have already established that Satan was created either on the first, second or third day.
In Isa 14:13, we have the record of the words of Satan at the time of his fall. "For thou hast 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, in the sides of the north:
And in Isa 14:14, he said "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." Since there were no clouds until the second day, Satan could not have fallen before this time. Since there were no stars until the fourth day, he could not have fallen before day four.
Also, the Bible says in Gen 1:31 that God "saw
every thing that he made, and behold, it was
very good." If Satan fell before this time, God could not have said that. So Satan fell sometime after the sixth day.
In Gen 5:3, we read "And Adam lived
an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:"
From this statement we can deduce the following:
from the time of the sixth day until the 130 years later, when Seth was born, we know the following occurred:
-Satan fell
-Adam and Eve fell as a result of Satan's temptation, and were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
-Cain and Abel were born
-Cain killed Abel
Therefore Satan fell sometime between the sixth day and 130 years later.
We can limit that time down even further (by probably 20 - 50 years) by considering that facts that:
-Cain and Abel were adults at the time that Able was murdered by Cain
-Cain murdered Abel before Seth was born (since Eve said that Seth was a "replacement" for Abel)
-Cain complained to God about his punishment, saying "every one that findeth me shall slay me." And then we read that he settled in the land of Nod and there his wife gave birth to his son Enoch. So there must have been other brothers and sisters of Cain and Abel around at this time.
6. There was no sin or death in the world until Adam was created.
The Bible says in Romans 5:
12 Wherefore, as
by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
So you see, there is no need to speculate about Lucifer's origins, or a pre-Adamite judgement of a world that was never created. Lucifer was created during the six days and fell some time after that.
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