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As I see it: Jer 4:23-26 connects Gen 1:2 with Is 14:12-20
Gen 1:2 "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." // In the Hebrew, the word for was is the same word that is used for became: It is usually the context that determines which word is used. // And as mentioned in some of the prior posts; in the Hebrew Gen 1:1 includes the idea that the earth was made ready to be inhabited. The bolded words shows how these two verses are connected.
Jer 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, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man and all the birds of 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." // Since Adam and Eve until now-a-days, there have continually been man and birds upon the earth. From the scriptures we know that there will be man and birds upon the earth until the end of the Millennium. Cities too except for the time of the flood, but even then there were still birds and man in Noah's ark. So therefore this has to be referring to a time before Adam and Eve because of that.
Jer 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, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man and all the birds of 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."
Is 14:12-20 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 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: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; and opened not the house of his prisoners? All of the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of the grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou has destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."
Some have said that the above passage refers to the King of Tyre, but was he called Lucifer? Was he kicked out of his grave? No!
I suspect that the evil one is called a man here because he was a mortal at this time when he was perfect in all of his ways. We can see in 1 Cor 15:46 "Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual." Also before the evil one's sin; there was no sin in the world, just like it will be in the New Earth where the Lord will be the light of the world, just as he was with this earth. Why the darkness on the face of the deep? It is the result of the Lord's presence departing from the earth because of the evil one's sin defiling the world back then. Even now demons (unclean spirits) find it a dry torment to be out of a body, since they used to have mortal bodies and know what they are missing. The evil one rebelled seeking to be worshiped as the Lord is worshiped and brought war to the world for the first time. Since it is the one third against the two thirds, I can imagine the evil one attacking when he could take out both of his main rivals Michael and Gabriel. Even so they destroyed the entire world along with themselves. The two thirds were resurrected and given immortal angelic bodies; whereas the one third were kicked out of their graves, becoming disembodied spirits and given over to reprobate minds. Perhaps the angels lived upon the Earth for 7,000 years like us, having sons and daughters to fill up the entire myriads of the angelic host which will join us in New Jerusalem. imo, tentatively... My way of explaining the existence of the dinosaurs from more than 6,000 years ago. : )
Maranatha!
