First, for those that didn't catch the color coding in the first post on In The Beginning....Became Void & Without Form (tohu va-bohu), then know that I was trying to simplify the verses and alert you to the different earth ages....Where appropriate, I used red for the 1st earth age, green for the 2nd earth age, and blue for the 3rd earth age.
So a little more on tohu va-bohu:
In Genesis 1:1 it says that "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." PERIOD Let's just go with God not creating a vast void mess and that millions of years ago God created a beautiful and wonderful creation full of His children [post on creation of all souls later] and even dinosaurs. In Genesis 1:2 that beautiful creation became void and without form. "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." "Was" in this verse is the Hebrew word hayah meaning to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (Strong's #1961). In most places the word "was" is correctly transliterated "became" hayah) such as in Genesis 2:7. In both of these verses, it is the same Hebrew word "hayah" just in one place it was transliterated incorrectly "was" and in the other correctly "became". The second use of "was" in Genesis 1:2 per Bullinger "is in italic type {in the Bullinger KJV Companion Bible} because there is no verb "to be" in Hebrew (see Appendix 7 of the Bullinger KJV Companion Bible).
"Without" in Genesis 1:2 is the Hebrew word tohuw (or tohu) meaning to lie waste, void (Strong's #8414). Notice the difference in this word versus other uses of "without" in Genesis (such as that of Strong's #2351 chuwts / ehuts meaning to sever, separate)....It's helpful to be able to take these words back to the original Hebrew (and Greek in the New Testament) so as to know the intended meaning as there are some instances where they were mistransliterated from the original Manuscripts making the true meaning hidden unless you search it out to know them! "Form" in Genesis 1:2 is this same Hebrew word tohuw (Strong's #8414) and "void" is the Hebrew word bohuw (or bohu) meaning emptiness, void.
So if we put the correct Hebrew transliterations in Genesis 1:2 it reads: And the earth became waste, and void; and darkness to be upon the face of the deep.
In Jeremiah 4:23 the words "without form, and void" are the very same Hebrew words dissected above from Genesis 1:2.....The earth that then was became void and without form.
Isaiah 45:18-19 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. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, 'Seek ye Me in vain:' I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
God did not create the earth void and without form....He created it to be inhabited and it became void and without form. There is evidence all around of the age of this earth from the 1st earth age to present. This earth is millions of years old, but this earth age (this 2nd earth age) is only thousands of years old. Praise be to God as Science has no argument with the True Word of God!
So a little more on tohu va-bohu:
In Genesis 1:1 it says that "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." PERIOD Let's just go with God not creating a vast void mess and that millions of years ago God created a beautiful and wonderful creation full of His children [post on creation of all souls later] and even dinosaurs. In Genesis 1:2 that beautiful creation became void and without form. "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." "Was" in this verse is the Hebrew word hayah meaning to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (Strong's #1961). In most places the word "was" is correctly transliterated "became" hayah) such as in Genesis 2:7. In both of these verses, it is the same Hebrew word "hayah" just in one place it was transliterated incorrectly "was" and in the other correctly "became". The second use of "was" in Genesis 1:2 per Bullinger "is in italic type {in the Bullinger KJV Companion Bible} because there is no verb "to be" in Hebrew (see Appendix 7 of the Bullinger KJV Companion Bible).
"Without" in Genesis 1:2 is the Hebrew word tohuw (or tohu) meaning to lie waste, void (Strong's #8414). Notice the difference in this word versus other uses of "without" in Genesis (such as that of Strong's #2351 chuwts / ehuts meaning to sever, separate)....It's helpful to be able to take these words back to the original Hebrew (and Greek in the New Testament) so as to know the intended meaning as there are some instances where they were mistransliterated from the original Manuscripts making the true meaning hidden unless you search it out to know them! "Form" in Genesis 1:2 is this same Hebrew word tohuw (Strong's #8414) and "void" is the Hebrew word bohuw (or bohu) meaning emptiness, void.
So if we put the correct Hebrew transliterations in Genesis 1:2 it reads: And the earth became waste, and void; and darkness to be upon the face of the deep.
In Jeremiah 4:23 the words "without form, and void" are the very same Hebrew words dissected above from Genesis 1:2.....The earth that then was became void and without form.
Isaiah 45:18-19 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. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, 'Seek ye Me in vain:' I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
God did not create the earth void and without form....He created it to be inhabited and it became void and without form. There is evidence all around of the age of this earth from the 1st earth age to present. This earth is millions of years old, but this earth age (this 2nd earth age) is only thousands of years old. Praise be to God as Science has no argument with the True Word of God!
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