DAKE's Annotated Bible was one of my favourite book. It has helped me to understand the Pre-Adamic period (that is, the dispensations before Adam and Eve).
There were 2 major floods in the Bible. First the Pre-Adamic Flood, the flood just before Adam and Eve were created. In this Flood, all living things were destroyed. The earth started on a clean slate again after that. God created Adam and Eve to populate the earth with the human race. By following the genealogies in the Bible, Adam and Eve were estimated to live about 6000 years ago.
The Bible did not provide a view on what was like in the 'Pre-Adamic' Ages or dispensations.
Perhaps hundreds of million years ago, the earth was teeming with dinosaurs. Perhaps a few million years ago, the earth was inhabited by ape-like 'Early Man'.... Let the archeologists dig up the fossils and tell us.
The Pre-Adamic Flood neatly separates God's revelations after Adam and Eve; and God's non-revelations before Adam and Eve.
However I can't help but ponder how, during the Pre-Adamic Flood, cockroaches and mosquitoes managed to survived, and continued to irritate me up till this day. Or did God allowed these vermints to be created ( or re-created) on Day 5, before Adam and Eve were created on Day 6? (Gen 1: 1-31)
Again, this is just a question of a seeking mind. No answers yet. But don't be afraid to ask.
Read about Flood: Part 2, soon.
Still, Hallelujah
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