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God wrought destruction on the heads of the rebellious "sons", with power that cannot be imagined. Satan is described as a snake trying to escape the judgment of God .
It is symbolized by the constellation Draconis, which winds itself between the big and little dipper, which represented to the ancients, the flock of the good sheperd and the stronghold of the saved.
God brought a fire out of Satan's midst, in the center of his greatest planetary kingdom. The planet Rahab exploded sending pieces of itself into the orbits of the interior terrestrial worlds.
Asteroid impacts on the surface of mars rocked the planet, oceans washed over its dry land. The martian atmosphere was blasted into space.
On earth virtually the same catastrophes took place -- DESTROYING CITIES CREATED ON EARTH BEFORE THERE WERE EVEN ADAMS.
Jeremiah 4:23-2:
I looked on the earth, and beheld it formless (laid waste) and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
I looked on the mountains, and, behold, they quaked.
And all the hills were shaken. I beheld and lo, there was no man (Adams); and all the cover of the skies had fled.
I looked, and, behold, the fruitful place was a wilderness; and all its cities were broken down before the face of Jehovah, before his glowing anger.
For so Jehovah has said. The whole land shall be a desolation;
yet I will not make a full end.
Jeremiah looked into the ages before Adam and described the destruction of the earth.
Jeremiah 4:23-2 ... Jeremiah looked into the ages before Adam and described the destruction of the earth.
Actually, Jeremiah 4 isn't describing a pre-Adam civilization (there's no context for that interpretation, and one can only get that type of interpretation if one takes such passages as Jeremiah 4:23 out of their context within the rest of the passage). It's a warning to Judah of judgement, describing what'll happen to them if they continue on their path (basically, everything they've known will be destroyed).
As for the term 'earth', the word used is
erets [Strong's 0776], which can mean either the planet earth (how you're interpreting it), or as land/country/territory/etc. (how it'd be interpreted in the context to the rest of Jeremiah). There's nothing to suggest this verse means anything but the utter destruction of a land (it's discriptive, not historical, in the provided context). That there will be no man in that land is referenced earlier by Jeremiah 4:7 -
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. Note: It stated
without an inhabitant. This doesn't mean that all life on planet earth perished, but that the land would be so completely laid to waist that no one would be left alive there. This passage doesn't hold your interpretation, because your interpretation holds no true context to the passage.
-The Hajman-