No, he is speaking to a future event, when the Sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, when the mountains and hills will tremble.
“without for an void” sound familiar? read Genesis 1:2.
I think you may find more information in studying the words tohu and bohu in Hebrew.
I find 'gap theory' to be a tired extrapolation with very little evidence, whose sole purpose is to shoehorn evolution into Christianity.
If you care to believe that the Earth was fully formed and functional for billions of years before the creation of the heavens and the hanging of the stars, before the sun and the moon, that is your business. But to my mind, that is a huge amount of history to pack into one verse, especially with nothing more to back it up.
Sooner or later, if you would choose to study the Prophecy and the the mechanisms of prophecy (particularly in this case, The Grand Jubilee and the genealogy from Adam to Messiah), and the way that these things foretell prophecy, you will find that your position does damage. EVERY word of YHWH is true, and every man a liar.
“No, he is speaking to a future event, when the Sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, when the mountains and hills will tremble.”
By referencing the past event:
From the Amplified Bible:
[In a vision Jeremiah sees Judah laid waste by conquest and captivity.] I looked at the land, and behold, it was [as at the time of creation] waste and vacant (void); and at the heavens, and they had no light.
“I think you may find more information in studying the words tohu and bohu in Hebrew.”
From Strongs, to’-hoo and bo’-hoo defined, used in both Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23:
to’-hoo
From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
bo’-hoo
From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness, void.
“I find ‘gap theory’ to be a tired extrapolation with very little evidence, whose sole purpose is to shoehorn evolution into Christianity.”
If there’s any gap theorists pushing evolution then they’re not reading the bible correctly either, although I have yet to see many promoting evolution theory. Most do not. Evidence you say? What I find tiring are buffoons who deny scientific evidence that the earth is older than 6,000 years old, and believe that man walked along side dinosaurs. Read the Bible correctly and you will see that it matches that evidence.