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There are a few Bible passages about it, otherwise all you have is speculation and inferences.
Isaiah 14:4-23 and Ezekiel 28:11-19 refer to these events in an oblique way by criticizing earthly rulers and comparing them to satan.
In Genesis 9:11 we have a reference to two different cataclysmic floods. This is because the earlier flood, before Gen. 1:2 resulted earth in its entirety being destroyed, even the atmosphere. There was no air and everything had to be reconstructed.
This earlier flood is also mentioned in 2 Peter 3:5-6. It's not to be confused with the flood of Noah, which was also cataclysmic but didn't destroy the atmosphere. You notice in the next verse 7 it says, "the heavens and the earth which are now," which implies that the previous world that was destroyed had a different atmosphere than the one we have now. God's act of separating the waters which are above (clouds) with the waters below (sea) and creating the firmament (sky or atmosphere) was crucial to making it possible for life to exist. Peter in this part of the New Testament seems to actually be referring to this earlier flood rather than to Noah's flood.
If the destruction of this flood was so severe that the atmosphere itself were destroyed, nothing like a human being could survive in it since there would be no air. Nobody could survive in an ark, and arguably no life at all could exist under the conditions of Gen. 1:2.
Isaiah 45:18 requires this to be the case. It says, "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:"
The word "in vain" here is the same word used to describe the earth in Genesis 1:2, where it says "the earth was without form and void." The Bible (in Isaiah 45:18) is directly saying that God did not create the earth like that, so something must have happened to it before Genesis 1:2 to make it like that. Some kind of judgement.
There are a few Bible passages about it, otherwise all you have is speculation and inferences.
Isaiah 14:4-23 and Ezekiel 28:11-19 refer to these events in an oblique way by criticizing earthly rulers and comparing them to satan.
In Genesis 9:11 we have a reference to two different cataclysmic floods. This is because the earlier flood, before Gen. 1:2 resulted earth in its entirety being destroyed, even the atmosphere. There was no air and everything had to be reconstructed.
This earlier flood is also mentioned in 2 Peter 3:5-6. It's not to be confused with the flood of Noah, which was also cataclysmic but didn't destroy the atmosphere. You notice in the next verse 7 it says, "the heavens and the earth which are now," which implies that the previous world that was destroyed had a different atmosphere than the one we have now. God's act of separating the waters which are above (clouds) with the waters below (sea) and creating the firmament (sky or atmosphere) was crucial to making it possible for life to exist. Peter in this part of the New Testament seems to actually be referring to this earlier flood rather than to Noah's flood.
If the destruction of this flood was so severe that the atmosphere itself were destroyed, nothing like a human being could survive in it since there would be no air. Nobody could survive in an ark, and arguably no life at all could exist under the conditions of Gen. 1:2.
Isaiah 45:18 requires this to be the case. It says, "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:"
The word "in vain" here is the same word used to describe the earth in Genesis 1:2, where it says "the earth was without form and void." The Bible (in Isaiah 45:18) is directly saying that God did not create the earth like that, so something must have happened to it before Genesis 1:2 to make it like that. Some kind of judgement.
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