There were TWO periods of creation?

Yes, and each era is easily identifiable using only The Bible as your resource, not any other writings of scholars that came afterward. If this is true, why is it not common knowledge and what does this have to do with the prophet Jeremiah?

To begin, an interesting thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. I was listening to a Christian man talk about the future “second harvest” when our Messiah, Yahshua Anointed returns. I often have done a word-search in scripture, where I’d take just one word, such as “Satan” and I would look up every verse throughout the Bible where that word is used and see for myself whether there is any difference in its root usage between either the Old Testament vs. New Testament, or various authors of the books of the Bible.

I looked up “harvest” in Strong’s Concordance and found that it appears 61 times within 51 verses of the Bible, so it did not take long to view each verse. That’s when I stumbled upon Jeremiah and his reference to both periods of creation, here:

Jer. 5:24–Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our Elohim, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Do you see it? Jeremiah identified each period of creation, both the pre-historic era and the period identified in Genesis that describes the “days” of creation, including the Garden of Eden and the creation of man.

To the untrained eye, there does not appear to be anything of substance to see here, let alone an identification of separate periods of creation. And admittedly, for most of my lifetime, I could not have seen it either. But in Jeremiahs matter-of-fact reference to the former and latter rains he has done that very thing. What he just described is the period of time, which we would identify as “Pre-Historic”, plus the creation of man, and the period of time…AFTER THE FLOOD.

But wait–how could those specific periods of time possibly be what Jeremiah was describing? Couldn’t he have simply meant the former and latter rains of a growing season? The former and latter rains of a decade? A century? Millennium? How can I be so sure that he’s talking about both the pre-historic and post-flood eras in his mention of former and latter rains?

The answer is simple, yet shocking to most readers.

In the first period of creation, the earth appeared like a rain forest, as its fossilized remains of ferns, plants and other vegetation can be found almost everywhere on earth. Each of those growing plants were the ancestors of similar plants which can be found in abundance in the various rain forests of the world today. These plants require constant rains, not just a wet April or occasional rains for their survival.

In Genesis 2, Moses called that ancient period the “genealogical annuls” of creation, incorrectly rendered “generations” in our modern Bibles. I went into great detail of this first period of creation in an earlier blog post, here.

If you haven’t already read that post, nothing I say here will make sense to you. The vast majority of Bible believers (dare I say “all”) are convinced that the 7 days of creation described in Genesis 1 merely consist of 7 days, where the 7th day was a day of rest. If that were true, and the sun and moon were not created until day 4, the first 3 days could not have been measured in 24-hour increments. With no sun to mark the time, those first 3 days could have been 100’s or even 1,000’s of years long. But the actual length of those first three “days” pales in comparison to the length of time of the first creation, as Moses described in Genesis 2, above.

Devout people therefore must convince themselves that ALL creatures, great and small, on the land, in the sea and in the air, must have ALL existed during the same time that man was created. They have to accept that dinosaurs and mankind coexisted, but somehow only the dinosaurs became extinct while man and the rest of creation somehow survived. Worse, they have to rationalize that somehow all prehistoric creatures of the sea also disappeared without explanation. The accepted answer is “they must just accept it on faith”, even though the cognitive dissonance is deafening. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Which brings me back to the prophet Jeremiah. Why did he refer to the “former and latter rains” as if it was something easily identifiable?

It’s because it was.

When Yahweh created Adam, then Eve, He did not allow it to rain upon the earth.

Ever.

From the very first moment that the first humans were in the Garden of Eden, people have just assumed that Yahweh HAD to have also created rain, as a routine weather phenomena, to allow plants to grow. But that’s not what scripture tells us. We are told that a mist came up from the ground and watered everything.

Gen. 2:6–But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

It was this MIST that kept plants and other produce growing with very little effort. The watering of the plants came from WITHIN the earth, not from the sky. If you doubt that this could possibly be true, I’ve described this phenomena in great detail in another earlier post, here.

And since the watering of every growing thing was so effortless, it would have remained so if Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned. Then AFTER their sin caused them to be banished from the Garden of Eden, mankind had to toil with great effort to irrigate crops and use their own efforts to keep plants watered for their mere survival. The mist from the ground in the Garden of Eden did not exist beyond its borders. What at first was very easy now became a life-and-death struggle.

This great effort continued for 1,656 years until the time of Noah. In fact, the name Noah actually means “comfort” because for the FIRST TIME SINCE THE CREATION OF MAN, WATER WOULD NOW COME FROM THE SKY IN THE FORM OF RAIN. It is because of this promise from Yahweh, which He validated with a rainbow, that all rains from that time until now can be identified as the “latter” rains. All the rains which occurred during the prehistoric times–PLUS those first three “days” of creation–are easily identified as the “former” rains.

Again, if you haven’t read my previous post about the miracle of Noah’s rainbow, you must do so to connect the dots. Prior to that miraculous rainbow, all sunlight that came to earth was filtered through an ice ring that surrounded the entire earth. And, for a rainbow to occur, it must have DIRECT sunlight. There was ample light for things to grow, but only after the floodgates of heaven were opened and all those trillions of ice particles fell to earth…and becoming water as they entered our atmosphere, could rainbows finally occur.

Jeremiah’s prophecy is intended for our understanding today, as he was not just a mere prophet for prior times or certain people. No–he was tasked with writing prophecies for the entire world, as identified in chapter one of his book.

Jeremiah 1:5–Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

His observation about the former and latter rains are simply a description of the rains that existed prior to Adam and Eve, then commenced after Noah’s successful voyage where he and all the other living things that lived on land and in the air survived.

Between those times, it was an enormous struggle just to survive.

Two periods of creation: the prehistoric and the specific “days” of creation in Genesis 1. For those who reject two separate eras of creation, why in Genseis 1: 2 did Moses write that the earth BECAME VACANT? Our modern Bibles poorly transliterate the Hebrew expression, as it’s rendered “And the earth was without form and void….” This incorrect rendering of והאדמה היא הפכה לתוהו ובוהו ומשרה פנויה, or “And the earth she became chaos and vacancy”.

The vacancy obviously referred to the earth’s former occupants. Bye bye dinosaurs.

Welcome mankind.