The Gap Theory

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God; — read the full passage →

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you; — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. — read the full passage →

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. — read the full passage →

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. — read the full passage →

You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and many people.

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! — read the full passage →

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, — read the full passage →

Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.

The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →