Gap idea is destruction of evolution

Isaiah 45:18: [18] 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: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

“That verse says He didn’t create it like Genesis 1:2 says it was. That’s one of the verses that tells you something happened between verse 1 and verse 2 in Genesis 1," explains Richard Jordan.

“In the last 30 years, evangelical Christendom, which is absolutely no place to get your bonafides from if you’re a Bible believer, has been on a terror about what they call Creation Science and the fight against evolution.

“Especially in the Christian school and home school movement, believing in a gap is considered heresy. In fact, there are major Christian universities who have adopted in their doctrinal statement that you cannot believe there’s a gap between verse 1 and verse 2 and be a fundamentalist. It’s become that politically charged.

“The reason they do all that is they want to defend against evolution. But think about that a minute: if God created the heaven and the earth and then something happened to what was there, and He had to redo it, how does that promote evolution? It doesn’t.

“A gap does the one thing to evolution that destroys it; it means what’s here now ain’t what was back there. If someone comes along and says measure the earth and it appears to be X number of million or billion years old, you can look at them and say, ‘So?’

“I mean, even if your scientific calculations are correct, so what? God created it, He judged it and what was there before He destroyed, and then He recreates it with Adam. Now that is the answer to evolution in the Bible. The so-called gap idea is the destruction of evolution.

“What they say is you’re putting the gap there so you can account for the earth being millions of years old. Well, okay, how does that help? If the earth is millions of years old (Genesis 1:1) and then there’s a gap between 1 and 2, what was there before isn’t continuing on until today. So you didn’t help yourself. You shot yourself in the foot as far as evolution is concerned.

“Now, if you need to fight evolution, all you have to do is read verse 1 or Colossians 1:16 or John 1:3 and that would have settled that for you.

Colossians 1:16: [16] For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

John 1:3: [3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

“What does it mean that the earth became without form and void? In Jeremiah 4, as well as Isaiah 45, are passages that are not specifically written to talk about Genesis 1; they’re written to talk about when Jesus Christ is revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on His enemies.

“Jeremiah 4 and Isaiah 45 describe what’s going on at the end. What they tell you is something happened back there between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 that isn’t resolved until the end. What happens at the Second Advent is the battle Christ wins is a battle that was engaged in Genesis 1.

Jeremiah 4:19: [19] My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

“There’s that trumpet in Joel 2 before the armies of God. Verse 22-23: [22] For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
[23] I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

"That description ‘without form and void’ is exactly what Genesis 1:2 said. How did it get that way? Verse 26: [26] I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
[27] For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

“There is His day of vengeance as the man of war making war. What did it do to Palestine? It made it without form and void. That expression is a clear reference to the condition of the earth after the judgement of God has been poured out on it.

“It uses exactly the same terminology as Genesis 1:2 because the battle that began between God and Satan back over in Genesis 1 isn’t resolved until Jesus Christ comes back at the Second Advent.

“It's crucial to follow that when you come back to Genesis 1 what you have is not the absolute original creation of the universe; what you have is the re-creation, the restoration, the restructuring of the universe in light of the fact that there is now a war going on and the universe is now the arena of the war. The theater for the battle is the universe we live in, so He constructs it in Genesis 1 in a way so as to set the battlefield.”