THE THIRD DAY
The work of the
"Third Day" was twofold, the emergence of the land from the sea, and the
reappearance of vegetable life.
God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land EARTH;
and the gathering together of the waters called He SEAS: and God saw that it was
This is simply a reversal of the catadysmic convulsions that submerged
the Pre-Adamite Earth, and by upheaval caused the earth to emerge from its
"And God said, Let
the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit AFTER HIS KIND, whose seed is in itself UPON THE EARTH: and it was so. And
the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the
tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itsenf, after his kind: and God saw that
it was good. And the evening and the morning were the 'Third Day',"
not a new creation but a RESURRECTION. The earth rises up out of the "Waters of
Death," and seeds, and the roots of plants and herbs and trees are called upon
to germinate and sprout and grow as they did before the catastrophe that
submerged the Pre-Adamite Earth. If that catastrophe was what we know as the
"Glacial Period," the resurrection of plant life no more required a "creative
act" than vegetation does in the spring of the year after the winter is over.
That this was the case seems clear from the expression, "Whose seed is in
itself, UPON THE EARTH." That is, the seed was already in the earth, having been
buried by the waters that swept over the Pre-Adamite Earth, and, being
indestructible, it only needed the proper conditions to spring up and cover the
earth with verdure. This reveals the fact that the Pre-Adamite Earth was clothed
with verdure, and covered with plants and trees like those of our present earth.
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