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(3) Adamic Earth
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’” (Genesis 1:3). This is the re-created earth as described in
Genesis chapters one and two, before the fall of man. The earth is a paradise. There is no rain, but a
mist arose from the ground to water the earth (Genesis 2:6). Mankind has not sinned, but Satan is
present upon the earth.

(4) Pre-Flood Earth
“Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns
and thistles it shall grow for you; And you shall eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face...”
(Genesis 3:17-19). This is the earth after Adam sinned. Sin and death have now entered the creation.
The earth no longer gives forth abundantly.

(5) Present Earth
This is the earth after the flood of Noah. It is an earth under human government. After the flood
Yahweh shortened man's life span from a thousand years to one hundred-twenty years (Genesis 6:3).
This present state of the earth will continue until the millennial reign of Christ.

(6) Millennial Earth
“Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has
no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years”
(Revelation 20:6). During this period Satan will be bound. Christ will reign upon the earth with His
overcoming saints. Sin and death will still be present, but greatly mitigated.

Isaiah 65:20
There shall no more be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who dies prematurely;
for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies when only a hundred years old
shall be [thought only a child, cut off because he is] accursed.
(Amplified Bible)

After a thousand years Satan will be loosed and war and judgment will result once more. The present
earth will be consumed with fire. Then will come the third and final creation of the earth, which will
also be the seventh state of the earth.

(7) New Earth
There will be no sea on the new earth. Seas represent death, and death will be no more. These seven
states of the earth conform to the septenary (seven fold) design which God has imprinted upon the
creation.

It is apparent that in each of these seven stages of the earth that a significant change has occurred. The
creation cannot be complete until it fulfills the divine numerical design. Even as the Creator has
revealed Himself in the numbers one, three, and seven, so too must the earth, and the man who was
formed from the dust of the earth, bear this same imprint. All that is full and complete is marked by
these numbers.

Consider how this divine pattern is broken when one rejects the ruin/restoration doctrine of Genesis