Earth's Earliest Ages

Reprint Edition, 1987
326 pgs.

This classic work examines the biblical evidence for a post-creation catastrophe and destruction of the earth and a subsequent recreation. Pember examines the role of demonic forces in the first destruction of earth under God's judgment and compares them to the rise of spiritualism, Theosophy, and Buddhist thought.

George Hawkins Pember was born in 1837. He was educated at Cambridge University where he took his M.A. in Classics at age twenty-six. Upon his conversion to Christ, Pember determined to devote his scholastic talents to a close and comprehensive study of the Scriptures for the benefit of God's people. His penchant for meticulous scholarship, extensive knowledge of ancient cultures, and keen spiritual insight combined to produce works of a quality and depth with few parallels in Christian expository literature.

G. H. Pember died in 1910, leaving a rich legacy of reclaimed spiritual truth, upon which subsequent reformers such as J. N. Darby, Watchman Nee, G. H. Lang, and T. Austin-Sparks would build.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Forward
Preface to Third Edition
Author's Preface to First Edition

1. The Creation
2. The Interval
3. The Six Days
4. The Creation of Man
5. The Fall of Man
6. The Trial and Sentence
7. The Age of Freedom
8. The Days of Noah
9. "As It Was In The Days Of Noah"
10. Spiritualism (Part 1): The Testimony of the Bible
11. Spiritualism (Part 2): The Testimony of History
12. Spiritualism (Part 3): The Modern Outburst
13. Theosophy
14. Buddhism
15. Signs of the End
16. Confirmatory Evidence

Appendix: Fallen Angels Taking Human Form (Gen. 6)
Subject Index
Persons, Places, and Books Index