Earth's Earliest Ages

G. H. Pember
326 pgs.

One of the earliest proponents of the "Gap Theory" explaining the pre-Adamic age, G. H. Pember here builds a strong scriptural case for a long interval between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. This classic work skillfully links together key portions of scripture showing that the rebel arch Angel Lucifer and his fallen followers had free reign on the earth for an unknown period before God judged the world with a catastrophic flood. The creation record following actually records God's restoration of the judged world and creation of man to bear His image and hopefully subdue the rebellion.

Pember warns that the influence of the same demonic forces is rising in spiritualism, Theosophy, and world religions. Prescient insights indeed from 150 years ago.

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