“For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens … He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it in vain” (Isaiah 45:18).

A working model of pre-flood Earth must have had a place for all the water to go on day three of creation when the dry land appeared and Holy Scripture presents many clues. “He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses” (Psalm 33:7). Where were the storehouses of the deep and do we have evidence for their existence? The significance of the word “void” in Genesis 1:2 is not that it describes a chaotic state – Isaiah 45:18 clearly states that God formed the earth to accommodate His unfolding plan. The word void more accurately describes a cavity or recess of interconnected chambers waiting to be filled with water from the surface on day three of creation. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, And the earth was formless and void” (Genesis 1:1-2a).