Much of the Bible is the story of God's plan to salvage one female descendant, of pure flesh and blood pedigree, from His eighth day creation of Adam and his wife Eve, (The individual man, Adam; the word "man" used here is "'eth-ha adham", with the article and particle, and means "this same man Adam". It means a specific man, not mankind in general.)--- The forming of this eighth day individual man is recorded in Genesis chapter 2; This is not the creation of all flesh and blood mankind, that is recorded in Genesis chapter 1). --- But, the story really starts billions of years before this, when God first created us, His children as spirit beings. He then, sometime later, created the earth, the first earth age, for us to live on, the age of the dinosaurs. --- Tragically 1/3 of us were lead astray, approximately 4 1/2 billion of us, by our very charismatic religious leader, Lucifer, during his Lucifer/Satan's rebellion in that first earth age. --- God did after Satan rebelled destroy that earth age in His fierce anger and sentenced Satan to die in "The Lake of Fire", i.e. TO BE NO MORE! --- God completely destroyed that first earth age, i.e. "Lucifer's Flood", the end of dinosaurs on earth, which happened during the un-recorded gap in your Bible between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 (It was a complete destruction of earth's elements, but not the earth itself, and is described in Jeremiah 4:23-26; not to be confused with "Noah's Flood".) --- God did choose not to sentence those 4 1/2 billion of His children who followed Satan to death at that time. --- Instead He devised a plan whereby our souls might still be salvaged. --- He restructured the earth and decided to place us all back on it, but this time He would place us here,in our turn in an order of His choosing, in animal type bodies, hoping to salvage many of our souls from spiritual death, WHICH IS ALSO TO BE NO MORE!!!, by the example of our witnessing the physical death of our loved ones who we can then no longer communicate with. (The shadow of the real death which is the destruction of our souls, --- The purpose of this eighth day creation was to give flesh and blood life (birth) to His only begotten Son Jesus the Christ who, through His shed blood on the cross, would become the savior of the world (the savior of the souls of, us, His children if we will only accept, Him, Jesus by faith, claiming His shed blood to cover our sins. ---God did start placing us back here on earth born to a flesh and blood women. That part of the story is now history; It has been accomplished; Jesus was born to a pure eighth day creation virgin, Mary, although it did require that God flood that part of the world (Noah's Flood in the middle east)in this second earth age when only eight souls remained, from the eighth day creation of pure pedigree. (those 8 being Noah and his family)--- All other souls in that part of the world were contaminated by sexual union, and having children with Satan's fellow fallen angels, and they needed to be destroyed to protect that pure eighth day creation pedigree. --- Now for the second part of the story. --- While all of this re-population of the earth is taking place God has Satan locked up in heaven and he and not allowed to come to earth in person right now,(although he can still influence us spiritually).--- God will in the very near future allow Satan to return to earth five months prior to His own return, which will be at the end this flesh and blood second earth age, to test those souls of all self-proclaiming Christians, to see if they really have faith in Jesus and have learned to tell the difference between, what is holy (Jesus) and what is profane (Satan) before granting each one eternal life when this earth age ends based on our faith and trust in Jesus. --- This is "The First Resurrection to Eternal Life" or if not granted then, another opportunity,(you might call it 1000 years of summer school), "THE MILLENNIUM" based on our works during those 1000 years which will include special instruction by Jesus and those of us who have already been granted eternal life (God's Elect) "in a new third heaven age and new third earth age" to eternal life "The Second Resurrection" or to eternal death in "The Lake of Fire". (The death of our souls) --- Read and study your Bible! --- YOU NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS; THIS STORY WHICH GOD TOLD US ALL ABOUT THROUGH HIS PROPHETS and had them recorded for our study and understanding in both TESTAMENTS, THE OLD & THE NEW! --- The time frame when this will all happen and the details about the two resurrections to eternal life and 'The Great White Throne of Judgmemt" and the basis for those decisions!   Live Link to-  The Plan of God
Jeremiah vision 
If we look at Jeremiah's vision of the earth (Jer. 4:23-26) it was without form and void; and had no light and the mountains trembled and the hills moved. And there were no men and all the birds were gone. He said the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities were broken down because of the Lord's anger. He must have seen the earth as it is described inGen. 1:2  and as Peter described it in 2 Peter 3: 6  because the earth has never been empty and waste and dark since the six days of God's activity as described in Gen. 1:3 to 2:25. The only time the sun and stars were not allowed to give light was the period before the six days. They have been giving light ever since. There never has been a time or will be a time when there were no men on earth since then. Yet Jeremiah said all the cities were gone and no men were there.
How can this be? 
What was happening on earth between (Gen. 1:1), Isaiah's vision of the inhabited earth or (2 Peter 3:5 Peter's description of the earth standing out of the water and; (Gen. 1:2) Jeremiah's vision of the flooded, empty and void earth or (2 Peter 3:6) Peter's overflowed earth?