There's obviously a failure here by many to understand what major event happened of old to cause God to destroy the old world prior to Gen.1:2. He even gave us details of it if we would hear Him in His Word (Jer.4:23-28; Ezek.28 & 31; Rev.12:3-4).
It was because the anointed cherub that covereth, i.e, Satan, coveted God's Throne and wanted to be The GOD, and worshiped as GOD (and still does). That was the very FIRST SIN ever, and Satan was who began sin, and the cause of death. This is why death is assigned to Satan, and it's why we are shown death eventually perishing with him in the lake of fire per Rev.20.
The events of Jeremiah 4:23-28 is not of a time of flesh man upon the earth. It was an angelic time prior to Adam and Eve when Satan first sinned with establishing a kingdom of his own upon the earth, the one third of angels of Rev.12:3-4 with him that he drew to earth.
God originally created a perfect creation, not like today's. Today's creation since Gen.1:2 has been in a state of vanity, in bondage, seeking release from it along with us when the time of the manifestation of the sons of God comes, i.e, in His future eternal Kingdom with a new earth and new heavens (Rom.8).
This is the reason why everything of this present world is in a state of imperfectness, and it's why even men seek perfection. It's not possible in this present creation, because God placed it in a state of vanity which is subject to 'death' and destruction, decay, chaos, disorder, i.e., confusion.
But in the new heavens and a new earth, we are shown God's Holy City on earth, and His River of Gen.2 established on earth with the tree of life bearing its fruits per its months and never being consumed, with our being changed to a body that cannot die, cannot suffer hot or cold, won't get hungry, etc. Has anyone ever found a tree like that tree of life in this world. Has anyone ever seen His River that when it touches other waters upon the earth they are healed and become stocked with many fishes like the Ezek.47 chapter shows? Has anyone in this present world ever seen a time when there was no death? Have we today seen wild animals like lions laying down next to a lamb and not wanting to kill as shown in the Book of Isaiah for the future?
Instead what does man think of today's world? They think it's perfect as it is, when it is not, and many worship today's state of creation which really goes against Him and His Word, showing how deceived many of His children are. We grow up watching nature shows of how today's animal kingdom operates, survival of the fittest and what not, and we think that is the natural way God wanted His creation to be, when it is not, as He has shown in His Word! Some men even pattern their lives based on how today's animal kingdom operates with the survival of the fittest attitude, not showing God's holiness but showing the beast nature aberration that the devil caused God to place today's creation into.
And then there's the Gen.2 & 3 event of God's Garden of Eden upon the earth, with His River of the waters of Life flowing out of that Garden on earth to feed four other rivers upon the earth, two of which still exist today (Tigris or Hiddekel and Euphrates). What of that? What was He showing us with that event of His Garden of Eden upon this earth in Gen.2, and then removing it after Adam and Eve's fall?
