Seems that there was a 'time' before the Genesis chapter 1 creation time. Seems that the destruction of 'that time' was the war between Satan and Michael, talked about in the Revelation. Seems that Satan was a murder from the Beginning, way 'before' the creation of the present universe in 6 days. The necessity for God to create light on the first day shows that the electromagnetic system was different 'before' the first day. This means that we can't evaluate 'time' durations before the first day. However, some of the artifacts of that previous 'time' are still embedded in our Earth and universe. Consider that the 'was' in "the earth was formless and empty," is translated as some variant of 'became' in about 110 other places in the Bible. "God of the gaps" is not right because scholars neglect the idea that 'time' was different 'before' the first day.