Dissolving an Unmade Universe

Genesis/Bereishit chapter 1:

First of all, God created the heavens and the earth.

And the earth had been welter and waste, and darkness on the face of the Deep — and a wind of God fluttering on the face of the water.

And then God said, "Let there be light!" — and then light was...

And then God said, "Let there be a solid sheet within the water, and let it separate water from water."

And then God made the solid sheet, and separated the water below the solid sheet from the water which was above the solid sheet...

And then God said, let the water collect under the heavens in one place, and let the dry land appear..."

So what do we have here, in this sketch of the primordial universe?

We have Water. Tehom. The Deep.

And then the Water is split by the Solid Sheet, the Raqia‘.

And the solid sheet, like a translucent dome, separates the Water Above from the Water Below.

And then the Water Below condenses, precipitating out Dry Land or draining into the hollows of a Land that may have already existed, hidden under or within the Deep.

Over the next few days, God filled the world with life.

Bereishit/Genesis 6:

...And then the earth became destructive before God's face — and the earth became full of petty theft...

"...And me, behold I bring the Dissolving — water on the earth — to destroy all flesh which has within it a wind of life, from under the heavens..."

Bereishit/Genesis 7:

In the six-hundredth year of Noahh's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month — on that day, all the springs of the great Deep were broken through and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Imagine what's going on here — the first practical stage of creating a habitable world was when God separated the Upper Water from the Lower Water by means of the Solid Sheet, opening up a space between them in which life could exist. In order to wipe out that life now, God releases the Dissolving by going back and unmaking Creation. The Raqia‘ holding up the Water Above is opened up, and the earth holding down the Water Below is broken through, allowing the waters to flood back into the 'middle' Earth. The world has to be remade from scratch, and so God is pressing 'rewind' on God's heavenly DVD.