Shepherd’s Chapel teaches a doctrine known as the Katabole, or the "Three Earth Ages," which includes the concept of a "world that was" before the current age. According to this teaching, Satan fell in this prior world, leading one-third of the angels (whom they claim were humans in a previous form) to follow him, one-third to align with God (earning the status of "elect" in this age), and one-third to remain undecided. However, a close examination of Scripture reveals no evidence to support this narrative. Shepherd’s Chapel points to Jeremiah 4:19–31 as describing the Katabole—the alleged destruction of this earlier world. A verse-by-verse analysis of this chapter, in its proper context, demonstrates that it refers solely to God’s judgment on Judah and Jerusalem, not a prehistoric earth age.