Proverbs 4:5-7
Proverbs 4:5-7
Genesis +The Great Flood
The first part of Genesis must be analyzed carefully if a sensible understanding of the timing for the creation of...
...not only the Earth, for which is certainly not only 6,000 years old, as some scholars would like us to believe, but the creation of things on & around the Earth to establish some verifiable dates as to when & if The Great Flood started & was it world wide ?
The misleading calculations by the Church of Ireland's Archbishop James Ussher, the main authority of the semantic text of the Hebrew Bible / Torah stated, in 1650 AD, that the first day of creation was late October 4004 BC & that the Great Flood was 2349 BC.
Therefore 4004 BC + 2023 ( the year of this publication) = 6027 years ago accordingly is the age of the earth.
The flood was 2349 BC + 2023 = according to Ussher's calculations the flood was 4372 years ago.
Many scholars agreed with his calculation that the Earth is supposed to be only 6,000 years old.
When was the end of creation ?
Genesis states creation ended after only 6 days of God starting & according to Ussher that was when Adam was created.
However that was Not year one nor was it the date of Adam's birth.
The following, among many other things, is the explanation of why his figures are wrong.
First a Planet of Rock 700 Billion Years Ago a Planet of Ice 500 Billion a planet with earth
Gen. 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
As the Bible does not state that God made the water, only separated the waters below from the waters above, as in Gen. 1:6 & 7...there must have been, you must agree, an additional very long period of time for all the waters on the surface of the earth to form & fill up the deep oceans & lakes on the surface.
In addition there is the vast amount of water shown to be under the mantle of the Earth that is, according to the publication from 'Science' & reported in the Smithsonian, three times greater than the amount of water on the surface. see diagram.
Note: We know the age of the earth has been calculated correctly by astrological speed of light measurements to be 4.543 billion years old.
The Bible states a day in heaven is a thousand Earth years.
Psalm 90 & 2 Peter 3...But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Therefore the 'Lord' God took 2,000 Earth years, after The Supreme 'God' created the Earth & the water had formed, to complete creations 'on & around the Earth' if a heavenly day is a thousand years on Earth.
2,000 years seems like a reasonable amount of time for the Lord God to have made or introduced modifications making them the original "kinds" of plants & animals for which was a great deal less time than all the other many kinds that we see today having evolved from the originals.
For example... today there are 334 different types of monkeys that all have evolved from an original modified pair.
Many different kinds of hominoids have developed (evolved out of the earth / ground) seeded there by the Lord God from The Supreme God's original designs (DNA ?).
Just because The Supreme God & The Lord God took 6 heavenly days working does not mean they did those days on Earth consecutively.
No time was mentioned between day 7 to when The Lord gave the breath of life to Adam. It could have been hundreds of thousands of year & in reality it probably was.
What we should hold firmly in our minds is that aside from the actual physical creation of the Earth 'up to now' all of what has been described as taking place was in the first four days, it seems, was a description of The Supreme God of Creation working on the designs in the heaven's' etheric / astral realms of things that are yet to take place in the physical realm on & around the Earth.
With no individual entity (angel, spirit, soul or person) has, as yet, been mentioned.
In Gen 2:1 it states - The heavens, the earth, all life completed in all their vast array. Not the physical only the spirits.
Array - meaning : "to display or arrange things in a particular way".
In Genesis 2:4 it states - "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.".... These were not Jesus' words.
Jesus was responsible for bringing about the ground not planet Earth & the heavens around & above the Earth.
It does not say Jesus' spirit hovered over the Earth as God's spirit did in Gen 1:2.
Confirming in Job 38:4 Jesus states... He only laid down the foundations for the Earth. He did not say He created the Earth.
Account - meaning : "a report or description of an event or experience".
Now, in 2:4 is the first mention & use of the term the 'LORD God' after previously mentioning the word 'God' by itself 29 times !
The term LORD God, in most versions of the modern Bible, Gen 2:4 is the only place in those Bibles where the word LORD is shown in all capital letters after which is written Lord with the capitalization of only the letter L.
So after the completion of the creation of all the spirit's of all the men & women by the Supreme God in Genesis 1:26 we have the term LORD God followed by another description of creation, called an 'account', of the physical world by the LORD God.
The Lord God was the YET to incarnate Jesus, one of His heavenly names, was Jehovah & or Michael. Michael means "gift from God". He was head of the second group of angels.
C&P "Meaning and Derivation: Jehovah is translated as "The Existing One" or "Lord." The chief meaning of Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew word Havah meaning "to be" or "to exist."
"It also suggests "to become" or specifically "to become known."
Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua “He Brings into Existence Whatever Exists” ( Yahweh - Asher -Yahweh ). Jehovah is translated as "The Existing One" or "Lord." (More on this in the section named 'New Gods'.)
Assuming the calculations of the Torah's dates had some validity but Ussher did NOT take into consideration that the timing started before the creation of everything 'on the earth' & not after & that one heavenly day is equal to 1,000 earth years...
... also knowing Noah was 600 years old when the flood started, that was said to be 1,056 years after the end of creation, but was 7,056 or more years ago from the start of creating on & around the earth that took 2 heavenly days to complete equaling 2,000 earth years then...
...The Great Flood started 7,656 or more years ago making Adam's higher soul implant between 9,656 to 11,656 or more years ago. Not as Ussher states 5,650 years & we mostly all now agree the Earth is not around 6,000 years old.
Most importantly what we are certain of is that about 10,000 years ago the evolution of mankind took a huge leap also see
Gen 1:27 God created mankind in his own image male & female. He created them on the 6th day. or maybe this once said... God created all spirits male & female with His own imagination ?
Adam was placed in Eden between 9,600 to 11,600 years ago when he was about 56 years old.
We know that it must have been every single human spirit that was created on the 6th day as the Bible does NOT say The Supreme God made 5,000 men & women, then later made another 5,000 until the numbers of the population reached the figure as it will be on Earth at the end of the era.
In addition the Bible did NOT say... Lord God made all the males & females & sent them all to Earth at the same time.
What was made, by God, was all the spirits of men & women, in heaven, that were designated to incarnate in Earth by the Lord 'at an appointed time' with a soul incarnate in a hu - man's body first starting with Adam.
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God has, after Genesis 1:2, created the heavens, the Earth & all the waters had formed into great oceans, on & under the land.
With no days, weeks, months or years stated for the readers to understand the timing; can we rightly conclude this is confirmation billions of years elapsed from the beginning to the end of creating the Earth complete with the all the waters ?
We must answer with a resounding 'YES'.
Then in Gen. 1:3 it states God said... Let there be light, and there was light.
Note : Even before there were stars He created light.
Gen 1:5 Here it says... God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night'. And there was evening, and there was morning...the first day.
Let's make this crystal clear. The first 'heavenly day' came about AFTER He created the heavens, the Earth & all the waters had formed.
So here was the first heavenly day...during the dark was the night & 'after' the dark came light & there was the first day. Again, 'after' that light was the first day on Earth.
Before that there was NO TIME mentioned.
Gen. 1:8 God called the vault “sky.” (etc. etc.) And there was evening, and there was morning...the second day.
1:13 And there was evening, and there was morning (etc. etc.)...the third day.
1:16 God made two great lights...the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
1:19 And there was evening, and there was morning - the fourth day.
Meaning that the days being referred to earlier were not Earth days because the Earth's star, the sun, was not created until the 4th day.
The light & darkness as mentioned in 1:3 & 5 would have had to be a spiritual light having its origins in the etheric heavenly realms for which could well be in 'dark matter'.
The 'dark' just means that up to now what it is made up of & what part it plays in the universe is as yet unknown (scientist are in the dark). It could be that in that unknown area was also continuous dark until God made the light from another location that could well have been in dark matter or a parallel universe.
The Bible states in Genesis 1:1... In the beginning God created the heaven's' & then the Earth.
It must have taken a great deal of time to create the 'heaven's' & the Earth. To be realistic & truthful it took billions of years.
Here in Gen. 1:1 there is no mention of any time having past while He was creating & then completed the heavens & the earth.
That time was, along with all heavenly names, recorded in the Book of Life for every single soul.
(note: There were created souls whose names were not in the Book of Life & were not destined for Heaven or the New World to come. They are said to be those who worship Satan. (Rev.13:8).
No time was mentioned between The Supreme God creating all men & women's spirits in readiness for incarnation to when the Lord gave Adam the breath of life.
And, as will be shown Adam, according to the Bible was a 30 year old man when Lord God introduced his higher soul / spirit into his body.
Not until Genesis 2:7 did the Lord God form "a" man from the ground.
Lord God formed a man from one of those great apes (humanoids) that had evolved physically out of the ground...evolved from the Earth that The Supreme God made.
It will be shown Adam, according to the Bible, was a 30 year old man when the Lord God introduced his higher soul / spirit into his body.
He was certainly not the only human at that time (as will be shown later) but in all likelihood was the first human given a higher soul from heaven via the Lord God of Earth Jesus.
It is not clear how old Adam was when Lord God cloned Eve from Adam's rib but some indications are he was 56 years.
Note: Cloning a female from a male for Him posed no problems.
Jewish traditional historians say that Adam & Eve had 56 children. 29 sons & 27 daughters.
Considering he lived for 930 years Adam, in all likelihood, had more wives & many more children.
Those in heaven, awaiting to incarnate, would have only been able to do so by going into humanoids that had been engineered to developed into 'Homo sapiens' - wise men - that were only from the line of Adam.
Jewish traditional historians say that Adam & Eve had 56 children. 29 sons & 27 daughters.
Considering he lived for 930 years Adam, in all likelihood, had more wives & many more children.
Those in heaven awaiting to incarnate would have only been able to do so
by going into humanoids known as... 'Homo sapiens'...
- wise men - that were of the line from Adam.
Note : According to the Smithsonian... "Sediment layers suggest that 7,500 years ago Mediterranean waters roared into the Black Sea turning it from fresh water into salt water that could be evidence of Noah's flood".
Many others now agree.
Enoch walked faithfully with God for 300 years
The Book of Enoch chapter 68:1...
... "And after that my great grandfather Enoch gave me all the secrets in the book and in the parables which had been given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the parables"...
...Considering this was written by Noah, the great grandson of Enoch, the book of parables & all other works of his great grandfather, containing 'secrets,' you no doubt agree, would have certainly been taken on the ark with him.
Methuselah's name was given to him by his father Enoch in response to a prophecy that came in the form of a vivid dream warning of the coming of The Great Flood.
The name Methuselah is said to mean...when he is dead it shall be sent. “It” meaning the flood.
Keeping in mind Enoch was the first to be taught how to write with words using pen & ink he would have certainly written down this prophecy along with the information given to him by the Lord God over a 300 years period... Genesis 5:21-24.
As the Great Flood is now recognized as occurring around 7,500 years ago or more & that considering Enoch's prophetic dream of the flood was before the birth of Methuselah whom after living 969 died before the flood...
Thus stories of The Great Flood being claimed as belonging to other later civilizations means that it was they, in all probability, that plagiarized the account of the flood from Enoch's writings or...
...the story tellers, maybe also angels, relayed the story but it was retold without mentioning Enoch instead replaced by a demigod or a then current king's name.
...this would date Enoch's first writing, that was included in his first Book, as at least 8,469 years old; making this his earliest work & by far the oldest religious bibliography ever penned telling of, among other things, The One Supreme God of Creation.
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The first section of the Book of Enoch describes the fall of the angels named the Watchers & was said to have been composed in the 3rd or 4th century BC according to Western scholars.
Only in the 3rd or 4th century before Christ ?
They, in all likelihood, were copies & the originals were, like many archaeological discoveries that recently have now been found to be much older than first calculated.
"Reported today in the British journal 'Nature' that some estimates of age based on carbon analyses were wrong by as much as 3,500 years".
"Taken alone, however, the carbon dating is unreliable at best, and at worst, downright inaccurate".
Around 11 to 12 thousand years ago, humanity was making the transition from living off the land to building houses, regularly raising crops & domesticating animals. This gave mankind extra time to become more educated.
Angels were sent to help mankind against the corruption instigated by Satan & the fallen angels that upon arriving 'in' earth set out to corrupt animals of the land, oceans, plants & much later humans.
Those angels not only had to teach Enoch to read & write using words not cuneiform or hieroglyphics but how to make parchment & transcribe the words using pen & ink instead of clay tablets.
We know that at least 969 years went by from Enoch's writings until the start of The Great Flood when his son died & as such it must be obvious that as the parchments deteriorated, over that long period of time, copies would have had to been made.
Copies made later does not mean they were forgeries neither does it mean the contents are inaccurate.
His book, after his death & after The Great Flood, was known to have been continued by his great great grand children who would have definitely had copies made as the originals, & later also the copies, must have certainly suffered decomposition during the additional 450 years of Japheth's life, Noah's youngest son.
Even copies found much later the transcribers could have reworded parts to make the readers think they were the original authors of the work & as such then been able to take the credits & rewards on offer at that time for their own gain, be it those gains monitory, political or for religious motives.
However that does not always mean the entire body of the text & its relevance were altered.
After the flood some of those parchments were actually transcribed onto clay tablets.
note: The Book of Enoch.
(by Lawrence translation: 68:9)
68:9 "The name of the fourth is Penemue (angel): he discovered for the children of men bitterness & sweetness: And pointed out to them every secret of their wisdom".
Lithograph by William Blake, published London, 1803-1807.
"Penemue taught men to understand writing, and the use of pen, ink and paper".
They told Enoch the information they were dictating was only for people of the far distant future.
Aside from foretelling of the Great Flood, known to have been 1,000 years (one heavenly day) in the future, they also told of the coming of the Messiah.
Considering no one else 'at that time' could read the written words the usual motives put forward by atheists regarding religious teachings said to control people renders those motives mute.
There are only three very weak reasons why the works of Enoch were not included in the Bible.
"First was that from the book of Jude, in the Bible, describes “the Lord came” but in the book of Enoch it says, “He will arrive” or “He cometh.”
Jude refers to the “Lord” in the past event while Enoch does not refer to the Lord and states it to be a future action.
Second, in Jude it states, “the Lord came with many thousands” But Enoch writes, “He will arrive with millions” When many thousands could also mean millions. This is said to be the only minor difference between those two quotes.
Third, in Jude it states that the Lord will execute judgment & convict the ungodly, but in Enoch it says that “He” will destroy and censure."
What is the Bible...The older books were selected & compiled by Jews & as such due to the fact Enoch's books clearly mention the Messiah it was in conflict with those Jews who denied Jesus was the chosen one & as such did not want to include Enoch's works.
(Enoch 46:1–4, 48:2–7, 69:26–29) "a Messiah called "Son of Man", with divine attributes, generated before the creation, who will act directly in the final judgment and sit on a throne of glory".
Enoch's book was not included in the European version of The Bible for only those three very weak reasons given.
However because it was canonized text & regarded as a very important document it was included in the Ethiopian book of The Bible's Old Testament.
Written in an Ethiopian dead language
The Ethiopian Bible has 88 books.
As such is the oldest & most complete Bible on earth.
The King James Version has 66 books.
When it lighted, they proclaimed their superiority to the lightning; when it thundered, they laughed. This displeased the Great Spirit, and to rebuke their arrogance, he sent a great rain upon the earth.
Still the rain continued, the waters rose, and the giants, having no other refuge, were drowned".
The giants may not have been able to swim & could not fit into conventional boats.
Some Pawnees were warned of these events & were saved as were others throughout many parts of the world who were also given prior warning.
We should get one thing clear.
Contrary to what the translation of the Bible states The Great Flood did NOT KILL ALL living creatures in the world, aside from those on the ark, nor did it flood the entire world 'at the one time'.
Norandino and Lucina Discovered by the Ogre, Giovanni
Lanfranco (1582–1647). cropped Public Domain
But it DID rid the world, but not kill, all the first wave of fallen angels.
Killing much of the things they corrupted, including the giant off spring of the fallen angels that bred with earth females; where the majority of them were residing in the Mesopotamia region.
Genesis 7:11, In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month--on that day 'all the springs of the great deep burst forth'.
...All the springs of... 'the great deep'... burst forth.
Creator: Samuel S Frizzell (1843 – 1895)
Many areas were not as seriously flooded as the Mesopotamian region, where Noah & his family lived, as it was surrounded by water from....
...The Euphrates river, the Tigris river, the river Nile, the Red Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black sea & the Persian Gulf.....
The Mesopotamia region would have been one of the most affected by the world's Great Flood.
Not only would the water have been very much deeper it would have been one of the first areas to have reached its peak & the last to drain away.
It was common in those days to refer to large areas as "the world." The word used back then may have been a homonym with one meaning being from coast to coast.
This is made clear in Genesis 41:57 ...
No one from Asia, Australia, North, South America or indeed South Africa travelled to Egypt to get food as it would have taken months to get there & months to get back.
Therefore the term "all of the world" was a mistranslation... deliberately or not.
Such was the corruption of man (in some places) he had nothing else in his heart but evil...
This was “said” to be the reason Lord God sent a great flood...
OR...
... did He decided to tell, protect & save only those that were NOT corrupt from a flood that was about to happen because of natural weather & subterranean geological forces but He did nothing to stop it ?
For years experts would say that if all the water in the clouds were to be on the earth & all the water locked up in ice were to melt there would not have been enough water to flood the entire world & certainly not enough to reach high mountain tops however we now know that in fact there is at least three times more water underground & under the oceans than there is above ground.
..."And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere".
To recap:
From, not only some recent archaeology evidence, for which, as yet only one has been mentioned, & in accordance to Enoch's prophetic vision along with the subsequent naming of his son...
...we can be confident in estimating the flood as being at very least 7, 500 years ago.
Note :- Published in the Smithsonian Science (see the diagram) it states there is a hidden reservoir 400 miles below the Earth's mantle that contains three times the amount of water found on the surface.
There are numerous historical accounts regarding not only the Great Flood but that of giants.
Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Great Flood was primarily to kill the Nephilim & those offspring said to be demonic.
How could the flood have been world wide ?
“Buffalo” Bill Cody wrote :
Once a certain amount of extra water was on top of the land the water's evaporation would start to saturate the atmosphere causing continuous rain.
Archimedes’ discovery regarding water displacement is only relevant if the water is contained inside a solid container. The earth is not solid nor is it a uniform container for only water.
Here are examples of how additional water does not convert to an equal rise of the ocean's height in a short time everywhere...
...As additional water is added to the ocean there will be a greater weight on the ocean bed causing it to sink by compression. The oceans get deeper but water levels do not 'suddenly' rise or rise by as much especially in other remote parts of the world.
As water flows into deserts instead of it floating on the top it is absorbed into & under the sand.
Extra ocean water has some backward force on the water running from river estuaries that would also lessen the rise of the oceans in some areas.
Even today the water level height is higher along the West Coast of the U.S.A. than the East Coast.
There were undoubtedly areas that did not get flooded during that time.
It may have taken one or even two thousand years or more to have an effect on the level of water on the other side of the world.
For instance places west of the Red Sea were becoming desert like because of a great drought but in Mesopotamia, the area where Enoch & Noah were living, it was surrounded by water even before The Great Flood & still is.
Many civilizations have stories of a great flood & of people that built boats as a result many did not die & many animals were saved one way or another.
Ayers Rock, called Uluru by the Australian Aboriginals, is located in the centre of Australia & is said to be 600 million years old.
Aboriginals went to Australia some 40,000 to 60,000 years ago or more but arrived in the centre about 10,000 years ago.
There are no fresh water fossils on the top of the rock which is 2,831 ft above sea level but there are fresh water fossils lower down.
"The Australian Aboriginal Flood Story states The Great Flood was estimated to be 5 thousand or more years ago, and 1/4 of the land in Australia had disappeared".
That was around two & a half thousand years or more after the great flood in the northern hemisphere where it was said to have started.
"Australian Aboriginal Flood stories Collection by Howard Coates and W.H. Douglas'...Introduction:....
“Unknown to most people, the Australian Aborigines have many historical stories surprisingly similar to parts of the book of Genesis, especially those regarding Creation & Noah’s Flood.
The Australian Aboriginal Flood Stories reveals how Indigenous Australian storytelling accurately records events.
Distinctive ‘cross - checking’ tradition helps explain extraordinary accuracy in 21 stories about dramatic sea level rises 5,000 or more years ago.
Here is just one of them.
Australian Aboriginal Flood Story ...
With the rain and thunder was a terrible wind which broke great limbs off trees and rooted up others.
During this terrible storm there was a noise above the awful crashes of thunder. This noise was coming from the north. The salt water, the sea, came pouring over the ranges from the north.
The flood rose higher and higher till all the land was covered except the tops of two or three mountains.
From further west a man and his wives with a dog were battling their way in a canoe when a bird with a leaf in its mouth flew in front of them showing them the way to Mt. Broome.
They eventually reached Mt. Broome and landed there where some other survivors were".
Noah's ark was built in an area today called Iran & landed only 700 miles away.
With the knowledge the ark was afloat for 150 days it means it only travelled 4 miles a day suggesting there was little strong currents in that area & why would there be when, as the Bible states, the additional water started in that area first from under the ground.
Again... in that area.
"It was taught by the wise men of this tribe that the Earth was originally peopled by giants, who were fully three times the size of modern men.
They were so swift and powerful that they could run alongside a buffalo, take the animal under one arm, and tear off a leg, and eat it as they ran.
So vainglorious were they because of their own size and strength that they denied the existence of a Creator.
The valleys filled with water, and the giants retreated to the hills. The water crept up the hills, and the giants sought safety on the highest mountains.