A History of the First
Earth
In this
somewhat fictitious work Presbyter King gives an orderly explanation yet also
an extraordinary explanation of what might have
happened during the time of the First Earth. We really do not have all
the details but through intense study of early manuscripts (including
ancient Sumerian, Egyptian & Chaldean texts) and scientific data we have at
least a possible scenario. This study follows the proper Ancient
Antiochene Hermeneutic Rules of interpretation. This understanding
allows for the integrity of the Scriptures to be fully maintained while at the
same time not conflicting with basic scientific discoveries. Where we differ
from science is that we believe in Intelligent Design and
CREATION, not evolution. We do use the phrase, Directed-Evolution.
By this we mean that God guides creation conducting Punctuated Jumps. He also
creates Ex-Nihilo. Please read, share & enjoy!
___________________________________________________________
By Presbyter King
Our planet
Earth was created by Divine Intelligence in the eternal past.
The planet was governed by Lucifer who was a highly intelligent being created
by God [Elohim], who had the high title of “the Morning Star”.
“Morning Star” is a title given to Earth’s planetary King (Ruler). The first
planet [early earth] was like a paradise. The animals were different
than those that we now have. Many dinosaurs were roaming around. There
were also celestial created angelic beings who were allowed to “take on flesh”
bodies which looked somewhat human but had many variations.
There was a
garden called “Eden” on this first earth. It was a headquarters of
beauty.
This first
planet experienced many changes over many thousands of years before the
Great Rebellion occurred. All living beings that were human-like
(bodies inhabited by the angelic beings) had glorified physical
bodies, all functions uncontaminated by sin yet. Then sin entered. This
first great rebellion happened when Lucifer decided to break the rules and let
pride enter his heart.
Let us look
back into time and try to begin to understand what the first earth was like,
how it may have been many, many moons ago. This
perspective is from a pure Ancient Antiochene Christian approach
and understanding. This outline will most certainly not be
detailed. Many of you that have studied here understand what “dispensations”
are from our theological perspective. Just as we have documented
that our current planet is experiencing the sixth dispensation of Human time
known as the Ecclesiastical Dispensation so we must also
understand that what we call “the First Earth” also went through a
series of dispensations – special periods of time long before the creation
of Adam and Eve – the Adamic Race.
When we talk
about the “first earth” we mean our current planet before the Great
Luciferian Rebellion took place. This rebellion was incredible. This
was basically what some might call the “war of the gods”, or “the
angelic war”. Much of this information will be based on the Biblical
narrative that we have already laid out in previous studies. Some timelines are
speculative but somewhat corroborated by the earliest scrolls on record and
our scientific knowledge.
So let’s basically start by giving a dispensational time line of the history of the “First Earth”.
First Earth Dispensational History Outline
1-Divine
Intelligence [God]
created our planet and solar system instantly. “For
this is what the Lord says – he who created the heavens, he is God; he who
fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be
empty (Hebrew: “without form and void”), but formed it to be inhabited.”
(Isaiah 45:18)
So the
original “planet Earth” was made complete and inhabitable.
This happened at an unknown time in the far distant past.
2-The first earth was originally one basic large land
mass and one giant ocean of water. On this first earth Lucifer and many servant
angels planed the government and shaped the planet’s land masses and
they were involved in observing and taking care of micro life. These beings had
access to the planet’s surface; they had physical glorified bodies but also had
access to flying in earth’s atmosphere and even going into outer space and the
“third heaven”, or “spiritual heaven”. We put this very early period of
our planet at about 1.4 billion years ago.
The large
ocean did in fact have a verity of ocean life in it on the first earth. The
angelic beings at about 700 million years ago began to add the polar caps to
our planet. They actually experimented by first freezing the entire surface of
the planet. Our average earth temperature at this time was around minus 40
degrees with the ocean being a mile thick deep of ice.
3-At around 550 million years ago they experimented by
splitting the one large land continent apart and forming islands and other
larger, yet separate land masses. Remember, these angelic beings are not doing
the creating but they are “moving the furniture around”, if you will.
As they
reshaped the land they added changes to earth’s atmosphere and this was also a
time when God allowed many early life forms to appear, God created many living
organisms and placed the entire planet in a balance, God demonstrates that He
is a God of RELATIONSHIP. The Bible states that God can be seen in
the “things of creation”. Angelic beings began to witness the enormous power of
our God. At this time also our ozone layer was created to work as a UV Shield.
This early atmosphere was absolutely gorgeous.
Now new land-life
species were created at mass levels. Intricate
biological species of all shapes, sizes and colors now inhabited a beautiful
early first earth.
4-At around 300 million years ago they reshaped the land
masses again, moved giant sections of earth around again. For the most part
this left the surface of our planet as mostly one large land mass again, as it
was originally, before the first shift. Different species were now
placed in differing environments, new and more intricate
relationships on all levels were formed.
But the planet
was united. Most all life forms were living together in one giant ocean and on
one major large land mass with areas of differing environments, including rich
forest land and ponds of water teeming with life. The angelic beings were in
perfect relationship with Divine Intelligence.
For 60 million
years the planet stayed in a consistent peaceful state under these conditions.
The angelic hosts being the caretakers of the planet learned and continued to
shape and tend the planet. Intelligent beings in care of our planet began to
mix and stir things made of matter together [alchemy], forming all sorts of fun
experimentations.
5-At about 240 million years ago the angelic beings
began a new phase of governing our planet. They started a new project that was
given them but during this time the Luciferian Rebellion began. Lucifer, the
leader and overseer of the planet sinned. The Bible informs us that pride
entered into him and from then on he grew evil. He began to believe that he
could govern the planet without the help of God. He even believed
that he could genetically create better. In fact some scholars
speculate that Lucifer started experimenting with genetic manipulations and
creations, something God forbade him to do.
At this
time dinosaurs had been created yet the rebellion
affected their creation. Distortion now entered the first earth. There
were also human-type beings that now became isolated into clans. These created
beings lost proper thought processes due to Lucifer’s manipulations. Lucifer
then began to isolate different species and races to try and control them. The
angelic beings that joined in on the rebellion lost their once glorified bodies
and lost their access into the “third heaven” or spiritual
heaven. Instead they were now confined to earth’s atmosphere and outer
space in spiritual bodies and they miss being able to have physical
embodiment. Fighting on all levels began including in the animal kingdom.
Note: The Fallen Ones even to this day try
and possess people because they miss their once glorified physical bodies.
There are still angelic beings from another class of angels, the Nephilim.
Some of these evil angels are being held in a spiritual prison called Tartarus [2nd Peter
2:4; Jude 6-7]. They came before the flood and sometime after the flood they
came again [Numbers 13:32-33]. The Nephilim that are not in Tartarus are also
on Lucifer’s side and some of them have in fact taken on some sort of
physicality in outer space. Today most people refer to these fallen ones as
evil extraterrestrials - which in fact they are.
Angelic, supernatural
beings fought in the great rebellion. Finally, God said enough is
enough and threw one third of the angelic host that joined Lucifer down from
heaven in a ball of light [trapped in an asteroid] the size of Mt.
Everest onto earth. This happened 65 million years ago. Once thrown
down to earth the impact created huge explosions and actually three
large craters on the earth. Seventy percent of all the then known life
became extinct including all the dinosaurs. Some early human type beings
however, surprisingly, did in fact survive.
We can
properly document in our early Ancient Antiochene Library that
on the First Earth there were in fact multiple races of
human-type beings before the spiritual war broke out. Just because some of
these created beings had different size brains does not mean they were created
to be dumb. All shapes and sizes, some with incarnate angelic spirits in
them walked this planet of ours.
You must
understand that even modern scientists now admit that they used to believe that
the “Human Family Tree” went; Australopithecus begat Homo
erectus, which begat Neandertals, which begot us. Now they say
“Not so.”
All of these
early species came from the First Earth. The story of creation and
humans is far more complex and more intriguing than they ever imaged.
There is a
hidden crater over one hundred miles wide in Mexico which extends into the
ocean. It is a giant scar from the final blow that ended the spiritual battle
of the First Earth. This great explosion darkened the entire earth. At
this same time two huge volcanoes erupted. Many of today’s beautiful
diamonds came out of these very immense volcanic eruptions. The combination of
these events brought the extinction event to a great level. The sun was
darkened. After 50 million years ago surviving life from the great
rebellion struggled to survive in a planet and atmosphere now infected
with the spiritual virus of sin. The “first earth”
angelic homes and cities were completely destroyed.
Though the
original “planet Earth” was made complete and inhabitable now
it had become a great mess. The very second verse of the Bible properly reads
in the Hebrew; “Now the earth BECAME formless and
empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was
hovering over the waters.” (Genesis 1:2) So the original translation tells
us that something happened in-between verses one and two of Genesis….something
that brought desolation to planet Earth – and that “something” was the
Luciferian Rebellion.
One last
unorganized and chaotic shift in the earth’s plates happened also during this
time, but not as large as the previous times. The
geographical earth-plates shifted during this great rebellion and
many “first earth” cities and villages now lie beneath our oceans. The earth
literally became “without form & void” and “darkness covered” the earth.
Remember, we have Scripture which confirms that Lucifer once walked in the
Garden of Eden and he was still without sin, he was here before this great
destruction (Ezekiel 28:13-15).
Our planets
continental plates are still slowly shifting since the great rebellion.
The sinful
aftermath of this great rebellion is still being felt today, it is the
curse of sin. After the great rebellion Lucifer lost his name of true
enlightenment and now he was given the title Satan [“the
fallen one”]. It is Satan that is ultimately responsible for sin. Sin
was here way before Adam and Eve.
6-So after this great destruction the earth did have
some surviving life. About 50 million years ago the angelic beings had now
become completely invisible, they had lost their glorified physical bodies. As
far as biologically created life on planet earth it now had to learn to
survive. The fallen angels did not have the physical control that they once
used to have before the rebellion. Of course God in His mercy always is in
control and has His great angels keep “the fallen ones” in check with God’s
ultimate plan of the ages. There are spiritual laws that Divine
Intelligence has put in place between the fallen ones and the
rest of His creation. All is working out to fulfill the will of Divine
Intelligence – to fulfill static Truth.
Some of the
early and now distorted life forms survived into a planet gone wrong. One
humanoid [first-earth human types] was the Neanderthal and
another, the Denisovan but without the original physical care
and guidance that they once received by glorified angels; they must now
turn animalistic and childlike, they were extremely
vulnerable. God of course intervenes for ultimate protection and
survival. Again, there is a spiritual management going on in our
universe that we cannot see nor fully understand.
Though we do
not fully understand all the “rules of the game” we also know that some
of the fallen ones from the second Nephilim class are allowed to
interfere with humans physically but we do not understand why
this is allowed and sometimes it seems restricted.
Also, demonic
possession is real and still occurs today. So as Christians we
truly begin to understand the extent of the spiritual battle that we are all
involved in.
We will find
that some of these humanoid types survived into the restoration of planet
earth’s surface - and in fact interbred with the “sixth-day” human races
(we will cover this issue in more detail soon). The sixth-day humans
would be created in “the image of Divine Intelligence”.
Now the
process of renewing planet earth’s surface would begin…..
Let us Review
Let us do some
reviewing as we move on in this very important study. “Creationists”
always state that they are against “date setting” except when it comes
to the doctrine of Creation. They imply that the Bible gives the
exact date when this planet was created. It does not.
Another
fallacy that they project is the idea that if you do not believe in their 6000-year
creation plan then you are an “evolutionist”. This also is a lie.
So let us intelligently review this subject. Let me here state from the get go
– Ancient Antiochene Christianity believes that God
actually CREATED all things. God also gave us intelligent
minds and His word to help us properly understand all subjects.
As a Christian
you also have the Holy Spirit discernment to lead, guide,
direct and protect you in your studies of God’s blessed Word.
“How old is
our Earth?” This question is not directly answered in Scripture. This first
verse of the Bible states that “in the beginning God created”, that
could have been billions of human years ago. As a matter of fact, we
will find that God is not done creating. New stars and planets are in fact
formed every day.
If God stopped creating, we wouldn’t be here. Oxygen is being created for us every day so that we can breathe. Jesus stated; “My Father is always at work to this very day, and I, too, am working.” (John 5:17) The Genesis story of Creation is a basic summation of the reality of an Intelligent Creator.
The First Earth Surface Destroyed
Using the
entire Bible to interpret itself we find a much different story than what the
so called “Creationists” are saying. The Bible actually teaches that when this
planet was first created it was created to be inhabitable but something
catastrophic occurred. This catastrophic event was an asteroid (filled
with the fallen angels) which God used to destroy the “First Earth”
(actually more than one asteroid). Be that as it may, let us review carefully.
“For this is
what the Lord says – he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned
and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty
(Hebrew: “without form and void”), but formed it to be inhabited.” (Isaiah
45:18)
So the
original “planet Earth” was made complete and inhabitable. The very
second verse of the Bible properly reads in the Hebrew; “Now the
earth BECAME formless and empty, darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over
the waters.” (Genesis 1:2)
As we have
covered, some human-like races survived along with many other life forms but
the earth’s atmosphere and surface were a mess. Around 250,000 years ago
the Neanderthal’s lived in today’s region of Europe. They lived there all the
way up until the creation of the sixth-day humans, about 45,000
years ago (which will be explained soon).
At about 2 million years ago the early beings that survived had balanced out. Those who could survive through learning the hard way did. Most of these early humanoids lived in the region of Africa. The plate shifting of the planet slowed down, the violent quakes became less and less.
Earth Enters the Ice Ages
Overflowing
volcanoes in Panama created the land bridge which now joins North and South
America. This created an extreme change in ocean currents which effected
weather. It actually caused the earth to begin to dramatically cool. Eventually
smoke from numerous smaller volcanoes filled the atmosphere and darkened the
earth. The polar seas cooled and the jet stream took on a completely new route
(as in these last days it is beginning to do again as we enter the final
Tribulation).
The earth
basically froze-over through this adjustment. Glaciers formed.
Large mountains of snow fall into blocks of ice which basically create “rivers”
of ice, tons of ice moving and grinding through the land. Today’s American
Manhattan area was covered in 100’s of feet of snow.
There have
been smaller ice ages in the last 10,000 years but more regional consentrated
than global.
About 10,000
years ago the majority of the ice started to melt. Divine Intelligence had
actually begun the restructuring of the earth’s surface more than 10,000 years
ago but the ice was gone just over 6000 years ago.
The
Pre-Adamic Earth changed into our Earth
We can imagine
many earth ages before Adam and Eve. Many agree that
our last ice age was about 10,000 years ago. If the ice melted the first 4000
years and after that the “new creation” or “recreation” of
earth’s surface occurred that would put the creation of Adam and Eve at about
6000 plus years ago. This is extremely accurate theological anthropology.
We do not know
how long the first human races lived on earth without sin (or proper knowledge
of sin) before Adam and Eve but it could have been for a while. All the human
races we know of today were of course created on the so called “sixth day”.
The New Living
Translation translates the sixth “day” properly;
“Then God
said, “Let us [Elohim] make people in our image,
to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life – the fish in the sea,
the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals.”
(Genesis 1:26)
Remember,
these new Humans were created in the “image of God” and are new in
regards to life from the First Earth.
Adam and Eve were created after the Seventh Day and for reference we say on the “eighth day” (Genesis 2:7). Let us look at the recreation of our planet’s surface in more detail.
Renew your Understanding
Most
Christians today are not allowing the wisdom of God’s natural laws to
help properly understand Scripture. Instead, most are asking us to ignore “the
man behind the curtain” when it comes to scientific facts. The most
remarkable and amazing thing is the fact that Scripture actually agrees with
the so called “scientific facts” when it comes to creation and the destruction
of the first earth.
Those that
disagree with Ancient Antiochene Christianity say that we deny
what they refer to as “the plain reading of Scripture” and our
response to them is; “No we do not.” In fact, we follow the Seven
Ancient Antiochene Hermeneutic Rules when interpreting Scripture and
one of those rules is “context controls the meaning”. If the days in the
creation story are literal why is the sun and moon “created” on the fourth day?
To serve as signs and to mark the seasons and days?
Hhhmm. Again, let the context control the meaning. Clearly
these are symbolic days.
God renews the surface of the planet in Six Symbolic Days
First of all,
the Hebrew word for create is not used until we get to the
fifth and sixth “day” [Hebrew: yom] of the creation story. The word used for
the fourth day in regards to the Sun and Moon is the fact that God “brought
forth” [not created] the sun and the moon so that they could be seen again from
the surface of the earth that was covered with darkness (Genesis 1:2).
So after the
second verse of Genesis we begin the account of the “reconstruction” of
a planet gone wrong. We note that on the “first day” of the recreation
God “brought forth light” – it does NOT say in the
Hebrew that He then “created” the light (Genesis 1:3). Remember, after the
destruction of the first earth the atmosphere was covered with “darkness”
(Genesis 1:2). It was on the first day that God allowed some light back, not
all. Some of this light was also no doubt produced by electrical storms.
In the “second day” we have an atmosphere reforming (Genesis 1:1-7). The second day’s work was the beginning of the readjustment of earth’s atmosphere. It is also speculated that the meaning that “waters” were “separated from the waters above the expanse” has a deeper meaning of what happened on this second day.
The word in
this verse “firmament” or “expanse” in Hebrew literally means “Hammered-out
Belt or Bracelet”. It could mean that the
“bracelet” or ring doorway, Star Gate to the
higher dimensions was now closed off from our planet due to the rebellion and
sin.
We also note
that the words “And God saw that it was good” are not spoken about this
day’s work yet they are spoken of every other day in the creation account. Why?
Because rebellious spirit beings, the Fallen Ones, now inhabited
our outer space and earth’s atmosphere and they are called the “Powers
& principalities of the air”. (Ephesians 2:2) For this reason God
could not include that, “it was good”.
Then we come
to the “third day” where land begins to appear and vegetation is
restored. Many seeds laid dormant under 100’s of years of ice, now even some
prehistoric plants and trees came to life again. On the “fourth day”
total sunlight is restored to earth’s surface – completely clean atmosphere, no
more darkness.
Only when we
get to the “fifth day”, “sixth day” and “eighth day” do we
get to the actual Hebrew word “bara” – which means ‘created’ or
‘create’. On these last days of the Creation Week God
did actually create (bara) brand new animal species and on the
“sixth day” all the human races.
Really there
is no “eighth day” mentioned in Scripture but we use that as phrase – a
reference for the creation which did indeed follow the Seventh Day. These were
probably not literal days. The Hebrew word used for “day” in regards to the six-day
creation does not necessarily mean a literal 24 hour day. These time periods
probably differed somewhat in length, some of them lasting over one
million years.
Remember, in
the first chapter of the Bible we are dealing with “God’s timetable”, and to
our Creator time is ultimately arbitrary - an Eternal Being is
not bound to time and space.
The Hebrew
word used for “day” (yom) and the contextual way it is used doesn’t mean that
the days have to be literal days. They can mean a “lengthy period” of
time. The Bible says; “For a thousand years in your sight are like
a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” (Psalm
90:4; 2 Peter 3:8)
God gave
literal day weeks for man to remember the gift of creation and the manna He
fed them while in the wilderness (Exodus 16:23). The macro creation
week is remembered in a micro week of literal days on the
Jewish calendar. The literal Sabbath Day marked the week and ultimately
pointed to Jesus Christ who becomes the “Life Giver” and “Spiritual Rest” of
the true believer. (Hebrews 4:3; Matthew 11:28-30)
Not Literal Days
Even
some of the early Patristic Christians properly contemplated
this. St Augustine stated; ”What kind of days these were it is extremely
difficult, or perhaps impossible, to determine” (City of God 11.7).
In
Genesis 1:1 the word “created” is in the “perfect tense” which means in
Hebrew that it precedes what follows as a fact and not as a summery to that
which follows. In fact, what follows is an explanation of a “reconstruction” of
earth’s surface while Genesis 1:1 is creation by fiat, out of nothing.
When
we get to the “7th day” are we to assume that just because God
was done with the “reconstruction” of earth’s surface that He was done forever
creating? Some “creationists” tout this. The Scriptures teach that God is still
creating. Also, was this “Sabbath” a once for all 24-hour day? No.
Hebrews ch4 teaches that “the Sabbath remains” for all who wish to enter this
spiritual rest.
When
we read the beginning of the gospel of St John we find that in
the beginning “was the Word” and that from that Word (Jesus
the Christ) came all things. In Christ we are a “new
creation” so yes, God is definitely still creating.
“The
true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the
world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He
came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did
receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of
God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will
of man, but of God” (John 1:9-13).
Jesus
was resurrected on the “eighth day”, the day after the Sabbath.
“Behold, all things become new.” So symbolically we are still
in the 8th day of creation…creation is still happening. Jesus
Christ stated; “My food, is to do the will of him who sent me and
to finish his work.” (John 4:34)
"I will make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a
beginning of another world. For that reason, also, we keep the eighth day with
joyfulness, the day on which Jesus rose again from the
dead." Barnabas 15:8-9
The Eighth Day
After the
seventh day, it is recorded that “eth ha Adam” was created (Genesis
2:7). This is the “emphatic man”…the “special man”. The
rest of the entire Bible will have to do with this man’s history and all his
offspring. Through this “first Adam” would ultimately come the
“second Adam”, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord ultimately
producing Jesus Christ, which is to say “God with us.” (1
Corinthians 15:45)
Many scholars
have debated over and noticed the fact that there are two creation stories of
man given in the Bible. Are these the same account? Or are they different
accounts…different creations? Contextually they are different accounts
thus different creations.
Note: Marriage was instituted in honor of Adam and Eve and to
show and demonstrate that we serve a God of relationship. God was
beginning to reveal His plan to humanity. (Genesis 2:24)
When we read
Genesis chapter one all the way up to chapter two and verse six we notice an
abrupt change, a jump into the creation account of Eth ha Adam and Eve.
This is a different account than the first recorded creation account of “man”
or “mankind” in chapter one verses twenty-six through thirty-one and it
begins right after the seventh day. This is why we say that the creation of
Adam and Eve actually occurred on the Eighth Day.
In Genesis
chapter one the Hebrew word create (bara) is used to
explain the creation of animals and mankind but in chapter two regarding the
creation of Eth ha Adam the Hebrew word form (yasar) is
used. The Creation Week is what we could call “fiat” (by Word) creation and
Adam and Eve’s creation (on the eighth day) one of “action creation” –
hands on forming like a potter.
Adam and Eve
were created to produce the special blood-line (Family) that would ultimately
produce the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. God promised that through
Eve’s seed the redeemer would come and ultimately destroy Satan. God said that
He would put hatred between her seed (offspring) and the
Serpent’s (Satan’s) offspring (Genesis 3:14-15).
If you do some
research you will find that the early Patristic Fathers, within the
first 100 years of the early church, wrote about “8th day”
theology. This is a very old teaching of the original Christians.
So technically God is still creating in this “8th Day” and we are watching and experiencing it. This symbolic 8th Day will end with Armageddon. After that, we (True Christians) will enter “the Day of the Lord” which is the Millennial Reign of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
The Garden of Eden and the First
Dispensation
We will now try and understand what happened after the “6th day” leading up to the creation of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. God created a specific place of the restored planet a little over 7000 years ago. At 10,000 years ago the restored surface of the entire earth took on a beautiful garden look, the earth was not perfect because of the great rebellion but it was way more beautiful after the period of restoration than it is now. When God chose a specific area to create the Garden of Eden He protected it with a wall and an invisible dome, an “etheric bubble”.
Divine
Intelligence created Adam and Eve and put them in charge of the garden. The
animals and all life within the excellent garden were to be taken care of and
Adam and Eve were to create offspring through which the coming Messiah (Yeshua)
would be born. Eventually the garden was to spread out and fill the entire
earth. We can image that the hominids outside of the
garden, like the Nodites, had prophets sent to them regarding God’s
plan. We can also imagine that if Adam and Eve had not made the wrong choice
the outsiders would have eventually been educated and invited into Paradise.
Eventually it would have filled the whole earth.
The Edenic
Dispensation starts
with the coming together of our planet to sustain life. The representatives of
human parents began here; they were birthed in the Edenic beauty. We call this
the dispensation of innocence. All life was very conscious of Divine
Intelligence and here Adam and Eve walked with God and talked with
God.
T’was in this
glorious window of geological time that great abundance occurred – new designs
of plant and animal life appeared, all fully formed without evidence of any
evolutionary advancement. No gradual development just the appearance of
compound eyes, sophisticated biological machinery which seemingly appears out
of nowhere.
No
transitional forms of life needed, just Divine Fiat.
God
reconstructed the earth in Seven Days. God renewed what had been
destroyed by the Luciferian Rebellion on the first
earth. On the fifth, sixth and eighth day
of reconstruction the Hebrew word “bara” (“create” or “created”) is used
in Scripture showing that on these days God created completely new species
including humans, in the image of Divine Intelligence.
Earth Ages
This first
dispensation starts out with Adam and Eve being created “perfect” and “eternal”
so it starts before a human “Earth Age” – it starts before time. The
first earth age started after Adam and Eve sinned – the beginning of time.
Their sinning changed the entire creation and the entire
surface of this planet - thus starting the beginning of the first
earth age and ending the first dispensation. The first earth age
went from the fall of Adam and Eve to the Flood which
began the second earth age, the one we are in now. The third earth
age will be the Millennial Kingdom which will
start after the Great Tribulation.
Note: We make a distinguishing difference between “dispensations”
and “ages” here. We say that an “age” stands for a period of time
between two great physical changes on the earth’s surface
while a “dispensation” stands for a covenantial probationary period between
God and His people. ~
The Bible clearly outlines “Seven Major Dispensations”
and “Three Earth Ages”.
“Trees” & “the Curve”
Before Adam
and Eve sinned a portion of this planet was like a Paradise. Adam
and Eve lived there (Genesis 2:15). This first dispensation is also called “the
Dispensation of Innocence” because there was no sin yet. They were
placed in a beautiful garden, the Garden of Eden. ~
God
planted “every tree that was pleasant to the sight” in
that garden (Genesis 2:9). We must understand that God uses trees to represent
people sometimes throughout Scripture so some of these trees represent “beings”
that were present with Adam and Eve in the garden (Ezekiel 31:2-9). There
is an ancient understanding that is shrouded in mystery regarding the story of
Adam and Eve.
The Garden of
Eden was
absolutely beautiful. It was watered by beautiful rivers. A pure and clean
garden, refreshing and fresh. North was true north; the Earth was surrounded
and protected. God created Eth ha Adam and Adam had no
companion for himself. God said “I will make a helpmeet for him” (Genesis
2:18). So God took a “rib” (Hebrew: “curve”) from Eth ha Adam’s side
and with it He created Eve (Woman – Genesis 2:20-22).
Wrong Relationship Creates Failure
The tree of
the “Knowledge of Good & Evil” (Satan) and “The Tree of Life”
(Christ) were in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were told that they could
“eat” (have relationship with) every tree in the garden except the tree of the
“Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Through a snake Satan deceived Eve into having a
relationship with him.
Apostle Paul warns the Corinthian Church not to let happen to
it what happened to Eve. St Paul writes;
“I am jealous
for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so
that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid
that just as Eve was deceived (Greek word: exapatau –
“wholly seduced” or “to cheat”) by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may
somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2nd Corinthians
11:2-3)
So this
terrible sin allowed Satan to have a literal “seed” that would be in
opposition to the “good seed”. It would be through the “good seed” that
the Messiah – Jesus Christ – would come and it will
be through the Serpent’s seed that the “Son of Perdition” (the final
Antichrist) shall be born. These two seeds, the good and bad,
are depicted in Eve’s first sons, Cain and Abel which
she gives birth to in the next or second dispensation.
Cain murdered
his brother Abel. The literal offspring of Cain became known as the Kenites.
They survived the Flood (which ended the first earth age) and during the time
of Jesus Christ they persecuted Him. Jesus identifies the religious leaders as
being of the offspring of Cain in John 8:44 and in Matthew
23:35-36.
True
Christians identified “false Christians” as those who had “taken the Way of
Cain” (Jude 11).
It is
important to remember that Satan and his “seed” (the Kenites) cannot ever
destroy God’s elect. God’s elect children are His and will
remain so into eternity.
Note: Our Ancient Antiochene records show that the
Roman Church early on tried to cover up and hide many important Biblical
doctrines. One doctrine that was almost completely destroyed by the Papacy was
the fact of the Serpent’s actual “seed” and the truth about the Kenites. It is
important to understand the difference in ancient manuscripts when proceeding
in the creation story.
Original Sin
Adam and Eve’s sin infected all of the “kosmos”. All the human races became infected with sin, the disease of spiritual death. It corrupted the Perfect Matrix and all particles became distorted. Trees, plants, animals and everything now went wrong. Things started to die, fighting, pride, hate, etc. and all sin began. Thus we now live in the Fallen Matrix.
Even the
human will is completely corrupt. Only those called by the Word of God through
the Holy Spirit will begin to understand and be saved. ~
Scripture
tells us that “Eve is the mother of all living”. The “Living
Bible” reads the verse this way: “The man named his wife Eve (meaning “The
Life-Giving One”), for he said, “She shall become the mother of all mankind”
(Genesis 3:20). This idiomatic statement simply means that it is through her
Adamic stock that the “Life Giver”, Jesus the Christ, would be born
and gifted to this planet and that all those who believe in
Him shall not die but have everlasting LIFE. (John
3:16)
All humans are
now allowed to be “spiritually adopted” and “Born Again”
into the “blood line” of the Second Adam – Jesus
the Christ. Thus all born again (confirmed) Christians are connected to and
part of the New Creation (Ephesians 2:19-22; 2nd Corinthians
5:17). When we partake of the Eucharist (Holy
Communion) we connect with the physical blood of Jesus Christ
(1st Corinthians 10:16).
St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote:
“Bread of God is what I desire; that is, the Flesh of Jesus
Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for my drink I desire His
Blood, that is; incorruptible love.”
This shows that we are to discern the regal blood-line of Christ,
He now becomes our King (King of kings and Lord of lords) of
the New Covenant. Also, we are told to discern Christ’s “incorruptible love”.
We take Holy Communion in remembrance of the life that Jesus
Christ led for us. Jesus commands us: “Do this in remembrance of me.”
(Luke 22:19)
Gentiles are “adopted” through Jesus Christ into the
renewed Adamic Family; Jesus is the “second Adam”. To truly be “in
Jesus Christ” is to be “born again”.
Sin Ended this First Dispensation
Adam and Eve’s
sin developed what we call the “fallen conscience” of mankind. All
humans are born with an innate concept of right and wrong.
Man has been given the basic idea of “good” and “evil” because that was the
choice of Adam and Eve (the human representatives). They chose a relationship
for knowledge over a relationship with God.
Adam and Eve
represent the parents of the human race. This
first dispensation of “Innocence” ended with “conscience” – humans aware of sin
and their condemnation. God in His mercy tells Eve that through her offspring a
redeemer will come and restore Paradise and destroy sin. Jesus Christ came and
destroyed sin at the cross.
So though this
first dispensation started out perfect it ended in sin which changed
everything. As Christian children of God we have been given all the needed
facts about life; who we are, where we came from and where we are going. Jesus
Christ has restored proper relationship with God for us again if we simply
trust and believe in Him. You can live forever in Paradise with family,
friends, and God.
Remain in
God’s Word with us here at “The Shepherds Way” & "Nugget of
Truth”.
Be strong in
the TRUTH.
Jesus Christ
is King of kings’ and Lord of lords….Amen
By Presbyter King, (Compiled January 6th 2021)
No comments:
Post a Comment