The Flood - Special
Considerations
The biggest natural proof of
scriptural validity and accuracy is the changed heart of a person who
accepts Jesus and is born again. After
that, I would have to say historically, it is probably the Flood.
There is so much data out on this that I can only hit the high points
for you. In this “Ascent Of
Man” installment, I want to show you powerful evidence and arguments that
are very hard to deny. Man has
never been able to solve the Flood issue, but many common sense findings and
deductions are fascinating, and totally line up with the Word Of God.
Then, in this issue, I want to touch on Dinosaurs.
Believers have much trouble with this subject, but it really all fits
together.
As we shared in the last issue, many
famous people of science were believers and many of them believed in
Creationism and Flood Geology. Sir Isaac Newton was a Creationist.
Georges Cuvier was a French Christian who founded Comparative
Anatomy, Paleontology, and did much research in the area of Flood Geology.
He died in 1832. As you
can see, the modern Flood geologists and Creation researchers have had much
groundwork laid in past generations by great scientific minds.
The Tropics
Creationists have a theory called
the “Water Canopy Theory”. Rain
was not found upon the earth until the Flood, when God intervened and
changed some ground rules of the Creation.
Before the Flood, the Earth’s atmosphere was surrounded by a huge
band or canopy of water vapor, which gave moisture to the Earth and created
a beautiful and picture perfect tropical environment over the whole Earth.
The Earth was literally watered by dew, and the climate overall was
warm and delightful! This
theory seems to support scriptural accounts of the Garden of Eden, and the
first man and woman’s warm, pleasant, clothing free environment.
Today we have tropical environments, where tourists flock to and
people feel they have made it to Paradise.
Might these be reminders of a world without sin?
Did God leave them for us to enjoy, and to get the message, from Him,
through Creation, of evidence of Him and blessings in the distant past?
“For the Lord God had not caused
it to rain on the Earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist
went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.”
Genesis 2: 5b, 6
Fossils of mammals and dinosaurs
(reptilian) have been found in Iceland and other cold and icy climates,
where they could not have survived if those past climates had been as they
are now. Reptiles need
warmth to survive. Reptile
fossils which have been found in Montana for example, would not
survive, if living, in its current climate.
This indicates the high possibility of an earlier tropical climate
upon the Earth, which the effects of sin altered.
This theory is supported by information found in the book of Genesis.
Evolutionists will not stand back
and look at the common sense here, or even factual data.
If they did, they would be Creation scientists before too long.
The unpopulated Earth outside and inside of the Garden of Eden, had
every living thing: birds, fish, sea creatures, mammals, dinosaurs, and
more. They lived in harmony.
Death was not an issue. Man ate green herbs and lived off the garden,
and Genesis indicates he may not have eaten animal flesh at all.
The fall of man from the perfect will of God, through sin, created a
chain of events that you will see as we share the following teaching.
Dinosaurs?
Believers get frustrated every time
someone mentions dinosaurs, with wonderings like how they fit into Creation,
and Earth’s history. For
years, we have swept dinosaurs under the rug.
Some say that God had a multi-million year period before He made man,
after He made the Earth. Creation
research has kind of changed all this.
No more do we Christians need to be embarrassed by dinosaurs, or
invent a vast expanse of lost years. Creationism
seems to be piecing it together. The bones are here with us.
Real bones have been found, for dinosaurs really did exist.
In fact, God even knows about them, and He doesn’t mind.
You can like them as I do if you want.
I will tell you a little bit about them. But first, let’s go over
the Flood. This is highly
condensed information.
The Biggest Torrential Rain
Ever!
Man triggered the Flood, as God did
not want to do it. Man’s sin
was the catalyst, and the cause. It affected all of Creation.
If they had weather forecasters in Noah’s day, they would have had
egg on their faces. They would
have missed it totally. Noah
forecasted it. Everyone
laughed. Imagine that old man
building a boat, and there is only dry land for miles around, and the people
have never seen rain before. Imagine
the old man warning people, or preaching the Word of God of his day.
God put Noah in this circumstance on purpose to teach us a lesson on
faith. He also let Noah
symbolize the last generation of Earth, who would be looking again to the
sky, for the return of Jesus. That generation is our generation.
We are it. We do look silly to the world right now.
The earth is going to be judged, severely, as it was back then,
except back then by water, and today, Jesus is the only Ark of safety.
We can be adding boards and pounding a few more nails in daily, which
is a figurative statement about our growth and walk as Christians and our
relationship with Christ.
When I was a boy, I had Bill
Cosby’s early record about God and Noah.
It was a riot, and I would listen to it over and over.
In one routine, Noah was complaining and griping one day: (I have to
paraphrase from memory) “God,
I don’t get it – why do I have to build this Ark?
I am tired of people laughing at me, I am not gonna do it, I am gonna
quit.” There is a silence.
Then, a very deep, booming voice speaking very slowly breaks the
silence: “Noah!
How well can you tread water?”
Noah said: “Okay God,
I get it, I will build it!”
Pre-Flood Conditions
Similarity Prophesied By Jesus
“But as the days of Noah were, so
also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the Ark,
and did not know until the flood came, and took them all away, so also will
the coming of the Son of Man be. Matthew
24: 37-39
Jesus is very specific here. He is
talking about us, this generation. I
believe “eating and drinking” represents prosperity, good times, lack of
depth of concern, peace, and a general mindset of non-diligence to spiritual
matters, or the future of the Earth. The
next phrase, “marrying and giving in marriage” can just be looked upon
at face value. I will just say that marriages are up right now, weddings are
a huge industry, and they seem to represent long term plans.
Did anyone know that a couple that got married two days before
the flood would only have a two day marriage? I can see a young couple now,
who got married two days before the flood.
They walk outside on the 2nd day, and the husband says:
“dear, the sky is dropping small drops of water.
It is forming small puddles on the ground.
I wonder what this means.” Twenty
days later, the man and woman are rushing for high ground.
They are climbing over rocks and small cliffs, but the water is
foaming and licking at their heels. They
have seen many die. The man
looks back in horror to see a wave grasp his bride.
He reaches for her hand, but the wave pulls her away.
She is washed far away in an instant, as the man cries out in agony
at the loss of his new bride. But
his agony is soon over, on the Earth that is, for he just has seconds to
live. The next day, Noah is
standing on the Ark’s deck, and he sees a man floating by face down,
drowned. For a moment, it looks like a young newly married man he knows.
If this little scenario troubles
you, you ought to hear one about a newly married couple being outside the
Ark of Jesus in the near future. I am afraid my imagination cannot
even comprehend the horror and sadness of it.
You had better listen to the Noah’s of our day.
Get right with Jesus right now, today.
Reach out to those around you. Accept Him and His free gift. Do
it now. I am not an alarmist; rather, I am a practical person. Do it.
God released the water canopy that
was over the Earth. Scientists
can think of no other way to get 40 days and nights of rain. That is a lot
of water. The collapse of the water canopy created enough water to flood the
whole Earth. According to
Genesis, God added the “fountains of the deep” to the water canopy.
These are thought to be volcanoes and geysers. Only the 8 people on
the Ark survived. The number 8
is the scriptural number of new beginnings.
Every 8 keys on a piano, you have a new octave.
Every 8th day, you have a new week. On the 8 thousandth
year from Creation, you have the end of the millennial reign of Christ, and
the start of man’s eternity in Heaven.
There are over 270 flood legends in cultures around the Earth.
This is easily explained if all descended from these 8 people.
Legends most often have a basis in fact. Grandpas and grandmas
sat with little children on their knees and told them of the "Big
One", back in the olden days. Stories
went from generation to generation. But
God, through Israel, totally exacted and froze the truth and facts in
history by providing Genesis, written by Moses. This was due to God’s love
for us. Otherwise, this great saga and significant event would be lost to
us, or as foggy as the other 269 true legends.
It is interesting to note that since
the account of Noah represents Jesus' return and judgment, even according to
Christ's words, some numerical symbols come into play here. God caused
it to rain 40 days and 40 nights. Using Israel's jubilee periods, which last
50 years, multiplying those two numbers is 2000. We have seen from
past teachings that Christ returns at 2000, using God's timing and God's
calendar, whenever that might be. The Ark of Jesus Christ's coming will fill
up at 2000 years after the Cross and return of Christ to Heaven. Jesus
2nd coming is an event likened to Noah and the Flood. Many scriptural
numerical keys point to the year 2000. The Bible has dozens of clues.
The Bible also makes it clear that
Noah entered the Ark at 600 years old. This seems to coincide with the
number 6 which is the number of man. God made man on the 6th day;
Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob and Esau were born. Jacob
became Israel, his name changed by God. (Genesis 25:26) When Jacob
(Israel) entered Egypt, to follow Joseph, his group was numbered at 66.
(Genesis 46:26) The word, Israel, has 6 letters. Romans is known
to be the scriptural book of man, and it is the 6th book of the New
Testament. The word, Romans, has 6 letters. Satan's evil man will be
known by the number 666. All of these lead up to this one revealing
potential scenario: Christ will return at 6000 years. God chose the
age of Noah to enter the Ark. He could have done it at 500 years old.
He could have done it at 700 years old. Noah was 600. It does make one
think, doesn't it? I do not wish to start a numerical doctrine, but
numerical patterns are miraculously all through God's Word, pointing to key
events, especially the return of Christ.
The Winds Are Blowing
After the floodwater covered the
Earth for about a year, God began to cause them to recede.
“And God made a wind to pass over
the Earth, and the waters subsided.”
Genesis 8: 1b
When God causes a wind, you have
seen some wind. Insurance
companies slander God and indicate that the destruction from tornadoes and
hurricanes are “acts of God.” But
God does not do those. Yes, He
created wind, but it blows where it will, itself.
“the wind blows where it wishes..”
John 3: 8a.
When the wind is strong enough to
kill or destroy, Satan and demons are behind it, and they can manipulate it. Using
the wind, demons tried an assassination of the Son of God in
the gospel account, in Matthew 8: 23-27.
Jesus rebuked the winds and the sea, and calmed the storm. Jesus was
not rebuking His Father. He was
rebuking the evil behind the wind, and the wind itself.
He made it behave. The threat was over.
God did not cause the wind that day, and God did not send this
year’s tornadoes that killed so many. God said, “thou shalt not kill,”
and He is not in the habit of routinely breaking that law.
If believers realized that God was not behind killer tornadoes, and
that Satan was, and they realized they had power over Satan, they might try
using their faith and prayer to divert more disasters.
A hurricane or a tornado is a wisp
compared to what God did after the Flood.
Those winds blew so hard, that Creationists say the oceans were made
deeper, and many waters were pushed to the polar ends of the Earth, to cause
the frozen poles. That water
had to go somewhere. God’s goal was dry land for the 8 remaining people to
repopulate the Earth. I know
this sounds like a Paul Bunyan story, but it is the scripture, and certainly
not too hard for the Creator of the Universe.
It is thought that after the Flood, a short ice age resulted. The
water canopy was never replaced, and the tropical climate was gone from the
Earth. Glaciers then moved around the Earth, creating different and
confusing fossil formation, and those fossils might appear much older due to
pressure and cold and later heat. The
cold-blooded dinosaurs needed a warm climate and could not survive extreme
cold. The ones that survived
the Flood, which would just be a few, on the Ark, * might not have been able
to survive the cold aftermath. With
the lack of water canopy, and the newly formed polar ice caps, the earth
then also had newly formed deserts, and wastelands.
This made the Earth a much more severe environment.
In many of the dinosaur fossil
graveyards, like in Monument Valley, whole dinosaurs were found, in tact.
I heard a creationist say that if an animal died in the wild, like a
dinosaur, nature has a way of disposing of it with first animals, then
birds, then insects. Lastly, decay and dissolving would do away with the
remains. But many whole dinosaurs were found, sometimes even the flesh
fossilized. Another interesting
fact is that many dinosaurs were buried under something, like maybe mud, and
many more were seemingly stacked on top of them, several high.
I know they did not have dinosaur cheerleaders who did body pyramids,
but what does make sense is that dinosaurs were jockeying for higher ground
during rising flood waters, much like the married couple I mentioned, and
mass graveyards were created, preserving enormous quantities of whole
dinosaurs in very close proximity. The
dinosaurs literally climbed on top of one another trying to survive. Mammal
fossils have been found at slightly higher elevation levels by researchers,
showing a higher intelligence and survival ability in mammals.
* How would you have a T-Rex dinosaur on the Ark?
Creationists suggest that baby dinosaurs were used.
This makes sense. They would
fit. I know Noah was not stupid, and was guided by God.
Could Dinosaurs Have
Co-Existed With Man?
The suggestion here is that
dinosaurs co-existed on Earth with man.
Evolutionists state that dinosaurs died out about 65 million years
ago. Man came later.
But creationists believe that some even existed up to a few hundred
years ago, and some may still be alive today.
There is a photo of Japanese fishermen and a sea creature caught in
their net, dead, in 1976. After
snapping the photo, they threw the creature out.
The photo is authentic, and is of a real amphibian dinosaur, extinct,
but not extinct, or they would not have found one.
I have seen the photo. What is one of these creatures doing in the
ocean in 1976?
Two cowboys in the Arizona desert in
the 1890’s happened upon a huge flying reptile creature, at least that is
what they described later. They
shot it, and killed it, and left it in the desert.
The description they gave sounded like a Pterodactyl, which has a
wingspan of up to 20 feet. As I
have already shared in another writing, 100 years ago is quite a long time.
Much change can take place in that many years.
Could our ancestors have seen creatures, and not known what they
were? Science did not really
begin to label and classify these creatures and their fossils until the late
1800s. This Arizona episode makes me personally speculate about the state
capital of Arizona. It is
Phoenix. That was a
mythological bird in Greece. Why
did Arizona name their capital that name?
Could the Native Americans and local residents have been sighting
these flying reptiles for centuries?
We know North America has been one of the richest dinosaur fossil
fields. I looked up the
Phoenix, and found, from an artist’s drawing, it has a crest on its head
much like the Pterodactyl. Greek
writers have said that the Phoenix really lived and existed about 500 years
ago. Is it an extinct creature?
Could it have been a reptile instead of a bird?
Whether in Greece, or Arizona, we may have had creatures with us up
to a few hundred years ago. Could dinosaurs have co-existed with man?
This makes quite a bit of sense.
In the medieval times, lore was passed around about dragons, and huge
creatures that the knights would slay.
Most legends have a basis in fact. Some of the dragons were
fire breathing. Creationists
have looked closely at a current day beetle that actually spits a burning
acid like substance, and have deduced that God could have done this with
other creatures also. Can the
fire breathing dragons of lore actually help creationists make the point
that man co-existed with dinosaurs?
Job may have spotted two dinosaurs
in two different passages in scriptures. Creationists have looked very
closely at these two scriptures.
“Look closely at the Behemoth,
which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox, see now, his strength
is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail
like a cedar,” Job 40: 15-17
This sounds like an herbivore
reptile, eating grass, and moving his tail like a cedar.
Mammals simply do not have tails like cedar trees, but dinosaurs do.
Hippos and elephants have very tiny tails. Behemoth was made with man,
according to God, in the Creation.
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a
hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all
around? His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal,”
Job 41: 1-2, 14-15
This creature also sounds like a
dinosaur. If it was something else, wouldn’t the scripture say so?
Why couldn’t these creatures be dinosaurs?
We know we had them in the past, because we have the bones. But could
the dating of the fossils be wrong, and people did share this Earth with
them? The ones that may have
survived into the 1800’s or 1900’s may have been a remnant that survived
many other harsh obstacles. One
huge obstacle to dinosaur survival may have been man.
Man is clever, and when threatened, can unite and
dominate. Even ancient
man, with limitations, could have helped dinosaurs go extinct.
Consider this: "that
local dinosaur has just eaten one too many children.
Let’s form a hunting party and kill it.”
Man, for the safety of man’s families, might have terminated
leviathan, the fierce creature.
Creationists have even taken a look
at Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, in a new light.
There have been hoaxes, but also supposed real sightings of this
creature. After viewing the
photo of the Japanese fishermen, and their catch, as late as 1976, then one
might rethink Loch Ness and a possible creature between 1920 and 1960.
Nessie hunters have wanted the truth, and this sensationalistic story
will just not go away. But
maybe man feels instinctually that there is a truth in this story to be
sought, for strange and wondrous creatures were a part of the past.
More Flood Thoughts
The Flood may have caused huge
numbers of extinctions of species on this planet.
Creationists look at sedimentary rock formations laid over the Earth
in layers as if they are water deposited.
Devastation from the Flood could have created the Grand Canyon, and
also could have formed the coal deposits and oil deposits.
Often, fossils are found layered into the Earth's sedimentation
layers, as if done quickly. Flood
geologists are finding huge evidence of the Flood, all over the Earth.
We have conditions inland that appear to have been formed by vast
waters with no oceans nearby.
Hundreds have sighted the Ark, and
now the American government has even gotten into the act, by snapping photos
from satellites over Mt Ararat. The
late astronaut James Irwin led several expeditions, to no avail, but he was
following clues of sightings of the Ark.
Many of those sightings are fairly credible.
Wood samples pulled from the mountain, have been dated back 5000
years. The wood was found in
areas where no humans lived, and no trees grew.
I have seen the satellite photos of interest, as this was shared on
cable television, and there are a few very interesting photos of anomalies
in the ice, and protruding from the ice. The local government, of Turkey,
where Mt. Ararat is located, is quite guarded and restrictive of the
research. The search for the
Ark is valid, and it should be there somewhere upon that mountain, in my
opinion.
The Wooly Mammoth
I sat and watched intently as the
Discovery channel covered “Raising the Wooly Mammoth” last year.
(2002) My interest almost seemed prompted by the Holy Spirit in my
mind. The scientists said these
creatures lived 22,000 years ago. A
mammoth was found in a block of ice, almost fully preserved.
It had flesh, and hair on its bones. It was said by the attending
scientists that it died in water. It
simply drowned. The water froze
and preserved it. This was in
Siberia. As I watched, it
seemed to come together. Here is my theory:
The creature died 5000 years ago. The
Flood was the reason. The cold
of the Northern Siberia was why we get to see it in tact.
The scientists had their theory.
I have mine. No one can
say these creatures didn’t really live.
We in this generation now have one.
For some reason, they didn’t survive the harshness of Earth,
brought on by man’s sin. They were magnificently created mammals. It
was awesome to see one more beauty of God’s creation, even if thousands of
years late.
Put It Into Perspective
I have thrown much information at
you, and it is not my intent to cause you to create doctrines with the
information, or to debate this information in an adversarial way.
Share this writing with someone and let that person glean from it
what he or she wishes. It is
sensationalistic, and entertaining, and that may bother some people.
But Satan pulls no punches, in the entertainment area, so if we want
to present the gospel, we should use every method to draw people.
I believe that we have been severely misinformed by science, and I am
quite interested in new and future findings of the creationists. My mind is
really open to their work. My
goal has been to create the possible and likely scenario for you that the
Flood is provable, and that dinosaurs were real and did exist on this
planet, as part of Creation, and they co-existed with man, in the short span
of years the Earth has been here. Dinosaurs
did not roam this planet stalking and killing for eons of time, they did not
get a chance to. The Flood, and
the ice age that immediately followed, and predatory man shut them down
fast. The sin of man and its ensuing
curse changed the dinosaurs as much as it changed man, and they could
not co-exist together. Call it
God’s mercy. The sightings of recent dinosaurs in the last 200 years, and
the lore and legends which are probably true, as well as Job’s account of
two creatures near early Biblical man, indicates that the dinosaurs were
around the last 6000 years. This
is a huge concept, for it debunks many evolutionary theories.
Scientists call nature’s process of removing dinosaurs, “natural
selection”, I call it, “un-natural selection”. Sin is
un-natural, and God and man took the defiled and dangerous dinosaurs out of
the equation for the sake of man. For
review, and to make this point, let me excerpt this next paragraph
from The Ascent Of Man Part 2:
“Evolution states the Earth has
existed millions of years, and the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
But creation scientists have found serious problems with these
theories. Trees at Spirit Lake
in Washington State petrified in a 10 year period after the 1980 eruption of
Mount St. Helens, in a process that was thought to take thousands and even
millions of years. This caused
scientists to re-look at other things already dated and question dates of
rock sedimentation, of fossils, and much more.
It seems our wonderful Earth and nature has a way of tricking us as
to dates and times. Even carbon
dating was once debunked because a living mussel shell was read to be
millions of years old by the carbon dating process.
But remember, everyone sets out to prove the premise of their bias,
whether it be true or not. We
have a planet that can be proven to be millions of years old, with less than
perfect methods, because our mysterious planet does not give up her
mysteries easily, and many can be made a fool in the process.
In the Word, God speaks of stumbling blocks, which would trip up lost
man, but His people would be able to wade through or to step over the
stumbling blocks, through wisdom.”
End of Excerpt.
Conclusion
God has in mind an ascent for man,
and I believe that finding the truth on Earth’s past and believing it is
part of that ascent. God has a vast new mindset for us, where we remove our
doubts and use our faith. The
Bible is true, and the Word of God stands as the ultimate authority for man
to find out truth. God is
calling believers to be more intelligent, and to be more informed, and to be
more passionate for the things of God.
But do not begin your search apart from Jesus, for He wants to be
your guide through Earth’s history, and through your life.
Receive Him today!
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