| The
Day The Dinosaurs Died continued
Part
II.
If the theory of evolution is
false, what does the record of the rocks really tell us
when coupled to the Word of God? What are these two sources
of information really telling us about the Earth's past?
Let's take a look.
First let's get a look at the chronology
of when certain key books of the Bible were written, and who
was inspiring the writers of them. The NIV Bible in the opening
notes to each book of the Bible gives important dates on this
subject. First, the Apostle Peter says the books were written
by men, but that these men were inspired by the Holy Spirit
in everything they wrote down. I Peter 1:20-21, "Above
all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came
about by the prophet's own interpretation. For the prophecy
never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from
God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." Or
as the King James says, "as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost." In the opening notes to Exodus, the translators
say that the Israelites left Egypt about 1446 B.C. So the
first five books of Moses, Genesis through Deuteronomy were
written sometime within the life-span of Moses, after 1446
B.C. They, as we shall see, are not the oldest books of the
Bible. Job is thought to have lived around the time of Abraham,
in 2100 B.C. So the book of Job is the earliest book of the
Bible. Job has an interesting encounter with God. In this
encounter God asks Job, who had been very prideful about his
knowledge and obedience to God, "Where were you when
I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched
a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone--while the morning stars
sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" Job 38:4-7.
So in the earliest book of the Bible God himself
is pointing out that the earth was created so beautiful and
perfectly that the very angels of heaven were singing and
shouting for joy. Keep that in mind. Now let's turn to the
2nd oldest book in the Bible, Genesis, written some time after
1446 B.C. In Genesis 1:1 God describes this same creation
of heaven and earth, where the angels shouted for joy. Genesis
1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth." Now, let's read verse 2a of Genesis 1. "And
the earth was [Hebrew: or possibly "became"]
without form [Hebrew: "tohuw" "to lie waste;
as desolation.] and void [Hebrew from Strongs #8414: "bohuw"
ruin:--emptiness, void]." Genesis 1:1 points
to the original creation, as Job 38:4-7 does. So God's first
creation was that of the angels themselves, before time and
space and matter was created. The Hebrew then indicates in
Genesis 1:2a that the earth "became" tohuw and
bohuw, "waste, desolate and in ruin, emptiness."
If angels came first, and the earth and heavens were created
so beautiful as to make the heavenly angels shout and sing
for joy,does the Bible show us an event that might have
caused the ruin of earth? Keep that thought in mind.
Genesis 1:2a briefly indicates that the earth became
towuh and bohuw, empty and void, empty and desolate. Genesis
1:2b brings us right up to the beginning of the re-creation
of planet Earth for man to inhabit, creating a habitat suitable
for man, creating species of animals, plants, birds and sea
creatures suitable for mankind. But what happened to the first
creation on Earth? Does the Bible tell us? What did God create
first? In Job 38:7 we find angels already in existence before
the heavens and earth were created. They were shouting for
joy and singing. In the record of the rocks we just saw plainly
how the dinosaurs roamed the earth, huge populations of all
the various thunder-lizards populating the planet Earth. We
know that 65 million years ago two, not one, but two huge
meteors--global killers--hit the earth. One measuring 6.25
miles across hit the Yucatan the other measuring 25 miles
across hit the Bay of Bombay. Today thirty-two years after
The Day the Dinosaurs Died was written, we know this
for a fact.
We also know from extensive satellite fly-bys and telescopic
observations that the moon, and mercury, both without weathering
atmospheres that would destroy evidence, are covered with
huge craters, blast-marks from a distant past. An asteroid
belt consisting of the mass of a decent earth-sized planet
exists between Mars and Jupiter. This belt orbits the Sun
just like a planet would. Just ask yourself "What would
happen if someone, something, were able to blow up a planet?"
The force required to do that would send "asteroids"
speeding in all directions. Those heading toward the sun,
and any planets in the way, would get a gravitational assist
in speed from the sun's gravitational field, coupled to the
gravitational field of the planet or moon they were headed
for. The asteroids flying out in the direction of the orbit
this planet once occupied would "fill up" the orbital
path of this shattered planet, maintaining an orbit of their
own in the planet's place. Other asteroids would form elliptical
orbits that go in close to the sun and then back out beyond
our solar system, just as astronomers have observed.
If evolution is truly a faulty theory, then we must look for
answers that both fit the record of the rocks and our astronomical
observations and that of the Bible, and the Creator God who
inspired its writing. This means you must look into the Bible's
pages to find logical answers to these questions of origins,
and what occurred in our distant past. We know from the pages
of the Bible, the angels came first, then the heavens and
earth were created. The record of the rocks clearly show there
was a prior creation, where dinosaurs (and angels) ruled the
earth.
What happened in this Dinosaurian-Angelic realm? Do angels
wage war? Are we looking at the clear evidence of a huge Star
Wars type battle that occurred between angels or perhaps
between God and some of his angels? Most Bible scholars agree
that Ezekiel 28:11-17 is talking about Lucifer, who became
Satan. Let's read it. Ezekiel 28:11-17, "The word of
the Lord came to me: 'Son of man, take up a lament concerning
the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign
Lord says: You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom
and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald,
chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day
you were created they were prepared. You were anointed as
a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the
holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You
were blameless in your ways from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread
trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I
drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled
you, O guardian cherub, from the fiery stones. Your heart
became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted
your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw
you to the earth…" In verse 17 God says
about Lucifer, "So I threw you to the earth." In
the process of throwing Lucifer to earth, a planet was evidently
blown up with tremendous force. Remember, we're combining
the Word of God to the geologic and paleontological evidence
we see around us in an attempt to draw a logical conclusion
on this matter of origins. If you have seen and come to your
own conclusion, based on the facts, that evolutionary theory
is a flawed theory--weak at best--then what else is there?
The Bible, or simply--we just don't know?
Does Jesus, who prior to his human birth was alive as part
of the Triune God (John 1:1-11), say anything about Satan's
fall back to Earth, about how spectacular an event it was
or anything? Luke 10:18, "He replied, 'I saw Satan fall
like lightning from heaven.'"
Isaiah 14:12-15 is another account of the same event described
in Ezekiel 28 and Luke 10:18, of Lucifer's fall and being
thrown back to Earth. Let's read it. Isaiah 14:12-15, "How
you have fallen from heaven, O morning star ["Lucifer"
means "morning star" in Hebrew. The King James translates
this "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
of the dawn."], son of the dawn! You have been cast down
to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said
in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne
above the stars ["stars", the Bible's symbol for
"angels"] of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount
of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain
[Hebrew: "sides of the north"]. I will ascend above
the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the
pit."
Is there any other place in the Bible that shows that Lucifer
attempted to, and will yet again attempt to wage war against
God? Revelation 12:3-4a, "Then another sign appeared
in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten
horns and seven crowns on his heads. [This is symbolic language
indicating that Satan is the unseen spiritual ruler of the
last resurrection of the Roman Empire which will try to conquer
the earth. Read http://www.UNITYINCHRIST.COM/preevangelism/prophecy.htm
.] His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky
and flung them to the earth." Symbolic meaning of "stars"
in the Bible is "angels". This is where the Bible
indicates that Lucifer deceived one third of God's angels
into following him in his rebellion, and they became demons,
or fallen angels. The next verse is where Satan is shown as
trying to destroy the Christ child right after his birth (this
attempt occurred through Herod killing all the babies in Bethlehem
and the surrounding towns who were around the age of the new-born
Jesus). So the event of throwing the "one third of the
stars to earth" was before the birth of Christ, way,
way before, in time sequence. So here in Revelation 12:3-4a
Jesus is revealing that this Lucifer, now Satan, was able
to somehow deceive one third of the angels to follow him.
In Revelation 12:7-9 we find a description, a prophecy, of
an angelic war between God's holy angels and Satan's angels
(demons) yet to come. But it can also be a good reflection
of the first angelic war. "And there was war in heaven.
Michael [one of two more cherubs, or archangels that God created
(Lucifer, Michael, and Gabriel).] and his angels fought against
the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But
he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called
the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He
was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him" (Revelation
12:7-9). In the first angelic war between Satan and God the
exact same result occurred as in Revelation 12:9b, "He
was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him." Jesus
said of this first event, "I saw Satan fall like lightning
from heaven."
Now getting back to where we were in Genesis 1:2a, the record
of the rocks shows that after these two global-killer asteroids
hit, huge clouds of dust, volcanic smoke and debris filled
the skies, blocking out all light. Anything that survived
the two huge blasts and resultant shock waves of searing steam
and heat, and oncoming tidal waves flying out from the blast
sites for hundreds, even thousands of miles, and then the
buckling of Earth's crust creating volcanic eruptions and
fissures around the world--the life that was left alive--plant
life from the giant Cycads down to the tiny diatoms, stopped
photosynthesizing. Any dinosaurs to survive died of starvation.
The huge chalk cliffs, the White Cliffs of Dover being one
example, are dead diatoms, nannoplankton, from the K/T Barrier,
dated 65 million years ago! Revelation 12:7-9 is not only
a prophecy for the future, but a reflection of that Star
Wars that occurred in the distant past of 65 million
years ago.
In Genesis 1:2a+b we see "Now the earth becameformless
[tohuw] and empty [bohuw], darkness was over the surface of
the deep,." Now the next part of Genesis 1:2, Genesis
1:2c, ".and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."
So the earth is in darkness, and the Spirit of God is hovering
over the waters. God is ready at this point to start re-creating
new life-forms. Let's continue reading and see what happens.
Remember the paleontologists quoted in the article "The
Day the Dinosaurs Died" said, "It was as if a huge
curtain was wrung down on the Dinosaurs, and when it lifted
the whole stage had changed. Nothing of the Dinosaur age was
to be seen. Now everything that had to do with man and man
himself was on the stage, and reptiles were mere supernumeraries
[bit part actors]." The following is quoted from "The
Bible Story" vol. 1, pp. 8-11, which gives the scenario
of Genesis 1:2-27 as a re-creation, which seems to follow
the record of the rocks which we have been looking at. Some
Bible scholars reject this scenario, saying God created everything,
the heavens and the earth, in six days, and that dinosaurs
are some Satanic deception. I chose to believe the record
of the rocks as added to Scripture, which is called the Gap
Theory, that there was a huge time-gap between Genesis 1:1
and 1:2. It also successfully integrates the geologic record
of the rocks into the Biblical record of events. So let's
look at Genesis 1:2-27 as portrayed in this particular view,
as a re-creation. Then we'll read the actual verses as the
NIV has them.
"On the first day of reforming Earth's surface, God prepared
the periods of night and day by clearing way much of the smoke
and gases surrounding the whirling planet. Thus a little light
came through to Earth for the first time since Satan and his
demons were cast back down from heaven, when deep, heavy blankets
of dark clouds were formed from the wrecking of the world.
At that time those clouds had cut off all light rays from
the sun, moon and stars. (Genesis 1:3-5.)
"On the second day God formed a vast layer of fresh air
over the Earth. This caused much of the water vapors to seep
upward, like steam out of a teakettle, and to form great,
billowing, clean clouds high in the sky. This air, a combination
of healthy gases, is known to us as the atmosphere (Genesis
1:6-8). It was very necessary to prepare the atmosphere, because
man has to breathe air in order to live. He actually lives
in a deep, heavy sea of gases, much as sea creatures live
in deep oceans.
Three
Heavens
"God called this atmosphere Heaven
(Genesis 1:8). However He also spoke of two other heavens.
One is the vast space beyond our atmosphere (Genesis 1:14).
The other is where His throne is (Acts 7:49). He doesn't tell
us just where that is, and astronomers can't find out because
it isn't visible to human eyes.
"On the third day, our Creator molded Earth's crust so
that some of it was high and some of it was low. The great
layer of water covering the planet drained into the low areas,
causing deep seas. Large areas of land were left above water,
forming continents (Genesis 1:9-10).
"On the continents God planted all kinds of vegetation--trees,
bushes, flowers, grass--everything that could grow out of
the ground. And in that same day the lands of Earth began
to be green with plants of all kinds springing up from the
soil (Genesis 1:11-13).
"On the fourth day God cleared away the last of the dust
and harmful gases from the sky, thus letting the sun, moon
and stars shine in their full brilliance and splendor upon
the lands and seas (Genesis 1:14-19).
"On the fifth day the Creator planted in the sea whales,
fish, eels, octopi and many, many other water creatures. On
that same day He also formed various kinds of birds to fly
through the air. From these sea creatures and air creatures
came many others of their kind, and in time the seas and skies
were swarming with living things (Genesis 1:20-23).
"Now God had renewed the whole face of the Earth in five
days, and at last the planet was ready for God to create man
on it.
"But before He created man on that sixth day, God formed
other creatures to live on land. Elephants, cattle, lizards,
worms, insects--every kind of thing that walks or creeps was
brought into being that day (Genesis 1:24-25)." ("The
Bible Story", vol. 1, pp. 8-11, by Basil Wolverton, published
by Ambassador College Press, Post Office Box 111, Pasadena,
California.)
Now lets read the actual whole account in the NIV, and see
how it looks, based on what we've read in the geologic record
of the rocks and in the Bible. Genesis 1:1-27, "In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth
was ["became"] formless and empty [Tohuw and
Bohuw, waste, empty and desolate], darkness was over
the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering
over the waters.
"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light
from the darkness. God called the light "day," and
the darkness he called "night." And there was evening,
and there was morning--the first day.
"And God said, 'Let there be an expanse between the waters
to separate water from water.' So God made the expanse and
separated the water under the expanse from the water above
it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky."
And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day.
"And God said, 'Let the water under the sky be gathered
to one place, and let the dry ground appear. And it was so.
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered
waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was
good.
"Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing
plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in
it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.
The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according
to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according
to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was
evening, and there was morning--the third day.
"And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of
the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve
as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them
be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth."
And it was so. 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. God set them in the expanse of the
sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the
night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that
it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the
fourth day.
"And God said, 'Let the water teem with living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the
sky.' So God created the great creatures of the sea and every
living and moving thing with which the water teems, according
to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, 'Be
fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the
seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.' And there
was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.
"And God said, 'Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along
the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.'
And it was so. God made the wild animals according their kinds,
the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures
that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God
saw that it was good.
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our
likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the
birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth,
and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God he created him; male and female he created them"
(Genesis 1:1-27). Now whether we're created in the literal,
look-alike image of God, or in the sense that we think and
reason like God, and that we can create new things out of
the elements of the earth, in a similar fashion like God creates,
is up for grabs. Man is the only creature on earth that creates.
Look at the phenomenal creating ability of man, the engineering
genius of man. Animals don't possess that ability. God's a
creator, and on a lesser degree, man is as well, just like
his Creator parent.
So the record of the rocks in the article "The Day the
Dinosaurs Died" shows us clearly the quotes of geologists
that say the curtain was wrung down upon all the species of
Dinosaurs, and when the curtain was raised again, all the
life-forms we see and know of today were on the scene, mysteriously,
some how. It is a big mystery to those people being quoted.
But that record of the rocks fits Genesis 1:1-27, as we've
just seen, if you're willing to honestly look at the evidence
and come to a logical and intellectually honest conclusion,
whether that meets with your past beliefs on the subject or
not.
If you need more evidence, read on.
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