A., - Important
Bible Questions Answered. Do You Know:
1. That
the Earth is more than 6,000 years old and that there were inhabitants on this
Earth before Adam? This is true. There have been already 6,172
years from Adam to 1948, as we shall see in our future lessons. Not only this,
but the Bible teaches that there was a social system on the Earth that was
destroyed by a great flood long before Adam. This flood is pictured in Gen. 1:2
as covering the Earth, before the six days in which Adam was created. It is
also mentioned in Ps. 104:5-9. Peter speaks of it as "the world [Greek, kosmos,
social order] that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the
heavens and the earth, which are now [since the six days of restoration], by
the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire" to be purified,
resulting in "a new heavens and a new earth" (2 Pet. 3:4-13).
The cause of the first flood before Adam was the fall of Lucifer and the rebellion against God of one third of His own angels, along with the people who lived on the Earth over whom Satan ruled. That Satan ruled the Earth and led an invasion into Heaven to cast God out, is clear in Isa. 14:12-14; Ezek. 28:11-17, Lk. 10:18; 1 Tim. 3:6. The devil was defeated and the Earth was then cursed and placed under water as in Gen. 1:2; Ps. 104:5-9; 2 Pet. 3 5-7. All life was totally destroyed, including birds, men, vegetation, and all cities were destroyed in which the pre-Adamites lived (Jer. 4:23-26). In the restoration of the Earth in six days, as in Gen. 1:3 - 2:25, God told Adam to "replenish" the Earth. Adam and Eve were the first inhabitants of this present creation.
The cause of the first flood before Adam was the fall of Lucifer and the rebellion against God of one third of His own angels, along with the people who lived on the Earth over whom Satan ruled. That Satan ruled the Earth and led an invasion into Heaven to cast God out, is clear in Isa. 14:12-14; Ezek. 28:11-17, Lk. 10:18; 1 Tim. 3:6. The devil was defeated and the Earth was then cursed and placed under water as in Gen. 1:2; Ps. 104:5-9; 2 Pet. 3 5-7. All life was totally destroyed, including birds, men, vegetation, and all cities were destroyed in which the pre-Adamites lived (Jer. 4:23-26). In the restoration of the Earth in six days, as in Gen. 1:3 - 2:25, God told Adam to "replenish" the Earth. Adam and Eve were the first inhabitants of this present creation.
2. That
giants twice fifteen to thirty feet tall lived on the Earth? In Gen. 6:4
we read, "There were giants in the earth in those days [before the flood];
and also after that [after the flood], when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare children to them." Thus giants were born
and grew up in those days. That these giants were more than fifteen feet tall
is clear from Dt. 3:11 where the bedstead of Og was eighteen feet, nine inches
long and eight feet, four inches wide. However, we shall see that there were
giants living on the Earth who were even taller than Og. Giants are mentioned
in Scripture many times (Num. 13:33; Dt. 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Josh. 12:4; 13:12;
5:8; 17:15; 18:16).
3. That
God is a real person and has a spirit body, a personal soul, and a personal
spirit? (Job 13:8;
Heb. 1:3; Dan. 7:9-14; 10:5-7; Ezek. 1:26-28; Jn. 5:37; Rev. 4:24; 5:1-7; Acts
7:54-59). God has a soul (Heb. 10:38; Isa. 42:1); spirit (Ps. 143:10, Isa.
30:1); hands and fingers (Ex. 31:18; Ps. 8:3-6; Rev. 5:1-7); hair, face, and
other bodily parts (Dan. 7:9-14; 10:5-19; Ex. 24:10; 33:20-23; Ezek. 1:26-28).
God eats (Gen. 18; Ex. 24:10-11), lives in a city, sits on a throne (Jn.
14:1-3; Rev. 4:1-5; 21:1-27; 22:3-5), walks (Gen. 18:1-22, 33), rides upon
cherubs, on chariots and other things (Ps. 18:10; 69:17; 104:2; Ezek. 1:1-28),
and He can do anything that man can do.
4. That
Noah was not 120 years building the ark? In Gen. 6:8-10 we read that
by the time Noah was told to build the ark, he already had three sons.
According to Gen. 6:18 these three sons were already grown and married by the
time God told Noah to build the boat. In Gen. 11:10, we read that Shem was only
100 years old, two years after the flood. Noah and his family were in the ark
one year and 17 days, so that made Shem 96 years of age when he entered the
ark. Thus, if he was a grown man and married before Noah was told to build the
ark, then since Shem was only 96 years of age when it was finished, it
obviously did not take 120 years to build the ark. The 120 years of Gen. 6:3
refers to Adam, not to Noah.
5. That
it did rain from time to time before the flood? The Scripture used to prove that it did not rain before the
flood is Gen. 2:5-6. Anyone reading these verses of Scripture should see that
this refers to the time before plants were in the ground and before man was
created to till the soil. God created the clouds "to cause it to rain on
the earth" (Job 38:9, 26-28). Clouds were known all through Lucifer’s
kingdom on Earth before Adam (Isa. 14:12-14) and ever since the work of the
second day (Gen. 1:6-8). Since there is no statement that a mist coming up from
the Earth to water the ground was God’s method of causing vegetation to grow,
and since clouds were made to give rain on the Earth, and as they were in
existence after the second day’s work, we can logically conclude that it rained
ever since the clouds were formed in order to carry out the creative purpose of
God.
6. That
there is no end of the world taught in Scripture? In all the
references in Lesson One, Point 1, concerning "the end of the world,"
the Greek word is aion and means "age." There will be an end
to this age, but not an end of the world. The common theory held by men that
the world is coming to an end is based upon a wrong understanding of this Greek
word. "The Earth abideth for ever," we are told in Eccl. 1:4; Ps.
104:5 and other passages. As we shall see in our next lesson, there will be
eternal generations of natural people on the Earth for resurrected man to rule.
7. That
Heaven and the planets are inhabited? This is clear from many
Scriptures: "Rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them . . . he
opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme . . . them that dwell
in heaven" (Rev. 12:12; 13:6). See also Col. 1:16-18; Rom. 1:20; 1 Cor.
15:35-50.
8. That
men will have access to the planets in the future? The Bible
teaches that redeemed man will go back and forth between Heaven and other
planets in the New Heavens and the New Earth. This was to be man’s privilege
before he fell, but he sinned and came short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).
Man was originally given dominion over the sun, moon, and stars and would have
had to have access to them in order to rule them (Ps. 8:3-6). Man in the
eternal future will become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ and will be
able to be with God and Christ where they are in all eternity (Rom. 8:17-18; 1
Cor. 15:24-28; Heb. 2:5-11; Rev. 21:1 - 22:5).
9. That
men with natural bodies have gone to Heaven and have been living there for
thousands of years? Enoch has been in Heaven over 5,185 years and
Elijah has been there over 2,600 years and yet neither of them have died (Gen.
5:24; Heb. 11:5; 2 Kings 2; Mal. 4:4-5; Zech. 4:11-14; Rev. 11:3-7). The old
theory that flesh and blood cannot enter Heaven is not biblical, for while it
says "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God," it does not
say man cannot enter it. We enter the kingdom of God at the new birth (Jn.
3:3-5; Rom. 14:17). Paul said he went to Heaven (2 Cor. 12:1-3). Paul came back
and told us about Heaven (Rom. 1:19; Heb. 11:8-16; 13:14). John also was taken
to Heaven, and he came back and told us about it (Rev. 4:1 - 5:7; 7:9-17;
21:9-27; 22:1-5).
10. That
the Earth was at one time one solid piece of land without islands and
continents?
In Gen. 1:9-13 we read that the Earth came forth as one land and the waters
were one body of water. In Gen. 10:25 and 1 Chr. 1:19 we read that in the days
of Peleg the earth was "divided," that is, split into continents and
islands. The Hebrew word for "divided" is palag, and is
translated "divide" (Ps. 55:9) and "divided" in the above
passages, and in Job 38:25; Dan. 2:41. It literally means to separate or split.
If the Earth was thus separated in the days of Peleg, then it was one Earth or
body of land before that time. This is the reason that various peoples are
found being on the many islands and continents separated so widely by much
water. In the New Earth, the land will again become one body, and no longer
will there be large oceans of waters as we have now (Rev. 21:1).
till tommorrow,
see u at the top,
Pastor Mike
till tommorrow,
see u at the top,
Pastor Mike
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