Creation to Noah
Chapter 1
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
One of the few constants of the world throughout the ages has been games. It's almost as if a gene residing in all of us to want to play games, and not just any games, puzzle games. Just in my lifetime, there have been great moves of people playing Rubik's Cube, Tetris, crossword puzzles, Cryptoquip, and Sudoku. This isn't limited to just games, but books, movies, and television shows; mysteries, intrigue, curiosity, they call to us. Scientists are even saying that playing brain games might help prevent or slow the progression of alzheimers. 1 The Scriptures are no different. They present sometimes a bit more of a challenge, but in the end there are great rewards.
These ten words of Genesis 1:1 say it all. Since I love science and I love Scripture, this quote is fitting from scientists:
In verse one of the Book, we can find all the elements of Science summed up in 10 words: (1) Time - Beginning, (2) Space - Heavens, (3) Motion - created, (4) Matter - the earth, (5) Energy - God created. 2
Loving science and the Scriptures seem to be mutually exclusive, but we are told to seek and search out wisdom. I believe that science and Scripture can mesh if science accepts Scripture!
Ecclesiastes 1:13-14 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Not one to believe what I see, feel, or read at face value, I needed to understand and meditate on it for myself. To do my own homework as it were. There are gems that are lost in translation from Hebrew. The Hebrew alphabet does not contain vowels per se. They also read from right to left. See if you can understand the English sentence below:
L-v- th- L-rd y-r G-d w-th -ll y-r h-rt.
If you read:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart.
Then you can begin to see how it is the Jews read Hebrew. Today, they have dots and dashes to help foreigners learn Hebrew, but this wasn't until around 600 AD to 1000 AD3. People read the Scriptures and just glance over the words instead of meditating on them as we are instructed, Joshua 1:8. Upon reflection, the amount of amazing discoveries is almost unbelievable. Think about it for a moment. God puts His signature on everything He creates. The more you study nature, the more wonders you discover. The deeper you go, the more wonder is discovered. We started out with simple home remedies to cure tummy aches. Then we learned about cells and their functions and adjusted our actions based on this new information. Next DNA was discovered and again out actions were adjusted. Now we're learning to manipulate nature to create cures for tragic diseases, and we still don't understand all the mechanics. This never-ending level of complexity is everywhere. If God wanted to share with us information in written form as the Scriptures state, wouldn't this complexity also bear true? That is, the move we delve into the Word, we'd find more and more complexity beyond the surface text? Certainly, but that new information would never contradict the plain text. Truly the Word of God contains these never-ending complexities just waiting for the willing to learn. This is what the crux of this study is about: sharing some of the repeatable hidden treasures I've found.
Here's a quick example. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is
called vav ו
ו Vav is the 6th letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of six. Letter Meaning: nail, tent
peg. Hebrew doesn't have numbers like the West; they
use the letter to denote the number. Sort of like A=1 B=2 C=3 etc. Vav
represents the number six4
and two words: Nail and Hook. Vav is used to "hook" phrases and
sentences together; like when we use the words "and", "also", and "so".
Psalms 119 is an alphabetic Psalm, i.e. each set of six verses is
dedicated to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, of which there are 22.
Psalms 119:41-46 is dedicated to vav, so the first letter of each verse
starts with this letter.
Hebrew is also written from right to left. The cool thing is the first time in Scripture uses vav is in the sixth Hebrew word of Genesis 1:1, the purple shaded column. Here's the breakdown in Hebrew of Genesis 1:1.
The fourth word, highlighted in yellow, is pronounced "et" (אא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, firstתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant), and
these letters are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet: אא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, first - Alef
having no sound, and תת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant - Tav,
sounds like the letter "t" in time. There is no meaning for this word
and is not translatable, however, it is used as the direct object to
indicate Who (God) did the action (create) to what (heavens and the
earth). The gem and spiritual explanation isn't really understood until
you get to the book of Revelation when Jesus states He is the Alpha and Omega (ΑΑ Alpha is the first letter of the Greek
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one. ΩΩ Omega is the last letter of the Greek
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of eight hundred.
), which are the first and last letters of the
Greek alphabet, the Beginning and the End, just like the Alef and Tav
of the Hebrew alphabet. If you were in the Genesis 1:1 sentence, like a
word looking at the reader, the אא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, firstתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant is on the
right hand of the word for God
and is the very center of the verse! Who is seated on the right hand of
God? a Jesus, the Alpha and Omega, the Alef and Tav!
- The letter vav appears in the Scriptures the first time in the sixth word of the first sentence.
- God created Man on the sixth day.
- Six stands for Man in the numerology of Scripture.
- Vav has the count value of six in Hebrew.
- First recorded sin of man (after the fall) is murder - the sixth commandment.b
- What Man will connect the breach between man and God? The Alpha and Omega/Aleph and Tav - Jesus!
- What connects "heavens" with "the earth" - the Man, Alef and Tav
- וו Vav is the 6th letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of six. When preceeding a
word, can mean "and" or "but".
Letter Meaning: nail, hook, tent pegאא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, firstתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant - Jesus! - Jesus is the Word of God and through Him speaking out, created
all. So all is wrapped up in אא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, firstתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant. c, d
a Mark 16:19
b Exodus 20:13
c Proverbs 30:5
d John 1:1-2
Furthermore, in this first verse of Genesis you see that אא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, firstתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant surrounds
the word for "Heavens" and there's that vav in the second אא Alef is the 1st letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of one and one thousand.
Letter Meaning: ox, strength, power, firstתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenant with a וו Vav is the 6th letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of six. When preceeding a word,
can mean "and" or "but".
Letter Meaning: nail, hook, tent peg together and is
translated as "and" because it "hooks" Heaven and Earth
together. Jesus is the "Connector", the vav, the Man, between Heaven
and Earth, even testifying to the manner in how it would be done on the
cross suspended between heaven and earth! Since God "spoke" everything
into existence it's an amazing picture image within the written text
that Jesus, the Alef and Tav (Alpha and Omega), the Beginning and the
End, is the Creator. It is the hint of what was to come when the Word
would become flesh, indeed the Word of God made flesh. In Genesis 1:1,
the letter vav combines with Alef and Tav to show the Sign of the Lord
of History, the One Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus, the Living Word -
to connect Heaven and Earth in the most literal sense. The culmination
of all history revealed in the Final Book prophesied in the pattern of
Hebrew letters in the first verse of the First Book! Cool huh? See Appendix G for more.
Creation of Adam - CY 0, dies CY 930
The First Adam
Creation Year: 0
Western Year: 3977 BC
Generation: 1
Not knowing the age of Adam when he was created, Genesis 2:7, (i.e. was he created with the age of a man being 20 years old?) For the sake of this study, these years are counted just as Scripture has it, the years Adam lived. Genesis 5:3-5 specifically states that Adam had lived 130 years when he begat Seth. This means that Adam's first year was as God had created him, a man.
For more information on Creation vs. Evolution, see appendix A. Genesis chapter one is the culmination of the beginning, the Genesis. So now, we have a man on the earth. The seventh day God rested. Why? Was He tired? No, He was being an example to the man, who does get tired. Work six days then rest one. In Genesis 2:7, God reiterates what happened by explaining how Adam came to be.
Eve is formed... - CY 1*
*We don't know what year Eve was made, so I put her in the next year figuring that it took that time for Adam to name all the animals, Genesis 2:19-20. Eve was formed from Adam's rib, not from his foot or from his head, but next to his heart - to be loved, Genesis 2:21-23.
Eve is tempted, Adam falls - CY 7*
*We don't know what year she was tempted so this is just to show the passage of time, Genesis 3:6.
Exiled from Eden - CY 7*
*We don't know what year they fell so this is just to show the passage of time, Genesis 3:21-24.
Cain and Abel are born - CY 9*
*We don't know what year Eve gave birth so this is just to show the passage of time, Genesis 4:1-2.
I believe Cain and Abel were twins. In Hebrew, the first word of
Genesis 4:2 is וו Vav is the 6th letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of six. When preceeding a word,
can mean "and" or "but".
Letter Meaning: nail, hook, tent pegתת Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of four hundred.
Letter Meaning: mark, sign, cross, covenantסס Samech is the 15th letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet. It holds the numeric value of sixty.
Letter Meaning: hand on staff, support, turnףף Pay is the 17th letter of the Hebrew
Alphabet but this version is used at the end of a word. It holds the
numeric value of eighty.
Letter Meaning: mouth, speak, a word (ve-to-ceph)
meaning, to add or augment, to continue to do a thing,
translated as "and she again" meaning she continued in labor.
Cain kills Abel - CY 36*
*We don't know what year this happened so this is just to show the passage of time, Genesis 4:8.
Seth is born - CY 130, dies CY 1042
Creation Year: 130
Western Year: 3847 BC
Generation: 2
Adam's age at the birth of Seth is 130 years from the beginning of his existence, Genesis 5:3-5.
Seth lived 912 years, Genesis 5:6-8.
Jewish Calendar Starts - CY 216 (WY: 3761 BC)
Why the difference in the Jewish calendar and the rendering of chronology according to Scripture?
While I struggled with this over the years, I waited on the Lord to show me the truth. The entire study, started in the year 2000, has been one in pursuit of the truth. To quote Pilate, "...What is truth?..." The answer is found in Psalms 119:160, "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgment endureth for ever." This is a prophecy of Jesus, "...the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us...full of grace and truth." John 1:14.
So I say, can you put down your ideas, your dogma, your desires to hear truth? The more I learn about the Lord and read His word, I can only conclude what Enoch said, "But without faith it is impossible to please him..." Hebrews 11:6. Once in the Old Testament and twice in the New Testament it states that the Just shall live by faith.
When we are faced with a dilemma of contradictory information, where do you decide to turn to for the truth? Scientists? Archaeologists? Your pastor? I emphatically decided before I even started this study that it was to find out the truth, that my foundation would be the Scriptures; that no matter how much evidence there was in history or encyclopedias, Scripture would overrule any information if it was contradictory to what is written in the word of God, Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4, Hebrews 4:12.
Therefore, when I came to the impossible task of explaining away why there was a difference in the Jewish calendar and the chronology presented in Scripture, I waited on the Lord. Two years after completing the study, I found the answer in Hebraic Literature. To quote Yoma, fol.9, col. 1.,
What is the meaning where it is written (Ps. x. 27), 'The fear of the Lord prolongeth days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened;' 'The fear of the Lord prolongeth days' alludes to the four hundred and ten years the first Temple stood, during which period the succession of high priests numbered only eighteen. But 'the years of the wicked shall be shortened' is illustrated by the fact that during the four hundred and twenty years that the second Temple stood the succession of high priests numbered more than three hundred. If we deduct the forty years during which Shimon the Righteous held office, and the eighty of Rabbi Yochanan, and the ten of Rabbi Ishmael ben Rabbi, it is evident that not one of the remaining high priests lived to hold office for a whole year."
Table 1 is from
A Y2K Solution to the Chronology Problem, page 77, written
by Sheldon Epstein, Bernard Dickman and Yonah Wilamowsky, and it shows
the varying reasons for the errors in the Jewish account of the
chronology of time when comparing to the Scriptures.
When I read this and other online sites on this topic, I realized that in order to cover up the dates of the Messiah, the calendar had to have been surreptitiously changed by the Jewish rulers of the time. Even before this action, the New Testament said they lied about Jesus' resurrection, knowing full well Who He was (Matthew 27:62-66) and they paid the Roman soldiers large sums of money to be quiet about what really happened (Matthew 28:11-15). These passages showed the length to which they were willing to go to hide the truth. Even today, as Scripture states, they believe Jesus' body was stolen by His disciples. They knew where and when Jesus was born (Matthew 2:1-8), they knew exactly who He was, Jesus told them (Luke 4:16-22)! Some of the rulers knew and accepted Him, (John 3) and defended Him (John 7:50) and cared for His body (John 19:38-42) after the crucifixion.
To further this, the Tract Abuda Zara Informationrules and regulations concerning
transaction of business with heathens, Chapter 1,
states,
The disciples of Elijah taught: The world will continue for six thousand years, the first two thousand of which were a chaos (Tahu), the second two thousand were of Torah, and the third two thousand are the days of the Messiah, and because of our sins many years of these have elapsed, and still he has not come.
So if they believed this, then at the 4000th year, the very year
Jesus started His ministry, they would have been on the lookout for the
Messiah (Mark 1:15). They rejected Jesus, but accepted Barabbas and
later Simon Bar Kokhba. The Talmud InformationA collection of Oral tradition, written
down relates that Akiba ben Joseph credited Kokhba
with the title "Messiah"! That is until he was killed by the Romans on
the 9th of Av 135 AD. At his death they had to quickly correct
themselves so they "declared Simon bar Kokhba a false messiah and
renamed him Simon bar Kozeba ('Simon son of the lie')",
TheFreeDictionary.com.
The Talmud InformationA collection of Oral tradition, written
down, Sanhedrin, fol. 97, col. 1., states,
As the land of Canaan had one year of release in seven, so has the world one millennium of release in seven thousand years; for it is said (Isa. ii. 17), 'And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day;' and again (Ps. xcii. 1), 'A psalm or song for the Sabbath day,' which means a long Sabbatic period, and again (Ps. xc. 4), 'For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as the day of yesterday.'
This is repeated in the New Testament, II Peter 3:8. For the sake of
one righteous man the whole world is preserved in existence, as it is
written Proverbs 10:25, "The righteous man is an everlasting
foundation." This verse explains why the rapture
Definitionthe catching away, ascending to heaven
without having to die first happens - that is, if you
believe in one as I do. I'll speak more on this, but I believe that
there are two yet to come.
The Jewish calendar is an algorithm created in 359 AD (c.) so the
author "started" different than the actual start of "time" because he
knew or didn't know about the change in the calendar that happened
around 136 AD. I put this information here because I wanted to show
that though we count the Jewish calendar years, I worked backwards to
this point to show the disparage between the "known" date and the
actual passage of time according to Scripture. Until the time of Jesus,
this recollection of time reflected accurately within five years of
what is written in the Talmud InformationA collection of Oral tradition, written
down. The large change in the date of the year does
not reflect until after 135 AD. This also proves that what is written
in the Talmud InformationA collection of Oral tradition, written
down is not Scripture, inspired or not. Additionally,
even the Jews do not know definitively the number of years of the
Jewish calendar has today. In the book, Gates of the
Seasons by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, in an
article written by Alexander Guttmann on pages 7-10, he explains the
origin and understanding of the present Jewish calendar.
The Jewish tradition of counting years since the
creation of the world has its roots in early Talmudic InformationA collection of Oral tradition, written
down times, but it was not adopted authoritatively
until several centuries later. In Biblical times, dates were referred
to as being 'two years before the earthquake, the year of the death of
King Uzziah,' etc. In Talmudic InformationA collection of Oral tradition, written
down times, we find instances of dating from the
creation of the world, but this was adopted as the Jewish method only
much later as a response to Christian dating. It was in the eighth
century that Christians began to date their documents generally as AD
(Anno Domini, the year of the Lord), and so it is hardly a coincidence
that in the eighth and ninth centuries we find more and more Jewish
documents dated 'since the creation of the world' (sometimes referred
to as AM, Anno Mundi, the year of the world). Obviously, calculating
dates based on the Christian theological principles were not acceptable
to Jews; nevertheless, it was not until the twelfth century that dating
'since the creation' was accepted by Jews universally.
Also according to the August 2005 newsletter by Prophecy in the News, it shows that 154 years can be accounted for by the removal of the Persian chronology of several kings by Yose ben Halafta. "...[S]ometime between A.D. 135-160, Yose ben Halafta, student of Rabbi Akiva, and admirer of Bar Kokhbah, changed the dating so that Daniel's seventy weeks would point to Bar Kokhbah as the predicted Messiah, rather than Jesus."5
During this study, I will focus on the Creation Year and provide the Western Year since this is how the world currently counts. However the Jewish Year will be provided based on today's count (12 Dec 2009=25 Kislev 5770).
Enos is born - CY 235, dies CY 1140
Creation Year: 235
Western Year: 3742 BC
Generation: 3
The age of Seth when he had Enos, Genesis 5:6-8.
Enos lived 905 years, Genesis 5:11.
Cainan is born - CY 325, dies CY 1235
Creation Year: 325
Western Year: 3652 BC
Generation: 4
The age of Enos when he had Cainan, Genesis 5:9-11.
Cainan lived 910 years, Genesis 5:14.
Mahalaleel is born - CY 395, dies CY 1290
Creation Year: 395
Western Year: 3582 BC
Generation: 5
The age of Cainan when he had Mahalaleel, Genesis 5:12-14.
Mahalaleel lived 895 years, Genesis 5:17.
Jared is born - CY 460, dies CY 1422
Creation Year: 460
Western Year: 3517 BC
Generation: 6
The age of Mahalaleel when he had Jared, Genesis 5:15-17.
Jared lived 962 years, Genesis 5:20.
Enoch is born - CY 622, translated CY 987
Creation Year: 622
Western Year: 3355 BC
Generation: 7
The age of Jared when he had Enoch, Genesis 5:18-20.
Enoch lived 365 years because the Lord took him in a rapture Definitionthe catching away, ascending to heaven
without having to die first, Genesis 5:22-24, and
Hebrews 11:5.
Methuselah is born - CY 687, dies CY 1656 (year of the Flood)
Creation Year: 687
Western Year: 3290 BC
Generation: 8
The age of Enoch when he had Methuselah, Genesis 5:21.
Methuselah lived 969 years, the oldest in all of history, and died the year of the Flood in CY 1656, Genesis 5:27.
Lamech is born - CY 874, dies CY 1651
Creation Year: 874
Western Year: 3103 BC
Generation: 9
The age of Methuselah when he had Lamech, Genesis 5:25.
Lamech lived 777 years, Genesis 5:31.
Adam Dies - CY 930
Creation Year: 930
Western Year: 3047 BC
Adam dies within a day, Genesis 5:5, Genesis 2:17, II Peter 3:8.
Enoch is Raptured. - CY 987
Creation Year: 987
Western Year: 2990 BC
Enoch is raptured Definitionthe catching away, ascending to heaven
without having to die first because he pleased God
and he was a prophet, Genesis 5:23-24, Hebrews 11:5-6, and Jude
1:14-15.
End of day one - CY 1001
Creation Year: 1001
Western Year: 2976 BC
End of day one, beginning of day two, II Peter 3:8.
Seth Dies - CY 1042
Creation Year: 1042
Western Year: 2935 BC
Counting, this is the year Seth dies, Genesis 5:8.
Noah is born - CY 1056, dies CY 2006
Creation Year: 1056
Western Year: 2921 BC
Generation: 10
The age of Lamech when he had Noah, Genesis 5:28-31, Genesis 9:29.
Noah lived 950 years. Please see Appendix
C to read the Gospel DefinitionThe Good news about Jesus Christ and His
death on the cross and His coming back from the dead on the thrid day.
Greek for "Good News". in the names from Genesis 5,
Adam to Noah.
Enos dies - CY 1140
Creation Year: 1140
Western Year: 2837 BC
Enos dies, Genesis 5:11.
Cainan dies - CY 1235
Creation Year: 1235
Western Year: 2742 BC
Cainan dies, Genesis 5:14.
Mahalaleel dies - CY 1290
Creation Year: 1290
Western Year: 2687 BC
Mahalaleel dies, Genesis 5:17.
Jared dies - CY 1422
Creation Year: 1422
Western Year: 2555 BC
Jared dies, Genesis 5:20.
Shem is born - CY 1558, dies CY 2158
Creation Year: 1558
Western Year: 2419 BC
Generation: 11
The age of Noah when he had Shem. This is a pitfall 
WarningA hidden or unsuspected danger or
difficulty. if not careful. In Genesis 5:32 it states
that Noah was 500 years old when he had Ham, Shem and Japheth. This is
a generalized statement because later inGenesis 11:10 is says that Shem
had his first son 2 years after the flood at the age of 100. The flood
occurred in Noah's 600th year, Genesis 7:6.
602 - 100 = 502. Shem was born when Noah was 502 years old. Shem lived 600 years, Genesis 11:10-11.
Lamech dies - CY 1651
Creation Year: 1651
Western Year: 2326 BC
Lamech dies, Genesis 5:31.
The Flood - CY 1656
Creation Year: 1656
Western Year: 2321 BC
Methuselah dies (Year of the Flood) Noah is 600 years old, Genesis
7:6. Just over 33 Jubilees DefinitionA Jubilee is a year-long celebration,
celebrating the 50th year of a count. from creation,
Genesis 5:26-27.
Notice God is long suffering. For 120 years, Noah preached and the oldest living person is the one named "his death shall bring" - awe, but to them, bring what? What Noah preached - the flood!!!! How very merciful is our God! Glory to Him!!!
Noah lives another 350 years for a total of 950 years.
On 17 Heshvan 1440 Noah and his family went into the ark and that same day the flood waters were broken up, Genesis 7:11-13, and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, Genesis 7:17.
Another 150 days (Genesis 7:24, 8:3-5) the waters increased until 19 Nisan 1440 when they abated. It was on that day the waters "abated," that is they started to recede. According to Genesis 8:4 the ark rested 2 days earlier on the 7th month, the 17th day (17 Nisan 1440). It is Nisan because it wasn't a leap year so there was no Adar II then. The waters decreased (Genesis 8:5) until the 10th month when on the 1st day of the month (1 Tammuz 1440) the mountaintops could be seen - I imagine like little islands.
Noah waited 40 days (Genesis 8:6, 12 Av 1440) to send out the raven and the dove - the dove returned. Seven more days he sent out the dove, who had returned (19 Av 1440), and again the dove returned. Yet seven more days Noah waited and sent the dove out again, not to return (Genesis 8:12, 26 Av 1440).
If you count using today's Hebrew calendar, you'll find that the 150 days turn into 147 or 148 days depending if it's a leap year. This is because the modern calendar contains a fix to accommodate the rules for feast days and Sabbaths and to synchronize to a solar year by adding the 5.25 days. From Heshvan 17 to Nisan 17, according to Scripture, is 150 days. Since the Scriptures are 100% correct, you must understand then that a year was 360 days long, divided into twelve 30-day months. A perfect year and and a perfect month from a perfect God. Counting from the second month (Heshvan) to the seventh month (Nisan - Nisan didn't become the first month until the Exodus 12:2) contains 30 days each, counting you get (7-2) * 30 = 150 days. What happened to make this change? Scripture answers the question in Psalms 82:5. See, before the flood, there was no hint of rain or snow and that the land was watered by the mist that came up from the ground, Genesis 2:5-6. Today earthquakes alter the speed of the earth's rotation as well as has an effect on its tilt, so imagine the effects of all that water and great earthquakes worldwide. The flood added the 5.25 days to the earth's travel around the sun.
Waters dried up... - CY 1657
Creation Year: 1657
Western Year: 2320 BC
Finally, in the 601st year of Noah's life, 1st month 1st day
(Genesis 8:13, 1 Tishri 1441 Information18 Sep 2321 BC - Feast
of Trumpets. Talk about a new beginning!) the waters were dried up from
off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, but it still
took almost another two months to completely dry up the land.
They all possibly left the ark when the ground was dry on the 27th of Heshvan 1441 Information13 Nov 2321 BC (Genesis
8:13-14), interestingly exactly 365 days, according to the dates
provided in scripture, the serial day number, and the Jewish calendar.
HA! The length of a new year from now on.
The Flood is one of several turning points for mankind. No longer is man allowed even close to live a full "day", Genesis 2:17, Genesis 5:5, II Peter 3:8. I believe the Lord uses nature to fulfill His wishes. Before the Flood, there is no written evidence that it ever rained. In fact, Genesis 2:5-6 affirms there was a mist that watered the ground. If this assumption holds true all the way to Genesis 7:4 (the next mention of "rain" in scripture) when the Lord warned Noah that in seven days He would cause it to rain, then where did the rain come from?
According to an excellent book called In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, deep holes, 5.6 to 7.5 miles, drilled by the Russians and the Germans found within crushed granite "hot flowing, mineralized water (including salt water - twice as salty as the ocean waters)". A theory, called The Hydroplate Theory, asserts that the Earth's crust sat on a thin layer of very salty water through interconnecting caverns 10 miles deep. Due to an increase in extreme pressure, a rift in the Earth formed 46,000 miles long, from the north of Iceland to Antarctica then up to India splitting off and running under Australia over and up along South America north to Alaska. The extreme pressure shot up into the air this water which then rained down all over the Earth like never before. The "fountains of the great deep" erupted causing the worldwide flood, and because of the height of the geyser, it began to freeze in the northern and southern regions of the planet and when the nearly frozen water fell back to the Earth, froze animals, rivers, and such instantly. Now we have polar ice caps. That'll certainly have an effect on the earth's rotation and tilt.
Though this theory helps explain where some the water came from, it doesn't explain why people no longer live to be 900 years old, or what the "windows of heaven" where that opened. It is my belief that some other event occurred changing the conditions under which mankind lived. Whatever it was, it must have shortened the lifespan of mankind. Though scripture shows that men lived well into their 900's, what changed in order for David to write in Psalms 90:10 that we would live only to be 70-80 years old, on average? It is conceivable that the division of the "waters from the waters" in Genesis 1:6-7 was the creation of a type of water barrier that surrounded the earth, much like the ozone layer of today. Somehow, this barrier blocked the harmful radiation of the sun as well as helped keep in the heat allowing for a worldwide temperate climate. Today the holes in the ozone you hear about on the news allow more harmful rays in, burning people with extreme UV rays, causing sunburn in the short-term and skin cancer with long-term exposures. The lowering of the water barrier allowed enough of the sun's radiation to enter the atmosphere shortening our lifespan to 70-80 years, on average worldwide. I believe that this erupting of the fountains caused the windows of heaven to open, i.e. disrupting this barrier, and together, flooded the Earth. If it were just the fountains, then why bother mentioning "windows of heaven"? If you view the graphical version of the time-line on my web site below, you'll visually notice the average age drops dramatically for those born after the Flood. Because of the breakup of the fountains of the deep, and the windows of heaven opening, the Flood occurred and shortened mankind's lifespan. So you ask, why would God do this? The answer is in Genesis 6:5. Think about it, man lives 70-80 years and does great evil; imagine 900 years to do even greater evil? These gems are all over scripture. God means what He says and says what He means and allows novices to see what the wise cannot, 1 Corinthians 1:25-29.
Below is a modified graph from my web site. The top bar graph shows the lifespan from Creation (the green vertical bar on the top left of the graph) to the flood (the purple vertical bar on the right of the top graph). The blue horizontal lines represent the length of a person's life. The bottom bar graph shows the lifespan after the flood (purple vertical bar on the bottom left of the image). As you can see in the bottom bar, the top blue line (under the green horizontal line) is Shem and the bottom blue line (above the word WY 2001 BC) is Abram. There is a dramatic drop in the age of those born before the flood compared to those born after the flood. Even though Arphaxad was born 2 years after the flood, he still benefited from the "strength" of his father's DNA, allowing him to live 483 years, but still dying only 62 years before his father Shem's death. Shem even outlived Abraham by 35 years who died at a "...good old age..." of 175! (Genesis 25:8) The red asterisks in the bottom graph indicate their deaths. Notice too that Abraham was born before the death of Noah and according to extra-biblical books, lived with Noah after Nimrod wanted to kill him. Scripture bears this out.
References:
2 The Book of Genesis, Bible Baptist Bookstore, copyright, 1969
3 http://allthingshebrew.com/whenhebrewvowels.php
4 http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/appendix_02.htm
5 http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/pdfs2/Aug2005-01a.pdf
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