Since I've been studying the Old Testament
a lot lately, I've also been relating what I learn with the times we're
now living in as well as with the rapture, tribulation and millennium.
I was thinking about creation last night, and how the fall contributed
to all that we're experiencing now and wanted to share something with
you all that I find really exciting.
I'm sure we're all aware of what evolutionist say about the earth,
humans and everything, as we've all been taught it since we were
children. I could never accept a lot of it, even before I knew God. It
just didn't seem "right" to me. What I'm going to share next, is not
exactly stated in the bible, but is extrapolated from what is stated.
So it's certainly not gospel truth, but it is quite possible. To me,
this makes a whole lot more sense then what the evolutionists say
though. I know we talked about one aspect of this on another thread, so
some may be familiar to you.
First, just to explain the theory, let me share my notes from a book I have called Tonopah by Christopher A Lane:
Before the fall, Adam and Eve were super extraordinary creatures. They
were supremely intelligent, highly advanced, beings that put today's
finest scientific minds to shame. Contrary to popular secular thought,
they were wise beyond imagination, knowledgeable beyond belief, gifted
in understanding the secrets of the universe. Drawing on the full
capacity of their complex brains, they were undoubtedly the most
brilliant, insightful human beings ever to walk the earth: Godlike in
the true sense of the term. Until the fall.
Free will was perhaps their most astonishing trait. God created Adam
and Eve with the ability to choose the depth, and quality of their
relationship with Him. Unfortunately they chose poorly. Instead of
"evolving", many believe that the bible supports an entirely opposite
movement: a de-evolution from near perfection to a state of chaos. We
see this in the universe itself - the principal of entropy: everything
moving from available energy to a state of disorganization. Instead of
getting smarter and smarter, becoming more civilized and advanced,
mankind is moving backwards, degenerating.
Consider some of the marvels of the ancient world: the great pyramids,
the hanging gardens of Babylon, Easter Island.... we can't even figure
out how to build these using modern technology. So it's been suggested
that aliens from other planets may have helped construct them. But if
the theory of de-evolution is true, if ancient man was incredibly
advanced rather then primitive....
Adam named and cared for all the animals, so he was apparently quite
knowledgeable in the area of veterinary biology. He and Eve took care
of the Garden - they must have had a pretty good grasp of animal
husbandry and botany. Cain built an entire city. Jubal invented musical
instruments, Tubal-Cain invented all manner of bronze and iron tools -
and they were starting from scratch. We're talking about a metallurgist
ushering in the metal age a few short generations after the creation of
the world!
The Fall twisted all of creation: tame creatures became wild;
safe, kind beasts became predators; plant eaters began to seek meat.
Death entered the system and mankind had to struggle to survive. That
was all part of the curse. We're still seeing the results of that
today, entire species becoming extinct as the ecosystem sputters and
stumbles along, out of control.
Maybe I'm nuts, but that makes a lot of sense
to me. I've always felt that mankind was a whole lot smarter then we
give him credit to be, back in the beginning. And once sin and death
entered the picture, what happened was natural, all that knowledge and
intelligence was turned toward evil and so everything became very
corrupt in a very short period of time. If you look at the time span
between creation and the flood, it's really not all that long, not as
long as we've been around since the flood anyway.
So why didn't things get just as bad, just as quickly again? Simply
because humans were devolving. By the time the flood was over and they
were starting over again, they'd already devolved some so they couldn't
have progressed as fast as they did before. Plus, we're told that this
time God limited the evil we were able to do and He still does. Even
so, one of the very first things to happen once the flood was over, was
evil! (Noah got drunk and his son found him naked) Then, also to slow
things up, God dispersed people all over the earth instead of allowing
them all to be in one big group together. Then He confused the
languages so we didn't all speak the same language which further slowed
down the progression of evil. So those things and others, helped prevent
us from destroying ourselves again quite so quickly, giving God time to
call Abraham and begin the line that would ultimately bring Jesus into
the world to save us.
Look what's happening now though. Basically, due to technology, (which
is not evil in and of itself) we have gotten back the ability to all be
together again like we were in the beginning. While we still have
nations and we're still spread all over the earth and have different
languages, all of that is overcome by technology such as the internet
and translation devices etc. Daniel 12:4
tells us that during this time of the end, knowledge will increase and
it most certainly has. We haven't gotten smarter, we're still
devolving, but we can now share knowledge with each other more then
ever, faster then ever, and plot yet more evil.
Think back again to just before the flood and
what happened then. We have the "sons of God" and the "daughters of
men" getting together and creating a foul race of "giants". This was
also during the time that God shows us just how quickly human kind
advanced and how very intelligent they were. They most certainly
weren't "cavemen." Knowledge was increasing exponentially, and at the
same time, so was evil. That's when it got so bad that God decided to
destroy it all, even the animals were becoming evil!
Jesus said it would be the same way in our time, the last days, and so
it is. Knowledge is increasing exponentially, so much so that
encyclopedias are out of date before they can finish printing them,
which is why they no longer print them. Knowledge has increased so much
that it's impossible for us to keep up with it, even with our
technology. And with that knowledge, evil has also increased
exponentially as we're all very aware of. Even in the animal kingdom
this is true. We see news reports of certain wild and tame animals
doing things that were unheard of or very rare before - seeking out,
attacking and killing humans, of animals for the very first time (that
we know of) having homosexual relations! If you recall, one of the
judgments during the tribulation will be animals seeking out, attacking and killing humans, so this is like a mini preview of that judgment.
Now, leaving this a moment, I'd like to go out on a limb with something
that came to me recently as I studied. it's about the sons of God and
daughters of men. (Gen 6:1-2)
Here's a wild idea for you. What if for us, in our time, this is
simply showing how the "sons of God", those of us who have been saved
and are now children of God, saw the "daughters of men" those who are
unsaved, and saw they were "beautiful". In other words we liked what we
saw, and "married them" or in other words, yoked ourselves to them - no
longer living the way God commands but living like the unsaved do?
Isn't this a picture of exactly what's already happened to the majority
of the body of Christ? It's a picture of "bad company corrupting good
morals, " another thing the Lord warns us about, as well as a picture of
what happens when we become "friends with the world" to any degree.
It's right after this, in Gen 6:5
that we're told that God sees how great the wickedness on earth had
become - like this is the final straw. Could the final straw be that
God's people are corrupted or in danger of it? It looks like it just
might be so to me.
In Noah's time, God allowed this to continue until at the end only 8
people were saved. Only one man and his family were found to be decent
enough that God saved them from the flood. I put it that way because
they most certainly weren't perfect.
We've also talked about this, but I think again that this points to the
fact that we're going to discover that there's a lot fewer people that
are really saved then is normally thought. But, we know for sure that
God will indeed take us from this earth before He begins His judgement
of it. And we know for sure that while He keeps the body of Christ safe
with Him, He will also save a remnant during the tribulation. So we
can rejoice in that as well.
One other point I'd like to bring up though and another reason why this
resonates with me. Often people wrongly believe that once we're in
heaven we will suddenly know all the answers to everything and
understand everything. The bible shows this isn't exactly true. What
is true is that our minds will no longer be finite and we'll be able to
use all of our minds instead of the less then 10% we now use. (which
reminds me that even our scientists have discovered that we used to use
more of our minds then we do now and that for some reason we've been
using less and less as time goes on) Therefore our ability to learn and
understand things will be tremendously better then it is now. Better
then we can really imagine I suspect. Because of that, things that we
"kind of get" but not quite, will become clear to us then, like a veil
has been removed from our minds. But, things we never thought to ask
about and that actually need some thought and study before
understanding, we still won't know. We will have to study them to learn
the answers, but once we do, we will certainly be able to learn and
understand them. So no, we won't know all things as soon as we get to
heaven, but we will have the ability to learn and understand that far
surpasses what we can now do or imagine.
I believe that's how Adam and Eve were before the fall - before decay and degeneration and de-evolution set it. After all in Gen 1:26
God tells us that He created mankind to rule over the whole earth and
everything in it. He most certainly wouldn't want dummies doing
something like that, so to me that says they had to have been very
intelligent. Of course many other things in His word point to that as
well too. It's exciting to me to know that one day soon we'll be able
to use all of our minds again the way the Lord intended us to, without
the taint from the Fall.
All of this points again to everything coming full circle and to me
shows me yet more of what our Lord meant when He said that these times
would be like the days of Noah. What do you think?
They were supremely intelligent, highly advanced, beings that put
today's finest scientific minds to shame. Contrary to popular secular
thought, they were wise beyond imagination, knowledgeable beyond belief,
gifted in understanding the secrets of the universe. Drawing on the
full capacity of their complex brains, they were undoubtedly the most
brilliant, insightful human beings ever to walk the earth: Godlike in
the true sense of the term. Until the fall.
Every time I consider this, it makes more and
more sense to me. God made man in His image and made mankind to be
"perfect" in every way. He never gives us a job to do without first
giving us the ability to do the job. And He gave them the job of
overseeing everything on the earth! Plus, God walked and talked with
them every day in the Garden. I would think that would be pretty boring
to Him if they were dumb. I think it'd get pretty boring if they were
only as intelligent as we are now, actually. But, if they had full use
of their brains instead of only using a tiny portion of them like we do,
that makes sense then. Even just thinking back a couple thousand
years ago when Jesus was here we see a huge difference between what
people did then and what they do now with their minds. Back then,
Jewish children began memorizing the Torah as soon as they could talk
practically so they had it down, word for word by the time they were
adults. When the epistles were written, the Christians memorized each
one and then sent it on to another church so that church could memorize
it. Long before they were put into book form as we have them, the early
Christians had memorized every book of the NT verbatim! That's
incredible to us, but to them, it wasn't. It was "normal".
On the other end of the spectrum, look at how quickly evil grew too.
Because they were so advanced, they were also able to come up with
horrible evil. A really stupid person isn't very imaginative and can't
generally come up with things that are really evil, but the more
intelligent you are, the more evil you can conceive. So even the fact
that evil grew as fast as it did, shows their intelligence.
Plus, I'd never really considered or reflected on the fact that the evil
contaminated the animals as well as the humans. I knew that sin had
corrupted them as well, but just hadn't really thought about it much.
But God did say that everything, including the animals were evil by the
time of the flood and that's why He wanted to wipe out everything. If
they hadn't been evil as well, God could have simply caused every human
being to stop breathing and have been done with it. And that brings us
to the plants, the vegetation. Even that was corrupted!
Now think of what's going on today. We're seeing more and more allergies
to plants and animals, finding more and more plants that are dangerous
to us and animals are becoming more dangerous to us as well. Remember
the news reports of the little girl and the adult who'd been attacked
with a disease that was literally eating their brains??? It was an
amoeba!!!
There have been all kinds of weird new diseases caused lately by plants,
animals, and who knows what, as well as old ones, so called rare ones,
and even ones from third world countries that are now flourishing in
civilized countries. With all our knowledge and technology, instead of
getting healthier, people are getting sicker and are often told by
doctors that they just don't know what's causing their pain or
suffering.
Instead of getting smarter and smarter, becoming more civilized and advanced, mankind is moving backwards, degenerating.
We've talked about this in numerous threads
before too. For example, we've often talked about how much smarter
children were in previous generations. (kind of like that show, "are you
smarter then a 5th grader".) I remember we had a thread in the chat
forum years ago that showed either a 4th or 5th grade test that I
believe was from the 1950's or so and asked if we could pass it now.
None of us could have and none of our kids or grandkids could either!
Now days though instead of realizing just how marvelously we were
created to be, most folks would rather believe we used to be apes and
aliens came here and did all the neat things we've found from the past. It gives me a whole new thrill now when I read:
Psalm 139:14 —I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
