Sunday, October 29, 2023

BEFORE TIME

Again, I have taken the opportunity to write what might be, but it is not to be taken as factual. It is to motivate you to think about just who you are — whether you esteem yourself beyond reason and so forth. It is humbling to realize that we might not be children of God but a hybrid of Adam and some other being whose thoughts could chill the hottest fire.

We are not the humane people that we think we are. Just look at the brutish battle ongoing in the Holy Land. How could children of God, whether Allah or Yahweh, perish one another so inhumanely?

Just as in all times, the victor in war reveals who has the stronger God. The hope of Christians should be that our God — the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — is the real God that is Almightier than Allah or any other ‘god.’

Now for time.

Time measures decay and death. Without life, time would not be measured and of no significance. Without animation — life — time would be stagnant. There would still be fire, wind, the seasons, and such; but none of it would be recorded except by the movement of the stars and the erosion of the Earth.

Even stars burn out as they decay in their own radioactive manner. Life exists because many ancient stars died to make carbon, not from nothing, as evolution proposes, but as the basic ingredient for making life. Indeed, fossil fuels are not from fossils but from dead stars!

The progeny of Abraham and the other patriarchs are likened to the stars in heaven. No wonder, carbon is essentially stardust and organisms are carbon-based. As such the stars were the ingredients for all the kinds whether vegetation or animals. The stars were before the foundation of the world or even our Sun of Moon. The apostle Paul addressed the significance of mankind: 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved. (Ephes 1:3-6)

 God blessed “us” whoever us is. Because He blessed us before the foundation of the world, it was not just Christians that were blessed, but mankind. Of all the various and diverse kinds, including the angels, God chose Adam’s kind!

Those spiritual blessings were in heavenly places. That seems to be Paradise in heaven before time began. Of all the kinds, God chose us before the foundation of the world.

Everything that God has done for mankind, as scripture reveals, is measured by time except for the Creation. That points toward time ask the dynamic for mankind and pinpoints God as the ‘Dynamis’ that makes all things happen. That dynamis, in the Hebrew, is translated as ‘Virtue’ or “Goodness.’

Life is dynamic because human beings were made in the Dynamic Image of God. Without life, the world would be kinetic — have motion — but motion without a purpose. Life made the world dynamic and with purpose.

God’s purpose for the world was us… all of Adam’s kind. In a modern translation, God said, “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jer 29:11; NIV).

Before the foundation of the world, long before time began, God planned mankind. Even after sin, God never dropped His plans for us; He still has a Plan! That Plan includes everyone, like it or not. As you read this, His Plan for you is developing, but God, because of His foreknowledge, although He did not dictate your own plan, knows the outcome.

Just as when you learned to ride a bicycle, your father knew beforehand whether you would ride or fall because he knew you; your Father in Heaven provides the motion, knowing in advance your character and whether you will ride with Him or fall.

Just as your own dad loves you either way, Father God does as well, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). God does not love the world in the sense of material things but the people of the world — His creatures that He planned before time. His love does not extend only to those who love Him but to everyone just because he blessed them before time.

Jesus pre-existed the world and time as well. (John 17:24). He planned us; not the Jesus of the first century A.D., but the “Jesus’ — the Word (John 1:14) that poured the foundation for the world just for us long before time ever began.

There were two components of Creation — the heavens first before the foundation of the world, then the world, from chapters one and two of Genesis, respectively. Heaven, or the unseen, was the beginning, or the first rank in making things. It was the basis for all material things which were of a second rank. Hence, chapter one may have been rank one and chapter two, rank two.

God did not judge mankind as more deserving than the other kinds. He Created us more fitting for eternal life.

God had said, “Let us make man in our Image, after our Likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth” (Gen 1:26). “Us” is not in the Hebrew. God made all things, so if Jesus was only a helpmate for God, then there would be two gods. Neither did the angels help God; in fact, some of them hindered God. That was the proof that John provided that the Word, ‘Jesus’ is the One God (John 1).

If man was made from clay, he was molded as man. “Dominion” comes from the root word meaning to tread down. God did not make many men and judge which was of the higher quality to be His Images, but made the prototype man, by treading down and compressing the clay into the mold. As such, Adam was the Image that God worked on to be glorious, not the other kinds. As such, neither angels nor animals were chosen or elected in some sort of lottery, but all Adam’s kind was intended to be made suitable enough to love, and as it turned out, even with flaws that were acquired by sin.

We often forget the ‘likeness’ when we focus on the ‘Image.’ Likeness is similitude, like God in outward appearance. Thus, the Image was like God in Spirit and Likness was with glorious flesh, like God’s.

Jesus put on the flesh of man, as the Son of Man (Gens of Adam), but before Jesus, the Word had divine ‘flesh’ as well. The Son of God (the flesh of God) appeared to Nebuchadnezzar in the fiery furnace and to Jacob as he wrestled with God. His flesh was somewhat different with the ability to be in the world and in heaven at the same time.

Perhaps, the original flesh of Adam who was able to see unto the heavens according to the Books of Adam and Eve, God told Adam after his nature changed, “"When you were under subjection to Me, you had a bright nature within you, and for that reason, could you see things afar off” (1 Adam and Eve VIII:2). That seems to be the supra-natural ability of Jesus before He came in our type of flesh.

“Afar off,” was movement between the world and heaven without any impedance. That is because in Paradise there would be nothing to impede… no great gulf nor abys between the two worlds.

Enoch, in his tour of the cosmos, implied that there was no barrier between the third heaven of Paradise in Heaven and Paradise on Earth (Enoch VIII). Adam and Eve, in their glorious state, could have traversed heaven and earth as they pleased. Perhaps they preferred Heaven but were cast out into ‘earth,’ or into the physical world.

If time began with sin, then before sin was before time. Perhaps when we (humans) were “blessed” before the foundation of the world, that blessing was the carbon sprinkled from the dying stars that became the foundation of us all… the carbon in organisms that are distinctively different between man and woman and the other kinds.

Apes were never part of the Glorious Plan of God, but the plan of Lucifer to diminish mankind to nothing more than a stooped animal. Gorillas are not human beings nor human beings, gorillas, and it has always been that way. There are no missing links; God made them each their kind!

As for Neanderthal ‘man’ he would not be a man because God did not mold it in the same fashion. That creature was somewhat less than man just as man is a little less than angels. As such, when that is written (Psalm 8:5), it pointed out the differences between the first two kinds, and projected forward’ each of the kinds not in the Image and Likeness of God were even more remote. In other words, God was not an ape.

Each species originated before the foundation of the world. God used carbon for them all, formed them into distinctly different chains, bound them together into cords, and put the cords in each nuclear cell of the body. Each of the species have their own distinct chain and each chain identifies each cell with all the characteristics of God, at least when mankind was glorious.

Note that apes and other animals are not so glorious. It is upright man that God marked as glorious.

Cain was the first mutation, or hybrid, and God marked him another way. Cain, as it turned out, looked like a man but behaved as a beast because the genome of Lucifer got into him via his mother, Eve.

Adam and his mate were made from blessings before time began, it seems, but Cain in the process of time (Gen 4:3), implying that time took its toll. Whether Eve was aged or not and had a deformed child, or whether the Wicked One actually fathered him is debatable, but Cain was marked with life so that he would not die (Gen 4:15). It could be the mark of God, but consider if it was the mark of the Beast.

That mark is unknown for sure, but because Cain was of the Wicked One, the mark would most certainly be in his DNA. Cain was somewhat different than Adam or his brother, Abel. He was neither the Image or Likness of God, Adam, nor Abel!

If the mark of Cain was the mark of the beast, that mark would be ‘666’ (Rev 13:18).  The carbon in all organisms has six electrons, six protons, and six neutrons. The mark might be in the DNA of Cain and his kind. Only the blood of Jesus with its DNA can overwrite the mark of the beast for the past sins of mankind — original sin (Rom 3:25).[1]

Cain was after time began and the ‘daughters of men’ that engaged the ‘sons of God’ made the ‘giantism’ of Cain part of the identity of the ‘sons of God’ who were Seth’s progeny. Not that giants means huge, but genetically different in some manner, and as found out centuries later the residual genes of giants still remained in some so-called ‘humans’ the Anakim (Deut 1:28).

“God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Gen 2:8). Hence man, Adam, was a plant in the Garden of God, and He planted Adam “eastward in Eden. That seems to be directional, and it is, but again, it is not!

“Eastward” in the Hebrew refers to before time because the Sun rises in the east. God planted the Garden, not to the east of Eden, but before time. He took the soul that He had made of Adam (chapter one), added material, and then planted Adam as he did the trees of the Garden.

The trees, as well as the animals, would have been glorious as well — “very good” or perhaps the ‘trees’ were metaphors for other living souls. (As it turns out throughout scripture trees are metaphors for people, and the most notable is that Jesus is symbolized as the ‘Tree of Life.’)

The world is not just planet Earth but all material things. God must have planted the Image that He had molded of Adam in Heaven, alongside other living souls in that realm.

There may have been more little Adam’s planted before time began with only Abel, Cain, and Seth acknowledge as coming after time began. The Book of Jubilees, as well as the Books of Adam and Eve acknowledge twin girls of Cain and Abel but were there more? Yes, there were, after the others… in the process of time, “And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters” (Gen 5:4).

Therefore, there were other sons and daughters of Adam, and maybe they were the originators of the various races. Do not the races have different DNA and even look different than each other? It is unknown what race Adam was, but it was certainly the human race, not angels and not beasts. Whatever was the glorious race, none of us are of the Race of God! We all come short of His Glory — His Image, or His Genome.

Albeit there were sons and daughters after sin and in the process of time, did Adam and Eve multiply in the manner of God before time?

God made Adam by replicating Himself, and woman was made of Adam with his ingredients, ostensibly the DNA of Adam. It was not by planting a seed but grafting a ‘shoot’ from Adam that God also planted in the ground.

There was creation in the Garden after Adam was formed, and each ‘plant’ was before the foundation of the world, and before time began.

It might be there were many more glorious creatures that Adam and Eve multiplied from the souls that God supplied. In other words, there may have been, or maybe not, other ‘Adam’s’ before time began… his kind anyway. If so, was it just one man, Adam, that fell or all his kind? That leads to another question: If so, did they all look different than the prototypical Adam?

So, it appears that much happened before time began.  If, the time of man began with the sin of man, then perhaps many things were happening in nature before mankind sinned. That would mean that the world is not relatively new but fallen man is. Cain wandered the Earth, as his name means, and he was much different than glorious Adam.

Even his DNA might be different as explained. Could it be so different that early man-apes are just mutant human beings? If so, then man did not evolve from apes but apes from men. (I submit that prehistoric features do reveal themselves in some people.)

Everyone has DNA and each race of people has different identities that are encoded in their DNA.

They all had the same Adam, so why are they so different? Because of sin, time has made them less glorious until today, we all come short of the glory of God. Some seem to come shorter than others, but that is for God to sort out! In the beginning, we all were His kind — Adam’s kind before the foundation of the world.

If the ancient organisms are tested, would they be from before time or after time began? There was much going on before time, so carbon-dating could provide false proof, and inadvertently be just another cunning way that the ‘Serpent’ has devised to delude us.





[1] I believe the unpardonable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, or that phantom Image of Jesus in whose likeness the soul of Adam and us were made. Cain blasphemed the Invisible God, and he was marked outwardly. In some manner, his flesh was different, so different that only a blind man would kill him. In the end, according to sacred literature, blind Lamech killed Cain. Cain’s flesh would have been different than the other beings because he was not fully human but of another kind — another existence with different flesh. Hence, gene editing may be the unpardonable sin and ‘total depravity,’ as Calvinists call it.

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