TIME

 The wisest man on Earth appreciated time, and sung about it: 

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up… (Ecc 3:1-3)

 Life is measured by time. Time is more valuable than money. However, there was not always time! Time is a measure for people to prioritize their lives.

This chapter is about time and since time is abstract, there is some conjecture within these paragraphs. It does, however, make sense both theologically and scientifically.

Animals recognize the seasons, but humans, seconds. Each moment a human makes decisions that decide their destinies. If only I had done things differently is the usual refrain.

Each decision directs toward a different way, but all go to the same place. The destiny of mankind was always eternal but one bad decision made it limited. What changed the way we shall go? One momentous decision: 

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Gen 3:6)

 She stood warned; that death would ensue, “You shall surely die” (Gen 2:17), but literally die, die. Why it is said twice in the Hebrew is unknown, but perhaps it was that both the body and soul would die. Indeed, their bodies began to wither at that moment and the clock was set. However, because of His mercy, the two did not die, die but God redeemed their souls.

“All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died” (Gen 5:5). That should have been the epitaph for Eve as well, but there is none!

When Eve sinned, Adam sinned. The penalty, for justice to be served, would be the same. I submit that both Adam and Eve died at 930 years; they were of the same substance and would have withered, or decayed, beginning at the same time, and ending together because they were one flesh (Gen 2:24).

They also wore coats of the same skin for preservation (Gen 3:21). The best evidence is that they were cast into the same world, to the same environ, and digested the same food. There was no reason that Eve would have outlived Adam. What is missed in scripture is that Adam and Eve were not their names, but their kinds. Hence, both Adam’s lived for 930 years, and the clock began and ran out at the same time for them both.

The clock would run for 5500 years, according to sacred literature: 

“After these things the Word of God came to Adam, and said unto him:-- ‘O Adam, as to the fruit of the Tree of Life, for which thou askest, I will not give it thee now, but when the 5500 years are fulfilled. Then will I give thee of the fruit of the Tree of Life, and thou shalt eat, and live for ever, thou, and Eve, and thy righteous seed.’ (1 Adam & Eve 38:1-2)

 Was God speaking to the male alone or was that to include the female of his kind. Adam represents all of mankind. Both the woman and the man would be redeemed when Jesus came because both the male and the female sinned, both wore garments provided by God, and they were one flesh.

It appears that both the male and the female were redeemed at Calvary: 

The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Mat 27:52-53)

 In sort of an inventory, God seemed to have used FIFO — first in; first out, or first to die; first to be resurrected and made glorious… for Adam and Eve, glorious again. Time withered them for 930 years, time preserved them for 5500 years, and time glorified them; not to be irreverent, but like meat jerky that is restored to its near perfect condition.

As such, because of grace, Adam and his other half did not die, die but died once. Paul wrote to those who would understand the Hebrew — the Hebrews — “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment…” (Heb 9:27). Adam and Eve died not twice, but once, then were resurrected never to die again after 5500 years of preservation.

God is a Tekton (Greek), not just a mere carpenter! God not only knew the science, but created all things, including the science.

Let me digress from time for just a moment. There was no impedance within the Garden of Eden because it was Paradise.

As it turned out, the only impedance was the wiles of the Devil. With that said, neither was there any decay nor any type of gravity in Paradise. The point made is that Paradise was in another realm with neither gravity nor decay, just like would be expected today.

When God made the trees and animals and such, he made Paradise in that realm very similar to the best of the best in the world. So, where was Adam and Eve cast out into? The world. In the world is gravity, the Sun, and radiation that would kill. The only Light that was in the Garden was the Light of God, albeit the Sun and Moon existed in the Cosmos.

Jesus said, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). Jesus was of the world and was the Light therein. What was not said, is that the LORD GOD is the Light in another realm. As it turns out, the Sun and Moon will perish because in heavenly Paradise, the Godhead is sufficient Light.

Part of the glory from an earlier chapter is heaven — the place of glory, “The city had no need of the Sun, neither of the Moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof” (Rev 21:23).

That great city, once a Garden, will have the same environ as the Garden Paradise, perhaps because it is in the same realm all the time!

Again, time is mentioned. Time measures the interval between the generation of all things to their regeneration. As such, God’s Time is the “alpha and omega; the beginning and the ending” (Rev 1:8).

Adam was made in the Image of God so ‘Adam’ has a time as well — from their sin to their resurrection. The alpha of man was sin because that is when both their fleshes were corrupted. If they had sinned and remained in the Garden, it would no longer have been Paradise.

Although the ‘clock’ and ‘calendar’ were made in the sixth event, time would not be measured in the Bible until mankind began to die since it is to measure their lives. Time measures the rate that organisms wither and the rate of a carbon isotope becoming stable. Perhaps that is when the process of death comes to equilibrium.

Now for you who are literalists as well; ‘time’ is not mentioned in the processes of Creation. The Hebrew does not say day, hour, or even year. (Forget your King James Version and read the literal words of the Hebrew.) The Hebrew ‘yom’ can mean a day, but in general, it is a time of hotness and the “evening and morning” (Gen 1:5) a “warming” and a “twisting from the warming” (Strong 2006). In scientific terms, each so-called ‘day’ was a process in general, each of which may have been of different durations.

The first mention of ‘time’ comes later. After sin and them being sent out into the world, multiplication began. In the world, multiplication is life — growing the ‘crop’ outside the Garden. It was then that it was written, “And in process of time it came to pass…” that refers to outside Paradise in the world. Hence, time is for mankind to use in this world. Throughout scripture, all events are measured in time, but in the Garden there was no mention of it; perhaps because time on Earth is only for the rate of decay.

Something dire happened with the first sin; before Adam and Eve had divine glorious flesh like the LORD GOD’s; after sinning they were ashamed of their nakedness: 

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.(Gen 2:5) (Before sin)

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (Gen 3:7) (After sin)

 They were not ashamed because of what they had done but ashamed of their very different flesh. God had made their flesh glorified, but after sin, it had been transformed to decadency. [1]

Now consider sacred literature again: 

But as they felt great trouble from the food they had eaten, and to which they were not used, they went about in the cave saying to each other:

 

"What has happened to us through eating, that this pain should have come upon us? Woe be to us, we shall die! Better for us to have died than to have eaten; and to have kept our bodies pure, than to have defiled them with food."

 

Then Adam said to Eve, "This pain did not come to us in the Garden, neither did we eat such bad food there. Thinks you, O Eve, that God will plague us through the food that is in us, or that our inwards will come out; or that God means to kill us with this pain before He has fulfilled His promise to us?"

 

Then Adam besought the Lord and said, "O Lord, let us not perish through the food we have eaten. O Lord, smite us not; but deal with us according to Thy great mercy, and forsake us not until the day of the promise You have made us."

 

Then God looked upon them, and at once fitted them for eating food; as unto this day; so that they should not perish.

 

Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave sorrowful and weeping because of the alteration in their nature. And they both knew from that hour that they were altered beings, that their hope of returning to the Garden was now cut off; and that they could not enter it.

 

For that now their bodies had strange functions; and all flesh that requires food and drink for its existence, cannot be in the Garden. (1 Adam and Eve LXV:2-8)

 Their bodies, after sin and in the world, functioned very differently; that was their shame! That was why they made for themselves aprons. They covered their strange new faculties that were not required in the Garden. Maybe that validates that the Garden was only in heaven; that makes sense because their flesh was not conducive to things on Earth.

Now for some more conjecture: Kabala Jews believe that there were two creations. Indeed, there is a break in Genesis 2 where one ends and the other begins. Perhaps there was one Creation in two very different domains. As was written in an earlier chapter, the Image in which Adam was made at first was a phantom and to that was later added a physical image (chapter 2). Does it not make sense that Adam was made from heavenly ingredients because he was the Image of God? Thus, perhaps the two creations were (1) the heaven and (2) the earth, or the unseen and the seen — antimatter and matter in scientific terminology.

Our flesh and bones are vessels for the human genome. Referring to the creation of the female Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called ‘Woman,’ because she was taken out of Man” (Gen 2:23).

That seems insignificant but the genders were mentioned, male and female. Genders are called that because of their genomes. They are much the same, but the female passes along mitochondrial DNA whereas the male does not, thus making Eve the mother of all living (Gen 3:20).

The flesh has the specific DNA of the kind in every nuclear cell. Bones do as well, but the quality of the DNA is preserved more so in the interior of the bones in the bone marrow. That Eve had the bones of Adam, perhaps the man and the woman were buried beneath Calvary. That may have great significance, especially since rebirth is engendered from (God) above. (It may be that the genes of Jesus corrected the bad genes of the two Adams as His blood made the propitiation for sins that are past, Rom 3:23).

What I am alluding to is that the Bible is all about genetics. That should be obvious in the name ‘Genesis.’ As such, ‘born again’ is a “Re-Genesis.”

The human genome is special. Adam was made the dominant kind (Gen 1:26). His was the chosen and peculiar genetics that all of mankind were intended to be. Becoming a Christian returns to that kind, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people…” (1 Pet 2:9), making a reference to Christians.

All that to say that human genetics are special and that when sin changed the genetics of God’s Images, they became decadent, or much depraved. Since original sin, depravity is in the genetics of all mankind for “all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God” (Rom 3:23).

Adam and his woman were made in the Image of God, and God is eternal. Mankind was meant to be eternal beings, and by grace the souls of mankind are eternal souls. Where do the souls reside after dying? — not die, die; but die once. That is the question.

Given that foul things cannot reside in heaven, then the flesh as it is now cannot go to heaven. To be made whole, is the process of glorification that begins with trusting God. Jesus changes the flesh of both the living and the dead with time… “in the twinkling of the eye” (1 Cor 15:52).

Since DNA is the double-helix of carbon atoms compounded by a sort of ‘glue’ when that bond loosens, then the organism dies. It is no longer what it once was. As such, death, for Adam and his mate was not cessation of life but the death of the flesh that covered the Image of God. In other words, death is when the divine being that God made looses the Genome of God and acquires the genome of the Wicked One. Adam and the woman died in the sense that they no longer were who they had been!  [2]

Solomon hit the nail on the head when he referred to death as a loosening of the silver cord (Ecc 12:6) — the dissipation of the human DNA as it may mean.

So, time possibly did not exist before sin, or either it was of no utility. Prior to sin, the genes would never die because of Paradise. In the world, the fleshes of the two would die but the coats of skin would slow that process in time. Those new skins belonged to God, and he protected the fleshes of the two.

Now for some science: Carbon-14 is an isotope of carbon that radiates. It, as such, is a type of invisible light that can be seen only by a detector.

Carbon-14 is a product of the environment of the real world. Exploding stars at their origin created carbon-14 from nitrogen. Likewise, the Sun intensifies carbon-14 by changing the nitrogen radical into carbon-14 radiation.

Radiation kills very slowly given minute quantities. Perhaps the ‘gift’ that Lucifer contributed to the world was carbon-14 radiation — dark light. It would kill the two very gradually. The carbon-14 would be breathed into every cell of the bodies of Adam and Eve and distributed to all the cells over time.

Think about that. God breathed life unto Adam and the Serpent, Lucifer, “the bringer of life’ would breathe death. Perhaps he brought to the world carbon-14. Regardless, the standard measure of ancient times is the dissipation of carbon-14 in organisms (DNA creatures).

Carbon half-life measures the time it requires for carbon-14 to lose half its intensity. The half-life of carbon is around 5700 years. Is that why Adam would be redeemed at half of his life (his flesh) after 5500 years? Coincidence? God does not deal in coincidences.

When Adam withered for 930 years, he looked very different, would he not? He went from a Jesus look-alike to a shriveled old man.

Time changes things and the carbon within him would show in his flesh. Not only that, but the gravity in the Earth would pull Adam down to the level of the Beast that “upon your belly shall you go” (Gen 3:14). Adam would be stooped in a fashion like the crawling Serpent, and at 930 years perhaps both Adam and Eve shed their skins like a serpent!

With that background, the hypothesis is that time did not begin with Creation, but with sin. When Adam sinned, the Genome of God in him (and her) would begin to die. The Genome of God never died; in fact when Jesus died, it was only the temporal flesh of God that gave up the Ghost — the real viable Image of God that is invisible to the world, but not to those with bright eyes.

Therefore, this year 2023 is not really Anno Mundi (AM) 5784. That time was established by the loosening of sand from sandstone. The real metric is carbon half-lives, making the time A.S. (After Sin).

Now for some further speculation. Time perhaps did not begin with Genesis three but Genesis four after sin… “in the process of time” (Gen 4:1). Since Adam would be redeemed by the blood of Jesus in 5500 years, then that date would be 33 A.D. Another half-life would be roughly 2750 more years. (2750-33=about 2720). Today’s time is 5500 +2023=7523 A.S. (After Sin).

Now what does 1-1/2 half-lives to do with scripture and the end of time? Consider the prophecy from the Book of Daniel about the end: 

And I heard the Man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when He held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by Him that lives for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when He shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. (Dan 12:7)

 A half-life and another half of a half-life is a time and an half. How obvious could God be about the timing of all things, and perhaps His ‘Clock’ is carbon-14 radioactive decay. If so, then we have very little time left, especially since nuclear war accelerates death by adding radiation to the atmosphere! It would speed up God’s timeclock!

So much for time; next consider the origin of the different species.

(picture credit: ThoughtCo)

 

 

 

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[1] Humans look beautiful by our own standards but when you think about it, we are disgusting! The hole that we cherish so much is right there with our garbage disposal hole, and according to the Law of God, our posteriors are not kosher. It was unlike that when Adams’ bodies were without digestive tracts.

[2] I believe the ultimate sin is gene editing because essentially that is what the Serpent did to the first two human beings.