4) The Fourth "Day" of Creation:
248 to 65 Million Earth Years Ago
And God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven and to give light upon Earth": and it was so. And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth. (Genesis 1:14-17)
It took 1 million years for first light to reach the surface of the sun. An estimated 10,000 years after the Permian Extinction, Earth was set on its present course around a fully developed and functional sun; the moon, likewise, was set on a particular orbit around Earth and the stars in the expanse of the universe shone upon Earth by night. It took the moon on average, 29.5 days to travel around Earth, and a solar year was about 365 days. During that time of Earth's development, three of the months were called Casleu, Tsivan and Thevan as God had so named them. When Enoch visited God on His space station,
("space station",
Love it :-).
Think:
"the mount of the congregation"
:-).
Same thing :-).
Just a lil more colorful terminology.
Isaiah 14:13
For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon
the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:"
Is that not exactly
what people are doing today?
Elevating themselves
"I will ascend"
and their intellect,
their "thrones"
as it were
"above the stars of God"?
the exact number of days for each "month" was revealed to him. Enoch wrote about the phases of the moon, and the lunar and solar years:
It [moon] on] goes in at the first gate to the western places of the sun, by the first gate with 31 days exactly, by the second with 31 days... by the third with 30 days... by the fourth with 30 days... by the fifth with 31 days... by the sixth with 31... by the seventh with 30... by the eighth with 31... by the ninth with 31... by the tenth with 30... by the eleventh with 31... by the twelfth with 28 days exactly... and accomplishes 365 and a quarter days of the solar year, while the lunar year has 354, and there are wanting to it twelve days of the solar circle which are the lunar epacts of the whole years... the quarter of a day is omitted for three years, and the fourth fulfills it exactly... therefore they are taken outside of heaven for three years and are not added to the number of days, because they change the time of the years to two new months towards completion to two others towards dimunition. (2 Enoch 16:2-6)
Although God had created time on Earth millions of year earlier, the angels gave this knowledge first to the Sumerians (predecessors to the ancient Babylonians) who then, became the first humans to further break down an Earth year and create the week (seven Earth days); the day (24 Earth hours); the hour (sixty Earth minutes); and the minute (sixty Earth seconds).
Earth's development now moved into the Mesozoic Era (248-65 MYA) and included the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods. During this Fourth Age of Creation, God and the heavenly hosts decided to make drastic atmospheric, environmental, geographic, and climactic changes on Earth, as Earth's orbit around the sun, and the moon's orbit around Earth (which had been altered previously) were re-stabilized. During this 4th Day of Creation, the land - Pangaea was yet breaking apart, carrying upon the separating landmasses, the pre-determined species of flora and fauna. Meanwhile, God monitored and evaluated the progress of His creations:
"And God saw that it was good." (Genesis 1:18)
The courses of the earth's and the moon's movements in the heavens were approximately the way they are now. God's angels logged into His data banks, how the various weather systems and ecosystems functioned, and how the food chains worked, especially among the huge carnivorous and herbivorous reptiles called dinosaurs
("the beasts of Earth"),
(Genesis 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
that God created to literally weather the then wetter and warmer environment of Earth and to be the stewards of all the earth.
So much for that:
"Dinosaurs aren't in the bible." line of reasoning.
Opps.)
Swimmers in the Mesozoic waters included several versions of the ichthyosaur the fish lizard. The dinosaurs ruled the waters, the land, and the air for over 180 million years and during the entire time did not evolve: God created numerous variations from one prototype or theme, the original "stem reptile", the cotylosaur.
God created flying reptiles, observed them for a time, reevaluated their design, then later changed the scales of these first airborne creatures into feathers, their front legs into wings, and created the first true birds. Meanwhile, by 200 million years ago, tiny warm-blooded, fur-bearing mammals existed among the rushes of this primitive Earth and were deemed well suited for the new ecosystems to come.
Apokalypsis is Greek in origin, and means "a revealing." Because the Biblical Abraham was loyal to God, he was privy to His knowledge and was allowed occasional access to His realm.
(Resonates...
Strongly.)
In the Apocalypse of Abraham (in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha), it is written that Abraham visited God's "heavenly throne" apparently His space station
and saw a magnificent array
of "many-eyed ones"
- robotic earth probes -
as strange in design as the life forms t
hey were dispatched to monitor;
they filled the air, land, and seas.
Some UFO reports from military witnesses
present potential flight concerns,
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Wednesday, "The safety of our service personnel, our bases and installations, and the protection of U.S. operations security on land, in the skies, seas, and space are paramount. We take reports of incursions into our designated space, land, sea, or airspaces seriously and examine each one.
I keep trying to tell ya, they aint aliens.)
They flew, crawled, rolled, and swam; they drilled, scooped, reaped, recorded, and photographed. Passages from other extra-Biblical books suggest that some robotic probes continuously monitored atmospheric gases, while submarine probes collected the smaller life forms from the sea. Terrestrial probes may have been equipped with on-board x-ray scanners and thermal imagers that were utilized in assessing the bodily functions of the larger creatures, as well as cameras and audio equipment that photographed their activities, and recorded their sounds.
He [God] has the chariots of the creatures, as it is written, "The creatures [robots?] ran and returned --they run by permission and return by permission, for the Sekinah [power source] is above their heads. (Appendix to 3 Enoch 24:15)
From these and other observations, working from the Biblical "kingdom of heaven" evidently His space station God planned how His new ecosystems and creatures should be formed. Some
211 million years ago, near the end of theTriassic,
God sent an asteroid,
which He
allowed to bypass Jupiter,
Similar in size to Jupiter,
these gas-dominated planets
orbit extremely close
to their parent stars,
circling them in as few as 18 hours.
We have nothing like them
in our own solar system,
where the closest planets to the Sun
are rocky and orbiting much farther away.
Put another way?
We dont see gas giants
far away from their stars
in other solar systems.
Just here.
You call it another coincidence,
I call it another brute force fact.
"To many coincidences
is not
a coincidence",
some might say.)
to impact Earth
and, as a result, destroy most living things
that existed, including the last of the
cotylosaurs -- stem reptiles. One-third of all
land animals and all marine reptiles (except
the ichthyosaur) were eliminated. This
intense impact created a 60-mile-wide crater
in Quebec that is now the Manicouagan
Reservoir, and further caused worldwide
volcanic eruptions that served to drastically
transform the landscape. This was the
fourth mass extinction.
Its main purpose and effect, however, was the dispersal of tons of debris into the atmosphere and the resulting creation of a greenhouse effect on Earth as carbon dioxide levels rose sharply. By studying the pores on leaves of plants collected from Greenland in the 1920s, that grew before, during, and after the die-off of Triassic plants and animals, paleontologist Jennifer McElwain has discovered that global warming took place at this time. After studying changes in the number of tiny pores (stomata) on the ancient leaf surfaces, she found evidence of a rapid surge of seven times the normal amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" (Ehleringer 2005). This radical atmospheric change resulted in the elimination of nearly half of all land animals and up to 95% of the extant flora. After the impact, this period of extinction and rebirth spanned between five and ten thousand years, a mere blink in the eye of the Almighty Alpha and Omega.
The successive Jurassic Period (that lasted approximately 60 million years) hosted the re-creation, experimentation, and further development of those magnificent creatures called dinosaurs the stewards of all Earth from its brightest, wettest, and warmest regions to its darkest, driest, and coldest - and they thrived on the very low levels of oxygen on Earth. They were created in their various forms and sizes with varying attributes then, placed over all Earth "to till it and tend it" while the continents were yet drifting. So, in reality, the dinosaurs did not necessarily migrate in search of food, but went to where the work was, or to where their special abilities were needed, just as certain animals yet do today. The plant-eating dinosaurs, such as diplodocus, were designed to trim the trees and bushes, and their dung spread pollen and fertilized the soil. The jaw of the triceratops was perfectly engineered for the elimination of excessive and/or dead foliage, particularly small trees. The dome- headed pachycephalosaurs did not butt heads against other pachycephalosaurs nor against other dinosaurs, as was previously speculated (Botzer 2005). The nine-inch thick heads of those herbivores were utilized in butting down small dead trees; they then consumed them, roots and all. One bipedal allosaurus (dubbed "Big Al" by paleontologists) may have been particularly instrumental in helping to determine the integrity of the skeletal structure of all future carnivorous vertebrates. It is our belief that Big Al's bones were intentionally broken numerous times and their healing processes meticulously noted. His reconstructed skeleton stands today as a monument of sacrifice for all subsequent life forms with internal skeletons.
Fossil records from the Triassic, Jurassic, and the subsequent Cretaceous Periods can show no evidence that any of the dinosaurs, or any other living things for that matter, evolved, or self-changed physically, from their basic forms to higher or different forms even during their millions of years of existence. Instead, the various forms of a particular species (phyla) were engineered following that phyla's one basic blueprint (phylum).
The significant physical (visible changes that have resulted in the many morphological characteristics of the countless life forms that have existed on Earth for the past 3.7 billion years have been dubbed "evolution." Today there exists a belief that when insects for example, adapt to pesticides and become resistant to them, or when an animal is born with a different color than that of its parents, that this proves that evolution is yet taking place today. However, these are merely mutations that involve physiological changes, and are often important defense mechanisms that God put into place to assure the survival of a particular species for as long as they were needed. Moreover, some mutations have the following characteristics: (1) They can be harmful (such as sickle cell anemia and Down's syndrome); (2) They do not always involve physical changes; and (3) They are not always visible. If the Theory of Evolution postulates the survival of the fittest, then this means that there is a major flaw in that Theory and that the science of mutation must therefore be divorced from the Theory of Evolution. Darwin admitted that he did not know how changes in life forms occurred. Although scientists today can explain the most complex details of what changes occurred and when, even with the most state-of-the-art equipment, they cannot explain the how.
The climate and flora of Earth first began to diversify during the successive cooler and drier Cretaceous Period (145-65 ΜΥΑ), creating a suitable climate for deciduous trees and flowers (Ellison 1985). The first ants, butterflies, bees, and snakes were created. Diverse forms of the dinosaur were created including the tyrannosaurus rex and the triceratops. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was mainly a scavenger that hunted only when there were no animal carcasses to consume. With its insatiable appetite for meat, it patrolled the landscape searching for dead animals and consumed those first. This helped to keep the numbers of rotting carcasses littering the landscape to a minimum. So, contrary to popular belief, the Tyrannosaurus Rex (with its oddly tiny upper forelegs) did not habitually attack herbivorous dinosaurs or the triceratops, then kill and eat them, as popular fiction would have people believe; there was simply no need for that.
Other carnivores were created to prevent the dinosaur population from growing beyond the numbers necessary to properly sustain Earth. Moreover, the carnivorous dinosaurs were given the amazing ability to sniff out animals that were sick, old, or somehow defective. These were the ones that were attacked (usually at the rump area) then, killed. This special ability occurs in present-day predatory animals, such as the lion, that only attacks the weakest animal of a particular herd. This way, God has assured that only the fittest survive. And while lions, for example, are able to consume the flesh of a defective animal with no harmful consequences, humans are not. Therefore, because predatory carnivores consume the weakest and the sick among animals, primitive humans were protected from eating flesh that was harmful to the body. In order to prevent certain species from dying out entirely before the end of the Cretaceous, pus, God did give them certain defense mechanisms such as great speed or bony plates and spikes; therefore "the fittest" among them utilized those mechanisms and survived until their services were no longer needed.
At the end of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era the continents were similar in shape to their present-day forms. At the same time, many swamps dried up as a direct result of rising land and swifter- running rivers. God then implemented the 5th mass extinction that killed off the ichthyosaur and all the dinosaurs (that had been the keepers of Earth for about 180 million years) and 75% of all other extant species. Earth's orbit around the sun was changed from a round one to an elliptical one and it remained elliptical for a period of 160 million years; this shift in Earth's orbit placed Earth farther away from the sun. The result of this was a gradual cooling down of Earth's temperatures (that would climax in another Ice Age millions of years later during the Pleistocene Epoch) and in the annihilation of the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were simply no longer needed and were thus determined to be unsuited for the new ecosystems and taxonomy of life to come as God had already designed them. However, from the beginning, God collected and preserved the blueprints of all His life forms aboard His "Noah's Ark" in space.
(I just love it :-)...
The only survivors of this extinction were the much smaller land-dwelling animals and some sea life. Long before each extinction was to take place, working from their bio-lab, God and his crew of scientists
(Angels :-)
created the new species of air, land, and sea life that would be transplanted to the re-formed environment. Not one life form on Earth came about randomly; they were all the result of God's deliberate master plan. One such reconfiguration of Earth's landscape is recorded in 3 Enoch:
Behold a Watcher and a holy one came down from heaven. At the top of his voice he shouted, 'Cut the tree down, lop off its branches/strip off its leaves, throw away its fruit; let the animals flee from its shelter/and the birds from its branches (28:9).
"And the evening and the morning were the fourth day"
(Genesis 1:19)
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