We are now in Hour 2 of Learn the Bible in 24 hours, in which we're going to address the Creation and the Fall of Man. And let me just say right at the outset, of all the sessions we're going to have, this one is undoubtedly the most frustrating. And it's not because of the Biblical material, it's because of the presuppositions and prejudices we bring to this topic. Because we've all grown up in a Pagan culture in which there's an enforced theory in science called evolution. And the myths and nonsense that gets promoted in our schools and throughout our culture are one of the things that we need to overcome. Our problem isn't the Bible. Our problem is bad science, poor science. Let's just jump in. We, obviously, are in the Old Testament. We're in the first book of the Old Testament. The first Book of the Torah, the 5 Books of Moses, the Book of Genesis. And we, obviously, are in our Panorama of History. We're going right at the beginning. The creation of time itself. Not just the physical universe, but the creation of time itself. In this session, we're going to take 3 chapters, chapters 1 and 2, which deal with Creation, and chapter 3, which deals with the predicament of mankind, the Fall of Man, and what God is doing to respond to that. and so this is Hour 2 of the 24
hours. They're actually only two worldviews. There are lots of different
views, but they really categorize into one of two categories. Either everything
is the result of a cosmic accident, and this is what we're taught in schools
today, that we came from goo to you by way of the zoo. In other words, this
idea of a everything being the result of a cosmic accident is ridiculous, of
course, but also, it shouldn't surprise us then, that our children have no sense
of destiny, and how can they have if we are all just some kind of cosmic
accident. The alternative view - worldview - is that we are the result of a
deliberate and highly skillful design, which implies, of course, that there’s a
Designer. And in turn, that implies there's
an accountability to that Designer. All the different worldviews you might
categorize fall into the one of these two categories. And these things are
important issues, because it will lead to four basic questions. Who am I? Where
did I come from? Why am I here? And where am I going to go when I die? These four basic questions are questions
that every one of us has a belief about, an attitude about. And it's critical, of
course, because this will determine our destiny. It's interesting that the Book of
Genesis anticipates all false philosophies. Atheism is rebutted by the
fact that we've been created by God. Pantheism, that fact that God is
everywhere is nonsense. God has transcendent of His creation and
distinguishable from it. Polytheism is rebutted in the Book of Genesis. There is one
God. And Materialism is rebutted in Genesis, because matter had a beginning,
and it also will have an end. Humanism, which is, of course, God, not man, is the
ultimate reality. We're not the ultimate reality. We're simply pawns and the prize in
a cosmic warfare, but God Himself is the ultimate reality. And, of course, the other
thing that lurks behind all our discussions is this theory of evolution.
And when we speak of evolution, or evolutionism, we're not talking about the
fact that there is adaptation within species. It's really … what we're dealing
with here, is biogenesis, but we generally call it the theory of evolution. And that
is, of course, rebutted by the scripture because God deliberately and skillfully
created each one of us. And, Uniformism, among scientists there's an attitude
that things have always been the way they are. That things continue as they
always have been. And the Bible speaks differently. It says God intervenes not …
only at the creation, but during history He intervenes in what's going
on. And it's interesting … if you take a pair of binoculars and look at the moon
or any other planetary objects. We see them bitterly beaten up pockmarked. It's clear that the solar
system was a rough neighborhood, and so the uniformism is a suspect premise even
within our scientific context. Every major doctrine in the Bible has its roots in
Genesis. Sovereign election, salvation, justification by faith, the believer’s
security, the concept of separation, the disciplinary chastisement, rapture of the
church is even suggested here, divine incarnation, death and resurrection. The
Priesthoods, both the Aaronic and the Melchizedek priesthoods. The
Antichrist even has his roots in here, and the Palestinian covenant, and on it
goes. There are more than we could even list here. Let's just jump in and take
the first verse. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Now, if
you can embrace that sentence, you'll have no problems in the rest of the Bible.
If you have problems with that sentence, you'll have all kinds of difficulties. “In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” It's interesting that in the
Hebrew ... there are seven words and 28 letters. By the way, you
notice that Hebrew, remember, goes from right-to-left. All languages flow towards
Jerusalem. Nations that were east of Jerusalem wrote from right-to-left.
Nations that are west of Jerusalem write from left to right. And so … in
Western Europe we have Greek, Latin, English, of course, and so on. Spanish, what
have you, all go from left to right. If you go
east of Jerusalem, whether it's Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit, what have you, it goes
from right to left. I don't know what you do with that piece of information,
but had to throw it out there. There are over 300,000 letters in the Torah,
but we're taking 28 of them here. And we actually could be spending a week of
study on just this these letters. So notice the first word is beresheet
“in the beginning” or, technically, “in beginning” and then the word bara “in the
beginning” bara God created out of nothing. There are three different words that
could be used here. asa which means to make or fashion -
fabricate, if you will, but of something else yatsa which means to form
something. But these are not the words used. The
word bara means to create out of nothing. And all three of these words are in
Isaiah 43 seven that have obviously different sense. But the other thing I’d
like to comment on without trying to beat this to death, is the word Elohim
the word God there. beresheet bara Elohim. The word Elohim ...
you, whether you realize it or not, probably know enough Hebrew to realize that
that's a plural noun. Certain categories of Hebrew nouns suggest the plural by an
IM ending. Cherub is singular, cherubim are plural. A seraph is singular, Seraphim are
plural. And Elohim is a plural noun, but what's strange about its usage in the
Bible. It's always used as a singular noun. it technically is a grammatical mistake
and it's a hint in the very structure of the first few words of the Torah of the
Trinity and the Trinity is all through the Old Testament. That's a
separate study, but just be sensitive to that, but there are a number of basic
questions. Is the universe 15 billion years old? That's the conventional wisdom
among astronomers, of course, fifteen, sixteen billion. Or was it created in
six days, you know, hundred and forty-four hours? How many of you here believe the
universe is sixteen billion years old? Ok. How many of you believe that the
universe was created in literally six days? My hand is up in both cases. That may
surprise you, because both may be true. It always bothers me when I find Christians
who are sophisticated in Einstein's theory of relativity badger this, because from
Einstein's theory of relativity you have to beg the question, "whose clock are you
talking about?" And I'll show you what I mean here in a minute, but there are many
Christians that have trouble with the six-day concept. There's actually a large
group of scientists that have published a book "In Six Days". Over 50 of them
expressing why they believe the universe was created in six days. Or
was the light just created in transit? Were the aging factors built in? The
tree rings that suggest more, so forth. These things are an issue to many Christians, because
they want to cling to the idea of being scientifically accurate on the one hand,
and yet they're troubled by the fact the Bible says that clearly six
days. Or were the days more than 24 hours? Were they actually geological eras?
There many authors that write books trying to present a Christian viewpoint,
arguing that there are ... they try to make this 16 billion year age of the
universe compatible with the scripture. The great discovery of 20th century
science was that we live in a finite universe. Which means that it had a
beginning. And the way they tried to explain that beginning, is with a family
of theories called the "Big Bang" models. Which essentially say, first there was
nothing, and then it exploded. And that may sound facetious, but that's
literally what they say. The first one was the steady state model that Einstein
himself admitted was his biggest mistake, because it was discredited. Then there
was a concept ... a hesitation model, but that was refuted in the 1960's.
Then there was an oscillation model. It expanded and contracted, and so forth,
and that's refuted by the entropy laws and lack of mass and other issues. The
current models are basically a variation of what they call the inflation model.
The problem with this model ... it requires antigravity forces that have never been
observed. I won't tear these all apart, but the whole "big bang" area is a an area
of continual adjustments and hypotheses and unprovable theories and so forth. There's interesting ... there is a stretch
factor of the universe. It apparently has expanded by a factor
of ten to the twelfth according to conventional wisdom, which is based on
the temperature of the quark confinement. When matter freeze-out energy. And I
won't go into all of that, namely this 16 billion year life of the universe, if it
would be an expression of the expansion factor. But what's interesting, Dr. Gerald
Schroeder who is a one of the world-famous nuclear physicists. He
participated the atomic bomb tests and so forth. He has his residence in Jerusalem. He
wrote a marvelous book called "Genesis in the Big Bang". Now he's not Christian. He's
a Jew. Brilliant scientist and delightful friend. We spent a Passover together in
his home. But it's interesting, we take that expansion factor of 10 to the 12th, the 16 billion years
represent essentially six billion billion days or 6 times 10 to the 12th days
and you divide that by the expansion factor of 10 to the 12th that's what you get you get - six days. To
look at exponential expansion - Day 1 by this would account for 8 billion of
those years. Day 2, 4 billion the 3rd Day 2 billion, and so forth. That sum
being sixteen billion years as measured at the ... perimeter of the of the
universe. So the real question is whose clock are you talking about? Adam
wasn't on the earth when this was created. The only clock around was God's.
And God clearly tells us that it is a six days. We'll get to that shortly. But
one of the things that we need to be sensitive to, is that modern science has
approached the very boundaries of our reality and have recognized that. And so
there are two concepts in mathematics if you're in school that you cannot find
in the physical universe. One of them is randomness. We often talk about random
numbers but you'll discover if you're in the computer field there's no such thing
as a truly random number. You have pseudo-random generators that will
generate numbers that have many of the properties of random numbers, but true
randomness is an elusive concept. And most of us have been trained with what's
called deterministic models. Like equations. F equals MA or whatever
it is you learn in science. But there's another field of study of stochastic
models in which ... it includes random variables. The field
of advanced statistics would be embraced by the this area. And if you
really study this area, you discover that the best you can get are pseudo-random
numbers. Randomness is an elusive concept. That leads to a new theory in
mathematics called the chaos theory which deals with these issues, but
randomness is very elusive to actually find. That's exactly what the scripture
says, by the way, it says the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing
thereof is of the Lord. And so He's in control. And Albert Einstein said, "God
does not play dice." That was one of his rebuttals to some of these theories. And
I always enjoy that, because if God did play dice, the reason He doesn't play it, if He did, He'd win. Right? But moving on, the
other concept that you cannot find in the universe, surprisingly enough, is infinity.
We can conceive of it. We can deal with it mathematically, but we find it elusive in the macrocosm. The universe itself ... you think by looking through a
telescope, it was good enough you could see ... the fringe of the
universe. The universe is finite and it is not infinite. That's one of the great
discoveries of modern science, but at the microcosm, that is, ... in the area of
smallness, we're also startled to discover there is a boundary to smallness. You and
I would think that if we took a line, and cut it in half, ... we could take what's left and cut
that in half again. And you would think, at least conceptually, you could do that
forever. However small you get, whatever is left
you could always cut in half. It turns out that's not true. There is a length, it
happens to be 10 to the minus 35 centimeters ,which if you cut it in half,
it no longer has locality. Subatomic particles ... have a property that
physicists call nonlocality. The whole field of quantum physics is based on the
discovery that whether you're talking about length, or energy or mass or time.
All these things are made up of indivisible units things that you cannot
split any smaller. And so we are ... we find ourselves then, as we examine these
two boundaries, we are in a subset of a larger reality. We're bounded by quantum
physics on the small end, and a limited cosmos on the large end. We are in a
virtual reality of a larger universe, and the Planck length it turns out to be ten to the
minus 33 centimeters that you can't make it smaller than. Planck time. You cannot
find a unit of time smaller than 10 to the minus forty-three seconds. Those are very small, but the point is, they're
indivisible and that has profound implications in understanding our world.
We are in a digital simulation. This podium looks, feels, like it's solid. It
actually is not by a factor of ten to the 15th, strangely enough. And we'll
get into that in a moment, but the reality, what we think is reality is actually a
virtual reality within, in fact, a digital reality, within
a much larger context, And we can't see beyond our reality, but we know that
we are a subset by what we observe. Now let's talk a little bit about
physical chronometers. You know, ... many of us talk about radiometric dating -
carbon-14 dating and so forth, and the trouble with this form of dating, it's
based on some assumptions. It's based on a known clock rate, that
the clock was set accurately at the beginning, and the clock was not
disturbed during the measure. And it turns out that these are frail
assumptions to build long estimates of time on. This leads to a whole division
in science of uniformitarianism which means things have always been the way
they are, or catastrophism, that where we are as result of past catastrophes.
Collisions and so forth, and the evidence is all in favor of catastrophism. And all
you have to do to convince yourself of that, is get a pair of binoculars and take a look
at the moon, and explain how those craters and things happened by
uniformitarianism. Now there's a number ... it's astonishing to discover there are a
number of indicators that indicate that our earth is far younger than is
commonly taught. The amount of moondust. Oil gushers. The Earth's magnetic field.
The Mississippi River Delta. The salinity of the oceans. The Poynting-Robertson effect. I'll come back to that, and radio halos. And these are just ... examples, there are 95 of these
listed by Walt Braun and his books on evolution and so forth. I encourage you
to take a look at those. Let's talk about moondust. See, the lunar surface is exposed to
direct sunlight and strong ultraviolet light and x-rays. These can all destroy
the surface layer of the exposed rock and reduce them to dust. It does this at
the rate of a few ten thousandths of an inch per year, but even this minute
amount during the Age of the moon could be sufficient to form a layer several
miles deep, but that's not what they find, of course. There's only a few thousand
years worth of dust found. Sounds strange, but that's an indicator of the age of
the Moon. The Earth's magnetic field. Its half-life is calculated to be about
1,400 years based on measurements taken from 1835 to 1965 it also generates estimates of an age of
the earth of something less than 10,000 years. Now, if extrapolated
back 20,000 years, the joule heat generated would liquefy the earth. So we
get into some real equations here, to analyze that ... suggest, obviously, a young
earth. The Mississippi River Delta. There's approximately 300 million cubic
yards of sediment deposited into the gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River each
year. Analysis of that volume and the rate of accumulation and dividing
the weight of those sediments deposited annually, the age of the Delta
appears to be, guess what, about 4,000 years. The salinity of the oceans. Uranium,
sodium, nickel, magnesium, silicon potassium, copper, gold, molybdenum, and
bicarbonate concentrations in the oceans are much less than would be expected
if these elements and compounds are being added to the oceans at the present rate
for thousands of millions of years as is commonly being taught in our schools. Nitrates
in uranium do not break down or recycle like salt does. And so that's as you get
into the details here, they're ... rather telling. This all implies that our oceans
are a few thousand years old. There's another effect the Poynting-Robertson
effect. You might look at it like a solar janitor - may help you remember it. Photons, these subatomic particles, slow
down the forward movement of objects in space. They eventually ... collide with
these very small particles, but they're still real particles. The solar
drag force exerted upon micrometeoroids causes the particles to spiral into the
Sun, because they slow down, they eventually get attracted by the Sun's
gravity. The Sun is sweeping space at a rate of about 100,000 tons per day and
there's no known source of replenishment. And so the current abundance speaks
again, for a young universe. So there's also what they call radio halos.
Primordial polonium 218 has been found in mica and fluoride. You say, "so what?"
Well, polonium 218 has a half-life of only three minutes, and so this is
evidence of an instantaneous crystallization of the host granite ... concurrent with the formation of the
polonium. And this speaks also, of an instantaneous creation. And these are
just a few samplings, that, if you get into the subject, be prepared to dig
deeply. Because most of what we've been taught in schools is myths and legends
and falsehoods. Genesis chapter 1 verse 2 "And the earth was without form and void
and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters." And so ... this happens to include the Hebrew phrase
that's been the subject of a great deal of provocative speculation "without form
and void" in the Hebrew is tohu v bohu without form and void. The problem is ... that when you get to Isaiah 45:18,
you find an interesting verse "for thus saith the Lord that created the
heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it. He hath established it. He created it not
in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none else." And
there's the same word there. Is that ... created not tohu v bohu. So there seems
to be a contradiction here. Whenever you find a contra- apparent contradiction in
scripture, rejoice, because there may be a Discovery hidden behind that. The other
problem with this verse is the ... word "was." It happens to be a transitive
verb. It ... really should be translated "became." It implies somebody
being the result of an action. An example of that ... we find later in Genesis
where Lot's wife became a pillar of salt. The word is the same word. It applies
action on a direct object. And so when you put this all together, the way some
people would translate this verse, the first verse, no problem. "In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the earth. Period. New subject. But, and that's another issue, the
conjunction there is an adverse of conjunction. In other words, in both the
Septuagint in the Greek, and also the Latin Vulgate make that point. It's not "and"
that's neutral, but it's ... an adverse of conjunction. So it should be
translated "but the earth became without form and void and darkness was upon the
face of the deep." And because of this possibility ... this is
controversial ... so I don't want you to necessarily buy into it, just be aware of
this viewpoint, but there is a view by some scholars that there is a gap
implied between verse 1 and 2. "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Period. Great. No problem. But the earth became without form and void and darkness was
upon the face of the deep maybe for eons, ... and the Spirit of God
hovered, brooded over the face of the waters. And one of the questions that
this ... view I'm suggesting here was originally proposed by Thomas
Chalmers in 1814. And these views are supported by people like G.H.Pember,
Donald Gray Barnhouse, G. Campbell Morgan, Arthur Constant and others.
It's highly speculative, but it does seem to tie with some other scriptures. And
one of the issues it needs to deal with ... It has nothing to do with dinosaurs and
that sort of thing, we'll come to that, but it does raise a possibility, because
one of the questions that we ask ourselves is "when did Satan fall?" When we
get to chapter 3 of Genesis he's already fallen creature. We know he wasn't always
fallen when ... we study Isaiah and Ezekiel and other sources of
information about him. So one of the questions is, "when did he fall?"
And the suggestion is maybe there was some incident between verse 1 & 2. And
because these terms "without form and void" are always dealt with ... where they
occur elsewhere it's ... "without form and void" as a form of judgment. So
there's ... all kinds of conjectures that come out of that. Be careful with those. But recognize that
there are these strange views. But the first direct quote of God in the
scripture is the third verse. God said, "Let light be" is what He actually said.
"Let there be light: and there was light." And so it's interesting that light
itself is one of the most profound mysteries in science. And ... the
speed of light is usually represented by the letter "c" ... by tradition. Measurements
of the speed of light are, in themselves, interesting controversy. In the 17th
century Kepler and Descartes and so forth - the experts in that day, believe
that light was instantaneous or put another way that the speed of light was infinite. Very high, very fast, and that
was the conventional wisdom. But in 1677 a Danish astronomer by the name of Olaf
Roemer measured the elapsed time between eclipses of Jupiter with one of
its moons. And his ways to do that at different places in its orbit ... which
gives you a way of measuring the speed of light over very large distances. And
by ... taking advantage of that, he measured the speed of light and
discovered it was finite. And he was poopoo-ed by the physicists. For 50 years
they laughed at this foolishness that the speed of light ... was finite.
A finite number. It was an Englishman by name of James Bradley 60 years later
that confirmed Roemor's work and it was generally accept ... very reluctantly
accepted by the physics community. That ... light had a a finite speed.
Over the last 300 years the speed of light has been measured at least a
hundred and sixty-four times by 16 different methods, and as we examine the
data for that, we find some surprising things. There's a delightful friend of
mine by the name of Barry Setterfield in Australia, that more than 10 years ago
explored this issue and published some papers in this area. And he was joined by
Trevor Norman. Barry Setterfield, Trevor Norman did analysis. What they did is
they gathered the raw data from these classic experiments through history and
then examined them carefully. And they discovered Roemer's information with the
Io eclipse. His measurement that concluded that the speed of light was
307,600 kilometers per second with an error band of about 5400 kilometers either way. And, okay, in 1875, two centuries later, Harvard
University, using essentially the same method, measured it. And it was 299,921
km/s with an error band of only 13, because, obviously, technology improved in
those two centuries. And, in 1983, the National Bureau of Standards, using a
laser technique, measured the speed of light as 299,792.4586 plus or minus .00003 kilometers per second. In other words, a very, very small error band. What's interesting, if you examine, stand
back and examine these numbers, you'll notice that the means don't even overlap.
That Harvard's analysis fell outside the error band of Roemer's, and all the way
down. So a Canadian mathematician by the name of Alan Montgomery analyzed all
this data statistically, and he also concluded that the speed of light has been
slowing down. In fact, it follows a cosecant squared curve with better than
a ninety-nine percent correlation factor. Now this implies the speed of light's been
slowing down. If you go backwards, and say, okay, what was it earlier? It was
apparently, ten to thirty percent faster in the time of Christ. It was twice as
fast in the days of Solomon. It was four times as fast in the days of Abraham, and
10 million times faster prior to 3000 BC. And incidentally, there are similar
trends in 475 ... measurements of 11 other atomic quantities by 25 different
methods that imply the same thing. It's interesting that some years ago, of
course, we developed a friendship with Barry Setterfield, and we ... included
many of these discoveries in our materials. And I got a lot of guffahs ... from
some of my friends. Christian physicists that felt ... that tried to advise me, "Chuck
don't buy into that, that's foolishness. Any physicist knows that the speed of light's a
constant it's not variable." And we caught a lot of criticism from some of these friends
for a number of years. Better part, more ... better part of 10 years. But in
the last two years, there have been a number of articles in reputable
scientific journals where they have now discovered the speed of light is not a
constant. One of things that disturbs me about these articles that you find in
the press is, there are many of them now, recognize the reality that speed of
light is a variable. Has been slowing down. What's disturbing, that none of them
acknowledge the pioneering work of Barry Setterfield and Trevor Norman who have
taken this abuse over the decades. You'll discover that physicists cling to their
beliefs with same tenacity that theologians do. And it's not at all
objective. Let's get into some other confirmations. The French Astronomical
Journal back in 1927 sources suggest some of
these things. Tom Van Flandern in the US Naval Observatory noticed that the atomic
clocks are slowing down relative to orbital clocks. And there's some ... Russians
also that have published in this area independent of Setterfield. So this is not
a harebrained idea of a couple of Australians. It's... very real. Now
the ... definition of time itself changed in 1967. Up until
1967 a second of time was defined in terms of one earth orbit around the Sun.
A small fraction of that, obviously. After 1967, the second was redefined as a
number of oscillations of the cesium 133 atom. And ... if atomic clocks are
correct, then the orbital speeds of Mercury and Venus and Mars are
increasing. Which, of course, is impossible. If the gravitational constant is truly
constant, then atomic vibrations and speed of light are decreasing. And ...
if the planet's orbital speed is increased, it would violate the law of conservation
of energy. If atomic clocks are correct, the gravitational constant would change and
no such variations have been detected. So this has some profound implications in
terms of the very fabric of our reality here. If atomic frequencies are
decreasing, then five properties of the atom, such as Planck's constant and others
would also be changing, and statistical studies support both the magnitude and
direction of these changes. And so. There's another thing that's happening
in the field of physics you should be sensitive to. All this about the, bear
with me, this all will affect your perspectives as you read ... the more you
know about what's going on in science, the more comfortable Genesis 1 reads.
There's a thing called Hubble's law. That's why the ... space telescope
was named after Edwin Hubble. Hubble's law ... Because they observe that the spectra -
their light spectra - of stars, shift to the red and apparently shifts to the red
in proportion to its distance away. They've always assumed that was like a
Doppler effect. A siren sounds higher pitched as it comes at you and lower pitched as it moves away. They call that the Doppler effect in ... sound. They felt
the same thing's happening with light. That the light shifted to the red because
these things are moving away from us. Longer wavelengths. Except a couple guys
Halton Arp in Germany William Tifft at the University of
Arizona have spent the last several decades collecting data, precise data,
about the red shifts. And they've discovered that some of them aren't so
well-behaved. See, Hubble's law postulated that this whole idea that the red shift
is caused by an expanding universe. And that's why he's honored by the Space
Telescope being named after and so forth. Except William Tifft has discovered that
the red shifts are quantized. They're always a multiple of a definitive number. In other words, it's sort of like the keys of a piano you can only get certain keys by
hitting the key unlike a violin where you can get any tone you
want. A piano you've got discreet choices. The red shift ... has that
character. In other words, it's digital and so it turns out, that the red shift may actually
be evidence of a change in the fabric of space itself. It's an atomic effect
rather than a recessional velocity effect. That's just a conjecture at this point. But should understand the whole field of astronomy is based on Hubble's law and
the rug's been pulled out from under that. We're going on in Genesis. "And God
said let there be light and there was light and God saw the light that it was
good and divided the light from the darkness and he called the light day and
the darkness he called night and the evening and the morning were the day one."
The subsequent days are relative: a second day, third day, forth day, but this one has a
unique designation. It is the first in existence. Day one. And also God
divided the light from the darkness. We could talk a lot about that. Most of us
think that darkness is simply the absence of light, except now we discover
the darkness itself has a property. So we have black holes ... you have a
gravitational effect out of which no light can emerge so it's not a simple as it
first seems. But there's another thing I want to call your attention to. It says
the evening and the morning were day one. The word evening in Hebrew is erev
and the word morning is boker. And we understand evening and morning
erev and boker to be evening morning, because that's its usage in
modern Hebrew. But we'll run into a strange event when we get to the seventh
day, because there is no evening and morning. And that's a clue, perhaps, that
the word erev and boker in its original context ... meant something
other evening and morning and came to mean
evening and morning subsequently. Let's explore these two terms a little more
carefully, because neither of these occur on the seventh day. Erev actually
speaks to obscuration like a mixture ... mathematically it's
increasing entropy. When encroaching darkness began to deny our ability to
discern forms and shapes and identities hence this ... became a term for twilight.
A time of approaching darkness or ambiguity confusion, so erev had its
initial concept of obscuration and that's what's a natural term for evening
Twilight, if you will. And so at sunset that marks the duration of ...
impurity. When a ceremony unclean person became clean again, and so forth.
So we'll discover that the the demarcation in the Hebrew world was
erev the evening not midnight or morning as we think of it in in our
world. So the erev became the beginning of the Hebrew day, but it's a term for evening,
because it's a time when there's encroaching darkness and so forth. Ok. The word boker - just the opposite.
Boker really means becoming discernible, distinguishable, visible, the perception
of order. It's as if you're getting up in the
morning you can begin to see Gee, there are things out there. Let's say, you
... if you've ever arrived very late at night at some strange place and went
to bed in the morning you get up you look around begin. Wow. I didn't know that mountain was
there. ... As the light comes you can begin to discern. That's a form ...
that's mathematically a form of decreasing entropy. Of decreasing
randomness. So it has an attendent ability to discern foreign shapes,
distinct identities, breaking forth of light, and revealing things, in effect. So
that's why it comes to mean dawn or morning. I'm going to suggest to you that
these terms have a more fundamental meaning. And have come to colloquially
mean evening and morning. So we need to understand there are ... one of the sciences
that's emerging in modern times is probably the most telling of all the
sciences and that's the information sciences. ... As we understand
... communication theory information theory with computers and the
rest, and that's been, of course, my personal field of specialization. We
obviously ... you can think of disorder in order. We all know what order looks like.
We know what disorder look like. ... looks like. On a Saturday you clean up
the closet, or at school you clean up your locker. Every once in a while you go
from the confusion, you try to get things a little bit more organized. Or a woman's purse
whatever, so there's a there's a thing called noise - useless change in contrast
to signal which is carrying information. See on the right side here whether it's
order or signal, that's information. Disorder, noise is randomness or entropy.
Cacophony, sounds that make no sense at all in contrast to organized sounds which we
call music. There's chaos in contrast to cosmos. And the word Greek word cosmos is
used of the world for example, means to bring order out of chaos. It's the root, of
course, to the word cosmetics, but i won't go there. We'll move on here. So, on the
left side you've got disorder, noise cacophony, chaos - that's forms of
randomness. On the right side you've got order, signal, music, cosmos itself, design.
So the disorder ... the collective term for that is entropy. Randomness,
confusion and contrast that, you have information things that are, that carry
intelligence and the direction is always in the direction of entropy things are
always winding down. As if the entire universe is like a clock that's been
wound up that's winding down. We always go from order to disorder. You
have to put energy in to go the other way. the natural trend is towards
entropy. And when you take information and add confusion to it or you put some
noise into it it degrades in the direction of entropy. And so, if we do an
entropy profile of the universe, I'm going to have entropy going upside
down and Max entropy is at the bottom of this chart and order is at the top if
you will and so entropy is going downhill, order is going uphill. Ok. And so we have erev which is
obscurity and disorder, which later comes to mean evening, and boker which means
orderly, discernible, that's morning. And it's my suspicion
that erev and boker define discrete steps in defining the creation. And
so we have the view that there was an event that caused a disruption between
the spiritual and physical world. I'll come to that shortly. But it's interesting when
you get to Day Seven the Hebrew translation of that passage in the
oncolos translation is that God imposed a unified order on the universe on Day Seven.
And it's of course, in Day One that ... the main creation of Day One is
"let light be." Okay. And so that's Day One. Let's go to Day Two. Our second day, more
precisely. "And God said, Let there be a firmament" that's a strange word we'll come
to that, "in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters
and God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament it was so. God called
the firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." The
erev and boker was the second day. Now the word for firmament is raqia. And it's a strange
word. In the Hebrew, raqia means an extended surface. It's an expanse, but
it's a solid expanse. That's the emphasis of the word. In the Greek translation
stereoma also means firmness. It's from that the Latin got firmamentum which
from which we get the word firmament. Which means a three-dimensional solidity
or firm expanse. That sounds like a contradiction, because it's firm,
and yet, it's ... a term we would say space, but it's not empty, so
that's the second day. And we have, when speaks of waters, by the way, I suspect
that what it's dealing with is what's called in rhetoric, a synecdoche. Often
you put the general for the specific, or the specific for the general. For example,
you say, speaking of a very good ... hospitality, "she sets a fine table." You don't mean literally the table, you
mean the whole cuisine. It's an example in rhetoric, where you use the specific to mean the
general. So and so's got some neat wheels meaning
car. We use those synecdoches all the time. when its waters i think it's all about
fluids and one of the things most of us think of matter as having three states - gas,
liquid, or solid. There's a fourth state of matter. Plasma before gases, and then
gases to liquids or solids. Or going the other way from solid to liquid to gas to
plasma. Where you got dis-associated atoms, and I believe that's what's really
... what's in view here. Is this more than a metaphor? All through the scripture it
speaks of the heavens being stretched. God stretches out the heavens. Stretching
out the heaven like a tent curtain. You can't stretch out empty space that doesn't
make sense. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like
a tent to dwell in. He stretched out the heavens. The Lord who stretches out the
heavens - in Zechariah. And we could go on with dozens of verses that are consistent in
presenting this ... rather fluid role there. And we now discover, by the way,
that empty space ... is really a oxymoron. Space is not is not an empty
vacuum. It can be torn according to Isaiah 64. It can be worn out like a
garment. Space can be worn out like garment Psalm 102. It can be
shaken. How do you shake empty space? Hebrews 12
Haggai 2 Isaiah 13. It can and will be burned up according to 2nd Peter 3. In
Revelation 6 ... it says it's split apart like a scroll. That's interesting. It could be rolled up
like a mantle according to Hebrews 1 and Isaiah 34 or a scroll. now that "rolled up"
is a clue here. In order for something to be rolled up, there must be a dimension
in which it is thin. You can take a map and you can roll it up, that's because
it's thin and also a two-dimensional map needs a third dimension to be rolled up.
So this is a hint of another dimension. Space can be bent. So there must be a direction
that it can be bent toward. And so thus, there are additional spatial dimensions.
And so we just know this from the the Biblical text, but we also know it as we
understand what the physicists tell ... tell us about our universe. We now know that we live in more than three dimensions. In fact, more than
four counting time as one of those dimensions. In fact, the current
conjecture is that we live in at least 10 different dimensions. So Nachmonides
in the 12th century by studying Genesis chapter 1,
concluded that the universe has ten dimensions. And only four directly
knowable - that was his comment - in his commentary on Genesis. Well it's
interesting that we've spent millions of dollars on atomic accelerators to
discover the same thing. Particle physicists in the 20th century have
concluded this is about 1984 that we live in at least ten
dimensions. Four directly measurable; three spatial dimensions - length, width, height,
and time, and six other dimensions are curled, as they would say, in vector calculus.
Curled less than 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and therefore they're only
inferable by indirect means. And i think it's funny that we spent all this money on
atomic accelerators to learn what Nachmonides did by doing his homework in Genesis 1. Moving on. Let's talk a little about the atom. Most
of us have had some exposure to the atom. We think of the simplest atom which is
hydrogen has a nucleus and has an electron running around it in the
conventional representation of that. But there's a nucleus, and there's an electron
or more. And they're obviously in balance plus and minus wise. The difference that
amount of space there linearly is about 10 to the minus 5. If you take that
volumetrically, that means that for every part that is particle there, you have
10 to the 15th emptiness. 10 to the 15th is a big number. If we were going to
build a model of the atom and we're going to let the the nucleus be the size
of a pinhead. The electron would be a football field away. Literally, a hundred
meters away, so ... an atom is mostly empty space. There is only one part in
10 to the 15th that is in some sense solid, but because of the
electrical effects ... it creates the illusion of being of having physical
properties. And so we have H2O where oxygen captures two hydrogen atoms. Or we
have a other atoms where the whole hydrocarbon world is one of of chaining
these these atoms by the electrical interactions of the atoms themselves by
imbalances. So what seems to be suggested ... is in
the first early days of Genesis, is that we had
plasmas. They hadn't even formed molecules yet. And we have the properties
of space ... by the way, something else I should go on to ... space has properties. It has an
electrical property called permittivity. It has permeability. It has a dielectric
constant, and has a magnetic constant. There is an intrinsic impedance ...
in space. Any radio amateur who has been trying to tune an antenna knows that space
itself has an intrinsic impedance. And these things are all now well understood.
And, of course, the ... velocity of light as we talked about at creation was
probably 2.54 times 10 to the 10th times its present velocity. It's currently also the speed of gravity which is another thing to get into. Let's talk a
little bit about zero point energy. This is ... what's astonishing. If the
temperature of an empty container is lowered to absolute zero, there still
remains a residual amount of thermal energy that cannot by any means be
removed. that's why they called the zero-point
energy. And vacuum, an absolute vacuum is now known to be a vast reservoir of
seething energy out of which particles are being formed and annihilated constantly.
It's like the foam at the at the base of a waterfall. And see one of the questions
"why doesn't an electron that's spinning around its nucleus of an atom,
radiate its energy away? And by losing that energy, spiral into the nucleus?"
It's the question. The answer is, it picks up energy from the background zero-point
energy and therefore is sustained by it. That's exactly what is suggested in 1
Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 incidentally. But let's keep moving here.
Day One let light be. Second Day, the stretching out of space. The Third Day, we
find land and vegetation. Now that's kind of exciting, so erev and boker on the
Third Day leads to the land and vegetation. There's something else behind the text,
without getting into the land vegetation thing itself, you can get plenty of that from your
biology books and so forth, but "And God said, Behold I've given you every
herb bearing seed," this is skimming down to verse 29 "which is upon the
face of all the earth. Every tree in ... which is the fruit of the tree yielding seed," and it goes on the end
of that chapter into the beginning of the next chapter it says, "out of the ground
made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the site and good
for food and the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil, and it goes on. Between these two verses, verse 29 of
chapter 1 and verse 9 of chapter 2, is obviously, some Hebrew text of a handful
of verses in which is encrypted the name of 25 trees that appear in the Bible.
It's interesting that using a ... computer they discovered that these
25 trees are encrypted - some very shortly with every second ... losing every second
letter, every third letter, that you forward or backward, whatever, but it's
interesting that these trees are the trees that are mentioned elsewhere in
Scripture. They're all encrypted underneath the text that deals with the
the seed bearing trees. And so what's relevant here isn't the fact these words
happened to occur, what's relevant here is they're clustered under the text that
has relevance here. So it's an interesting form of authentication as we
talked about earlier. Let's skip on to the Fourth Day. It's sort
of startling to realize that the Sun is created in Day Four. The plants and
vegetation in Day Three. That makes it pretty hard to explain these as
geological eras, by the way. And also, its presence indicates that maybe
there's other source of light. Before the Sun, but let's not get into all that
here. erev and boker, again we have the Sun, the
planets, the Stars, and all of that. And there's much we could talk about here,
but let's just pick verse 14 out of this series. God said, "Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for" what?
"for signs, for seasons, for days, and for years... 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 the erev and the boker were the Fourth Day. As we
look through a telescope, we see a number of galaxies. And there's a handful of
these that are spiral galaxies. And I put a few on the screen here and by ...
making distance measurements, we estimate that the one in the upper left is about
two million light-years away, the next one to the right of it is 18 million
light-years away, the one to the right of it, is about 25
million light-years. Light-years are measurements of distance, by the way, it's how far light can
travel in a year. And a standard astronomical measurement of distance. The one in the lower left is 32
million light-years away, the next one, 65 million, and the one in the lower-right a
hundred and six million light years. Now what's interesting about these ... you'll
notice that these spiral arms of the galaxies are roughly ... they're all very
similar. That poses an interesting question about galaxy twist. The galaxies
that were furthest away had to release their light long before the ... closer galaxies, because it light had to go further ways, so they had to start
earlier. Therefore, the further galaxies did not
have as much time to rotate and twist their arms. Thus, the closer galaxies should have the
most twist, but we find that's not the case. If the speed of light was a million
times faster in the past, that would account for them being so similar. I set that out as a suggestion. But let's get back to verse 14, because there's
something else hidden under this one. God said, "Let there lights be in the
firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs,
for seasons, and for days and for years." This word for "seasons" is hamoyadim in the in the Hebrew "the appointed times". What's interesting, they've taken a computer, and they've looked
at the entire ... 78,000 letters in the Book of Genesis. And the frequency of
those letters in the Hebrew alphabet would imply that that word should just
show up randomly by accident about five times in 78,000 letters. But what they
discover is astonishing, as an equidistant letter sequence it appears only once in
the entire Book of Genesis, and it's at an interval of 70, and it is centered on
verse Genesis 1:14. And now, why is this so significant? Well, first of all, by the
way the odds of this happening exactly this way is like one in 70 million. It
statistically doesn't make sense unless it was deliberate. It turns out to any Jew, he knows of the
appointed times. There are 70 of them. 52 Sabbath's a year plus seven
additional sabbaths per year. Many people don't realize that there's more than
just the 52 Sabbaths. 7 days of Passover including its related feast. When it says Passover they're using it
connotatively to include feast of first fruits and and feast of unleavened bread. There's the Feast of Shavuot, there's the
Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur, and seven days of Sukkot the Feast of Tabernacles.
And we add those and when you add up ... it adds up to 70. There's 70 appointed times
on the Hebrew calendar. And so it's fascinating to discover that the text
itself echoes this. That the Hamoyadim is encrypted underneath the text in the
interval of 70 once and only once centered on that verse. Again, these are
not ... you can't build a big case on this, except they're forms of authentication. You ... see evidence of a designer hovering over this text. And Rabbi Hirsch said
many years ago that the Jew's catechism is his calendar. And what do you mean by
that? Well, of course, we have the Feasts of Israel. In the first month of the
religious year we have the Spring Feasts: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread,
Feast of Firstfruits. Seven months later you have the Fall Feasts in the month of
Tishri: Feast of Trumpets on the first of that, the Yom Kippur on the tenth of that
month, and the Feast of Tabernacles Sukkot on the 15. And between these two groups
on the first and seventh there's a very strange one the Feast of Weeks. In which they used leavened bread
strangely enough, and ... each one of these feasts we'll discover later,
as we get into this, are not only commemorative historically, they're also
prophetic. The first three were fulfilled on Christ's first coming. The last three,
apparently, will be fulfilled on His second coming, and there's a very interesting
one between those two. But let's move on. On the Fifth Day we have the sea animals
and birds created. And, boy, if you ... again, this is so frustrating to go
through this, because each one of these subjects elegantly illuminates the
skill of the designer, You can take something as trivial as a bird's feather
and you can spend a whole evening on discovering how skillfully that's
designed. And to attribute that to happen stance or accident is nonsense. But we
won't get into all that here. The real death of Darwinism comes from lots of reasons
but not the least of which is microbiology. Advances in microbiology,
namely the DNA and all that, have dealt the deathblow - they put the final nails in
Darwin's coffin in a sense, because the DNA that we now discover is a three
out of four error-correcting code. And we don't have time to develop that, but it's ...
just utterly absurd to attribute the elegance of that code to random chance.
And when you design a computer, you've got to have the language, and the
machinery processing that language, intimately coordinated. To ascribe either
one or certainly together as randomness, is folly ... is absolute folly in
logic. Darwinism cannot explain the origin of life, because it cannot explain
the origin of information. There's another concept that's emerging called
"irreducible complexity". We are indebted to Michael Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box"
where he illustrates this idea with a simple mouse trap. Here we have a
mousetrap that has a five parts. It has a basic platform on which there's a hammer.
That hammer is driven by a spring. It's held back by holding bar that's tucked
under a catch. All of us are familiar with the mousetrap. And what's interesting, there are
five parts here. Trying to make this simpler is pretty futile. These five parts have to be there in some function another. It's interesting
that if you have only four of the five parts, you don't catch four-fifths as
many mice. You catch 0. The point is there's a concept in
design called "irreducible complexity". It can't get simpler than this. That
indicates its designed. It can't happen by accident. Let's take the a
single-celled creature called a bacteria ... it has a flagellum, a little tail
that propels it through its fluid. And if you look at this carefully, we're not
going to get into all the other details. This is a single-celled animal and we're
going to look at where the flagellum is connected to the creature. And we
discover there are 40 parts to an electric motor. It doesn't wiggle, it
spins. And it is an elegantly designed motor with 40 critical parts any one of
which missing it doesn't work. So this did not happen by chance, it evidences
design. Highly skillful design. And so we
won't get here into all that detail but then we get, of course, to the next
day. We have animals and the Sixth Day We have animals, mammals, and ,of course,
mr. and mrs. man created in Day 6. And so I won't spend a lot of time on this. Most
of us are victims of this nonsense promoted by our textbooks. And even in
National Geographic and Scientific American publish these crazy things. That we came from monkeys and that nonsense, when you get into this and
study it with any depth at all you'll discover something astonishing. Not only is this nonsense. It's
deliberate fraud. The Heidelberg Man was contrived from a single jawbone. The
Nebraska Man in 1922. Henry Osborne did from just one tooth and they later
discovered that was from an extinct pig. The Piltdown Man you hear so much about.
Charles Dawson developed this from the jaw bone of a modern ape. It was deliberate
fraud we now know. It was filed and treated with iron salts to look old. And
you get to the Peking Man in 1921. The evidence has disappeared, but it also has
evidence of an outright fraud. These are not people who made a discovery and
were just misguided. These are people who deliberately contrived these things
to be misleading. The Neanderthal Man found in the cave in the Neander Valley
near Dusseldorf at the International Congress of Zoology in 1958 they
concluded that it was just simply an old man suffering from arthritis. The Java
Man 1922 in 1891 skullcap, a 50-foot femur, thigh bone, that was not
even near it, was distant from it. And the evidence was concealed. It was
teeth of a orangutang. The thing that disturbs you about paleontology is it's
littered with deliberate fraud, not just poor science, but deliberate fraud. So all
this is ... still you're still find in the textbooks used in schools to
mislead our kids. In a hundred and twenty years of searching there have been no
intermediate stages found to justify evolution. We could go on and on, but
let's move on here. We get to Day Seven. The seventh rest. You'll notice there's no
erev and boker. There's no discrete steps God had finished His Creation. It's completed. That's the
whole theme of Day 7, and there's no erev or boker. Now our
problem in this so-called day ... How old is the universe? In the days it's clear that God
intended us to understand that, and our problems not Genesis 1. People talk about
the word yom and what it might mean that silliness. It's Exodus 20 verse 11 where
the Creator of the Universe with His own finger wrote it in stone "for in six days
the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that in them is any
rest of the seventh day therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it."
And incidentally, He didn't do that in Exodus 20 He did that in Genesis 1. And so our
problem isn't in grasping the six-day thing. It's clear God intended us to
understand that He did it in six days and in days as we think of them. I won't
quibble with 24-hour business, but clearly it's it's a day-by-day thing. And the
real mystery to those that really understand who God is. is why did He take
six days? But in any case that's what he chose to do what He did. The field of
thermodynamics has been really solidified in 125 years. It has been fully
described. The first law of thermodynamics is called the conservation of matter and
energy. It asserts that matter and energy they're equivalent ... to each
other can neither be created nor destroyed
under natural circumstances. And nowhere in the universe is matter being created
or annihilated. All observed processes in the universe conserve matter or its
equivalent energy. And the corollary to this is natural processes cannot create
energy. All of this is a result of a creation of the past. That's the
implication of the first law and you can also ... has no way to win. In other words, the
matter-energy is as you can't create either one of them. And it's interesting,
that's exactly what the scripture says in Genesis 2. In the Seventh
Day God ended His work and that's a thermodynamic statement. The works were
finished from the foundation of the world in the Book of Hebrews. And so
forth. All things that were there in you preserve them all Nehemiah 9:6. And it's all
through Scripture. Well, there's a second law of thermodynamics and that's what we call the entropy laws. The second
law, the bondage of decay. First law says there's no way to win. The second one He
says you can't even break even. What it really means is, there's an arrow
of time. I assert that, as time advances, the universe progresses from a state of
order to a state of disorder. And we find that in our closets at home. Clean up the
garage and see how long it lasts. Locker at school, what have you. There's always a trend trend towards
randomness, and that's true of all ... processes. And the universe seems
to run downhill to eventually a heat death when no temperature differences exist
and therefore no energy is available for work. And this means looking back that
the universe had a beginning, because the total has been limited. And
there's a third law that no one talks about much except in thermodynamics. That's where every substance as a
positive entropy which may become zero at Absolute 0 which means you can't get
out of the game. But we won't get into that here. Entropy in scripture. They shall perish,
thou shall grow old as a garment. Psalm 102. The earth will grow old like a
garment, Isaiah 51. Heaven and earth will pass away Matthew 24. And now is entropy going to
be repealed? This is one reason a number of us believe that the entropy laws were
introduced in Genesis 3, because the creation itself will be set free from
its bondage of decay. And we believe that's an allusion to the entropy laws. "And
obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God." So heat always flows from
hot bodies to cold bodies. If the universe was infinitely old, then the
temperatures throughout the universe would be uniform. It's obviously not, so therefore it's not
infinitely old. That's a simple demonstration that the universe had a
beginning and is destined by the way for an ending. Scientists will talk about the
big bang as a singularity. It started all this, and it will ultimately
reach the end of uniform temperature which they call the heat death. But
there's finite boundaries when it began and there is an end at which it will end.
Now as you can probably gather, this is kind of a frustrating exercise to go
through these six days, because we spend a full session on each one in
our commentary on Genesis. We have a commentary on Genesis. Which has 24 sessions for the entire
Book. Just the book. and in Monday we go through the big bang models, fabric of
space, hyperdimension, and all of that. And then Tuesday we have life and vegetation.
We talk about the origin of life, thermodynamics, entropy, and molecular
chemistry. And the fourth day we have the the stars and the planets. We refute the
so-called nebular hypothesis. And talk about the anthropic principle and the signs in
the heavens and such. In the fifth day of fish and foul. We talk about the fallacy
of evolution - obviously shredded very easily. And the evidences of design
everywhere. In biodiversity and its role. And the six-day we have, of course, the
fallacies and frauds I've alluded to, but also the DNA and the role of information
in life. And thus out of that, the architecture of man. Not as physical
architecture - his software architecture. And seventh day, of course, anyone that
thinks the seventh day issue is a simple one hasn't studied it. And they're are
clearly six steps of entropy reduction to get to the seventh day. Then a repose is
established on the universe. We'll talk about the sabbath in prophecy, and that
may surprise many Christians. They're confused on this point. That doesn't put
us under the law, but there are some issues that might be quite provocative.
And the role of marriage, and all of this. But let's wrap this up with Genesis
chapter 3 which is the seed plot of the entire Bible. Where the nachash -
the shining one - presents to Eve the forbidden fruit and she yields. And we need to study that carefully to understand the methodology of deception.
His first step was to suggest to Eve "yea halth God said"? to create doubt. That's
really what God said. That's exactly what to do with each one of us. The first step
in deception is to create doubt about what God really said. God means what He
said and says what He means. And then from that, of course ,the next
step is denial. You shall not surely die he suggested. On they go. So that from the fall of man we have God's declaration of war. God takes the
initiative of the war against Satan. And He alludes to the Seed of the Woman and
the Seed of the Serpent. There's two seeds the Seed of the Woman becomes a title - messianic
title - of the deliverer, of the Messiah, of Jesus Christ. But there's also the Seed of the Serpent that will make this day and the key verses here in chapter 3 are verses 14 and 15
"the Lord God said unto the serpent" or the Nachash - the shining one - "because thou
hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of
thy life and i will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed
and her seed." And there are the two seeds. Seed of the woman being the title of
Jesus Christ, and the seed of the serpent being this leader that has yet to
surface ... in world history. "And shall bruise thy head and thou shalt
bruise his heel". Now the entropy the bondage of decay we believe was introduced
here. So we've seen the order improved through the creation
week and stabilized during the seventh day. But then we have this
pivotal event called the Fall of Man in which God puts a curse on the creation.
We need to understand that everything we know about the universe we know from a
post curse universe. We know it only since the curse has been instituted. We have
only glimpses or conjectures of what happened prior to the fall. You can't prove to me that Adam and Eve
lived only in three dimensions. This is all a byproduct of the curse. And
so the effects of the Fall - the entropy I think was introduced, the universe
fractured. Maybe this is where we separated from the ten dimensions to
the four that we can directly experience. Separating the physical and spiritual
universe. If we imagine, if i can make a two-dimensional representation of a 10
dimensional universe. And God announces a curse and separates the six from the four.
The four dimensions that we can experience being what we call the
physical universe. That fracture may be a result of the curse. And there will be a
time that see the four dimensional universe that we experience is a subset
a much larger reality. We know that from empirical data. And so we
have the fracture and redemption by the way, God's plan of redemption involves
more than man alone, because Isaiah twice and Revelation says "I
create a new heavens and a new earth" so it's more than just man involved in all
this. The first act of religion is in Genesis
3 verse 7. The eyes of them are both open and they knew that they were naked. That may mean far more than we have any
idea, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons or covering
armor or something Shigar means girdle or loin covering or belt or armor. And so that was
their attempt to cover themselves from their fall. But before the chapter ends,
God teaches them more correctly "Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of
skins and clothed them". Why did He do that? Because He was teaching them that
only by the shedding of innocent blood would they be covered, and while that has
a practical aspect that we grab immediately, there's a Levitical aspect
there that ... that the shedding of innocent blood will
be required to free them from the predicament that they're in. So the
central theme - the Old Testament is the account of a nation, the New Testament is the account of a man produced by that nation. The Creator became a Man and dwelt among us.
And His appearance is the central event of all history. He died to purchase us.
And He's alive today. And the most exalted privilege we can get is to know
Him. And that's what the Bible really is all about. So the scarlet thread begins from
the Seed of the Woman, to the call ... to the call of Abraham, the tribe of
Judah, the dynasty of David, finally to the virgin birth in Bethlehem and we'll go
to another tree in another garden when Jesus Christ paid for the
predicament that we've got ourselves in. So next time we'll move forward and go
to the Flood. And all those events. We'll find that there's another decrease in
entropy, increase in entropy a decrease in order, because the flood changes far
more than just a lot of water. And we'll deal with that. Cain
and Able. The genealogy of Noah. The Flood of Noah. And the Tower of Babel in the next
session finishing unit 1 which some people would call prehistory. The second
unit would be the rest of the book which deals with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, and so forth. See you there!
