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Is the Universe ONLY 6,000 Years Old?
Why does it matter when, how, and how long it took for God to create the earth?
It matters because what a Christian believes concerning WHEN the earth was originally created affects HOW he or she believes concerning OTHER subjects in the Bible.
In other words, Christians who believe in an OLD earth that God CREATED PERFECT in the eternity past do not have any problems with God creating Adam just 6,000 years ago.
The OLD earth Christians believe that God created the earth WHEN God created the entire Universe.
And we believe that God created the earth and the entire universe PERFECT at the time He created them in the eternity past.
And thus, we believe that the earth and the universe is MUCH older than just 6,000 years old.
We believe that the earth can be even BILLIONS of years old, but we also believe that MAN was created around 6,000 years ago.
OLD earth Christians understand that Psalm 8:1-6 along with many other passages of Scripture clearly teach us that God created man and the Son of MAN BECAUSE of His ENEMIES.
Therefore, Lucifer and the fallen angels had to have rebelled and waged a WAR against God and the good angels long BEFORE God created Adam.
So then, an OLD earth allows plenty of time for Lucifer to have corrupted himself and rebel against God BEFORE God created the first man, Adam.
But, Christians who believe in a YOUNG earth that was supposedly created just 6,000 years ago MUST address all of the questions such as, WHY does God allow evil? WHY did God create a TEMPTER to tempt Adam?
WHY did God create sickness and disease? WHY did God create MAN and the Son of MAN a little LOWER than the ANGELS if God created both the angels and humans just 6,000 years ago in the SAME six 24 hour days span of time?
Why does God not mention creating the angels in Genesis 1:1-31 if the angels were created after day ONE and BEFORE Day SIX?
And WHY did God prepare the everlasting fire JUST for Satan and his angels IF God ordained every single detail of His plan of Salvation in the ETERNITY past?
WHY has Hell ENLARGED herself IF God ordained every single detail of His plan of Salvation in the ETERNITY past?
WHY did God have His prophets PROPHESY that Satan will be bound for 1000 years and then LET him loose to DECEIVE the nations AGAIN?
For you see, Christians who believe in a YOUNG earth have no other choice but to believe that God ORDAINED all EVIL in the world IF they believe that Lucifer did NOT rebel and make WAR against God BEFORE God created Adam.
In other words, Christians who believe in a YOUNG earth MUST ALSO believe that Lucifer rebelled and made war against God AFTER God created LIGHT on day ONE, but BEFORE day SIX when God created MAN.
They have no choice because they believe that God CREATED the earth for the very FIRST time in six 24 hour days around 6,000 years ago.
And that would mean that the angels were created at the SAME time around 6,000 years ago.
It also means that ONE THIRD of the angels rebelled and waged a WAR against God in just 96 HOURS.
For you see, Psalm 8:1-6 CLEARLY teaches us that God created man and the Son of MAN BECAUSE of His ENEMIES.
Let me explain in more detail what I mean by this. IF a Christian believes that God created the earth around 6,000 years ago in six 24 hour days, then that Christian or those Christians MUST ALSO believe that God devised His whole plan of Salvation in every detail BEFORE God created the entire Universe along with the earth.
In other words, Christians who believe in a YOUNG earth MUST believe that God ORDAINED everything that happens and nothing happens without God having ORDAINED it to happen.
For you see, according to THEM, NOTHING existed BEFORE God created the entire Universe around 6,000 years ago.
And IF that is true, then that would mean that God CREATED all of the EVIL in the earth and in the entire Universe as well.
Therefore, according to THEIR “interpretation” of six literal 24 hour days that God created the entire universe, then God MUST, without fail, be BLAMED for every EVIL thing that happens.
That is to say, IF you believe that God created the earth no longer than 6,000 years ago in six 24 HOUR days, then you have no way to prove that God did NOT create one third of the angels specifically to wage a war against Him.
And here is WHY I say that young earth Christians must blame God for all of the EVIL in the world based on the SCRIPTURES.
We all know and agree that EVERYTHING God MADE was very GOOD, according to Genesis 1:31.
And we also know that God CREATED the anointed Cherub, Lucifer, perfect on the day He created him, before he became God’s ENEMY, Satan, according to Ezekiel 28:13-18.
But what we all do NOT agree upon and believe is that God SPECIFICALLY created Lucifer for the very purpose of REBELLING and making WAR against God.
In other words, IF you believe in a YOUNG earth that is no older than 6,000 years old, then you HAVE no other choice except to believe that God CREATED Lucifer for the very purpose of REBELLING against God.
You have no other choice! There are no other options except ONE. And that option is if God created Lucifer FLAWED.
But if you say that God created Lucifer FLAWED, then you are saying God is a LIAR, according to Ezekiel 28:13-18.
For you see, Psalm 8:1-6 clearly teaches us that God created man and the Son of man BECAUSE of His ENEMIES.
And that means that the angels rebelled and waged a WAR against God BEFORE God created Adam.
Therefore, if there is NO GAP between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, then the angels had to have been created AFTER day ONE and BEFORE day SIX.
And that would mean that ONE THIRD of the angels rebelled against God in less than 96 HOURS.
Now to me, that makes God look like He made a flaw in creating the angels for one third of the angels to turn against Him in just 96 HOURS.
Please read Psalm 8:1-6 so that you can see WHY God created us in the first place.
Psalm 8:1-6.
“To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, (Or more correctly translated in the LITERAL translation from the Textus Receptus, Yahweh Lords of us. Also, the LITERAL translation of Psalm 8:1 says, Yahweh our Lords in the PLURAL, as in, TWO Lords with the SAME NAME.
The first Yahweh ALWAYS existed as Creator Yahweh.
And Yahweh the Father GAVE His NAME to His HUMAN Son, Jesus, AFTER the cross and resurrection to be MADE a Lord, according to Acts 2:36 and Philippians 2:8-11) how excellent is Your NAME in all the earth! Who has set Your glory above the heavens. (In other words, the Son of MAN, Jesus, gave glory to his God and Father during his ministry.
And as a reward for the OBEDIENCE of the human Son of God, Yahweh gave Jesus a NEW NAME and MADE him Lord over the earth for 1000 years during the world to come, according to Acts 2:36, Isaiah 58:8, Hebrews 12:2, Acts 2:28, Psalm 21:6, and Psalm 17:15)
Psalm 8:2. Out of the mouth of babes and suckling have You ordained strength BECAUSE of Your enemies, that You might STILL the ENEMY and the AVENGER. (The strength that Yahweh ordained is the GIFT of the Holy Spirit and POWER from on high.
But in order to RECEIVE the gift of the Holy Spirit, a person must BELIEVE and RECEIVE Yahweh’s GIFT of RIGHTEOUSNESS by FAITH in His Son Jesus and what Jesus did for us on the cross)
Psalm 8:3. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; (Now, the reason that I highlighted the moon and the stars in green and in blue is because during a previous age of the earth ALL of the angels were GOOD angels.
And Yahweh SET or ordained some of His angels to become gods, or RULERS over different parts of the universe.
And Lucifer was made a god of the earth.
However, Lucifer and one third of the “stars” or the angels rebelled and waged a WAR against Yahweh and the rest of the good angels.
And the moon is a FIGURE of Satan, the lesser light of the children of the NIGHT.
So then, when you consider the Elohim both the faithful gods and rebellious gods)
Psalm 8:4. What is MAN, that You are mindful of him? And the Son of MAN, that You visit him? (And, according to Isaiah 50:4-7, Yahweh visited the Son of MAN, Jesus, morning by morning to TEACH him that the Scriptures prophesied of him)
Psalm 8:5. For You have MADE him a little LOWER than the angels, (In other words, God created or made MAN and the Son of MAN, Jesus, LOWER or inferior to the angels) AND have CROWNED him with glory and honor. (To be made Lord over the earth for 1000 years during the world to come for a REASON.
And the reason for WHY God created a new species of beings called the HUMANS to be made a little LOWER than God’s previous creation of the angels is for God to JUDGE Lucifer, aka or also known as, Satan, guilty as charged.
And, according to Acts 17:29-31, Almighty God the Father with JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels, along with the disobedient to the Gospel, by the MAN who He ordained and raised from the DEAD)
Psalm 8:6. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:”
The Hebrew word translated as “to STILL your enemies” means to rid His enemies, to put down or remove His enemies.
And it also carries the meaning of taking away the credibility of the enemies’ accusation against Yahweh.
Keep in mind that God’s NAME or character has been polluted or profaned by His enemy, the avenger, according to Isaiah 48:11.
Yahweh DEFENDS His name or character in Ezekiel 28:15, say to His anointed Cherub, you were PERFECT the day that I CREATED you.
So then, in order to clear Yahweh’s name or character of being BLAMED for CREATING Lucifer and the fallen angels as being FLAWED or NOT being “created” perfect, Yahweh decided to CREATE man and the Son of MAN a little LOWER or inferior to the angels.
In other words, God needed a CREATION that He created perfect to be made INFERIOR to the Elohim in order to PROVE that what He CREATES is NOT FLAWED.
And thus, if one of His CREATURES become corrupted, then it is the creatures FAULT and NOT Yahweh the Creator’s fault.
Therefore, IF you believe in a YOUNG earth and you also believe that God DECLARED the end from the beginning BEFORE anything else existed, then you MUST also believe that God ORDAINED the anointed Cherub, Lucifer, to REBEL and wage a WAR against God’s throne.
For you see, by your wrongly believing in a YOUNG earth, you are saying that NOTHING existed BEFORE God MADE the earth and everything on the earth was very good in Genesis 1:31.
In other words, BEFORE God created MAN, nothing existed except for God Himself and the five 24 hour DAYS that preceded the SIXTH 24 hour day.
And, consequently, for YOUNG earth believers, that would also mean that God created Lucifer as being very good, during those five 24 hour days before the sixth day.
And that would mean that Lucifer rebelled against God to become that insolent dragon, that OLD serpent called the Devil and Satan BEFORE the SIXTH day.
And that would mean that Lucifer would have had to have been God’s ENEMY before the SIXTH day when God created man BECAUSE of His ENEMIES, according to Psalm 8:1-6.
But one of the main arguments against an OLD earth is that God saw that everything He made was VERY GOOD on the sixth day when he made MAN BECAUSE of His ENEMIES, according to Psalm 8:1-6.
So then, to me, the YOUNG earth interpretation causes CONTRADICTIONS in the Scriptures.
But an OLD earth has NO contradictions with the Scriptures.
For you see, OLD earth Christians believe and teach that God ORIGINALLY created the earth perfectly in the eternity past millions or even billions of years ago.
And then, the earth BECAME without form and void in Genesis 1:2.
And thus, God RESTORED the earth in Genesis 1:3-31 because of God ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angels.
In other words, the earth and the universe is millions or even billions of years old.
And the angels lived in peace for millions or even billions of years BEFORE Lucifer corrupted himself and drew one third of the angels to wage a WAR against God’s throne of authority.
Now, that war could have started twenty or thirty thousand years ago.
No one knows for sure when the war in heaven started. But we do have evidence that God overthrew the side of heaven that rebelled.
And the overthrow of Satan and his angels was around 12,000 years ago.
So then, if we use a day as a thousand years for the six days of God RESTORING or FIXING the earth, then 12,000 years minus the 6,000 years of recreating the earth places the creation of Adam around 6,000 years ago.
And thus, if you believe that God created the heavens and the earth in the eternity past, millions or even billions of years ago, then you know and understand that God FIXED the earth some 6,000 year after He Himself CUT DOWN the earth 12,000 years ago in His anger against the WICKEDNESS of a previous race of beings BEFORE God created Adam.
Therefore, I believe that God declared the END from the beginning of WHEN God FIXED the earth some 12000 years ago taking 6,000 years to restore the earth.
And therefore, the END that God declared is the END of all EVIL.
Again, evil existed BEFORE God declared the end from the BEGINNING, but God did not create evil.
However, Lucifer has blasphemed God by wrongly accusing God that He created him FLAWED.
And that is WHY God made MAN and the Son of MAN a little LOWER than the ANGELS.
God chose to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels by using an INFERIOR creation of humans as His FAITHFUL WITNESSES to END all EVIL.
Know you not that WE shall JUDGE the angels, according to 1 Corinthians 6:3?
In other words, the beginning of God’s PLAN of Salvation was just around 6,000 years ago to 12,000 years ago. But the BEGINNING of the original CREATION of earth and the entire Universe was in the ETERNITY past millions or even billions of years ago.
And that allows for a PERFECT creation in the eternity past millions or even billions for years before Lucifer CORRUPTED himself.
And thus, evil began to exist no less than 6,000 years BEFORE God created MAN and SAW that everything was very good in Genesis 1:31.
Jesus also teaches us that Satan existed BEFORE the beginning in Genesis chapter 1.
And thus, the beginning in Genesis 1:1 is ANOTHER beginning AFTER Lucifer rebelled and waged a WAR against God.
Please read John 8:43-45.
“Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my words.
John 8:44. You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. (Why did Jesus say that their father was the Devil?
To me, it was because they listened and believed the words that Satan spoke to their minds) He was a murderer from (Or more precisely BEFORE) the beginning, (Some may ask, how can God’s enemy be BEFORE the BEGINNING?
The “beginning” in Genesis 1:1, Proverbs 8:22, John 1:1, and 1 John 1:1 is ANOTHER beginning AFTER Lucifer and one third of the angels rebelled and waged a WAR against God’s throne of authority.
And thus, Satan was a murderer BEFORE the beginning when God RESTORED the earth) and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for (Or because) he is a liar, and the father of it. (Or Satan fathered the first LIE which is the first sin BEFORE Adam sinned.
Therefore, SIN existed in the Universe BEFORE Genesis 1:1)
John 8:45. And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.”
And Revelation 12:3-9 teaches us that the RED
Dragon, the OLD serpent called the Devil and Satan, is an ANCIENT being during prehistoric times.
For you see, the Greek word that is translated as OLD means primeval.
And the root Greek word “archomai” carries the meaning of PRECEDENCE.
So clearly, Satan existed as God’s ENEMY before God created Adam.
In fact, Psalm 8:1-6 clearly teaches us that the very REASON that God created MAN was to STILL His ENEMIES.
Psalm 8:1-9.
“To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your NAME in all the earth! Who has set Your glory above the heavens.
Psalm 8:2. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have You ordained strength BECAUSE of Your enemies, that (Or so that or in ORDER THAT) You might STILL the enemy and the avenger.
Psalm 8:3. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ORDAINED;
Psalm 8:4. What is MAN, that You are mindful of him? And the Son of MAN, that You visit him?
Psalm 8:5. For You have made him a little LOWER than the ANGELS, and have crowned him with glory and honor. (So then, clearly, God made the angels BEFORE God made mankind and the Son of MAN, a little LOWER than the angels)
Psalm 8:6. You MADE him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
Psalm 8:7. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psalm 8:8. The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
Psalm 8:9. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your NAME in all the earth!”
With that being said, let us now take a CLOSER look at the verses of Scripture that are used by Christians to try to prove a YOUNG earth that they CLAIM was ORIGINALLY created just some 6,000 years ago and not a day older.
Plus, they also claim that God created everything that exists in just six 24 HOUR days. Now, that would mean that God created the entire universe in just 144 hours.
And the belief in a YOUNG earth also demands that God created Lucifer and all the angels PERFECT after day ONE.
And BEFORE day SIX, Lucifer corrupted himself and drew ONE THIRD of the angels to rebel and wage a WAR against God. And, to THEM, all that took place in just 96 HOURS.
Sure, I can believe that God could have created the entire universe in less than one second.
But the point that I want my readers to see is that in less than 96 HOURS one third of God’s creation that He created PERFECT began His ENEMIES.
And that is just ONE of the many reasons for WHY I do NOT believe in a YOUNG earth and a universe that was created in 144 hours some 6,000 years ago.
Yes, there is no doubt that God created MAN 6,000 years ago, but the earth itself was created millions or even billions of years ago.
With that being said, one of the verses of Scripture that the YOUNG earth creation Christians use is Exodus 20:11.
So then, let us go ahead and read that verse of Scripture without any comments first.
But I will emphasize the word MADE because it does NOT have the same exact meaning in every single verse of Scripture as the word CREATED.
In other words, the word “made” CAN mean created, but it can also mean formed or molded, much like we are being CONFORMED into the image of Jesus.
To say this another way, we already exist and God is making us in the image of Jesus.
Exodus 20:11.
“For in six days the LORD MADE heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
Now, before I get into explaining WHY the word “MADE” cannot be dogmatically demanded to mean that God ORIGINALLY CREATED heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them in six days in the eternity past, I want to show you that there is no mention of God saying, “and the EVENING and MORNING were the SEVENTH day”.
Please read Genesis 2:1-3.
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them. (This would be the place that God would say, and the EVENING and the MORNING were the SEVENTH day.
But as you can see, the SEVENTH day is NOT a 24 HOUR day.
For you see, the TRUE seventh day is in the FUTURE in the world to come.
In other words, God INTENDED us to read the account in Genesis containing PROPHECY of God DECLARING the END from the BEGINNING of WHEN God FIXED the earth.
But the way in which the KJV has translated these verses of Scripture in Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 2:1-3, God’s INTENDED meaning is a little harder to see.
So then, I will show you the LITERAL translation in a moment, but go ahead and finish reading the KJV translation)
Genesis 2:2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had MADE; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had MADE.
Genesis 2:3. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it He had rested from all His work which God created AND MADE.”
Here we can see one of MANY examples that clearly teaches us that what God created does NOT mean the exact same thing as what God MADE.
In other words, created does NOT equate with the word MADE and the word MADE is NOT the SAME as created in every single verse of Scripture.
Please consider Psalm 24:1,2.
Psalm 24:1,2.
“A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalm 24:2. For He has FOUNDED it (Speaking of God founding the earth and the world or the AGE) upon the seas, and ESTABLISHED it upon the FLOODS.”
Or more correctly, God FIXED the earth and the world BECAUSE of the FLOODS in the PLURAL.
Hence, there were TWO FLOODS and God FIXED the earth BECAUSE OF the FLOODS.
The Hebrew word translated as “founded” carries the meaning of sitting down together to SETTLE something.
It also means to take counsel, to instruct, ordain and to set sure.
Now, the word “SEAS” in Bible prophecy refers to the WICKEDNESS of the inhabitants of the earth.
In Revelation 21:1, when God creates the new heaven and the new earth there will be no more SEA or no more WICKEDNESS.
That is the WHOLE point of the Bible prophecy. God is bringing an END to WICKEDNESS and God made man and the Son of MAN for the PURPOSE of JUDGING Satan and the fallen angels.
And as our reward for being GOOD and FAITHFUL servants, we will be given the SAME GORY that God gave to Jesus, according to John 17:22.
Now, let us read that LITERAL word for word translation of Genesis 2:1-3 first, and then I will explain the DIFFERENCE between created and MADE.
Here is the LITERAL translation of Genesis 2:1-3.
“And they ARE BEING FINISHED the heavens and the earth and all the host of them.
Genesis 2:2. And He is FINISHING Elohim in day the SEVENTH work of Him which He did and He is CEASING in day of SEVENTH from all work which He did.
Genesis 2:3. And He is blessing day of SEVENTH and He is MAKING HOLY HIM that in HIM He CEASED from all work of him which He Elohim created to do of.”
Or, in which He, Yahweh, the Father, CREATED Elohim to do.
In other words, Yahweh created Himself an Elohim or a God under Him to do or to finish the work that Yahweh BEGAN some 6,000 years ago to END all EVIL in the entire Universe that caused violence and WAR.
To say this another way, Yahweh formed the LIGHT to CUT DOWN darkness, and Yahweh MAKES PEACE when He CUTS DOWN the EVIL.
So then, the seventh day is a PROPHECY of the future 1000 year long seventh day in the world to come.
And since the SEVENTH day is 1000 years long, then WHY would the first SIX days be just six 24 HOUR long days?
The TRUTH of the matter is that ALL seven days in Genesis 1:1-31 through Genesis 2:1-3 are 1000 years long and none of them are just literal 24 hour days as some Christians CLAIM.
Please notice that EVENING is said to have come FIRST, and then the MORNING follows after evening has ENDED.
In other words, after God said, “Let there BE light” and God SAW the light that the LIGHT was GOOD. Then God DIVIDED the light from the DARKNESS.
And God called the light DAY and He called the darkness NIGHT. And evening and morning were the first day. And to say that another way, and DARKNESS and LIGHT were the first day.
Not a LITERAL night and day of 24 hours, because the sun and the moon had not yet been APPOINTED as time and seasons until the fourth day.
The sun and moon ALREADY existed in the eternity past before God CUT DOWN the WICKEDNESS with the FLOOD that covered the earth.
That is the true sound Biblical meaning of Genesis 1:1,2 when it is correctly translated in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
So then, the EVENING is figurative language for DARKNESS and the children of the NIGHT are the disobedient children whose father is the Devil.
To say this another way, it was BECAUSE of the DARKNESS that God created the LIGHT.
And the light in Genesis 1:4 is a hidden PROPHECY of Jesus.
In Genesis 1:3, God literally said, Light COME TO BE and light COME TO PASS.
And in verse 4, we see a HIDDEN Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus PROPHECY letting us know that the Light is God’s future Messiah Jesus, the Light of the world.
Let us go ahead and read Genesis 1:4 with the Strongs number H853 that is NOT translated.
Genesis 1:4.
“And God saw (H853 Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus) the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”
Now, the two Hebrew letters Aleph Tav are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet like the Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.
And the root meaning of H853 comes from H226 which means a SIGNAL, a FLAG, a BEACON saying PAY ATTENTION to the word following this SIGN, signal or RED FLAG waving in your face.
So then, the Light in Genesis 1:3,4 is NOT natural physical literal light like an electric light bulb.
But rather, the light is UNDERSTANDING to OPEN our eyes to see the TRUTH.
The Light is a PROPHECY of Jesus. So then, the darkness and the light in Genesis 1:5 are FIGURE and shadows or hidden prophecies of the children of the DAY and the children of the NIGHT, according to 1 Thessalonians 5:5.
God is dividing the light from the darkness.
I Thessalonians 5:5.
“You are all the children of LIGHT, and the children of the DAY: we are NOT of the NIGHT, nor of DARKNESS.”
So then, the LIGHT in Genesis 1:3,4 is a PROPHECY of Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus and NOT a literal historical account of the first day of the ORIGINAL creation in the eternity past or 6,000 years ago.
But rather, it is the first day of God’s PLAN of Salvation that He kept SECRET from His ENEMY, Satan.
For had the princes of the air KNOWN God’s full plan of Salvation, then Satan and the fallen angels would not have deceived men to have CRUCIFIED our Lord who God glorified after the cross and resurrection.
Please read 1 Corinthians 2:7.8.
“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, (Or SECRET) even the hidden wisdom, which God ORDAINED BEFORE the world unto our glory:
1 Corinthians 2:8. Which NONE of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, (Speaking of God’s SECRET plan of Salvation) they would NOT have crucified the Lord of glory.”
In other words, God kept His plan of Salvation a SECRET from the princes of this present world so THAT they WOULD crucify God’s Lamb who was SLAIN BEFORE the foundation of the world for our GLORY in the MIND and plan of God.
Therefore, IF a Christian WRONGLY believes that God ORDAINED His plan of Salvation in the eternity past BEFORE God CREATED anything, including creating the ANGELS, then those Christians have NO OTHER choice than to ALSO believe that God ORDAINED all of the EVIL that is in the world as well.
They have no other option!
For you see, if God contrived His plan of salvation in the VERY beginning in the eternity past BEFORE the foundation of the world, then God knew that one third of His angels would rebel and wage a WAR against Him BEFORE God ever created the angels.
And consequently, that would mean that God takes PLEASURE in WAR and DEATH.
But that is NOT what the Bible ITSELF teaches.
The truth of the matter is that there are many Christians who believe in an OLD earth and that God RESTORED or FIXED the earth after it BECAME void and without form.
And many of those same Christians have also put 2 and 2 together, so to speak, to connect the dots to see and understand that a RESTORED earth means that the word in the BEGINNING was the NEW beginning 6,000 years ago.
In other words, many other Christians like myself have chosen to take a CLOSER look at the Scriptures to HARMONIZE the Scriptures of God being GOOD and in Him there is NO darkness at all, according to Mark 10:18, Matthew 5:48, James 1:17, and 1 John 1:5.
For you see, IF God ORDAINED all EVIL, then HOW could He be GOOD, Holy, and a perfect Light having no darkness at all?
So then, after taking a closer look at the Scriptures in the original Hebrew and Greek languages, I have found many verses of Scripture that have been INCORRECTLY TRANSLATED.
And thus, those “incorrectly” translated verses of Scripture MISLEAD Christians to wrongly believe things that God never INTENDED His word of TRUTH to mean.
For example, Isaiah 45:7 is “TRANSLATED” in the KJV and other translations as well as God CREATES DARKNESS and God CREATES EVIL.
Here is the INCORRECT KJV translation of Isaiah 45:7.
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”
Now, in the light of the TRUTHFUL God and His Son, Jesus, teaching us to overcome evil with GOOD, then it would make God a HYPOCRITE IF He overcomes evil with EVIL as this INCORRECT “translation” teaches.
That would be like God saying, do as I say and NOT as I DO!
Jesus said to NOT be like the HYPOCRITES who say one thing to receive glory and then do another which contradicts what they say to do.
So, deep in my spirit I knew that something was WRONG with this verse of Scripture.
For you see, the way it is TRANSLATED as God CREATED EVIL, then it CONTRADICTS other passages of Scripture and God’s CHARACTER of being LOVE and LIGHT having no darkness at all!
Somehow, I knew in my heart that God does NOT CREATE EVIL.
And when I asked God about this verse of Scripture, He said, “Look up the meaning”. I thought that God meant to look up the meaning of the English word “create”.
And I said to myself, why, what is the point, the word create means create, what else could it mean?
And God said to me again, look it up. So, I looked up the Hebrew word “bara” translated as “create” and found that it ALSO means CUT DOWN.
So, Isaiah 45:7 SHOULD read as follows.
A more CORRECT translation of Isaiah 45:7.
“I form the light, and CUT DOWN darkness: I make peace, and CUT DOWN evil: I the LORD do all these things.”
Remember that Jesus is the LIGHT and that God FORMED Jesus in the WOMB of the Virgin Mary.
And at the birth of the Messiah, the good angels proclaimed PEACE on earth and GOODWILL toward men.
So then, this more correct translation AGREES with the verses of Scripture that clearly teach us that God is GOOD and in Him is NO darkness at all!
This translation ALSO agrees with the CONTEXT of Isaiah 45:18, which I will explain in a moment.
Right after I remind those Christians, you who believe in a YOUNG earth, that the WAY in which Genesis 1:1,2 is “TRANSLATED” with the English word “WAS” in the phrase “And the earth WAS without form and VOID”, then it can only be understood to mean that God CREATED the earth that way, without form and void.
And thus, that bad and incorrect “TRANSLATION” actually CONTRADICTS Isaiah 45:18 where God clearly says that He did NOT create the earth in VAIN, which means WITHOUT FORM. So, this verse of Scripture that is translated CORRECTLY, says that God did NOT create the earth WITHOUT FORM, which CONTRADICTS Genesis 1:1,2 as it is “translated” in the KJV and many other Bibles as, “and the earth WAS without form and void”.
Isaiah 45:18.
“For thus says the LORD (Or thus says Yahweh) that created the heavens; God Himself that FORMED the earth and MADE it; He has ESTABLISHED it, He created it NOT in VAIN, He FORMED it to be INHABITED: I am the LORD; and there is none else.”
But again, the way in which many Bible translations have wrongly translated the Hebrew word “hayah” as the verb “WAS” in the PAST tense in Genesis 1:1,2, MISLEADS Christians to wrongly believe that God created the earth WITHOUT FORM and VOID.
Again, the Hebrew word translated as “He created it NOT in VAIN” is the SAME Hebrew word translated as “WITHOUT FORM” in Genesis 1:2.
In other words, according to Isaiah 45:18 and the CORRECT translation of Isaiah 45:7, God did NOT CREATE the earth WITHOUT FORM as the INCORRECT translation of Genesis 1:2 in the KJV has MISLEAD the YOUNG earth creationist Christians to WRONGLY believe that God created the earth in RUIN.
Genesis 1:1,2.
“In the beginning God created heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:2. 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.”
Do you see how the King James Version and many other “translations” of the Bible CONTRADICT Isaiah 45:18 by wrongly using the verb “WAS” in the past tense? In other words, Isaiah 45:18 says that Yahweh did NOT create the earth VOID.
But the way in which Genesis 1:2 is “TRANSLATED” in the KJV, it MISLEADS and even DECEIVES Christians to wrongly believe that God DID create the earth WITHOUT FORM and VOID, which again CONTRADICTS Isaiah 45:18!
Now, the true sound Biblical meaning of the Hebrew word “hayah” literally means to COME and to COME to PASS.
And the past tense COME to pass is BECAME or to come to pass in the future.
In fact, the English word “was” is not even in the definition of the Hebrew word “hayah”, according to the concordance in E-Sword.
H1961
ָהיָה
hâyâh
haw-yaw'
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): - beacon, X altogether, be (-come, accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), continue, do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, X use.
Now, did you see the verb “was” in the past tense in the definition above? NO! And neither did I!
So then, Genesis 1:2 should have been translated as “And the earth BECAME void and empty”, or “And it CAME TO PASS that the earth was CAUSED to be without form and void.”
And thus, in the very beginning in the eternity past, God created the earth PERFECT and did NOT create it in VAIN or without form.
And then, LATER on, perhaps billions of years later, the earth was CAUSED to BECOME without form and void.
Now, that actual CAUSE was the WAR that Lucifer and the fallen angels waged against God.
And in God’s wrath, God Himself CUT DOWN the earth with a FLOOD in order to CUT DOWN wickedness in His kingdom of the universe.
For you see, the Hebrew word translated as “darkness” in verse 2 also means “WICKEDNESS” just like in the days of Noah.
For those of you that may have never heard that God RESTORED or recreated the earth, this interpretation of Genesis 1:1,2 is called the “GAP Theory” by many Christians. It is also called the PRE-ADAMIC Race Theory as well.
And the REASON for WHY we believe and teach that KJV “translation” of Genesis 1:1,2 is an INCORRECT translation is because that translation CONTRADICTS Isaiah 45:18 and its CONTEXT.
Now let us take an even DEEPER more in-depth look at this passage of Scripture in some more CONTEXT so that you can see that the words CREATED and MADE do NOT always mean the SAME thing in every verse of Scripture.
Isaiah 45:18-21.
“For thus says the LORD (Or thus says Yahweh) that CREATED the heavens; (In the eternity past billions of years ago) God Himself that FORMED the earth (Or God Himself who DETERMINED the earth after it BECAME a wasted ruin around 12,000 years ago) AND MADE it; (Or and He DRESSED it taking 6,000 years or six 1000 year long days) He has ESTABLISHED it, (Or more correctly translated He FIXED it) He created it NOT in VAIN, (In the eternity past billions of years ago) He FORMED it (Or He fashioned it or framed it form 12,000 years ago to 6,000 years ago) to be INHABITED: (By a NEW creation of God called MAN, which He made a little LOWER or inferior to His PREVIOUS creation, the angels BECAUSE OF His ENEMIES, according to Psalm 8:1-6) I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:19. I have NOT spoken in SECRET, in a DARK place of the earth: (Or I have not spoken in secret in the presence of the WICKED fallen STANDING in the earth) I said not unto the seed of Jacob, (The name Jacob means to supplant, which means to REPLACE. Jacob is a FIGURE of Jesus who will REPLACE the god of this present world in order that God can JUDGE the world by the MAN who He ORDAINED and raised from the DEAD, according to Acts 17:29-31) Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare (Or I PREDICT or call into existence) things that are right. (Or things that are in concord or in agreement, equal. In other words, God does not speak His word in contradictions.
Yes, God is speaking to the children of Israel, but God is ALSO telling us about the ANCIENT people in the previous age of the earth)
Isaiah 45:20. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are ESCAPED of the nations: (Or you who are DELIVERED refugees of the TROOPS that TRIUMPHED gloriously) they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 45:21. Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: Who has declared this from ANCIENT time? (BEFORE the FOUNDATION of the world) Who has told it from THAT time? (BEFORE the FOUNDATION of the world) Have not I the LORD? And there is no God else beside me; (Or there is no god that will continue to be a god WITHOUT me, for I am) a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.”
To me, God is also talking to the angels, both the good angels and the fallen angels.
God is saying to the good angels or the gods who did NOT rebel against him that they will continue to be gods.
It also seems that God could be giving the fallen gods another chance to repent and be saved.
The English word “determined” the earth means that after God FIXED the earth He made a firm decision and He was resolved not to change what He sat down to SETTLE the REBELLION, according to Psalm 24:1,2.
Let us go ahead and read that passage of Scripture again.
Psalm 24:1,2.
“A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalm 24:2. For He has FOUNDED it (Speaking of the earth and the world or the AGE) upon the seas, and ESTABLISHED it upon the FLOODS.”
Again, more correctly, this passage of Scripture is teaching us that God FOUNDED the earth BECAUSE of the WICKEDNESS.
The phrase “upon the seas” speaks of against the wicked and because of the wicked fallen angels.
The word founded basically means that God sat down with the Elohim and said to the Elohim, let us make man in our image to determine whether or not I created you angels prefect and this WAR is cause by you, or I created you angels flawed and I am to be blamed for this WAR.
God then FIXED the earth and the world by REASON of the FLOODS in the PLURAL.
Hence, there were TWO FLOODS and God FIXED the earth BECAUSE OF the FLOODS.
Again, the Hebrew word translated as “founded” carries the meaning of sitting down together to SETTLE something.
And God said, “Let us make MAN in our image after our likeness.” It also means to take counsel, to instruct, ordain and to set sure.
Now, the word “SEAS” in Bible prophecy refers to the WICKEDNESS of the inhabitants of the earth.
In Revelation 21:1, when God creates the new heaven and the new earth there will be no more SEA or no more WICKEDNESS.
And in Isaiah 57:20,21, the WICKED are like the troubled sea when it stirs up dirt and mire.
And Psalms 69:14-24 describes the DEEP as being evil people that HATE us.
The WHOLE point of the Bible is God bringing an END to WICKEDNESS and delivering the RIGHTEOUS.
Please read the study called D-28. The PRE-ADAMIC LUCIFERIAN FLOOD!
In that study I give you many verses of Scripture that clearly teach us about TWO FLOODS.
And thus, the YOUNG earth argument that Noah’s flood is the ONLY flood is NOT sound Biblical teaching!
Now, most Christians believe that at the time God made His plan of Salvation, He devised the WHOLE plan in every detail.
And I used to believe that as well, but after doing several studies on different subjects like, “Does God know everything BEFORE it happens?”, I had to change what I USED to believe on that subject.
I mean why would God say, let us go down and SEE IF it is as they say, IF God already knew everything.
Please read the study called Cc-26. Is GOD ALL-KNOWING or OMNISCIENT?
But right now, my point is that I now believe that God had ONE main point in His plan of Salvation, and that ONE thing is His Aleph Tav Messiah ADAM.
Have you ever wondered WHY there are so many SIMILARITIES between many of the prophets of God and His Messiah Jesus?
Well, I now believe that ANYONE of those prophets of God COULD have been God’s Messiah. Even the first Adam COULD have been God’s Messiah IF he had not sinned.
Now this is another subject in and of itself that I cover in the study called D-34. WHEN was the WHOLE PLAN of Salvation MADE?
Here is just a sample of what I cover in that study.
Please read Psalm 139:15,16.
“My substance (Or my “being” caused to be MADE POWERFUL) was not hidden from YOU, when I was made in SECRET, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Psalm 139:16. Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in Your book all my members were written, which in CONTINUANCE were fashioned, (Or my substance was DETERMINED all along the WAY, from Adam, my coming into existence in the womb of the Virgin Mary) when as yet there was NONE of them.”
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The meaning of “CONTINUANCE” is something that is ongoing. So now, when I read God declared the END from the beginning, my focus is on the END GOAL.
For you see, not every prophecy was given in Genesis, but the END was prophesied in Genesis all the way through to Malachi.
And thus, everything in between was DETERMINED as needed.
In other words, God ADDED the Law of Moses BECAUSE of the transgressions of their CONSCIENCE that brought condemnation, UNTIL the SEED came.
You see, God WATCHES over His word to PERFORM it.
Another way to say that is God watches over His word to make sure it comes to pass as He desires.
And when God saw that DEATH was REIGNING, He needed to ADD some more details to His plan of Salvation in order to keep His SEED, His ADAM, from being devoured by His enemy. As I have said, this is another study in and of itself.
You can also read the study called D-30. Jesus is the FULFILLMENT of PROPHECY.
In that study I give you the prophecies of Jesus and the fulfillments that clearly teach us that God HIGHLY EXALTED His human Son, the Son of MAN, Jesus, to be MADE both Lord and Christ AFTER the cross and resurrection.
Thanks for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
Once Christians, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists understand the REASON that Yahweh CREATED the Son of MAN, Jesus, was to have DOMINION over the work of Yahweh’s hands.
And after you understand that the REASON that Yahweh did that is to STILL His ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angels.
Then you can understand that God made His human Son to become “a” Lord, “a” King, and “a” God, under and subject to his God and Father in order to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels.
For a deeper understanding of this WAR that Lucifer and one third of the angels waged against the throne of Almighty God, please read the studies under the subject category called ** Q-0 Why Are We Here? Is God at WAR? **.
More studies are coming in this SHORTER Biblical Unitarian view of who Jesus is according to the WHOLE word of God.
If you have a PARTICULAR verse of Scripture that you would like to know the sound Biblical Unitarian meaning, then please email me at MarkatAMatterOfTruth@Gmail.com and let me know.
For further and more in-depth studies on this subject of Jesus being created to STILL the enemies of Yahweh, please read the studies called D-25. A NEW LOOK at JOHN 1:1, In the BEGINNING!
And also read the study called D-28. The PRE-ADAMIC LUCIFERIAN FLOOD!
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Thanks again for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
And again, for ALL of the studies on the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus, please click on the subject heading ** D-0 The BIBLICAL UNITARIAN VIEW of Jesus! **
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