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 Before, most of you know him. If you are a visitor, you'll get to know him this morning.

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! And I'm sure you are aware from the announcement of the subject that his subject matter is not easy.

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 I'm sure he'll have more to say about that. We thought of setting up the screen and the overhead

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 projector. He could do that, but you folks are smart and you have a paper and pencil, and if you don't,

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 you better get it out. And this is an informal class and we want you to be interested in what

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 he has to say this morning. Brother Greer, we're happy to have you here. We're going to finish our

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 offering, but you go ahead and start because the time is yours. It's nice to be with you this morning,

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 and I'd like to add my little word of thanks. I too have a Christian dad who was 80 years old yesterday,

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 pastored a GRB Baptist church in New York City, the same church for 46 years of ministry and retired

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 two years ago. So I have a rich heritage in the things of the Lord. As far as my home is concerned,

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 and on Father's Day, I would surely acknowledge my great thanksgiving to God, not only for the kind of

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 dad he was, but for the quality of the spiritual life he guided me into. This morning, our subject is

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 origins. The question of origins is a question that everyone has to face. It's impossible to be a

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 thinking person and not ask the question about the origin of life and not ask the question about how

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 life has developed. We live in a day and age in which many answers have been given to the problem of

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 origins. There's one word in philosophy and in science that has permeated thinking since approximately the

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 17th century and that word is process. Process has become the key concept to explain everything as

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 far as development is concerned. It's not just a word that has been used in the biological sciences.

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 It is a word that is used in the historical sciences, the sociological sciences. Almost in every facet of

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 learning today, we move with this idea that a long time ago things were simple and as time progressed and

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 process went on, simple things became complex. Man started out having very few social relationships.

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 He started out in caves struggling against his environment. As man developed, as he learned to

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 overcome his environment, family life was established, other institutions of society were established,

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 and therefore the sociological matrix that we live in today has come through time by process.

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 Of course, this philosophical idea has been at the heart of Western philosophy since the sixth century BC.

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 It's an idea that only lately has been applied to biology and to life science. Those of us who believe

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 perhaps that Darwin was the man who came up with the idea of evolution would make a very bad mistake.

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 That idea has been a constant permeating idea in Western thought. Darwin simply took that idea and applied it

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 to life sciences. I want to expose you first of all this morning before I go to the content of scripture

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 to what I would consider to be the reigning answer of contemporary science to the problem of origin and the problem of development of life.

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 The present viewpoint runs something like this. Hundreds of millions of years ago, in the primordial oceans, under just the right conditions,

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 the right conditions, and during an electrical storm, some chemical synthesis took place that produced low yield amino acids.

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 Now, amino acids, ladies and gentlemen, are the building blocks of all life forms in our world.

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 A man by the name of Miller did these experiments down in Florida about 12 years ago. He got a vat,

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 and into his vat, and into his vat he put some ammonia, he put some methane, some hydrogen, and some water. And he closed this vat, and he put a vacuum system on the vat, and he sparked the vat with electrical current, and when he would spark that vat, he would get some low yield amino acids there in the midst of that vat.

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 And science speculated that during thunderstorm activity with hydrogen, water, methane, and ammonia present, and under the sparking activity of the electrical storm, low yield amino acids were formed, and they began to float on the surface of the waters.

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 Now, amino acids, of course, are not living cells, and they are not self-replicating, and they are not life.

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 Something has to transpire with these amino acids before you will ever get any kind of life forms.

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 Now, a second scientist, about 10 years ago by the name of Fox, took some of those low yield amino acids, and he put them in a beaker, and he held them close to a flame.

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 And he found some very interesting things transpire when he heated amino acids.

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 He found that those amino acids began to pop together.

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 Did you ever see your children play with pop beats?

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 And formed what science has called a protonoid, or a protein life chain.

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 This is still sub-life, but he did get that to transpire.

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 It is not self-replicating.

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 It does not meet the definition of biological life.

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 But it did show how the possibility of those amino acids on the primordial oceans might stick together and might be able to bring about some sort of protein life.

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 Now, it's easy to speculate.

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 All you've got to do is add some heat to that early speculation.

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 So you've got a primordial ocean with methane, hydrogen, water, and ammonia present.

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 You've got an electrical storm, and you've got to be close to a heat source.

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 So science has speculated that this took place close to volcanic activity, so that the water in that area was quite warm, which caused these amino acids to kind of pop together.

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 And from these early yield amino acids by natural process, life forms as we know them today have developed.

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 Now, of course, science wants time.

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 They've got to have vast time to explain how we can get the complexity of life forms that we find in our world today.

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 So that science's answer to the problem of the origin of life is basically random circumstances with particular materials present under just the right conditions,

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 and by chance, the protein, chemical, life substance was formed, somehow developed the capacity for self-replication,

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 and from those simple organisms, those pre-life to life, and finally from simple to the most complex living forms,

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 everything has developed from that process or in that process to what we know today.

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 Now, the development process is known in science by a big word.

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 It's the word uniformitarianism.

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 You see the word uniform in there.

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 This word simply means that science asserts that the processes by which nature operate are uniform in character.

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 The processes we find in nature today have always existed in nature.

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 And therefore, looking at present process, using present process plus time, we can explain how everything has developed.

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 Now, that's the key.

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 In fact, those are the two keys to the understanding of the contemporary scientific viewpoint about origins.

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 Vast time in the past, under random chance conditions, protein life forms developed,

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 then by the present processes that we're able to observe in science today,

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 with the use of those processes and those processes alone,

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 there has been in vast time the development from simple to complex.

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 You can see what this asserts about human life.

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 It simply asserts that human life has come about as a consequence of randomness or chance.

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 That there was possibility that it might never have come about,

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 and by randomness, atoms were formed and random collocations came together.

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 There was no benevolent, wise God who created with a purpose.

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 Chance was operating at that primordial level.

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 And if chance was operating, then man indeed, as a creature, has come wholly by chance.

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 He was not purposed. He had no goal.

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 There was no purpose or direction to his life.

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 He has come out of the strange randomness of the past.

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 And man is just a possible creature who has sprung up as a consequence of chance operating forces.

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 And thus, when man comes to maturity, man will not be able to find purpose in life,

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 and man will finally be his own God.

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 Because there was no God who purposed him,

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 and there was no God who indeed defines who he is and what he is to do.

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 And this is what we find today, is it not?

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 We find men today living with a basic viewpoint that says,

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 origins are explained by chance and development is explained by present process.

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 Now, if man is a creature of chance,

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 why should I talk to man about a moral judgment at the end of history before a righteous God?

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 If man is the product of chance,

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 why should I talk about moral absolutes and values that must guide man in life and decision making?

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 Why isn't every man free to choose his own morals, free to choose his own values?

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 Why isn't every man, if he's a product of chance,

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 why isn't he free to do anything he wishes,

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 and why should he ever be bothered with religion or any kind of moral principle?

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 And of course, we have seen this and undate our culture.

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 We've had this thing taught in public education for 25 to 30 years now,

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 and the end product of it has finally grown up in our culture,

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 and we wonder what's happened to us.

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 Right this morning, I'd like not to spend my time with the scientific and the philosophical.

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 I'd like to give the bulk of my time to answering the question of origins from a biblical perspective.

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 It's interesting to note that in 2 Peter chapter 3,

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 the apostle Peter indicated that in the last days,

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 scoffers were going to come,

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 who are going to walk after their own desires,

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 and their basic premise was going to be this question,

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 where is the promise of his coming?

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 For since the fathers fell asleep,

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 all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

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 Peter says in the last days,

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 people are going to say,

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 why should I worry about Jesus Christ coming back in history for moral judgment?

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 Because nothing like that has ever happened in the past,

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 and the processes of nature have remained constant ever since creation.

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 And Peter says,

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 of this they willingly receive amnesia.

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 They choose to be ignorant of this very thing,

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 that the heavens of old and the earth,

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 standing out of the water and amidst the water,

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 being overflowed with water,

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 never perished.

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 Peter says that the thing that the uniformitarian scientist refuses to acknowledge

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 is the fact that God has acted in history,

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 and God's acts in history have changed the processes in nature.

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 So I want to suggest to you this morning

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 that the key to origins is to be found within the framework of scripture.

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 I have just finished some graduate work in writing a thesis in the early chapters of the book of Genesis,

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 in which I have sought indeed to argue that Genesis 1 through 3

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 is not constituted as Hebrew poetry,

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 it is not constituted as mythology or symbolic representation,

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 but its intent, as far as Moses was concerned,

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 was to record trustworthy history.

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 I'm going to make an assertion to you, ladies and gentlemen,

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 one that I believe is absolutely essential for us all to face.

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 If Genesis 1, 2, and 3 cannot be trusted,

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 when it comes to its clear statement on origins,

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 then you will never know if you can trust John 3, 16 with its clear statement on salvation.

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 For you do not cut this book up into pieces

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 and take the little piece of pie that you like.

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 I want to tell you, if any of this book is suspect, all of it's suspect.

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 And is it not interesting today

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 that man wishes to sit and judge

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 which part of the word of God is acceptable to the contemporary mind?

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 The salvation pie which promises fire insurance against hell

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 and eternal bliss and happiness in heaven

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 is very acceptable to the 20th century man.

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 But a clear statement about a recent creation in six days

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 which stands in direct contradiction

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 to the contemporary intellectual scientific viewpoint of our age,

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 all of a sudden the believer backs off of that

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 and we've got all kinds of weird interpretations of Genesis.

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 I want to suggest to you this morning a model.

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 I want to say it's not a model based upon dispensations.

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 I'm not interested in trying to revise the dispensational chart for you.

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 But I do want to suggest to you

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 that there's a way to divide biblical history

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 that will help us understand this problem of origins

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 and this problem of development of life.

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 And the model I wish to use is the model of judgment.

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 I would like you to be able to think

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 in a number of time periods discreet in character.

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 I would like to suggest to you that Genesis 1

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 begins with that first biblical world

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 as it came from the hand of God.

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 That world was characterized by certain things.

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 That world was declared by God to be perfect

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 and man was rightly related in every facet of his life.

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 But something happened in that world that brought change.

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 And what happened was man sinned against God

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 and as a consequence of man's sin,

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 in Genesis 3 we find God brings judgment into his world

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 and judgment changes things.

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 Then you go to the world from the time of the fall

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 or the curse in the Garden of Eden

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 and you go up to the time of the flood of Noah.

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 And in this second time period,

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 certain things were characteristic of life in our world.

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 Certain particular things could describe life in that world

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 from the Edenic curse to the flood of Noah.

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 A time period of approximately 1,656 years.

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 At the end of that time period,

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 God brought a catastrophic judgment

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 and that catastrophic judgment has tremendous implications

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 for science and for scientific process.

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 So the judgment again brings change in creation.

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 There was change in the curse in the Garden.

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 There was change at the flood.

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 There's going to come another drastic change

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 in the relationships of nature

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 when Jesus Christ returns in glory

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 to establish his kingdom

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 and to establish his thousand-year reign on this earth.

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 Now, we don't have time this morning

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 to work this model all the way through.

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 We have the judgment of the Edenic curse.

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 We have the judgment of the flood.

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 Right after that one,

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 there's another one that's fascinating

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 and that's the judgment of the confusion of tongues

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 or the Tower of Babel.

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 But we live in the time period of the post-flood world.

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 The next major catastrophic event

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 that's going to change process in nature

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 is going to be the revelation of Jesus Christ

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 for the establishment of his kingdom.

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 And at that time,

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 there will be new operative principles

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 transpiring in nature.

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 For that thousand years,

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 these principles will operate.

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 Then at the end of that time period,

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 there's going to be a final and a fourth judgment,

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 a judgment by fire,

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 in which God is going to totally renovate

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 the heavens and the earth which are now,

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 and he's going to bring about new heavens and new earth.

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 Now, I want to suggest to you

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 that these four judgments

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 will enable us to have a key

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 to see how life has developed

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 and what changes have come

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 within the framework of the created world.

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 In other words,

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 I'm suggesting to you this morning

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 that as a creationist,

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 I do not hold in a static creation.

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 I do not believe that the world I live in today

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 is exactly the same world

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 with the same processes

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 that God created back in Genesis chapter 1.

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 And we need to be very sure we understand that.

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 The evolutionist says

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 that the creationist,

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 the Bible believer,

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 holds to a static world

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 in which nothing changes.

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 I do not hold to that.

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 The Bible will not allow me to hold that.

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 There has been change in creation.

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 It hasn't been a change

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 from simple to complex

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 between species and phyla

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 and all the breakdown of the animal kingdom.

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 It hasn't been a change of progress

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 from a single life source

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 to the vast complexity of life forms

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 that we find today.

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 But neither has it been a static world

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 because God has acted in this world

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 and God has brought change in this world.

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 It isn't enough to say this morning

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 that we reject evolution

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 and we accept the Bible.

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 It isn't enough to know

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 what you don't believe.

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 You must know positively

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 what you do believe.

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 It isn't enough to say,

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 no, I can't accept any forms

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 of organic evolution.

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 It seems to me we must place there

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 a positive biblical answer

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 to the problem of development.

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 I'm not going to spend much time

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 with the concept of origin

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 because I'm sure we are all committed

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 to the basic principle

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 that the origin of life

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 has come as a consequence

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 of the special creative activity of God.

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 In the beginning,

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 God created the heavens and the earth

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 and the earth did not have any boundaries

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 and the earth was empty

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 and darkness was upon the face of the deep

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 and the Spirit of God

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 moved over the waters

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 and God said,

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 let there be light

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 and there was light

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 and God divided the light

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 from the darkness

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 and the light he called day

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 and the darkness he called night.

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 Right on down through verse 26

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 of chapter 1,

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 we have that full delineation

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 of the direct creative fiat of God

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 where he created,

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 we commonly say,

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 ex nihilo.

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 That means he created into nothing.

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 God spoke and he brought into existence

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 those things which were a part of his plan

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 and his purpose

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 and therefore the origin of our world,

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 the origin of our universe,

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 the origin of our life forms

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 are in the creative fiat of God

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 whereby he brought to pass his purpose

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 when indeed he had chosen

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 to bring about a creation.

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 Now you want to think a staggering thought.

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 Why did God create?

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 Was he lonely?

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 Free person,

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 sharing a common essence

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 and absolute harmony and fellowship?

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 Did he have a need?

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 Was he deficient?

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 Was there a part of him

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 that was incomplete

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 and he had to take steps to complete it?

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 I hope not.

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 He's an absolutely self-sufficient God.

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 Why did he create?

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 There's only one answer to that question,

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 because he chose to.

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 You say,

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 well,

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 why did he choose to do it?

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 And I ask you a question then.

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 What is there that's antecedent

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 to the will of God?

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 Do you know of anything?

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 Then don't ask dumb questions.

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 If the will of God

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 has no antecedent,

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 then don't ask why about it, huh?

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 Well,

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 there is no other place to go.

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 When you say,

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 he chose to,

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 and you say,

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 why did he choose to?

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 What would you like to find?

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 Well,

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 he wasn't incomplete.

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 He didn't have to create.

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 Creation is an activity of God

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 that comes from his free choice

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 and his free purpose,

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 and God,

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 for purposes known to himself,

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 determined in eternity past

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 to create,

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 and then actually did the creating.

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 Now,

00:20:54.380 --> 00:20:55.839
 my own view of Genesis 1

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 very simply is this.

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 God created

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 in six consecutive

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 literal days.

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 I do not accept

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 the gap theory,

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 and if you do,

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 I respect that.

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 I'm not going to take time

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 to argue the viewpoint

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 this morning.

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 I just simply want

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 to assert to you

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 that I believe

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 that exegetically

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 the best way

00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:16.039
 to handle Genesis 1

00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:17.180
 is to see

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 six consecutive days

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 of creative activity

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 by God,

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 and it wasn't

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 because God got tired

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 and he had to rest up

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 so he'd have enough energy

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 for the next day

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 because God was doing this

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 in order to establish

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 a model

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 which would become

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 the pattern of life

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 for his image bearer,

00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:36.180
 Genesis 20,

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 clearly tells us.

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 By the way,

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 Genesis 20, 11

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 seems to me

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 to be an overwhelmingly

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 difficult view

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 for the gap theory

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 to work with,

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 and that's this.

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 In six days,

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 Jehovah made

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 the heavens

00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:49.960
 and the earth.

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 What does Genesis 1, 1 say?

00:21:53.220 --> 00:21:53.960
 In the beginning,

00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:55.160
 God created what?

00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:57.720
 The heavens and the earth.

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 And Moses says

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 in Exodus 20, 11,

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 In six days,

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 Jehovah made

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 the heavens

00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:04.880
 and the earth

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 and all that is

00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:07.059
 in them is.

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 So I suggest to you

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 that as far as

00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:10.740
 origins are concerned,

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 we hold to

00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:12.559
 special creation,

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 we hold to

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 direct divine activity,

00:22:16.360 --> 00:22:17.259
 we hold to the

00:22:17.259 --> 00:22:18.279
 creative breath

00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:19.559
 of God operating

00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:20.379
 at creation.

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 Now don't answer

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 too quickly,

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 for I don't want

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 to embarrass you

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 on Father's Day,

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 but who created?

00:22:27.420 --> 00:22:28.559
 Who is the creator?

00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:30.079
 Christ.

00:22:31.399 --> 00:22:32.440
 Please learn that.

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 John 1.

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 Creation is a

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 Christocentric

00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:39.740
 activity of God.

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 He is the creator.

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 I think very often

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 we view the father

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 as the creator.

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 I think what we

00:22:46.459 --> 00:22:47.359
 need to see is

00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:47.959
 that creation

00:22:47.959 --> 00:22:48.599
 is a revelation

00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:49.419
 of God.

00:22:49.719 --> 00:22:50.879
 Christ is the Logos.

00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:51.459
 Without him

00:22:51.459 --> 00:22:52.219
 was not anything

00:22:52.219 --> 00:22:53.379
 made that was made.

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 And everything

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:55.579
 made came through

00:22:55.579 --> 00:22:56.799
 him, and he is

00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.639
 the one active

00:22:57.639 --> 00:22:58.439
 in creation.

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 Now you're going

00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:00.559
 to get intellectual

00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:01.439
 indigestion now

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 because I'm going

00:23:02.019 --> 00:23:02.759
 to pour a great

00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:03.479
 bulk of material

00:23:03.479 --> 00:23:04.079
 to you in about

00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:04.639
 ten minutes

00:23:04.639 --> 00:23:05.559
 about that creation.

00:23:05.779 --> 00:23:05.919
 Okay?

00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:09.579
 When God created,

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:10.639
 certain things

00:23:10.639 --> 00:23:11.240
 were true

00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:12.379
 about that creation.

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 Certain characteristics

00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:14.779
 described it.

00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:16.480
 Characteristics,

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 some of which

00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:17.859
 we have in our

00:23:17.859 --> 00:23:18.539
 world today,

00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:19.640
 others that we

00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:20.220
 do not have

00:23:20.220 --> 00:23:20.700
 in our world

00:23:20.700 --> 00:23:21.000
 today.

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:22.200
 The first thing

00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:23.000
 that God created

00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:23.879
 was life, right?

00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:25.379
 It's interesting,

00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:26.180
 that was created

00:23:26.180 --> 00:23:26.920
 on day one,

00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:27.460
 but the sun

00:23:27.460 --> 00:23:28.119
 wasn't created

00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:28.900
 until day four.

00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:31.039
 So in the biblical

00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:31.359
 view,

00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:32.379
 life precedes

00:23:32.379 --> 00:23:32.859
 the sun.

00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:34.200
 And it's interesting

00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:34.640
 if you read

00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:35.539
 the book of Revelation,

00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:36.799
 light is going

00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:37.579
 to be after

00:23:37.579 --> 00:23:38.680
 the sun as well

00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:39.519
 because in the

00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:39.960
 new heaven

00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:40.539
 and new earth,

00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:41.599
 there is no need

00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:42.420
 of sun for the

00:23:42.420 --> 00:23:43.140
 Lamb is the light

00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:43.420
 of it.

00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:45.259
 So you have

00:23:45.259 --> 00:23:46.160
 the light-darkness

00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:46.599
 boundary,

00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:47.200
 and we have

00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:47.859
 light-darkness

00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:48.180
 today,

00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:48.640
 don't we?

00:23:49.619 --> 00:23:50.420
 We have that

00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:51.180
 same boundary

00:23:51.180 --> 00:23:52.059
 that God created

00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:52.759
 at the beginning,

00:23:52.980 --> 00:23:53.619
 and we have

00:23:53.619 --> 00:23:54.279
 that boundary,

00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:55.000
 and that boundary

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:55.980
 has been a constant.

00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:57.299
 The second thing

00:23:57.299 --> 00:23:57.980
 God created

00:23:57.980 --> 00:23:59.379
 was a firmament,

00:23:59.579 --> 00:24:00.180
 and the purpose

00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:00.859
 of the firmament

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:01.640
 was to divide

00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:02.779
 water from water,

00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:03.900
 and the firmament

00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:04.900
 was called heaven,

00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:05.879
 and God had

00:24:05.879 --> 00:24:06.859
 water above

00:24:06.859 --> 00:24:07.500
 the firmament,

00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:08.559
 a water canopy

00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:09.640
 above the firmament,

00:24:10.180 --> 00:24:10.940
 and then he had

00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:12.079
 water on the earth.

00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:13.740
 Now, we do not

00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:14.759
 have a water canopy

00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:15.699
 above our firmament,

00:24:15.779 --> 00:24:16.059
 do we?

00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:18.139
 May I suggest

00:24:18.139 --> 00:24:18.960
 some things to you?

00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:20.039
 You go back

00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:20.519
 and read it.

00:24:20.899 --> 00:24:21.720
 God created

00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:22.319
 a firmament

00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:23.000
 which divided

00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:24.059
 water from water.

00:24:24.460 --> 00:24:26.099
 With a water canopy

00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:27.339
 above our present

00:24:27.339 --> 00:24:28.500
 atmospheric heavens,

00:24:29.159 --> 00:24:29.779
 we would have

00:24:29.779 --> 00:24:30.759
 a wholly different

00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:31.819
 climate factor

00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:33.079
 governing our earth.

00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:33.119
 water.

00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:34.960
 There would be

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:35.659
 no poles,

00:24:35.899 --> 00:24:36.980
 no polar ice caps.

00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:38.980
 There would be

00:24:38.980 --> 00:24:39.720
 absolutely

00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:41.619
 a temperate climate

00:24:41.619 --> 00:24:42.439
 over the face

00:24:42.439 --> 00:24:43.779
 of the entire earth.

00:24:44.199 --> 00:24:44.799
 There would be

00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:46.699
 no vast ice areas

00:24:46.699 --> 00:24:48.259
 unable to support life

00:24:48.259 --> 00:24:48.740
 and covered

00:24:48.740 --> 00:24:50.199
 with a very thick

00:24:50.199 --> 00:24:50.899
 ice cap.

00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:52.379
 If indeed

00:24:52.379 --> 00:24:53.359
 in our world

00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:54.339
 there was water

00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:55.399
 above the firmament

00:24:55.399 --> 00:24:56.059
 as it was

00:24:56.059 --> 00:24:57.220
 at the time of creation,

00:24:57.559 --> 00:24:58.199
 the quality

00:24:58.199 --> 00:24:59.199
 and climate of life

00:24:59.199 --> 00:25:00.079
 would be very different.

00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:02.119
 While that water

00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:02.939
 was up there

00:25:02.939 --> 00:25:04.339
 before the flood,

00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:05.899
 people lived

00:25:05.899 --> 00:25:07.699
 very long lives

00:25:07.699 --> 00:25:08.199
 didn't they?

00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:09.859
 And right after

00:25:09.859 --> 00:25:10.339
 the flood,

00:25:10.459 --> 00:25:11.799
 lifespan went smooth.

00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:14.419
 That water canopy

00:25:14.419 --> 00:25:15.459
 no doubt

00:25:15.459 --> 00:25:16.739
 acted as a filter

00:25:16.739 --> 00:25:18.119
 that handled

00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:18.719
 some of the

00:25:18.719 --> 00:25:19.819
 cosmic radiation

00:25:19.819 --> 00:25:21.099
 and also the

00:25:21.099 --> 00:25:22.399
 x-ray of the sun.

00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:23.419
 Now we know

00:25:23.419 --> 00:25:24.039
 today that the

00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:25.199
 x-ray is very

00:25:25.199 --> 00:25:25.859
 much a part

00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:26.799
 of the aging process

00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:28.000
 for life in our world.

00:25:28.739 --> 00:25:29.339
 You ladies who

00:25:29.339 --> 00:25:29.779
 love to

00:25:29.779 --> 00:25:31.099
 eye out in the sun

00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:31.579
 and get all

00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:32.099
 sun tan,

00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:32.619
 aren't helping

00:25:32.619 --> 00:25:33.059
 yourself

00:25:33.059 --> 00:25:33.859
 and particularly

00:25:33.859 --> 00:25:34.779
 as far as aging

00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:35.399
 is concerned

00:25:35.399 --> 00:25:35.899
 for you know

00:25:35.899 --> 00:25:36.299
 what it does

00:25:36.299 --> 00:25:36.899
 to your skin.

00:25:37.679 --> 00:25:37.959
 Well,

00:25:38.139 --> 00:25:39.199
 we had longevity

00:25:39.199 --> 00:25:39.759
 of life

00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:40.719
 in that time period.

00:25:41.059 --> 00:25:41.759
 There was probably

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:42.899
 a temperate climate.

00:25:44.299 --> 00:25:45.019
 The water was

00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:45.679
 over the face

00:25:45.679 --> 00:25:46.599
 of the entire earth

00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:47.299
 and the third thing

00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:48.039
 God did was

00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:48.419
 he said

00:25:48.419 --> 00:25:49.479
 let the waters

00:25:49.479 --> 00:25:50.659
 be gathered together

00:25:50.659 --> 00:25:52.639
 into 17 oceans,

00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:52.979
 right?

00:25:54.159 --> 00:25:55.019
 Now what does it say?

00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:57.019
 Let the waters

00:25:57.019 --> 00:25:58.099
 be gathered together

00:25:58.099 --> 00:25:59.199
 into how many places?

00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:01.799
 one place.

00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:05.059
 I suggest to you

00:26:05.059 --> 00:26:06.299
 that the world

00:26:06.299 --> 00:26:06.819
 as it came

00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:07.340
 from the hand

00:26:07.340 --> 00:26:07.920
 of God

00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:09.720
 was not 70%

00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:10.680
 drowned with water

00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:11.480
 as our world

00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:11.940
 is today.

00:26:12.580 --> 00:26:13.860
 I suggest to you

00:26:13.860 --> 00:26:14.319
 when you read

00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:15.519
 Genesis 1 carefully

00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:16.539
 you find

00:26:16.539 --> 00:26:17.539
 that the sea

00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:18.380
 or the water

00:26:18.380 --> 00:26:19.039
 was gathered

00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:19.740
 together into

00:26:19.740 --> 00:26:20.559
 one place

00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:21.240
 and there was

00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:22.259
 a very large

00:26:22.259 --> 00:26:23.640
 contiguous landmass

00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:24.460
 not divided

00:26:24.460 --> 00:26:25.460
 by vast oceans

00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:26.240
 as we find

00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:26.759
 in our world

00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:27.120
 today.

00:26:29.120 --> 00:26:30.420
 That the landmass

00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:31.079
 was probably

00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:31.759
 contiguous

00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:32.220
 that is

00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:32.680
 it was all

00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:33.500
 joined together

00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:34.259
 and there was

00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:35.400
 one large

00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:36.880
 body of water

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.559
 in which God

00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:38.019
 had caused

00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:38.519
 the water

00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:38.980
 that covered

00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:39.900
 the entire earth

00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:40.480
 to be gathered

00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:40.940
 together

00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:41.700
 and the dry land

00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:42.200
 to appear.

00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:43.620
 When you go

00:26:43.620 --> 00:26:44.019
 to the book

00:26:44.019 --> 00:26:44.620
 of Revelation

00:26:44.620 --> 00:26:45.160
 and you read

00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:46.160
 about the new heaven

00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:46.940
 and the new earth

00:26:46.940 --> 00:26:47.620
 the first thing

00:26:47.620 --> 00:26:48.680
 John saw was

00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:49.279
 that there was

00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:51.660
 no more sea.

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:52.500
 Remember that?

00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:54.420
 The new earth

00:26:54.420 --> 00:26:54.980
 when it comes

00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:55.480
 from the hand

00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:55.880
 of God

00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:56.200
 is going

00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:56.460
 to be

00:26:56.460 --> 00:26:57.440
 oceanless.

00:26:58.839 --> 00:26:59.380
 You can look

00:26:59.380 --> 00:26:59.960
 at the present

00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:00.819
 world and say

00:27:00.819 --> 00:27:01.400
 the world

00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:01.779
 has always

00:27:01.779 --> 00:27:02.579
 been like this

00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:03.120
 it's always

00:27:03.120 --> 00:27:04.380
 been 73%

00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:04.960
 of our earth

00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:05.240
 is ground

00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:05.779
 with water

00:27:05.779 --> 00:27:06.660
 and it will

00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:07.420
 always be

00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:07.880
 that way

00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:08.360
 because of

00:27:08.360 --> 00:27:09.039
 the relationship

00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:09.759
 of water

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.380
 to earth

00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:11.279
 and the climate

00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:11.839
 factors

00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:12.460
 and the polar

00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:13.200
 ice caps

00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:14.220
 and all the

00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:15.279
 tectonic

00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:15.819
 and earthquake

00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:16.559
 activities

00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:17.440
 and you'd be

00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:17.779
 wrong.

00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:18.480
 When God

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.480
 created the world

00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:20.240
 the waters

00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:20.900
 were in one

00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:21.339
 place

00:27:21.339 --> 00:27:21.779
 and there was

00:27:21.779 --> 00:27:22.900
 one contiguous

00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:23.640
 landmass.

00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:25.680
 God said

00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:26.240
 to the earth

00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:27.900
 let the earth

00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:28.500
 bring form

00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:29.520
 grass and herbs

00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:30.360
 and fruit trees

00:27:30.360 --> 00:27:32.120
 and let them

00:27:32.120 --> 00:27:32.900
 reproduce after

00:27:32.900 --> 00:27:33.500
 their kind.

00:27:35.140 --> 00:27:35.380
 Now do you

00:27:35.380 --> 00:27:36.020
 suppose the earth

00:27:36.020 --> 00:27:36.580
 obeyed that

00:27:36.580 --> 00:27:37.280
 creative field?

00:27:40.280 --> 00:27:40.880
 Suppose there

00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:41.560
 were vast

00:27:41.560 --> 00:27:42.960
 deserts like

00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:43.480
 the Sahara

00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:44.120
 desert that

00:27:44.120 --> 00:27:44.900
 said I'm

00:27:44.900 --> 00:27:45.560
 trying to learn

00:27:45.560 --> 00:27:46.120
 but I just

00:27:46.120 --> 00:27:46.640
 need it?

00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:49.580
 Bad salt

00:27:49.580 --> 00:27:50.880
 plants unable

00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:51.480
 to support

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:52.300
 vegetable life?

00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:54.460
 You can go

00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:54.960
 out in our

00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:55.540
 world today

00:27:55.540 --> 00:27:56.020
 and you can

00:27:56.020 --> 00:27:56.360
 look at

00:27:56.360 --> 00:27:57.000
 salt flats

00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:57.380
 and you can

00:27:57.380 --> 00:27:57.700
 look at

00:27:57.700 --> 00:27:58.400
 deserts

00:27:58.400 --> 00:27:58.960
 and you can

00:27:58.960 --> 00:27:59.580
 say there

00:27:59.580 --> 00:28:00.240
 have always

00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:01.280
 been wastelands

00:28:01.280 --> 00:28:02.620
 incapable of

00:28:02.620 --> 00:28:03.460
 supporting vegetation

00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:04.120
 in the world

00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:04.680
 and you'd be

00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:05.180
 wrong ladies

00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:05.660
 and gentlemen

00:28:05.660 --> 00:28:06.440
 because the

00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:07.040
 present isn't

00:28:07.040 --> 00:28:07.460
 the key to

00:28:07.460 --> 00:28:07.880
 the past

00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:08.360
 but scripture

00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:08.680
 is.

00:28:08.800 --> 00:28:09.140
 For God

00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:09.660
 said to the

00:28:09.660 --> 00:28:09.860
 earth

00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:10.800
 let the earth

00:28:10.800 --> 00:28:11.420
 bring forth

00:28:11.420 --> 00:28:11.940
 and the scripture

00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:13.140
 says so the

00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:13.920
 earth brought

00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:14.580
 forth.

00:28:15.700 --> 00:28:16.320
 That first

00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:17.160
 biblical world

00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:17.780
 was covered

00:28:17.780 --> 00:28:18.860
 with a rich

00:28:18.860 --> 00:28:19.620
 luxuriant

00:28:19.620 --> 00:28:20.180
 verdant

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:20.660
 vegetable

00:28:20.660 --> 00:28:21.320
 coverage.

00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:22.400
 There were

00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:23.039
 no vast

00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:23.640
 areas

00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:24.900
 incapable of

00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:25.299
 supporting

00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:25.799
 vegetable

00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:26.240
 life.

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:27.820
 I don't

00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:28.299
 have time

00:28:28.299 --> 00:28:28.560
 to go

00:28:28.560 --> 00:28:28.920
 through this

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:29.360
 entire

00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:29.860
 creation

00:28:29.860 --> 00:28:30.340
 structure

00:28:30.340 --> 00:28:31.240
 and show

00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:31.500
 you the

00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:32.080
 characteristics.

00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:33.580
 Let me

00:28:33.580 --> 00:28:34.120
 assert some

00:28:34.120 --> 00:28:34.580
 other things

00:28:34.580 --> 00:28:35.019
 to you that

00:28:35.019 --> 00:28:35.460
 are essential

00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:35.740
 though.

00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:37.140
 When God

00:28:37.140 --> 00:28:38.000
 finished creation

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:38.640
 he said to

00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:39.820
 man I give

00:28:39.820 --> 00:28:40.500
 you the fruit

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.320
 of the trees

00:28:41.320 --> 00:28:42.240
 and I give

00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:42.779
 you the herb

00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:43.320
 of the field

00:28:43.320 --> 00:28:43.759
 and that's

00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:44.120
 going to be

00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:44.580
 your food

00:28:44.580 --> 00:28:44.960
 and man

00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:45.660
 was vegetarian.

00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:47.259
 And God

00:28:47.259 --> 00:28:47.799
 said to the

00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:48.920
 animals I

00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:49.299
 have given

00:28:49.299 --> 00:28:50.080
 you every

00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:51.079
 green herb

00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:51.879
 for food.

00:28:53.159 --> 00:28:53.539
 And as the

00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:54.179
 world came

00:28:54.179 --> 00:28:54.519
 from the

00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:54.879
 hand of

00:28:54.879 --> 00:28:55.740
 God there

00:28:55.740 --> 00:28:56.299
 was no

00:28:56.299 --> 00:28:57.039
 death in

00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:57.519
 the human

00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:58.419
 kingdom or

00:28:58.419 --> 00:28:58.980
 in the

00:28:58.980 --> 00:28:59.399
 animal

00:28:59.399 --> 00:28:59.899
 kingdom.

00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:03.500
 Now you

00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:03.799
 say there

00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:04.220
 was death

00:29:04.220 --> 00:29:04.460
 in the

00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:04.720
 plant

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.000
 kingdom.

00:29:05.139 --> 00:29:05.460
 Yes there

00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:05.899
 was.

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:07.319
 But we

00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:07.619
 need to

00:29:07.619 --> 00:29:08.279
 realize that

00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:08.779
 plants are

00:29:08.779 --> 00:29:09.519
 never called

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:09.839
 in the

00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:10.619
 Bible living

00:29:10.619 --> 00:29:11.179
 creatures.

00:29:11.339 --> 00:29:11.899
 That is

00:29:11.899 --> 00:29:12.759
 they do

00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:13.199
 not have

00:29:13.199 --> 00:29:13.960
 an animating

00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:14.879
 life principle.

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:16.299
 And God

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:17.000
 did plan

00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:18.139
 recycling in

00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:18.620
 the plant

00:29:18.620 --> 00:29:19.600
 kingdom for

00:29:19.600 --> 00:29:20.180
 the basis

00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:21.180
 of sustaining

00:29:21.180 --> 00:29:22.220
 the animate

00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:23.420
 creation, man

00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:23.900
 and the

00:29:23.900 --> 00:29:24.380
 animals.

00:29:25.520 --> 00:29:25.980
 And God

00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:26.860
 gave to man

00:29:26.860 --> 00:29:27.520
 and to the

00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:28.580
 animals vegetable

00:29:28.580 --> 00:29:30.020
 life or food

00:29:30.020 --> 00:29:30.700
 for life.

00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:32.600
 That means that

00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:33.560
 the balance in

00:29:33.560 --> 00:29:34.640
 nature was very

00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:35.280
 much different

00:29:35.280 --> 00:29:35.840
 than we know

00:29:35.840 --> 00:29:36.200
 today.

00:29:36.259 --> 00:29:36.759
 Is that right?

00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:38.720
 I sit in my

00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:39.540
 yard every

00:29:39.540 --> 00:29:40.540
 spring and I

00:29:40.540 --> 00:29:42.400
 rejoice when

00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:43.140
 those lovely

00:29:43.140 --> 00:29:43.960
 little birds

00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:44.980
 come who go in

00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:45.539
 those high

00:29:45.539 --> 00:29:46.640
 houses because

00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:47.360
 I know they're

00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:47.839
 going to eat

00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:48.779
 mosquitoes and

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:49.539
 I'll be able to

00:29:49.539 --> 00:29:50.259
 sit out in my

00:29:50.259 --> 00:29:50.660
 yard.

00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:52.660
 What do you

00:29:52.660 --> 00:29:53.099
 call those

00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:53.319
 things?

00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:54.460
 Marlins.

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.200
 Couldn't think

00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:55.620
 of it for a

00:29:55.620 --> 00:29:55.799
 moment.

00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:56.339
 Yeah.

00:29:57.960 --> 00:29:58.640
 Well you say

00:29:58.640 --> 00:29:59.559
 if marlins and

00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:00.339
 birds didn't eat

00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:01.039
 mosquitoes you

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:01.519
 couldn't live in

00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:01.940
 this world,

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:02.200
 right?

00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:02.900
 And if foxes

00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:03.339
 didn't kill

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:03.940
 rabbits there'd

00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:04.539
 be no place to

00:30:04.539 --> 00:30:05.140
 put your foot on

00:30:05.140 --> 00:30:05.500
 the ground.

00:30:08.700 --> 00:30:09.400
 And therefore

00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.180
 it's always been

00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:10.579
 that way,

00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:10.860
 right?

00:30:11.380 --> 00:30:11.980
 Animals have

00:30:11.980 --> 00:30:12.799
 had to prey on

00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:13.700
 each other and

00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:14.480
 if they prey on

00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:14.960
 each other they

00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:15.420
 that's how you

00:30:15.420 --> 00:30:16.120
 control animal

00:30:16.120 --> 00:30:16.819
 population,

00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:17.160
 right?

00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:18.200
 And therefore

00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:18.980
 that's what our

00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:19.799
 world is like and

00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:20.279
 that's the way

00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:21.140
 God is treating

00:30:21.140 --> 00:30:22.120
 each other and

00:30:22.120 --> 00:30:23.180
 God commanded the

00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:23.860
 animals to be

00:30:23.860 --> 00:30:24.400
 fruitful and

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:25.220
 multiply and he

00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:26.000
 commanded man to

00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:26.680
 be fruitful and

00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:28.039
 multiply for it is

00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:28.960
 God's will that his

00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:30.400
 earth be full of

00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:31.200
 his creatures.

00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:33.340
 Contrary to many

00:30:33.340 --> 00:30:33.880
 contemporary

00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:35.559
 sociologists who

00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:36.140
 would like to use

00:30:36.140 --> 00:30:36.640
 all of their

00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:37.640
 energies to scare

00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:38.400
 us to death with

00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.140
 overpopulation so

00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:40.980
 that man will be

00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:41.880
 able to manipulate

00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:43.140
 and control

00:30:43.140 --> 00:30:44.680
 population growth.

00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:47.259
 Well you see the

00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:48.380
 character of life in

00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:49.299
 that world was very

00:30:49.299 --> 00:30:50.080
 much different than

00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:50.980
 the character of life

00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:51.720
 we find in our

00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:52.080
 world.

00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:53.620
 There's another thing

00:30:53.620 --> 00:30:54.200
 that was true in

00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:55.000
 that world that's not

00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:55.820
 true in our world and

00:30:55.820 --> 00:30:56.440
 that's this.

00:30:56.860 --> 00:30:57.860
 Man was king of the

00:30:57.860 --> 00:30:58.259
 animals.

00:30:59.820 --> 00:31:00.900
 King Kong wasn't

00:31:00.900 --> 00:31:01.220
 king.

00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:03.600
 Adam was king.

00:31:04.420 --> 00:31:05.279
 God said to man,

00:31:05.380 --> 00:31:06.039
 have dominion over

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:06.620
 the animals.

00:31:07.840 --> 00:31:09.019
 And man stood under

00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:10.080
 God as God's vice

00:31:10.080 --> 00:31:10.480
 region.

00:31:10.840 --> 00:31:11.700
 Perfect balance

00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:12.640
 between man and the

00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:13.660
 animals, man ruled

00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:13.980
 them.

00:31:14.300 --> 00:31:15.040
 Perfect balance

00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:15.900
 between man and the

00:31:15.900 --> 00:31:16.700
 vegetable kingdom.

00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:18.140
 Perfect balance between

00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:19.020
 man and his wife.

00:31:19.340 --> 00:31:20.200
 Perfect balance in

00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:21.560
 relationship between man

00:31:21.560 --> 00:31:22.040
 and God.

00:31:22.300 --> 00:31:22.840
 And everything

00:31:22.840 --> 00:31:23.880
 functioned and God

00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:25.120
 said behold it is very

00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:26.180
 good and right

00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:27.120
 relationships were

00:31:27.120 --> 00:31:27.820
 established but

00:31:27.820 --> 00:31:29.040
 something changed it.

00:31:29.560 --> 00:31:29.860
 Sin.

00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:32.600
 Let me give you a

00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:33.259
 quick summary of

00:31:33.259 --> 00:31:34.259
 Genesis chapter 3.

00:31:34.259 --> 00:31:36.579
 If you don't believe

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:37.180
 I'm giving you

00:31:37.180 --> 00:31:38.500
 scripture, I want you

00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:39.339
 to go home today and

00:31:39.339 --> 00:31:40.960
 read these first three

00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:41.359
 chapters.

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:43.059
 If I read it to you and

00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:43.920
 then comment on it, I

00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:44.660
 won't get finished.

00:31:45.539 --> 00:31:46.299
 All right, in Genesis

00:31:46.299 --> 00:31:47.920
 chapter 3 we find Adam

00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.500
 rebels against God along

00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:50.839
 with his wife and as a

00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:51.859
 consequence certain

00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:53.000
 judgments come into the

00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:53.279
 world.

00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:55.299
 The first judgment comes

00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:56.559
 on an animal known as a

00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:56.839
 serpent.

00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:58.339
 The serpent was the

00:31:58.339 --> 00:32:00.059
 most sophisticated form of

00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:01.180
 animal life that God

00:32:01.180 --> 00:32:03.079
 created but as a part of

00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:04.460
 its judgment it is now

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:05.539
 crawling on its belly.

00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:06.939
 You can look at serpents

00:32:06.939 --> 00:32:07.839
 till doomsday and

00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:08.619
 conclude that they've

00:32:08.619 --> 00:32:09.460
 always crawled on their

00:32:09.460 --> 00:32:10.460
 belly because they crawl

00:32:10.460 --> 00:32:11.299
 on their belly now and

00:32:11.299 --> 00:32:11.919
 you'd be wrong.

00:32:12.159 --> 00:32:13.099
 The serpent was the

00:32:13.099 --> 00:32:14.339
 highest form of the land

00:32:14.339 --> 00:32:15.460
 animals before that

00:32:15.460 --> 00:32:16.759
 judgment according to

00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:17.480
 Genesis 3.

00:32:18.019 --> 00:32:19.059
 Woman was cursed.

00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:21.279
 Excuse me, judge.

00:32:22.439 --> 00:32:23.599
 Curse is not used to.

00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:25.359
 God said to the woman,

00:32:25.679 --> 00:32:27.099
 I will greatly multiply

00:32:27.099 --> 00:32:29.639
 thy pain and thy

00:32:29.639 --> 00:32:30.480
 conceptions.

00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.240
 woman was going to have

00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:34.079
 an increase of two

00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:34.400
 things.

00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:36.180
 She's going to have an

00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:37.259
 increase of pain and an

00:32:37.259 --> 00:32:38.400
 increase of conceptions.

00:32:39.059 --> 00:32:40.360
 I suggest to you that the

00:32:40.360 --> 00:32:41.860
 procreation balance at

00:32:41.860 --> 00:32:43.960
 creation in which man

00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:44.940
 would have been able to

00:32:44.940 --> 00:32:46.799
 reproduce himself was not

00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:48.759
 the 28-day fertility cycle

00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:49.900
 in which woman operates

00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:50.279
 today.

00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:53.559
 Adam and Eve could have

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:55.880
 existed in the garden up

00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:57.319
 to 70 years.

00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.000
 We usually conclude that

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:01.179
 if God finished the work

00:33:01.179 --> 00:33:05.379
 on the sixth day and the

00:33:05.379 --> 00:33:06.599
 seventh day God rested,

00:33:07.019 --> 00:33:09.059
 by Sunday noon they had

00:33:09.059 --> 00:33:10.039
 eaten of the fruit, right?

00:33:10.419 --> 00:33:11.559
 Why do we conclude that?

00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.460
 Because if they hadn't,

00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:12.980
 they would have had

00:33:12.980 --> 00:33:13.659
 babies, right?

00:33:15.019 --> 00:33:15.539
 Wrong.

00:33:16.139 --> 00:33:17.539
 Because God said to Eve,

00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:18.839
 I'm going to multiply your

00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:19.359
 conception.

00:33:19.980 --> 00:33:21.539
 I suggest to you that the

00:33:21.539 --> 00:33:23.500
 28-day fertility cycle with

00:33:23.500 --> 00:33:25.259
 which woman lives today has

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:26.559
 come as a consequence of

00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:26.900
 sin.

00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:29.319
 It has come about because

00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:30.680
 the fact that death was

00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:31.920
 introduced and population

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:33.519
 structure would have to now

00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:35.099
 be adapted to the principle

00:33:35.099 --> 00:33:36.579
 of death and woman is going

00:33:36.579 --> 00:33:37.980
 to be capable of multiple

00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:38.539
 conception.

00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:40.279
 Can you imagine what it was

00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:41.640
 like for a woman in the

00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:43.279
 post-Edenic world and before

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.059
 the flood when they lived for

00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:46.500
 seven, eight, nine hundred

00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:48.480
 years, fertile from the age of

00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:51.379
 75 to the age of 750 to 800

00:33:51.379 --> 00:33:52.940
 under judgment of God for

00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.779
 multiple conception?

00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:55.379
 Can you imagine how many

00:33:55.379 --> 00:33:56.420
 children could be born under

00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:57.180
 those circumstances?

00:33:58.399 --> 00:34:03.240
 So, sorry girls, you're kind

00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:04.200
 of like the old gray mare,

00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:05.160
 you just ain't what you used

00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:05.440
 to be.

00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:08.980
 There's been some changes and

00:34:08.980 --> 00:34:10.380
 it's been a dramatic change

00:34:10.380 --> 00:34:12.239
 and it's a change in process.

00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:13.519
 You might be a gynecologist,

00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.599
 you might be an obstetrician and

00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:17.159
 you might conclude that having

00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:19.079
 worked on and worked with

00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:21.159
 thousands of women that the

00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.139
 28-day fertility cycle and when

00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:24.599
 ovulation takes place and

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.219
 fertility is present, that

00:34:26.219 --> 00:34:28.039
 indeed under those conditions a

00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.679
 woman can become impregnated by

00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:31.379
 the sperm and it's always been

00:34:31.379 --> 00:34:32.859
 that way and that woman would

00:34:32.859 --> 00:34:34.460
 always have pain in childbirth

00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:36.259
 because to move a child down the

00:34:36.259 --> 00:34:37.759
 birth canal is always going to

00:34:37.759 --> 00:34:39.179
 involve stretching and tearing

00:34:39.179 --> 00:34:41.859
 and you'd be wrong because Eve was

00:34:41.859 --> 00:34:44.859
 judged by God to pain at childbirth

00:34:44.859 --> 00:34:46.460
 and to multiple conception.

00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:48.519
 So there have been changes.

00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:51.699
 In point of fact, so dramatic have

00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:53.500
 been the changes that there's been

00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:55.320
 very few things you have ever seen

00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:58.139
 just like God created, if anything

00:34:58.139 --> 00:34:58.559
 at all.

00:35:01.099 --> 00:35:02.519
 Let's see, what else do I have time

00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:03.019
 to cover here?

00:35:03.099 --> 00:35:04.019
 Death comes, right?

00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:06.300
 Death comes into the world.

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:07.579
 Man is subject to death.

00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:09.139
 The human kingdom is subject to death.

00:35:09.220 --> 00:35:10.659
 The animal kingdom is subject to

00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:10.880
 death.

00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:12.639
 Man loses his dominion over the

00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:13.000
 animals.

00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:15.179
 Man now stays in tyranny of the

00:35:15.179 --> 00:35:16.579
 animals and the animals are in

00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:18.019
 conflict with man for limited

00:35:18.019 --> 00:35:18.799
 food supply.

00:35:19.419 --> 00:35:20.519
 God judges the earth.

00:35:22.379 --> 00:35:23.419
 He says to Adam,

00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:25.819
 Cursed is the ground for thy sake.

00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:29.359
 In toil and in the sweat of thy

00:35:29.359 --> 00:35:30.819
 face are you going to eat bread

00:35:30.819 --> 00:35:33.039
 because the earth is no longer

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:34.419
 going to yield its strength to

00:35:34.419 --> 00:35:36.619
 thee and an earth which was once

00:35:36.619 --> 00:35:39.119
 covered with a pristine, worthwhile,

00:35:39.299 --> 00:35:41.519
 noble vegetable coverage is now

00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:43.419
 going to have mixed with it thorns,

00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:44.819
 thistles, and noxious growth.

00:35:45.179 --> 00:35:49.419
 Dandelion, boxtail, and all that

00:35:49.419 --> 00:35:50.919
 stuff that I keep cutting with my

00:35:50.919 --> 00:35:54.599
 lawnmower and that I pay a lot of

00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:56.199
 money to try to get rid of every

00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:56.460
 year.

00:35:57.379 --> 00:35:59.519
 The quality of vegetable life

00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:00.019
 changes.

00:36:00.539 --> 00:36:02.279
 The character of the productivity of

00:36:02.279 --> 00:36:04.779
 the soil changes so it isn't as if

00:36:04.779 --> 00:36:06.679
 God created and everything has

00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:08.419
 remained constant just like it was

00:36:08.419 --> 00:36:09.399
 when God created it.

00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:10.639
 There have been changes.

00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:13.500
 These changes have come because God

00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:15.420
 has acted directly in history by

00:36:15.420 --> 00:36:15.819
 judgment.

00:36:17.219 --> 00:36:19.179
 Now that second biblical world from

00:36:19.179 --> 00:36:20.940
 the time of the fall to the time of

00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:23.460
 the flood, the water vapor canopy was

00:36:23.460 --> 00:36:24.420
 still above the heavens.

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.579
 There was still a temperate climate on

00:36:26.579 --> 00:36:27.940
 the face of the entire earth.

00:36:28.279 --> 00:36:30.179
 The day-night cycle still operated.

00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.599
 There was no rainfall in those first two

00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:34.139
 biblical worlds for the scripture

00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:36.359
 tells us that a moisture came up from

00:36:36.359 --> 00:36:37.379
 the midst of the ground.

00:36:37.380 --> 00:36:39.740
 water was stored in the mantle of the

00:36:39.740 --> 00:36:41.599
 earth under pressure and it caused the

00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:43.660
 mist that came up and watered the face

00:36:43.660 --> 00:36:45.220
 of the ground and the source of

00:36:45.220 --> 00:36:47.240
 moisture came from the earth through

00:36:47.240 --> 00:36:49.420
 small fissures in the earth's crust that

00:36:49.420 --> 00:36:51.280
 watered the earth and rainfall wasn't

00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:53.000
 the source of moisture in those worlds.

00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:57.880
 And life developed in 1656 years after

00:36:57.880 --> 00:36:59.619
 Adam was driven out of the garden.

00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.240
 Life developed and culture developed

00:37:02.240 --> 00:37:04.140
 through two lines, the line of Cain and

00:37:04.140 --> 00:37:04.960
 the line of Seth.

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:08.720
 And these two lines came one in seven

00:37:08.720 --> 00:37:10.920
 generations and one in ten to a

00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:13.420
 threefold breakdown and these two lines

00:37:13.420 --> 00:37:15.820
 developed one in rebellion against God

00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:18.440
 one a godly line seeking to serve God

00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:20.820
 and population grew and culture and

00:37:20.820 --> 00:37:23.179
 technology developed until you come to

00:37:23.179 --> 00:37:25.679
 Genesis 6 and you read that God says

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:27.480
 the earth is so full of violence and it

00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:29.840
 is so wicked he repents that he ever made

00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:31.380
 it and he's going to destroy it in all

00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:32.639
 flesh with it.

00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:33.079
 Except.

00:37:34.339 --> 00:37:34.739
 No.

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.900
 There's one righteous man.

00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:38.879
 No.

00:37:40.179 --> 00:37:42.659
 In Genesis 6 we find that there's an

00:37:42.659 --> 00:37:44.819
 intermingling by marriage of two lines.

00:37:45.339 --> 00:37:47.319
 The consequence of this intermingling is

00:37:47.319 --> 00:37:49.460
 a breakdown of moral principle and

00:37:49.460 --> 00:37:51.579
 therefore ultimately moral principles

00:37:51.579 --> 00:37:52.460
 are set aside.

00:37:52.839 --> 00:37:53.940
 Anarchy sets in.

00:37:53.940 --> 00:37:54.940
 Rebellion.

00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:55.820
 Indeed rebellion.

00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:56.800
 Lawlessness.

00:37:57.179 --> 00:37:59.700
 Violence characterize the world and God

00:37:59.700 --> 00:38:00.940
 says judgment is coming.

00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:03.280
 Do you know how many people there could

00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:04.440
 have been in that world ladies and

00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:04.679
 gentlemen?

00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:07.119
 Do you know how many people there could

00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:08.559
 have been on the earth at the time of

00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:10.820
 the flood with only six children per

00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:11.179
 family?

00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:14.480
 There could have been one billion people

00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:15.200
 at flood times.

00:38:16.539 --> 00:38:18.659
 I think most of us had the notion that

00:38:18.659 --> 00:38:20.380
 perhaps the human family had developed

00:38:20.380 --> 00:38:22.460
 the 40,000 and they were in one little

00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:23.320
 corner of the world.

00:38:23.420 --> 00:38:25.360
 The Bible seems to teach that the

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:27.659
 whole earth was populated by God's

00:38:27.659 --> 00:38:29.579
 image bearers and the whole earth was

00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:31.699
 populated by the animal kingdom and

00:38:31.699 --> 00:38:33.800
 there was a vast population and when

00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:35.800
 God said a flood was coming it was

00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:37.559
 going to bring dramatic changes to

00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:38.619
 life in this world.

00:38:41.740 --> 00:38:44.360
 A whole generation of godly people

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.380
 lost their heritage so that there was

00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:48.619
 only one righteous perfect man at flood

00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:49.780
 time and his name was Noah.

00:38:52.220 --> 00:38:54.000
 Isn't it interesting that Christ says it

00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.079
 was in the days of Noah so shall it be in

00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:57.460
 the days of the coming of the son of

00:38:57.460 --> 00:38:57.660
 man.

00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:59.660
 They're going to be marrying and giving

00:38:59.660 --> 00:39:00.260
 in marriage.

00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:03.380
 And moral principles and values will be

00:39:03.380 --> 00:39:04.640
 breaking down in the Christian

00:39:04.640 --> 00:39:06.940
 community and the vitality of the

00:39:06.940 --> 00:39:09.260
 Christian community will be sacked as

00:39:09.260 --> 00:39:11.820
 indeed the value system of the pagan all

00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:14.280
 of a sudden infiltrates and permeates the

00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.380
 thinking of the believer so that as far

00:39:16.380 --> 00:39:18.700
 as actual external values by which one

00:39:18.700 --> 00:39:20.180
 lives there'll be no way to mark a

00:39:20.180 --> 00:39:21.620
 distinction between those who walk

00:39:21.620 --> 00:39:22.820
 with God and those who don't.

00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:26.400
 And I almost think that day is right

00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:26.580
 here.

00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:30.220
 You say well you don't know me very

00:39:30.220 --> 00:39:31.940
 well no but I know your kids I've had

00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:34.540
 hundreds of them at the college and

00:39:34.540 --> 00:39:35.820
 I'll tell you something they don't come

00:39:35.820 --> 00:39:37.780
 to Cedarville with a Christian value

00:39:37.780 --> 00:39:38.100
 system.

00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:41.340
 Oh you say but the highest value of my

00:39:41.340 --> 00:39:43.680
 life is God and Maranatha Baptist

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.739
 and Pastor Brock and the school and

00:39:45.739 --> 00:39:46.299
 everything.

00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:47.679
 Is that where you give your time and

00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:48.119
 your energy?

00:39:48.619 --> 00:39:50.159
 Stop listening to what you're saying

00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:51.599
 and see what you do with your time.

00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:53.739
 Stop listening to the system that you

00:39:53.739 --> 00:39:55.319
 constantly spit out of your mouth.

00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:57.299
 In fact you ought to treat yourself as a

00:39:57.299 --> 00:39:57.599
 liar.

00:39:58.259 --> 00:39:59.839
 Don't assume that what you say actually

00:39:59.839 --> 00:40:00.779
 constitutes it.

00:40:01.059 --> 00:40:02.139
 See where your energy goes.

00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:03.839
 See where you spend your thought time.

00:40:04.139 --> 00:40:05.719
 See where you give your actual

00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:06.940
 chronological time.

00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:07.859
 What is it you pursue?

00:40:09.779 --> 00:40:11.579
 For most of us we're caught in the

00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:14.000
 same value system that permeates our

00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:14.360
 culture.

00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:15.440
 The dollar.

00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:16.880
 The possession.

00:40:18.219 --> 00:40:19.639
 And we'll put our blood money in the

00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:20.759
 offering plate and send the

00:40:20.759 --> 00:40:22.940
 missionaries out and we'll articulate a

00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:24.840
 right vocabulary but the structure and

00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:28.059
 the goal of our life is geared to the

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:30.239
 pursuit of that which satisfies us.

00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:33.699
 The flood came.

00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:36.819
 The windows of heaven were open.

00:40:36.979 --> 00:40:38.559
 This is where I believe God released the

00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:40.699
 water canopy that was suspended above the

00:40:40.699 --> 00:40:42.879
 firmament and that the primary source of

00:40:42.879 --> 00:40:45.019
 water for the flood was the release of that

00:40:45.019 --> 00:40:46.979
 water canopy through the windows of heaven

00:40:46.979 --> 00:40:48.859
 and the fountains of the great deep were

00:40:48.859 --> 00:40:49.419
 broken up.

00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:52.139
 The scripture says subterranean oceans in

00:40:52.139 --> 00:40:55.219
 the earth's crust were released under

00:40:55.219 --> 00:40:57.779
 terrific pressure as large cracks or

00:40:57.780 --> 00:41:00.600
 earthquake activity took place and all of a

00:41:00.600 --> 00:41:02.740
 sudden a sudden destruction hit the

00:41:02.740 --> 00:41:04.880
 world and the character of this

00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.000
 destruction is absolutely devastating.

00:41:08.300 --> 00:41:10.040
 I suggest to you that under flood

00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:12.700
 conditions when that water was on the

00:41:12.700 --> 00:41:15.220
 face of the earth when those oceanic

00:41:15.220 --> 00:41:17.240
 structures in the in the crust of the

00:41:17.240 --> 00:41:20.040
 earth were released that what we have is

00:41:20.040 --> 00:41:21.660
 an earth that is under tremendous

00:41:21.660 --> 00:41:23.740
 pressure and it's an earth going through

00:41:23.740 --> 00:41:25.560
 fantastic catastrophe.

00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:28.619
 Ladies and gentlemen if we had a water

00:41:28.619 --> 00:41:31.119
 column on the earth 10,000 feet high as a

00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:32.980
 flood position do you know how much

00:41:32.980 --> 00:41:34.739
 pressure that is represented down on the

00:41:34.739 --> 00:41:36.259
 outer side of the earth's crust of the

00:41:36.259 --> 00:41:36.679
 sea level?

00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.019
 Two and one quarter times of the pressure

00:41:40.019 --> 00:41:42.519
 for square inch under a 10,000 foot water

00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:42.880
 column.

00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:45.559
 You know what it is now?

00:41:47.179 --> 00:41:48.480
 14.7.

00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:51.400
 You realize our earth's crust is suspended

00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:52.840
 between two pressure systems.

00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:56.400
 We've got gravity pressing down on the

00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.720
 outside at 14.7 times of pressure per

00:41:59.720 --> 00:42:00.380
 square inch.

00:42:01.460 --> 00:42:03.900
 On the underside of our crust we have fluid

00:42:03.900 --> 00:42:05.519
 inside of our earth and our earth is

00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.019
 spinning and this fluid is pressing up by

00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:10.640
 centrifugal force and that fluid pressing

00:42:10.640 --> 00:42:13.480
 up is pressing against the lower side of

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:16.660
 this crust and gravity and magnetism are

00:42:16.660 --> 00:42:18.940
 pressing down on the outer side and

00:42:18.940 --> 00:42:21.180
 therefore what you walk on is suspended

00:42:21.179 --> 00:42:22.899
 in between two pressure systems.

00:42:23.619 --> 00:42:25.859
 Nowhere near as solid as you think it is.

00:42:28.059 --> 00:42:30.739
 Under flood activity if the highest mountains

00:42:30.739 --> 00:42:33.219
 were covered I suggest to you that the

00:42:33.219 --> 00:42:35.819
 crust of this earth looked like a bellows.

00:42:36.319 --> 00:42:37.419
 It was in movement.

00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:41.219
 I suggest to you that the hydrocarbons that

00:42:41.219 --> 00:42:43.219
 we know of in our world today were formed

00:42:43.219 --> 00:42:44.119
 under these conditions.

00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:47.599
 The vast amount of vegetable life and vast

00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:49.799
 amount of animal life was tracked under

00:42:50.359 --> 00:42:53.460
 terrific tectonic activity and with this

00:42:53.460 --> 00:42:55.739
 pressure were fossilized in the crust of

00:42:55.739 --> 00:42:56.119
 the earth.

00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:58.799
 I suggest to you that mountain ranges as we

00:42:58.799 --> 00:43:01.219
 know them today have come as a consequence

00:43:01.219 --> 00:43:02.359
 of this activity.

00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:04.980
 I don't believe God created the Alps.

00:43:05.500 --> 00:43:07.759
 I don't believe God created the Andes.

00:43:08.099 --> 00:43:10.759
 I believe all of the typography of our present

00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:12.880
 earth was formed under flood conditions.

00:43:13.940 --> 00:43:15.600
 You say you're a radical, no?

00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:18.060
 What amazes me is this.

00:43:18.680 --> 00:43:21.200
 If all of this that I look at is so beautiful

00:43:21.200 --> 00:43:24.820
 and it's all been affected by sin, no wonder

00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:27.060
 John runs out of words to describe the new

00:43:27.060 --> 00:43:27.320
 earth.

00:43:28.080 --> 00:43:30.240
 If we find such beauty in what we have around

00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:33.980
 us today, all of it permeated and affected

00:43:33.980 --> 00:43:37.120
 by the image bearer rebelling against God.

00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.239
 Now I don't have time to delineate all of

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:40.539
 this.

00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:42.920
 Flood conditions bring changes.

00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:44.819
 Now the climate changes.

00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:46.799
 We have formation of polar ice caps.

00:43:47.799 --> 00:43:49.239
 You say, where'd all that water go?

00:43:49.319 --> 00:43:50.519
 Hey, a lot of it's still here.

00:43:51.739 --> 00:43:54.219
 That's why 73% of our earth is ground by

00:43:54.219 --> 00:43:54.539
 water.

00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:57.019
 Don't believe it was created that way.

00:43:57.179 --> 00:43:58.460
 Don't believe it's going to remain that

00:43:58.460 --> 00:43:58.699
 way.

00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:01.599
 So the changes come.

00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:03.960
 And again I say to you, science says

00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.759
 present process is able to explain the

00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:08.600
 origin, the development of life, and to

00:44:08.600 --> 00:44:09.340
 predict the future.

00:44:09.460 --> 00:44:11.360
 That's why they say, where is the promise

00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:11.980
 of his coming?

00:44:12.060 --> 00:44:13.460
 Because nothing like this ever happened

00:44:13.460 --> 00:44:13.920
 before.

00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:16.560
 Peter says they've got amnesia, which they

00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:17.480
 willfully choose.

00:44:18.080 --> 00:44:20.620
 They have forgotten that the world being in

00:44:20.620 --> 00:44:22.300
 the water and out of the water, being

00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:23.860
 overflowed with water, perished.

00:44:24.160 --> 00:44:26.120
 And so dramatic was that change, Peter

00:44:26.120 --> 00:44:28.420
 says, that the heavens that then were and

00:44:28.420 --> 00:44:30.660
 the earth passed away, but we have heavens

00:44:30.660 --> 00:44:32.760
 and earth which are now, and our present

00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:35.080
 heaven and earth is being stored with fire

00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:36.739
 in the heavens, the same place where the

00:44:36.739 --> 00:44:39.119
 water was, for a day of perdition of

00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:40.079
 ungodly men.

00:44:40.299 --> 00:44:42.039
 For the heavens shall melt with a fervent

00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:44.360
 heat and pass away with a great noise, and

00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.719
 everything being on fire shall burn up.

00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:51.079
 The same place where God stored the water

00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.239
 by his word for that first catastrophic

00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:57.039
 universal judgment, God has presently stored

00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.360
 fire in the same heavens for a second

00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:01.719
 universal catastrophic judgment, which is

00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:03.059
 going to terminate history.

00:45:03.059 --> 00:45:04.960
 And it's going to bring new heaven and new

00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:05.159
 earth.

00:45:06.059 --> 00:45:08.380
 Not only is present process not adequate

00:45:08.380 --> 00:45:12.019
 to explain the past, but it's inadequate to

00:45:12.019 --> 00:45:12.880
 predict the future.

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:17.119
 So it seems to me that when it comes to

00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:21.019
 origins and development of life, I cannot at

00:45:21.019 --> 00:45:23.739
 all operate with a contemporary viewpoint.

00:45:23.900 --> 00:45:26.420
 I'm just going to simply have to say, Mr.

00:45:26.500 --> 00:45:29.360
 Scientist, I cannot accept your basic

00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.179
 principle of operation because it will not

00:45:32.179 --> 00:45:34.679
 square with what my Bible tells me.

00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:39.239
 And I refuse to accommodate my Bible to what

00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:42.119
 science teaches because I'm confident of

00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.980
 this, that when all the facts are in, this book

00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:48.059
 will be vindicated as true and accurate in

00:45:48.059 --> 00:45:49.399
 every assertion it makes.

00:45:49.899 --> 00:45:53.219
 And I'll never misplace my confidence if I place

00:45:53.219 --> 00:45:54.359
 it in what God has said.

00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:57.700
 Now there's an area, and I'll just touch it and

00:45:57.700 --> 00:46:00.460
 then close by giving you a couple of minutes for

00:46:00.460 --> 00:46:00.840
 questions.

00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:04.019
 There's a whole area that we also could think

00:46:04.019 --> 00:46:06.940
 about, and that's this biblical idea of a kind.

00:46:09.240 --> 00:46:11.960
 God created the kind and said, reproduce after

00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:12.579
 your kind.

00:46:14.500 --> 00:46:17.200
 And there has been change and development in the

00:46:17.200 --> 00:46:18.320
 kind, ladies and gentlemen.

00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:23.519
 How many original people belong to mankind at

00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:23.960
 creation?

00:46:26.140 --> 00:46:26.760
 How many?

00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:30.780
 You could say two or one if you wish.

00:46:30.820 --> 00:46:31.800
 It really doesn't matter.

00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:33.680
 From one we got two.

00:46:34.580 --> 00:46:36.180
 For Eve was derived from that.

00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:38.000
 There were two.

00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:40.019
 Were they black?

00:46:43.260 --> 00:46:44.140
 Were they white?

00:46:44.139 --> 00:46:48.059
 What racial structure were there?

00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.299
 Were there three original pairs, one for each

00:46:51.299 --> 00:46:52.400
 race created?

00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:54.460
 One pair, right?

00:46:55.759 --> 00:46:58.199
 And therefore the racial continuum as we know

00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:03.059
 it today has developed since creation from the

00:47:03.059 --> 00:47:03.759
 original pair.

00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:04.579
 Is that not right?

00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:08.039
 I don't know any other way to explain.

00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:13.059
 I frankly believe it also developed after the

00:47:13.059 --> 00:47:13.379
 flood.

00:47:14.139 --> 00:47:17.420
 For I do not believe that the three sons of Noah

00:47:17.420 --> 00:47:18.779
 represented the three races.

00:47:19.940 --> 00:47:22.239
 And therefore I think the racial development as we

00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.119
 know it today, and I want to be careful, it's a

00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:24.579
 continuum.

00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:27.859
 There probably isn't one racially pure person in

00:47:27.859 --> 00:47:28.259
 this room.

00:47:28.359 --> 00:47:28.980
 That's a myth.

00:47:29.819 --> 00:47:32.379
 All of us probably have racial mixture somewhere in

00:47:32.379 --> 00:47:32.719
 history.

00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:36.779
 But I would believe that the race is developed in the

00:47:36.779 --> 00:47:37.480
 post-blood world.

00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.319
 Isn't it interesting that God was able to

00:47:40.319 --> 00:47:43.699
 preserve the whole created kind of man,

00:47:43.699 --> 00:47:45.799
 by how many people on the ark?

00:47:46.980 --> 00:47:47.500
 Eight.

00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:52.139
 Now you can go through all the animals that we know

00:47:52.139 --> 00:47:53.559
 about and you can work that out.

00:47:54.780 --> 00:47:57.000
 Horses belong to a kind.

00:47:57.619 --> 00:48:00.699
 Horse kind probably had two original created pairs.

00:48:01.420 --> 00:48:04.039
 The ass-like variety and the horse-like variety.

00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:05.679
 You say, why two pairs?

00:48:05.780 --> 00:48:08.420
 Because of difference in chromosome count, but they're

00:48:08.420 --> 00:48:10.619
 still capable of true chemical fertilization.

00:48:10.619 --> 00:48:15.420
 That is, they are able to chemically fertilize the

00:48:15.420 --> 00:48:15.759
 seed.

00:48:16.759 --> 00:48:19.000
 I believe that's what constitutes a kind.

00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:20.579
 It's a principle of reproduction.

00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.420
 Now the entire horse kind could have been preserved

00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:27.739
 through the flood in the ark with four animals.

00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:31.719
 Male and female horse and male and female animals.

00:48:32.219 --> 00:48:35.659
 You don't need palominos and shetlands and arabians.

00:48:35.659 --> 00:48:40.019
 He didn't preserve male and female of every variety of

00:48:40.019 --> 00:48:40.399
 the kind.

00:48:40.619 --> 00:48:41.839
 He preserved the kind.

00:48:42.500 --> 00:48:45.679
 Dog kind probably had three originally created pairs.

00:48:46.899 --> 00:48:49.799
 There's a dog-like variety, the hyena-like variety,

00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:51.460
 and the fox-like variety.

00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:53.980
 They're all capable of true chemical fertilization.

00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:58.799
 Could have preserved the entire dog kind with six animals

00:48:58.799 --> 00:48:59.480
 on the ark.

00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:05.019
 You say, I thought he had chihuahuas and poodles.

00:49:05.059 --> 00:49:06.099
 He had to have poodles.

00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.880
 He'd have been lonely without his poodle on the ark,

00:49:09.980 --> 00:49:10.340
 wouldn't he?

00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:11.860
 Who would he have talked to?

00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:12.480
 Only, no.

00:49:13.340 --> 00:49:13.699
 Okay?

00:49:14.139 --> 00:49:16.740
 But I don't think we should even become static in our

00:49:16.740 --> 00:49:19.599
 concept of what constitutes a kind and conclude that

00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.980
 there has been no development or change within the

00:49:21.980 --> 00:49:22.679
 created kind.

00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:23.579
 I believe there has.

00:49:23.579 --> 00:49:25.400
 I believe I could manifest it biblically.

00:49:25.940 --> 00:49:26.639
 What am I saying?

00:49:26.740 --> 00:49:27.400
 I'm saying this.

00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:34.340
 That I hold to recent creation in six 24-hour days,

00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:36.619
 probably 8,000 to 10,000 years ago,

00:49:36.700 --> 00:49:39.019
 and that will show you how obscurantist I really am.

00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:43.760
 That this creation, when it came from the hand of God,

00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:44.360
 was perfect.

00:49:44.980 --> 00:49:47.119
 That as a consequence of human sin,

00:49:47.240 --> 00:49:50.380
 God has acted in the processes of nature by judgment.

00:49:50.380 --> 00:49:52.039
 He has brought about change,

00:49:52.340 --> 00:49:54.360
 and I've got to go back and trace those changes

00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:56.240
 if I want to see how life has developed

00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:58.500
 and how the quality of life has changed in the world.

00:49:58.939 --> 00:50:00.500
 And if I want to see what's future,

00:50:00.739 --> 00:50:02.979
 I've got to go what God has said about the future,

00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:04.639
 and I've got to learn eschatology

00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:07.599
 to see indeed what God is going to do yet in the future

00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.500
 to change the quality and the processes

00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:10.699
 that are extant in nature.

00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:11.839
 In the kingdom,

00:50:12.579 --> 00:50:15.219
 you recall that the lion's going to eat straw again,

00:50:15.259 --> 00:50:15.659
 isn't it?

00:50:15.939 --> 00:50:17.299
 And children are going to leave them.

00:50:17.459 --> 00:50:19.319
 And the lion and the lamb are going to play together.

00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.320
 There's going to be changes yet to come, eh?

00:50:23.260 --> 00:50:26.000
 So that the key to the past is scripture.

00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:29.059
 The key to the understanding of development is scripture.

00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:30.820
 I hold to creationism.

00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:32.960
 That doesn't mean I'm a statusist who believes

00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:35.920
 everything is in situ just like God created it.

00:50:35.980 --> 00:50:37.519
 No, there has been change.

00:50:37.720 --> 00:50:39.580
 Judgment gives me a model to trace it.

00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:42.920
 It seems to me we don't have to back down

00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:43.980
 in this area of art.

00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:45.260
 We've got three minutes.

00:50:45.260 --> 00:50:48.420
 I was going to try to leave a tent to answer questions.

00:50:51.740 --> 00:50:53.480
 I won't harass you like me.

00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:56.120
 For participation.

00:50:57.340 --> 00:50:58.480
 Can I ask a question?

00:50:58.580 --> 00:50:58.880
 Sure.

00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:00.660
 Oh, all right.

00:51:01.040 --> 00:51:04.360
 Did you equate Genesis 1-1 with the six days?

00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:06.040
 Yes, I did.

00:51:06.160 --> 00:51:06.940
 He didn't say that.

00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:09.040
 If I equate it with the six days.

00:51:09.040 --> 00:51:09.920
 In the beginning,

00:51:10.100 --> 00:51:12.480
 God created the heavens and the earth.

00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:14.520
 Exodus 20-11.

00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:15.840
 In six days,

00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:18.739
 Jehovah made the heavens and the earth.

00:51:19.059 --> 00:51:19.880
 People will say,

00:51:20.059 --> 00:51:22.759
 but there's a difference between made and created, right?

00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:26.119
 Well, if you go to Genesis 1-26 and 27,

00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:27.420
 you'll find that God says,

00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:31.259
 let us make man in our image.

00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:33.119
 And then the next verse says,

00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.380
 so God created man in his image.

00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:37.259
 And therefore,

00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:39.340
 I do not believe the Hebrew verb bara

00:51:39.340 --> 00:51:41.920
 and the Hebrew verb asah

00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:43.000
 have different meanings.

00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:44.000
 I believe they're synonyms.

00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:48.539
 So, yes, I do put Genesis 1-1 into the six days.

00:51:53.380 --> 00:51:55.460
 All right, I'll nutshell it this way.

00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:58.000
 I'm dealing it from chronologies.

00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:00.440
 I can't go completely backwards.

00:52:00.619 --> 00:52:01.119
 In other words,

00:52:01.380 --> 00:52:02.539
 it's easy to find out

00:52:02.539 --> 00:52:04.960
 how long between Adam and the flood.

00:52:05.340 --> 00:52:06.400
 I mean, I can tell you that.

00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.440
 There's 1,656 years there

00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:09.599
 if you take Genesis 5

00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:11.400
 to be a trustworthy chronology.

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.760
 So you have approximately 18 generations.

00:52:15.460 --> 00:52:16.800
 Now, we can date the Exodus

00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:18.639
 rather accurately.

00:52:19.660 --> 00:52:20.400
 Now, it's between,

00:52:20.660 --> 00:52:22.579
 it's from the Exodus back to the flood

00:52:22.579 --> 00:52:24.139
 that we break down in B.C.

00:52:24.220 --> 00:52:25.160
 dating with certainty.

00:52:25.780 --> 00:52:27.940
 But allowing for all the possible gaps

00:52:27.940 --> 00:52:28.700
 that could be there.

00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:30.940
 Let me show you an instance of a gap.

00:52:30.940 --> 00:52:32.900
 Who's Moses' father and mother?

00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:36.280
 Amram and Jochebed, right?

00:52:36.900 --> 00:52:38.460
 Well, if that's father and mother,

00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:41.460
 then Moses had 2,700 living cousins,

00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:44.159
 which is a little bit impossible.

00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:46.000
 What we need to realize is

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:47.159
 the son of, in Hebrew,

00:52:47.240 --> 00:52:48.559
 is not a technical phrase,

00:52:48.659 --> 00:52:50.240
 and it often can refer

00:52:50.240 --> 00:52:52.139
 to grandparent-type relationships.

00:52:52.139 --> 00:52:53.859
 So you can't be positive

00:52:53.859 --> 00:52:54.920
 in every instance.

00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:56.559
 So what I'm doing here

00:52:56.559 --> 00:52:57.819
 is simply leaving room

00:52:57.819 --> 00:52:59.319
 for the possible gaps.

00:53:00.359 --> 00:53:01.359
 Also, I would think

00:53:01.359 --> 00:53:03.219
 that we would have

00:53:03.219 --> 00:53:04.239
 a terrific change

00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:05.839
 in radiocarbon activity

00:53:05.839 --> 00:53:07.379
 as a consequence of the flood.

00:53:08.500 --> 00:53:09.559
 And carbon-14,

00:53:09.839 --> 00:53:10.879
 which has a half-life

00:53:10.879 --> 00:53:12.500
 of 3,007 years,

00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:14.859
 would give us a full life

00:53:14.859 --> 00:53:16.879
 of 7,004 years,

00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:17.960
 which is what I would judge

00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:19.799
 to be approximately flood time.

00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.060
 See, if you put a water canopy up there,

00:53:23.140 --> 00:53:24.260
 the cosmic radiation

00:53:24.260 --> 00:53:25.560
 that bombards us today,

00:53:25.740 --> 00:53:26.620
 which science uses

00:53:26.620 --> 00:53:27.720
 for its dating methods,

00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:28.320
 by the way,

00:53:28.820 --> 00:53:30.600
 would clearly be affected

00:53:30.600 --> 00:53:31.940
 by that vapor canopy.

00:53:32.740 --> 00:53:34.240
 So those two things, basically,

00:53:34.660 --> 00:53:35.740
 are what I would use there.

00:53:39.080 --> 00:53:39.720
 Thank you.

00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:49.519
 You must admit

00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:50.919
 that the 930 class

00:53:50.919 --> 00:53:52.639
 has a great deal of variety,

00:53:52.759 --> 00:53:53.159
 doesn't it?

00:53:53.699 --> 00:53:55.039
 Are you glad you came this morning?

00:53:56.099 --> 00:53:57.259
 I would remind you

00:53:57.259 --> 00:53:58.139
 that Professor Greer

00:53:58.139 --> 00:53:59.439
 will be back with us

00:53:59.439 --> 00:54:01.079
 in July.

00:54:02.659 --> 00:54:04.179
 So make a note of that.

00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:06.939
 His topic will not be the same then,

00:54:07.019 --> 00:54:07.739
 although I'm sure

00:54:07.739 --> 00:54:09.159
 it will have some of the foundation

00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:10.399
 that you've had this morning.

00:54:11.379 --> 00:54:12.459
 I'd remind you

00:54:12.459 --> 00:54:14.619
 that each week is different.

00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:17.099
 Some of you do not realize,

00:54:17.299 --> 00:54:18.000
 although the class

00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:19.299
 is mentioned for 930,

00:54:19.359 --> 00:54:20.859
 it really starts at 920,

00:54:22.019 --> 00:54:23.299
 because we give everyone

00:54:23.299 --> 00:54:24.799
 that comes their full time

00:54:24.799 --> 00:54:25.319
 to speak.

00:54:25.419 --> 00:54:26.399
 We're happy that you came

00:54:26.399 --> 00:54:26.919
 this morning.

00:54:27.759 --> 00:54:28.519
 You may fellowship

00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:29.579
 for a few moments.

00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:30.819
 When the prelude starts,

00:54:30.899 --> 00:54:31.539
 I would appreciate

00:54:31.539 --> 00:54:32.599
 if you'd be quiet.

00:54:33.399 --> 00:54:34.439
 Greet Mr. Greer,

00:54:34.659 --> 00:54:35.500
 encourage him,

00:54:35.500 --> 00:54:36.719
 and thank him for coming.

00:54:37.380 --> 00:54:38.900
 It takes time to come.

00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:41.039
 We appreciate all of those

00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:41.500
 who have taken...

00:54:41.500 --> 00:54:42.059
 he's what is...

00:54:42.059 --> 00:54:42.980
 So the most time

00:54:42.980 --> 00:54:43.440
 you can't know

00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:43.840
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00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:44.239
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00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:44.460
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00:54:44.460 --> 00:54:44.840
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00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:45.199
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00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:45.460
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00:54:45.460 --> 00:54:45.719
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00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:45.940
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00:54:45.940 --> 00:54:46.179
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00:54:46.179 --> 00:54:46.480
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00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:46.719
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00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:46.960
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00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:47.219
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00:54:47.219 --> 00:54:47.519
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00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:47.840
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00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:48.119
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00:54:48.119 --> 00:54:48.420
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00:54:48.420 --> 00:54:48.800
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00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:49.059
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00:54:49.059 --> 00:54:49.219
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00:54:49.219 --> 00:54:49.539
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00:54:49.539 --> 00:54:49.760
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00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:49.980
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00:54:50.019 --> 00:54:50.440
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00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:50.599
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00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:51.000
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00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:51.260
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