Kingdom Come

The following timeline using biblical lifespans in Genesis 5 and 11 allow us to collate co-existing persons and their significant events in history.

• Fourth Millennium BC (4000-3000’s BC): Adam to Noah, the natural lifespan of humans is 1,000 years, and they mingle freely with the gods on earth, Genesis 1-5
• Third Millennium BC (2000’s BC): Noah’s first 600 years before the flood to Abram leaving Mesopotamia. Artifacts dated to this era include the highly developed pre-flood civilization brought to earth by the gods, its renaissance as best as could be recreated after the flood, as well as simultaneous rough necessities of life by refugees fleeing the tyranny of the gods. Genesis 6-12
• Second Millenium BC (1000’s BC): Abraham in the land of his contemporaneous nephew Canaan to King David. Genesis 12-Ruth
• First Millenium: (999-1 BC) I Samuel – Birth of Christ

One likely reason Abraham insisted on marrying close relations: himself to his half sister, his son Isaac to his cousin, and grandson Jacob to his cousins was to maximize the highest quality gene pool passed from both parents to their children. Then, exceptionally long time spans between generations also delayed genetic defects accumulating in the post-flood lineage of Melchizedek. These human conditions should not be overlooked as contributors to the quality of godly leadership being provided.

• Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, and died at the age of 175.
•  Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob was born, and died at the age of 180.
• Jacob was also about 60 years old when Joseph was born and astonishingly old at the age of 130 years and died at the age of 147. (Calculating that Jacob was about 45 when Isaac was so old and decrepit he thought he was dying at age 106, and spent 14 years in exile before Joseph was born, and 60 years later Isaac died at age 180.
• Joseph became father around the age of 40, still older than the general population, and Joseph died at the age of 110.
• Moses, who was born two generations later was probably genetically programmed to die at age 80, but his lifespan was miraculously extended throughout the 40 years wandering in the wilderness to provide essential oversight, to the age of 120.

Using 25 years as a statistical average for subsequent generations, the founding fathers would have outlived a minimum of 16 consecutive generations, but actually more since another generation is born to some family every year.  These Elders appear immortal to those who are born and die without seeing them age. They are entreated to intervene in problems / beseeched / prayed to. In order to gain access to their resources and network of connections their favor is curried with offerings of the best housing, best foods, gifts of precious metals, gems, fabrics and crafts exploited from their territories or obtained in trade, extolled in ceremonies with memorial speeches and songs / worshipped. As they finally age, they maintain their mystic by secreting themselves in Mount Olympus, Valhalla, etc. Ancestor worship develops in Africa, Japan, Americas as a more accurate memory of history.

Their precious birthright was literacy, from pre-apocalypse records stored on the ark and in pyramid vaults. They led the renaissance of civilization for pioneers forging homes in every type of wilderness from tundra to mountains to fertile alluvial plains to desert. This explains how “civilizations seem to have appeared full-blown, already fully developed.”