Kingdom Come

If we base our interpretation of a creation “day” on a biblical model rather than our assumptions, we find that the creation “day” is not a spacetime quantity.  It is a quality. Right in the passage “day” is defined as a state of being of light, 

“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.” (Genesis 1:5)\

The creation day is characterized by a condition when God is in control and personally active as the light of the world, which like the sun, energizes all life.

“the works of God should be made manifest…I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (John 9:3-5)

The darkness / night is characterized not only by the absence of God’s presence and creative activity but active opposition to God’s work by destruction.

“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him [are in his presence involved in his activities], and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.” (I John 1:5-6)

The Hindu religion has maintained ancient records out of which we can pull a more accurate spiritual perspective about the difference between mortal and immortal, time and eternal, as opposed to Western civilization’s materialistic frame of reference. According to them, the gods were immortal…subject to a different time frame and had their own periods of activity and rest. These constituted their days and nights.

The universe is thought to regenerate in cycles…Shiva destroys the universe at the end of each cycle.

When the highest Supreme Self was awake, they believed, He would expand outwardly and manifest his objective worlds…

In our Western (pagan Roman) culture each 24 hour day is calculated, significantly, to begin at mid-night,  or 12:00 am by civilian reckoning. Darkness is interrupted by daylight ~ 6:00 am, then resumes ~ 6:00 pm and wraps up the 24 hour day to end at midnight, the beginning of the next day.

The ancient time reckoning – including biblical – begins at mid-day, i.e. noon at 12 p.m. is interrupted by nighttime from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, resumes the next morning at daybreak until noon, at which time the next day begins.

If we apply this to what the Bible teaches about light and darkness, especially that there is no darkness at all in God, then the following sequence of events unfolds during the creation week.

1. Construction during an era of light with brooding darkness – Evening
2. Destruction during an era of darkness – Night
3. Reconstruction during restoration of glorious light at its brightest – Morning

Beginning – Evening 1 as it turns out

“In the beginning God created the heaven [singular] and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

Night One

“And the earth was / became without form, and void; and darkness was / came upon the face of the deep.” (Genesis 1:2)

At this point in the narrative many people trying to reconcile evolution with their belief in God argue that the earth was created formless and left to evolve. However, the two belief systems can’t be reconciled.

Since time is defined by deterioration, the opening words of the narrative “In the beginning” establish that the stopwatch began ticking after Creation, and that deterioration – not evolution – happened in the course of events of the narrative.

Only a super-natural being is able to overcome the implacable forces of deterioration and death so evident in the natural world.

The fundamental proof for believing in God as Creator and Sustainer of the forces of stability and order required for the existence of life is that the earth was created as a solid, and became formless through forces of destruction, then was restored to its created state.

The book of Job confirms that “was” means “came to be” formless, caused by the works of darkness, after God created by converting e/c2 to mass.

“when I laid the foundations of the earth…

1. the sea…brake forth…
2. the earth…turned as clay to the seal; [soft and wet] (Job 38:4-14)

Peter confirms a flood at “the beginning of the creation.”

“…there shall come in the last days scoffers…saying…all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of,

• that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
• Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished...” (II Peter 3:3-7)

Geologists will immediately dismiss any claim that there was a worldwide flood…the reason…is due to Adam Sedgwick. A renaissance man of the early 19^thcentury, Sedgwick was a Cambridge University professor, an ordained minister in the Church of England, and the president of the Geological Society of London…Sedgwick and his geologist colleagues set about Europe searching for remnant sediments and formations. But the sought-for confirmation did not exist…Sedgwick concluded that there was never a worldwide flood…

Yet Sedgwick erred…Sedgwick went too far: he passed judgment on the morphology of vast, submerged landscapes that he could not observe. He assumed that Earth’s present amount of water has always been here.

Because of its far-reaching consequences, Sedgwick’s ‘no worldwide flood, ever’ conclusion will eventually gain universal recognition as the most profound error in the history of science.

The most ancient extent account of creation, the Enuma Elisha, validates the biblical account with the report that Enki / Lucifer “raised up the flood-storm, his mighty weapon” as the forces of destruction.

Morning One

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3)

Every Creation Day wraps up with the Sun rising in victory against the forces of darkness.

“ For thus saith the LORD / I AM / Creator…Seek ye me, and ye shall live…Seek him that…turneth the shadow of death into the morning…The LORD / YHVH is his name.” (Amos 5:4-8)

Geologists following proper scientific methodology have validated the biblical account of a succession of world-wide floods. Note, the following account is not from a Creation Science publication but a secular study.

Geological evidence of flood-imposed sedimentary layers, like puzzle pieces, match up the borders of our current continents, showing the existence of an originally single landmass.

The strongest evidence of episodic whole-earth flooding is provided in The Geological Time Scale.

This is the actual record of the earth’s crust, recorded in rocks all around the world. Two laws, or principles of geology explain why rock layers are formed in this way.

The Law of Original Horizontality simply acknowledges what any child at the beach can see – wet sediments like mud are almost always deposited in horizontal layers. With certain conditions they harden into rock layers.

The Law of Superposition logically posits that more recent rock layers overlay older layers

Within the invented paradigm of Deep Time scientists have grouped the layers into major groups, listed here from the first to the most recent:

1. Precambrian,
2. Cambrian,
3. Devonian,
4. Mississippian,
5. Pensylvanian,
6. and topping it all off, our current geological strata, the Permian.

Anyone else notice that these correspond exactly to the six days of Creation? You’d think that would justify some serious investigation of the scientific validation of the biblical account of Creation by a Singularity as in e=mc2.

Especially since the geological strata also supports the biblical account of “daily” / eras of

1. new creations as evidenced by different stone compositions
2. sequentially destroyed by flood waters
3. originating from the heavens.

Major impact events have significantly shaped Earth’s history.

In 1980 [scientists] discovered unusually high concentrations of iridium in a specific layer of rock strata in the Earth’s crust. Iridium is an element that is rare on Earth but relatively abundant in many meteorites. This iridium layer at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary has been found worldwide at 100 different sites.

Multidirectionally shocked quartz (coesite), which is normally associated with large impact events or atomic bomb explosions, has also been found in the same layer at more than 30 sites. Soot and ash at levels tens of thousands times normal levels were found with the above.

In the early history of the Earth bolide impacts [leaving a crater] were almost certainly common.

Evidence of Earth’s past bombardment by asteroids, comets and meteorites is hiding, often in plain sight. 

Vredefort Crater – South Africa, the largest but also the oldest impact crater on Earth, 185 miles (300 km) wide.

Probably the most convincing evidence for a worldwide catastrophe was the discovery of the crater which has since been named Chicxulub Crater…centered on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico…180 km (110 mi) in diameter.

Sudbury Crater – Ontario, Canada, is exceptionally old. It is currently 81 miles (130 km) wide, but scientists believe it originally measured 160 miles (260 km).

Kara Crater – Russia is 40 miles (65 km) in diameter but is thought to have originally been 75 miles (120 km).

Meteor Crater – Arizona, U.S. The nickel-iron meteorite hit with a speed of around 30,000 mph (12.8 km/s), leaving a rim that is 148 feet (45 m) above the surrounding area, during the Pleistocene Epoch, when the area was grassland and wood, and inhabited by mammoths and giant sloths.

That is to say, biblically, on day 6, our current era.

The Chesapeake Bay Crater wasn’t discovered until 1983, when a drilling core off Atlantic City, New Jersey turned up tektites and shocked quartz. Then in 1993, teams searching for oil uncovered the extent of the crater.

The crater is 53 miles wide (85 km) and 0.81 miles (1.3 km) deep, making it as deep as the Grand Canyon. The shape of Chesapeake Bay takes its form from the rubble of the crater. The crater was formed by an extremely large impactor that hit at a speed of 60 kilometers per second punching a deep hole into the granite forming the continental shelf, fracturing the rock to a depth of 5 miles (8 km) and sending millions of tons of water, sediment, and shattered rock into the atmosphere, and a megatsunami inland, possibly as far as the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A worldwide flood…is a scientific matter that involved a very large comet-like object impacting Earth. Due to its composition and size, the impacting object (IO) delivered a nearly unimaginable amount of water that inundated abyssal landscapes.

The LHB [Late Heavy Bombardment] may have been key to delivering water to Earth. Asteroids currently are the most likely suspect for delivering water to the planet. Millimeter- to centimeter-thick layers of rock droplets known as spherules preserved in the geologic record provide information about an impact even when the source crater cannot be found,” Brandon Johnson, of Purdue University, told Space.com. “Some of the asteroids that we infer were about 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) in diameter.

The adjective abyssal is derived from the noun, abyss, which along with the adjective abysmal derive from the Greek abyssos (“bottomless”).

This is consistent with the biblical references to this concept called “the deep.”

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” (Genesis 1:1-2)

Blessed of the LORD be his land,

1. for the precious things of heaven…
2. AND for the deep that coucheth / רָבַץbeneath.” (Deuteronomy 33:13)

This is not comparing two obvious blessings, but contrasting “precious things of heaven” with a curse of “the deep that coucheth beneath” as a paradoxical blessing.

Consider the source.

“when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing AND the curse – (For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth – Proverbs 3:12) –which I have set before thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee.” (Deuteronomy 30:1-3)

While currently only used in terms of lounge furniture, the original meaning of “couch” was very different and important to understand in this context. The English word derives from the Latin collocare “to lay, place, station, arrange,” translated into Old  French c. 1300 couchier “to spread or lay on a surface, to overlay.”

This word is found in heraldic use – ergo in the context of war banners – as couchant (“lying down with the head up”), and in the late 15th century referencing a crouching beast of prey, expanding the understanding of this word as meaning “lie hidden”. This meaning is also found from 1520s as “express in an obscure or veiled way, imply without distinctly saying” (1560s).

With this background, we can understand that in 1611 the translators’ intention of “coucheth beneath” was not a comfortable place to rest, but a military ambush.

“The deep” is a place of darkness, evil, the Adversary’s ambush.

Don’t miss how God turns the table on the Adversary.

“The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.” (Psalm 9:16)

In Genesis 6 the Adversary continues to war against God by corrupting the life forms on earth, and this time God retaliates on the principle of Action causes Equal and Opposite Reaction by destroying the corruption with the same flood waters used by the Adversary – some of which were reserved on earth for judgment.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life…were

1. (on earth) all the fountains of the great deep broken up [geysers hurling upwards to fall back down]
2. and (accessing above) the windows of heaven [where the Adversary had reservoirs of water for destroying earth during creation] were opened.” (Genesis 6:11-12)

 

The same biblical term “deep” is applied in contemporary scientific geology.

Earth’s geological abyssal zone is defined as depths of 4,000–6,000 m / 13,000 – 20,000 feet, It is named from the Greek word ἄβυσσος (ábussos), meaning “bottomless”. This zone, and below, remains in perpetual darkness. Unseen so ignored, it nonetheless covers most of the earth – 60% counting the total earth’s surface and 83% calculating just the sea’s surface…this level is the most common.

The pressure of the weight of the vast amount of water above that depth can reach as high 11,000 psi. This compares to the air pressure at sea level of 15 psi, AKA 1 atmosphere.  The human body cannot survive pressures above 60 psi.

In June 2023 a diving vessel carried sightseers to the sunken Titanic to a level just above the the abyssal zone at 12,400 feet below the ocean’s surface at a pressure of 5,500 psi was lost, with debris found consistent with a catastrophic implosion.

The abyssal zone has freezing temperatures around 2–3 °C (36–37 °F) through the large majority of its mass. The effects of exposure to freezing temperatures is equivalent to exposure to fire and is medically described as ice “burn”.

This Hebrew word for “deep”  רָבַץ is also translated “lying down” and “resting”, consistent with the action of “coucheth”. The general meaning gleaned from all the verses is that of a long-term condition in that place or situation. The condition of the deep is described in this and the other Greek New Testament’s references to the abyss – which are based on the 66 citations in the Hebrew Old Testament – as contrasting with heaven not only in location but in condition as Sheol / hell.

• “Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above🙂
• Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)” (Romans 10:6-7)

“Canst thou by searching find out God?…It [searching] is

• as high as heaven; what canst thou do?
• deeper than hell / Sheol;“(Job 11:7-8)

Modern oceanography’s report that the deep is a place of darkness, extreme pressure and searing extreme temperatures validates the biblical report of hell as a place of torment.

“torment me not…many devils…besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.” (Luke 8:28-31)

The Greek ἄβυσσον (abysson) has also been translated as “the abode of devils.”

This too is consistent with the recent marine discoveries of horrific deep sea monsters.

Parallel to the material condition of earth’s oceans and devilish deep sea monsters is the spiritual condition of the deep.

 “from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken…

hast thou walked in the search of the depth?” (Job 38)

Actually, modern scientists are doing just that.

Unveiling the Depths: The discovery of approximately 5,000 new species in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) represents a monumental leap in our understanding of marine biodiversity. They represent an entire ecosystem teeming with life, previously hidden in the vast abyssal plains of the Pacific Ocean.