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"The Universe Is Billions Of Years Old!"
Scientist have been telling us for centuries that the universe is billions of years old, but God created everything in only six days. Is the Bible contradictory to what science has proven?
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As science has proven, this planet endured a major catastrophe millions of years ago that obliterated the dinosaurs long before man walked the earth. Once the catastrophic event occurred, it would have caused the planet to have no animals on it until all the the
environment was stable again. Science has not been able to fathom the actual cause of the catastrophe, just speculate the cause, but Jesus does give us one possible explanation.
Luke 10:18
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling from heaven.
Jude 1:6
6 And
the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he
hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the
great day.
Isa.14:12-14
12 How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
When Satan was banished from heaven because of his transgressions, his followers were banished with him. When they were cast out, they came down as lightning. There's your possible big catastrophe, like numerous explosions all at one time! Since God created
heaven on the second day (Gen 1:8), and man on the sixth day (Gen 1:26 - 31), Satan was cast out of heaven before the sixth day, since Satan was sinning from the beginning, meaning his
beginning, and God had to renew the earth.
I John 3:8
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Psalm 104:30
30 Thou
sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the
earth.
I discovered another piece of information that is very relevant
to this subject, and it's in the first two verses of the Bible. It speaks
of the original creation then the re-creation.
Genesis 1:1 - 2
1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The earth was without form and void is translated from the
Hebrew words:
tohu (pronounced to'-hoo) - From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain:—confusion, empty place,
without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
and
bohu (pronounced bo'-hoo) - From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially)
an undistinguishable ruin:—emptiness, void.
I found the information in the Strong's Hebrew & Greek
Dictionaries, by James Strong. Tohu and bohu are also used in (Jer.4:23 & Isa34:11),
both cases are the result of transgression of God's laws.
Think about it, how can there be a ruin, darkness upon the face
of the deep, Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters, if nothing had been created yet?
The book of Ezekiel speaks of Satan's existence in the garden of Eden!
Eze.28:13-17
13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship
of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast
created.
14
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set
thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked
up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out
of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the
midst of the stones of fire.
17
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay
thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
In the Old Testament Satan was traveling back and forth from earth to heaven causing trouble during the time of Job's existence.
Job 1:6 - 11
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
We have no knowledge of how long it took Satan and the other angels to be expelled from heaven. Before Adam & Eve chose not to follow God's commandments, a time line was given to them to measure when their punishment would take effect and when their punishment would end.
The amount of time they were in the garden before they sinned is unknown.
Genesis 2:16 -17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof though shalt surely die.
Before the commandment was given and the sin committed, there would have been no need for tracking time as we know it. Adam & Eve were supposed to be lounging around the garden, being fruitful and multiplying. (Gen 1:28) Once the transgression took place, the Lord shortened the remaining
days for his elect's sake (those born in the flesh not those created as a spirit), so they may be saved.
Mark 13:20
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he (God), hath shortened the days.
For God, a day is equal to one thousand years and that is why Adam didn't die until he was 930 years old.
2 Peter 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Genesis 5:5
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Summary:
The Bible doesn't contradict science when you have the necessary information to comprehend what is being said in the scriptures.
 Satan and the other angels were doing their duties (number of years unknown).
Satan and some of the angels transgressed and were cast out of heaven like lightening to spend the rest of their existence on earth, even though they are allowed to go back and forth for now.
In six days (days as we know it unknown), God repaired what was destroyed on earth after casting out Satan and some of the angels and then created man. Science has shown that man did not live during the different eras of
the dinosaurs and the next group of animals that appeared were smaller, meaning man came after Satan was originally cast out of heaven to move to and fro upon the earth.
Time as we know it was created once man was created so he could have something to measure once the commandment was given to Adam. A day consists of 1,000 years for God,
and He shortened the days for the elects sake.
Eve was deceived by Satan and ate of the fruit. Adam also ate of the fruit, even though they both knew they would die the same day if they ate it. (Genesis 3:2-6)
Adam & Eve were cast out of the garden and lived a day.
According to Daniel's and John's prophesy there will be a war in heaven and Satan would eventually be kicked out of heaven permanently.
Dan 12:1 - 2
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that
time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Rev 12:7 - 9
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Note: Lucifer is not Satan!
I have read other articles pertaining to Satan being kicked out of heaven and
they use the name Lucifer instead of Satan. They also reference Isaiah14:12-14
of the Old Testament.
During the era that the scriptures were written the word didn't even exist. Lucifer was
a Latin term used by the Romans for the planet Venus. How did a Latin word end
up in Hebrew scriptures that was written before there was a Roman language? In the Hebrew
scriptures the word used to describe the Babylonian King is Helal, son of Shahar, which
translates to "Day star, son of the Dawn." It all goes back to translating the Bible
into another language.
When King James I authorized the translation of the Bible into English, the
scholars used versions largely translated by Jerome in the fourth century
in which he mistranslated Helal, son of Shahar.
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