“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die; even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:21-22

Make no mistake; God has never given anyone the impression, nor do the Scriptures teach it, that creation began with Adam. Satan held dominion over this planet (Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28) long before Man was formed out of the clay. Though not chronicled in detail, Scripture establishes as fact Satan’s rebellion against God. Lucifer was His celebrated Cherubim and the Prince of the Earth. He had been given it by God as his own jewel, but his rebellion brought destruction and catastrophe to his reign over this world. There should be no dispute that God’s creation is eternal. As life and action it has no end and no beginning. Creation, that is, Creation with a capital C, did not and could not have begun with Adam.

The angels had been with God long before the foundations of this world were laid. Only foolish Evangelicals who run the risk of shaming the church by their stubborn, obstinate fears about the stupidity of Darwinism and nonsensical conjectural fantasies and evolutionary humanistic theologies think any different.

The  Book of Ezekiel chapter 24 tells us of Satan’s presence in the Garden of Eden and his fall from glory and power that demands the harsh judgment that he will have to eternally endure.

A formerly wise and perfectly beautiful angel walks among the bejeweled riches of a God created world. The Earth has been given to him as his personal possession. He has been created with every means of perfection and power. He strides in the essence of a perfect beauty. He is the most powerful of all creatures ever made by the hand of God. Strong in soul and anointed with the true spirit of godliness since the very day he was created, he is walking among pure beauty of the rainbow colors of the ‘stones of fire’ that light the paths of heaven itself. He is a glorious being, the ‘anointed cherubim’ that stands next to the very Son of God as confidant and friend. But something is wrong…

In his soul a perversion called iniquity is seen causing friction on the pathways of the fiery stones of love and wisdom. He walks on the mountain top of God’s creation but he has been selling his heritage and godly wealth, making merchandise of God’s gifts and kindness for personal gain and glory. It is greed and avarice, rebellion and lies. Everything within him is contrary to light and goodness and truth. He is the personification of darkness. And he has become small and violent.

Within him there is no remorse, there is nothing within him that desires to stop and change. He must be laid low before all the eyes and powers of the Earth which he has corrupted or tried to corrupt. But God does not have to stop him because the fires of sin will spontaneously combust within him when his sin has become full. It will incinerate him from within; and all of Creation, heaven and earth, angel and Man shall see him reduced to nothing but ash. No glory will remain, his riches will not be retained, he has no future, no past, he has been brought to nothing. “All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.” Ezek.24:19   

“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus [Satan], and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
   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.
   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.
   Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
   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.
   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.
   Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
   All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.” Ezekiel 24:12-19

Creatures and humanoid type beings fashioned to some degree after the angels lived in this world while it was in the possession of Satan. Passages in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 more than indicate this as fact. (See below for Isaiah 14:5-27)

Our Bibles read: “In the beginning”, but this is not exactly the best rendering. But this opening of the Bible is better rendered: “To begin with…” or; “To begin the story of the epic of Man…” God is a doer, a Creator, therefore it is not credible to think that He was sitting around for eternity playing pinochle with the angels until He got bored and decided to create Adam. Such thinking has put a jester’s hat cocked squarely atop the head of the Church. Were are told in Genesis that the sun and the moon themselves were not created (or possibly refurbished) until the middle of the “week” that ended in the creation of Adam, a name synonymous with Man. We are not told how long the week of Creation was and since days and weeks are now reckoned by the sun the word days and week had to be a euphemism used outside of our earthly cycles of time.

Further, the epic of earth and Man begins by saying the Earth was but that it had ‘become’ without form and void. This means the earth must have existed previous to Adam’s (Man’s) existence and appearance on the planet Earth. The Earth, therefore, being the former possession of Satan, must have been jettisoned into the heavens, destroying all previous civilizations and life upon it by ice and cold. It may have gone through galaxies and past stars, into a new place in the universe and landing in void, with its former archeological remains still aboard.

There, formless, it hung suspended in this void. God began the reconstruction and refurbishing process preparing it for a new creature that He would name Man. Unlike the angels, this new creation would be redeemable from the inevitable rebellion against good. The effects of sin and rebellion against Him would be redeemable by a redemption process through God’s own Son – a plan not available to Satan and his cohorts of rebel angel creation. One should take note that Man was not created until the sixth “day”, after the process of refurbishing the Earth had been accomplished and the Earth had been made ready for the habitation of these creatures called Man.

Remember that it was the catastrophic rebellion of Satan which had made the earth uninhabitable and void, and it was the subsequent intervention of God that returned the earth to an environment that could be inhabited. Prior to creating the sun and the moon and the stars, the Elohim (as the Bible uses the plural for God: that is the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost) had said let there be light and the light showed over the earth. Note that this light spoken of is not the Sun. Curiously enough the Sun had not be created yet and if that light was not the light of the sun then what was it? Obviously it has to: “that light which lights every man that comes into the world” – indeed it was none other than Jesus Himself. The Elohim, of which Jesus is a part, is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is first revealed in Scripture when we are told “that Man is made in the likeness of God Himself. We are a tripartite creature – body, soul and spirit.

It was Jesus who was summoned by the Father to restore light where there was then only darkness, an absence of light which had shrouded the formless void where the Earth had been jettisoned, relegated to roaming in the vast expanse of this present universe, lost in a timeless existence because of the rebellion of its former owner and proprietor, the disgraced and fallen Cherubim, Satan.

In due time, Man, the new creature was placed in the center of the inhabited earth in sweet and plush surroundings which God called the Garden of Eden around the Tigris – Euphrates Rivers and given it as his personal and delightful domain. (Genesis 2) Neolithic Man, the dinosaurs and the rest, including the men of the cave drawings in Africa and such humanoid creatures ranging as far as what is now South and North America – well? – those are remains of a bygone day of further attempts of Satan to reclaim the Earth by establishing his idea of civilization with his further creations of humanoid fauna, seeking to re-stake claim over his lost dominion of the Earth after it had been refurbished. The Bible is clear that Satan is here and has some degree of dominion on this earth being called the Prince of the Power of the Air. Though his power and dominion have been substantially reduced and confined he still has more than considerable power over the affairs Mankind and will continue to until his final demise after the so-called Biblical era known as the Millennium, the 1,000 year reign of Christ on Earth. And His demons are still at his command.

In the nineteenth Century The notion of creatures being simply wiped from the face of the Earth was anathema to many early naturalists. When fossil remains were found that were unlike anything living at the time, some scientists argued that they were unusual examples of living creatures, or that animals known only from fossils must still survive in some unexplored part of the world.

There were a few naturalists who believed that animals or plants of which only fossil remains could be found did indeed represent forms that no longer existed. But it was only at the end of the 18th century that the great French paleontologist and anatomist Georges Cuvier was able to demonstrate convincingly that extinctions were real.

Much of Cuvier’s research produced knowledge that would ultimately support Darwin’s theory of evolution, although Cuvier himself did not realize it. He was the first to demonstrate that the different strata of rock in the Paris basin each had its own mammal fauna. Furthermore, he showed that the lower a stratum was, the more different its fossil animals were from species living in the present.

Yet Cuvier rejected the idea of organic evolution. He was an essentialist, convinced that plants and animals of all types were created for their particular roles and places in the world’s environment, and that they were unchanging throughout their existence. There was no scale of perfection, in Cuvier’s view, because each animal was perfectly adapted to its position in the natural world. He could see no evidence for a steady increase in complexity or perfection as claimed by those who believed in a “great chain of being.” But in the course of history, he said, catastrophic events had killed off all members of some species, and their fossils would no longer be seen in the rocks. Subsequently, he believed, the old species were replaced by new ones that repopulated Earth.

Cuvier could be called the founder of comparative anatomy, and it was his knowledge in this field that accounted for his well-known and almost uncanny ability to reconstruct animals from only fragments of fossil remains. With elegant studies of the anatomy of large mammals such as elephants, Cuvier showed that fossil mammoths differed from any such creatures presently living. His many examples of fossils telling the stories of animals that lived and then disappeared were taken as incontrovertible proof of extinctions.

Cuvier had not asserted that Satan genetically engineered his own weird hybrid animals and creatures and experimented trying to ‘create’ something in the form of himself – as the Elohim created the tripartite Adam perfectly in body, soul and spirit (in our own image, or ‘image’ of which The Father, Son and Holy Ghost approved.) But his scientific work ably explained how former worlds had archeological evidence dating back even before the days of the earth and its present orbit around the newly created sun, and that Satan still has a claim to this refurbished old Earth and has not yet been fully divested of that claim of lordship over it by God.

This is why Satan is still on Earth with a large degree of might and power to influence the affairs of Man and corrupt them into rebellion by way of their heart. The Earth had become a unique jewel in its core however, where the Garden had been sown and given to Adam to be its keeper. Creation originally given to Satan as (Isaiah and Ezekiel both indicate) still loomed on the ‘outside’ world. But Jesus points out that Satan is the father of lies, has not only been insolent but rebellious and conniving against His Maker. It is therefore a certainty that in the interim between the earth becoming void and without life and light and it being reinstated to a habitable domain and Adam being formed out of its clay and placed in the Garden of Eden, that the former Lucifer, and now Satan, had held on to the claim that it was his rightful and legal possession, taking with him a third of the angels in his rebellion. At some point before the creation of Man on the “sixth” day (whatever duration that was, a hundred years 600 years or two thousand years or fifty thousand years, who can tell) Satan made his own hybrids out of animals which God had supplied Satan with; in the same fashion He had supplied Adam’s new garden with all the animals which he allowed Adam to name and care for as his own. Satan cross-bred these animals and apes by genetic engineering to produce his version of a Man in his own image. This essentially, is what the angels are of which Satan is one. Further, Satan attempted to set up societies with icons and idols of rudimentary and primitive forms such as ones that linger in archeological finds of Neolithic Man. These are primitive works of a clumsy creator, confused, distorted and miserable, frightening even, when compared to the perfection of Man in his habitat in the plush Garden called Eden.

Adam was given the great honor and pleasure of naming the animals himself because they were his to care for and to love. Set between in the center between four watering rivers and made a paradise complete with wonderful new animals God gave Adam a mate because it was not good that he should be alone. Within this exclusive oasis, in modern day Middle East, Adam and Eve had a life of peace and fellowship with God himself. The world outside, yet within the 24,000 mile sphere called Earth was still a domain in Satan’s control, still in his ownership, but with ever decreasing toehold because of the dispute and judgment declared against him by God the Creator of all things. God’s plan to take back the ‘deed’ to the earth had long been under way, yet Satan’s rebellion continued by his further malformed creations until God put a halt to the abominable breeding of his clumsy ‘creations’ by making Man after His own image.

It is in this humble beginning that restoration of a defiled ancient Creation starts and God’s plan to take back the earth from Satan by His Only Son Jesus begins. In the end, the Man Jesus will be the head of the Earth and all that will become of the New Earth and Man will be its peaceful and owner and operator. For the earth is not only a home and a residence, it is a tool for redeeming man from the grip of Satan and the hold that sin has upon Man’s heart. When the plan is successful then the old earth shall be put away and a new heaven and new earth perfectly fitted for Man’s new life in the spirit, as an everlasting garden of life, can then become reality. This is an essential part of the promised redemption, the course that the redemption play will take us on, the plan of the ages, our home in eternity, the place where we shall see him and be with him and be made like Jesus.

Satan made it a priority to pervert the animal species, and most importantly to pervert the human species that was going to be the last thing created that was in the likeness of God, including its form and soulish and spiritual makeup. Apparently, as far as we can tell through modern archeological digs and anthropological and evolutionary discoveries, Satan went to work immediately to set up his own race of angel like flesh creatures through cross breeding primates, etc. He made creatures that resembled his spirit, made in his likeness, they were fearful creatures ruling by force, devouring one another, even those of their own likeness. They were flesh eating dinosaurs and monstrous creatures inhabiting a corrupted earth. Most were destroyed in the Cuvierian catastrophes ordained by God which had hit the earth during various epics of judgment. Again, how many thousands of years this went on before the Garden of Eden, on both sides of the time when the earth had become void and without form, no one can tell. Adam, we know, was set in this very epoch in a paradise full of godly animals which he and his wife forfeited by disobedience and rebellion. but this epoch shall end in victory because God has become Man to buy back the deadly indiscretion for us that we may be allowed to inherit the deed to Earth and be restored to its abode of an everlasting perfection.

Was Not The Land of Nod A Land of Other Creatures?
When Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden it was into a world that remained under the curse. After he murdered his brother Abel, we are informed that Cain was banished to the land of Nod, a place which was with some sort of humanoid population. It could not have been Cain and Abel’s brothers and sisters or blood relatives. So who and where did this land of people come from? It gives great credence to the Cuvierian thesis of anthropology that other humanoid pockets of civilization may have existed in the east of Eden. This the Bible declares matter of factly without explanation. Satan was here before Adam, just as God was not only playing pinochle with his angels for eternity before the Earth and Man, so Satan was not playing games with his rebellious army of angels while God was whipping out all of his desperate and vile works. After Lucifer transformed into being Satan he was active doing all kinds of “stuff”, the sort of things being unearthed today; including the bones and fossils, the relics and artifacts of more than one lost world. These relics are not new to Man, the Emperor Augustus was a collector of dinosaur bones and supposed giants after the fashion the Nephilim spoken of in the book of Genesis. The science of such things is older than evolutionist thought and more reasonable and sound. Adam had been given residency in a place where all the needs of his wife and family were provided for. When he was banished into the cold cruel world it was into a cursed world so he could experience life without God and confront the horrifying alternative of desolation, hardship and death. All the works in this world of Satan himself. The virtues of eternal life vs death were contrasted. That it can only be found by and through a life with Jesus, God’s only Son, had to be made evident beyond speculation or doubt.         

Satan must have biologically produced creations through genetic engineering which we have only now started to become acquainted with in the last hundred years or so. Stem Cells and mapping of the human genome shows us how easy it must have been for a creature of the intelligence of Satan to manipulate genetics to make original creations of his own. This does not mean that Satan knew the mysteries of genetics that God in His wisdom has kept for Himself alone.  

He produced mirrors of his own soul – deformed, monstrous and predatory, pure products of his darkness with belligerent spirits, not to do with genetics but the invisible, intangible things that only God, the Spirit of Life can see by way of an invisible ethereal genome-like science known only to the Creator Himself. Satan made machines of horrific sin and destruction with no spirit. Vicious mammals, cold-blooded birds and cold-blooded reptiles. Is it any wonder that Satan first appears in the Bible in the Garden as a reptile, albeit, beautiful to look at but deadly to know? He even had feet.

It was part of the judgment that he would lick the dust from which Adam had been formed. After all, he was at one time the anointed cherub of God. It seems the age of the dinosaurs, large lizards and reptiles, was his disturbed conception of something amazing and desirable, so deluded is his perception of himself. He had his persona come to life as an expression of defiance to God. We don’t know if they were the last straw in Satan’s rebellion or if he was preparing them in an attempt to retake the earth, or something along those lines. How and why God stepped in and demolished some parts of the earth by a rain of fire and brimstone and volcanic eruptions is not hard to understand. First, it was to dispatch those creatures or they would have dispatched Man. Even the paleontologists lean toward that explanation for the annihilation of the giant monsters that had the power to devour all species on Earth.   

What we do know, if the dunderheads of frightened theology will allow, is that the Bible doesn’t have to be translated “In the beginning”, it can just as easily read, “To start with”, or “let’s begin our story here”. For now, God has put us on a ‘need-to-know’ basis. And why not, it requires that we trust him for all our information and understanding. That’s the way he likes it. So he starts us off with pertinent information. This is our story. The saga of Man. That’s the correct place to begin; when we understand that it is our story, the one which we share in and the one he is trying to relate to us throughout the Bible we are able to understand what is required of us. That is why prophecy takes on the importance that it does. He has told us the story in the Bible and laid it out from beginning to end. This is why the story of Mankind can be likened to a “Redemption Play” which has been scripted and written before production had even begun.

The Curtain Rises with the Birth of Man
And so, it is only natural that the curtain of our story ought to rise on the birth of true man, and not any of the scrappy works of the deranged Devil. The Bible begins to relate Man’s story at the beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve as told in the first few chapters of Genesis.  Again, God does not concern us with things before Adam; he tells us only that His Spirit passed over a world that had become void and without form, and that he returned the earth to a place able to sustain life, a planet fit for habitation of godly flora and fauna. It was without form and void, but it was a world (or rather,had been a world). God tells us that, by His own hands he formed Adam from the clay of the earth, and Eve because God thought, “It is not good that the man should be alone” Genesis 2:18. Eve was formed from one of Adam’s ribs, therefore they were literally one. This could be an expression of Eve being genetically born Adam. God did this in the sight of the angels (both fallen and loyal), not engineering man but creating him out of the very genetic body and ethereal soul of Adam in the midst of the very soil of earth that had once belonged to the Rebellious One who had made his own preposterous creations. God and only God has the power to create; Satan looked on jealous, infuriated and, though shameless, shamefully perverted creation.

God does not say how long the two new human creations lived in the Garden of Eden; he only tells us they lived in harmony with Him until the day they disobeyed Him. Then they fell into sin’s terrible grip, thereby having death overtake them decaying gradually what was once an immortal body. After the fall of Adam and Eve, God made certain prophecies – more in the form of proclamations – regarding Man’s destiny.  These promises gave us hope, even in our dire situation of death and decay setting the foundation for all meaningful history and redemption’s conflicts and what may be rightly termed, (See Introduction to The Conflict of the Ages series)

To understand God’s plan for Mankind one must be aware of the initial promises made to Adam and Eve. They should be clearly understood as to their purpose, that these promises were not made to them alone, but as parents of us all they are prophecies given to all. They had not believed God, but believed His enemy Satan instead and God necessarily pronounced judgment on them and their seed. The woman would be sorrowful while bringing forth her children and would be ruled over by her husband.  Adam would be cast out of the beautiful Garden where everything had been freely given to him. Instead of living in the lap of luxury he now would subsist by the sweat of his brow, remaining enslaved to sweat and toil he was relegated to struggling to make ends meet – even to survive.The Scriptures tell us that the ground was cursed for Man’s sake. We don’t think of it in that way; that the curse was a blessing, but it was hoped that it would keep Man mindful of the truth that we must trust God for everything, even for something as basic as food.  Adam was created out of the dust and to the dust he and his seed would return. He would be required to trust that he would be resurrected from ash and bones into eternal existence. Death was introduced and the quest to regain life became a matter of faith and belief in God his father.

Here is one of the first lessons of understanding prophecy and its purpose. What seems to be true to us from a worldly perspective is often exposed as being false, just the opposite of a spiritual truth. What seems to be dreadful and hard is actually the mercy of God and the portals of existence which lead to revival, wholeness, health and eventually everlasting life itself. These truths are brought to light along winding paths of curious, sometimes hard judgments which cause temporary misery to body and soul. While on these thorny paths one may arrive at hidden venues of unknown spiritual conclusions where some word of God is revealed or a prophecy fulfilled teaches otherwise imperceptible truths. Prophecy is God’s tool, almost always ironic and totally sublime. By it God exposes one to the light of hidden mysteries of God’s purpose that are always valuable in pointing us on the way toward His ultimate goal of restoring us to life itself. Often these paths are paved for Man with stones that are the very opposite of how we think they should be done, what we might prefer and when things should be done. The prophetic procedure with Adam and Eve stands as a testimony to the purpose and procedure of God’s prophetic word on things, especially in regards to salvation and His will. Prophecy always rejoices in and promotes the Truth. Prophecy is long suffering in its drive to fulfill the Will of God. And God’s plan when walked and conceded to shall never fail to be fulfilled in the compliant believer.

By prophecy judgment was pronounced upon the serpent Satan when God pronounced: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15 This great prophecy, while prophesying a great fight between Mankind and Satan promised from the very outset that Man would be redeemed. If Adam and Eve wanted to live a happy and good life they would have to turn back to God with their whole heart. They would have to fully trust Him, put faith in His love and invest complete hope in all His promises of salvation. It was further warned, that the conflict of life would be fought in the open arena of Man’s free-will, pitting God’s truth and love against Satan’s lies and selfishness. The souls and hearts of men would be the stakes. Realizing this declaration is the beginning of understanding God’s quintessential history. Man’s free-will to choose between The Creator or that rebel Satan is the crucible in which eternal life is forged; a crucible in which each heart is tested and weighed, the dross burned off and the pure gold of eternal life is either gained or forever lost.

An Uncluttered History
It is typical of God’s irony that Satan appeared in the Garden as a serpent, pointing to two distinct and separate ages of creation, a bridge between the Age of Man (called the Age of Mammals in today’s science) and the Age of Satan (called the Age of Reptiles).  Satan surely viewed Man as a usurper of his authority and a robber of his possession Earth. The ‘father of all lies’, as he is called in Scripture, also saw Adam as a potential pawn in his much more important rebellion against God. Satan first tried to woo Man away from God – as he will always try to do – but once God intervened by slaying an innocent animal to cover his shame and sin to give them symbolic promises of redemption, Satan immediately put into motion a counter-plan. His strategy was simple: confuse, frustrate and eventually overturn God’s plan. In the process he would not only destroy Man but by it prove to the angels his contention that God is inept and that the faithful angels should defect and follow him.

Adam to Noah: When Bully Demigods Ruled
The world between the time of Adam and the Flood which left only Noah and his family, was different in many ways from the world that followed after. People lived in agricultural communities and tribal villages. Crouching off stage were the police forces and armies of centralized local governments in a time when law and order was required to contain roving bandits and the sins of societies of Man. The entrance of sheriffs and soldiers not to be cued until our Act 2 after the intermission of the Flood when the Spirit of Empire would barge on to the world stage. Scripture gives no indication that a united rebellion by Man – in the way it later happened at Babel – was ever in the works in those multiple centuries after Adam and Eve.

Despite the good life and testimony of Adam and a branch of one of his son’s heritage which prospered and lived according to a faithful reverence of God, the world steadily grew thoroughly corrupt. Mythology claims that giants (called Nephilim in the Bible) were man-eaters, monsters who terrorized the world with violence. The Bible reveals that they were in fact half man and half angel. The word actually means – giant bullies. They terrorized the earth and ruled by oppression and fear. They were the progeny of heavenly rebels resulting in their being half man half angel, their fathers having taken on flesh. which angels have the power to do. The Jewish word itself implies ‘bullies’ who dominated the newly formed civilization of this new creature called Man. These bullies and tyrants were in truth demigods the offspring of fallen angels who had taken on flesh and cohabited with women. Genesis 6:4 It was a mix of abomination. Every man’s hands became covered in blood, evil went unchecked, sin ruled.

The world – despite the fact that Adam and his son, Seth, and the “priest” Methuselah, still lived to tell first hand of God’s love and mercy – grew increasingly violent and faithless. The fruit of eating from the tree of knowledge exacted a hard price on the seed of Man. Men had early on started to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4:26 and to pray for His benefaction, but men, seeing evil as an apparent easy way for personal selfish benefit, chose evil and pleasure above faith and trust in their Father. Satan leaped into the breach exploiting Man’s lust which produced a foolish rejection of God in Man’s hearts. Satan somehow managed to encourage some of the fallen angels to take on the form of flesh though they knew it might cost them dearly. Genesis 6 & Jude 6 The progeny of these evil spirits were the demigods, half-men and half-god. These corrupted spiritual beings, mingled with women and corrupted the seed of Mankind trying to produce Satan’s own brand of savior. The bible says these are the renowned men of old. (Hence the fables and mythology of beings like Hercules and Prometheus have truth, being rooted in Antediluvian history.) It was the strategy of Satan to infest Man like an alien parasite with demonic heritage so completely that the seed of the women, because of corrupt bloodlines, could never produce the perfect Savior. His plan? No Hero – no Redemption Play – pretty simple plan. Of all Satan’s schemes, this one to corrupt the seed of the woman came closest to working. The world, we are told, became decadent to the point that God considered scrapping the whole production. Everywhere there was bloodshed and violence and corruption.

Yet, the promises of salvation were preserved and handed down to Seth, the son given to Adam and Eve to replace Cain and Abel. Following Seth as the preserver of salvation’s truth was Methuselah, who as the first “priest” of God lived 969 years, dying just days before the Flood occurred. For a millennium, Methuselah passed on God’s promises until Noah’s son Shem took up the mantle as God’s anointed priest of the promise of the coming salvation.

All the while an even larger witness was universally active each and every night working to educate Man of God’s sweet promise of redemption. A bright light out of the darkness is switched on above the world stage each day when the sun goes down. The twelve signs of the Zodiac ring the top of this domed stage. Stars gleaming like radiant diamonds, some blue, yellow, golden and light brown tell prophetically the story of our promised redemption. Some constellations are larger than others, some dim and barely visible, all are visible to the naked eye. We are the audience. Every civilization, Peruvian, Babylonian, American, European, African or Chinese have the same tradition complete with the same recognizable outline of the same pictures and essentially the same names of the stars that make them up. We the audience see the same slide-show no matter on which continent we reside. The twelve chapter story called the Zodiac has a point of beginning made up of a series star constellations that make up a circle which tells the story of Man’s destiny. The audience oohs-and-aahs, we are walked through the story by Adam as he tells the story of each constellation and what they represent.

During the first 1,000 years, while the earth was being populated by Man, the promises and battles of redemption were relayed orally by Methuselah and other primitive priests of God where they were written in detail in the stars. The twelve signs of the zodiac, to be read starting with Virgo and ending with Leo, declared the glory of God for all men everywhere to see and to study. The story which God handed down to Adam told of the ‘Coming One’, ‘The Seed’ and his trials, His conquering of Drago the Dragon called Satan; His beloved Bride-to-be who waits for Him, and His victorious lionized return from heaven to reign on earth with His perfected men and women called saints. Each star of each constellation told of some detail concerning its constellations prophetic revelation. The work of E.W. Bullinger, entitled “Witness of the Stars” (and many other authors on the subject) details this magnificent truth, proving that God gave Adam this story of redemption, and how it’s themes and prophecies were passed down and carried on by every culture and branch of Mankind. (See “Witness of the Stars” Book Review)

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
   And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
   And the Lord said, I will destroy Man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” Genesis 6.5-7

Except for Noah’s faith and obedience God might have destroyed Man and everything connected with him. Noah’s seed was uncorrupted by the Nephilim and he was perfect in his seed in all his generations. Apparently there was no seed that had not been corrupted with satanic blood except Noah, at least none that was also righteous in his ways. Nevertheless, the world was so corrupt that God decided to wipe everyone else out, save Noah and his uncorrupted seed; his wife, his three sons, and their wives. The Flood created a fresh start for mankind. The subsequent repopulation of the earth through Noah’s family stands at history’s precipice, a new beginning for the world, everyone perfect in their generations and a righteous seed. The old saying, “We’re all in the same boat”, is literally true. All races, Negro, Caucasian, and Asian, – all of us – emerged from the ark when Noah and his three sons stepped out on to dry land. Every man, woman and child on the face of the planet today share their roots in that boat. Why do we persecute ourselves with bigotry, prejudice and hatred? Every man, woman and child on the planet must be saved, as Noah was by the mercy of God. As a sign of his mercy, God set the rainbow in the sky giving Man the promise of a new start and signaling that “The Redemption Play” was once again under production, the curtain on Act 2 about to go up. In the 2,500 years that followed, from Noah to the Hebrew prophet Daniel, God set about establishing the three great characters of his drama.

 

Isaiah 14:5-27
[5] The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
[6] He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
[7] The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
[8] Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
[9] Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead
for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
[10] All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
[11] Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
[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.
[15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
[16] They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
[17] That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
[18] All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
[19] But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
[20] Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
[21] Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
[22] For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
[23] I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
[24] The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
[25] That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
[26] This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
[27] For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?