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 after the Flood when the Spirit of Empire would barge onto 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 – a 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 Stars: A Prophetic Message.)

“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 Redemption was once again under production and available to all that call upon his name.