A sheep in wolf's clothing.
Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry.
(Psalms 18:7) NKJV
With a few pieces of information we can take what we know about the Earth today and use them to deduce what the Earth was like in the past. This is the alternative to using Uniformitarianism and assuming that things were the same in the past.
Continue reading “Present Day Earth”
The changes that take place on earth during the tribulation, in the build up to the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom, are discussed in the devotion for November.
What can we say? Hell is continuing to expand. It’s the cause of global warming. Believing in Jesus Christ is the only way to escape it. The expansion of hell is at least 2 predictive testable hypotheses:
Both of these hypotheses are confirmed by empirical observations.
The expansion of hell melted the foundations of the mountains completely. There was now no support for the pillars of the earth and the crust of the earth collapsed.
It appears that the earth lost about 1,200 km of radius, and 8,000 km in circumference. Both of these concepts are part of the development of the theory of plate tectonics, they are referred to as radial shrinkage and circumferential shortening.
It is hard to imagine living through this event. Certainly we have not experienced anything this dramatic since it happened.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
(Genesis 10:1) ESV
In popular science (SciPop) Pangaea is the original super-continent which predates the formation of the continents as we know them today. This is a conclusion which we deduce from the evidence.
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Some people have gone to great lengths to be able to say that there is presently not enough water on earth to flood it to a depth of 15 cubits above all mountains. They use math to do this so, naturally, everybody believes them because, hey, it’s math. Those folk are, sadly, depending of the philosophical foundation of nineteenth Century Uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism is the belief that the conditions on earth have been so stable for so long that the conditions of the present day are a sufficiently accurate indicator of conditions in the past.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are several reasons why the math-based flood-deniers are not even in the same ball park:
So, just because a bunch of flood-deniers can wave some math around, don’t believe it. If you want to see some math on how much water was available in the great deep see the post Noah’s Math.
Noah’s flood was not only a world-wide catastrophe, it was also a very complex process which involved several phases. The first of these was when the fountains of the deep burst open and the windows of heaven opened. The fountains of the deep burst open because the expansion of hell caused the waters of the great deep to heat up, eventually to boiling point where they were in contact with the core. The pressure burst open the fountains of the great deep and caused hot water to come flooding out of the ground in many locations around the globe.
As this was occurring, water from above the firmament, which had been traveling through space for some time, also hit the earth. This water was very cold, probably frozen, and so we have the intermixing of very hot and very cold water in a deluge which is rapidly drowning the earth. The evidence of this process is sufficient to have led naturalists of bygone ages to propose that “Gigantic waves,” wrote J. Geikie, “were supposed to have precipitated upon the land, and swept madly on over mountain and valley alike, carrying along with them a mighty burden of rocks and stones and rubbish.” The problem was that no cause could be ascertained which could account for the gigantic waves, and the idea was replaced by the theory of ice ages.
It should now be possible to resolve all of these issues. The Noachian is the term we are giving to the sedimentary deposits which were deposited in Noah’s flood. This includes strata currently assigned to all Periods of the geological time scale from the Cambrian to the Quaternary. This equates to the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras. We have already seen the way in which the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (Mesozoic/Cenozoic) with its Iridium anomaly can be resolved as the moment when the 40 days and nights of rain ended, but we may also be able to define the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras as part of the process of the flood too.
When the waters of the great deep burst forth and were met at the surface of earth by the waters from above the firmament there were indeed gigantic waves which propagated from the equator to the poles, destroying everything in their path and carrying the debris along with devastating force. As these waves reached the poles they gained height and energy, scrubbed the poles completely clean of all surface deposits, then began to retreat back to the equator. This is the Paleozoic/Mesozoic boundary. The waters made their first pass across the land traveling from the equator to the poles, depositing the sediments which we refer to as the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian (Paleozoic Era). The water then reversed course and flowed back to the equator, depositing the sediments which we assign to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous (Mesozoic). When the rain ended and the waves stopped propagating the Tertiary and Quaternary sediments were deposited (Cenozoic). We are going to call the Cenozoic Era the Upper Noachian.
The Lower Noachian encompasses the Paleozoic Era, the Middle Noachian encompasses the Mesozoic Era.
This is just a rough idea. Bear in mind that all rock strata were deposited in the same event: Noah’s flood. The only reason that they have been arranged in the way that they have in the geological time scale is to make it compatible with the basic premise of the theory of evolution, which is the idea that simple forms are the oldest, more complex forms are recent.
Based on what happens next in the history of earth we are speculating that the people of Noah’s time experienced Antediluvian global warming. Hell has continued to expand, as prophesied in Deuteronomy 32:22, and is melting the foundations of the earth. This is causing the waters of the great deep to heat up, which in turn has to be having an effect on the climate ate the surface of earth.
For all we know the period after the end of creation and before the fall of man, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge, was a day. It could have been years. We aren’t told. We are told that the creation fell and began to decay.
Before this happened, however, the earth was a complex planet with a hydrological cycle which involved water of the great deep cycling through the interior of the earth.
On the 2nd day of creation, God created gravity. This rewrites Physics since Sir Isaac Newton but we have dealt with that elsewhere. The thing that concerns us is the physical reality of what happened after the creation of gravity. We refer to what God created as a singularity.
The singularity caused the waters of the deep – tehom – to become spherical. This was the first form that the creation took, and the form in which it has remained. The heaviest elements and molecules sank towards the center and there is an Hebrew concept of gravity that occurs in scripture at the moment that gravity was created. The heavy atoms and molecules began to form a core, displacing the lighter forms outward and establishing concentric layers of sediment. This caused the waters below the firmament to contract, a gaseous atmosphere formed, and Qxygen was available to combine with Iron rich compounds. This caused iron oxides to precipitate out of solution and be deposited as the Banded Iron Formations.
The compacting of matter around the singularity trapped and buried some of the life forms which had been created on the first day. There are what we refer to as Precambrian fossils.
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