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We are now in our two of Learn the Bible in 24 Hours in which we are going to address

the creation and the fall of man.

And let me just say right at the outset of all the sessions we're going to have, this

one is undoubtedly the most frustrating.

And it's not because of the biblical material, it's because of the presuppositions and prejudices

we bring to this topic, because we've all grown up in a pagan culture in which there's

an enforced theory in science called evolution.

And the myths and nonsense that gets promoted in our schools and throughout our culture

are one of the things that we need to overcome.

Our problem isn't the Bible, our problem is bad science, poor science.

But let's just jump in, we obviously are in the Old Testament and we're in the first

book of the Old Testament, the first book of the Torah, the five books of Moses, book

of Genesis.

In our panorama of history we're going right at the beginning, the creation of time itself,

not just the physical universe but the creation of time itself.

And in this session we're going to take three chapters, chapters one and two which deal

with creation, and chapter three which deals with the predicament of mankind, the fall

of man, and what God is doing to respond to that.

And so this is our two of the 24 hours.

There are actually only two world views.

There are lots of different views but they really categorize into one of two categories.

Either everything is the result of a cosmic accident, and this is what we're taught in

schools today that we came from Goo to You by way of the Zoo, in other words.

And this idea of everything being the result of a cosmic accident is ridiculous of course,

but also it shouldn't surprise us then that our children have no sense of destiny and

how can they have if we are all just some kind of cosmic accident.

The alternative world view is that we are the result of a deliberate and highly skillful

design which implies of course that there's a designer and in turn that implies there's

an accountability to that designer.

All the different world views you might categorize, follow one of these two categories and these

things are important issues because it will lead to four basic questions.

Who am I?

Where did I come from?

And why am I here?

And where am I going to go when I die?

These four basic questions are questions that every one of us has a belief about, an attitude

about and it's critical of course because this will determine our destiny.

It's interesting that the book of Genesis anticipates all false philosophies.

Atheism is rebutted by the fact that we've been created by God.

Pantheism, the fact that God is everywhere is nonsense.

God is transcendent of his creation and distinguishable from it.

Polypheism is rebutted at book of Genesis.

There is one God and materialism is rebutted in Genesis because matter had a beginning

and it also will have an end.

Humanism which is of course the official religion of the United States says so declared by the

Supreme Court.

Suggested God is rebutted by the fact that God not man is the ultimate reality.

We're not the ultimate reality.

We're simply pawns in a prize in a cosmic warfare.

But God himself is the ultimate reality.

And of course the other thing that lurks behind all our discussions is this theory of evolution.

And when we speak of evolution or evolutionism we're not talking about the fact that there

is adaptation within species.

It's really what we're dealing with here is biogenesis but we generally call it the theory

of evolution and that is of course rebutted by the scripture because God deliberately

and skillfully created each one of us.

And uniformism.

Among scientists there's an attitude that things have always been the way they are, that things

continue as they always have been.

And the Bible speaks differently.

It says God intervenes.

Not only at the creation but during history.

He intervenes in what's going on.

And it's interesting if you take a pair of binoculars and look at the moon or any other

planetary objects we see them bitterly beaten up, pockmarked.

It's clear that the solar system was a rough neighborhood and so the uniformism is a suspect

premise even within a scientific context.

Every major doctrine in the Bible has its roots in Genesis.

Sovereign election, salvation, justification by faith, the believer security, the concept

of separation, the disciplinary chastisement, the rapture of the church is even suggested

here.

Divine incarnation, death and resurrection, the priesthoods, both the Aaronic and the

Melchizedek priesthoods, the Antichrist even has his roots in here and the Palestinian

covenant and on it goes.

They're more than we could even list here.

Let's just jump in and take the first verse.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Now if you can embrace that sentence you'll have no problems in the rest of the Bible.

You have problems with that sentence, you'll have all kinds of difficulties.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

It's interesting that in the Hebrew there are seven words and 28 letters and by the way

you notice that Hebrew remember goes from right to left.

All languages flow towards Jerusalem.

Nations that were east of Jerusalem wrote from right to left.

Nations that are west of Jerusalem right from left to right.

Western Europe we have Greek, Latin, English of course and so on, Spanish what have you.

I'll go from left to right.

If you go east of Jerusalem whether it's Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit, what have you, it goes

from right to left.

I don't know what you do with that piece of information but I had to throw it out there.

There are over 300,000 letters in the Torah but we're taking 28 of them here.

And we actually could be spending a week of study on just these letters.

And so notice the first word is better sheet in the beginning or technically in the beginning.

And then the word barah in the beginning barah God created out of nothing.

There are three different words that could be used here.

Asa which means to make or fashion, fabricate if you will but of something else.

Yatsa which means to form something but these are not the words used here.

The word barah means to create out of nothing.

And all three of these words are in Isaiah 43, 7.

They have obviously a different sense.

But the other thing I'd like to comment on without trying to beat this to death is the

word Elohim, the word God there.

Barashite Barah Elohim, the word Elohim, you whether you realize or not, probably know

enough Hebrew to realize that that's a plural noun.

Certain categories of Hebrew nouns suggest the plural by an I am ending.

Cherab is singular, cherabim is plural, a seraph is singular, seraphim are plural.

And Elohim is a plural noun.

But what's strange about its usage in the Bible, it's always used as a singular noun.

It technically is a grammatical mistake.

And it's a hint in the very structure of the first few words of the Torah of the Trinity.

The Trinity is all through the Old Testament, but that's a separate study, but just be

sensitive to that.

There are a number of basic questions.

Is the universe 15 billion years old?

That's the conventional wisdom among astronomers, of course, 15, 16 billion.

And was it created in six days, in 144 hours?

How many of you here believe the universe is 16 billion years old?

Okay, how many of you believe that the universe was created in literally six days?

My hand is up in both cases.

That may surprise you, because both may be true.

It always bothers me when I find Christians who are sophisticated nine-sines theory of

relativity badger this because for nine-sines theory of relativity, you have to beg the

question of whose clock are you talking about?

And I'll show you what I mean here in a minute.

There are many Christians that have trouble with the six-day concept.

There's actually a large group of scientists that have published a book in six days, over

50 of them expressing why they believe the universe was created in six days.

Or was the light just created in transit where the aging factors built in, the tree rings

that suggest more and so forth?

These things are an issue to many Christians because they want to cling to the idea of

being scientifically accurate on the one hand, and yet they're troubled by the fact the Bible

says clearly six days.

Or were the days more than 24 hours where they actually geological eras?

There are many authors that write books trying to present a Christian viewpoint arguing that

they try to make this sixteen-billion-year age of the universe compatible with the scripture.

And our problem, of course, is not Genesis, it turns out to be Exodus, I'll come to that.

The great discovery of 20th century science was that we live in a finite universe, which

means it had a beginning.

And the way they try to explain that beginning is with a family of theories called the Big

Bang models, which essentially say first there was nothing and then it exploded.

And that may sound facetious, but that's literally what they say.

The first one was the steady state model that Einstein himself admitted was his biggest

mistake because it was discredited.

Then there was a concept, a hesitation model, but that was refuted in the 1960s.

Then there was an oscillation model that expanded and contracted and so forth.

And that's refuted by the entropy laws and lack of mass and other issues.

The current models are basically a variation of what they call the inflation model.

The problem with this model, it requires anti-gravity forces that have never been observed and it

has a number of other problems.

The whole Big Bang area is an area of continual adjustments and hypotheses and unprovable

theories and so forth.

There's interesting, there is a stretch factor of the universe.

It apparently is expanded by a factor of ten to the twelfth according to conventional

wisdom, which is based on the temperature of the quark confinement when matter frees

out energy and I won't go into all of that.

Namely, this 16 billion year life of the universe, if it would be an expression of the expansion

factor.

But what's interesting, Dr. Gerald Schroeder, who is one of the world famous nuclear physicists,

he participated in the atomic bomb tests and so forth, he has his residence in Jerusalem.

He wrote a marvelous book called Genesis in the Big Bang.

Now he's not a Christian, he's a Jew, brilliant scientist and a delightful friend.

We spent a pass over together in his home.

But it's interesting, if you take that expansion factor of ten to the twelfth, the 16 billion

years represent essentially six billion billion days or ten to six to the ten to the twelfth

days and if you divide that by the expansion factor of ten to the twelfth, that's what

you get six days.

To look at an exponential expansion, day one by this would account for eight billion

of those years, day two, four billion, two, a third day, two billion and so forth, the

sum being 16 billion years as measured at the perimeter of the universe.

So the real question is, who's clock are you talking about?

Adam wasn't on the earth when this was created, the only clock around was God's and God clearly

tells us that it is six days.

We'll get to that shortly.

But one of the things that we need to be sensitive to is that modern science has approached the

very boundaries of our reality and have recognized that.

There are two concepts in mathematics if you're in school that you cannot find in the physical

universe.

One of them is randomness.

We often talk about random numbers, but you'll discover if you're in the computer field,

there's no such thing as a truly random number.

You have pseudo-random generators that will generate numbers that have many of the properties

of random numbers, but true randomness is an elusive concept.

And most of us have been trained with what's called deterministic models, like equations,

F equals MA or whatever, as you learn in science.

But there's another field of study of stochastic models in which it includes random variables.

The field of advanced statistics would be embraced by this area.

And if you really study this area, you discover that the best you can get are pseudo-random

numbers.

Randomness is an elusive concept.

That leads to a new theory in mathematics called a chaos theory, which deals with these

issues.

But randomness is very elusive to actually find.

Well, that's exactly what the Scripture says, by the way.

It says the lot is cast in the lap that the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

And so he's in control.

And Albert Einstein said God does not play dice.

That was one of his rebuttals to some of these theories.

And I always enjoy that because if God did play dice, the reason he doesn't play it,

if he did, he'd win.

But moving on, the other concept that you cannot find in the universe, surprising enough, is

infinity.

We can conceive of it.

We can deal with it mathematically, but we find it elusive.

In the macrocosm, the universe itself, you think, by looking through a telescope, it was

good enough.

You could finally see the fringe of the universe.

The universe is finite, and it is not infinite.

That's one of the great discoveries of modern science.

But at the microcosm, that is in the area of smallness, we're also startled to discover

there is a boundary to smallness.

You and I would think that if we took a line and cut it in half, we could take what's left

and cut that in half again.

And you would think, at least conceptually, you could do that forever.

However small you get, whatever is left, you could always cut in half.

It turns out that's not true.

There is a length.

It happens to be 10 to the minus 35 centimeters, which if you cut it in half, it no longer

has locality.

Subatomic particles have a property that physics called non-locality.

The whole field of quantum physics is based on the discovery that whether you're talking

about length or energy or mass or time, all these things are made up of indivisible units,

that you cannot split any smaller.

So we find ourselves then, as we examine these two boundaries, we are in a subset of a larger

reality.

We're bounded by quantum physics on the small end and a limited cosmos on the large end.

We are in a virtual reality of a larger universe.

The plank length turns out to be 10 to the minus 33 centimeters that you can't get smaller

than.

You cannot find a unit of time smaller than 10 to the minus 43 seconds.

Those are very small, but the point is they're indivisible and that has profound implications

in understanding our world.

We are in a digital simulation.

This podium looks, feels like it's solid.

It actually is not by a factor of 10 to the 15th, strangely enough.

And we'll get into that in a moment.

But what we think is reality is actually a virtual reality within, in fact, a digital

reality within a much larger context.

And we can't see beyond our reality, but we know that we are a subset by what we observe.

And now let's talk a little bit about physical chronometers.

You know, the many of us talk about radiometric dating, carbon-14 dating, and so forth.

And the trouble with this form of dating, it's based on some assumptions.

It's based on a known clock rate, that the clock was set accurately at the beginning,

and the clock was not disturbed during the measure.

And it turns out that these are frail assumptions to build long estimates of time on.

This leads to a whole division in science of unit formitarianism, which means things

have always been the way they are, or catastrophism, that where we are as a result of past catastrophes,

collisions, and so forth.

And the evidence is all in favor of catastrophism.

And all you have to do to convince yourself of that is get a pair of binoculars and take

a look at the moon.

And explain how those craters and things happened by uniformitarianism.

Now there's a number, it's astonishing to discover there are a number of indicators

that indicate that our Earth is far younger than is commonly taught.

The amount of moon dust, oil gushes, the Earth's magnetic field, the Mississippi River Delta,

the salinity of the oceans, the Pointing Robertson effect.

I'll come back to that.

And radio halos, and these are just an example.

There are 95 of these listed by Walt Brown and his books on evolution and so forth.

I encourage you to take a look at those.

Let's talk about moon dust.

See, the lunar surface is exposed to direct sunlight and strong ultraviolet light and

x-rays.

These can all destroy the surface layer of the exposed rock and reduce them to dust.

And it does this at the rate of a few ten thousandths of an inch per year.

But even this minute amount during the age of the moon could be sufficient to form a

layer several miles deep.

But that's not what they find, of course.

There's only a few thousand years worth of dust found.

Sound strange, but that's an indicator of the age of the moon.

The Earth's magnetic field.

Its half-life is calculated to be about 1400 years.

And based on measurements taken from 1835 to 1965, it also generates estimates of an

age of the Earth of something less than 10,000 years.

Now if it extrapolated back 20,000 years, the jewel heat generated would liquefy the

Earth.

So you've gotten some real equations here to analyze that suggest obviously a young

Earth.

The Mississippi River Delta.

There's approximately 300 million cubic yards of sediment that are deposited in the Gulf

of Mexico by the Mississippi River each year.

And the house is at that volume and the rate of accumulation and dividing the weight of

those sediments deposited annually, the age of the delta appears to be, guess what,

about 4000 years.

The salinity of the oceans, uranium, sodium, nickel, magnesium, silicon, potassium, copper,

gold, molybdenum, and bicarbonate concentrations in the oceans, are much less than would be

expected if these elements and compounds were being added to the oceans at the present rate

for thousands of millions of years as is commonly taught in our schools.

Nitrates in uranium do not break down or recycle like salt does.

And so that's, as you get into the details here, they're rather telling.

This all implies that our oceans are a few thousand years old.

There's another effect, the pointing Robertson effect.

You might look at it like a solar janitor, may help you remember it, photons, these subatomic

particles, slow down the forward movement of objects in space.

They eventually, they collide with these, they're very small particles but they're still real

particles.

The solar drag force exerted upon micrometeoroids causes the particles to spiral into the sun

because they slow down, they eventually get attracted by the sun's gravity.

The sun is sweeping space at the rate of about 100,000 tons per day.

And there's no known source of replenishment.

And so the current abundance speaks again for a young universe.

There's also what they call radio halos.

Colonial Planium 218 has been found in Micah and Flora.

You say so what?

Well, Planium 218 has a half-life of only three minutes.

And so this is evidence of an instantaneous crystallization of the host granite concurrent

with the formation of the polonium.

And this speaks also of an instantaneous creation.

And these are just a few samplings that if you get into the subject, be prepared to dig

deeply because most of what we've been taught in schools is myths and legends and falsehoods.

Let's get on to the second verse in Genesis chapter 1.

Genesis chapter 1 verse 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.

And so this happens to include a Hebrew phrase that's been the subject of a great deal of

provocative speculation.

Not form and void in the Hebrew is tohu vubohu without form and void.

The problem is that when you get to Isaiah 45, 18, you find an interesting verse for that

saith the Lord that created the heavens, God Himself that formed the earth and made it.

He hath established it.

He created it not in vain.

He formed it to be inhabited.

I am the Lord, and there is none else.

And there's the same word there, is that he created it not tohu vubohu.

So there seems to be a contradiction here.

And whenever you find a parent contradiction in the scripture, rejoice because there may

be a discovery hidden behind that.

The other problem with this verse is the word was.

It happens to be a transitive verb.

It really should be translated became.

It implies somebody being the result of an action.

The example of that, we find later in Genesis, where Lot's wife became a pillar of salt.

The same word.

It implies action on a direct object.

And so when you put this all together, the way some people would translate this verse,

the first verse no problem.

In the beginning, God created the heaven of the earth.

Period, new subject.

But, and that's another issue, the conjunction there is an adverse of conjunction.

In other words, both the Septuagint and the Greek and also the Latin Vulcate make that

point.

It's not and that's neutral, but it's an adverse of conjunction.

So it should be translated.

But the earth became without form and void.

And darkness is around the face of the deep.

And because of this possibility, this is controversial, so I don't want you to necessarily

mind to just be aware of this viewpoint, but there is a view by some scholars that there

is a gap implied between verse 1 and 2.

In the beginning, God created the heaven of the earth.

Period, great, no problem.

But the earth became without form and void.

And darkness is around the face of the deep, maybe for eons.

And darkness and the Spirit of God hovered or brooded over the face of the waters.

And one of the questions that this view I'm suggesting here was originally proposed by

Thomas Chalmers in 1814.

And these views are supported by people like G.H.

Pember, Donald Gray Barnhouse, G. Campbell Morgan, Arthur Constance, and others.

It's highly speculative, but it does seem to tie with some other scriptures.

And one of the issues it needs to deal with, it has nothing to do with dinosaurs and that

sort of thing.

We'll come to that.

But it does raise a possibility because one of the questions that we ask ourselves

is when did Satan fall?

When we get to chapter 3 of Genesis, he's already a fallen creature.

We know he wasn't always fallen when we studied Isaiah and Ezekiel and other sources of information

about him.

So one of the questions, when did he fall?

And the suggestion is maybe there was some incidents between verse 1 and 2.

And because these terms without form and void are always dealt where they occur elsewhere,

it's without form and void as a form of judgment.

So there are all kinds of conjectures that come out of that.

Be careful with those, but recognize that there are these strange views.

But the first direct quote of God in this scripture is the third verse.

God said, let light be, is what he actually said.

Let there be light, and there was light.

And so it's interesting that light itself is one of the most profound mysteries in science.

And the speed of light is usually represented by the letter C by tradition.

The notes of the speed of light are in themselves an interesting controversy.

See, in the 17th century, Kepler and Descartes and so forth, the experts in that day, believed

that light was instantaneous, or putting another way that the speed of light was infinite,

very high, very fast.

And that was the conventional wisdom.

But in 1677, a Danish astronomer by the name of Olaf Romer measured the elapsed time between

eclipses of Jupiter with one of its moons.

And there's ways to do that at different places in its orbit, which gives you a way of measuring

the speed of light over very large distances.

And by taking advantage of that, he measured the speed of light and discovered it was finite.

And he was pupod by the physicists.

For 50 years, they laughed at this foolishness that the speed of light was finite, a finite

number.

It was an Englishman by the name of James Bradley, 60 years later, that confirmed Romer's

work.

And it was generally very reluctantly accepted by the physics community that light had a finite

speed.

Over the last 300 years, the speed of light has been measured at least 164 times by 16

different methods.

And as we examine the data for that, we find some surprising things.

There's a delightful friend of mine by the name of Barry Setterfield in Australia that

more than 10 years ago, explored this issue and published some papers in this area.

And he was joined by Trevor Norman, Barry Setterfield and Trevor Norman, did an analysis.

What they did is they gathered the raw data from these classic experiments through history,

and they examined them carefully.

And they discovered Romer's information with the I.O. eclipse.

His measurement concluded that the speed of light was 307,600 kilometers per second

with an error band of about 5,400 kilometers either way.

And okay, in 1875, two centuries later, Harvard University, using essentially the same method,

measured it, and it was 299,921 meters kilometers per second with an error band of only 13,

because obviously technology had improved in those two centuries.

In 1983, the National Bureau of Standards, using a laser technique, measured the speed

of light, as 299,792.4586 plus or minus 0.0003 kilometers per second, in other words, very,

very small error band.

But what's interesting if you stand back and examine these numbers, you'll notice that

the means don't even overlap, that Harvard's analysis fell outside the error band of Romer's

and all the way down.

A Canadian mathematician by the name of Alan Montgomery analyzed all this data statistically,

and he also concluded that the speed of light's been slowing down.

In fact, it follows a co-sequence squared curve with better than a 99% correlation factor.

Now this implies that the speed of light's been slowing down.

And if you go backwards and say, okay, what was it earlier?

It was apparently 10 to 30% faster in the time of Christ.

It was twice as fast in the days of Solomon.

It was four times as fast in the days of Abraham and 10 million times faster prior

to 3000 BC.

And incidentally, there are similar trends in 475 measurements of 11 other atomic quantities

by 25 different methods that implied the same thing.

It's interesting that some years ago, of course, we developed a friendship with Barry Sutterfield

and we have included many of these discoveries in our materials.

And got a lot of guffas from some of my friends, Christian physicists, that tried to advise

me, Chuck, don't buy into that.

That's foolishness.

Any physicist knows that the speed of light's a constant.

It's not variable.

And we caught a lot of criticism from some of these friends who are a number of years,

a better part of 10 years.

But in the last two years, there have been a number of articles in reputable scientific

journals where they have now discovered the speed of light is not a constant.

One of the things that disturbs me about these articles that you find in the press is there

many of them now that recognize the reality that the speed of light is a variable and

has been slowing down.

What's disturbing that none of them acknowledge the pioneering work of Barry Sutterfield and

Trevor Norman who've taken this abuse over the decades.

You'll discover that physicists cling to their beliefs with the same tenacity that theologians

do.

And it's not at all objective.

But let's get into some other confirmations.

The French Astronomical Journal back in 1927 suggests some of these things.

Tom Flanders and the U.S. Naval Observatory noticed that the atomic clocks are slowing

down relative to orbital clocks.

And some Russians also that have published in this area independent of Sutterfield.

So this is not a hair-brained idea of a couple of Australians.

It's very real.

The definition of time itself changed in 1967.

Up until 1967, a second of time was defined in terms of one Earth orbit around the Sun.

A small fraction of that, obviously.

After 1967, the second was redefined as a number of oscillations of the C-G133 atom.

And see if atomic clocks are correct, then the orbital speeds of Mercury and Venus and

Mars are increasing, which of course is impossible.

If the gravitational constant is truly constant, then atomic vibrations and speed of light are

decreasing.

And see if a planet's orbital speed is increased, it would violate the law of conservation of

energy.

The atomic clocks are correct.

The gravitational constant would change, and no such variations have been detected.

So this has some profound implications in terms of the very fabric of our reality here.

See if atomic frequencies are decreasing, then five properties of the atom, such as Planck's

constant and others, would also be changing.

And statistical studies support both the magnitude and direction of these changes.

There's another thing that's happening in the field of physics you should be sensitive

to.

All this will bear with me.

This all will affect your perspectives as you read.

The more you know about what's going on in science, the more comfortable Genesis 1 reads.

There's a thing called Hubble's Law.

That's why the space telescope was named after Edwin Hubble.

Hubble's Law was that because they observe that the light spectra of stars shift to the

red, and apparently shifts to the red in proportion to its distance away, they've always assumed

that that was like a Doppler effect.

A siren sounds higher pitches comes at you and lower pitches that moves away.

They call that the Doppler effect in sound.

They felt the same thing's happening with light, that the light shifted to the red because

these things are moving away from us, along a wave wave.

Except a couple of guys, Halton Arp in Germany and William Tift in the University of Arizona

have spent the last several decades collecting data, precise data, about the red shifts.

And they've discovered that some of them aren't so well behaved.

See Hubble's Law poshulated that this whole idea that the red shift is caused by an expanding

universe.

And that's why he's honored by the space telescope being named after him and so forth.

William Tift has discovered that the red shifts are quantized.

They're always a multiple of a definitive number.

In other words, sort of like the keys of a piano.

You can only get certain keys by hitting the key, unlike a violin where you can get

any tone you want.

A piano you've got discrete choices.

The red shift has that character, in other words, it's digital.

And so it turns out that the red shift may actually be evidence of a change in the fabric

of space itself.

It's an atomic effect rather than a recessional velocity effect.

That's just a conjecture at this point, but it should understand the whole field of astronomy

is based on Hubble's Law and the rug's been pulled out from under that.

Well going on in Genesis, God said, let there be light and there was light and God saw the

light that it was good and divided the light from the darkness and he called the light

day and the darkness he called night.

And the evening and the morning were the day one.

The subsequent days are relative, the second day, third, day, fourth day.

But this one has a unique designation.

It is the first in existence, the first day one.

And also God divided the light from the darkness.

We could talk a lot about that.

Most of us think that darkness is simply the absence of light, except now we discover that

darkness itself has a property.

That's where we have black holes.

It has a gravitational effect out of which no light can emerge.

So it's not as simple as it first seems.

But there's another thing I want to call your attention to.

It says, the evening and the morning were day one.

The word evening in Hebrew is eref.

And the word morning is bokar.

And we understand evening and morning, eref and bokar to be evening and morning, because

that's its usage in modern Hebrew.

But we'll run into a strange event when we get to the seventh day because there is no

evening and morning.

And that's a clue perhaps that the word eref and bokar in its original context meant something

other than evening and morning and came to mean evening and morning subsequently.

Let's explore these two terms a little more carefully because neither of these occur on

the seventh day.

Eref actually speaks to obscuration like a mixture.

Mathematically it's increasing entropy.

When encroaching darkness began to deny our ability to discern forms or shapes and identities,

hence this became a term for twilight, a time of approaching darkness or ambiguity,

confusion.

So eref had its initial concept of obscuration and that's what's a natural term for evening

twilight if you will.

At sunset that marks the duration of impurity.

When a ceremonial and clean person became clean again.

So we'll discover that the demarcation in the Hebrew world was eref, the evening, not

midnight or morning as we think of it in our world.

So the eref became the beginning of the Hebrew day but it's a term for evening because it's

a time when there's encroaching darkness and so forth.

The word bokar is just the opposite.

Bokar really means becoming discernible, distinguishable, visible, the perception of order.

It's as if you're getting up in the morning and you can begin to see gee there are things

out there.

If you've ever arrived very late at night at some strange place and went to bed then

the morning you get up and you look around and you begin, wow I didn't know that mountain

was there.

As light comes you can begin to discern.

So that's mathematically a form of decreasing entropy, of decreasing randomness.

So it has an attendant ability to discern forms, shapes, distinct identities, breaking

forth of light and revealing things in effect.

So that's why it comes to mean dawn or morning.

I'm going to suggest to you that these terms have a more fundamental meaning and have come

to colloquially mean evening and morning.

So we need to understand there are one of the sciences that's emerging in modern times

is probably the most telling of all the sciences and that's the information sciences.

As we understand communication theory, information theory with computers and the rest and that's

been of course my personal field of specialization.

We obviously can think of disorder and order.

We all know what order looks like, we know what disorder looks like.

On a Saturday you clean up the closet or at school you clean up your locker every once

in a while.

You go from the confusion you try to get things a little bit more or less or a woman's purse

or whatever.

There's a thing called noise, useless change in contrast to signal which is carrying information.

See on the right side here where it's order or signal that's information.

Disorder or noise is randomness or entry.

Cacophony sounds that make no sense at all in contrast to organized sounds which we call

music.

There's chaos in contrast to cosmos.

The word Greek word cosmos is used of the world for example, but it means to bring order

out of chaos.

It's the root of course to the word cosmetics but I won't go there.

We'll move on here.

So on the left side you got disorder, noise, cacophony, chaos, forms of randomness.

On the right side you got order, signals, music, cosmos itself, design.

So the disorder, the collective term for that is entropy, randomness, confusion.

In contrast to that you have information, things that carry intelligence.

And the direction is always in the direction of entropy.

Things are always winding down.

This is if the entire universe is like a clock that's been wound up that's winding down.

We always go from order disorder.

You have to put energy in to go the other way.

The natural trend is towards entropy.

And when you take information and add confusion to it or you put some noise into it, it degrades

in the direction of entropy.

If we do an entropy profile of the universe, I'm going to have entropy going upside down.

Maximetry is the bottom of this chart and order is at the top if you will.

And so, entropy is going downhill, order is going uphill.

And so, we have adarov, which is obscurity and disorder, which later comes to mean evening.

And bokeh, which means orderly, it's discernible, that's morning.

And it's my suspicion that adarov and bokeh define discrete steps in defining creation.

We have the view that there was an event that caused a disruption between the spiritual

and physical world.

I'll come to that shortly.

And, but it's interesting, when you get to day seven, the Hebrew translation of that

passage in the uncle's translation is that God imposed a unified order on the universe

on day seven.

And so, and it's of course in day one, the main creation in day one is let light be.

Okay?

Well, that's day one.

Let's go to day two or second day more precisely.

And God said, let there be a firmament.

That is a strange word.

We'll come to that.

In the midst of the waters and let divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament and divide the waters which were under the firmament from

the waters which are above the firmament.

It was so God called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second

day, the adarov and bokeh second day.

Now, the word for firmament is rakia and it's a strange word.

In the Hebrew, rakia means an extended surface.

It's an expanse but it's a solid expanse.

That's the emphasis of the word.

In the Greek translation, a steroma also means firmness.

And it's from that the Latin got firmamentum which from which we get the word firmament

which means a three dimensional solidity or firm expanse.

That sounds like a contradiction because it's firm and yet it's term, we would say space

but it's not empty.

So that's the second day.

When it speaks of waters, by the way, I suspect that what it's dealing with is what's called

in rhetoric a sthenectiki.

Often you put the general for the specific or the specific for the general.

For example, you say speaking of a very good hospitality, she sets a fine table.

You don't mean literally the table, you mean the whole cuisines.

That's an example in Rhettick where you use the specific to mean the general.

And boy, so and so it's got some neat wheels, meaning there's cars.

So we use those SNCC to ease all the time.

It says waters, I think it's talking about fluids.

And one of the things most of us think of matters having three states, gas, liquid, or

solid.

There's a fourth state of matter, plasma before liquids, plasma before gases and then gases

to liquids to solids.

Or going the other way from solid to liquid to gas to plasma where you've got disassociated

atoms.

And I believe that's really what's in view here.

Is this more than a metaphor?

All through the scripture, it speaks of the heavens being stretched.

God stretches out the heavens, stretching out the heaven like a tent curtain.

You can't stretch out empty space.

That doesn't make sense.

He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell

in.

He stretch out the heavens, the Lord who stretches out the heavens in Zechariah.

And we can go on with dozens of verses that are consistent in presenting this rather fluid

role there.

And we now discover by the way that empty space is really an oxymoron.

Space is not an empty vacuum.

It can be torn according to Isaiah 64.

It can be worn out like a garment.

Space can be worn out like garments on 102.

It can be shaken.

How do you shake empty space?

Hebrews 12, Haggai 2, Isaiah 13.

It can and will be burnt up according to 2 Peter 3.

In Revelation 6, it says it split apart like a scroll.

That's interesting.

It can be rolled up like a mantle according to Hebrews 1 and Isaiah 34 or a scroll.

Now that rolled up is a clue here.

In order for something to be rolled up, there must be a dimension in which it is thin.

You can take a map and you can roll it up.

That's because it's thin and also a two-dimensional map needs a third dimension to be rolled up.

So this is a hint of another dimension.

Space can be bent.

So there must be a direction that it can be bent toward.

So thus there are additional spatial dimensions.

And so we just know this from the biblical text, but we also know it as we understand

what the physicists tell us about our universe is that we now know that we live in more than

three dimensions.

In fact, more than four, counting time is one of those dimensions.

In fact, the current conjectures that we live in at least 10 different dimensions.

So in the monadies in the 12th century, by studying Genesis chapter 1, concluded that

the universe has 10 dimensions and only four are directly knowable.

That was his comments in his commentary on Genesis.

Well, it's interesting that we've spent millions of dollars on atomic accelerators

to discover the same thing.

Particle physicists in the 20th century have concluded since about 1984 that we live in

at least 10 dimensions.

Four directly measurable, three spatial dimensions, lengths with height and time, and six other

dimensions are curled, as they would say in vector calculus, curled in less than 10

to the minus 33 centimeters, and therefore they're only inforable by indirect means.

And I think it's funny that we spent all this money on atomic accelerators to learn what

monadies did by doing as homework in Genesis 1.

But moving on, let's talk a little about the atom.

Most of us had some exposure to the atom.

We think of the simplest atom, which is hydrogen, has a nucleus and has an electron running

around it in the conventional representation of that.

But there's a nucleus and there's an electron or more, and they're obviously in balance,

plus and minus-wise.

But then this is obviously not the scale because the atom is about 10 to the minus-3

on a scale, and the nucleus, the nucleus, the atom is about 10 to the minus-13th away.

So that means, by the way, that there is the difference, the amount of space there linearly

is about 10 to the minus-5.

If you take that volumetrically, that means that for every particle there, you have 10

to the 15th emptiness.

10 to the 15th is a big number.

If we were going to build a model of the atom, and we're going to let the nucleus be the

size of a pinhead, the electron would be a football field away, literally 100 meters

away.

So an atom is mostly empty space.

There's only one part in 10 to the 15th that is, in some sense, solid.

But because of the electrical effects, it creates the illusion of having physical properties.

And so we have H2O, where oxygen captures two hydrogen atoms, or we have other atoms where

the whole hydrocarbon world is one of chaining these atoms by the electrical interactions

of the atoms themselves, by imbalances.

And so what seems to be suggested is in the first early days of Genesis is that we had

plasmas.

They hadn't even formed molecules yet.

And we have the properties of space.

By the way, something else I should go on to.

Space has properties.

It has an electrical property called permittivity.

It has permeability.

It has magnetic, both as a dielectric constant, and it has a magnetic constant.

There is an intrinsic impedance in space.

Any radio actor who's been trying to tune in antenna knows that space itself has an intrinsic

impedance.

And these things are all now well understood.

And of course, the velocity of light, as we've talked about at creation, was probably

2.54 times 10 to the 10th times its present velocity.

It's currently also at the speed of gravity, which is a whole other thing to get into.

Let's talk a little bit about zero-point energy.

What's astonishing is that if the temperature of an empty container is lowered to absolute

zero, there still remains a residual amount of thermal energy that cannot, by any means,

be removed.

That's why they call it the zero-point energy.

And an absolute vacuum is now known to be a vast reservoir of seething energy out of

which particles are being formed and annihilated constantly.

It's sort of like the foam at the base of a waterfall.

And one of the questions is why doesn't an electron spinning around its nucleus of an

atom radiate its energy away and by losing that energy spiral into the nucleus?

The question.

The answer is it picks up energy from the background zero-point energy and therefore

sustained by it.

And that's exactly what's suggested in 1st Colossians 1, verse 16, incidentally.

But let's keep moving here.

Day one, let light be.

Second day, the stretching out of space.

The third day, we find land and vegetation.

Now that's kind of exciting.

So the air oven boker on the third day leads to the land and vegetation.

There's something else behind the text without getting into the land vegetation thing itself.

You can play that from your biology books and so forth.

And God said, behold, I've given you every herb-bearing seed, excuse me now, in verse

29 now, which is upon the face of all the earth, every tree in the, which is the fruit

of the tree yielding seed and goes on, the end of that chapter to the beginning of the

next chapter, says, out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant

to the sight and good for food and the tree of life, also in the midst of the garden and

the tree of knowledge of good and evil and goes on.

Between these two verses, verse 29 of chapter 1 and verse 9 of chapter 2 is obviously some

Hebrew text of a handful of verses in which is encrypted the name of 25 trees that appear

in the Bible.

It's interesting that if you're using a computer they discovered that these 25 trees are encrypted,

some very shortly, every second, losing every second letter, every third letter, that forward

or backward, whatever.

But it's interesting that these trees are the trees that are mentioned elsewhere in the

Scripture.

They're all encrypted underneath the text that deals with the seed-bearing trees.

And so what's relevant here isn't the fact these words happen to occur.

What's relevant here is they're clustered under the text that has relevance here.

So it's an interesting form of authentication as we talked about earlier.

Let's skip on to the fourth day.

It's sort of starting to realize that the sun is created in day four, the plants and

vegetation in day three.

That makes it pretty hard to explain these as geologically heurists, by the way.

And also it indicates that maybe there's other sources of light before the sun, but

there's not getting all that here.

Out of them, Boker, again we have the sun, the planets, the stars and all of that.

And there's much we could talk about here, but let's just pick verse 14 out of the series.

God said, let there be lights in the firm of heaven to divide the day from the night and

let them be for what?

For signs, for seasons, for days and for years.

And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light

to rule the night and he made the stars also.

And the out of them, the Boker, were the fourth day.

But let's focus a little bit on this, one other thing.

As we look through a telescope, we see a number of galaxies.

There's a handful of these that are spiral galaxies and I've put a few on the screen

here.

And by making distance measurements, we estimate that the one on the upper left is about two

million light years away.

The next one to the right of it is 18 million light years away.

The one to the right of it is about 25.

Light years are measurements of distance, by the way.

It's how far light can travel in a year.

And a standard astronomical measurement of distance.

The one on the lower left is 32 million light years away.

The next one, 65 million and the one on the lower right, 106 million light years.

Now what's interesting about these, you'll notice that these spiral arms of the galaxies

are roughly, they're all very similar.

That poses an interesting question about galaxy twist.

The galaxies that were furthest away had to release their light long before the closer

galaxies, because the light had to go further away, so they had to start earlier.

Therefore, the further galaxies did not have as much time to rotate and twist their arms.

Thus the closer galaxies should have the most twist.

But we find that's not the case.

If the speed of light was a million times faster than the past, that would account for

them being so similar.

I said that I was a suggestion.

But let's get back to verse 14, because there's something else hidden under this one.

God said, let their lights be in the firm of the heaven to divide the day from the night

and let them be for signs, for seasons, and for days, and for years.

This word for seasons is homo y adin in the Hebrew, the appointed times.

It's interesting they've taken a computer and they've looked at the 78,000 letters in

the book of Genesis, and the frequency of those letters in the Hebrew alphabet would

imply that that word should just show up randomly by accident about five times in 78,000 letters.

But what they discover is astonishing.

As an equidistant letter sequence, it appears only once in the entire book of Genesis and

at an interval of 70, and it is centered on Genesis 1, 14.

And now why is this so significant?

Well, first of all, by the way, the odds of this happening exactly this way is like one

in 70 million.

It statistically doesn't make sense unless it was deliberate.

It turns out to any Jew, he knows of the appointed times there are 70 of them, 52 Sabbaths,

a year plus seven additional Sabbaths per year.

Many people don't realize that there's more than just the 52 Sabbaths.

Seven days of Passover, including its related feast.

It says Passover using it connotatively to include feast of first fruits and feast of

other bread.

There's the feast of Shavot, there's the Yom Tarua and Yom Kippur, and seven days of

Sukkot, the feast of time and apples.

When you add up there, it adds up to 70.

There are 70 appointed times on the Hebrew calendar.

And so it's fascinating to discover that the text itself echoes this, that the Hamoya

Dean is encrypted underneath the text in the interval of 70 once and only once centered

on that verse.

Again, these are not, you can't build big cases on this except they're forms of authentication.

You see evidence of a designer hovering over this text.

And Rabbi Hirsch said many years ago, the Jews' catechism is a calendar.

And what do you mean by that?

Well, of course, we have the Feast of Israel.

In the first month of the religious year, we have the spring feast.

Passover, Feast of 11 bread, Feast of first fruits.

Seven months later, you have the fall feasts in the month of Tishri.

Feast of trumpets on the first of that, the Yom Kippur on the 10th of that month, and

the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot on the 15th.

And between these two groups on the first and seventh, there's a very strange one, the

Feast of Weeks.

It's in which they use 11 bread strangely enough.

And each one of these feasts we'll discover later as we get into this are not only commemorative

historically, they're also prophetic.

The first three were fulfilled on Christ's first coming.

The last three, apparently, will be fulfilled on the second coming.

And there's a very interesting one between those two.

But let's move on.

On the fifth day, we have the sea animals and birds created.

And boy, again, this is so frustrating to go through this because each one of these subjects

is elegantly, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

illuminates the skill of the designer.

Uh, you can take something as trivial as a bird's feather, and you can spend a whole

evening on discovering how skillfully that's designed, and to attribute that to happen,

stance or accident is nonsense.

But we won't get into all that here.

The real death of Darwinism comes, uh, from lots of reasons, but not the least of which

is microbiology.

Advances in microbiology, namely the DNA and all that, have dealt the death blow.

They put the final nails in Darwin's coffin in a sense.

Because the DNA that we now discover is a three out of four error correcting code.

And we have time to develop that, but it's, it's just utterly absurd to attribute the

elegance of that code to random chance.

And when you're designed a computer, you've got to have the language and the machinery

processing that language intimately coordinated to ascribe either one or certainly together

as randomness is, uh, is, uh, is, uh, absolute folly in, in logic.

And Darwinism cannot explain the origin of life because it cannot explain the origin

of information.

And uh, there's another concept that's emerging called irreducible complexity.

We're indebted to Michael Beehey's book, Darwin's Black Box, where he illustrates this idea

with a simple mouse trap.

Here we have a mouse trap that has a five parts.

It has a basic platform on which there's a hammer that hammer is driven by a spring.

It's held back by a holding bar that's tucked under a catch.

All of us are familiar with a mouse trap.

And uh, what's interesting, there are five parts here.

Trying to make the simpler is pretty futile.

It's, it's, these five parts have to be there in some function or another.

It's interesting that if you have only four of the five parts, you don't catch four fifths

as many mice.

You catch zero.

The point is there's a concept in design called irreducible complexity.

It can't get simpler than this.

That indicates it's designed.

It can't happen by accident.

And let's take a single cell creature called a bacterea, a bacterea.

It has a flagellum, a little tail that propels it through its fluid.

And if you look at this carefully, all we're going to, we're not getting into all the other

details.

This is a single cell animal.

And we're going to just look at where the flagellum is connected to the creature.

And we discover there are 40 parts to an electric motor.

It doesn't wiggle.

It spins.

And it is an elegantly designed motor with 40 critical parts, any one of which missing

it doesn't work.

So this did not happen by chance.

It evidences designs, highly skillful design.

And so we won't get here into all that detail.

But then we get in, of course, to the next day, we have animals and six day, we have

animals, mammals, and of course, Mr. and Mrs. Mann created in day six.

And so I won't spend a lot of time on this.

Most of us are victims of this nonsense promoted by our textbooks and even in national geographic

and scientific American published these crazy things.

The so that we came from monkeys and nonsense.

When you get into this and study it with any depth at all, you'll discover something astonishing.

Not only is this nonsense, it's deliberate fraud.

The Heidelberg man was contrived from a single jawbone.

The Nebraska man in 1922, Henry Osborne, did it from just one.

And they later discovered it was from an extinct pig.

The Piltown man you hear so much about.

Charles Dawson developed this from the jawbone of a modern ape.

It was deliberate fraud.

We now know it was filed and treated with iron salts to look old.

Now if you get to the pig king man in 1921, the evidence has disappeared, but it also

had various evidence of an outright fraud.

These are not people who made a discovery and were just misguided.

These are people who deliberately contrived these things to be misleading.

The Neanderthal man found in the cave in the Antar Valley near Dusseldorf.

At the International Congress of Zoology in 1958, they concluded that it was just simply

an old man suffering from arthritis.

The Java man, 1922, in 1891, skull cap, a 50 foot femur thigh bone that was not even near

it, it was distant from it.

The evidence was concealed, it was teeth of a orangutan.

The thing that disturbs you about paleontology is it's littered with deliberate frauds,

not just poor science, but deliberate fraud.

So all this is still, you'll still find in the textbooks used in your schools to mislead

our kids.

In 120 years of searching, there have been no intermediate stages found to justify evolution.

We could go on and on, but let's move on here.

We get to day seven, the seventh rest.

And you'll notice there's no error of in bokeh.

There's no discrete steps God had finished his creation.

It's completed.

That's the whole theme of day seven and there's no error of bokeh.

Now our problem in the so-called day, how old is the universe in the day, is it's clear

that God intended us to understand that.

And our problem is not Genesis 1.

People talk about the word yom and what it might mean.

That's silliness.

It's Exodus 20 verse 11.

Where the creator of the universe with his own finger wrote it in stone.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that in them

is.

And he rested the seventh day, therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed

it.

And incidentally, he didn't do that in Exodus 20, he did that in Genesis 1.

And so our problem isn't in grasping the sixth day thing.

It's clear God intended us to understand that he did it in six days.

And in days as we think of them, I won't quibble about 24 hour business, but clearly

it's a day by day thing.

And the real mystery to those that really understand who God is is why did he take six

days.

But in any case that's what he chose to do and he did.

The field of thermodynamics has been really solidified in 125 years.

It has been fully described.

The first law of thermodynamics is called the conservation of matter and energy.

It asserts that matter and energy, they can equivalent, they're equivalent to each other,

can either be created nor destroyed under natural circumstances.

And nowhere in the universe is matter being created or annihilated.

All observed processes in the universe conserve matter or it's equivalent of energy.

And the corollary idea is natural processes cannot create energy.

All of this is a result of a creation of the past.

That's the implication of the first law.

You can also, there's no way to win.

In other words, that matter and energy is, you can't create either one of them.

And it's interesting, it's exactly what the scripture says in Genesis 2.

We just, in the seventh day God ended his work.

And that's a thermodynamic statement.

The works were finished from the foundation of the world and the book of Hebrews and so

forth.

All things that were there in you preserve them all in the MI and 9-6-8.

It's all through the scripture.

Well there's a second law of thermodynamics and that's what we call the entropy laws,

the second law, the bondage of decay.

First law says there's no way to win, the second law says you can't even break even.

What it really means is there's an arrow of time that asserts that as time advances,

the universe progresses from a state of order to a state of disorder.

And we find that in our closets at home, clean up the garage and see how long it lasts.

A lockerate school, what have you.

There's always a trend towards randomness and that's true of all processes.

The universe seems to run downhill to eventually a heat death when no temperature differences

exist and therefore no energies available for work.

And this means looking back that the universe had a beginning because the total has been

limited.

And there's a third law that no one talks about much except in thermodynamics and that's

where every substance has a positive entropy which may become zero at absolute zero which

means you can't get out of the game but we won't get into that here.

Entropy and scripture.

The parish thou shalt grow old as a garment in Psalm 102.

The earth will grow old like a garment in Isaiah 51.

Heaven and earth will pass away, Matthew 24.

And now is entropy going to be repealed?

This is one reason a number of us believe that the entropy laws were introduced in Genesis

3 because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage of decay and we believe

that's an allusion to the entry laws and obtain the glorious liberty of the children

of God.

So, heat always flows from hot bodies to cold bodies.

If the universe was infinitely old then the temperatures that are out the universe would

be uniform.

It's obviously not so therefore it's not infinitely old.

That's a simple demonstration that the universe had a beginning and is destined by the way

for an ending.

Scientists will talk about the big bang as the singularity has started all this and

it will ultimately reach the end of a uniform temperature which they call the heat death.

But there's finite boundaries when it began and there is an end at which it will end.

Now as you can probably gather this is kind of a frustrating exercise to go through these

six days because we spend a full session on each one in our commentary in Genesis.

We have a commentary in Genesis which has 24 sessions for the entire book, just the book.

And in Monday we go through the big bang model, the fabric of space, hyper dimensions and

all of that.

And Tuesday we have life and vegetation.

We talk about the origin of life, thermodynamics and entropy and molecular chemistry.

And the fourth day we have the stars and the planets.

We refute the so-called nebular hypothesis.

We talk about the anthropic principle and the signs in the heavens and such.

In the fifth day of the fish and fowl we talk about the fallacy of evolution, it's obviously

shredded very easily.

And the evidence is of design everywhere in biodiversity and its role.

And the sixth day we have of course the fallacies and frauds of alluded to but also the DNA and

the role of information in life.

And thus out of that the architecture of man, not his physical architecture, his software

architecture.

And the seventh day of course anyone that thinks the seventh day issue is a simple one

hasn't studied it.

And there are clearly six steps of entry, a reduction to get to the seventh day.

Then it reposes, established on the universe.

We talk about the Sabbath in prophecy and that may surprise many Christians are confused

on this point.

That doesn't put us under the law but there are some issues that might be quite provocative

and the role of marriage in all of this.

So let's wrap this up with Genesis chapter 3 which is the seed plot of the entire Bible

with the nahash, the shining one, presents to Eve the forbidden fruit and she yields

and that we need to study that carefully to understand the methodology of deception.

His first step was to suggest to Eve, yea, hath God said, to create doubt.

So that's really what God said.

That's exactly what he will do with each one of us.

The first step in deception is to create doubt about what God really said.

God means what he said and says what he means.

And from that, of course, the next step is denial.

You shall not surely die, he suggests, on they go.

And from the fall of man we have the God's declaration of war.

God takes the initiative of the war against Satan and he alludes to the seed of the woman

and the seed of serpent.

There's two seeds.

The seed of the woman becomes a messianic title of the deliverer, of the Messiah, of

Jesus Christ.

But there's also a seed of a serpent that will make his day.

And the key verses here in chapter 3 of verses 14 and 15, the Lord God said unto the serpent

or the nakshah, the shining one.

Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle, above all every beast of

the field, upon thy belly shalt thou go and dost shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.

And there are the two seeds, the seed of the woman being the title of Jesus Christ and the

seed of the serpent being this leader that he has to surface in world history.

And shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Now the entropy, the bondage of decay, we believe is introduced here.

So we've seen the order improve through the creation week and stabilized during the seventh

day.

But then we have this pivotal event called the fall of man in which God puts a curse on

the creation.

We need to understand that everything we know about the universe, we know from a post-curse

universe, we know it only since the curse has been instituted.

We have only glimpses or conjectures of what happened prior to the fall.

You can't prove to me that Adam and Eve lived only in three dimensions.

This is all a byproduct of the curse.

And so the effects of the fall, the entropy I think was introduced, the universe fractured.

Maybe this is where we separated from the ten dimensions to the four that we can directly

experience, separating the physical and spiritual universe.

If we imagine, if I can make a two-dimensional representation of a ten-dimensional universe

and God announces a curse and separates the six from the four, the four dimensions

that we can experience being what we call the physical universe, that fracture may be

a result of the curse.

And there will be a time that see the four-dimensional universe that we experience is

a subset of a much larger reality.

We know that from empirical data.

So we have the fracture.

And redemption, by the way, God's plan of redemption involves more than man alone because

Isaiah twice in Revelation says, I create a new heavens and a new earth.

So there's more than just man involved in all this.

The first act of religion is in Genesis 3, verse 7.

The eyes of them were both open and they knew that they were naked.

That may mean far more than we have any idea.

And they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons or covering armor or something.

Shagor means girdler, loin covering or belt or armor.

So that was their attempt to cover themselves from their fall.

But before the chapter ends, God teaches them more correctly.

They added also to his wife to the Lord God, make coats of skins and clothe them.

Why did he do that?

Because he was teaching them only by the shedding of innocent blood would they be covered.

And while that has a practical aspect that we grab immediately, there's a Levitical

aspect there that they will be, the shedding of innocent blood will be required to free

them from the predicament that they're in.

So the central theme, the Old Testament is the count of a nation.

The New Testament is the count of a man produced by that nation.

The Creator became a man and dwelled among us.

And his appearance is the central event of all history.

He died to purchase us, and he's alive today.

And the most exalted privilege we can get is to know him.

And that's what the Bible really is all about.

So this car thread begins from the seat of the woman.

We'll go to the call of Abraham, the tribe of Judah, the dynasty of David, finally the

virgin birth in Bethlehem.

And we'll go to another tree in another garden.

And when Jesus Christ is paid for the predicament that we've got ourselves in.

The next time we'll move forward and go to the flood and all those events, we'll find

that there's another increase in entry, a decrease in order because the flood changes

far, a lot more than just a lot of water.

And we'll deal with the Cain and Abel genealogy of Noah, the flood of Noah, and the Tower of

Babel in the next session, finishing unit one, which some people would call prehistory.

The second unit would be the rest of the book which deals with the patriarchs, Abraham,

Isaac, Jacob, and so forth.

See you there.