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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST MAN

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Many people have become agnostics because of the supposed conflict between the Bible and science. In truth, there is no conflict at all between a correct translation of the Bible and really proven science, not just unproved theories. One of these supposed conflicts is between the fact that science knows that human beings have lived on the earth far longer than the few thousand years covered by the Bible, and the common belief that the Bible says that Adam was the first man. But the truth is that the Bible nowhere says that Adam was the first man. Yes, I know that most of the preachers say that, but the Bible doesn’t. It merely says that Adam was the first WHITE man. Let’s look at the record.

The many mistranslations in the King James version obscure much of the truth. For example Genesis 1: 1-2 “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without  form  and  void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” In the Hebrew, it says, “Now the earth HAD BECOME chaotic and empty. “(See Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible) That is, some early catastrophe had wrecked the earth, which was not “without form and void” before that. This was a judgment of God on earlier civilizations for their wickedness. Jeremiah 4:23-27 gives a vision of it: “I beheld the earth, and lo,  it  was  without  form and void, and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and lo,  they  trembled,  and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and  lo,  there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger. For thus hath the Lord said “The whole land shall be. desolate; yet will I not make a full end.”

 Therefore we do find buried ruins of cities older than Adam and skeletons which can be dated by the carbon 14 process as many thousands of years older. But the Bible itself tells us about this.

Next the Bible tells of the creation of men in the plural. In Genesis 1:26-28 is says “Male and female created He THEM” and God told these people “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the  earth” (1:28). “Plenish” is an obsolete English word meaning “to fill” and you cannot RE-plenish what was never plenished, or filled before.

In the next chapter, Genesis 2 we find THE ADAM (In the singular) created. The Hebrew word “aw­ dawm” (rendered “Adam” in English) is from a root word meaning “to show blood in the face” or “of a ruddy complexion” – a word obviously not applicable to the dark races, which we also know from scientific evidence to be much older than the White Race.

Bible scholars know that Genesis 3:20 “And Adam called his wife’s name “Eve” because she was the mother of all living”  is a later interpolation which was not in the earlier manuscripts. (See Moffatt’s Translation.)

The 4th chapter of Genesis records the birth of Cain and Abel. In the Hebrew the wording suggests that they were twins. No other child of Eve is mentioned until the birth of Seth when Adam was 130 years old – certainly long after the birth of Cain and Abel which most scholars say was over 100 years earlier. Yet when Cain killed Abel, and in punishment was driven out of the land he complained to God that “any one that findeth me shall slay me.” (4:14)

Upon being sent away Cain found many other people. Genesis 4:1 7 records that Cain not only married a wife, but built a city. These were the pre-Adamite races mentioned in the latter part of Genesis. The Garden of Eden was not a plantation of ordinary trees and shrubs. God did nothing so foolish as to make a special creation just to have a man to wield shovel and pruning shears when He already had millions of pre-Adamite peoples available for that sort of work. We are told that the Garden of Eden contained “the tree of the knowledge (or experience) of good and evil” .

No tree of the forest has any knowledge or experience of either good or evil. And Ezekiel 31 says : “Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and a shadowing  bough  and of an high stature. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long and all the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations THE CEDARS IN THE, GARDEN OF GOD could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his  boughs,  and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; NOR ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN OF GOD. WAS LIKE UNTO HIM IN HIS BEAUTY. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: SO THAT ALL THE TREES OF EDEN, THAT WERE IN THE GARDEN OF GOD ENVIED HIM”. Obviously, the trees in the Garden of God in Eden were “family trees” of races and  nations  who  admired  and  envied   the  early  Assyrian Empire . These made up the “garden” that Adam was to cultivate. That is Satan had been what we might call the superintendent of this  planet,  to rule it in obedience to God until he forfeited that position by rebellion against God. Adam was sent to  take his place. It was Adam’s job to rule the various nations and races of the earth as God’s representative here, educating them in God’s laws, and enforcing obedience to those laws. These other races and nations had been here long before Adam.

Therefore, the Bible makes it unmistakably clear that we are not all descended from Adam and Eve, for there were other races on  earth,  already  old,  already numerous, when Adam was created. And among these other races there are several who are simply pre-Adamic, and one, at least, which is Satanic. If you will read the third chapter of Genesis, you will notice that immediately after the Fall of Adam when God required them to answer what they had  done God condemned Satan.

The word mistranslated “serpent” is the Hebrew word “naw-khash ” which literally means “enchanter” or “magician” – and no doubt Satan, still possessing angelic powers , was able to be an enchanter or magician. It is certain that the one who seduced Eve was no mere scaly snake wriggling along the ground. Yes, I said “seduced” Eve, for that is what she admitted in the original Hebrew. Cain was the son of that seduction. The Bible uses the word “begat” with monotonous regularity, but the first time the Bible ever says that Adam ever “begat” anyone is Genesis 5:3, where it says, “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and had a son in his own likeness, after his image and called his name Seth.” But to get back to Genesis 3:15-God said to Satan, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between THY SEED and HER SEED.”

The same Hebrew word for “seed” is used in both cases. Satan was to have just as literal “seed” or descendants as Eve did. God’s own word being pledged to this, we must  expect  to  find  it actually happening, and we do.

Jesus Christ, Himself, tells us of it.

In Matthew 13 explaining the Parable of the Tares Among the Wheat, Jesus says, “The field is the world; the good seed are the children OF THE KINGDOM, but THE TARES ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED ONE: THE ENEMY THAT SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL.” Again, in John 6:70-71 Jesus had been talking with His 12 disciples and we read: ”Jesus answered them ‘Have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is A DEVIL?’ He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray Him being one of the twelve.” And again you should read carefully the eighth chapter John where Jesus told those who hated Him, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.” He was not being vulgarly abusive in either of these cases, for He never resorted to name calling or abuse. He did call some of them “hypocrites ” – which they truly were. His statement was precisely accurate. He did call some of them “serpents, children of vipers”- which, again, was accurate. Long before this they had adopted the serpent as a symbol of Satan, that is why their tradition had given the word “naw-khash” the translation “serpent”, when it really means “enchanter”.  Jesus, therefore, was telling them that they were of their father the devil (or serpent, if they preferred that word). In this He was simply stating a biological fact with scientific precision, and identifying the persons of this ancestry.

Whenever someone tells you that the Bible is in conflict with what modern science has proved true, don’t you believe it. The things that many preachers teach are in conflict with scientific truth, as we all know; but these preachers are equally in conflict with the Bible. Go back to the Bible not to any man made doctrines  and  double  check  it  for  accuracy of translation.

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