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Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Race of Awdawms

If we entertain now this other interpretation of the Genesis account, questions arise as to how long the earth remained a desolated ruin, and why the earth, created to be inhabited, became a desolation and ruin, and how the earth became without form, and void.  The first question cannot be answered, but the second may be speculated upon if the answer to how the earth became that way is accepted, and the details of the account are given their natural interpretation.

These details come in a vision the Lord gave to Jeremiah:

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. (Jer 4:23-26; emphasis added)

Here, the condition of the earth is described by Jeremiah exactly in the same way it is given in Genesis prior to God removing it from that condition, but with some added details. 

Again, we are presented with an earth that was “without form and void,” and there also was darkness as no light penetrated through the heavens.  The prophet adds that the fruitful place, or the fields, orchards and vineyards, were made into a wilderness.  Further, he adds that cities had also existed and were broken down. 

This destruction seems to have been accomplished by catastrophic earth quakes; which came about when the Lord God came and destroyed it all in his fierce anger, or wrath, and the destruction was so complete that no man, or no adam (aw-dawm, H120; human being, or person) was present or survived it.   

If we allow that the topography of the earth was different and the fountains of the deep that assisted in Noah’s flood were also accessible, it is easy to see that such earthquakes would precede a world flood.

Now from this vision given the Jeremiah, it would appear that the earth, originally created to be inhabited, was inhabited by a race of Awdawms, and that they, no doubt assisted, eventually did such evil as to provoke the Lord to destroy them off the face of the earth.  After the destruction of that race, the Lord put the earth in cold storage.

This interpretation would give scientists their due if they are actually able to date rocks, but that is all it would give them. 

Alternately, a preexisting earth that was populated, and that sank to such an evil state that every imagination of their heart was to do evil continually, so that God repented that he made them and decided to destroy the Awdawms and all the other creatures, would give more to the Christian.    

It’s true that the above scenario is borrowed from the era of Noah’s flood.  It’s not true that Noah’s flood is the one Peter references in chapter three of his second epistle (2 Pet 3:3-6)

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Restoration of Earth

Instead of containing language describing the genesis of materials, the passage on the reorganization of the earth has the distinct tone of sorting out preexisting things.  In the first day, God turns a light on (Gen 1:2).  This is not the creation of the sun, or all the other stars, or even the creation of light itself.  It is the illumination of a planet which was shrouded in darkness bought into a resurrection day, and God called the darkness night, and the light day.

On the second day, God divided the waters to create the atmosphere which contains water in it and sometimes forms into clouds. Notice, of all the works in the six days this is the only one for which its end does not include the words “and God saw that it was good.” This may be because the Prince of the power of the air and his subordinate principalities, and the demons immediately, and in some case gradually, made the atmosphere their home (Eph 2:2; 6:12). 

On the third day, God gathered the waters on earth together in order for the dry land to appear, and not to be created.  Then, God commands that the seeds which already were “upon the earth” germinate and produce (Gen 2:11-13).

On the fourth day, the clouds break and the sunlight and moonlight can reach the earth.  When God says he “made” this happen, the word is not the same as the word “created” in verse one; it is an act of bringing something about, not creating things (cf baw-raw, H1254, to create; aw-saw, H6213, to do or make). 

God does not begin creating anything new until the fifth day where fish and fowls are created.  On the sixth day, God creates animals, and man.  Notice that all living creatures procreated immediately “after their kind,” and this is made very clear by the term being repeated five times.  There were no intermediate life forms.

This is only a brief description of the six days of restoration and creation, and it is from the perspective that earth was created earlier before this week of days.  The days of this week are literal twenty-four hour days, clearly identified by their components of mornings and evenings.  

Certainly, a reading of Genesis chapter one can easily produce the commonly held interpretation the earth was created in this week.  If that were not the case, then so many learned and reputable men would not have held the view.  Unfortunately, some of our learned men of today are unnecessarily beside themselves to devote study to what is germane to the subject.  

Of the contemporary arguments for a young earth, many articulate a defense aimed more at refuting Darwinian evolution then examining the text for variant readings.  Many are diverted to entering into another argument altogether over a popular theory in science which is by no means central to the examination, but the fear of it leads good men to see its efficacy looming so strong besides them that they are compelled to turn aside to address it. 

Consequently, a straw man receives too much attention, and Christians are admonished, at length, to accept a young earth explanation because it would make our lives less complicated, and because to consider an older earth would be tantamount to conceding too much valuable ground to the evolutionists.  From this concern, talks that are scheduled with provocative titles promising to explain why the earth looks so old spend little time on actually doing so, and degenerate into making contiguous all other Bible doctrines to a young earth,  and urging the door be bared against an old earth least evolution get its it foot in too and all the dominos fall. 

It is painful to witness some men of high stature so misapply their skills.  Fortunately, the bankrupt and easily discredited theory of evolution was not always so frightful to other men. 

In times past, other learned men in the faith did not see the earth’s creation in Genesis chapter one, verse two, nor feel threatened by scientists espousing naturalism.  The view that the earth was created before Genesis verse two is by no means a new one.  The interpretation is at least several hundred years old when dated by works from competent Bible expositors, and it appears to have been the view that was popular two centuries ago; in the first century church.  Further, a world that existed before this one, and was destroyed, may even be a fact that was known thousands of years ago by men inspired by God.     

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

In the Gap

Where the Bible is silent, we may speculate.  As long as that speculation does not contradict the Bible, and is consistent with the character of God and His plans and purposes for the ages; entertaining some speculations should not divide us.  There have been reputable and learned Christian expositors who have found silence between the first and second verses in Genesis chapter one.

The Genesis account that has been interpreted to be both an account of the creation of earth and the creation of man in short successive acts may only in fact be the restoration of earth and the creation of a new creature to inhabit it. 

Indeed, the first verse in the Bible identifies God as the creator, and when taken with the second verse we specifically learn that, in their respective beginnings, God created heaven and the earth, and he created man.  There is, however, something we are presented with in verse two that does not immediately follow verse one. 

When God sets about to create man we are at the same time presented with an earth in a condition that is uninhabitable.  Many have assumed that the account of earth’s condition changing from that point leading up to man’s creation was a part of the earth’s original creation process. 

Actually, the details associated with preparing the earth for habitation seem more consistent with a process of restoration rather than a process of creation.  The implication: the earth described in Genesis chapter one, verse two, is an earth which was created some time before in verse one, and it had become a desolation before being approached again in verse two:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen 1:1)

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” (Gen 1:2).

The Bible tells us that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1).  Elsewhere in scripture we also learn the earth was created to be inhabited, and that the process of its creation did not include a period where it lay as a formless desolation:

For thus 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 [to-hoo, 8414, “without form” (Gen 1:2); a desolation], he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD ; and there is none else. (Isa 45:18; emphasis and Strongs added)

It does not comport with the intention of creating the earth to place it for an indeterminable amount of  time as a waste and ruin; as is described in the second verse in Genesis, chapter one:

And the earth was without form, and void [to-hoo, 8414, a desolation; bo-hoo, 922, an undistinguishable ruin]; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:2; emphasis and Strongs added)

This is the condition of the earth when God approaches it, the Spirit of God moves upon the face to the waters, and begins His work on it.  The earth and the deep were all created in another separate act back in the beginning, and here the Lord is performing a different act; one of restoration.  This is why no details are provided as to the actual creation of land, or of water (an indispensable feature for earth to support life).

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

 

Introduction

The idea that the earth may be older than a few thousand years is a heretical one for many Christians.  The concern is that if an additional number of years numbering in the millions, or even billions, were added to the age of the earth it would contradict the creation account in the Bible.  By tracing genealogies beginning at Adam, and allowing for the extra hundreds of years people live prior to the flood, the age of the  earth has been estimated to be anywhere from six to fifteen thousand years or so.   It is feared by some that not one, but two consequences of acknowledging that the earth existed many years before man was created on it would be a capitulation on the order of spelling the end of faith. 

In addition to seeing the Bible discredited, it would follow that the competing narrative for creation fills the whole space and thus reigns supreme.  It is thought that by pondering an older earth the evolutionists will be given a concession necessary to their argument that man was created by the process of evolving, and independent of any outside forces other then nature.  While it is true that a vast amount of time is an essential component to their theory, it is not sufficient to establish it as fact.

There are two other supports that must be obtained and established before evolutionists may rest their argument on a firm foundation, and these they will never possess.  The first of these missing elements is proof, and the second requirement is to demonstrate that God is a liar.

The litany of discredited artifacts and bones and supposedly replicated processes that were once advanced as proof, and that were later discovered to be misidentified, misdated,  invalid, or hoaxes, and which were nonetheless embraced by science until their unraveling is a subject for another paper.  The scandals have been addressed by competent authors and may be easily obtained.  The point has been made as sharp as it needs to be to puncture; there is no proof, and the Bible makes it clear will there ever be any proof of Darwinian evolution.   

The Bible tells us that God formed man from the dust of the ground, and that he was completely formed up to his nostrils before God breathed the breath of life into him (Gen 2:7).  As the word of God refutes the evolutionists, their theory is clearly a fraud, and as the theory allows for no evolution of inanimate objects, not even the heresy of theistic evolution can be coaxed out of creation account. 

As to the veracity of the account, we need only know that “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Num 23:19).  God is not a liar. 

With these unfailing assurances, we are unfettered to approach the Bible on its own terms.

[For a more thorough understanding of the immediate creation of Man and the biblical refutation of Darwinian evolution; see “Immediate Man”]

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is a Muslim holy site that was completed in 691AD.  It stands on the temple mount where Harod’s tample stood, and is directly over the spot where the Holy of Holies was located.  The Al-Aqsa mosque is also on the temple mount to the south of the dome.  Both the gilded Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque are destined to be demolished.  The Bible makes this an inescapable reality.  There is no other way to explain end-time Bible prophecy in regards to two events that will take place during the tribulation period.  One is what will be called a peace treaty, and which the Bible calls a covenant with death and an agreement with hell (Isa 28:15-18).  The other will be the announcement by Antichrist that he is God and his command to be worshiped as such which he makes from the the third temple that is to be rebuilt on the temple mount (Mat 24:15).  As they stand, the dome and the mosque are impediments to rebuilding the temple, and so must be removed.  The act of rebuilding the temple is a question of labor and materials and is relatively simple to solve.  The question of brokering a peace treaty if the destruction of these Muslim sites would ignite an all out war is more difficult to entertain.

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The fallout over John Piper’s endorsement of Rick Warren has also revealed that people in ministry positions from where they should be able to respond decisively and expeditiously are selecting the wrong time to apply generosity of spirit and indecisiveness.  For example, Phil Johnson is executive director of Grace to You radio ministry of John MacArthur.  Johnson also writes for his own website Pyromaniacs, and his lengthy article “On the Piper-Warren Connection” would lead one to believe by its title that he is addressing the serious implications of John Piper inviting Rick Warren to speak at his Desiring God National Conference.  Actually, it does little to address the heart of the issue itself; instead, it provides evidence of an unflattering assessment of many in professional ministry.

Unfortunately, many that make their living in Christian Industry are often too far removed from real living to develop discernment.  Their problem is they are usually surrounded by admiring laity, and live a cloistered, insulated, happy little Christian life, and are too far from the front lines of spiritual warfare to discern the times.  This is demonstrated by the length Johnson goes to in his article to prove he almost knows that Piper’s endorsement of Warren is an apostate move, without being able to come out and say it is an apostate move; resulting in an irresponsible piece that flirts with the notion that Johnson knows the truth, but can’t set if free.

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It has taken some time, but high ranking officials in the Roman Catholic Church are beginning to admit what has been obvious to many for a long time.  The Catholic Church’s sex scandal is not so much a problem with pedophilia as it is a problem with homosexuality.  Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, announced as much recently in Santiago, Chile.  In a news conference, Bertone said: “Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia….  others have demonstrated… that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is the problem.”¹ With that admission by the pope’s number two man, the Vatican for the first time acknowledges that homosexuals are the predominate sexual predators within the priesthood.  Of course, this could have been deduced by them many years ago without the opinions of psychologists, and recent developments show that it probably had been recognized in Rome long ago and covered up.   This shift by church hierarchy to addressing the real problem did not come by way of guilty conscience, but from outside pressure.

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These days several global warming scientists are probably wishing they could get a way for a while.  Since the scandal of the global warming hoax broke, warming conspirators have been taking a lot of heat, and some who have been complicit in the cover-up are even considering suicide.  Before doing anything rash, scientists should take time to relax and, like the earth has been doing, cool down.  Now would be a good time for them to take a second look at the Maldives.  The Maldives are a collection of beautiful islands in the central Indian Ocean.  The shimmering coral sand beaches and the turquoise waters have made them a popular destination for vacationers for years.

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It appears that another young Christian woman is being put to the test of standing with God or seeking a way to prevaricate for the sake of her career.  Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is now the second beauty queen of late to stand with God on traditional marriage and the role of male and female.  In a recent interview Ashley said: “The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman.  In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.  They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’  The Bible is pretty black and white.”¹  Ashley is quoting Leviticus chapter 20, verse 13; and this does accurately pronounce God’s judgment on homosexuality.

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Although not a surprise to most people, both in and out of the faith, Televangelist Benny Hinn has admitted to being unable to heal, according to the Los Angeles Times.  What makes this a real bomb shell is the ailment that exposed Hinn’s weakness.  It wasn’t a brain tumor, pancreatic cancer, or paraplegia that finally found Hinn out; it was his marriage.

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Brian McLaren is an infamous leader in the Emergent Church movement, which is a recent and more obnoxious outcrop of church Liberalism which spawned the Evangelical Left.  Among their many heretical takes on what the Bible teaches, they also profess that Israel is to be scorned.  McLaren is joining the cacophony of anti-Israeli voices now that he is visiting the Palestinians and has undergone an awakening from the “well-planned propaganda” he was the victim of all his life in the states.¹  This certainly brings the question of McLaren’s credibility, and even basic abilities, front and center.

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Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (Joh 8:12)

Chuck and Nancy Missler of  Koinonia House ministries have found themselves having to respond to criticism regarding their take on the Outer Darkness mentioned three time in the book of Matthew.  They have contended in the past that it is not representative of the condemnation, or the eternal state of those without Christ Jesus, the Lord.  In an attempt to understand why they would take this view perhaps something can be learned from their reasoning.  The Misslers seem to have inherited the fallacy of false dilemma on the topic from Charles Stanley; whom they reference among a few others holding the same interpretation.  All of them proceed to their position by first discounting Outer Darkness as a representation of hell.  Yet, the fact that the Outer Darkness is not a description of hell does not necessarily mean it must apply to something other than complete separation from God and Christ for all eternity.  The Lake of Fire is not a description of hell either, but that does not mean people don’t end up there, or that it is not a place of eternal torment for those who reject Christ in this life (Rev 20:15).

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Members Recast: Judas Iscariots and No-Talents

Most Life Groups are not Christian fellowships.  They are groups of people managed for their resources by church leadership teams.  The unsaved are often encouraged to join these groups where salvation is secondary, if it is that high on the list at all.  The membership drives are conducted for any and all so long as they’ll be manageable for resources.  That is the impetus behind community outreach projects, and the reason an emphasis is on the surrounding community instead of focusing on the body of Christ, the Church, as a separate entity.  That sort of divisiveness would preclude growth as defined in corporate business models.

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The upcoming Radicalis conference scheduled to take place at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, February 9-12, will include speakers Rick Warren, his ministry team, and what is shaping up to be a line-up of, well, the usual suspects for apostasy. One headliner is Perry Noble, Senior Pastor of New Spring Church where there are 10,000 members.  The arduous chore of pastoring such a large crowd means that sacrifices must be made, but not by the pastor.  Noble explained some of the sacrifices members must be prepared to make in a video-clip retrieved from YouTube, in which Noble explained: “We have people coming to this church, going: ‘I want a church where I can know the pastor.’” Noble’s admonishment to those people was: “You need to leave.  I don’t have time.”¹  The factor of time in such a large church certainly plays a role in how often a pastor can meet with the sheep, but Noble has a larger problem with shepherding. Read the rest of this entry »

The upcoming Radicalis conference scheduled to take place at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, February 9-12, will include speakers Rick Warren, his ministry team, and what is shaping up to be a line-up of, well, the usual suspects for apostasy.  One headliner is Brad Powell, Senior Pastor, Northridge Church.  Powell is slated to discuss his process of successfully transitioning congregations “from static to dynamic,” and to go from “irrelevance to relevance.”¹  It is important to understand that in the nomenclature of compromise the term irrelevance means small, but faithful congregation; and the term relevance means applying marketing schemes to attract more dues-paying customers by employing sensual lures in the areas of church lighting, music, and entertainment.

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