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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

Afterword

 

Afterword

 

Reverence -

The tone of this work was necessarily serious.  There is only one light quip in the whole of it, and that was almost edited out.  The focus was so keen and study so intense humor had to be allowed to explode elsewhere in other short pieces as a relief.  The word of God is the most precious thing a person can get their hand on, and after God, the Lord Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, nothing is more deserving of respect and reverence.  The theory entertained herein includes speculations from portions of scripture, and has made assertions for consideration.  Great care was taken at all times to keep in mind the holiness of the material and keep its author in the author’s mind.  In spite of all this care, the author is painfully aware that other men would have produced a better effort.

Strandings -

The author built his work on the work of other men, and has contributed to that discussion.  The largest contribution has been the discussion herein on the phenomenon of whale and dolphin standings.  Because the treatment is unique and provocative, and deals with physical characteristics of elements and animals that can be directly measured, it’s reasonable to anticipate objections from a certain quarter that might be of the opinion that an unauthorized intruder should be shown the door. In the spirit of objective inquiry, let the question remain at the forefront one which asks how he got in.

The theologian has access to keys men of other specialties and pursuits cannot count on their chain.  Speculating on phenomenon is not the exclusive domain of scientists because they can tie an instrument onto a porpoise’s pasutee and track him. (Interestingly, the porpoise is alternately referred to in Old English as mereswine.) What results from those endeavors is, in some cases, fairly accurate data which can be accessed, and from which fin tales can also be spun. 

The Christian has a more sure database to explain the unexplained, and can rely upon it more than upon the changing graphs and charts from technicians and cartographers.  But let’s use for the time what they can explain.

Objection:

If the entrance to the Abyss, from whence demons are summoned to use whales to strike land, and where they are at times banished, is in the Atlantic Ocean; how did the demons, cast out by Jesus into the swine that drown, get to the Atlantic from the Sea of Galilee when it is a land-locked sea?

Let’s take the most difficult part of this objection first.

There are in deep seas caverns where channels of water run many miles through undersea caves and causeways.  There is also something underground called the water table.  Water from precipitation and run off infiltrates the ground and at some depth the ground reaches a saturation point where the water tables in the porous soil and sediment.  In some areas the water table is only a few feet below the ground surface, and in others it’s thousands of feet below.  It’s an underground sea that the Sea of Galilee would be in touch with.  The demons could have been made to have traveled to the abyss in those ways, or in a more obvious one. 

The climate in the Mediterranean area is temperate, but still seasonal, and the topography is not static.  Water and even the earth move. 

While the area surrounding the Sea of Galilee is dry, there is more water to form tributaries to it in the winter time. When Joshua crossed the Jordan River a fourteen hundred years before Jesus was baptized in it, there was enough water in it to chronicle a crossing requiring special preparation.  When John was baptizing, he found enough water in the Jordan for all comers. 

Today, the Jordan River, which connects to the Sea of Galilee from the north, is barely a trickle in some places and dries in the summer in others.  This is due partly to climactic change, ongoing geological change, and manmade obstructions from water projects like dams.  It is not the same today as when Jesus sailed on Galilean waters to meet the demon possessed Gergaseans, but historical maps show the existence of tributaries that appear to join, or be able to connect, the Sea of Galilee through the Jordan out to the Mediterranean Sea, joining it just north of the city of Tyre.

This would have formed an acceptable waterway. From the Mediterranean the demons would pass through the Striate of Gibraltar into the Atlantic.

Six Days of Creation -

There are other references in the Bible for the six days in Genesis and the work performed therein.  The key to their interpretation is careful study.  The Translators of our precious King James Bible were the best men best available for the task or probably could have ever been assembled for the task.  Their work was so thorough and accurate that we can study the individual words they translated into English, and even take issue with some of the choices they made to render them translated.  But nothing so technical is usually at point due to their brilliance and choice of the most accurate manuscripts for their work. 

For example we read in Exodus:

For in six das the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath, and hollowed it (Exo 2011). 

To better understand what this verse in not saying we may take a word that is in question and apply it to another process. 

When we assemble ingredients in their respective quantities  necessary to bake a cake and put them through a process that does indeed produce it, we say accurately that we made a cake; we do not say we created it.  Everything that  was required existed beforehand and only needed to be reorganized and processed.  The word that was translated “created” in Genesis chapter one, verse two, comes from the word  bara  which means create.  The word in the Exodus verse translated “made” comes from the word asah which has a broad sense and wide application and is used for ‘accomplish,’ ‘advance,’ ‘bestow,’ and ‘fashion,’ and does not mean to create.

Videos -

WARNING -The following video depicts clearly the worshiping of demons and the celebration of their doctrines. If you choose to view the video, you may wish to do so on mute so as to lessen the demonic nature of the experience.

By the looks on the faces of some of the men present, they are uncomfortable with the worship.  They should have stood and collected their families and walked out, but the success of the demonic doctrine of feminism which led to the ordination of  women pastors has decimated the headship of men in the churches, and there is little some can now do unless they are willing to leave the church where their wife pastors.

The men are emasculated and the churches go into apostasy.  Paul warned about this progression of demonic seduction that would result from women pastors:

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1Ti 2:12-14)

Video Description - The animals are led to the pulpit in a procession.  First, women - on both sides to the pavilion - usher bears, one black, one white,  forward in celebratory dance, and the women continue in a provocative urging until they get the bears to rise up on their hind legs.  The colors demonstrate the joining of opposites, and the standing at the pulpit demonstrates the equality of animals to mankind, and their cohabitation in the church as fellow creatures and worshipers (abstain from meats).

Notice that the Sun god high priest has right hand in gesture of Hindu Gyan Mudra, with index finger touching tip of thumb, used induce a state happiness and increased knowledge promised in exchange for worshiping demons.

Notice woman in prominent position behind Sun god high priest, with man in tow behind her amongst the children. Notice woman carrying peace offering.

Notice nature themed banners. Notice foul smelling animals in procession.  

Notice in background intricate images of red flames projected on the walls and encircling the audience to disorient them and to impart a spiritual experience, and used as an imitation of the Holy Spirit descending on the platform to welcome worship.

Notice the demon high priest gesturing to give the benediction over the people.  

Notice the design of sashes on parade here, of bright colors and pantheistic heathenism.

Notice it all ushered forth with ribbon sticks waved to distract the conscious from reason as was performed in the Babylonian mystery religions, and carried over in the pomp in the Roman Catholic Church of colored vestments and ornate robes.

Notice as a fertility dance is performed on platform. Notice priestesses bring elements to the platform that could represent the communion and raise them for blessing of demons. 

Notice , if you did not mute, the worship music is haunting and trance like to produces an altered state of consciousness and renders the audience more susceptible to the worship of demons, and to demon possession.

The demons hang from the rafters and sit in the pews. Waiting. For victims.

Video :

Opening Worship Processional - 219^th General Assembly, “The Lion King Meets the PCUSA,” (from tdallasw’s Channel, July 4, 2010). 5 min., 26 sec. (accessed on YouTube July 29, 2010). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pr_E5Nbuc&feature=player_embedded

Video Description -This video is interresting because it gives a rare glimpes of something trying to escape from the ocean floor.  It was taken at the Deep Water Horizon site where it is thought that methane gas is escaping.

Video:

PropheticSeer, “Breaking News: Ocean Floor About to Explode,” (from YouTube, August 2, 2010). 2 min., 44 sec. (accessed on YouTube August 5, 2010) .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5alY3-ydJ8&feature=player_embedded.

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For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (Php 3:20-21)

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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

Afterword

 

Habeas Corpus

 

Now, it will certainly be argued that it is unreasonable to detect a time space between only two verses in Genesis that could  promote this much speculation about another cosmos and other living Awdawms.  Still, plausible supports are introduced in other scriptures (Jer 4: ; Isa 1:1; 2Pet 1:1), and we know of at least one other place in scripture where a remarkable time space exists. 

One Sabbath day, Jesus stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth to read, and He  read from the book of Isaiah:

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luk 4:18-19)

Here, Jesus closes the book and hands it back to the minister.  The passage in Isaiah that Jesus read is chapter sixty-one, verses one and two, but Jesus did not stop reading at the end of verse two.  He stopped in the middle of verse two at a comma. On the other side of that punctuation we read: “and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that moun” (Isa 61:2).

That comma is the place mark for over two thousand years and counting, and it is not in between two verses, but in between a single verse of scripture.  

As to the significance of time spaces in scripture, the most important event and developments to ever occur took place, and are still taking place, within this gap found in a single verse. 

As to the providence of God in the amount of information and the time in which it is revealed, we have the witness of scripture that even His own prophets were not informed about the creation of the Church, or fully comprehended Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection.

I dare say we do not fully comprehend it now.

Even the angles desired to look into the mysteries which waited to be revealed to the Apostles and to us (1Pet 1:12).

The naturalists will most likely not be allowed an habeas corpus, or to produce the body from amongst the dead Awdawms and claim it an evolutionary ancestor of man.  Their destruction may have been on the order of the one reserved for Gog and Magog who Satan will lead in attack against the camp of the saints at the close of the millennium.  There, fire will come down from heaven and completely devour them; vaporized (Rev 20:7-9). 

It could also be that some knowledge was passed to demon possessed men as to the Awdawms and their country and how it was destroyed, and from this comes the legend of Atlantis which is supposed to have perished beneath the sea.  The bodies of the Awdawms could be entombed at the bottom of the ocean. If this were the case, it would shed light another curious scripture. 

On that final judgment day after the millennium, all the wicked dead, small and great, will stand before God and be judged.  The transaction to bring them before the throne of judgment will be, first, the soul will be summoned from hell, and then it will pass through the grave to be embodied so it can stand in its sins and be judged.  This is what is meant by “death [the grave] and hell delivered up the dead which were in them” (Rev 20:13). 

This description is complete to cover all anthropos, or human beings, but this transaction is preceded by one in which the sea gives up all the dead which are in it (Rev 20:13). 

This seems to indicate that a different race of Awdawms who are held at the bottom of the ocean are to be judged first.  Paul tells us that all things will be done in their proper order as to the resurrections (1Cor 15:23-24), and so it would make sense for the Awdawms to be resurrected for judgment first. 

Because their disembodied spirits did not go to hell but to the abyss, and their bodies may lie concealed under the bottom of the ocean (q.v.), their bodies and spirits would be collected before leaving the depth of the ocean to be judged.  This is why when the sea gives up its dead; hell is not included in that transaction.   

To further substantiate the connection between the Awdawms and Satan we learn reading the account of his future demise: “They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas” (Eze 28:8).  This cannot be an allusion to a drowning sensation Satan is to experience in the pit, for not every anthropos drown who was slain in the sea.

Here the slain in the sea are again most likely a special class who are in the middle of probably the Atlantic ocean.  We know that Satan will be bound and cast into the Abyss for a thousand years prior to being released one last time to tempt a rebellion before being cast into the lake of fire (Rev).  Here he is reminded that his fate is tired to the fate of the Awdawms which he led in his rebellion in the Pre-Adamite earth.

With this in mind, we may see that there is more of a poetic quality to Satan’s demise then has previously been entertained:

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (Eze 28:6-8)

The passage has been rendered by the translators in mortal terms.  In light of this observation, and incorporating what scripture does tell us, a variant reading of the passage in the author’s paraphrase:

“Because of you purposed in your heart to be God, desired and sought to ascend to throne and rule as a god, the Awdawms will be the cause for you being cast into the abyss where the foreign, strange, and profane disembodied spirits of the Awdawms, who are exceedingly mighty and terribly violent as many troops of animals, and are as pervasive and inescapable as a flight of horrible supernatural locusts; there they will actually rule over you, and your beauty and wisdom will be the wound of your defilement, and that is the splendor you have exchanged your splendor for.   They will have power over you to do this for a thousand years, and after that time you will die the death of eternal torment with them in the lake of fire.”

Considering the scriptures being examined deals with Satan’s rebellion and destruction, and his destruction is not one that can be accomplish by men and their weapons; the words tending towards the supernatural rendering were chosen from amongst the verity of Strong Concordance definitions available for them.  Nevertheless, the author does not care for paraphrases, and does not recommend them.  

All of this reversal of fortune takes place while the called out ones are ruled over for the same period of time in splendor and peace by their righteous King whose throne will be set up on the restored earth He possesses. Poetic justice.

The foregoing is a theory to explain the old appearance of the earth.  Of course, none of this is necessary to explain why the earth looks so old.  It could look old because it’s old, and for no other reason.  Other theories have been postulated that connect the age of the earth to the speed of light.  It has to do with the idea that the speed of light is slowing down, and suggests that events transpired faster, and so in smaller increments of time only thousands of year ago. 

The author favors this theory because it, as good theories should, provides possible answers to other mysteries as well.

We should come away from this study more intrigued by the awesome reasoning of Him who subjected us in frailty so that we may reside in hope, and with a renewed appreciation for the scope of the plan of salvation and the intricacies in its transaction.  We should now be more apt to engage the scriptures than to entertain science fiction (such as evolution), and able to more clearly see the dissimilar nature of different things.

Demanding a young earth is not the same as defending God as the creator of all things, and accepting an old earth is not the same as accepting the theory of evolution.   

Nor is looking at an old earth theory the same as looking back on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra contrary to divine instruction; you will not become a pillar of salt for doing so. 

We are witnessing a dividing in the Church over the subject of the age of the earth because it is presented as a package with two separate subjects which do not share the same compartment.  What is traveling therein is a misunderstanding that has mistakenly joined together a dichotomy and presented it as a tenet of Christian faith.  This harms two groups.

The saints are doggedly herded into a camp with unstable walls and told to bar the doors against an enemy that doesn’t exist; despite what their common sense tells them.  This behavior of placing faith in something questionable out of a conjured fear that doubting it would destroy the word of God can lead Christians into other areas of dissonance.

Over time, they will begin to tread lightly on their faith from a fear that standing firm on it would subject it to stress whereby its weaknesses would be revealed.

The scientists who are attacked to the gospel will stop short of accepting Christ as savior and hear Him only as philosopher so long as they  believe they must abandon the reality He has created to accept Him in reality.

We are comforted to know that those who are saved cannot be lost, and those who will be saved cannot be disappointed, but we are all nonetheless subject to scandal in this life, or treatment by it that prevents us from reaching many of what otherwise would be our attainments.  To this: woe to him who willfully causes scandal and correction to him who by error causes men to stumble.

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Works Consulted:

Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, Third Edition (Loizeaux Brothers: 1916; 1943; 1959).

Boris Culik, Kiel, “Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray,” Whales & Dolphins, CMS, 2003 (accessed 2008). http://www.cms.int/reports/small_cetaceans/data/G_macrorhynchus/g_macrorhynchus.htm

G. H. Pember, Earth’s Earliest Ages, New Edition (Hodder Stoughton, 1876; Kregel Publications, 2005).

Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin On Trail, Second Edition (Inter-Varsity Press: 1993).

Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education (Inter-Varsity Press: 1995).

Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth: God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages, Revised Edition (Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1918; Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1920).

Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of The Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Erwin W. Moyer Co., 1919).

Clarence Larkin, Rightly Dividing The Word (Rev. Clarence Larkin Est.: 1920).

Clarence Larkin, The Spirit World (Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1921).

Merrell F. Unger, Biblical Demonology: A study of the Spiritual Forces at Work Today, (Scripture Press, 1963; Dregel Publications, 1994).

Merrell F. Unger, Unger’s Commentary on the Old Testament, (AMG Publishers: 1981; 2002).

Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? (Regency Publishing: 2000).

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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

Afterword

 

Redemption of Satan

 

In the book of Ezekiel we are introduced to the magnificent King of Tyrus.  So stunning is the description of his perfection and so complete is the account of his destruction that we must conclude that he in none other than the person of Satan before his fall.  Notice that Satan started out in such a preeminent state that God says of him: “Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty” (Ez 28:12). Satan was originally created at the zenith such a creature could be made to attain to.

It does not appear that God provided beforehand for a transaction of redemption that would restore a fallen but repentant Satan as He later did for man, which “creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope” (Rom 8:20).  Hence, a restored Satan would have retained the blemish of his fall. 

The prospect of being marred by his fall for all eternity, and thought of the memory of his former splendor haunting him in the congregation of God, might explain the sealing up of his fate.  It was his beauty which originally caused hid heart to be lifted up against God (Eze 28:17). How different from God’s faithful and obedient servant who was willing to bear the marks for the price of our redemption in His hands and feet and in His side (Jh 20:27).

On the question of whether God extended an opportunity for Satan and his angels to repent, we may at least have an account of one for his angles. 

There is a curious scripture in Psalm eighty-two.  It appears there that, just as Satan and his angles presented themselves before God and accused Job (Job 1:6), his angles were at another time standing in the congregation of God when He made the offer:

A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psa 82:1-4)

If this was an offer, we have evidence of its finale withdrawal here also. 

That they are angles we know because God said: “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High” (Psa 82:6).  This is the way the angles are described in Job. In the next verse their doom is pronounced: “But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes” (Psa 82:7). 

It is also remarkable that the next and last verse to this Psalm is also the chief corner stone for all creation: “Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations” (Psa 82:8).  Although we do not know when this event transpired, it seems the rest of God’s plan which would now include the fate of fallen angels was irrevocable from the point.  And if such an offer could in fact be made to the angels, it follows that it could also be made to Satan.

This idea of an extended offer of repentance to Satan and his angels may also explain Christ’s words following his riding into Jerusalem as King (Zec 9:9).  It was near the hour of his crucifixion which would make possible the redemption of men, and Satan still opposed Him. 

Jesus prayed to the Father to glorify His name, and a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again” (Joh 12:28). This may include the miracles Christ performed, but the scope of this glory could also refer to before His incarnation as redeemer and Holy One of Israel, and after His resurrection as Savior; an assurance.

It is upon this promise that the plan of salvation will not be hindered that Jesus responds: “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast down” (Jh 12:31). This may be anticipative of Satan’s future doom, for he is not cast down yet; either from the heavens, to which he still has access until the middle of the tribulation period (Rev 12:7), or from his position over the kingdoms of the world.  Also, we know that the judgment day is future too, but still there may be a more immediate application to the statement. 

The world was about to be held accountable to the work of Christ on the cross, and everyone will be judged by that standard; have you received Christ so that you may be received of God, or denied him so as to be received in the lake of fire? 

Perhaps Satan, in addition to not wanting to be a marred creature in the redemptive state and choosing instead to rule as a god for as long as this age should last, also did not want to give up his power over death.  And so by needs sake he had to be destroyed when Christ rose from the dead to abolish death (2Tim 1:10), for we read:

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; (Heb 2:14)

Satan was exalted as the covering cherub with many privileges.  He frequented the holy mountain of God, and the Eden of God’s garden that was in the same vicinity (not the Eden God prepared for man), and he walked up and amidst the stones of fire (Ez 28:13-16). 

It follows that he would have been the one to have also been given dominion over the earth.  That he has title to it today after displacing Adam there is no doubt, for he was willing to offer all the kingdoms of this world to the Lord if he would worship him.  Our Lord did not question the Devil’s authority to make that offer (Mat 4:8-10).

Satan most likely engineered the fall in the garden of Eden to retake possession of the earth after God gave it to Adam, and to doom God’s new creation because God destroyed similar creatures over which Satan had a charge. 

The animus he would have over mankind could be explained by the fact that God had destroyed Awdawms in the old cosmos who Satan had some authority over.  Because of the multitude of his privileges and wonderful attributes with which he was created, Satan’s heart was darkened and he “sinned” (Ez 28:16). 

He probably involved the Awdawms in his rebellion, and for that cause they were destroyed, and God foreclosed on earth and put it in a watery bank. 

Inferences seem to point to some redemption being available to Satan and his angels.  In the hierarchy of created beings, Satan and the angles were created heavenly beings and thus far superior to the Awdawms who were created terrestrial beings.  Because they were not created specifically to be called out, or redeemed, the terms of their restoration was limited.  God is not limited, so He must have created them as such for His reasons in the Grand Design (s.v.).  Satan and his angels may have survived a restoration transaction, but not unscathed.  The lesser terrestrial Awdawms, with no special plan for redemption in play, could not negotiate such a transaction and survive it.

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

Afterword

 

Origin of Demons

 

In his second epistle, Peter addressed an argument of the scoffers.  They argued that all things continued the same from the creation.  Certainly, Noah and the human race, and the animals, and the plants that Noah’s flood did not destroy, continued from the antediluvian world after Noah’s flood.  The scoffers did not have their eye on the flood of Noah, but they certainly were not ignorant of it.  If that were the case, Peter would not have described a flood where the world did not continue on its own from creation reproducing life, a flood where the world actually “perished” (ap-ol-loo-mee, G622, to destroy fully, 2Pet 3:6).   

If it were merely a case of the scoffers denying Noah’s flood, Peter would have certainly used Noah’s name in rebutting them.  His audience was as familiar with the account as we are, and so were the scoffers.  For Peter to give details of a flood that don’t include details of an ark, animals, and Noah and his family, also identifies it as a different flood.   

It cannot be said that Peter was generally lax in providing details when he knew them, or was unable to draw them into a small space.  In this same epistle, Peter recounts in succession the angles who had a particular falling, followed by the flooding of Noah’s old world and his deliverance, then the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha and Lot’s deliverance; and identifying these all by their names (2 Pet 2:4-8).

The reason the account of the perishing flood, which took place prior to Genesis chapter one verse two, is absent of details is because the Bible provides no detailed information as the names of the Awdawms who inhabited it (q.v.), the names of their cities, its duration, or the cause of its destruction (though we know the means). 

The Bible does provide some details, as has been pointed out, and Peter was not only acquainted with them; he also held the scoffers to the same level of familiarity by claiming they were being willfully ignorant of it in making their argument.  The incident, then, appears to have been somewhat common knowledge, what could be known of it, during the time Peter was writing.   

Now we have a different flood, with different Awdawms who were all destroyed in it, and now we may have an explanation as to the origins of demons.  The fallen angels are not to be confused with demons. Angels have bodies.  Demons are disembodied spirits.

After Noah’s flood, God commanded Noah to “replenish the earth” (Gen 9:1), and curiously these are the same instructions given to Adam and Eve after God created them (Gen 1:28).  It is not so curious an instruction if we admit the earth was plenished prior to Adam and Eve, as it was prior to Noah’s flood.  That race of Awdawms may have resembled us closely in physical form, and had similar passions as we possess.  They also would have been living souls; souls that would have been unclothed by the destruction of the world that was in the heavens of old. 

As disembodied souls, they are unable to indulge themselves in their lusts, and this would explain why they take possession of humans, and why demon possessed people are given to satiating their flesh with all manner of sinful behavior.  Their manner is often so depraved that, in gratifying their physical sensualities, they wear their victims out in a horribly destructive manner. 

They also commit heinous crimes of the most brutal and diabolical nature for their own amusement. 

Demons exert power over their hosts by causing dumbness (Mat 9:32-33),  blindness (Mat 12:22), and driving them insane (Lk 8:26-35).  The Awdawms could have been much stronger than men, for when demons possess them they can obtain supernatural strength (Lk 8:29).  If this were the extent of demonic activity, as terrible as is, our attention might be confined rebuking their hindrance to the gospel, and to the physical relief and spiritual redemption of individuals. 

There is another communicable evil in demonism that is even more destructive, and which is a persistent opposition we continually wrestle against (Eph 5:11; 6:12).

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

Afterword

 

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.     

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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