Chapter Three – Prehistory and Man’s Creation

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The world has reached the twenty-first century. All my grandparents were born in the nineteenth century. Within that time span—just a little over one hundred years—the world has changed beyond recognition. Mankind now stands on the threshold of annihilation by weapons of mass destruction, with the frightening spectre of terrorism spanning the globe.

World conditions grow more ominous as the news of each day seems worse than the last. Events are speeding toward a great crisis at the close of this age.

How did there come to be such appalling evils and terrible suffering on a worldwide scale?

And why have world leaders failed to improve the countries they govern and the world at large? What is wrong? Why has progress in knowledge, science, and technology not delivered man from his problems? Why does civilization stand on the brink of catastrophe—even extinction—without some kind of intervention and rescue?

Many know something is wrong—but do not know what. The supposed experts lack answers to life’s greatest questions. Few understand that there is a great purpose that God is working out here below. Fewer still know what this purpose is—and they do not understand the forces at work that have controlled civilization since man first appeared on Earth.

The Greatest Kidnapping

Most assume that things are the way they are because mankind has evolved to its present state or condition. This thinking permeates modern education but it is a false—an entirely WRONG—premise. Evolution is a fiction created by men who have been led to this theory by the one who seeks to blind all the inhabitants of Earth to God’s awesome plan—His staggering purpose for mankind.

Those who hold to the evolutionary theory are prevented—actually blocked!—from comprehending why conditions on Earth are as they are. And many statesmen, leaders, and thinkers do feel trapped by trends and conditions, and the general flow of world events, unable to do anything about them. Indeed, they are trapped. But we need to understand why.

This is not God’s world. It is cut off from Him and held hostage by an unseen SUPER KIDNAPPER. All of humanity has been deceived into believing the soothing words of this great CAPTOR, thinking themselves better off under his care and leadership. I speak of Satan the devil and his hijacking—6,000 years ago—of Adam and Eve and all of the inhabitants of planet Earth ever after! The world has remained a willing captive ever since.

Anyone who reads newspapers understands kidnapping. This crime often involves executives of large companies, whose release is obtained through paying a ransom.

Hijackers work in the same way, except this crime usually involves seizing an aircraft, bus, or some other type of vehicle full of victims.

Most hostage victims are captives until someone either performs a daring rescue or a ransom is paid. Earth is now in a state of captivity, requiring supernatural deliverance—rescue—through ransom payment.

Here is modern man’s predicament: Imagine yourself picking up a twenty-chapter book and trying to understand it by starting with the last chapter. You would be lost, completely unable to understand the meaning of persons and events described. In the same way, none can understand events in the modern world because they do not have proper background of what has happened in the previous chapters of mankind’s existence on Earth. And it is the very first chapter of the story of humanity that is key to all “nineteen chapters” that follow.

The World before Man

We need to examine prehistory, the time prior to the appearance of man on Earth, to understand how Satan came to be as he is. Genesis 1:1 states, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This scripture sets the stage for our study.

The book of Job best describes the time when God created the earth, billions of years ago. God asked Job a series of questions: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? Or who has stretched the line upon it?… When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38:4-5, 7). These “stars” were angels (Rev. 12:4), also described as “sons of God.” (Of course, literal stars do not sing.) Notice that it says “all” of them “shouted” and “sang together.”

Job 38:1-41 is a remarkable passage revealing that at the beginning of the physical creation there was peace, harmony and happiness. But this is not the actual beginning of God’s creation—it is the account of the beginning of His physical creation—of all things that are made of matter.

The true beginning of all things—where the account of God’s creation really begins—is not found in Genesis 1:1-31, but rather in the New Testament, in John 1:1-51. This is where the Bible records who or what existed before the creation recorded in Genesis.

Here is how John writes of the earliest time that the Bible records: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things [“the universe” – Moffatt translation of same word in Hebrews 1:2] were made by Him; and without Him was not ANYTHING made that was made” (John 1:1-3). This is all-encompassing.

But who is “the Word”? John answers a few verses later: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). The only God-Being who ever became flesh in order to dwell among men is Jesus. He was not flesh until He came to Earth to become the Saviour of mankind.

In the original Greek, the term “the Word” actually means “Spokesman.” While Christ only became the Son of God at His human birth, He was an eternal Being—He was “without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life” (Heb. 7:3).

Plainly, these verses speak of Christ both before and after His human birth. Again, only one God Being “became flesh and dwelt among us.” But John 1:1 reveals more! Notice it says that Christ, the Word, “was” God and was also “with” God. This can only be possible if TWO separate Beings are being described. These TWO eternal Beings—Personages—existed before any of the physical universe had been created. They existed from the beginning and all earlier time.

Ephesians 3:9 confirms John 1::1-51 “God … created all things by Jesus Christ.” Having been “the Word”—the Spokesman—for all eternity, Christ said many times throughout His ministry that He only declared what God wanted Him to say. Since Christ was “the Word,” we can understand why Psalm 33:1-22 states, “By the Word of the LORD were the heavens [the universe] made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.… For He spoke, and it was done” (Ps. 33:6, 9).

Psalm 33:1-22 is expanded in Colossians 1:1-29. Col 1:12 speaks of the Father and of “His … Son” (Col. 1:13) “who is the image of the invisible God.… for by Him [Christ] were all things [the universe] created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist” (Col. 1:15-17).

We have just summarized the Bible’s statement about persons and conditions that existed through the entire period of prehistory! No angels or physical matter existed with God. Only these two supreme Beings existed—ALONE—for the entirety of previous eternity.

These Beings were God, having infinite power of both mind and creative ability. This is why They created man, a long time after the physical universe was created—to have creative mind power. This fits the pattern of God’s own creative power and ability.

Human beings can design, draw up plans and build almost anything they choose. The enormous power to reason, think through, make judgments and proceed toward goals of their own choosing differentiates human beings from animals.

If God had never made anything else, just think of how awesome must be their POWER—that they could create the human mind, with its seemingly unlimited potential.

But Job 38:1-41 reveals that angels were created before the physical universe, which preceded the appearance of man by perhaps billions of years.

Angels are composed of spirit. They are literal beings, but are not made of matter. They were given immortal life from the moment they were created. Though less powerful than God, these created spirits have far more power than physical human beings. They were the pinnacle of God’s creation throughout the period of billions of years of prehistory.

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