Note the fact that Dr. Hancock and Professor Hapgood are challenging the modern status quo of historical (humanistic) “historiography” which is simply a fancy philosophical word referencing the way in which historians write their histories. Dr. Hancock and Professor Hapgood are positing evolutionary timelines (as modern humanists do) but are attempting to show that man was more advanced earlier than modernists allow and research tends to hint that such advanced thinking MAY even go so far as to invite an interpretation of extraterrestrial influence.
We will show in this volume the Biblical Truth that UFOs and other alleged “extraterrestrials” are not true and not even possible. BUT…that does not eliminate their supernatural character. Such appearances and activities alleged concerning REAL and documented activity of “beings” are actually demons, fallen angels. AND THE MANY PATTERNS of Satan’s influence among men in societies worldwide are consistently documented, if not understood for their real nature.
Modern humanism strips the meaning out of Creation (and Life!) as the Triune God has declared it to be, according to His Will as expressed in His Word. And humanism substitutes man for God in His Providential work and oversight of the nations.
Protagoras, the 5th century BC Greek philosopher, gave us an incisive definition of humanism:
“Man” is the measure of all things.”
Rome would take this further, arising out of the debris left over from the debauched Hellenistic (Greek) culture, added its own statist refinements to the definition: “The State is the measure of man.”
Even though the Western world praises both Greece and Rome for their power and influence, Scripture recognizes their contributions but emphasizes their beastlike character (cf. Daniel 2, 7, 8). The religions of both of these civilizations were foundationally spiritist (occult) in their origin and development. THAT FACT is no secret. Socrates, Plato, every Greek ruler (including Alexander the Great) and Roman Emperor (until Constantine) testified of their need to call upon the spirits for guidance. Homer’s Iliad (in the original) openly identifies the “demons” (spirits) goading the warriors into battle and excess cruelties. “Meaning” and “purpose” were first defined inside these cultures from the spiritist mythologies of their beginnings. The humanism that evolved into Western civilization was a direct offshoot of these beginnings.
The Devil Gets a “Head’s Start”
Satan tempted Eve by helping to define “evil and good” in the Garden of Eden. He taught her that “man” acts by the definitions created in her own heart.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. – Genesis 3:6
Anton Lavey, the well-known Satanist, wrote:
Man, the animal, is the godhead to the satanist.” “What’s more, “The Satanist realized that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn’t mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.”
Satan needed to gain jurisdiction (cf. Job 1: 6-12) over the First Adam (cf. I Tim. 2: 13-15) in order to gain the authority to sanction man, even unto death (cf. Hebrews 2: 14). Only Christ’s death could take that away from “the ‘right’” Satan possessed to keep mankind in fear of death (cf. Hebrews 2:14). This is due to the fact that Satan had been given a kingdom (Luke 4: XXX) and will ONLY lose it when the true Sons of God (the Church – cf. Matthew 16:18 and Hebrews 12: 1-6, 22-23).
Excerpted from the book … But First, the Beginning: Creation and Sabbath Rest
Creation is the beginning of the history of this world in which we live. Though this is not the place for detailed scientific description of Genesis 1, the author certainly believes the Bible to be a inspired supernaturally through the command of the One who was the “Master” of the prophets and the apostles: Jesus Christ, called the Logos (cf. John 1:1), meaning “the Word” as a man.
As the Word in the Flesh, Christ received the Word from His Father (cf. John 17: XXX) and sent it through His prophets and apostles, establishing the miracle called the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. Scripture is a perfection scientifically, historically, psychologically, theologically, ethically and culturally. In short, the Bible is inerrant as a result of its inspiration.
Creation was an act ex nihilo – out of nothing – and occurred as a series of commands by God. Additionally, God guaranteed it to be His acts over a period of 6 days, each day being 24 hours in duration. How do we know this? Context.
Context within Genesis 1 specifies that each Day was bounded by “evening” and “morning.” Nothing about that language can fit a metaphor or the alleged “day which is a 1000 years” (cf. XXX). Genesis 1 is not figurative language. Evening and Morning are terms used contextually concerning the word “day” – the 24-hour kind. Sabbath keeping for men dates from Eden.
But the greater context of Scripture also assures us that Creation took place in a series of 24-hour days:
- Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 both assure us that Creation’s days were each 24 hour.
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it. – Exodus 20:11
Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. – Deut. 5: 13-14
Christ gave His full support to the 6-day Creation and its 7th day Sabbath. The brilliant creationist scientist and scholar, Dr. Ken Ham, writes:
Mark 10:6 says, “But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’” From this passage, we see that Jesus clearly taught that the creation was young, for Adam and Eve existed “from the beginning,” not billions of years after the universe and earth came into existence. Jesus made a similar statement in Mark 13:19 indicating that man’s sufferings started very near the beginning of creation. The parallel phrases of “from the foundation of the world” and “from the blood of Abel” in Luke 11:50–51 also indicate that Jesus placed Abel very close to the beginning of creation.
Israel always acted upon the Sabbath Day as a singular day of each week. Beginning in Genesis, Israel’s founding Patriarchs honored the Sabbath regularly:
- Genesis 3: – Adam and Eve were waiting in in the early breeze of the day (AV “cool of the day”). That would be the morning before the sun has risen to bring the heat. They were waiting for the Lord to arrive, an expectation of interest here, as it appears to be a scheduled arrival, one so predictable that they assembled themselves KNOWING He was coming. Coming for what, it may be asked? To teach them, is the answer (which He did), though they were waiting near the Forbidden Tree, a likely spot for further instruction. Their worship became complete when He covered them with a sacrifice already prepared, but due to their Fall.
- Genesis 4:3 – Cain and Abel came to worship on a day established for sacrifice and worship. The AV translates poorly here – וַיְהִי מִקֵּץ יָמִים “And in process of time…” The actual wording is much more specific: “And it came to pass, that at the end (extremity) of the days (of the week) came Cain …and … (vs. 4) Abel…” The “end” means the end of the week of days (7th day Sabbath).
- In the patriarchal book of Job, worship with sacrifice is offered (cf. Job 1:6; 2:1) and the day of such worship is marked in both places with the definite article “the day” as opposed to just any day.
- The custom of reckoning by sevens is used with the Flood narrative (Gen. 7:2-4, 10; 8: 10-12), the nuptial celebrations of Jacob (Gen. 29: 27), and his ceremonial mourning (Gen. 50:10).
- Abraham possessed the Law, commandments and statutes of the Lord (cf. Gen. 26: 5) which included the Sabbath according to Jewish writers on the subject over the centuries.
- Among the Semitic nations, there is a consensus of Sabbath day worship. This is due to the fact God placed His worship among the sons of Shem (cf. Gen. 9: 26; the Lord uses His covenant name of “Jehovah” and is called the Lord God of the Semitic peoples). They used the Sabbath among their peoples for millennia.
- Harmony in the use of sevens in nature and astronomy point to a common Creator.
- The testimony of scripture is that the week, a period of seven days, is “the prototypical pattern from which all the other “sevens” of Scripture are derived. This is so in examples such as measurements of time, the sabbatical system (7 days, 7 years, 7 x 7 years = Jubilee, etc.) and also sevens of “oathing.”
- Among the Egyptians the seventh day was honored and witnessed by seven pyramids, seven castes, worship of seven planets, and counting by sevens. Their time was originally measured in sevens and then they debauched it into ten-day periods.
- All over the world “sevens” was dominant and widespread: In Guinea the people rested from their occupation on the seventh day. The Fantees and Wassows wore white garments on their seventh day of rest.
- The Ashanti and the Ethiopians knew the seventh day rest.
- In Pegu and Borneo the seventh day of rest was known.
- China knew the seventh day rest and measured many issues in sevens: the seven material souls of man, the seven storied pagodas of Teen-fung-tah at Ningpo.
- In ancient America, the seventh day was known among many. But some honored it for missionary work. But others had an ancient history, such as the Peruvians and Hawaii.
- Among the sons of Japheth called the Aryans of India knew the seventh day of rest and dwell in measured seven day weeks. The Uposha was their rest day on the seventh day.
- The ancient Persians (Iran) knew of the seventh day of rest.
- The Greeks knew the seventh day work week. For almost 1000 years before Christ, Homer refers to the “the seventh day, which is sacred or holy” as did Hesiod, both of whom laid the foundation for the rise of the gods (Zeus and the gods) and the philosophers and thereby Hellenism.
- Plato spoke of the seventh day. But the Greeks eventually moved to the “ten day week.”
- The Greeks used the figure of seven throughout their literature.
- The Romans kept some of the sevens as witnessed in the seven days’ feast of Saturnalia.
- The Saxons, Germanic peoples, the Norsemen, the Gauls (France, Belgium), and the Britons all used the sanctity of the seventh day.
- The pre-Semitic Sumerians in their flood and creation epics, honored their “sa-bat” (“sabbath”) as the “day of the ceasing of the heart (of the gods) i.e., a day of rest.
- The Semitic Accadians inscribed a tablet which says: “On the seventh day He appointed a Holy Day and to cease from all business He commanded” and later they called “the Day of Rest.”
- The Babylonians called the sabbath “the day of completion.”
- Very significant was the archaeological discovery of a calendar tablet in Mesopotamia proving the sacredness of the seventh, fourteenth, nineteenth, twenty-first and twenty-eighth days of the months, showing the presence of the knowledge of the recurrent seventh day each week of the month (along with other sacred days of the month).
- The seventh day system (such as jubilee), as shown in the nineteenth day of the month, which is the forty-ninth day of the preceding month.
- The Phoenicians held the one day in seven days of the week as holy.PURCHASE Echoes of the Forgotten World HERE
